History ShoutOut / RWBYDestinyOfRemnant

** Ashe Kasai, who is also Cinder's younger brother, is inspired and based off the characters of Eric Draven and Ashe Corven from ''Film/TheCrow'' movies in terms of his personality and character design.

** Forge Smith's character design is clearly derived from '''Reinhardt Wilhelm''' from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', as his personal Aegis armour shared resemblance with the [[Characters/Warhammer40000Astartes Space Marines' Terminator variant Power Armour]] and the '''Balderich''' variant armour that the Crusader's leader, '''Balderich Von Alder''' wore. He also wields a [[DropTheHammer giant ornate hammer named ''Mjolnira.'']]

** Claudandus Pirinci, who is Blake Belladonna's grandfather and founder of the White Fang organisation in this fic, is ironically named after the old Havana Brown cat and the true main antagonist '''Claudandus''' of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Felidae Felidae.]]

*** The design of his personal weapon named '''Iconoclast''' has certain inspirations taken from both [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Bloodborne Bloodborne]] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Warhammer 40,000]].
** Soul Seer, who is the younger sister of Argentius, has her character design and gentle personality greatly resembling [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmElves Galadriel]] from Film/TheLordOfTheRings, and her abilities are apparently similar to '''Mercy (Angela Ziegler)''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Overwatch Overwatch]].
*** Her flower-shaped staff '''Life's Requiem''' is designed after the various magic staffs used by the various heroines of the Franchise/FinalFantasy series.
** Forge Smith's character design is clearly derived from '''Reinhardt Wilhelm''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Overwatch Overwatch]], as his personal Aegis armour shared resemblance with the [[Characters/Warhammer40000Astartes Space Marines' Terminator variant Power Armour]] and the '''Balderich''' variant armour that the Crusader's leader, '''Balderich Von Alder''' wore. He also wields a [[DropTheHammer giant ornate hammer named ''Mjolnira.'']]
** Shadow Reaper is obviously based off '''Reaper (Gabriel Reyes)''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Overwatch Overwatch]], sharing many similarities in terms of his Knight Name, personal shadow-based Semblance, Main/DualWielding gunswords, his somewhat macabre Alpha Beowolf-shaped helmet, and tough no-nonsense attitude.
*** His twin gunswords are named [[SwissArmyGun ''ShadeSlayers'']], which might be referring to '''Eragon's nickname''' from Literature/InheritanceCycle.
** Tranquility's personality and character design are modelled based off both [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SwordArtOnlineProtagonists Asuna Yuuki and Yuuki Konno]] from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online]], and her rapier weapon as well as advanced glyph skills are clearly based upon '''Winter and Weiss Schnee's''' abilities from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/RWBY RWBY]] itself.
** Iron Fist is named after the ComicBook/IronFist from the Marvel comics, and his character and fighting style bears resemblance to certain Franchise/StreetFighter characters.
** Eagle Eye bears inspiration in her character design from both '''Widowmaker (Amelie Lacroix)''' and '''Ana Amari''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Overwatch Overwatch]], due to her ColdSniper tendencies and the BadassBoast that she ''never, ever'' misses her chosen target. Her personal AceCustom sniper rifle is also a combination of both aforementioned Overwatch characters' rifles with additional gimmicks included.
** Sharp Strike, who is the first Remnant Knight Team Beacon comes into contact with, has his personality partially based off [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SwordArtOnlineKazutoKirigaya Kirito (Kazuto Kirigaya)]] from [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online]] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/StarWarsEzraBridger Ezra Bridger]] from WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels, and his impressive Main/DualWielding sword skills is also a reference to that aforementioned first hero as well.
*** His rather hot-headed nature in Ashe's flashback is a little inspired from the personality of '''Anakin Skywalker''' from WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars.
*** His personal heavily-customized CoolBike has its designs (especially its secondary ''Battle Mode'') and weaponry taken from a variety of places including the '''Track Mule''' from VideoGame/GearsOfWar, the '''Batpod''' from Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy, '''Shotaro Kaneda's''' futuristic bike from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Akira Akira]], and '''Fenrir''' (Cloud Strife's personal bike) from Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren.

** Damien Ante's character is based off a combination of '''Jan Valentine''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Hellsing Hellsing]] and '''Big Boy''' from Film/DickTracy and his dagger-bomb weapons are inspired by '''Riff Tamson's''' weapon from WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars.
** Norvik, who is revealed as Ozpin's Nemesis in this fic, is inspired by the '''Gemini Killer''' from ''Film/TheExorcistIII''.

*** Jude's robotic arm's design in particular is similar to the Decepticon '''Lockdown's''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Transformers Transformers.]]
** Dr. Victor Giger, who created the Grimm Chimera in his experiments, is a tribute to '''Victor Frankenstein''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Frankenstein Frankenstein]] and '''Hans Ruedi "H.R." Giger''' from the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Alien Alien]] movie franchise.

** Amethyst Rilo, who is the current Spring Maiden, name and overall character design might be a reference to the Crystal Gem '''Amethyst''' from [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven Universe.]]
** The current Summer Maiden Heliosia Ainea's name is a portmanteau of two names, mainly '''Helios''' who is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology, and '''Imperator Furiosa''' from Film/MadMaxFuryRoad. (''Furiosa'' means "furious" in Latin, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.)The second part of her name Ainea is possibly referring to '''Áine''', who is the Irish goddess of summer, wealth and sovereignty.
** The current Winter Maiden Elsa Vorst is a direct reference to '''Snow Queen Elsa''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Disney's Frozen]].

** Damien Ante's Enforcers are inspired by the player characters from VideoGame/TeamFortress2, see above for more details.
*** The name of '''Little Steve''' from Damien's Enforcers is a reference to Little Shelby from the comic book Comicbook/TheCrow.
*** '''Tom-Tom''' is a reference to the only one of Eric and Shelly's murderers from the Comicbook/TheCrow comic that wasn't adapted into the movie.

** The speeches in this chapter about the forces of light and dark mentioned in the chapter were inspired by Matthew Stover's [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Novelization novelization]] of [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.]]

** The word '''Haakskeekah!''' actually comes from an early version of the fantasy film [[Film/TheDarkCrystal The Dark Crystal]] where the villains of the film, '''the Skeksis''', spoke in a weird alien language with no subtitles and in one scene while they were debating who should lead them they were to shout out '''Haakskeekah!''' , which was referenced as Ashe's activation word of his unique powers against his elder sister Cinder Fall. (For those who are wondering what that line translates to English, it actually means '''Trial by Stone!''')

** The Winter Maiden's name Elsa Vorst is a reference to the Snow Queen Elsa from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Disney's Frozen]].
** Alessandro Kane's name is a reference to two people, mainly '''Alessandro''' which is a reference to actor Alessandro Juliani (aka 'L' in Manga/DeathNote) who also did the voice of a bat transformer called '''Nightscream''' in [[WesternAnimation/BeastMachines Transformers Beast Machines]]. The '''Kane''' part of his name is a reference to '''Bob Kane''', the creator of [[Franchise/BAtman Batman]].

** Agent 501 (aka ''Jacob Pyrce'') shares the same number as the [[Characters/StarWars501stLegion 501st Legion]] from [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]].

** Tranquility's personality and character design are modelled based off both [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SwordArtOnlineProtagonists Asuna Yuuki and Yuuki Konno]] from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online]], and her rapier weapon as well as advanced glyph skills are clearly based upon '''Winter and Weiss Schnee's''' abilities from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/RWBY RWBY]] itself.

** Sharp Strike, who is the first Remnant Knight Team Beacon comes into contact with, has his personality partially based off [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SwordArtOnlineKazutoKirigaya Kirito (Kazuto Kirigaya)]] from [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online]] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/StarWarsEzraBridger Ezra Bridger]] from WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels, and his impressive Main/DualWielding sword skills is also a reference to that aforementioned first hero as well.

** Summer Rose's secret sanctuary's overall design within the mindscape is a nod to [[http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Floria Floria]] the main settlement on the 47th Floor of '''Aincrad''' in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online]], with the majority of flower beds filled with roses instead of other flowers.

** Ozpin makes mention that the secret fortress headquarters of the Remnant Knights is known as Tintagel, which is a reference to the castle '''Tintagel''' from the [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian mythos]], where Arthur was conceived due to a BedTrick.

** The opening meeting between the various Knight Legions of Remnant had many references from the [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian mythos]].

** Captain Silvers's curse of "Murderous Maelstroms!" is a reference to '''Captain Archibald Haddock''' from WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin.

*** Carpenter (Creator/JohnCarpenter), Craven (Creator/WesCraven), Green (Creator/AdamGreen), Shiraishi ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dji_Shiraishi Koji Shiraishi]]), Garris (Mick Garris, and it doubles as a reference to Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter, where Sheriff Garris died in a similar fashion), Romero (Creator/GeorgeARomero), O'Bannon (Dan O'Bannon, director of Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead, and creator of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Alien Alien]]), Medak (Peter Medak, director of the fantastic haunted house film Film/TheChangeling), Cunningham (Sean S. Cunningham, creator of Franchise/FridayThe13th), Holland (Tom Holland, director of Franchise/ChildsPlay and Film/FrightNight1985), Toro (Creator/GuillermoDelToro, director of Film/{{Hellboy|2004}} and Film/PacificRim), Whale (James Whale), Amenabar (Alejandro Amenabar, director of Film/TheOthers), Kripke (Creator/EricKripke, creator of [[Series/{{Supernatural}} the Supernatural Series]]), Winston (Creator/StanWinston, special effects master of Film/JurassicPark, Film/{{Aliens}}, Film/{{Predator}}, and director of Film/{{Pumpkinhead}})

** Iron Fist is named after the ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist from the Marvel comics, and his character and fighting style bears resemblance to certain Franchise/StreetFighter characters.

** Tom, Anna and Clara Allcroft are all clearly based on WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine and his coaches '''Annie''' and '''Clarabelle'''. The name '''Allcroft''' is a tribute to the woman [[http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Britt_Allcroft Britt Allcroft]] who adapted the books of Thomas the Tank Engine to television.

*** His description and personality were inspired from a number of characters including '''Imperius''' (The Leader of the Angels) from VideoGame/DiabloIII, '''Azrael''' from the Literature/DarkAngels, and '''Kaldor Draigo''' from the Literature/GreyKnights.

** The knight name of the Knight Vanguard in charge of protecting the Spring Maiden, Wind Runner, is based upon the renowned [[http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Windrunner Windrunner family]] of high elves in '''World of WarCraft.'''

** Task Force Omega of the Atlas military forces, as seen in this chapter, draws many inspirations from the following special forces units including, The Empire's '''Task Force 99''' from ComicBook/MarvelStarWars2015, the '''Deathtroopers''' from Film/RogueOne and '''Inferno Squad''' from [[Literature/InfernoSquad Star Wars Battlefront II Inferno Squad]] in terms of their skills, Modus Operandi and specialties. Their colour scheme as well as sleek and high-tech outlook and design is primarily inspired by the '''Dominion Special Forces''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarcraftII StarCraft II]] and '''Covert Ops Crew''' from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarCraftIINovaCovertOps Nova Covert Ops]].

** The Elder Grimm variant of the Sanus Deathworm, also known as the Sand Devourer, was primarily based upon the '''Arrakis Sandworms''' from the {{Film/Dune}} series in terms of its concept design and overall behavior.
*** Coco, during the battle with the Elder Deathworm, also quips a '''Furmanism''' which is part of the repeated [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism dialogue concepts]] made famous by [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Transformers Transformers]] writer '''Simon Furman''', most specifically the one with regards to ''one's indigestion.''

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** The heavy armor suits worn by the Atlesian soldiers standing guard at Atlas Military Headquarters are based off the [[https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Umojan_Protectorate_heavy_infantry_armor Umojian Protectorate Heavy Infantry Armor]] from VideoGame/StarcraftII, while their upgraded assault rifles are inspired by the [[https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/C-14_rifle C-14 Rifles]] used by the '''Terran Marines.'''

** Vasilisa Afanasyev's (who is also a previous bearer of the Winter Maiden's power) statue in the Winter Maiden shrine is partially inspired by '''Queen Elsa of Arendelle''''s heroic moment in WesternAnimation/FrozenII.
*** Vasilisa is also a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful Vasilisa the Beautiful]], a Russian fairy tale.

** Vasilisa Afanasyev's statue in the Winter Maiden shrine is partially inspired by '''Queen Elsa of Arendelle''''s heroic moment in WesternAnimation/FrozenII.

*** The 332rd Icebreaker Company of the Atlas military forest is both a reference to Kristoff's occupation as a ice harvester, and also to the '''501st's 332nd Company''' that took part in the '''Battle of Mandalore''' in WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWarsSeasonSeven.

*** The former is a reference to Creator/HansChristianAndersen, the author of Literature/TheSnowQueen which inspired Disney's Frozen movie.

** During the Winter Maiden's funeral, Sharp Strike recalls a certain phrase from an ancient book he read from Tintagel's archives, which was heavily implied to be '''William Shakespeare's''' [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/Hamlet Hamlet.]]

** The Atlesian town of Arendal is both a reference to '''Arendal''', is a municipality in Agder county in southeastern Norway, and also to [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Arendelle Arendelle]], the central location of the WesternAnimation/Frozen film series.

*** Grand Knight Master Seraph '''Pendragon''' shares the same second name as Myth/ArthurPendragon.