History ShoutOut / TheSpectralChronicles

[[WMG:''Literature/A Day Of New Life'']]

* Ashur puts on a pair of glasses to complete his disguise for infiltrating the Illuminati's secret city. [[LampshadeHanging He acknowledges that]] "[[LampshadeHanging I know it's not much,]] [[MythologyGag but it worked for]] Franchise/{{Superman}}."

[[WMG:''Literature/The Heralds Of False Light'']]

* Berith's first [[MaliciousMisnaming blundering of Demetrios's name]] refers to a similar scene in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft III}}: [[ExpansionPack The Frozen Throne]]'' where Varimathras gets Garithos's name wrong. He also refers to him as "[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Minimal]]" and "[[Film/{{Casper}} Chrysler]]." At one point he even calls him "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Ponerius]]."

* Berith's first [[MaliciousMisnaming blundering of Demetrios's name]] refers to a similar scene in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft III}}: [[ExpansionPack The Frozen Throne]]'' where Varimathras gets Garithos's name wrong. He also refers to him as "[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Minimal]]" and "[[Film/{{Casper}} Chrysler]]."

-->“Relax, D, it was just a dream. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQsO6LvQh1s When you wake up, everything will be all right]],” he [Max] said.

* Berith's first [[MaliciousMisnaming blundering of Demetrios's name]] refers to a similar scene in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft III}}: [[ExpansionPack The Frozen Throne]]'' where Varimathras gets Garithos's name wrong.

* While Michael and Kayla observe the bald eagles and the plesiosaurs in Part III, [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} one of the reptiles snatches a bird right out of the air]].

A list of the {{Shout Out}}s and {{homage}}s in ''TheSpectralChronicles''.

* While Michael and Kayla observe the bald eagles and the ''plesiosaurs'' in Part III, [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} one of the reptiles snatches a bird right out of the air]].

A list of the {{Shout Out}}s in ''TheSpectralChronicles''.

* In a bit of a nod to ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Max and one of the demons fight each other like the Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots.

[[WMG:''Literature/From Oslo To Kinardas'']]

** Remember when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs Carol Channing turned into a super-scary sheep]] in the 1985 version of ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]''? [[AKindOfOne Now there's]] [[ComMons more of them]].

* When encountering the Dark Stone Cutters for the first time, Demetrios tells them "[[Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy So, we meet at last, my dark cousins]]." The Dark Stone Cutters, however, [[CulturalPosturing just laugh at him]].

* One of the pastimes Demetrios and Lily picked up in between volumes is [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} playing chess while riding roller coasters]].

* Anturoc's curse that he casts on Luke. He cuts out his heart (or its ghostly counterpart), which takes on a crystalline form, and uses it to control him. It's like a combination of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and ''Manga/SailorMoon''.

** Remember when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs Carol Channing turned into a super-scary sheep]] in the 1985 version of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''? [[AKindOfOne Now there's]] [[ComMons more of them]].

* Anturoc's curse that he casts on Luke. He cuts out his heart (or its ghostly counterpart), which takes on a crystalline form, and uses it to control him. It's like what happened in the third season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', [[UpToEleven but worse]].

* When the Stone Cutters are evacuating Kinardas City, [[Film/TheTenCommandments they have a little trouble getting their African wild asses and burros to move at first]].

* When exploring Atlantis and seeing the dinosaurs, Ruby remarks that it reminds her of ''Franchise/JurassicPark''. Demetrios later says he read it too.

* Anturoc's curse that he casts on Luke. He cuts out his heart, which takes on a crystalline form, and uses it to control him. It's like what happened in the third season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', [[UpToEleven but worse]].

* For the masquerade party, Anne-Marie wears the silver dress Raquel Welch wore in ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult]]'', just with a couple of modifications.

* William/Mephistopheles's [[spoiler:second punishment for failing to take over the world is to spend eternity [[Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI ice-skating with Hitler]]]].

** Remember the (in)famous pictures from ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark''? [[ItGotWorse Now they're flesh and blood demons]].

* One of the most feared demons, the [[OlympusMons Gigantoshambler]], is a deadly combination of the [[BossInMookClothing Shambler]] from ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganotosaurus Giganotosaurus]]''.