History ShoutOut / Uncharted

* The name of Sully's plane is "Hog Wild", which was the name of one of the levels in the original ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' where Crash would ride on the back of a boar.

* The recurring Strange Relic treasure is a Precursor Orb from ''Franchise/JakAndDaxter'', a previous Creator/NaughtyDog franchise.

* The recurring Strange Relic treasure is a Precursor Orb from ''Franchise/JakAndDaxter'', a previous NaughtyDog franchise.

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* The remastered versions of 1, 2, and 3 feature trophies named [[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious "The Fat and the Furious", "Too Fat Too Furious", and "The Fat and the Furious Yemen Drifter"]] for completing a speedrun of each game as Doughnut Drake.
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[[folder:Drake's Fortune]]
* Nate and Elena's "Ottsel" (ie. Daxter's species) brand wetsuits at the beginning of the game.
* Also, check out the back of the Gold (and Silver) Ingot treasures. There's a small paw print on them-- Naughty Dog's logo.
* Some of the crates look like the regular crates from ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot''.
* Hard to spot, but Sully's boat in the opening is called ''Film/SullivansTravels''.
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[[folder:Among Thieves]]
* Harry Flynn's T-shirt in his introductory cutscene also says NDI.
* At the end of the Borneo level, when Sully and Nate have to jump off a cliff to escape, Sully tells him: "After you, [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Butch]]." They both jump off the cliff into the water below, mirroring a famous scene from that movie. Nate even says, "Oh shiiiiiit!"
* [[Franchise/IndianaJones I HATE spikes!]] During a descending ceiling, no less!
* The chapter in which Nate and Tenzin find Schaeffer's expedition is called "Heart of Ice". Given that the expedition ended with [[spoiler: the men going mad with power and having to be executed by Schaeffer]], it's pretty clear that this is a reference to Joseph Conrad's ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness''.
* The multiplayer mode includes characters from ''VideoGame/{{InFamous}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}''. The Helghast soldier also returns for the third game.
* Navarro's mercenaries return as playable skins, with most of them ('Dutch', 'Dillon', 'Blaine', and 'Mac') being named after characters from ''{{Film/Predator}}''.
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[[folder:Drake's Deception]]
* As Nate's briefing his team [[spoiler: Cutter]] constantly interjects, explaining a ''Film/JamesBond'' reference and when T.E. Lawrence is brought up, responds with "[[Film/LawrenceOfArabia Great film.]]"
* An upset Sully growls "What is this black ops bullshit?" after [[spoiler:Team Drake realizes that Charlie Cutter has been hit with some manner of mind-control dart.]] In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', the big plot twist is that [[spoiler:the main character, Alex Mason, has been brainwashed for most of the game.]]
* The bus has a [[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Sackboy]] doll hanging from the front mirror.
* Nate does a [[Film/TheLivingDaylights Living Daylights]]. If you haven't seen that movie, that means Nate is fighting bad guys while hanging out the back of a cargo plane ''in mid-flight''.
* Possibly just straight GettingCrapPastTheRadar, but the name of Rameses's ship is ''[[Series/ArrestedDevelopment The Seaward]]''.
* As Nate wanders through the desert, the voice-over recites an unattributed excerpt from Creator/TSEliot's "Literature/TheWasteLand".
* Nate rides a horse through a tight canyon, looking very much like the end to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
* Talbot's blowdarts [[spoiler: and the water in Iram of the Pillars]] seem to be tainted with [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries the Scarecrow's fear toxin.]]
* Again, not necessarily intentional, but it's nice to think that Sully's "This is why we can't have nice things!" in Chapter 22 was a deliberate reference to ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.
* There's a medal in the multiplayer called [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane Drakes On A Plane]].
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[[folder:A Thief's End]]
* Nathan climbs across the hands of a giant clock tower, in an {{Homage}} to Film/SafetyLast.
* One of the missions is titled [[Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov The Brothers Drake]].
* The action of the Drake brothers giving each other a boost to reach a broken ladder with the second brother sending a way across is one for ''VideoGame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons''.
* Earlier in the game, there's an AgeCut scene from young Nathan to the older Nathan, who subsequently gets punched in the face, just like Indy in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
* The young, blond founder of Libertalia who has a monkey as his pirate sigil and Sam "doesn't recognize" is a reference to Guybrush Threepwood, the protagonist of classic pirate adventure game ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland''. If you look at his burnt painting in King's Bay, you can even see the first two letters of his name are "Gu", Sam speculates [[YouFightLikeACow he rose to become a fearsome swordsman]], and later Nate will mention [[MadLibsCatchphrase "That's the second-biggest cistern I've ever seen"]] in his tower.
* In the epilogue, you can find and inspect a copy of ''The Nameless City'' by Faith Erin Hicks. This is an actual recent release; the artist previously worked on a comic for ''The Last of Us''.
* Also in the epilogue, in Cassie's room you can find a poster for ''Savage Starlight 2''. ''Savage Starlight'' was the comic series that Joel and Ellie kept collecting in ''The Last of Us''.
* You can have Nate and Sully visit a busy passport office in Chapter 11. Sully remarks how dreadful it will be having to deal with long lines to get back to the States. Nate replies that it will be nowhere near as bad as entering [[VideoGame/PapersPlease Arstotzka]].
* At one point, Nathan plays the original ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' on a [=PS1=]. The real kicker? It's a fully emulated level that you're required to play during the cutscene.
* The old lady Evelyn is British, used to be a prolific and famous archeologist, lives alone in a mansion filled with relics, explored [[VideoGame/TombRaiderII Xi'an]] in her youth, ties back her hair, and has a gun and knows how to use it. If not for the name, Evelyn would be a dead ringer for an elderly [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]].
* Nate's stage name during his magic phase was "Nate the Great", the name of a children's book series.
* Considering the subject matter, it's unsurprising to see a number of visual nods to ''Film/TheGoonies'' toward the end, including pirate skeletons (who died in similar circumstances) around a long dinner table and a pirate ship intact inside a large cavern.
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