History Trivia / SmallSoldiers

* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse example: The Gorgonites and Commando Elite were originally planned as seperate toy lines.

* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe example: The Gorgonites and Commando Elite were originally planned as seperate toy lines.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The Gorgonites and Commando Elite were originally planned as seperate toy lines.

*** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Troy Maclure]] looks pretty much the same in real life doesn't he?

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** [[{{Film/Spider Man}} Mary Jane Watson]] is the GirlNextDoor.
** How has no one mentioned that [[{{Main/Everwood}} Ephram Brown]] is the TheHero?

* ShoutOut:
** Possible ones to GIJoe:
*** Globotech's CEO is Gil Mars. MARS was also the arms manufacturing company led by Destro, as well as the Roman God of War.
*** The Abernathy family share their name with General Clayton Abernathy, better known as Hawk.
** Irwin is a shout out to a real life toy company of the same name that distributes toys for well known companies such as Bandai and Milton Bradley.
** Several to Creator/JoeDante's previous works, including the Film/{{Piranha}} and [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Gremlin skull]] on Alan's desk, [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Irwin's password being "Gizmo," and a toy of Gizmo himself in the dumpster]].
** The creation of the Zom-Gwendies is inspired by, and features music from ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein.''
** Similarly, Chip Hazard's RousingSpeech infront of an American flag is a pastiche of the opening scene of ''Film/{{Patton}}'', and Music/JerryGoldsmith even quotes his score from that film to drive the point home.
** Hazard's dialogue about how Nick Nitro's "battery has run out, but his memory will keep going, and going, and going" is a reference to Energizer batteries' slogan.

* WriterRevolt: Larry kept most of Irwin's ideas for the Gorgonites' personalities in place even though they'd been made the villains of the toyline.

** Similarly, Chip Hazard's RousingSpeech infront of an American flag is a pastiche of the opening scene of ''Film/{{Patton}}'', and Music/JerryGoldsmith even quotes his scor from that film to drive the point home.

** [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Robert]] [[StargateAtlantis Picardo]] as the mind behind the chips placed in the toys.

** Uh, hello? DenisLeary as the CEO?

** The evil Gwendy dolls are Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}} [[Creator/SarahMichelleGellar Summers]] and [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday]] [[ChristinaRicci Addams]].

** Hey, [[Film/{{Godzilla}} Colonel Hicks]] has a family!

*** Globotech's CEO is Gil Mars. MARS was also the arms manufacturing company led by Destro.

** The evil Gwendy dolls are Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}} [[SarahMichelleGellar Summers]] and [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday]] [[ChristinaRicci Addams]].

** Hey, [[{{Godzilla}} Colonel Hicks]] has a family!

** The Gorgonites are Frank Langella and members of [[ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]]; the Commando Elite are TommyLeeJones and members of TheDirtyDozen.

** [[StarTrekVoyager Robert]] [[StargateAtlantis Picardo]] as the mind behind the chips placed in the toys.

** [[ArrestedDevelopment Tobias]] finally got a job.
*** [[TheSimpsons Troy Maclure]] looks pretty much the same in real life doesn't he?
** Uh, hello? [[DenisLeary Denis Leary]] as the CEO?
** [[AmericanDad Francine]] is Christy's mom.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: [[StarTrekVoyager Robert]] [[StargateAtlantis Picardo]] as the mind behind the chips placed in the toys.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: In addition to TommyLeeJones as Chip Hazard and Frank Langella as Archer, the evil Gwendy dolls are voiced by [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Sarah Michelle Gellar]] and ChristinaRicci.
** The Gorgonites are Frank Langella and members of [[ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]]; the Commando Elite are Tommy Lee Jones and members of TheDirtyDozen.
*** Jim Brown (Butch Meathook) and Clint Walker (Nick Nitro) were "members" of the Dirty Dozen. Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy were in the film but were not actually among the titular "Dozen." Bruce Dern is just thrown in, as the original voice actor (Richard Jaeckel, who had also appeared in ''The Dirty Dozen'') had died before shooting began.

*** Jim Brown (Butch Meathook) and Clint Walker (Nick Nitro) were "members" of the Dirty Dozen. Ernest Borgnine and George Kennedy were in the film but were not actually among the titular "Dozen." Bruce Dern is just thrown in.