Line #37 ShoutOut/SpyXFamily


1	Due to ''Manga/SPYxFamily'' homaging several spy fictional works, there are quite a few {{Shout Out}}s present.
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3	* Several to ''Franchise/JamesBond'':
4	** Anya used to be known as [[YouAreNumberSix Subject 007]].
5	** The protagonist of Anya's favorite [[ShowWithinAShow TV show]] is called [[SomethingPerson Bondman]] (and Bond the dog is named in-universe for Bondman, which brings him back round to the original inspiration).
6	** Comedic scenes involving Anya's innocence are punctuated by a lullaby-parody of the BigBand segment from the Music/LaloSchifrin ''James Bond Theme'' played on the recorder, a flute synonymous with childhood innocence in Japanese popular culture.
7	** The "laid back domestic comedy" scenes involving the entire Forger Family also have a theme that parodies the Franchise/JamesBond BigBand theme, albeit played with a muffled saxophone and trombone, not unlike the "laid back" scenes from the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' animated cartoons.
8	** A final variation of the BigBand chorus is a slowly-and-gently played piano solo, wherein every note from the third is played in a major key instead of minor, turning the smoky and cynical nightclub-number of the original 180-degrees, into a heartwarming melody of tender family bonding and togetherness.
9	** The Official Fan Data-Book "Eyes Only" is of course an allusion to the Creator/RogerMoore era James Bond Film ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''
10	* WISE's headquarters look like an exaggerated version of the real life [=MI6=]'s headquarters.
11	* The amount of secrecy WISE uses, from Loid's propensity for LatexPerfection masks to coded messages used to relay mission briefings, calls to mind the Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries. Loid even uses a familiar trick from ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' where [[spoiler:he does a DisguisedHostageGambit on one of Edgar's goons by swapping places with him and duct-taping his mouth.]]
12	* Speaking of which, one of Damian's {{Imagine Spot}}s in his preparation for the dodgeball tournament parodies the opening of said Creator/JohnWoo film, with Damian and his two friends taking the place of Creator/TomCruise climbing up the side of a sheer red-rock cliff without the aid of ropes.
13	* "The Great Witch '''Yor'''titia" played by Yor during Anya's castle celebration is a shoutout to ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' , whose galamorous witch-like matriarch is called '''Mor'''titia Addams.
14	* The ''×'' in ''SPY×FAMILY'' was specifically inspired by ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', a suggestion by ''S×F''[='=]s editor to make the title of Endo's work stand out a bit more the way ''H×H''[='=]s did.
15	* While thinking of a name for her new dog (she decides on Bond in the end), Anya muses about naming him "Peanuts", [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} bringing another white dog to mind]].
16	* The first ending animation of the anime features several shout-outs to famous art: the portraits of Yor and Loid falling to the bottom of their frames and shredding calls to mind Creator/{{Banksy}}'s ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_is_in_the_Bin Love is in the Bin]]'', and there is a sequence similar to Piet Mondrian's "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_with_Red_Blue_and_Yellow Composition with Red Blue and Yellow]]" paintings.
17	* In the anime, during the training montage in episode 10, one of Damian's {{Imagine Spot}}s depicts him catching a ball of purple energy on [[Manga/DragonBall Planet Namek]].
18	* Also in the same episode, the way Bill Watkins sees and calculates which way to best bounce his dodgeball off multiple opponents is a direct tongue-in-cheek replica of how Kira Yamato aims at multiple opponents in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'' in "Seed Mode". Not to mention the back of the "Macintosh" Computer he learns to do so, keyboard screen mouse and all, still operates on the "World War 2 Rolling Barrel Computation System" as seen in the UsefulNotes/AlanTuring biopic ''Film/TheImitationGame''. Later, Bill and his dad are briefly shown meeting at a park -- his dad looks suspiciously like [[Franchise/StreetFighter M. Bison]], albeit with an olive drab version of his outfit rather than a bright red one.
19	* Another one in the same Episode. As Anya trains for the Tournament and Yor makes her do sit-ups a ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' text appears, claiming them to be 'Death-Defying Sit-ups'.
20	* The cow at the head of the animal stampede in Mission 5 has a pattern on her face that is exactly the same as the one Gene Simmons used when performing with his ''Music/{{Kiss}}'' bandmates, alongside possessing an ear tag with the numbers "4155" to form KISS numerically, which brings to mind an old rumor about Gene surgically grafting a cow tongue onto his own.
21	* Loid was feeding the penguins by [[RapidFireFisticuffs throwing the fishes very fast one after the other]] and letting out what sounds like a [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stand cry]].
22	* In the German dub, when the penguin keeper was promoted because of what Loid did when he had assumed his identity to confiscate a microfilm of chemical weapons terrorists hid ''in'' a penguin, his superior commended his supposed skills by saying [[Franchise/StarWars "I have nothing more to teach to you, young padawan, may the Force be with you"]] (likely mirroring how Qui-Gon Jinn reassured his padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi about how he has taught him everything he knows and how his apprentice is ready to become a Jedi Master).
23	* In Episode 19 of the anime, Yor does a WallCrawl on the Eden College buildings and one of the students thinks she's the legendary "Spider Woman". [[https://www.reddit.com/r/SpyxFamily/comments/yu9qrn/this_has_to_be_an_easter_egg_to_spider_mans_first/ Her pose against the window]], when the student sees her, is almost exactly the same as ComicBook/SpiderMan's on the cover of his very first appearance.
24	* In Episode 20 of the anime, Yor's ImagineSpot of her taking Anya on an assassination for her homework assignment has the copious amount of blood splattered everywhere [[Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} coloured hot-pink]].
25	* The hairstyle, scruffy beard and ''especially'' the bandana that Twilight dons for the underground tennis tournament of Episode 22-23 makes him a dead ringer for Big Boss of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', which itself is ''also'' an AffectionateParody of Cold War era James Bond films.
26	** The ''clearly'' performance-steroid enhanced couple that Twilight and Nightfall play against are ''so'' muscle-'''bloated''' they ''literally'' resemble [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Red Hulk]] from ''The Incredible Hulk.''
27	* During Anya’s adventures shopping for clothes with Becky in the glamorous Tiffany’s Department Store, the avant-garde “silver space man” set she tries on is an allusion to the music-videos of the experimental 80s Pop-band Music/PetShopBoys
28	** The cafe where Becky and Anya had afternoon-tea after the latter was exhausted by a day of endless shopping was called “The Quekay”, which is the name of the leading-protagonist harpooneer in Literature/MobyDick. This is likely an affectionate nod to the fact that the Starbucks coffee-chain is also named after a protagonist whaler in Literature/MobyDick.
29	* When the Forger parents unleash their inner beast and are primed to kill, Loid becomes a humanoid shadow with GlowingEyesOfDoom stalking from shadows, faceless death incarnate, not unlike ''Film/Dracula1931'' or ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925.'' On the other hand, Yor's eyes and teeth sharpen to a savage bestial edge not unlike ''Film/TheWolfMan1941.''
30	* Several shout outs are made to ''Film/Frankenstein1931.''
31	** George Glooman and his father ''both'' sport the flat-top-round-bottom heads of the monster played by Creator/BorisKarloff.
32	** After Loid repairs the Agent Penguinman doll mauled by a jealous Bond, Anya comments how his visible stitches make him "look like {{Frankenstein\|s Monster}}".
33	** Donovan Desmond ''also'' sports visible stitches across his temples, not unlike the typical post-brain-transplant stitches of said FleshGolem.
34	* In the English version of the manga, when Loid is conducting a "practice interview" with Anya and Yor to prepare for the admission interview to Eden, he asks Yor to describe her parenting style, and she hesitantly answers "[[Film/TheKarateKid1984 Strike first]], [[Film/TheKarateKidPartIII strike hard]], [[Series/CobraKai no mercy]]...?"
35	* The introduction of Fraky's {{Steampunk}} '''"Powered Suit!!"''' that he tried to catch Mr Koppi the Cat with is introduced with the same Dramatic Creator/MarvelComics style Bold-Fonts used by Spy X Family's fellow Magazine/ShonenJump Manga-Series ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' , in Kanji Topped With Japanese Katakana-pronunciation.
36	* The Desmond family butler is named [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster Jeeves.]]
37	* When Anya throws Yor's dagger back to her she names the throw [[Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool Rising]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzhMzY5avLI Hope]].
38	* In Anime's Mission 21 (Manga's Mission 30), in the timestamp 9:09 to 9:14, Nightfall fantasizes about giving Twilight all her earnings: A lot of 100 dalcs, the money of the show, with the face of Creator/KarlMarx! This is Anime-only because in the Manga we cannot see the face.[[note]]This is caused by the paper money's design being based on the UsefulNotes/{{East German\|y}} 100 Mark notes of the 1970s, which did feature Marx. [[/note]]
39	* In Mission 38 (Anime's 25) we got to see briefly a female cosmonaut named Yachayka. In real life, Ya Chaika! (I'm a Seagull) was the call sign used by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova Valentina Tereshkova]], the first woman in space, to confirm she was orbiting the Earth.
40	* Mission 94 serves as a big shout out to the series ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', complete with little "title cards" showing the names of each suspect, a local legend to be used as a convenient murder excuse, being set in an isolated area (a ski lodge) that gets cut off from all contact, and even an appearance from "The Criminal".
41	* The ''Anime/SpyXFamilyCodeWhite'' Motion Picture has two affectionate tongue-in-cheek outs to the Creator/TomCruise ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries''
42	** Loid suspended above a cellar floor on a harness while trying to steal a rare bottle of Red-Cherry Liquer is a blatant allusion to how Ethan Hunt must similarly hack into the mainframe of a supercomputer without touching the floor in ''Film/MissionImpossible1996''
43	** Yor's Action-Sequence {{Leitmotif}} ''"Code White"'' is a deliterate countermelody to the Music/DannyElfman rewrite of Lalo Schrifin's original 1967 ''"Mission Impossible"'' theme.
44	* One episode has Bond fearing he'll die, and he has an ImagineSpot of his soul being taken to heaven by cherubs from his collapsed corpse, [[spoiler:[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ezgif_3_b5e19c4073.jpg referencing]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yh_2.jpg the end]] of ''Anime/ADogOfFlanders1975'' where Nello and Patrasche freeze to death and are taken to heaven a similar way. The biblical angels also both arrive in sets of threes.]]

Context ShoutOut / SpyXFamily