Line #30 ShoutOut/AtomicRobo


1	ComicBook/AtomicRobo is definitely a good series for fans of this trope:
2	* The title of ''The Shadow from Beyond Time'', and of each of its chapters, are riffs on the titles of Creator/HPLovecraft stories.
3	* The creature from ''Film/RobotMonster'' appears as a FunnyBackgroundEvent in ''The Shadow from Beyond Time''.
4	* In one of the Free Comic Book Day stories (also released online), the monster seen can only shout Waargh. Yes, Clevinger does play TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}.
5	* The Sparrow mentions the [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}} OSA]] and The [[VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein SS Special Projects Division]] at one point.
6	* "[[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII Should an intense young man or a wild-eyed gentleman ever approach you and mention the word 'Tunguska', I want you to shoot them.]]"
7	* Robo has a Comicbook/{{Hellboy}} poster in his office, after the ''other'' Nazi-punching non-human who works for a paranormal/fringe science operation.
8	* "Nice shootin', Tex!", Total Protonic Reversal (when Charles Fort witnesses [[spoiler:the Shadow From Beyond Time exploding]] in the last issue of Volume 3), the jumpsuits worn when trying to capture and study the "ghost", among others--both creators have said that ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' has had an influence.
9	* The HumongousMecha [[{{Sentai}} Science Team Super Five]] brings out to fight a [[{{Kaiju}} raging monster]] must function with cords attached and is only used to aim and fire a [[{{BFG}} very large gun.]] This rather resembles the fight against the fifth angel in Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion.
10	* The Telluric Interchanger that Emma presents at the National 4th Grade Science Fair is more than a little bit similar (read: identical) to the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Flux Capacitor]].
11	* A historical ShoutOut would be the ending of ''Deadly Art Of Science'' with [[spoiler: the final showdown between Tesla and Edison and the ''real'' reason for the War of the Currents]].
12	* Science Team Super Five's scientist mentor [[Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman shares a name]] with an actual ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' mentor, and their enemy Dr. Shinka's name is not far off from Dynaman's enemy, the Jashinka Empire.
13	* The Science Team's armor [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi cannot withstand Biomega of that magnitude]].
14	* Tesladyne's [[http://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v6ch2-page-20 Exotic Ballistics Division]] which Robo visits in ''The Ghost of Station X'' Issue 2 ''Explosion'' does hold some... exotic (and familiar) types of weaponry indeed. Among exhibits stored there, you may notice [[{{Film/Aliens}} M41A pulse rifle]], [[Film/BladeRunner Deckard's blaster]], [[VideoGame/StarcraftII second version of]] [[VideoGame/StarCraft C-14 Impaler gauss rifle]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tau Fire Warrior pulse rifle]].
15	* Robo is wearing a [[Webcomic/{{Nedroid}} Beartato]] T-shirt in [[http://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v6ch4-page-14 ''Ghost of Station X'' #4]].
16	--> '''Robo''': [[EverythingIsOnline I get RSS feeds in my head,]] what do you want me to say?
17	* In vol. 1, issue #5, Robo has a one-panel flashback to his last encounter with Heisengard, in 1985 France. In that flashback, he and his three Action Scientists are dressed like members of the G.I. Joe team; Robo has Chuckles's outfit on, while he's apparently got Roadblock, Scarlett, and Bazooka with him.
18	* Volume 7, in which Robo and a group of independent-minded aviators fight TheRemnant of Japan's WWII navy, has shout-outs to anime including ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' and ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.
19	* In Vol. 8, issue #1, just before Bernard loses his grip on the edge of a cliff and is pulled down by a tether bearing [[spoiler:Robo and other Tesladyne agents]], he tells the people still on the cliff, [[Literature/TheLordoftheRings "Fly, you fools."]] [[spoiler:Later on, while leading the Army of Hollow Earth, he yells "A day may come when the courage of rockmen fails! But it is not this day!"]]
20	* In Volume 8, Dr. Dinosaur's explanation of his nuclear-explosion-powered time machine includes the sentence "It is like ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', only I did away with the car."
21	* In ''The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur'' Issue 4 ''The Fall of Tesladyne'', when Tesladyne employees are getting ready for incoming Majestic 12 troops in the corridor, they take [[http://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v8ch4-page-18 the exact same positions]] as crew of ''[[Film/ANewHope Tantive IV]]'' when they're [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pS41quNcRX8/maxresdefault.jpg getting ready for incoming Stormtrooper boarding party]].
22	* At the end of "Why Dr. Dinosaur Hates Atomic Robo", Dr. Dinosaur does an imitation of [[ComicBook/XMen Wolverine emerging from the sewers in the Dark Phoenix Saga]].
23	* Dr. Dinosaur has misquoted Captain Ahab's "From hell's heart I stab at thee!" from ''Literature/MobyDick'' on more than one occasion.
24	* Volume 9, Issue 1:
25	* The note on Robo's dwelling's wall, while not a direct ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} quote, reads "Do nothing unless you're supposed to."
26	--> '''Robo''': Old colleague of mine. He used to say, "[[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension wherever you go, there you are.]]"
27	* The two secret service agents who come to investigate at the end of Volume 9, in an epilogue titled "The Night of the Inferno", are [[Series/TheWildWildWest Artemus Gordon and James West]].
28	* Sheriff Waldrip, who also appears in the epilogue of Volume 9, may be a shout-out to Creator/HowardWaldrop, whose "The Night of the Cooters" is about a 19th-century small-town Sheriff dealing with science-fictional war machines falling out of the sky on his patch.
29	* In the ''Real Science Adventures'' arc ''The Billion Dollar Plot'', George Westinghouse faces down a group of attacking mooks with a lightning gun and speech that prefigures Film/DirtyHarry:
30	-->'''Westinghouse:''' You've got to ask yourself ''two'' questions. "How conductive is the man next to me?" and, "How fortunate am I?"
31	* Each chapter in The Ring of Fire is named after a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} film. "Taskforce Ultra vs. Biomega" [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla could]] [[Film/MothraVsGodzilla be]] [[Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah anything]], but [[Film/ShinGodzilla "Resurgence,"]] [[Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla "Terror of Biomega,"]] [[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS "Tokyo SOS,"]] and [[Film/DestroyAllMonsters "Destroy All Monsters"]] are unmistakable.
32	* The cover for the first chapter of ''Ring of Fire'' is the oft-homaged cover to ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'', only with Tesladyne scientists labelled "IN CUSTODY" or "DEAD" rather than mutants labelled "SLAIN" or "APPREHENDED"...and Bernard, of all people, standing in for Wolverine.
33	* The title of Issue 4 of The Ghost of Station X is [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 more than meets the eye]]
34	* The heist crew in "The Nicodemus Job" is basically an 11th century [[Series/{{Leverage}} Leverage Consulting and Associates]].
35	** Nicolas Fardas is Nate Ford.
36	** Sofana is Sophie.
37	** Palatina is Parker.
38	** Iskander is Hardison.
39	** Emir, the Prince of Knives, is Eliot.
40	* Volume 15, Issue 3 features a flashback to 2013 of Robo and Dr. Dinosaur astride a triceratops arguing [[ComicBook/SpiderManAndTheXmen the implications of radically altering human genetics with dinosaur DNA]]:
41	-->'''Robo:''' You '''can't''' just genetically transform people into dinosaurs. It will literally '''kill everyone.'''

Context ShoutOut / AtomicRobo