1 | * The entire series is an {{homage}} to ''Film/MarsAttacks'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', and other alien related movies and shows. |
2 | * The Blue Moon Drive-In Theater during ''[[Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace Teenage Zombies From Outer Space]]'' before changing the film is playing a clip from the infamous movie ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''. You get to see some b-movies from the 1950s (most of which being the more SoBadItsGood ones) in the Archives of the mothership. |
3 | * Crypto and Pox both discuss possible future VideoGames in the third game, giving shout outs to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', and games based on movies, all in the same conversation. |
4 | * Path of the Furon has the mission [[Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind Close Encounters of the Furon Kind]] where you have to reply to cultists beeping tones at your ship. |
5 | -->'''Pox''':Great Arkvoodle! The fools think we have a musical language! |
6 | -->'''Crypto''':Nobody ''talks'' music, that's stupid! |
7 | ** Destroy All Humans! 2 also features both a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/StarWars'' and to ''Film/TheMatrix''. |
8 | -->'''Crypto:''' (To Dr. Go!) My name is Luk-I mean, Cryptosporidium. I'm here to rescue you. |
9 | -->'''Pox:''' (In reference to Crypto being Son of Arkvoodle) Crypto! What if it's true?! What if you're ''THE ONE''?!\ |
10 | '''Crypto:''' Well, I ''did'' take a red pill this morning, heheh. |
11 | * Seen when reading the thoughts of a female hippie resident of Bay City: |
12 | --> "[[Film/ANewHope The Adventures of Luke Starkiller]]"? [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Ha! Dream on]], [[Creator/GeorgeLucas Georgie boy]]! |
13 | * Panicking citizens of Albion may spout references to ''Franchise/{{Quatermass}}'', ''Music/DavidBowie'', and ''Series/DoctorWho''. Throw one with your saucer's tractor beam or Psychokinesis and one citizen may just scream, [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour "Double-plus ungood!"]], which is also heard sometimes when the alert level in Albion goes to red. |
14 | * Some of the armed Cosmonauts in the second game might tell Crypto whilst attacking "[[Film/{{Alien}} In Space, no one can be hearing you screaming!]]" |
15 | * "[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphing Power Alien!]]" |
16 | * The Fantasy Atoll level in ''Big Willy Unleashed'' is a giant shout-out to ''Series/FantasyIsland'', right down to expies of Mr. Roarke and Tattoo (only with the bodies flipped). |
17 | ** One of the people you meet there is a scientist in the middle of a fanatsy of [[Series/GilligansIsland being stranded on an island]]. |
18 | ** When told the only way to destroy the Mr. Roarke expy's anti-Furon amulent is to toss it into a volcano, Crypto sarcastically asks if they need to [[Literature/LordOfTheRings form a fellowship]]. |
19 | ** The final mission of the stage is a boss fight with a weaponized cruise ship christened [[Series/TheLoveBoat the Hate Boat]]. |
20 | * In the first game, Crypto is a [[Music/MarilynManson red-eyed, genitalia-lacking space alien.]] |
21 | * Silhouette, female badass extraordinaire, known only by her code name, is [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater a patriot]]. |
22 | * In the fourth mission of Takoshima, if you try to talk to Professor Yuki with a non-White Ninja disguise, Crypto will attempt to hit on her, only for it to fail: |
23 | -->'''Crypto''': [[Film/FullMetalJacket I got five dollar, you love me long time?]]. |
24 | ** This is also parodied in the thoughts of a Japanese co-ed, who claims she'll kick a GI agent in the nads if they say this to her again. |
25 | * Some of the Free Love quotes pedestrians say make reference to songs that are popular during the 60s. Some examples are [[Music/JamesBrown Sex Machine]], [[Music/TheMamasAndThePapas Creeque Alley]], and many by Music/TheKinks and Music/TheWho. |
26 | * A passing reference to Music/SteelyDan is made during the cutscene in "Where Have All The Flower Children Gone?", when Coyote Bongwater is finishing his meditation session with two female hippies. |
27 | -->'''Bongwater''': Remember, wherever you go, I'll be there. The shine of your Japan, the sparkle in your China. |
28 | -->'''Female Hippies''': Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva. |
29 | * Also serving as a TakeThat, while reading the minds of the inhabitants of Takoshima, a kamikaze soldier will have this thought: |
30 | --> "Hey Mickey Rooney, I saw Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys, and I know where you live!" |
31 | * Sometimes, while using Psychokinesis on multiple objects in Bay City without destroying or killing anyone, a female hippie will say "[[Music/JesusChristSuperstar What's the buzz? Tell me, what's a-happening!]] followed by a quick giggle. Crypto also says this quote before starting "From Russia With Guns". |
32 | * When Armquist shows up in a HumongousMecha after Crypto agrees to "do things [Armquist's] way": |
33 | --> '''Crypto:''' [[Film/ThePrincessBride Your way's not very sportsmanlike...]] |
34 | * The opening scene of the second game features this when the KGB assassin approaches Crypto. |
35 | -->'''Crypto''': You expect me to beg, human? |
36 | -->'''KGB agent''': (points gun at Crypto's face) [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} No, little Furon, I expect you to die]]. |
37 | * There are several towards ''Film/TheGraduate'' in Bay City during the second game: |
38 | ** The Gene Blend that makes body-snatching easier for Bay City women who are squares is titled "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Hey Mrs. Robinson!]]". |
39 | ** In another reference to The Graduate, a Bay City hippie might think about "plastics". |
40 | ** "Wanna hear the sounds of silence?" |
41 | ** Scare a Bay City hippie, and he might go screaming for Elaine. |
42 | * Patty Wurst in ''Big Willy Unleashed'' addresses that Big Willy's [[Film/SoylentGreen is people]]. |
43 | * In Bay City, you can find posters advertising [[Music/CaptainBeefheart Captain Beefword]]. |
44 | * Among the lines that Pox can say if you try to buy an upgrade without enough DNA: |
45 | ** [[Music/PinkFloyd "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding."]] |
46 | ** [[Music/{{Madonna}} "We are living in a material world, Crypto, and I am a material... Furon."]] |
47 | * Pox delivers a PrecisionFStrike Shout-out when he's unsuccessful in phoning home for backup after the mothership is destroyed. |
48 | -->'''Admiral Cyclosporiasis''': This conversation is over. Sit tight, I'll send someone to pick you up as soon as I can spare a rescue pod from the fleet. ''[hangs up]''\ |
49 | '''Pox''': Hello? Hello??? [[Franchise/BattlestarGalactica Frak!]]\ |
50 | '''Crypto''': "Frak"?\ |
51 | '''Pox''': Ancient Cylon curse word. |
52 | * A hippie leader in the second game can be heard yelling "This is the spawning of the cage and aquarium!", a nod to the Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Cage & Aquarium", which was a riff on "Aquarius" from ''Theatre/{{Hair}}''. |
53 | * The Octagon, DAH's version of The Pentagon, is shown to be in a state of ruin. Almost as though it was bombed. This is a clear reference to the 2001 September 11th attacks, in which American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and was deliberately crashed into The Pentagon. |
54 | * In the remake, the splash art for "Citizen Crypto" features Crypto [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978 pointing and screaming at the viewer]]. The splash art for "Furon Down" has Crypto [[Film/GoldFinger strapped to a table with a laser slowly approaching his crotch]]. |
55 | * Several of the mission names are plays on movie titles. In some cases the title cards also are pastiches of the movie posters. |
56 | ** [[Film/DestinationMoon Destination Earth]] |
57 | ** [[Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy Earth Women Are Delicious]] |
58 | ** [[Film/CitizenKane Citizen Crypto]] |
59 | ** [[Film/ThisIslandEarth This Island Suburbia]] |
60 | ** [[Film/NorthByNorthwest South by Southwest]] |
61 | ** [[Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington Mr. Crypto Goes to Capitol City]] |
62 | ** [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman Attack of the 50-Foot President!]] |
63 | * Some of the random thoughts you can scan in the first game: |
64 | ** [[Literature/CharlottesWeb "'Some pig?' On a spider's web? What in the world could that mean?"]] |
65 | ** "I guess there's nothin' wrong with animals peaceably organizing. After all, it is an Literature/{{animal farm}}." |
66 | ** From a cop: "Now if only I could find a cowboy, an Indian, and a construction worker, I could start my own singing group. What would we call ourselves? [[Music/TheVillagePeople The Town People, the Village Folk or something.]]" [=NPCs=] in cowboy getups also have a similar thought, only involving a policeman instead of a cowboy. |
67 | ** "What would Creator/MarlonBrando do? [[Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire STELLA! STEEEEELLAAAA!]]" |
68 | * The mission to convert the White Ninjas to the Cult of Arkvoodle in the second game has [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian a dialogue sequence of Crypto trying to convince the White Ninjas to think for themselves, only for the White Ninja leader to just mindlessly repeat everything he says]]. |
69 | --> '''Crypto:''' You're all individuals!\ |
70 | '''White Ninja Leader:''' Hai! We all individuals!\ |
71 | '''Random Ninja:''' I'm not... |
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