Line #53 ShoutOut/HayateTheCombatButler


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4	''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' gleefully makes [[ShoutOut not-so-oblique references]] to other anime[[note]] and other media[=/=]people[=/=]things[[/note]] regularly. If the actual (trademarked) name of the series comes up, they {{Brand X}}-ify it by covering part of it with SoundEffectBleep ("* BLEEP* dam" for ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', etc.)
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7	* Not sure if it was there in the original work or just a joke by the translator, but there's [[VideoGame/ZeroWing the quote at the bottom of]] one page from ch. 4.
8	* The opening has Eight copying the pose from the opening of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''.
9	* This is included in the first opening where Hayate is protecting Nagi from the silhouettes of three robots, they are from right to left [[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin-28]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78-2 Gundam]] and [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime.]]!
10	** The RX-78-2 makes another appearance when Shmidt turns the mansion the group is staying at into a haunted house. One of the servants there is dressed up as a recolored version of it.
11	* [[Manga/DeathNote Birth Note]] showed, of all things, an apple on the poster.
12	* Challenged to a kendo duel, Hayate begins to intone, [[Manga/RurouniKenshin "Hiten Mitsuru--"]] and is cut off by his opponent shouting, "Stop right there or you'll violate a major copyright!"
13	** At the next episode, the Butler of the challenger kicked said challenger for being a wimp(he ordered the Butler to fight Hayate). Nagi's reaction? [[Franchise/StreetFighter Down, DownLeft, Left, kick.]]
14	*** Said Butler is voice by Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi and constantly told his Master to become a real man. [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Yeah...]]
15	* Then there's Sakuya's massive cruise ship, [[TemptingFate daringly]] named ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'', which eventually sinks just like its namesake. Hayate even ends up swimming in freezing cold water to save a girl similar to the final moments of Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's character, who is also mentioned several times. Of course, this manga also adds sharks.
16	* When questioning the criminals who blew up the ship, Sakuya scolds them for confessing their plan too easily:
17	-->'''Sakuya:''' That's not how they do it in ''[[Manga/CaseClosed Conan]]'', is it?
18	** Later on, the entirety of chapter 108 is one big shout-out to ''Manga/CaseClosed''. Conan himself appears several times and the main characters dream they are transported to his world to solve a case. It's even named after Conan creator Aoyama Gosho.
19	** Kaito Kid from the same anime appears in episode 30, and Nagi dresses up in a GenderFlipped version of his outfit, calling herself the Great Detective Nagi. She even goes through the trouble of putting a mustache on Hayate so he looks like Detective Mouri, knocking him out, hiding behind him, and using a voice changer disguised as a bow tie to make everyone think that Hayate has solved the case.
20	** Conan himself also appears as a statue that can be seen as a FunnyBackgroundEvent in episode 35.
21	* And of course, one can't forget the "evil combat butlers" attempting to defeat Hayate throughout the second season, nearly all of whom were blatant [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to popular {{Shonen}} series. "Duel Butler" was a dead ringer for [[Anime/DuelMasters Shoubu Kirifuda]], "Butler B-Da", who looked like the main character from ''[=B-DaMan=]'', "Race Butler", who looked like the main character from ''Crush Gear Turbo'', "Butler [[Anime/ExcelSaga Nabeshin]]", "Puppet Butler", who took over people's minds using his [[Franchise/CodeGeass Evil Eye]] (and was voiced by Creator/JunFukuyama), and "Cyborg Butler", who looked like a cross between [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Gai Shishiou]] and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], was voiced by Creator/NobuyukiHiyama, and used nearly all of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'''s SuperRobot attacks under BrandX names.
22	** The Cyborg Butler also made a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' Shoutout. After Shion said, permission to use Final Hammer approved, a la Anime/GaoGaiGar, the Cyborg Butler shouted Drive, a spirit command/spell in said game.
23	* Episode 16 contains a few to ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'', [[TheCameo in particular cameos of Hana, The Owner, and Momotaros]].
24	* In episode 18
25	** When most of the group has been eaten by a whale, Taiga is shown holding a combination broom/axe, and thinks that their predicament was [[Manga/{{MAR}} was Diana's doing.]]
26	** Hayate goes [[Manga/DragonBall Super Saiyan]] when protecting Nagi.
27	* In episode 19, Nagi shows Hayate and Maria a strange video, and then claims that she'll die if she doesn't show it to two other people within a week. Hayate exclaims that it's just like that [[Literature/TheRing circular video.]] The narrator himself almost clarifies, but only gets to "Ri-" before Hayate stops him and the opening starts.
28	* When Hayate was cursed to wear girl clothes, he went by the alias of "Hermionie" to avoid being recognized. Other characters commented that it sounded like a [[Franchise/HarryPotter wizard's name]].
29	* Nagi claimed to be a superior director to Haruhi... this is clearly [[RealityWarper why]] Nagi's popularity fell in some of the later polls. Still gets alot of Shout Out's however.
30	** Nagi also comments to Maria that when releasing anime DVD's, you should put the episodes in the order they were broadcasted, rather than their true chronological order. This is another obvious shout out to Haruhi.
31	** In episode 12 of the anime when Nishizawa confesses to Hayate he claims to "only like 2D girls"...and pictures a band with {{CensorBox}} eyes with a bunny girl lead singer and a witch playing bass.
32	** Klaus suggests Nagi form a S*S Brigade when she says she's bored
33	** Episode 23. How does Maria catch the Lord of the Lake? [[spoiler: It's classified. Her gestures when saying this make it obvious. ]]
34	*** [[Literature/SwordArtOnline You were expecting maybe a fishing rod and a rapier?]]
35	** When Nagi goes to a large(and crowded) department store "If there are this many people, even if your not the heroine of a famous novel, you realize your insignificance."
36	* In episode 35, Maria is briefly seen dressed up as Suigintou from ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.
37	* In episode 29, when Isumi is [[NoSenseOfDirection lost in Paris looking for the tournament]], you can see one of the mooks from ''Manga/GiantRobo'' in the background, as well as Jigen from ''Franchise/LupinIII''.
38	* There's also [[Franchise/StreetFighter Zangief and Dhalsim]] appearing as [[http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv205/SharmHedgehog/zangiefanddhalsiminhayatethecombatb.png thugs who are stopped by Hayate.]] The fact that they're at an arcade definitely adds to this.
39	** Not only do the thugs look like Zangief and Dhalsim, but Hayate gives Zangief a taste of Shoryuken in case someone somehow failed to notice.
40	* Don't forget the new class register, formatted in the style of [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi some manga or another]] filled with weird students (such as a ghost) and filled with little notes scrawled in the margins. Oh, and apparently some fellow calls himself a 'Mahou Sensei' just to make sure you get it.
41	** Adding more shout out to that scene: Hayate's class number in the picture is the same one as Kaede's, who, like Hayate, is [[ActorAllusion voiced by Ryoko Shiraishi]].
42	* In the new class register, everyone besides Hayate and Nagi is wearing a mask similar to that of [[Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys Friend.]]
43	* Hayate's boss at his delivery company in episode 1 of the anime bears a strong resemblance to Gendo Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', complete with ''ScaryShinyGlasses'' and the typical "Gendo Pose".
44	* In episode 33 when Nagi imagines Hayate working at a cosplay cafe, she imagines him dressed up as the eponymous sensei from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', complete with comedic hanging scene.
45	* [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann CathedralTerra]] made an appearance in one of the latest episode in season 1
46	** There's a brief arc where Hayate is one of the hostages taken by a robber -- wearing a seven-eyed mask based on the symbol of SEELE.
47	* In Chapter 192, ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'' is '''combined''' with ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' to produce "Fool and Test and Spice" -- with a wolf-eared girl in a school uniform on the cover. Chiharu is a fan of the heroine's speech pattern, but Nagi thinks the best part is the crossdressing boy.
48	* Chapter 148 has an entire page's shout out to ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' with the whole class being made to wear Masks similar to that of Friend in order to have their photos taken.
49	* The ''Manga/LuckyStar'' cast has a cameo as posters at a shrine during a quiz game in Chapter 194.
50	* Speaking of Lucky Star, in episode 23, [[http://i.imgur.com/LREdC.jpg Kagami]] is apparently one of Hayate and Nagi's classmates.
51	* When two members of the cast go to Las Vegas, there's a few panels showing the four guys from the [[http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Gaijin_4koma Gaijin 4koma]]. They appear again in chapter 295.
52	* Not only anime and manga. In episode 40 Hayate manages to beat a talking car called CHITT in a race... a six-wheeled [[Series/KnightRider KITT]].
53	* In the same episode, Hayate shouts, "Financial Drift!" This is a reference to the Internal Drift technique in ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula''.
54	* When Hayate first tries to get into the school to deliver Nagi's lunch, he's stopped by Katsura. Hayate's response is to [[Manga/SaintSeiya be amazed at the strength of her cosmo]] and [[ArtShift transform into a retro-anime version of himself.]]
55	** He makes a reference to the same anime again in episode 21, when he uses the Dragon Shiryuu's move.
56	** And again in Episode 31, where Nagi "adopts" a pair of street kids who are basically Phoenix Ikki and Andromeda Shun pulled straight from a childhood flashback. The opening even parodies Saint Seiya's dramatic opening narration style.
57	* Episode 33 of the first season had a massive shout out to [[Creator/ShinichiWatanabe Nabeshin]] of all people, where he was one of the obligatory {{Battle Butler}}s, though he himself just wanted to draw {{Moe}}.
58	* Episode two of season one. While Hayate is at the docks with the Very Nice People, he imagines what's going to happen to him. Among those Imagine Spots are : The crew of the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' showing up and a weird shout out to ''Manga/OnePiece''.
59	* Pay attention to the statue busts in the mansion. Quite a few are shout outs to various main characters.
60	* In a recent trailer, one can see a character who resembles ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 Iron Mask Ronah.]]''
61	* Nagi's grandfather, Mikado Sanzenin, shares a name with an obnoxious HandsomeLech of a combat figure skater in Creator/{{Rumiko Takahashi}}'s ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Whether or not this is deliberate is unknown.
62	* Episode 38 of the anime features a Christmas tree that has both the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} the Autobot insignia]] and [[Creator/{{Clamp}} a Mokuna doll]] as ornaments.
63	* In the manga itself, there's a poster of Ayumi from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' on a title page. The two mangaka are apparently friends.
64	* Hinagiku is a pink-haired swordfighter and the president of an AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil. Already sounds [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena pretty familiar]], even before her costume and intro sequence in the TournamentArc.
65	** The fact that in each of the battles you win by either getting your opponent to give up or knocking off their neckties in itself is a clear Utena reference. Oh, Hinagiku also winds up asking for the power to revolutionize her school, and the narrator also directly references the famous "Absolute Destiny Apocalypse," line from the battle theme of the anime.
66	* In terms of the manga, chapter 334 features [[IdolSinger Ruka]] dressed up as [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]].
67	* Chapter 336 has [[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster Chihaya, Hibiki, Azusa and maybe the Producer]] in the background at one point, and two certain [[Anime/{{Penguindrum}} blue and pink-haired train information girls]].
68	* In chapter 342, Nagi goes to a store in Akihabara that one of the doujinshi with a pair of girls on the cover that look a lot like [[Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows Tenri and Diana]] and a poster in the background featuring [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Mami and Kyubey]].
69	** [[http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/hayate_no_gotoku/en/0/342/page/11 Said cover is actually]] [[http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/the_world_god_only_knows/en/0/136/1/page/1 the cover to volume 14]]
70	** Chapter 294 in the manga has a poster with [[Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows Ayumi]] as well.
71	* The manga (volume eight, chapter six) has Nagi playing a game and noting "this game is divine." A close examination reveals [[VideoGame/{{Okami}} Divine Retribution]] on the screen. Her companion seems uncertain about the "doggie" being the hero.
72	* The infamous original BrightSlap gets referenced countless times, one of the moment even has LampshadeHanging on it.
73	* Season 1, episode 8: [[Manga/TsukuyomiMoonPhase Cat Ear Mode]] Sends You To Hell. [[Manga/TokyoMewMew I'll serve the Earth's future ~nyan.]]
74	* Looks like [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Nia]] was [[HesJustHiding just hiding.]] [[http://images.wikia.com/gurennlagann/images/7/7f/Vlcsnap-2010-04-22-18h19m31s19.png See?]]
75	* In episode 4 of the 1st season, there's a scene of Hayate trying to use stealth to enter Nagi's school, by [[VideoGame/MetalGear sneaking inside a box of oranges, and wearing a bandana and beard]].
76	** In the same episode, while Miki, Izumi and Risa are having a NoFourthWall moment, looking and waving at the camera, Risa does the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan salute]].
77	* [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion "I must run away, I must run away, I must run away, I must run away."]].
78	* One of the episode in the second season, Nagi played a card game, and uses a card which allows her to continuously attack so long as the card she picked up from the top of her deck is a character card, complete with [[MemeticMutation Doro !]] [[Franchise/YuGiOh Character]] [[{{Engrish}} Caado !]]
79	* One of the doll in Izumi's house is [[VideoGame/Persona4 Teddy]].
80	* One of the chapter has a spirit of a dead priest, entering a penguin costume. [[Franchise/{{Disgaea}} Sounds familiar?]]
81	* When Hayate is told about Hakuoh's high standard, he is stabbed with a [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Zankantou]]
82	* In the panel where Hayate wields six swords at once, his stance is very reminiscent of one of burial priests in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''.
83	* One of the events in the anime has Hayate using [[Anime/GunBuster Inazuma Kick]] complete with the narrator stating the name of the move. Now, take a look and check the narrator's seiyuu.[[note]]Its Creator/NorioWakamoto who voiced Coach.[[/note]]
84	* In the anime filler RPGEpisode, a slime's attack animation starts with it morphing into a creepy [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]] face.
85	* When Hayate is looking for the legendary persimmon tree in the garden, he mentions how it looks like the background from a Creator/StudioGhibli film (''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' to be exact).
86	* In Episode 50, Nagi mimics the Series/{{Ultraman}} henshin sequence (with relevant sound effects).
87	* The examples given for what a butler job is include [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Alfred]], [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} Kyrano]] and [[Manga/DeathNote Watari]].
88	* In Chapter 370, Isumi drinks from a cup with the Penguin logo of ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''.
89	* In episode 1 of the 4th season Hayate gets into a highway race (on a bike) with an [[Series/KnightRider car named CHITT]]. [[spoiler: Yeah, he wins.]]
90	* [[Manga/DeathNote Just as planned]], from ch. 82
91	* In chapter 119, Nagi squirts Hayate with a water pistol after he says that he went into the hot spring. She is disappointed when he fails to [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf turn into a girl.]] She had really been looking forward to that.
92	* In [[http://www.goodmanga.net/hayate_the_combat_butler/chapter/125/4 chapter 125]], when asked what she would like to recieve, Nagi tells Hayate that she would like to receive a drill. [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann The kind of drill that activates robots]].
93	* In [[http://www.goodmanga.net/hayate_the_combat_butler/chapter/128/6 chapter 128]], the student council trio each speaks to Nagi using a childish nickname, except for Risa, who calls her [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi Nagi Springfield]].
94	* In episode two of ''Cuties'', Nagi is watching an anime about three girls with ESP who love curry, called ''[[Manga/PsychicSquad Zettai Curry, Chilled Even?]]''
95	* Season 1, Episode 33, 06:48 - [[Manga/YakitateJapan Azuma Kazuma and co.]] are selling bread to Hakuou Academy
96	* Back at the video shop, Hayate asks Nagi's fiance (forgot the name) about a DVD lying on the table beside him. [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann "Tengen T-"]] "Bamboo~~~Bamboo~~~"
97	* In chapter 416, Ruka's thoughts are portrayed in a style evocative of ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}'', including the distinctive "[[UnsoundEffect zawa zawa]]" and the over-the-top narration.
98	* Due to her love for money, Katsura-sensei gets lured away from Hayate while in the Tiger's Pit and sells her body to an evil spirit for 1 million Yen (which she never receives). While possessed, she has the [[Anime/DragonBallZ Majin symbol]] on her forehead.
99	* The first season makes plenty of ''{{Manga/MAR}}'' references (usually involving Dorothy in some way, shape or form). And considering that both shows at the time were made by the same company[[note]]Creator/SynergySP, who '''''also''''' get a visual reference in an episode[[/note]], this isn't too unexpected.
100	* During Hinagiku's birthday party, Hinagiku was forced to sing [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion A Cruel Angel's Thesis]] by the Student Council Trio. Hinagiku retaliates by forcing the trio to sing [[Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime Natsuzora]].
101	* In episode 9 of Cuties, Nagi very briefly adopts Manga/SquidGirl's VerbalTic when Chiharu is discussing the idea of holding a get-together.
102	--> '''Nagi''': I ink not.
103	* In Chapter 391, Fumi notes that one of the employees working at Animate has [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homu-Homu]] as his waifu.
104	* In Chapter 411, Kayura tells Nagi that when someone is truly cornered, they unleash their latent powers to make it through, which she calls the [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan Theory.]]

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