Line #48 ShoutOut/TheExpanse


1	!!The Novels
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4	[[folder:''LeviathanWakes'']]
5	* {{Film/Citizen Kane}}:
6	-->"''Razorback''", Naomi said. "What's that?"
7	-->"It's a sled," Miller replied.[[note]]This is actually a ''double'' ShoutOut - The term ''sled'' in racing circles is shortened from ''lead sled'', which denotes a very fast vehicle. What was the ''Razorback''? A racing star-ship.[[/note]]
8	* {{Franchise/Dune}}:
9	-->'''Julie's notes:''' ''Panic doesn't help. It never helps. Deep breaths, figure this out, make the right moves. Fear is the mind-killer. Ha. Geek.''
10	* Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
11	--> The food dispensers aboard ship can give you something that is not entirely unlike coffee.
12	* The crew rename the ''Tachi'' the ''[[Literature/DonQuixote Rocinante]]''
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15	[[folder:''Abaddon's Gate'']]
16	* The electrochemical technicians are named [[Series/GameOfThrones "Ren, Stanni, and Bob"]].
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19	[[folder:''Babylon's Ashes'']]
20	* To both Literature/TheMartian'' and ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'': Two of the ships in Michio Pa's fleet are named after these books' protagonists:
21	---> In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the ''Bedyadat Jadida'', out of Luna. The ''John Galt'' and the ''Mark Watney'', out of Mars.
22	** Another ship is named the [[Literature/HoratioHornblower Hornblower]]
23	* Two characters make literary references, one to ''Literature/MobyDick'' and another to the "How can man die better" passage from the Horatius poem of ''Lays of Ancient Rome.''
24	* Holden initially wants to call the [[spoiler:new Belter government]] the [[{{Franchise/Dune}} "Spacing Guild"]].
25	* One of the ships of the "Free Navy" is called "Witch of Endor", the name of a character from Literature/TheBible.
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28	[[folder:''Persepolis Rising'']]
29	* Saba captains a ship named the ''Malaclypse'', and at some point he refers to not liking to be "under the authority of the authorities". This will certainly be familiar to any reader of the [[Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia Principia Discordia]].
30	* The Laconian marines wear [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChapters bright blue power armor with an eagle symbol across the chest]].
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33	[[folder:''Leviathan Falls'']]
34	* To Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin:
35	** There's a ship called ''[[Literature/AWizardOfEarthsea Sparrowhawk]]''.
36	** Fayez compares Elvi's experiments on Cara to ''Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas''.
37	* The last thing [[spoiler:Tanaka]] does before dying is to make finger guns at Holden and yell "[[Anime/CowboyBebop Bang]], motherfucker."
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41	!!The Television Series
42	[[folder:''The Expanse (TV)'']]
43	* The pilot episode, "Dulcinea", and Holden's frigate ''Rocinante'' are named after Literature/DonQuixote's presumptive lover and horse, respectively. Holden's early exposure to Cervantes is explored in the (appropriately-titled) episode 'Windmills' when his mother Elise explains the FreudianExcuse behind his ChronicHeroSyndrome. Then there's the obvious parallels between Miller's obsession with Julie Mao and Don Quixote's [[TheDulcineaEffect obsession with Dulcinea]].[[note]]The book also extends this to Holden, who gets a WhatTheHellHero from Naomi because he can't distinguish love from desire, but the show hasn't gone into this.[[/note]]
44	** "Rocinante" also works as a reference to both Alexis A. Gilliland's ''Rosinante'' trilogy, a book series similar to ''The Expanse'', and the two-part song "Cygnus X-1" by Music/{{Rush\|Band}}, in which the protagonist's spaceship is also called the ''Rocinante''.
45	** As shown here [[https://twitter.com/will_wagner/status/1036690389036683271]] the ship has three drones named "Peart", "Lee", and "Lifeson", which refer to Neil Peart, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson of Music/{{Rush\|Band}}.
46	* Writer Mark Fergus explained at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 that Paj's severed arm spinning end over end in "Dulcinea" was intended to be a reference to the bone that does the same in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', but admitted it was so abstract that almost nobody got it.
47	** However, there is one reference to the film included in the show. When Holden goes to see his XO, the XO can be heard humming and muttering the lyrics to the song "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)", the same song that HAL 9000 begins to sing during his gradual deactivation.
48	* While Avasarala receives reports of the on-going attack on the ''Donnager'', her husband Arjun can be seen and heard in the background reading Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's ''Literature/{{Kidnapped}}'' to their grandson and his friends.
49	* The design of Mateo's rock hauler from "Rock Bottom" was clearly inspired by the Starfuries from ''Series/BabylonFive''.
50	* A public transit map of Ceres in "Dulcinea" includes a stop at "Cutty Station", named after Creator/ChadLColeman's (Fred Johnson) character "Cutty" Wise on ''Series/TheWire''.
51	* A shop Miller visits in "Back to the Butcher" shares the name ("Tech Noir") of the bar in ''Film/TheTerminator''.
52	** When Bobbie kills Mao's henchmen with her power armor, she helps Chrisjen up in a recreation of the ''"Come with me if you want to live."'' shot. She then goes clearing out a way to their shuttle, telling he ''"I'll be right back."''
53	* The list of ships docked in "Salvage" has a ''lot'' of shout-outs, including the ''[[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]]'' and the ''[[WebAnimation/HomeStarRunner Burninator]]''.
54	* The scenes of Eros Station and its inhabitants being [[spoiler:taken over by TheVirus are straight out of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'']].
55	** The [[spoiler:protomolecule construct that eventually erupts from Venus]] looks an awful lot like a [[VideoGame/DeadSpace3 Brethren Moon]].
56	* The general design of the [[spoiler:protomolecule-infected Eros Station]] is heavily reminiscent of the [=Upside-Down=] from ''Series/StrangerThings''.
57	* Admiral Souther's ship, the Agatha King is named after two famous authors, Agatha Christie and Stephen King.
58	* The [[spoiler:protomolecule hybrid soldiers]] look '''very''' similar to the Husks from ''Franchise/MassEffect.''
59	** Speaking of ''Mass Effect'', the psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is ''very'' reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
60	* When discussing plans to [[spoiler:rescue the ''Nauvoo'' and refit it into a warship for the Outer Planets Alliance]] during "Fight or Flight," Drummer sarcastically tells Fred Johnson that [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 "A cathedral converted into a warship sounds like the heart of a great and lasting nation."]]
61	* While at first glance the Ring's design is reminiscent of a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} lifeless Halo]], Manéo Jung-Espinoza's attempt at flying through it reveals that it actually operates more like the [[Franchise/StargateVerse Supergates built by the Ori]].
62	* One of the UNN ships in the fourth season is called "UNN Raskolnikov", the name of the protagonist of [[Creator/FyodorDostoevsky Dostoevsky's]] famous novel "Literature/CrimeAndPunishment".
63	* In a crowd scene of season five episode "Churn" a man can be heard selling [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Khlav Kalash with a cart displaying a picture of crab in another shot.]]
64	* In the Season 5 episode "Mother", Alex walks down a Martian hotel corridor with [[Film/TheShining a familiar-looking carpet pattern]], a subtle hint that he's walking into danger.
65	* One of the [[spoiler:asteroids dropped by Marco is shown landing right on top of Dakar. This was the place Char planned to drop the Asteroid Axis]] in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack''. Marco's uniform as leader of the Free Navy is also a blue version of Char's uniform in that movie.
66	* Avasarala's contact list shown briefly in "Tribes" contains "[[Franchise/DoctorWho Who, Dr.]]", "[[Series/{{Bewitched}} Stevens, D.]]", and "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Clegane, G.]]", among others. All names of characters in shows that had been recast (like her husband's character had been).
67	* A strike team in the finale has their vital signs bought up on a screen and the names are filled in with various main characters of other sci-fi media. These include Ackbar from ''Franchise/StarWars'', Douglas Quad from ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', David Bowman from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', Jack O'Neill from ''Series/StargateSG1'', Commander Shepard from ''VideoGame/MassEffect'', and William Riker from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
68	* The Pella's targeting system uses the same graphic as the one in the Millenium Falcon in ''Franchise/StarWars''

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