Mythology Gag / Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K

This page covers Mythology Gags from the crossover audio drama Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K by AFanWithTooMuchTime.

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Star Wars

• Purrgils are mentioned by Padawan Gaphin in Episode 2 when he suggests to Dr. Shina that the hyperwave anomalies she's detecting are being caused by a pod of Space Whales.
• The planet Pzob and System K749 from Children of the Jedi, the first book of The Callista Trilogy, makes an appearance in Season 1 where it's the site of first contact between the Republic and the Imperium.
• Kuat of Kuat from The Bounty Hunter Wars is mentioned in Episode 3 as the one who sent the entire KDY defense fleet to reinforce Renphi's task force as they prepare to make first contact with the Imperium.
  • Kuat of Kuat later makes a physical appearance in Episode 34 where he's commanding one of the three Mandator II-class star dreadnoughts fighting for the Republic's side at the Second Battle of Axum.
• The Holdo maneuver from The Last Jedi plays a prominent role in Season 1 where it's used by a brainwashed Captain Kraken to use his Venator in a suicide ram of the Atlas of Steel during the Republic's first contact with the Imperium at Pzob.
• The first time Dr. Shina sees a Space Marine up close in Episode 5, she describes the Marine as resembling a depiction of a Knight of Zhell. The Zhell were the human precursor species that originally lived on Coruscant in the Legends continuity.
• The title of Episode 10 is "The Phantom Nemesis", which is a clear nod to The Phantom Menace.
• In Episode 10, one of the Republic's senators refers to the Imperials as "Far Outsiders" due to their extragalactic origin. This was also one of the names used to refer to the Yuuzhan Vong in the Legends continuity.
• The Jedi use repurposed Verpine asteroid colonies as makeshift starfighter carriers during the opening stages of the Second Battle of Axum. The Verpine were an insectoid species from the Legends continuity well-known for their starship engineering.
• The intro sequence for Episode 11 plays the song Vode An from Star Wars: Republic Commando.
  • Delta Squad from that game also show up later in the series among the elite clone units taking part in the Second Battle of Axum.
• 65, the OC clone commander who falls to Chaos during the Battle of Axum, takes clear inspiration from the Legends character Commander Deviss, a clone from the 327^th Star Corps whose the birth number was CT-65/91-6210.
• Corric, a Legends clone trooper featured in Clone Wars Gambit, appears in Episode 11 as part of the 501^st Legion battling the Skitarii aboard Trench's captured flagship.
• Rahm Kota from The Force Unleashed shows up in episode 12 where he appears as part of Quinlan Vos's Jedi strike force sent to Axum's surface during the Jedi counter-invasion, and delivers a Rousing Speech to the people of Axum urging them to rebel against the Imperial occupation.
• When Obi-Wan boards the Hellsmasher and battles the Librarian Saphran, he is leading a Jedi strike force which includes Cere Junda and Taron Malicos from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
  • Serra Keto and Cin Drallig from the video game Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith are also among Obi-Wan's strike force, and even have supporting roles in Episode 18.
• One of the Imperial viewpoint characters in the Axum arc is a Child Soldier from the Death Korps of Krieg named 1313. 1313 is also the name of an underworld level of Coruscant as well as a cancelled video game.
• Commander Husk and Aurek Squad, a clone commando unit introduced in Star Wars d20 as part of the Galaxy at War supplement, are mentioned to have been killed by a trio of Wyrdvane Psykers in Episode 16.
• Aquila Squad from Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel appears in Episode 16 as one of the clone commando units that came to Axum to support the 327^th Star Corps' ground assault.
• It's revealed in Episode 16 that Aayla Secura has Innate Night Vision due to her homeworld being a Tidally Locked Planet. This is a nod to Star Wars Legends, which depicted the planet Ryloth as being tidally locked with one side constantly facing the sun and the other in perpetual darkness.
• Aquila Squad's gunship is painted with the artwork of a red-and-orange starbird, which would later become the symbol of the Rebel Alliance in canon and Legends.
• Jaro Tapal from Jedi: Fallen Order appears in Episode 18 among Mace Windu's strike force assaulting the Hellsmasher.
• Porgs from The Last Jedi are mentioned by the narration in Episode 21 as part of a Hold Your Hippogriffs moment.
• Echo landing a Confederate Providence-class ship with just maneuvering thrusters at the end of Episode 21 is a move taken straight from Revenge of the Sith. Lampshaded by Echo, who notes that it's something Anakin would do.
• In Episode 25, Anakin's POV narration describes the Force-numbing effects of Khayon's Blackstone restraints as being similar to a Ysalamiri.
• Depa Billaba falling to the Dark Side in Episode 28 and attacking one of her fellow Jedi is a nod to her Legends counterpart, who, unlike canon, also fell to the Dark Side during the Clone Wars, forcing Mace Windu to hunt her down as depicted in the novel Shatterpoint.
• Jocasta Nu brings her lightsaber rifle from Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith to the Jedi assault on the Hellsmasher and uses it to kill Saphran.
• Aayla sensing a disturbance in the Force caused by the Crimson Razors destroying multiple Separatist worlds and describing it as the "sound of a billion voices, all crying out in despair" and later saying she fears something terrible has happened is a reference to Obi-Wan sensing the destruction of Alderaan in A New Hope.
• The way that the imposter Grevious attempts to escape the Imperial Cruiser he's boarded upon learning the ship is set to self-destruct is to pick up an electro-staff from a slain Magnaguard and get ready to throw it at the windows of the bridge so he can leave via the vacuum of space, which was how he escaped from Anakin and Obi-Wan during the fight aboard the Invisible Hand at the start of Revenge of the Sith.
• When a medical droid says that Padmé is dying because she's lost the will to live in a direct reference to Revenge of the Sith, Shina shoots the droid because of how dumb that excuse is.
• The Victory Fleet from the old Legends reference books appears in Season 3 as part of the Republic's massive counterattack armada sent to reinforce the Jedi and liberate Axum.
• In Episode 34, Omega mentions how some of the clones on her Oracle Team weren't created through the traditional Kaminoan cloning method but through Spaarti cloning, which first appeared in The Thrawn Trilogy.
• The Mandator II-class star dreadnought that Kuat of Kuat is personally commanding in Episode 34 during the Second Battle of Axum is named the Pride of the Core, which originated from Star Wars fanon.
• The three Jedi Masters that Ishtara Ordane duels in Episode 36 are Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin, the same trio which accompanied Mace Windu when he went to arrest Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith.
• In Episode 37, as Aayla prepares to meditate aboard Aquila Squad's gunship to finally reckon with the traumatic memories of the Battle of Axum that she previously repressed with the Force, she mutters Yoda's saying "Do, or do not. There is no try" from The Empire Strikes Back.
• Jolsop mispronouncing Jedi as "Jeedai" in Episode 37 is a nod to the Legends continuity where that was what various species (most notably the Yuuzhan Vong) commonly called the Jedi.
• The Heresiarch's religious mantra featured in the episode description for the Season 3 special "Our Chains Are Broken" is a copy of the Sith Code but with some of the wording altered so that it better fits the mindset of a Chaos cultist.
• Gilad Pellaeon from the post-Battle of Endor era in Star Wars Legends appears in Episode 39 as a Republic naval captain commanding one of the three Mandator-II-class dreadnoughts at the Second Battle of Axum.
• Terrinald Screed from the 1980s cartoon Droids makes an appearance as a POV character in Episode 39 where he is commanding one of the Republic's Mandator II-class dreadnoughts participating in the Second Battle of Axum.
• There's an Order 66 reference in episode 41 part 3 where Commissar Shadrick issues "General Order 99" in order to activate the indoctrination programming of 1313 and the other Death Korpsmen, and get them to turn on the Cadian Shock Troops attempting to arrest him.
• The description for Episode 42 on YouTube uses the quote "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it." This is from Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and was said by Darth Traya to the Fallen Jedi Atris. In the context of the episode itself, the quote refers to Mace Windu falling to the Dark Side.
• While fighting Tahr Whyler at the start of her POV segment in Episode 43, Aayla mentally reminds herself of several famous historical Jedi Masters who had given their lives fighting the Sith including Ven Zallow, Valenthyne Farfalla, and Vodo-Siosk Baas.
• Episode 43 features Palpatine saying this line from Return of the Jedi. "You will find that it is you who are mistaken... about a great many things." The difference here is that instead of speaking to Luke Skywalker aboard the second Death Star, he's saying it to Tahr Whyler as the two prepares to fight each other.
• The YouTube description for Episode 44 has the quote "We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters" said by Darman to Etain Tur-Mukan in Hard Contact, the first novel of the Republic Commando Series.
• In response to Tahr demanding to know how Sidious was able to dispel the daemon fire that he unleashed upon him, Sidious merely replies "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities the weak and shortsighted consider to be unnatural." This is a variant of his famous Revenge of the Sith line.
• Palpatine says the line "Search your feelings, Inquisitor Whyler, you know this to be true" while delivering his We Can Rule Together offer to Tahr and claiming that the Dark Side can make Tahr more powerful than the God-Emperor ever could.

Warhammer 40,000

• The YouTube audio version of Episode 4 features an edited-in line taken from the launch trailer for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada during the scene where the bridge crew of the Honor Hound intercept and translate the final transmission sent out by the downed Atlas of Steel to the rest of the Imperial armada.
  Imperial Captain: We will destroy the ship and take the enemy with us. It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself!
• Orion's line in Episode 10 "Mankind must suffer so that mankind can survive" is taken straight from the first novel of the Eisenhorn trilogy.
• In Episode 17, Electro-Priest C-82 says a slightly altered variation of the famous 40K opening line "for in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war" when asked by Ahsoka if his people ever managed to find peace.
• Clone Trooper Sando referring to his 'borrowed' Imperial las-rifle as a "death flashlight" in Episode 21 is a reference to the WH40K meme.
• When Commander Bly defeats Kallie Delta in Episode 23, the dialogue between the two is exact same shared by a Space Marine sergeant and an Eldar Farseer in the cinematic trailer for Dawn of War II.
• When Ciaphas Cain appears in Episode 24, the Ciaphas Cain theme song from If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device starts playing.
• The Crimson Razors Strike Cruiser Red Harbinger from Episode 31 is a reference to a Vanguard Cruiser of the same name from 40K canon which originally belonged to the Fire Hawks before getting captured in battle by the Mantis Warriors at the start of the Badab War.
• Boba Fett's comment in Episode 33 about how there are no wolves on Tatooine is a nod to an in-universe 40K meme "There are no wolves on Fenris."
• When Ahsoka and Rex capture Farnus in Episode 40 Part 3, Rex kicks away their captive's combat knife which gets immediately embedded into a nearby metal wall. Rex wonders aloud how the Imperials could get their knives that sharp. The author confirms that this is a nod to that famous 40K anecdote about two Guardsmen who found an STC for an improved combat knife and were handed ownership over two planets as a reward.
• In Episode 40 Part 4, the Rogue Trader fleet that comes to reinforce Battlefleet Xek-Tek during the Second Battle of Axum is led by a man named Tiberious Clousseau. His last name is a reference to Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau, the first named Inquisitor from the first edition of Warhammer 40,000.
• At the end of Episode 40 Part 4, Samael utters the phrase "Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment", which is a quote commonly associated with Warhammer 40,000, most notably in Dawn of War.
• The YouTube description for Episode 43 has an excerpt of a speech that Anakin will presumably give to the Jedi Council in a future scene regarding the state of the Republic's war with the Imperium. It's basically a paraphrased copy of Roboute Guilliman's monologue from the 10th Edition cinematic trailer for Warhammer 40,000.

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