Referenced By / Firefly

Comic Books

• In one issue of the X-23 miniseries Target: X, Laura Kinney (X-23) and Megan are at a movie theater, and one of the kids seated behind them can be seen wearing a shirt with the Firefly logo.

Fan Works

• Boldores And Boomsticks: Blake's Litten, Mal, is named after Malcolm because he watched Serenity and was awed by the "I aim to misbehave" speech.
• Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: While being held at gunpoint by Sando's pirates in Chapter 17, Church deadpans "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

Literature

• The Dresden Files:
  • Dead Beat: Gives us "Thomas is too pretty to die."
  • Cold Days: When Harry interrupts Bob's magically projected movie, he comments that Harry is going to the special hell. Harry doesn't get it, to his annoyance, probably due to how his magic plays havoc with technology.
• The Other Boy: Firefly is Shane's favorite TV show. The hero of his graphic novel is named Hogan Fillion after Nathan Fillion.

Live Action TV

• On Bones Zack mentions watching reruns of Firefly.
• There are multiple references, shout outs and actor allusions on Castle.
  • Castle dressed up as Captain Reynolds for Halloween, referring to himself as Space Cowboy.
• Similarly, there are multiple shout outs and actor allusions on Chuck, which costars Adam Baldwin.
• Sheldon and Leonard of The Big Bang Theory were fans of the show and they supposed it would be on for years.
  • They put it in their room-mate agreement that they on Friday night, they would be watching Firefly.
  • Sheldon once said that Nathan Fillion is loveable and he thought him a great candidate to play a superhero.
  • The owner of Fox is on Sheldon's list of traitors and evil people...because Fox cancelled Firefly.
• Criminal Minds has a subtle reference in a season 1 episode. Reid shoots an unsub in the head and claims he was aiming for the knee. It was established earlier in the episode that anything less than a headshot wouldn’t work, and Reid was lying on the ground like Jayne was as well.
• In the Community episode Advanced Documentary Filmmaking, Troy mentions that he and Abed have a pact that if one of them dies, the other will stage it to look like a suicide caused by the cancellation of Firefly.
• The Expanse: The list of ships docked in "Salvage" has a lot of shout-outs, including the Serenity and the Burninator.

Video Games

• Civilization: Beyond Earth:
  • The achievement for making a city that generates more than one-hundred culture per turn is "A Mighty Fine Shindig".
  • The achievement for being a game on a Duel-sized map is "I Aim To Misbehave".
• Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: the trophy you get at one point is called "Sudden but Inevitable".

Web Comics

• The series gets a nod in Darths & Droids when one of the characters says "gorram." A bit of Fridge Logic when you consider that Darths and Droids is set in an Alternate Universe where the Star Wars films never happened, considering the heavy influence the films had on the genre which would have even affected Firefly.
• In Homestuck, WV has a pet firefly named Serenity.
• xkcd makes multiple references, including an arc where multiple members of the cast appear with their characters' personnas.

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