Shout Out / Fan Works: Crossovers

• AWE Arcadia Bay (Rogue_Demon): Jesse refers to her idea of remaking the Prime Candidate Program into a Fantastic Recruitment Drive as "FBC Avengers."
• Broken Dimensions: When Prowler ask Batman who is him, his answer is:"What are you dense sre you stupid or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn batman".
• Calvin at Camp:
  • The Mouse Trap sequence in "Bringing Down the Mouse" is an homage to MouseHunt.
  • In "Champion Charlie Brown," Lucy quotes a line from Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown.
• Can I Keep Him?: Casita keeping Hiccup and Toothless from stealing breakfast from the Madrigals via a Shell Game brings to mind Shifu doing the same to Po and Po doing it to Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda.
• Captains Crash:
  • In the very first paragraph, Spitfire muses that "life is like a hurricane"; not only is this a direct quotation of the first line in the DuckTales cartoon intro, but it also calls to mind the famous "life is like a box of chocolates" intro from Forrest Gump.
  • The title of the story stems from Rainbow Dash's hated childhood nickname.
  • After Launchpad emerges from his crash, he proclaims himself "singed but triumphant", repeating himself a second time after tripping, and giving up on a third repetition after tripping again. This is a gag from Darkwing Duck, where Launchpad was a secondary protagonist.
• A Dark Knight over Sin City: When Dwight first sees Batman, he says, "It's the goddamn Batman."
• The Devil Fruit Hero: Kirby's hero name is a reference to Astro Boy.
• The Echo Ranger: In chapter 2, a certain former Emperor of Evil says "''Lord'' Zedd. Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time..."
• Ed, Edd, 'n Pony: In chapter 2, as Eddy is showing Edd his horn, he calls him Charlie.
• Eddward Wright: Ace Attorney:
  • Chapter 1 has Eddy playing a round of Team Fortress 2 on his computer. Obviously, he's playing as the Scout.
  • Chapter 2 contains a reference to The Annoying Orange Courtroom Episode. Word of God states he's attempting to make this a Running Gag.
  • Since the story takes place after Port-Ed 2, many references to the Portal series exist, such as the Eds having ASHPDs in their possession. This does, however, spoil the ending of the story they come from (it's not finished yet, by the way). Word of God states that Edd does have a Companion Cube and it will show up soon. In addition, Eddy's portal gun has a button that disables both portals, like in Portal: The Flash Version.
  • The following sequence in chapter 4 is (mostly) taken from Turnabout Storm (original follows for reference):
    Maya: The trial's tomorrow... at 10:00.
    Eddy: What?! Ya mean "tomorrow" tomorrow?
    Maya: Yes. "Tomorrow" tomorrow.
    [...]
    Phoenix: When is the trial, anyway?
    Twilight: Oh... Tomorrow morning...
    Phoenix: TOMORROW MORNING!? As in "tomorrow" tomorrow?
    Twilight: Yup. "Tomorrow" tomorrow.
  • In chapter 7 and chapter 8, when Eddy yells "Hold the phone!", this vector image from Sheep in the Big City is added, as a reference to a Running Gag on that show. The second time this happens, the author gets called on by Eddy.
  • A mess-up of John's part in chapter 9 has him initially register the Floor Plans in the Court Record as "EDD!PLAN BAG FUCK".
• The Dragon and the Bow: There are several throughout the story.
  • There are multiple shoutouts to The 13th Warrior. The Vendal are based off of the Wendal, and the Viking prayer is directly from the movie. Chapter five, "Eaters of the Dead," is named after the book's original title.
  • Chapter eighteen is titled A Dance with a Dragon.
  • While the trio are fleeing the Monstrous Nightmare with Fishlegs carrying them, Hiccup looks back and shouts, "Must go faster! Must go faster!"
  • During a funeral for the Vikings killed in a Vendal raid on Berk, Stoick sings "Misty Mountains Cold".
  • Merida sings "Hymne des Fraternisés" to soothe an angry Nadder.
  • The Red Death's Badass Boast is similar to Smaug's from The Hobbit.
  • When Snotlout is smacking the Red Death in the eye:
  Snotlout: Hey, you got something in your eye! (smacks Red Death in eye) It was pain!
  • When Loki mentions how his brother Thor is also known as Raiden, the image he shows is of a man wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat.
  • Hiccups prayer to Loki before the final battle sounds like "I See Fire".
  • When confronted by Mor'Du and his Vendel, Hilde reminds him that she is "no mere conjurer of mere tricks".
  • When Fergus is comforting his seasick grandson at the start of the story, he mentions how he once turned so green with seasickness, his own grandfather mistook him for an ogre.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout:
  • One of the imaginary friends Pedro conjures is a "bizarrely smug blue blob".
  • Many of the monsters Pedro makes for Karla's impromptu obstacle course resemble various badniks from Sonic the Hedgehog, with the Orca chasing her at the end being based off of the Killer Whales that chase Sonic in Sonic Adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Generations.
  • Theater!Hiccup shouts "Hasta la vista, baby!" during their battle with the Red Death puppet.
  • Hiccup describes Karla's Freudian Excuse as wanting adventure in the great, wide somewhere.
  • Three of the kids the Madrigals interact with at Camp Ingerman include a plucky blonde dressed in pink named Punzie, a red-headed girl with a passion for archery named Meri and a smug, platinum-blond kid named Jack.
• In the MLP/Harry Potter crossover, Eric Sparkle and the Locket of Prophecies, these are very common. In Chapter 14, two teenage pegasus colts are named Skywarp and Thundercracker; a reference to The Transformers. Early in Chapter 15, without knowing it, Twilight Sparkle and Storm Blade end up eating the same strands of spaghetti, bumping their faces together, making it look like a kiss. Sound familir anyone?. In Chapter 17, the part where Glacio and his army attack the Crystal Empire is a reference to Mulan where the Huns breach the Great Wall.
• Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls:
  • Applejack mentions certain "fella wit fancy armour suit from them big budget superher flicks" before using her gauntlets and boots to fly.
  • Confirmed by Word of God, Firefly's Fullbring "Ace of Sky" is one to Humongous Mecha Anime like Gundam, able to manifest constructs including Attack Drones, Energy Wings, a BFG Gatling gun and a Laser Blade, among other abilities.
  • Gaw is one big one to the giant Japanese monster movie franchise as well as The Bridge. She is named after a very obscure one tied to King Kong lore.
  • Chapter 54, featuring the climatic showdown between Sunset and Platinum during the Soul Society Arc, is titled "A Showdown of Ice and Fire".
  • Twilight suspects that the Seele Schneiders were created by a Quincy who was a Star Wars fan.
  • Chapter 96, featuring the Equestria Girls and Shadowbolts working together to fight a large sea monster, is titled "Attack on Kraken".
  • Grogar and Pinkie Pie/Pinkamena's fight has one of the battle gags being the former thrown into the courtroom of Ace Attorney, complete with the series' theme in acapella (with Grogar expressing his hatred for the genre of music).
  • Chapter 124: Clover firing rapid-fire Kido spells at Gaia Everfree and her physically-superior opponent's annoyed and angry reaction to continuously being battered by explosions is more or less Tien blasting Semi-Perfect Cell.
  • The fish people that kidnap Aria and Sonata are sahuagin.
• Fallout Equestria: Pink Eyes: Lonesome Pony makes passing references to The Stable Dweller and Security.
• Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons: In the later chapters makes an inference right back at Pink Eyes via an Enclave Saturday-Morning Cartoon commercial.
  • and also has Pinkie Pie speak of a Timey-Wimey Ball.
  • and there is Security's "We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?".
    • as well as her ripping open a tank with her 'hands'
• Fate of the Clans:
  • Seri says that Izumo "knows a woman who uses puppets and is really good at prosthetics". That description, the fact this is set in the Nasuverse, and that woman is likely an underworld contact since SCEPTER 4 doesn't have her info means she's likely Touko Aozaki from The Garden of Sinners.
  • Cú Chulainn talks about chains whose hold get stronger the higher the captive's Divinity.
• The sequel to The First Saniwa features a Brick Joke about a Noodle Incident in which Yorimitsu finds out what the word tenshiki means. This is a reference to a classic rakugo play of the same name: a monk gets diagnosed by a doctor and the latter brings up the term tenshiki. Not knowing what it means, the monk asks his apprentice. The apprentice doesn't know either, so he goes around the neighborhood asking only to find nobody else knowing either, until he reaches the doctor himself. The doctor reveals tenshiki is actually a fancy medical term for flatulence. Afraid he may get scolded by the monk if he tells the truth, the apprentice makes up his own definition for tenshiki by way of Alternate Character Reading.
• Friendship Contract:
  • Naruto's cloud jutsu that allows him to create a small cloud upon which he can fly, which he trades to Sarutobi's ape summoning for a blank summoning scroll.
  • Naruto covered Sasuke in glitter and stole his shirt, making him look like a vampire.
  • And after Sasuke's Cursed Seal gets a Luna-made seal themed after the phases of the moon, Naruto (jokingly?) tells him that unlocking the full power of the seal requires Sasuke to shout out "Moon Princess Power!"
  • "For Science!"
  • The CMCs suggested Naruto catch a Cerberus and name it Fluffy, as well as keeping it in one of the corridors of the Ninja Academy.
  • Sweetie Belle manages to make a song which was so amazingly awesome that the only thing left to remember it is a rough tribute to its glory.
  • na na na na na na na na CATMAN!
  • There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
  • "Why is the cider/rum gone?" / "If I wasn't this would probably never work."
  • Ninjas vs Pirates, the age-old question.
  • A Twilight Princess is introduced into the Princess Gale films, acted out by Twilight Sparkle.
  • Sasuke bemoans his horrid-looking hand-wings, wishing he’d grown some awesome black-feathered wings, or maybe just one even if it wouldn't be capable of doing anything useful.
  • Hydro Cannon! It’s not very effective…
  • After barely avoiding getting caught by Deidara's suicide explosion, a disoriented Sasuke questions whether or not the resulting mushroom cloud is friendly.
  • Konohamaru is being trained by three young monkeys of the Monkey tribe: Wei, Wu, and Shu
• Friends of a Solar Empire: Several, mostly to Battlestar Galactica, such as Rainbow Dash's callsign (Starbuck), the Everfree Forest Cloudbase, which superficially resembles a squared off Cylon Basestar, and the use of the word "frak".
  • Equestria's Argonev starbase is called the Kasztanka.
• A Game of Cat and Cat: "Halloween Special Again": A list is noted at the end in an author's note, and these are only the shout-outs:
  Most characters in this chapter are wearing costumes with a theme. This theme will become more apparent as the story goes on, but for now, here are the costumes:
  [...]
  Naoki is Popeye the Sailor Man.
  [...]
  Mina is The Medic from Team Fortress 2.
  The themed costumes of characters who haven't been introduced:
  Ellen Ripley from Alien.
  Marty McFly from Back to the Future.
  [...]
  The Lone Wanderer of Fallout 3.
  The Black Knight from Monty Python, named Tony here.
  [...]
  Akira from Devilman.
  Lt. Surge from Pokémon.
  [...]
  Teddie is dressed as Alice, again.
• The God Empress of Ponykind:
  • When the Emperor is taken by the Warp, he is described as A leaf seized by a summer wind.
  • Sequences in the Warp are based off of the Dreaming from It's A Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door.
  • To relieve Luna of her boredom in Chapter 6, Celestia tells her a story about a colt, his friend, and a nice mare from the Inquisition fighting against Genestealers.
  • The current commander of the royal guards is named Steel Rain. He's... a bit too enthusiastic about Deep Striking Pegasi.
  • Commander Icewind's reaction to being surrounded? "Oh good; for a moment I thought we were in trouble."
  • From the sequel The Warmistress of Equestria, many of the Traitor Legionnaires are named after G1 villains (such as Scorpan, Hydia, Grogar...)
• I Against I, Me Against You, a Crossover between Red vs. Blue and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, has many references to other Rooster Teeth shows.
  • Act 1 Part 8 introduces Jones, a bit character voiced by Gavin Free in the actual show. Jones' depiction in this story is much more in line with Gavin's goofy demeanour in Achievement Hunter, complete with speaking with confusing British-isms and a moment where he refers to Caboose as "Mi-cool".
  • Act 1 Part 9 introduces two Original Characters Reynard Vaez Jr and Mike "the Rage" Mogar, both of which are Expies of Achievement Hunters Ray Narvaez Jr. and Michael Jones
  • The Achievement Hunter Main 6 complete their cameos in Act 2 Part 9 with the appearances of Lieutenant Jack and the "Mad King" James Hayworth, Jack Patillo and Ryan Haywood respectively.
  • Tex cuts a bit of Rarity's mane during a fight scene, and Rarity reacts much like Yang Xiao Long
  • In one of the chapters, Caboose repeatedly fires off confetti cannons, much like his voice actor Joel Heyman did in one episode of the Gauntlet.
  • Simmons tells Rarity a story based on one Gus told on the Rooster Teeth Podcast.
  • The Recovery Agent in charge of the alien dig site in the later half of Act 2 is Captain Eberle, an Expy of Rooster Teeth's own Kara Eberle. She even knocks an ice cream cone out of Caboose's hand at one point, giving us this exchange:
    Tucker: Aw, cheer up Caboose! It's not like you could have eaten it with your helmet on anyway!
    Caboose: Yeah, but I still had dreams...
    Tucker: Well, no dreams for you!
  • Under O'Malley's influence, Pinkie Pie menacingly asks Rainbow Dash if she wants to bake cupcakes with her.
• Inferior or Superior: Two of the scientists working for Wheeljack are named Rick and Morty.
• In Little Black Death Note, a Harry Potter and Death Note crossover one of the names that Kira writes in the death note is "Uchiha Itachi."
• Lost in Camelot;
  • Kenzi initially refers to Morgana as ‘Camelot Barbie’
  • After witnessing the troll's true form, Kenzi describes Uther's new marriage as him ‘bumping uglies with the Creature from the Black Lagoon'.
  • When Lancelot arrives in Camelot, Kenzi tells him 'Welcome to Team Muggle'.
  • When Kenzi is discussing finding Lancelot a fake girlfriend, she notes that the girl in question needs to be hot so Arthur and Gwen don't think they hurt Lancelot so badly he's rebounding with 'Ugly Betty'.
• Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight: "Confound those ponies".
  • Bardiche's upgrade forms include two new Barrier Jackets: Strike Form and Astray Form.
  • Thanks to the ENTD System, Twilight and Fate have become Gundam Unicorn and Gundam Unicorn Banshee respectively.
  • Luna calls the Tome of the Night Sky's Master Program a machine spirit.
• Mass Effect The Equestrian Equation: Pretty much the entire Equestria Facility is one big one to The Matrix, complete with Mecha-Mooks out in the physical world.
• Meeting of Minds:
  • Rumble refers to Visser Three's Andalite host as the "unholy spawn of a mutant Smurf and a Fantasia reject" and repeatedly says the Visser looks like something Disney animators would imagine while under the influence.
  • Rumble asks Ifrit 259 if he thought the former was a cyborg "like General Grievous". Ifrit doesn't know what he's referring to.
  • The songs that Rumble sings telepathically to annoy Ifrit include "The Song that Doesn't End", the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song, and "I Love You" from Barney & Friends. He also spends some time rambling about Charlie the Unicorn and tells Hook that if the Yeerk had been in him for much longer, he would've had to start using Hannah Montana songs against him.
• Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations
  • "I shouldn't be alive, unless it was for a reason."
  • Chase being cloned back to life by Foundation X for their Roidmude propagation, as the eighth and successful clone evokes Alien: Resurrection.
  • When Samus puts on the Athena Suit and gives a Smug Super Badass Boast speech to Kaito, kinda reminds you how Tony Stark puts on his Endo-Sym Armor:
    Samus: Building a so-called god can't be to hard. I mean, as the most renowned Bounty Hunter in the galaxy; I'm just an alien woman from the future trapped in the now, a mere prisoner raging against the slow crawl of human evolution. In fact, I'm not playing God. All this time... I've been playing human!
  • Micchy taunting a Proud Warrior Race Guy by calling Adel a full-tilt diva who wants flowers, parades, and a monument with his likeness. Tony Stark everyone?
    • "Uh... Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?" ^NoteMitsuzane's first impression to Adel when he confronts him.
    • "I said... KNEEL!" ^NoteWhen Adel makes his presence known in the human world and asks anyone to kneel. Word of God states it gives the impression that Adel is essentially what Loki would have been like if he became king of Asgard by dethroning Odin. This also applies the fact that his relationship with Alain makes the latter the Expy of Thor.
  • STREME SPOATS!
• My Little Avengers: When Pinkie is first explaining Thor's backstory to Big Mac, she starts by giving him the basic information with what appears to be a psychic headbutt.
  • During the epilogue, when Twilight is sealing away Tirek, she does so with the "Chains of Mag'ne".
  • Gilda/The Juggernaut, during her fight with the Avengers, at one point shouts, "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
  • At the beginning of the story, Big Mac is shown reading what appears to be a pony version of The Lord of the Rings.
• My Little Castlevania: The author was really going for one or two Shout Outs per chapter, and it shows:
  • A small child is attacked by a St. Bernard that used to be such a sweet dog.
  • “It’s a secret to everypony.”
  • Several lines are actually lyrics from different songs, ranging from The Eagles' "Hotel California" to Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
  • A lot of Rose’s scenes have shout-outs to Eyes Without a Face, the author’s admitted most favorite MLP fanfic.
  • "Are they in a cave, WITH a box of scraps?"
  • The words Twilight must say to a magic book in order to look up its contents? "Klatuu Verata Nikto."
  • Twilight at one point mentions World 8 of Super Mare Sisters to describe doing something that's really hard.
• My Little Denarians: In keeping with his canon status as a Pop-Cultured Badass, Dresden tosses lots of references into his dialogue and narration.
  • Pinkie Pie will occasionally get in on the act, such as calling Discord Q.
  • One chapter name is "Single Rainbow All The Way Across The Sky".
  • "Princess Celestia" eats a banana while subjecting Fancypants to exile. This is a possible reference to the popular fan-animation Friendship Is Magic Bitch.
  • "If we made a deal, it was just a matter of time before the Nickleheads’ sudden but inevitable betrayal."
  • "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice … been fooled, won’t get fooled again."
  • “Give up the whole demon thing and take up lumberjacking – I’ve heard it’s a pretty lucrative career. Plus, you get to dress up in women’s clothing and hang around in bars.”
  • Four legs good, two legs better.
  • one-point-twenty-one jiggawatts
  • Well, unless it was one of those evil magical journals that was really serving as a container for the soul of a legendary dark wizard. Wizards named Harry have a bit of a bad record with those.
  • “Since almost everypony thinks you’re dead, you should sing a song about how you’re still alive!" ... When she was a couple lines in and fully occupied with a strange little song about how she considered this a triumph and was making a note about how big a success it was...
  • The Gatekeeper says that there's a "young and impetuous" Warden called Jenkins; Pinkie asks if he's Leeroy, to which Rashid says that he's Richard.
    • “Ah, yes, ‘settling disagreements.’ I thought we had dismissed that claim.”
  • “Yes, well sometimes we have to use what tools are at our disposal, not the ones we want."
  • “Be vewy, vewy quiet, .... “I’m hunting wabbit.”
  • “Doesn’t anyone watch the good old classics anymore?” I put on a very bad imitation of an Austrian accent. “‘I’ll be back.’ ‘Hasta la vista, baby.’ Anyone?”
  • “Looks like Discord,” I paused for dramatic effect, “...just got stoned.” For some reason, that prompted Pinkie to scream "Yeeeeaaah!" and put on a pair of sunglasses.
• My Little Pony vs...: One of the mannequins animated by Esmeraude during the shopping mall fight does a brief Slender Man impression.
• My(stara's) Little Ponies: Friendship Is Adventuring: A big one to Phineas and Ferb. Expies of Dr. Doofensmirtz, Vanessa, and Perry the Platypus appear during a dance party.
  • The Ghostly Gang, two of which were Bonnie and Clyde, were forced to retire after being chased around a maze by a giant yellow beholder. Afterwards, they had 3 daughters who they named Inky, Blinky and Pinkie.
• New Stars: When Maxx is struggling with survivor guilt over the fact that he's a free man and his brothers aren't, Dr. Finn quotes Albus Dumbledore:
  Dr. Finn: There's a quote from a very old Earth book I read as a girl. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
• Oni Ga Shiku Series: Even though the fic is a My Hero Academia and Like a Dragon crossover, there are several references to other works, out of which some exist In-Universe.
  • Majima tells Izuku to get on with cleaning the beach like a "friendly neighborhood hero".
  • At one point Majima takes off with a speed that "would make a certain blue hedgehog jealous".
  • Musashi describes the gang he joined as a kid as a pseudo-Neverland made up of kids that ran from home.
  • Majima calls Inko's quirk Attraction of Small Objects "Jedi Force shit".
  • Inko constantly quotes The Analects of Confucius to win arguments. She did that ever since she was a kid.
  • Izuku is a fan of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. At one point he even declares that he, Izuku Midoriya, has a dream!
  • Izuku wonders if Akatani's lawyer who managed to get the court to drop most charges on him was Ryuichi Naruhodo.
  • When Akiyama asks the Florist if he can find some info, the Florists response is "Who the hell do you think I am?"
  • The Florist praises Izuku's footage analysis skills by comparing him to Detective Conan.
  • Chisato's very much unwanted suitor is Sugimura from Persona 5.
  • When Shigaraki asks Izuku who the hell he is, Izuku replies "Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto". Shigaraki is not impressed.
• Paper Mario X:
  • Link makes one to Pokémon in a conversation with Kirby.
  • Link makes one to EarthBound in the beginning of Chapter 27 of the first story, when the group receives Skolar's Star Power.^note Which is Star Storm, which is Poo's most powerful move.
  • Link makes one to Pikmin in Chapter 17 of the second story, where he compares the Punies that are following the team to Olimar's Pikmin.^note If you check the previously linked page, you'll see that that actually is a shout out to Pikmin in the original game.
  • "Sheesh Mario, pull out an Ike quote on us why don't you?"
  • In chapter 45 of Super, after Bowser calls Luigi "the guy in green", Luigi asks Bowser if he doesn't even remember his name. This is a reference to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, where nobody remembers Luigi's name.
  • Bowser has an obsession with the phrase "over 9000".
• Paradoxus:
  • Both Bloom and Daphne's daughter are otakus; whenever the narration switches to them or someone thinks of them during their internal monologues, expect a reference to some anime. In the seventh chapter, Bloom remembers being weirded out at seeing Patchamen figurines next to a Sailor Mars one she wanted to purchase while in Japan. It's a double-layered example because the Patchamen are Winx Club's version of the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.
  • In the eighth chapter, Galadwen visits the Oathdír family just in time for dinner. The main course, prepared by Indís' husband Angus is ratatouille.
• Episode 1 of Phoenix Wright: Speed Attorney contains references to other Ace Attorney crossovers, specifically Turnabout Storm, Devil's Attorney and Phoenix Wright in the Mario World. Phoenix brushes off the events of those fanfics as being All Just a Dream due to too much coffee before bed, but Tails reminds him that they did, in fact, happen, as he brought a newspaper from Ponyville to remind Phoenix of the trial against Rainbow Dash.
• Port-Ed: Nazz claims that her cousin worked part-time at Aperture Science and supposedly was also a test subject of the ASHPD. Despite what one review guessed, it's not Chell. (The author was glad the betareader of the story kept this shout out.)
• Reformations: In this Teen Titans/Ranma 1/2 crossover, the author notes directly state that Ranma's reaction to his nightmare of Kuno's love confession was inspired by Vegeta's reaction to Goku's Kaioken when they fought on Earth.
• Revenge of Lavan: The scientific name of the witchweed plant is Bandora repulsus.
• SAPR:
  • Rainbow Dash uses a wing pack, SMGs, and goggles with an integrated HUD in combat, just like The Falcon.
  • In Chapter 155, "We’re Gonna Take You Down," Team RSPT faces down Team JAMM (Jasmine) in a battle that's a direct reference to Jason and the Argonauts.
  • The Mistralliad is an in-universe story referenced several times throughout the story, and is a pretty blatant shout-out to The Iliad.
  • The Atlesian air cruiser Thunder Child is a reference to The War of the Worlds. It ends up being destroyed by the [Wyvern during the Battle of Vale.
• A Song of Silk and Saplings: When lost in the area beneath the Light Within's headquarters, Hornet finds herself in a maze of twisty little passages that look all alike.
• Spinel's New Best Friend: In chapter 6, when Spinel is put in the dressing room at Carousel Boutique, she's given a bunch of pictures for inspiration on what to make herself look like for her Grand Galloping Gala outfit. She takes of picture of a frog. She later busts out of the room, having added a black top hat and bowtie to her outfit, and holding a black cane. She then sings "Hello my Pinkie, hello my Rarity, hello my two great galllllsssss!".
• Star Trek: Phoenix:
  • In "Space Race", Drake and Rodrigo quote a few lines from The Princess Bride.
  • Later in the same chapter, Preta mentions having had a Professor Farnsworth at the Academy.
• Super Miyuki World:The chapter titles (with the exception of the Prologue) reference various anime, but with the added twist of being named after the World that Miyuki and Yoshi visit during the chapter.
• Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers: The Liveblog contains several shout-outs toward not only Power Rangers and Super Sentai, but other works as well.
  • The subplot in the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Power Rangers Samurai liveblog mentions that it's inspired by the skits-in-reviews a la The Nostalgia Critic, which continued in the Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers' liveblog's arc.
  • The elemental attacks that some of the All-Stars and Scouts perform, such as Solarbeam, Flamethrower, and Petal Dance, are named after and based on several Pokémon moves.
  • Some of Radiguet's lines and mannerisms are based on Ghetsis.
  Radiguet: "And soon, I—no, we—will rule!"
  • After Aka Red gives Sean a choice to either ascend as the Ultimate Red Legendary Ranger but cursed to wander forever or die, the latter not only calls the former out, but he makes his own rules. This is similar to the final episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, where Madoka becomes hope and makes new rules to how the world will be run.
    • For another couple PMMM shoutouts, Rika says that the "Ultimate" in "Ultimate Red Legendary Ranger" was used as a nod to it without wanting to spoil it. It's in reference to "Ultimate Madoka", and the Ultimate Red Legendary Ranger later becomes like a god in the Ranger worlds. Later in Act 33, in her despair, Rika mutters "...I'm such an idiot" before the Eldritch takes her, similar to what happened to Sayaka before she's turned into a witch.
  • Sean's ascension is also taken from the Nostalgia Critic merging with the Plot Hole in To Boldly Flee, as admitted by the blogger.
• Many in How I Learned to Love the Wild Horse.
  • When Donna finds Arnold eavesdropping on the conversation between Ranma and Mandy, (at the behest of the latter) he offers to let Donna listen in if she promises not to beat him up. To which she responded:
    "I will not punch you."
    "Oddly specific..."
  • Ranma's ring tone for his girlfriend Clover, is "Light your Heart Up" which is the theme song for Makonshoku Mako of Kill la Kill.
  • The night Ranma and Samantha went all the way is the same night an amateur juggler broke into a mad scientist's lab and started dropping vials of Chronitons from Futurama, which is why the pair had very brief moments of clarity when they lost control over their hormones.
• Temporal Anomaly: In Chapter 8 of the story, the chess match between Sougo/Oma Zi-O and One plays out identically to the mind chess match between Solas and Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition, which itself is a reenactment of The Immortal Game.
• The Dragon and the Butterfly
  • Chapter 37: X Marks the Spot
    • Camilo (pretending to be a Gate Guardian) announces himself by saying "Who dares disturb my slumber?"
    • The Gate Guardian trial Camilo gives to Isabela and Hiccup mirrors the Bridge-Guardian scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Even the "questions three" he gives are the same, both Isabela and Hiccup passing the trial after admitting their favorite colors.
    Hiccup: Uh... green.
    Isabela: Anything but pink.
  • Chapter 55: Pinky and the Brawn: The chapter's title is a reference to Pinky and the Brain.
• The Institute Saga has several.
  • Beast pauses before eating a cookie to warn against Sesame Street references.
  • The use of highlighted plane hardpoints is taken from the Chicago Sentinels series.
  • Master Mold has the technology to rebuild Trask.
  • Nick Fury recalls messed-up undercover missions where he had to face serpents in an aircraft and defuse a bomb with 3 liters of water.
  • Two of the Kryptonians are called Cast-Or and Poll-Ux.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: In the ending where Danny marries Sabrina Spellman, they have a daughter named Tabitha. Tabitha is the name of a character from Bewitched, another series about witches.
• Ariel & Belle:
  • In chapter 10, Ariel introduces Belle to a flock of Swablu. Swablu are bird Pokémon introduced in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
  • Ariel and Belle read various books based on other works, such as The Wind Waker.
• The Supermen:
  • As well as obviously referencing the fact that the fic is about superheroes (including Superman), and Wesker (who has superpowers and sees himself as an Übermensch), the title is a Shout-Out to David Bowie. (Wesker's appearance was partly based on Bowie.)
  • Also one to either the Resident Evil films or Resident Evil – Code: Veronica: when Wesker is planning to break into STAR Labs and is researching their security, he thinks "No laser hallway. Amateurs."
• Where the Sunlight Ends: After going into a mild dissociative state, the conscious part of Peter One refers to itself as “Narrator-Peter” and the unconscious part gets the designation of “Sim-Peter”.

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