Shout Out / Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

• The Tagline of the first poster ("Say hola to his little friends") references Scarface (1983)'s most iconic line from Tony Montana, when he makes his last stand.
  Tony Montana: Say hello to my little friend!
• As acknowledged by the creators, the London Gangster portrayal of Goldilocks and the Bears is a nod towards Guy Ritchie's crime films, more specifically Snatch.
• When the Governor of Del Mar crashes the party Puss is throwing in his mansion at the start of the film he orders his men to "Bring me the head of Puss in Boots!"
• The Giant of Del Mar and Puss battling him by climbing up his body and exploiting his weapons to ascend to his head bring to mind Shadow of the Colossus. Some of the framing of the shots also evoke scenes from Attack on Titan.
• During the fight with Puss, the Giant uses a church bell as a weapon. Given the movie's central theme of accepting mortality it brings to mind the quote "And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".
• Speaking of bells, there was another movie in which an arrogant character gets themselves killed by a bell falling on them after performing an elaborate musical number with a stringed instrument in hand.
• When Puss's life flashes before his eyes, we can see him, Shrek and Donkey walking in single file on a bridge with the moon in the background, mimicking a shot from The Lion King (1994) with Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa.
• The many magical items that Jack has collected are this, especially towards Disney stuff.
  • One can briefly see a blue wizard hat with stars on it.
  • A Glass Slipper just like the one Cinderella wore is prominently shown in Jack's collection. He later tosses it into a wall and completely shatters it.
  • There's a flower in a glass casing which is very suspicious to another rose in a glass.
  • There's a Magic Carpet that is quite similar to the one a certain young Arabian thief comes to possess in the Cave of Wonders. Fittingly, it's later used briefly by Puss and Kitty, a couple of thieves, to flee from Jack's pie factory in a similar manner to Aladdin escaping the collapsing cave.
    • On that note, he also has an artifact with the Midas Touch in the form of a golden hand.
  • Jack hurls a certain trident similar to Triton's to the above Magic Carpet.
  • When scrambling to get a useful item in the posies part of the forest, he takes out a broom that walks.
  • One jar releases a creature named Ethical Bug who is definitely a stand-in for Jiminy Cricket and whose voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart.
  • The Phoenix in Jack's possession looks quite similar to Fawkes, Dumbledore's Phoenix in the Harry Potter series.
  • A magic staff with a blue orb encased in the wooden hilt which resembles the one used by Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings films.
  • The magic snacks are an "Eat Me" cookie and a "Drink Me" bottle.
  • And he puts them all in a "magic nanny bag", complete with flying umbrella.
• When Jack peers into a crystal ball that tells the heroes' location, he paraphrases a line from The Wizard of Oz.
  Jack Horner: I'll get you, my kitties, and your little dog, too!
  • Another Oz reference: earlier in the film, the witch waiting in the line for the barber is green-skinned.
• Goldilocks asks Puss in Boots how he can still be alive since the Bears found his scent on a grave, prompting Puss to quip, "I got better."
• When Goldilocks handles an illusion of a book she read as a child, the book has a card with a list of people who checked out of a library. All entries on the card are "Goldi," except for two consecutive borrowers named "Hansel" and "Gretel".
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears subtly reference Winnie the Pooh. Any of their enemies are said to be in “bother”. Not only that, but when the parties are fighting over the map, Goldilocks gets her head stuck in a honey pot thanks to Perrito.
• Jack Horner dies sinking into the Wishing Star thumb-last.
• Jack Horner's giant bakery wagon looks a lot like a horsedrawn carriage version of the Doof Wagon and the other gigantic vehicles from Mad Max: Fury Road.
• Jack Horner's "Baker's Dozen" being a highly lethal team of baking mercenaries is a play of words with The Dirty Dozen.
• After the bears get caught in their own trap, Baby Bear gets a beehive stuck on his head and shouts out "Not the bees!".
• The entire main cast (minus the Wolf) dramatically staring at each other in a Mexican Standoff is a very obvious riff on the famous climax of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, complete with a Ennio Morricone Pastiche.
• Jack saying "It's bear season" when aiming his magic staff at Mama during the climax is a reference to the classic Looney Tunes bit.
• The Wolf's twin engraved sickles are very similar to Malthael's weapons in the Diablo III intro. He even holds them in a manner close to the Archangel's famous sickle-crossing pose at least once. Also, the wolf emerging out of the darkness into the Cave of Lost Souls is similar to Mathael being introduced in the video. It is unclear whether his final rant having "diablo" in it is a coincidence.
• The story centering around the hero of the city, gaining fame/notoriety through defeating all enemies, being frightened of impending Death and seeking the means of immortality could be a homage to Gilgamesh.
  • Likewise, rival criminal gangs sneaking into a dangerous ever-mutating landscape and crossing deadly challenges to find a wish-granting extra-terrestrial anomaly could be a reference to Roadside Picnic
• Whenever Kitty cuts down one of the Posies, two grow in its place, like the heads of the Hydra in Classical Mythology, which would make Jack's success with an improvised flamethrower logical, considering how it was defeated there.

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