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Since [[DarwinsDarwin's Soldiers]] features many, many players, it is natural that the players will include references to their favorite media.
 
=== Video Games ===
* The character of Ridley is named after a similar character from [[Metroid]].
* Shelton is disappointed at the lack of a [[Half Life|crowbar]] in the closet when raiding Raulson's lab.
* The Phase Tank is modeled off the tank from ''[[Command and& Conquer|Red Alert 2]]''.
* Sharon compares the sublevels to ''[[Silent Hill]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil]]'' in the first RP.
* Shelton facetiously refers to himself as [[Half Life|Dr. Gordon Freeman]].
* A converted supertanker that is a floating Dragonstorm lab is called ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon|Surrounded Sea]]''.
* The champion of a military themed shooting competition is named [[Command and& Conquer|Nicholas Parker]].
* Subject 19's claws are based upon [[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Alex Mercer's]] claws.
** Subject 19 is given the code name Athena. Alex Mercer was given the code name ZEUS by Blackwatch. [[Word of God]] states that it was suppose to be a joke, using another Greek mytholgical God as Subject 19's code name.
* Cobalt Leader's real name is revealed to be {{spoiler|Zachary [[Command and& Conquer|Slavik]]}}
* The Human Cobalt Soldier's name is {{spoiler|Sharon [[Resident Evil|Redfield]]}}
** The [[Resident Evil|Raccoon City incident]] is also mentioned by General Ross as well.
** The mysterious woman moves suspiciously like [[Resident Evil 5|Albert Wesker]]
* The trigger phrase for Kain's chip is [[BioBioShock Shock(series)|Would You Kindly?]]
* Kagetora is based on a minor enemy in [[Ninja Gaiden]]
* Neku is named for the main protagonist of [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]
* Roux is named for a character in ZZ Gundam and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
 
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* ''American Pie'' by Don McLean is heard at the beginning of part 2 of Card of Ten.
* Vic says, "[[David Bowie|Ground Control to Major Roy,]]" when testing Roy Hawkeye's radio in Card Of Ten.
* The password to the ADSA HQ is "[[Shave and Aa Haircut]]."
* Many, many songs are heard on the radio as James and Co. drive to various places in their cars.
* It is revealed by Hailey that Trinity is a fan of classical music and to the point that Beethoven's 9th Symphony is heard playing with the Trinity Facility as well.
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* Shelton himself takes his first and middle names from Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde.
* Many of the titles of LB&T's works include famous names, like Schrodinger and Nietzsche. Others come from famous quotes, like ''[[William Shakespeare|Card of Ten]]'' and ''[[Plato|Ship of State]]''.
* Not really an historical figure, but Gustave the crocodile is named after the [[wikipedia:Gustave chr(28)crocodilechr(29crocodile)|real life Gustave]].
 
=== Science ===
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* Shelton mentions Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion when describing how Gamas formed.
* James uses the Coriolis Effect to select a corridor in ''Pavlov's Checkmate''.
* Shelton also mentions having an [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165134/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9069835 Erdos number of 7] in the first RP. Which is actually a rather pathetic Erdos number.
* The Cobalt Squad in the first RP had a tendency to use famous scientists' names as derogatory terms directed toward the scientist characters, Examples of names used as such include Newton, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165134/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9032401 Hawking], and [[Bill Nye]].
* Kerzach is mentioned as having [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165134/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9037701 worked] on a Small Hadron Collider, which later plays a role in ''Schrodinger's Prisoners''.
** Also, Shelton justifies his knowledge of [[Half Life]] by explaining that "one of my fellow scientists at the Large Hadron Collider [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107162046/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/09/terrible-news-gordon-freeman-spotted-near-large-hadron-collider/ looked like Gordon Freeman]."
* Rara Terra Smelting from ''Fool's Gold'' by Serris is established as lanthanide refinery.
** {{spoiler|Rara Terra means "Rare Earth" in Latin. Rare earth is an old name for lanthanides}}.
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* James's favorite expression is allegedly "I'll trust you when there are two electrons with the same spin occupy the same atomic orbital". [[Don't Explain the Joke|Spoilered]] below:
** {{spoiler|Electrons cannot occupy the same atomic orbital unless their spin quantum numbers are different.}}
* A tiny mining town in Texas is named [[wikipedia:Xenopus|Platanna]] Town.
** It is home to an arena called [[wikipedia:Xenopus|Xenopus]] Arena. An electronic band playing there is named [[wikipedia:Helix-turn-helix|Helix-Turn-Helix]].
 
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* The complete works of Shakespeare play an important role in Card of Ten.
* Lab 101 was named after Room 101 in George Orwell's ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''.
** Shelton also says, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165134/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9035957 Big Brother's back in the saddle]!" when they get the cameras working again in the first RP.
* The code used by the Dragonstorm scientists in the first RP consists of multiple references to Homer and the Aeneid.
* Dragonstorm [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208182331/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&st=2500&#entry9195867 passed out] copies of ''[[The Art of War]]'' to everyone in the organization.
* The Anaconda who saves Dr. Kerzach's life by killing {{spoiler|Jake Sachs}} and teams up with him in the story ''Fools Gold'' is named [[NUMA Series|Paul Gamay]]
* <Characters who use the Dragonstorm thought network are referred to as thought-speaking, and their dialogue is punctuated with triangular brackets, like in ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]''>
* The head of security on the Dragonstorm supertanker/lab is named [[The Outsiders|John Cade]].
* In a Gaman library, Dr. Joe finds a book called ''[http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4851&view=findpost&p=9128726 The Gamas Delusion]'',{{Dead link}} referencing Richard Dawkin's book ''The God Delusion''.
* Shelton [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165941/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&view=findpost&p=9228902 mistakes] ROSS' name as "Rossum", a name from ''[[RUR (Theatre)R.U.R.|RUR]] - Rossum's Universal Robots'', the play that coined the term 'robot'.
* In the third roleplay, right when Calchas is about to finish what he needed to [[Rape Asas Drama|interrogate]] Shakila...
{{quote| '''Assistant''': Mr. Babcock!<br />
'''Calchas''': [[Sweeney Todd|Out I say, out!]] }}
 
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* Shelton says he feels like [[MacGyver]] when he gets himself out of a locked room.
* PFC Reynolds, a minor recurring ally, is named after the character from [[Firefly]].
* Several background characters are named after [[Red Shirt|redshirts]] from other franchises, such as [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Compton, Carstairs]], and [[Jurassic Park|Udesky]].
** Eddie [[Stargate|McKay]] was named after guest star Rodney McKay on [[Stargate SG-1]], before LB&T learned that he became a main character on [[Stargate Atlantis]].
* Branston mentioned that during a heist at the Zzyzx Desert Studies Center, Camilla [[Jurassic Park|knocked over a soup ladle]] [[Epic Fail|while trying to be sneaky]].
* In the second RP,
{{quote| '''Branston''': Dr. Zenarchis has the other trigger.<br />
'''Shelton''': [http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic{{=}}5381&view{{=}}findpost&p{{=}}9141534 Doctor Who]? He's dead! }}
*** [[Word of God|The author has stated that this was intentional.]]
* ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' is mentioned in the first RP, and [[Die Hard Onon an X]] is [[Discussed Trope|discussed]].
* When Neku activates his lightsaber, Shelton warns him that it's not nearly as strong as the ones on ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Alien|Weyland-Yutani]] is mentioned in the 3rd RP as being "one of the foremost manufacturers of prosthetic limbs and other cybernetics"
* Shelton pocket-texts [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165941/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&view=findpost&p=9180550 Dr. Kelton]. Kelton was a patrolman in ''[[Plan 9 Fromfrom Outer Space]]''.
* The third RP reveals that a big budget movie is being made about the first terrorist attack. Name-dropped actors include [[Robert Downey, Jr.]], Thomas Kretschmann, and [[Neil Patrick Harris]]. We also get this exchange:
{{quote| '''Shelton''': "''You could be looking at the next [[Two Thousand and One2001: A Space Odyssey|Dave Bowman]].''"<br />
'''Cobalt Leader''': "''Hm, the way I remember [[Mission Control|your role]] in the whole situation, you'd probably be closer to the Chevron Guy on [[Stargate]]''." }}
* A shooting range in the 3rd RP is called [[Star Wars|Czerka]] Tactical Arena.
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* Zachary facetiously refers to a Dragonstorm experiment that attacked them as the [[Terminator]].
* A Texas based juvenile detention facility/Dragonstorm lab is located on 623 [[Deadwood]] Drive. And the warden is named Francis Wolcott
* A certain Captain [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Kirk]] Lutra is the head of the Dragonstorm floating lab ''Surrounded Sea''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165941/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&view=findpost&p=9222016 "I'm sorry Soundwave.] [[2001: A Space Odyssey|I'm afraid I can't do that."]]
* [[Twilight|Shakila punches Calchas in the face, but injures her hand doing so]]
 
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** One of the soldiers used a Patton tribute pistol in the first RP. It was never explained exactly why he had one of those.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger is referenced when James blasts through the floor with a gun in Card of Ten.
* Shelton's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165134/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9047698 password] to the computer system is ''killapp123'', both a reference to killer apps and Lotus-1-2-3, a spreadsheet program and early killer app.
* ''Jessica Boyle of Escondido'', a play mentioned in the first RP, is named after an actual person LB&T knew in real life.
* The reference to Ender McThair in ''Card of Ten'' established the anti-matter universe the characters were stuck in as synonymous with the Furtopia universe.
* In ''Pavlov's Checkmate'', James uses "Nigel Munroe" as an alias, which happens to be the protagonist's name of a failed attempt to start a [[DarwinsDarwin's Soldiers]] RP in the Bulbagarden forums.
* Not really science, but James finds a CD encrypted in BASIC.
** It's actually binary, Shelton misspoke.
* A woman named [[Catwoman|Selina Kyle]] is mentioned.
* Shelton mentions being in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165134/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=4340&view=findpost&p=9035950 Mensa] in the first RP.
* The Dragonstorm experiment who first attacks the group is named [[X -Men|Magneto]].
* A single shot doctor in the 3rd RP is named Dr. [[X -Men|McCoy]].
** I was positive that was a reference to ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'''s Dr. [[Mc CoyMcCoy]], especially since the doctor who discovered the body said, "[[He's Dead, Jim|He's dead]]!"
** That works but [[Word of God|canonically]] his first name is Henry but everyone calls him "Hank".
* Alfred's response to Zachary when he is asked if he can tip a 3 ton truck over.
{{quote| '''Alfred''': I exceed the strength of the strongest Human by quite a bit but I am not [[X -Men|Colossus]]!}}
* Shelton makes an offhand comment about [[TV Tropes]].
* Dr. Zanasiu sarcastically calls Dr. Shelton [[X -Men|Professor X]] through the thought network.
* The fictional actor Stephen Di Georgi is named after two people that Serris knows in real life.
* Marcus uses the name [[Wolverine|Logan]] on his name tag.
* Stern's two assigned allies in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140208165941/http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=7319&view=findpost&p=9184008 Schutzhund] are competitors [[THX 1138|1138]] and [[Leet Lingo|1337]].
* After taking out Project Zeta, Shakila says this:
{{quote| '''Shakila''': [[Batman]] eat your heart out.}}
* It is mentioned that Dr. [[Stan Lee]] first discovered the mechanism by which psychic powers work in 1963.
* The first psi-experiment created is named [[X -Men|Jean Gray]] and in a [[Shout -Out]] to ''[[X -Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men The Last Stand]]'' she is eventually put down by the scientists after her telekinetic powers went out of control and killed several scientists.
** Do note however, that the "telekinetic meltdown" manifested in the form of people getting violently thrown around, not in the form of people and objects getting disintegrated.
* A Sgt. [[The Punisher|Frank Castle]] is seen as a member of the United States Army
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* A certain [[Evil Old Folks|elderly]] Dragonstorm researcher in the [[Expanded Universe|spin-off story]] ''New Divide'' goes by the codename of [[Mother Goose|Old Mother Hubbard]] and she has a canine assistant.
* Drake has the inventory number of [[Lilo and Stitch|Experiment 626]]
* The town of Cornova is named after the author of the [[PokePoké Wars Series]] series.
* Shakila gives off the fake name of [[The Incredibles|Violet Parr]] and the fake number of [[Pixar|A113]] as her experiment number.
 
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