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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The [[Tabletop RPG]] ''Hackmaster'' from the gamer comic ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. Rather than being created from scratch, the ''Hackmaster'' rules set was actually licensed from Wizards of the Coast and was, more or less, a reprint of the D&D 1st Edition rules with a great deal more snarkiness, [[Genre Savvy|genre savviness]], and in-universe references thrown in. All but one page of the Players Handbook was written as though this were a book being published in-universe by the Hard 8 staff, including long diatribes about using male pronouns by default as a writing convention and insisting that female dwarfs have beards.

* The Thagomizer (the spiked tail on a ''Stegosaurus'' and similar dinosaurs) got its name from ''[[The Far Side]]'', where it was named after "the late Thag Simmons". In an example of [[Sure Why Not]] and just overall fandom, paleontologists have been using the name themselves, as they realized that the part did not have a standardized name before. It even appears on placards in the dinosaur exhibit at New York's Museum of Natural History.

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' - As a matter of principle Bill Watterson always refused any kind of merchandizing. This does not stop people creating pirate products. A pair of hacks actually wrote a children's book called ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.'' Watterson specifically never went into detail about what happens in the book [[Noodle Incident|to preserve the funny vagueness]].