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** The cover is also a mirror image imitation of the Adventure Comics origin issue of Black Orchid.
* One of the sidequests involves a former Omerta trying to free his "dancer" girlfriend from her life at Gomorrah and running as far away from New Vegas with her as possible. His name? [[Carlitos Way|Carlito]].
* Vault 11's premise is heavily based upon ''The Lottery'', although with an additional [[Take That]] to political parties that use an ostensible democracy to undermine the good of its own citizens.
* The name of one of the casinos, Gomorrah, could possibly be a shout out to a joke from ''[[Sister Act]].''
{{quote|(On seeing Reno for the first time) '''Sister Mary Robert''': It's beautiful!
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'''Reverend Mother:''' ...and [[As the Good Book Says...|Gomorrah!]] }}
* [[Return of the Living Dead|Trash wants to be a ghoul.]]
* A bit of a stretch, but Great Khan Jerry The Punk could be a reference to The Misfits frontman Jerry Only.
* [[Bioshock|There's a ruthless businessman running a city he views as his own personal property and talking to you in a condescending manner over a speaker]].
** {{spoiler|And one of the Gun Runners Challenges is to kill him with a golf club.}}
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* In Nipton you find a pair of clothed, charred corpses outside of a house named [[Star Wars|Owen and Beru]].
* One of the more subtle Wild Wasteland occurrences is when you're exploring a disappearance in the casino of the White Glove Society: you discover the body of a fellow detective, a sunglasses-wearing man by the name of [[CSI: Miami|Caruso]].
* Also, at the basement of the church in Searchlight, one can acquire <s> five</s> [[Monty Python and
* During tha battle of Hoover Dam, one NCR soldier will scream that the Legions' troops are [[Alien (franchise)|"...coming out of the goddamn walls, man!"]]
* It was cut from the final game, but the game files show that there was supposed to be a creature that could only be encountered in Wild Wasteland: A unique Fire Gecko that had it's own unique breath weapon, was 3 times larger than normal fire geckos, and could best the Legendary Deathclaw in combat, making it the most powerful creature in the game. When spawned with the console it's just "Gecko", but it's name in the editor is [[Godzilla|Goj]][http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gojira ira].
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