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{{quote|''I'd like to make a Jimmy Hoffa joke, but I think most of the people playing this game are kids who are getting tired of running to Google every other line to figure out what we're talking about.''|'''Floyd the Arch-Lich''' shows us how to [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]], [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]], ''and'' make another [[Shout
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* There is a ridiculously long one to ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' in the Sorceresses encyclopedia entry. See [[Overly Long Gag]] on the main page.
* Icky's background in his encyclopedia entry is an homage to [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' work.
* Trillian is a shout-out to ''[[The
* The tutorial's description contains a shout-out to ''[[Portal (
* One imp in the tutorial claims he passed up a lead role in an Old Spice commercial for this game.
* After you kill an imp in the tutorial, another one comes out and says a famous line from ''[[The Princess Bride (
* "[[Lampshade Hanging|I tried to think of a really funny]] [[Dune]] [[Lampshade Hanging|reference regarding the worm, but I couldn't.]]"
* Archie claims that Trillian got her daggers enchanted before a raid in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.
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* In one Chapter 1 mission, Foglio assumes that a villager is a farmer, and the villager replies that he's actually a junior accounts executive for Sterling Cooper.
* The dragon in the Chapter 1 mission "Time for Council" compares the tower to a Pez dispenser, popping out wizards.
* The journal entry for both the Keep and the Wizard Tower have references to related [[Dungeons and Dragons]] modules. “B2: Keep on the Borderlands” and “C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness"
* "...and a squadron of flying things that escaped from the latest [[Da Vinci Code]] movie."
* The dragon in the "Time for Council" mission in Chapter 1:
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'''Enzo:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Okay, make up your mind. Pick one movie reference and stick to it.]] }}
* Enzo threatens to "whoop" the dragon "back to the [[Atari 2600]]".
* The name Foglio is a reference to Phil Foglio of Studio Foglio fame.
* Foglio based the Flyers on some of [[Leonardo
* With the way he speaks, Cabus appears to be channeling [[Foghorn Leghorn]], going so far as to even use some of Foghorn's lines. Looking deeper, Cabus even uses some of Elrod the Albino's lines from the print comic ''[[Cerebus|Cerebus the Aardvark]]'' where Elrod is a [[Affectionate Parody]] of both [[The Elric Saga|Elric]] and [[Looney Tunes|Foghorn Leghorn]].
* Two imps in one of the chapter 1 missions are named [[Hamlet|Rosencrantz and]] [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead|Guildenstern]].
* Some specters threaten to "Feast on your soul!" Enzo comments that they should hide his [[James Brown]] records.
* In one of the later Chapter 1 missions, there are two old men named [[Statler and Waldorf|Statler and]] [[The Muppet Show|Waldorf]].
* One to [[The Beatles]] in chapter 1:
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* When Enzo first meets the Wraith Lord, he claims that the Wraith Lord should be trying to defeat Steve Rogers. This is a reference to ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' - Steve Rogers is Captain America's real name, and Enzo is saying that the Wraith Lord looks like Red Skull, the main ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' villain.
** [[Call Back|Enzo later wonders in Chapter 2 if anyone got that joke]].
*** Monty the Dragon did.
* Archie evidently likes [[Taylor Swift]], since he supposedly played her CDs full blast after Chapter 1's end.
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* According to Archie, the Highborn sing [[Village People]]'s "In the Navy" when sailing.
* During Chapter 2, Cabus retools the smithies to produce ''[[The Twilight Saga|Twilight]]'' action figures, because his girlfriend Lola loves Twilight. [[Take That|The heroes are distraught.]]
* Lola is a reference to [[
** Archie even [[Lampshade|Lampshades]] this, singing "Copacabana" and blaming Cabus for getting the [[
* Trillian exclaims once that "Jeff Goldblum was right!"
* One of the Highborn (Archie? Enzo?) somehow wound up as a backup dancer in a [[Lady Gaga]] video.
* Monty the dragon hid a teleporter to stop "the [[Stargate (
* When some archers keep popping out and shouting "Die, defilers!", Enzo tells them it won't start trending on [[Twitter]] no matter how many times they do it.
* ''[[
* The Wraith Lord, when defeated in the second chapter, quotes ''[[
* Archie claims he wants to do a reenactment of ''[[
* The Wraith Lord bought the Frobozz Inter-Dimensional Portal Controller on [[
* Floyd the Arch-Lich used to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
* [[Game of Thrones]] is mentioned a couple times in chapter 3. Floyd is apparently a fan.
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* Floyd accuses Icky of being a geek, then proceeds to mention [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]].
* One mission in Chapter 3 is a shoutout/parody to the escape from the Death Star in ''[[Star Wars a New Hope]]''.
* Floyd threatens to post a picture of two of the Worgons at a [[
* The Worgon, Connor, broke his iPod. A man in a nearby village fixed it.
* A boat captain, ferrying around the Worgons, is named Captain Stubing, a reference to [[The Love Boat]].
* [[Harry Potter|Quidditch]] is a sport in the Highborn world.
* One monk is named Kwai Chang Caine after the protagonist of [[
* Cabus mentions ''[[
* Highborn Gold Vault security guards are so dim, they can't tell a staff badge from a [[Pokémon]] card.
* Floyd threatens to "go all [[The Odyssey|Odysseus]]" on MadOS, since she's got one eye like the cyclops.
* A monk compares himself to Milk Bones when discussing his fears of being eaten by Dire Wolves.
* Foozle's journal entry of how he was "discovered" is a Highborn parody of [[
** The song Foozle sang was "Mandy" by [[Barry Manilow]].
** Foozle formed a band with "[[Barbie]]'s Boyfriend, [[Wolverine]], LeBron, and The Jackal" to form a band called "[[Big Time Rush|Small Town Lazy]]". The band was later broken up by [[Yoko Ono]].
** The full entry is explained: The names of the band members in [[Big Time Rush]] are Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos. Each member in Foozle's band has a connection to one of those names. Barbie's Boyfriend is a Ken doll (Ken Doll.... Kendall), Wolverine's real name is Logan, LeBron's last name is James (the writer was considering going with [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond|Bond James Bond]] instead), and "Carlos The Jackal" is an international terrorist and assasin who got his name from the movie [[The Jackal]].
* Because Jessica got a scholarship to Acme Looniversity, we can assume that somehow, the Highborn world has some overlap with the [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] world.
* The Wraith Lord collects many things, including:
** An autographed picture of [[Hannah Montana]]/Miley Cyrus.
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** A Glory Gilmore action figure - Glory Gilmore is from a book called ''One Con Glory'' by Sarah Kuhn; it isn't another [[Gilmore Girls]] reference!
** ''[[The Twilight Saga|Twilight]]'' merchandise. He apparently even has a life-size Edward and Bella in his bathroom.
** ''[[Wicked (
** ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Trillian hopes that he has a [[Hello Kitty]] backpack somewhere in his collection for her to take, but he doesn't.
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