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{{quote|''"...And Rainbow Dash, who retains her own identity, wail taking queues from another represents the Element of: The Homage"''
|'''Twilight Sparkle'''|'''''[[My Little Pony: Camaraderie Is Supernatural]]''''', "The Elements of Parody"}}
Sometimes — especially when the homage is blatant, or is part of a comedy series — it's [[All Just a Dream]]. But sometimes it's a weird or haunting reflection of the original series that is a native part of the "reality" of the show in which it is found.
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* Haruhi of ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L_7s3_VDdfk&NR=1 pays tribute to Phoenix Wright] at the conclusion of a murder mystery episode. During the same scene, Koizumi duplicates the mannerisms of Phoenix's rival, Edgeworth, and Mikuru copies poses from Phoenix's sidekick Maya.
* ''[[Hellsing]]''
** ''Hellsing Ultimate'' OVA: {{spoiler|1=
** Seras and Alucard's guns qualify as well, having been named after Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from ''[[Dune]]'' and the assassin from ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' respectively, with the Baron himself and Edward Fox (and Bruce Willis as a crazy impostor) even making cameos in dream sequences.
* In an episode of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', Hayate gets stabbed by three blades. In two different points, the blades change. Each time, they appear to be swords wielded by the [[Humongous Mecha]] in the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' series. Really, Hayate, being a series filled to the brim with homages, does this ''all the time''. Most blatantly whenever the homage has something to do with either of the anime's main sponsors (Konami and Geneon).
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* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' once did an entire episode Homage to ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' ([http://usetehsharingan.ytmnd.com example here]), as well as plenty of other anime, contain fight scenes which (either through just plain luck or intentionally) look just like fight scenes from another piece of fiction.
** Then there is [
* ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'' has two episodes in its second season devoted to these. One is a perfect homage to ''[[Speed Racer]]'', and the final one of the season was one to ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
* ''[[Mouse]]'', has entire chapters of the Manga devoted to recreating series such as ''[[Cat's Eye]]'' or ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]''.
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* ''[[Pandorum]]'' is a scifi/horror/Thiller has loads of these as well.
* The fight scene between Nemesis and Alice near the end of ''[[Resident Evil]]: Apocalypse'' plays out almost exactly like the fight between Kirk and the Gorn in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "The Arena". Both are fights that are forced on participants that don't want to fight each other. Both contain one combatant who's human, and another who's not human. Both contain a combatant who's fast and agile against one's that's large and strong. Both are a person fighting someone in a rubber suit. The part where Nemesis breaks off a pipe is almost an exact homage to when the Gorn breaks off a limb of a tree. It also ends nearly exactly the same, with the large, muscular one impaled through the chest (with a pipe rather than the diamonds in ''Star Trek''), but refusing to finish him despite urgings from whoever forced the fight. The homage ends when rather than complimenting the human on the virtues of mercy, the fight's forcer instead chides the human for being weak.
* ''[[Bill and Ted (film)|Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey]]'' has an homage to this fight as well, [[Lampshaded]] by having the episode playing on a TV in the background earlier in the film. In the battle with their evil robot doubles, they (briefly) fight for their lives on [[Kirk's Rock]], where the Gorn fight was filmed.
* The ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' movies themselves are one big homage to the classic adventure films of the '30s and '40s.
** The now-iconic "rolling boulder" sequence at the beginning of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' was, according to [[George Lucas]], an homage to a similar scene in the [[Carl Barks]] comic book ''The Seven Cities of Cibola''.
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** The pod race from ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' has quite a lot in common with the race in ''Pinchcliffe Grand Prix'', not to mention the chariot race in ''[[Ben-Hur]]''.
** The plot of [[A New Hope]] is an homage to Kurosawa's [[The Hidden Fortress]], right down to the Princess [[Escort Mission]]. Lucas even used similar [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]].
* Similar to the ''WKRP'' example below, Polly Perkins' phoned-in report on the invasion of New York by robots in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]'' bears a striking resemblance to the
* ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!''. The flying saucers are modeled after the saucers in ''Earth vs. the Flying Saucers'' and the War Room was made to look like the War Room in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''. The aliens land in Parrumph, Nevada. That's an homage to Art Bell, who for many years broadcast Coast to Coast AM out of that city.
* ''[[Almost Famous]]'' contains two examples. The first is a scene where the band members think their airplane is going to crash—it's a played-for-laughs homage to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The poignant second example involves a musician passing out after he receives a shock from his microphone—this references Keith Relf of the Yardbirds, who actually did die in very similar circumstances.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
* ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', a part of the ''[[Discworld]]'' series, is a homage to ''Macbeth'' and ''Hamlet''. And the play featured in ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'' is a homage to ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''. A [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade is hung]] on both of those.▼
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** ''[[Maskerade]]'' is an extended, if parodic, homage to ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''.
* Steven Brust's ''[[Dragaera|Khaavren Romances]]'' are homages to [[Alexandre Dumas]]'s ''D'Artagnan Romances'' (''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' and sequels); the four main characters are [[Captain Ersatz]] [[Our Elves Are Better]] versions of the Dumas's protagonists, and the titles of ''The Phoenix Guards'', ''Five Hundred Years After'', and ''The Viscount of Adrilankha'' correspond to ''The Three Musketeers'', ''Twenty Years After'' (with [[We Are as Mayflies|the time period scaled appropriately]]), and ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne''.
* The first ''[[Hyperion]]'' book has a lot of these on top of the mixed [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to Keats' ''Hyperion'' and Chaucer's ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]'' (or maybe Boccaccio's ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]''). Each story the pilgrims tell is an Homage to one or more styles of literature. The Priest's Tale is an epistolary novel. The Soldier's Tale is high action military science fiction, a la ''[[Starship Troopers]]''. The Poet's Tale is a mash up of fairy tales, darker elements intact. The Scholar's Tale is Old Testament [[The Bible|Biblical]]. The Detective's Tale is [[Noir]] with elements of [[Cyberpunk]]. The Consul's Tale is a Shakespearean tragedy, mixing ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' with ''[[Hamlet]]''.
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** Also, the episode "The Stolen Earth" echoes the ending of ''[[West Side Story]]'', when The Doctor and Rose see one another across a street and start running... You know where this is going.
* ''[[Fame]]!'' did a whole-episode homage to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', partly inspired by the fact that it filmed on the same soundstage where the 1939 movie was shot. (According to the cast, a last remaining fragment of the original yellow brick road was enshrined in the stage, and was shown to them with almost religious reverence.)
* Les Nesman's broadcast of the "turkey bombing incident" on ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' was a line by line homage to the famous "Martian Attack" sequence from Orson Welle's broadcast of ''[[War of the Worlds]]'' (which was itself inspired by the [[Real Life]] ''[[Hindenburg]]'' broadcast) right down to the abrupt cutoff.
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "School Hard" is a homage to the original ''[[Die Hard]]'', complete with Buffy sneaking around in the ceiling.
* The ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Vegas" is a homage to ''[[CSI]]''.
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* Veruca Salt's "Volcano Girls": ''"Well, here's another clue if you please...the seether's Louise''"
** A parody/homage to the Beatles' "Glass Onion": ''"Well, here's another clue for you all...the walrus was Paul"''
* The [[Blue Öyster Cult]]'s ''Cult Classic'' album carries back cover art which is clear homage to Terry Pratchett's novel ''[[
* Jimmy Eat World's "A Praise Chorus" contains the following verse, each line of which is a line from another song:
{{quote|''(Crimson and clover Over and over)
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** Sister game ''[[House of the Dead]]: Overkill'' is similarly an homage to "grindhouse" exploitation films.
* The freeware game ''[[Genetos]]'' is an homage to the entire genre of Shoot'em ups from ''Space Invaders'' to ''Radiant Silvergun'' and ''{{spoiler|Rez}}''.
* The Zeppelin in ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' [[Xbox]] heavily resembles the ''[[Hindenburg]]'', and goes down in flames in a similar manner. "Oh, the humanity!"
* Though few appear in the game proper, the ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' games had more than a few Homages and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to other media of a similar bent, such as a terminal designated [[Star Trek|NCC-1701D]], or [[Star Wars|a base of operations for the Resistance in Echo Sector]].
* The ''[[Contra]]'' series has many homages to ''[[Alien]]'', eg Giger-esque [[Womb Level]]s, facehuggers, the giant Xenomorph head miniboss, the "Queen Alien" in ''Super Contra'' and ''Contra 3'', Xenomorph-type mooks in ''Super C'''s alien stage, and the Space Jockey skulls lining the walls in the same stage.
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* The coach getting the protagonists name wrong [http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-7 in this episode]{{Dead link}} of ''[[Holiday Wars]]'' is an homage to [[Neil Gaiman]]'s Coraline.
* The wandering stick figure protagonists of ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'' at one point encounter [https://web.archive.org/web/20120109061907/http://www.momentarypeace.com/comic.php?num=60 adventurers] from the ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' and an eyeless stick figure they call the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120109060859/http://www.momentarypeace.com/comic.php?num=61 Blind Philosopher] who is clearly a reference to ''[[xkcd]]''.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html This strip] of '' [[The Order of the Stick]]'' strip is an Homage to the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' "Cheese Shop" sketch. Notice there's a dead parrot and a ''python'' at the bottom. Note that the name of that particular strip is "It's Not a Gaming Session Until Someone Quotes Monty Python", itself a reference to gamers' familiarity with those works.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120821051620/http://rosalarian.com/yume/?p=1147 In a very recent page] of ''[[YU+ME: dream]]'', the author/artist made a Homage to a ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' character known as {{spoiler|the Cheese Man}}.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170802124754/http://www.revenant-braves.schala.net/ Circumstances of the Revenant Braves]'' contains a number of homages, notably to ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuutsu]]'' and ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' in the first few chapters.
* [[The-FAN]] had [http://www.shastrix.com/thefan/index.php?comic=138 this one scene] Honoring G0-T0's entry from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2''.
* A variety of homages appear at times throughout ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]''. Notable targets include ''Pokémon'' and ''Feel the Magic''.
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** A later episode homages ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''.
** Don't forget the two [[Pokémon (anime)|Tinymon]] episodes. They even made the antagonist's name sound like Ash Ketchum!
* ''[[ReBoot]]'':
** In the first episode, Bob and Phong play a tennis-esque game using a floating disc and energy-paddles on their hands and feet. Then the camera angle becomes a view from above, and it's instantly obvious that the game is ''Pong''.
** Another episode, "Number 7", was an homage to ''[[The Prisoner]]'', complete with farcical trial scene, seesaw-camera-chair, and use of the phrases "Who is Number One?" and "Be seeing you".
** The third season also had an episode (written, appropriately enough, by D.C. Fontana) that was an homage not only to classic ''[[Star Trek]]'' (including a log entry, a tricorder, and original series sound effects) but also superhero teams such as the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]]; the death of their leader (who acted and spoke suspiciously like [[William Shatner]] overemoting) was due to having something dropped on him... and giving a version of Spock's final lines from ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|The Wrath of Khan]]''.
** In fact, the third season was full of these, including references to ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'', ''[[Braveheart]]'', ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]]'', ''[[Mars Attacks!]]''
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' did plenty of whole-episode homages, including ones for ''[[The Third Man]]'', ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'', ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'', and ''[[The Prisoner]]''.
** TV show doing a homage to a stage musical: ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' includes an episode parodying most of the memorable songs in the musical "Man of La Mancha".
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[[Category:Abridged Series Tropes]]
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