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{{quote|''"...And Rainbow Dash, who retains her own identity, wail taking queues from another represents the Element of: The Homage"''|'''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilight Sparkle]]''', '''''[[Abridged Series|My Little Pony:]] [[My Little Pony: Camaraderie Is Supernatural|Camaraderie is Supernatural]]''''', "The Elements of Parody"}}

{{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"}}

[[Homage]] is the deliberate recreation of one work of fiction within the context of another. In the 21st century this is usually done for comedic effect and confused with [[parody]], but in older works it is usually serious, paying homage to the feudal concept of [[w:Homage (feudal)|homage]] while paying homage to an existing work. Sometimes it's ''both''. A homage<ref>The word is from Latin, not French - pronounce the "h".</ref> is an extended sequence, significantly more than a simple [[Shout-Out]], but does not actually constitute a [[Crossover]] even when (as in the case of several 1980s/90s ''[[The Brady Bunch|Brady Bunch]]'' homages) some of the original stars recreate their roles. (The memory of "A Very Brady Episode" of ''[[Day by Day]]'', where an obviously pregnant [[Maureen McCormick]] reprised her role as "Marcia", comes to mind.)

'''Homage''' is the deliberate recreation of one work of fiction within the context of another. In the 21st century this is usually done for comedic effect (and frequently confused with [[parody]]), but in older works it is usually serious, paying homage to the feudal concept of [[w:Homage (feudal)|homage]] while paying homage to an existing work. Sometimes it's ''both''. A homage<ref>The word is from Latin, not French - pronounce the "h".</ref> is an extended sequence, significantly more than a simple [[Shout-Out]], but does not actually constitute a [[Crossover]] even when (as in the case of several 1980s/90s ''[[The Brady Bunch|Brady Bunch]]'' homages) some of the original stars recreate their roles. (The memory of "A Very Brady Episode" of ''[[Day by Day]]'', where an obviously pregnant [[Maureen McCormick]] reprised her role as "Marcia", comes to mind.)

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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* 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 '' [[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.

* [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.