I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC/Shout-Out

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Airplane!: Two, near the end of "After Hours: Happy Hour #3":

"There's a sale at Penny's!"
"And Lexi's getting laaaaarger!"

  • Deadpool's guitar is named Lucille, which was also the name of legendary blues musician B. B. King's guitars.
  • With all the time travel going on in season three, this exchange was inevitable:

Deadpool: Great Scott!
Green Goblin: I know, this is heavy.

    • Quite a Meta-Shout-Out, considering Edward Norton was the star of both movies.
  • Having just beaten off the brainwashed superheroes, Goblin utters this line.
  • The Godfather: When Green Goblin was about to attack Batman from behind. "It's not personal, Bats. It's strictly business."
  • Harley's eulogy to the apparently dead Joker in Zero Hour.

Wolverine: Yep.
Punisher: Yep.
Ghost Rider: Yep.
Rorschach: Hrmm.

  • Looney Tunes:
    • Deadpool's kung-fu routine just before the Green Goblin blows him up is taken off Daffy Duck's Robin Hood short.
    • And now we have Duck Amuck!
  • The Naked Gun: The Imagine Spot of Green Goblin defeating all the brainwashed superheroes was a straight homage to the opening sequence of the first The Naked Gun movie where Frank Drebin beat up all of America's enemies in Beirut.
  • New Jack City:

Thor: (To Green Lantern) "Sit thine five dollar ass down before I maketh change!

Superman: (dejectedly) "I Got a Rock."

  • Ren and Stimpy: The Green Goblin sings the "It's Log!" jingle while doped up on sedatives.
  • Scrubs during Deadpool's pleading song to Ryan Reynolds:

Deadpool: "You're the only one who's ever been inside of me!!!...as a character..."

Professor X: We don't need to talk about our movies.
Green Lantern: We don't need to talk about our movies.
Professor X: I can go about my business.
Green Lantern: You can go about your business.
Professor X: Move along.
Green Lantern: Move along, move along.