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* The main character of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'' meets Miorine at a greenhouse shortly before she's beaten by her [[Arranged Marriage]] future husband then accidentally winning marriage to Miorine in a duel against her abuser, which will be [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|very familiar]] to fans of the [[Yuri Genre]]. The writer of ''Witch from Mercury'', Ichirou Ookouchi, while better known as the writer for ''[[Code Geass]]'', ''[[Princess Principal]]'', and some ''[[Turn A Gundam]]'' episodes, was also responsible writing the light novel version of ''Utena'', and the [[Sega Saturn]] video game among other spinoffs. The background characters randomly comparing the Gundam's appearance to "the national emblem of old France" might also be a nod to [[Rose of Versailles|another highly influential early yuri work]].
** Chuatury Panlunch is nicknamed "Chuchu" and has giant balls of hair that resemble the ears of ''Utena'''s Chu-Chu the monkey. This one was unplanned, as her nickname prompted the character designer to give her that hairstyle without realizing the name was an intentional nod.
** The names "Prospera" and "Aerial" [[The Tempest|should sound familiar]] given [[The Bard on Board|the plot has Prospera's revenge plot include getting her daughter married to the child of the man responsible for trying to kill her, and those two children first meeting during a rescue operation]].
*** The official novelization takes this further by noting Suletta, having never seen another girl her age, is enchanted (見惚れて) by Miorine's face when rescuing her floating in space mirroring how Miranda, having never seen a man besides her father, is enchanted by Ferdinand's face when rescuing him during a shipwreck.
* A bandit seen and defeated in the opening to the first episode of [[Post Apocalyptic]] set ''[[After War Gundam X]]'' is very clearly styled after the bandits of post apocalyptic pioneer ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' with a mohawk, giant muscles, studded metal headband, and pointless spiked metal pauldrons. Every other character in the series, even other bandits, wears very mundane clothing or a spacesuit.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* The Death Star attack in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'' owes a lot to the climactic attack in the movie ''[[The Dam Busters]]'', both in the way it was filmed and in the characters setting up a precise run to the target. This is made clear when much of the pilot chatter ("Say about twenty guns..." and so on) is lifted verbatim from the earlier movie.
** Vader chokes an officer before he can complete saying "the rebel's [[The Hidden Fortress|hidden fortress]]"
* ''[[Pandorum]]'' does this with ''[[
* ''[[Office Space]]'' had the main character and his friends robbing their company by rerouting the fractions of pennies that get rounded down when taxes are deducted. They comment that this is what Richard Pryor did in ''[[Superman III]]''.
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* In a few ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' stories, [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s C. Auguste Dupin (on whom Holmes is based) is mentioned; in one story Holmes explicitly does a trick that Dupin did in one of his stories: as they're walking along one evening, Holmes/Dupin [[Inner Monologue Conversation|responds to some unsaid thought that their walking companion had at the time]].
* ''Dickens Of The Mounted'' presents itself as the memoirs of Charles Dickens' [[Remittance Man]] son, but it's actually humorous historical fiction, which takes clear inspiration from the ''[[Flashman]]'' series, as is evident in similarly designed maps and a very similar [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] claim by the actual author. In reference to the inspiration (and as a major "clue" the work is fictional), Flashman actually briefly appears in a [[Take That]] cameo, wherein he's presented as an [[Upper Class Twit]] suffering from various venereal diseases that would be the likely result of all of his womanizing.
* Brutha, the protagonist of ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Jessica Fletcher of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' seems to have been more than slightly [[Little Old Lady Investigates|inspired by]] Agatha Christie's [[Miss Marple]], especially since series star [[Angela Lansbury]] had previously ''played'' Marple in the movie version of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. The pilot of ''Murder She Wrote'' opens with a scene of the star little old lady ''solving'' the end of a movie mystery interrupted halfway, which is a direct lift from the opening of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. Said scene is not in the book.
* A case of internal borrowing: One ''[[LazyTown]]'' episode echoes the plot of the play it was based on when Robbie Rotten in disguise takes over illegally as mayor. Although other than the 'taking over from the mayor' aspect the episode is very different, both play and episode briefly have the real mayor in a bunny suit for no good reason. Only hardcore or Icelandic fans would get it, though, as the play is both in Icelandic and very difficult for a non-Icelander to acquire legally. Also, many of the songs used in ''[[LazyTown]]'' have the same tune (and general theme) as the songs used in the original plays.
* Season 5 Episode 17 of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' contains a a number of references to the Robot series of Isaac Asimov, from which it borrows the plot device "an A.I. that kills a human." The episode's title is "First Law" after the Asimov's First Law of Robotics. The company in which the death takes place is called "Steel Cave Industries" after one novel in the series, ''[[The Caves of Steel]]''. The name of the A.I. accused of murder is "Bailey" after the protagonist of that novel, Detective Lije Bailey. The scientist who is killed is named Daniel and gives his admin password as "Daniel Olivaw" after Lije Bailey's robot sidekick R. Daneel Olivaw. Presumably this scientist was the one responsible for naming the A.I. and the company created to fund its development, so his familiarity with these books gives an in-story explanation for all these references.
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