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* [[Military Maverick]]: Captain Lucas, and Llewellyn.

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: {{spoiler|Captain Lucas}}

* [[Shout Out]]: [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Robert Llewellyn]], [[Star Trek the Next Generation|Colm Meaney]], [[Joss Whedon]], [[George Lucas]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Robert Llewellyn]], [[Star Trek the Next Generation|Colm Meaney]], [[Joss Whedon]], [[George Lucas]]

* [[Take That]]: "About as exciting as watching ''[[Footballers Wives]]''"; "I believe some of you will be travelling to dimensions where Christina Aguilera has somehow achieved a successful music career".

* [[Ted Baxter]]: Captain Whedon. Heck, he practically says as much:

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* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|Turns out there's no danger at all.}}

* [[The Napoleon]]: Newman

* [[Shout Out]]: [[Firefly|Alan Tudyk]] and <s>[[The X Files|Gillian]]</s> [[Stargate SG 1|Richard Dean Anderson]], among others.

* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Firefly|Alan Tudyk]] and <s>[[The X Files|Gillian]]</s> [[Stargate SG 1|Richard Dean Anderson]], among others.

=== Trojan Horse ===

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The [[Body Surfing]] aliens have a [[Weaksauce Weakness]] which saves the life of the host.}}

* [[High Class Glass]]: the monocle that Meaney finds. Subversion in that monocles are only worn by the lower classes in this universe.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: the monocle that Meaney finds. Subversion in that monocles are only worn by the lower classes in this universe.

* [[In Medias Res]]

* [[Mundane Solution]]: {{spoiler|Silk}}

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Iob

* [[Shout Out]]: [[Star Trek the Original Series|Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Andromeda|Lisa Ryder]], among others.

* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Star Trek the Original Series|Leonard Nimoy]] and [[Andromeda|Lisa Ryder]], among others.

=== Just Dropping In ===

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* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: With taking it over rather than destroying it. Gray {{spoiler|has taken over the world once already, found the experience of running it [[Victory Is Boring|boring]], and abdicated power. But he still loves ''trying'' to take over the world. So he now invents ludicrously flawed plans for his bids for world domination}}.

* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the issue, with reverse-engineered universe-jumping technology within his grasp, Gray decides to start conquering other, parallel worlds - and this time, he's going to do it ''[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|properly]]''}}.

* [[Shout Out]]: All to [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]: Moore to Roger Moore; General Donald Gray is a double reference (Charles Gray played Blofeld in ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'', [[Donald Pleasence]] played Blofeld in ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]''), while Gray's chief scientist Dr. Llewelyn (note lack of second double-L) is the late Desmond "Q" Llewelyn. Also, Meaney introduces himself to special agent Jane Moore as "Meaney. Thomas Meaney."

* [[Shout-Out]]: All to [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]: Moore to Roger Moore; General Donald Gray is a double reference (Charles Gray played Blofeld in ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'', [[Donald Pleasence]] played Blofeld in ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]''), while Gray's chief scientist Dr. Llewelyn (note lack of second double-L) is the late Desmond "Q" Llewelyn. Also, Meaney introduces himself to special agent Jane Moore as "Meaney. Thomas Meaney."

* [[Victory Is Boring]]: as Gray discovered after he {{spoiler|took over the world on his first attempt}}

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* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|You know one's coming.}}

* [[Shout Out]]: Imprisoned "Freelance" dimension-hopping Mercenary Hayter is named for voice actor David Hayter who played Solid Snake in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' video series (but looks more like an aged Christopher Eccleston).

* [[Shout-Out]]: Imprisoned "Freelance" dimension-hopping Mercenary Hayter is named for voice actor David Hayter who played Solid Snake in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' video series (but looks more like an aged Christopher Eccleston).

=== Waterworld ===