Shout-Out/Literature: Difference between revisions

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Examples of [[Shout-Out]]s in [[Literature]] include:

== Works with their own sub-pages: ==

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== Other works ==

* In ''Wolves of the Calla'', book 5 of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series, there is a manufacturing plate on a round, flying weapon which reads: "SNEETCH" HARRY POTTER MODEL. Serial # 465-11-AA HPJKR. CAUTION EXPLOSIVE" JKR, of course, refers to [[J. K. Rowling]], author of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series of books; the name "SNEETCH" refers to the Golden Snitch, one of the "balls" required to play Quidditch, which is similarly small, round, flying, and dangerous. "SNEETCH" may also be a reference to the Dr. Seuss book ''The Sneetches''. ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' is full of things like this, up to and including [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|a green city that can only be entered if you have red shoes]].

** ~~Also a~~ Potter reference, in one of the books is a helping robot, called a "house elf", which is named Dobby, IIRC.{{verify}}

** Another ''Potter'' reference: in one of the books is a helping robot, called a "house elf", which is named Dobby, IIRC.{{verify}}

** The city that Blaine is in constantly plays a series of drums which Eddie mentions sounds suspiciously like a [[ZZ Top]] song.

*** EVERY Steven King book EVER has a long list to obscure to vague shout outs to his sixty other 900-page books.

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*** Voldemort's talking down to his minion (a traitor nicknamed Wormtail) is reminiscent of Saruman's abusive treatment of a henchman (a traitor nicknamed Worm''tongue'') in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

** And possibly,{{verify}} the whole thing about [[The Secret Garden|Lily's eyes]].

** In ''[[Harry Potter and ~~The~~ Deathly Hallows|The Deathly Hallows]]'' Harry and Hermione notice the quotation [[The Bible|"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"]] on Dumbledore's mother's tombstone, as well as [[The Bible|"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"]] on the Potters' grave.

** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|The Deathly Hallows]]'' Harry and Hermione notice the quotation [[The Bible|"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"]] on Dumbledore's mother's tombstone, as well as [[The Bible|"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"]] on the Potters' grave.

* The Yeerks in ''[[Animorphs]]'' take their name from [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s [[Con Lang|Sindarin]] Elvish word for Orcs, ''yrch''.

* In Paul Robinson's ''[[Instrument of God]]'', which is a story about an Afterlife run inside a computer system, the dead people who go to orientation are given references to movies about their situation, including ''[[The Matrix]]'', ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'', ''[[Total Recall]]'' and ''What Dreams May Come''. The Preface to the book mentions other stories including [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Elsewhen]]'' and ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]'', as well as the movie ''[[The Green Mile]]''. Also, when Supervisor 246 is explaining to a character it might not be a good idea to mention that he's from an Afterlife in another world, she agrees with him, realizing people would think she's crazy. 246 then thinks about the scene where Avery Brooks in ''Deep Space Nine'' is trying to convince the men of a mental institution that he's actually a Starbase captain.

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* The [[S.M. Stirling]] novel ''Conquistador'' features South African villains with the same names as the South African antagonists of the [[Harry Turtledove]] novel ''Guns of the South''. There is also a reference to a landholder named Morrison, like the titular hero of [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen''. Morrison's House motto is "Death to Styphon!," a reference to the "Gunpowder God" cult of the Kalvin stories.

* Malik's admission that he's a fan of both Sherlock Holmes and Spider-Man in [[Wandering Djinn]]

* The [[Emberverse|Novels of the Change]] are full of these, encompassing subjects as diverse as ''[[Monty Python]]'' and ''[[Dirty Harry]]''. ''[[The ~~Lord of the Rings|~~Lord of the Rings]]'' gets so many shout-outs, even the toilet-humor National Lampoon parody figures heavily into the plot. And even though nobody in the novels has heard of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (as only the first book ~~came~~ out before [[After the End|everything went to hell]]), the resident Wiccans still manage to get in a good laugh about the Sorting Hat.

* The [[Emberverse|Novels of the Change]] are full of these, encompassing subjects as diverse as ''[[Monty Python]]'' and ''[[Dirty Harry]]''. ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' gets so many shout-outs, even the toilet-humor ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' parody figures heavily into the plot. And even though nobody in the novels has heard of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (as only the first book had come out before [[After the End|everything went to hell]]), the resident Wiccans still manage to get in a good laugh about the Sorting Hat.

* In ''[[Duel of Sorcery|Changer's Moon]]'': What does this [[Dragonriders of Pern|bring to mind]]?

{{quote|When she turned back to the Mirror, there were excited voices coming from it, a great green dragon leaped at them, mouth wide, fire whooshing at them, then the dragon went round the curve of the Mirror and vanished—but not before she saw the dark-clad rider perched between the delicate powerful wings. More of the dragons whipped past, all of them ridden, all of them spouting gouts of fire at something Serroi couldn’t see. They were intensely serious about what they were doing, those riders and the beasts they rode, but Serroi couldn’t make out what it was they fought.}}

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* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Cryoburn]]'' has two: Miles thinks to himself "Imperial Auditor Vorkosigan; Threat or Menace" (in Spider-Man, J.J.J.'s paper, ''The Daily Bugle'' often ran headlines "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?"). And Armsman Roic quips to a local "Don't worry, I have a license to stun." The local responds "I thought that has a license to kill?" Both, of course refer to ''[[James Bond]]'''s 00 "License to Kill".

* "Macavity, the Mystery Cat" in [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats|Old Possums Book of Practical Cats]]'' is an extended [[Shout-Out]] to [[Sherlock Holmes|Professor Moriarty]].

* The [[Jakub Wedrowycz]] stories have quite a lot of references, mainly to pop culture: the protagonist [[Badass Grandpa]] villager has eaten stew from some octopus-like thing named [[Cthulhu Mythos|Ktulu]], stole a wand from some [[Harry Potter|snotty bespectacled brat with a lightning on his forehead]], and is said to have also eaten some yellow thing that wandered into his yard calling itself [[Pokémon|"Pikachu"]]. Another example is when he comes across a zeppelin, made from a metal lighter than air - his friend explains that it's an invention of one "professor Geist", a reference to the classic Polish novel ''[[The Doll]]''.

* The ''[[Jakub Wedrowycz]]'' stories have quite a lot of references, mainly to pop culture: the protagonist [[Badass Grandpa]] villager has eaten stew from some octopus-like thing named [[Cthulhu Mythos|Ktulu]], stole a wand from some [[Harry Potter|snotty bespectacled brat with a lightning on his forehead]], and is said to have also eaten some yellow thing that wandered into his yard calling itself [[Pokémon|"Pikachu"]]. Another example is when he comes across a zeppelin, made from a metal lighter than air - his friend explains that it's an invention of one "professor Geist", a reference to the classic Polish novel ''[[The Doll]]''.

* [[Unda Vosari]] has a [[Unda Vosari/Shout Out|short page]] of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to various other works.

* In ''[[Peter Pan]]'' Captain Hook says he's "the only man whom Barbecue feared, and Flint himself feared Barbecue". Flint and Barbecue (better known as Long John Silver) are the leaders of the pirates in ''[[Treasure Island]]''.