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** Don't forget [[Ciaphas Cain]]. Very likely a Shout Out to [[Flashman]].

*** Originally intended as one. It took on a life of its own.

*** The Cain books are jam-packed with Shout Outs, including a lot of [[Punny Name~~|Punny Names~~]].

*** The Cain books are jam-packed with Shout Outs, including a lot of [[Punny Name]]s.

** Aliens are generally known as "xenos", but Tyranids have been referred to as [[Alien|"xenomorphs"]] before. The Imperial Guard have even been known to nickname the 'Nids as [[Starship Troopers|"bugs"]].

** On the other tiny, subtle and easy to miss end, in the 3rd edition Craftworld Eldar book, the section on the craftworld Saim-Hann has a footnote consisting of an [[Edit War]] about how to properly pronounce it that refers to the oft fumbled pronounciation of Samhain.

** We could list these all day and still not scratch the surface. This troper's favourite [[Shout-Out]] is in the backstory of the [[Night Lords]] Traitor ~~Legion -- the~~ Legion's Primarch, [[Heart of Darkness|Konrad Curze, surrenders completely to death and terror,]] [[Apocalypse Now|and makes no attempt to prevent his own assassination at the hands of an assassin whose name is none other than "M'Shen".]]

** We could list these all day and still not scratch the surface. This troper's favourite [[Shout-Out]] is in the backstory of the [[Night Lords]] Traitor Legion—the Legion's Primarch, [[Heart of Darkness|Konrad Curze, surrenders completely to death and terror,]] [[Apocalypse Now|and makes no attempt to prevent his own assassination at the hands of an assassin whose name is none other than "M'Shen".]]

*** And that's not even considering Kurze's backstory is like an even more [[Darker and Edgier|GRIMDARK]] version of [[Batman]] if he was mixed with the Punisher.

** One to note is found in the Dark Heresy rulebook under "Sanctioning Side-effects". One of the rolls gives you the starting condition of [[Dune|"Pain by nerve induction"]], complete with a fear of bald women.

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{{quote|"[[Looks Like Orlok|Who were you expecting]]? [[Interview with the Vampire|Brad Pitt]]?"}}

** Then there's the Revised core book, which opens with, "[[wikipedia:Bauhaus (band)|Bela Lugosi's dead]], and so am I."

*** Speaking of Bela Lugosi, ''Los Angeles By Night'' has a Malkavian called "Bela" under the delusion that he's ~~Dracula--and~~ he was Embraced in the year of Lugosi's [[Real Life]] death, by a "fan."

*** Speaking of Bela Lugosi, ''Los Angeles By Night'' has a Malkavian called "Bela" under the delusion that he's Dracula—and he was Embraced in the year of Lugosi's [[Real Life]] death, by a "fan."

** Character templates in other [[Old World of Darkness]] splatbooks include an anarch who "[[Fight Club|went so far as to attend support meetings for people suffering from diseases you didn't even have]]" (and carries a briefcase of homemade soap to boot) for the Brujah and a [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|vampire-hunting cheerleader]] for the Silent Striders.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' is usually fairly subtle with its shout outs, but the discovery of a First Age messaging service known as the Dextrous Midnight Runners is not subtle at all.

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** ''D20 Future'' has an Extraterrestrial template that lets you give a base creature numerous special abilities, [[Alien|such as caustic blood.]]

** ''The Modern Menace Manual'' has:

*** A template to turn any character into [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]].

*** A template to turn any character into [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Reed Richards]].

*** Any number of [[Slasher Movie]] characters. The Bogeyman template specifies they hunt teenagers who've engaged in illicit activities, leaving the victims horrifically killed as a warning to others.

*** [[Anaconda|Giant Anaconda]].

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*** The leader of an anime poser gang kidnaps a woman, has a biosculpt job done on her which gives her huge eyes, a tiny mouth, weird hair color and tiny horns on her head, and makes her wear a tiger print bikini - thus making her look like the character Lum/Lamu in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. This is [[Lampshaded]] by a character saying that "It had something to do with some old Pacific Rim export cartoon."

*** A man buys a computer system that was owned by Fort Meade (AKA the National Security Agency). It has a file on it called "NORAD I" which consists of a huge list of 10 digit numbers. This is a reference to the movie ''[[War Games]]'', where the W.O.P.P.E.R. computer at NORAD ran through a list of 10 digit numbers to find the code that would allow it to launch all of the U.S. land-based ICBMs against the Soviet Union.

* ''[[Amber]] Diceless Role-Playing'', based on Roger Zelazny's ''[[Amber]]'' series of stories. The supplement ''Shadow Knight'' has a mini-adventure called "Quest for Frakir". During the adventure the [[PC~~|PCs~~]] enter a Shadow of the Forest of Arden and encounter spiders that spin webs throughout the trees, have poisonous bites that cause paralysis and pull away paralyzed victims to be hung from trees. This is a clear reference to the spiders of Mirkwood in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Hobbit]]''.

* ''[[Amber]] Diceless Role-Playing'', based on Roger Zelazny's ''[[Amber]]'' series of stories. The supplement ''Shadow Knight'' has a mini-adventure called "Quest for Frakir". During the adventure the [[PC]]s enter a Shadow of the Forest of Arden and encounter spiders that spin webs throughout the trees, have poisonous bites that cause paralysis and pull away paralyzed victims to be hung from trees. This is a clear reference to the spiders of Mirkwood in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Hobbit]]''.

* ''[[Everway]]'' supplement ''Spherewalker Sourcebook''. The Soulseekers have the ability to remember their past lives, with masters of "true recall" able to remember dozens. However, some Soulseekers are not able to handle all of these past personalities. Some go mad or are possessed by one of the stronger personalities. This is a reference to Frank Herbet's novel ''Children of Dune'', in which Alia was almost taken over by the personality of Baron Harkonnen and was possessed (and driven insane) by the memories of her ancestor's lives, and Leto merged with the personality of one of his ancestors.

* ''[[Heavy Gear]]''

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