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This page lists [[
== Works with their own pages ==
* [[El Goonish Shive/Shout Out|El Goonish Shive]]
* [[Gunnerkrigg Court/Shout Out|Gunnerkrigg Court]]
* [[Homestuck/Shout
* [[Megatokyo/Shout
* [[The Order of the Stick/Shout-Out|The Order of the Stick]]
* [[Precocious (Webcomic)/Shout Out|Precocious]]
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* [[Square Root of Minus Garfield/Shout Out|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]
== ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' ==
* Red Mage has a universe-destroying spell called "Ice-9". This is a triple shout out to the also dangerous substance from the Kurt Vonnegut's novel ''Cat's Cradle'', level-nine spells in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', and the simple naming system in early ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games (Ice-1, Bolt-2, Fire-1, etc.).
* ''8BT'' also has an archer captain... With a second-in-command called Commander [[Star Trek: Enterprise|T'Pol]].
* Black Mage's [[Street Fighter|HADOKEN!]]
* After a few episodes of the second season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' aired, Black Mage asked [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/10/11/episode-905-in-rod-we-trust/ "Did getting skewered through the chest somehow (and nonsensically) remove all my powers?"] Thankfully, he did not proceed to turn up in Mexico.
** The comic referenced ''Heroes'' [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/11/15/episode-920-we-could-be-heroes/ one more time.]
* Thief and Red Mage are betting on whether Black Mage's internal dia/monologue will last five or ten minutes:
{{quote|'''Red Mage:''' Go ten, Go ten, go!
'''Thief:''' I'm more of a [[Dragonball Z|Gohan]] guy. }}
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/01/21/episode-651-thief-of-time/ When] Thief [[Impossible Thief|stole his class change from the future]] the title of the strip was ''[[Thief of Time]]''.
* From [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/10/21/episode-473-this-is-the-most-uncomfortable-ice-prison-ive-ever-been-in/ this strip]:
{{quote|'''Red Mage:''' Black Mage, initiate Plan 9.
'''Black Mage:''' [[Plan 9 from Outer Space|From Outer Space?]]
'''Red Mage:''' The same. }}
** From the same strip:
{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Kary:}}''' I'm living fire. You didn't think it was going to be that easy, did you?
'''Red Mage:''' You know, for a second there, [[Kill Bill|yeah, I kinda did]]. }}
* Black Mage [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/02/02/episode-656-simply-stunning/ once] mentioned that he used to like black robes, but "they were killed by that play, '''[[The Matrix|The Magics]]'''."
* "[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/04/24/episode-142-if-you-recognize-both-quotes-you-need-to-get-out-more-often/ So we've struck him down only to make him become] '''[[Star Wars|more powerful than we could possibly imagine]]'''?!"
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/11/22/episode-356-that-was-your-whole-plan-i-like-it-it-was-scientific/ the title of this comic] is a shout out to the first ''Ghostbusters'' film.
* Early on there were numerous references to old [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] dialogue.
** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/07/08/episode-170-outside-the-mysterious-cave/ Dental plan!]
* The film, [[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]], gets more than a few gags [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/07/26/episode-177-the-first-side-quest/ lifted from it]. Later Thief gets turned into a toad...
* Darko takes the form of [[Chrono Trigger|Magus]] to talk to Black Mage.
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/11/15/episode-624-undead-dinosaur-comics/ Undead] [[Dinosaur Comics]]
* Is it just me, or should [[Final Fantasy VII|FFVII]] fans find [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/07/episode-1125-unexpected/ this scene] [http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/File:Aeris_CH.jpg disturbingly familiar?]
* the opening segment of the epilogue is an obvious shout out to [[Kingdom Come]]
* And in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/08/episode-282-a-new-foe/ one strip,] prior to a mass stabbing, Red Mage tells the victim that the Light Warriors are "gonna get [[Julius Caesar|Ides of March]] on your ass."
* In [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/05/20/episode-284-what-could-it-be/ this strip] when Drizz'l describes the true guardian of Marsh Cave, Black Mage imagines [[Homestar Runner|Trogdor]].
* Fans of a [[Mega Man (video game)|certain other game series]] should find [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/05/04/episode-416-stabicron/ Fighter's helmet] very familiar.
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/12/11/episode-490-going-up/ And in this strip]:
{{quote|'''Red Mage:''' [[Family Guy|Love, hate, clouds,]] *thud*.}}
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/06/27/episode-713-give-me-a-sign/ This strip] makes another ''[[Family Guy]]'' reference - one Black Mage hilariously subverts.
* The [[Final Boss]], Chaos, has [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Fomortiis']] head.
* When Red Mage tells Fighter to "Make your swords as things unto chainsaws", the card he uses to do it is an [[Exalted]] charm-tree card; the name and effect refer to a (now fixed) exploit with Exalted's Glorious Solar Saber charm where you could theoretically conjure a sword capable of making infinite attacks in a single second, which fans affectionately called the Glorious Chainsaw Method.
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/10/03/episode-083-a-shout-out-to-all-you-web-heads-out-there/ The strip] where Dr Swordopolis asks Fighter "Did you choose the sword, or did the sword choose you?" is titled "A [[Shout-Out]] to All You [[Spider-Man|Web-Heads]] Out There", presumably referencing [[J. Michael Straczynski]]'s "Did the spider choose you?" storyline.
* In the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/8-bit-theater/ Epilogue], Akbar's Not-Useless Tools has among its implements for sale a [[Final Fantasy VII|buster sword]] and [[Final Fantasy VIII|gunblade]], while one of the notices Fighter reads on the quest board is a recruitment notice for [[Final Fantasy VII|SOLDIER]] (Black Mage's response? "Lame").
* And than there was [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/09/17/episode-600-lots-of-fantasy-settings-have-a-north/ this] comic which referred to the too short-lasting Ninth [[Doctor Who]] along with the famous Sixth.
* There's also the title of episode 158: [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Unfamiliar Ceiling]]
== ''[[Girl Genius]]'' ==
* Observe the advertisements at the bottom of [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070319 this strip], as well as the next.
* Also, look at Airman Higgs' hat [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080606 here] and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070409 here]. Given Moxana and Tinka, ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' must be deliberate.
* In Volume 7, Page 71, in the Heterodyne Crypt, there is a grave marked only "Zod"
* Look at the Walking Boxes (luggage, anyone?) [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070112 here]. -- [[Terry Pratchett]] strikes again!
* The nefarious [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051014 Prince Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus] is visually based on Phil Foglio's fellow webcomic artist and ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine alum Aaron Williams, and his servant [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051019 Nod] ''is'' Williams's signature character, [[Nodwick]].
** Also, Aaronev's dogsbody Artacz, who looks like a younger version of Artax from ''Nodwick'', only with a shorter moustache.
* check out the gauntlet of Gil's outfit [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080509 here]. Link much?
** More Ganondorf to me.
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081001 Theopholous is trying to track down his father's lost temple in India], which somehow involves finding the "[[Metal Gear|eye of the snake eater]]."
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090121 This strip] has Major [[Animal Crossing|Resetti]] of the First Subterranean Mecha Mole Brigade.
* Fairly blatant reference to ''[[Metroid]]'' and the whole [[Samus Is a Girl]] thing [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120425 here].
== Other works ==
* In ''[[Holiday Wars]]'', [[April Fools' Day]] makes a shoutout to ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', as seen in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314065713/http://th3rdworld.com/web-comic/holiday-wars/episode/holiday-wars-episode-38 this strip]
* The [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050401.html April] [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20060401.html Fool's] [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20070401.html comics] at ''[http://www.shortpacked.com/ Shortpacked!]'' involve a Shout Out both subtle and obvious. They use the same narrative structure as ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', but with the panels arranged vertically.
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** The [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1978 quantum coffee making dinosaur] from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' makes and appearance in ''[[The Whiteboard]]'' [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1379.html here].
** The entire previous strip is also a reference to ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': [[Douglas Adams|Adam's law]], as well as the sperm whale scenario. This is just one of of many; "Beeblebrox's Gambit" was mentioned in an early strip, for one.
* The top row of panels in [https://
** And, given the [[Punny Name|nature]] of ''Erfworld'', it is easier to count pages that ''don't'' have shoutouts to ''something'', explicit or otherwise.
*** One troper lost a bet about five pages without a shout out, because he didn't recognize Sergeant Schlock from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' in [
** [http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/?px=%2F2011-09-06.jpg This strip] features a cameo by [[Gargoyles|the Weird Sisters]].
* ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'': The heroine has a ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' poster on her bedroom wall. ''[[Silent Hill: Promise|Promise]]'' borrows its interactive format from ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]''.
* The webcomic ''[[Freaks N Squeeks]]'' has a boy-genius mouse whose full name (used only once) is "Albert Jeremy Nonn". In case you don't get how that's a shout-out, try [[Flowers for Algernon|sounding out just the first syllable of each name]].
* ''Ctrl-Alt-Del'' featured a character strikingly similar in appearance to Tyler Durden from the movie ''[[Fight Club]]'' speaking for the character Ethan with the line "he fell down some stairs" to explain to a doctor the reasoning behind some suspicious facial trauma.
** Similarly, there's a strip where Ethan imagines himself in a "happy place"—a frozen cave with Ted's hated pet penguin, and a giant mallet. The penguin's even panicking and thinking, "...slide?"
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* A 2005 ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'' mentions "[[Doctor Who|the Eccleston effect forming across the D-W matrices]]".
* ''[[VG Cats]]'' [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=282 rips off] ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', complete with {{spoiler|[[Stephen Colbert|Stephen]] himself threatening to sue them for it}}.
* Lots found in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Fan Web Comics]] by [
* In ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', the bio pages for Dolly Bird and G-Nat mention that their father was a genetic engineer known as the Somewhat-Below-Average Evolutionary (a [[Shout-Out]] to Marvel Comics' High Evolutionary). Another episode features [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=80198 three consecutive panels] of [[Shout-Out]] references:
** First, the strip is set in Kurt Vonnegut's hometown of [[Indianapolis]].
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* ''[[Lightbringer (web comic)|Lightbringer]]'' does it ''a lot''. Main character quetes ''Watchmen'', his friend once dressed-up as a spoiler, and when he asked another character about how can he be sure he don't kill anybody, the answer he get was ''[[Batgirl|Cassandra Cain]]''
* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20041007.html Here] [[Schlock Mercenary|Schlock the mercenary]] travels in [[Doctor Who|"A bright, blue box, nice and inconspicuous" which "looked bigger from the inside."]]
* [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1558 This] ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' contains a Shout Out to [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF247-Catch_Phrase.jpg this] ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]''.
* ''[[Too Much Information]]'' has plenty of sci-fi refs, but the serious [[Shout-Out]] is given by Gina Gibs, the mother of main character Ace (who actually is [[The Ace]]). Years ago we learned she spoke lots of dialects of four Oriental languages, and has served in the Air Force in Korea as a translator when Ace was little. Then we learned she picked up some other languages 'when she was bored', like Arabic. Then she re-enlisted in the Air Force at the height of the Iraq War. What does she really do for the Air Force? [http://tmi-comic.com/2009/01/19/stellarportal/ Something else entirely.]
* ''[[Nerf Now]]'''s [[The Rant|news post]] [http://nerfnow.com/comic/185 here]: "Sigh. [[RPG World|Times are tough.]]" And [https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/2355 eventually] the [[Zork|old one]].
* Early in the "A World Without Piffany" arc in ''[[Nodwick]]'', the hapless henchman plummets between realities... passing, as he does, [[Doctor Who|a police box with a scarf stuck in the door]]. The author, Aaron Williams, seems to like ''Who'' shoutouts, since he has also had an elven healer mistakenly refer to Piffany as "Romana", and then offer her a jelly baby.
* ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip [http://xkcd.com/604/ "Qwertial Aphasia"] has the [[Alt Text]] "If this were SMBC, the alt-text drawing thingy would be a giraffe hooker fluttering her eyelashes." The following day, [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1565 Zach did just that.]
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* In ''[[Mob Ties]]'', you can play a fun game called the [[Mob Ties]] [[Shout-Out]] drinking game. Take a shot every time you spot a [[Shout-Out]] on a strip. Just be sure to play it someplace where you can get emergency medical attention very quickly, or you may be dead before you get halfway through the archives.
* ''[[Freak Angels]]'' had this little gem: [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=70&page=6 "All your forthcoming bone fractures are belong to us."]
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218141836/http://mortifer.smackjeeves.com/ Mortifer], when {{spoiler|Lord Artemis}} is explaining his reason for {{spoiler|"removing" Johnathan}}:
{{quote|"He's done no severe crime. technically, he was a good {{spoiler|angel}}. But lust is not a good quality. [[Star Wars|Leads to jealousy. Leads to anger. Leads to violence.]]}}
* [[Bob and George]]: "Oh god, I hope it's not Superman, he's a [[Super Dickery|dick]]."
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* Many, many in ''[[Lovecraft Is Missing]]''. Not only to Lovecraft's own works, but also [[Robert E. Howard]] and [[The Yellow Wallpaper|Charlotte Perkins Gilman]].
* ''[[Sonic the Comic Online]]'' features the occasional shout-outs to the Archie's [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]. In the 250th milestone issue Sally was revamped from her [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100110155215/sonic/images/0/01/STC33-SallyAcorn.jpg original anthro-shift design] to something that more resembles her [http://images.wikia.com/stc/images/7/71/Sally_Fletway.jpg Archie] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110617063333/archiesonic/images/thumb/1/1d/Sally_Acorn1_001.jpg/165px-Sally_Acorn1_001.jpg design]{{Dead link}} (though it looks like something Sega would make). Joe Sushi also wore a [http://images.wikia.com/stc/images/e/ec/Joesushi.jpg jacket] similar to his [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100225123959/archiesonic/images/thumb/5/5a/Rotor_the_Walrus.jpg/343px-Rotor_the_Walrus.jpg Archie design].
* ''[[The Fuzzy Five]]'': The Fluffton P.D. has an [[West Side Story|Officer Krupke]]. For extra points, the strip title is [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103327/http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2010/comic/24-hey-look-social-commentary/ Hey, Look! Social Commentary!]
* The only real recurring shout-out in ''[[Elf Blood]]'' lies in Carlita Delacroix, a [[Bleach|large-breasted dark-skinned catwoman]]. Other shout-outs have included the [[CSI|obligatory sunglasses one-liner]] and a [[Harry Potter|hidden magical community]] with corresponding [[Take That]].
* The title of Chapter 9 of Jay Naylor's ''Better Days'' comic, about one of Lucy's peers dating her to get a stab at her mom, was appropriately titled [[Stacy's Mom|"Lucy's Mom"]]
* [[Ménage à 3]] often has Gary wearing shirts with various symbols from retro TV shows, like ''[[ReBoot]]'', as well as newer but still rather obscure shows, like ''[[Code Lyoko]]''.
* ''[[Blue Yonder]]'':
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150401070030/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1232272/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-18/ With great power comes high insurance bills]
** Kevin observes [https://web.archive.org/web/20121225085829/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1332262/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-34/ he's faster than a speeding bullet, but not that much faster.]
** Having code-named Jared "Chicken Little", Black Dog [https://web.archive.org/web/20120129020031/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1361050/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-39/ tells him the sky has fallen].
* A List of ''[[Karate Bears]]'' [http://www.karatebears.com/search/label/homage Shout Outs]
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' has so many shout outs and obscure references that one has to read the Director's Cut version to find all of them. Shaenon Garrity lists everything from other webcomics to manga to Shakespeare.
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* ''[[The Packrat]]'' shouts out to ''[[Back to The Future]]'', ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' (a reference which synth geeks will get the most easily) and ''[[Spies Like Us]]''. The author, ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'' creator David C. Lovelace, also declared shout-outs to CustomSynth and Metasonix, although these aren't shout-outs in TV Tropes' sense.
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