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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]'' contains [[Shout -Out|a nod]] to Disney's ''[[Cinderella (Disney)|Cinderella]]'' with the ancient mage Bibidi, his son Babidi, and the demon that they created, Buu ("Bibbidi bobbidi boo!").
* Three out of four of the main characters from ''[[Burst Angel]]'' are named after characters from the book ''[[Little Women]]'' (Jo, Meg, and Amy, with Sei being the [[Odd Name Out]]). In an interview, the creator mentioned that Sei's middle name was Bethany, thus making her still technically fit.
** Also, in the original ''[[Little Women]]'' Beth's was the only name ''not'' changed from her real life counterpart. So having her the odd name out is IN ITSELF a shout out.
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** [[Older Than They Think]], since Eva's Rei and Asuka were in fact named for a character from ''[[Raideen]]'', Rei Asuka.
*** That's debatable, or possibly just synchronistic, since Rei is usually regarded as being named after [[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Rei Hino]].
* Speaking of ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'', there are the most recurring members of Team Rocket, the pairs of Jessie and James, and Cassidy and <s>[[My Name Is Not Durwood|Buffy]]</s> Butch. named after famous outlaws. For Jessie and James, their original Japanese names are a [[Shout -Out]], too (''[[Miyamoto Musashi]]'' and ''Sakaki Kojirou'', respectively). To up the ante, when the four are paired based on gender, there is a theme ''again'' <ref>''Musashi'' and ''Yamato'', sister Japanese battleships for the females, and Jirō and Saburō , "second" and "third" sons, respectively</ref>. That's a lot of [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]]...
* Of course ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'' (or ''[[Case Closed]]'' for that matter) has [[Theme Naming]] all over the place, but Shinichi's surroundings worth some mention. He called himself the modern [[Sherlock Holmes]], and he lives in lot 2-21, Beika, Tokyo. Next to Beika we have Haido (Hyde Park anyone?), and the river that flows across the neighbourhoods is called Teimutsu (Thames, anyone?). Tell me, is this still Tokyo, or is London who happened to be inhabited by Japanese?
** [[Conan the Barbarian|"Japanese Crom, I have never prayed to you before..."]]
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** Sadly, Rosenberg doesn't [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|cast spells]].
** Similarly, ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' did an episode called "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead."
* ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'' has a rather roundabout [[Shout -Out|shoutout]] in the name "Miranda." Miranda is the character from Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest]]'' who says the line that ''[[Brave New World (Literature)|Brave New World]]'' by Aldous Huxley [[Literary Allusion Title|comes from]]. ''[[Brave New World (Literature)|Brave New World]]'', of course, had the mind-control drug that [[Government Drug Enforcement|made all people happy, mindless, and compliant.]]
* In ''[[Minority Report]]'' the three precognitives are named for Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
* In the [[The Lorax (Film)|2012 film]] of ''[[The Lorax (Literature)|The Lorax]]'', the main human characters are named Ted (presumably short for Theodore, [[Dr. Seuss]]'s real name) and Audrey (Dr. Seuss's wife).
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' has the Xylien Society, which contains [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to a LOT of pop-cultural depictions of [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] types. While [[Men in Black (Film)|Men in Black]] (weird technology, wearing black, and liking to keep secrets from surface [[Muggles]]) and [[Blade Runner]] ("retiring" rogue Mechies) are pretty egregiously referenced, [[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]] tops the list. A lot of references to The Company can be found throughout.
** Garret Nobee -> Noah Bennet, and
** Will Rook -> Bob Bishop, to name a few.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Open Blue]]'''s players tend to name Avelian NPC's after ''[[Halo]]'' characters in similar positions. [[Four -Star Badass|Admirals Hood and Harper]], [[Cloak and Dagger|Lieutenant Sobeck and Admiral Standish]], and so on. The Espartanos from v1 - v4 were an obvious reference to the Spartans, and the fortress colony of Reach is named for a planet in the Haloverse that serves a similar purpose.
* All of the characters in ''[[Ruby Quest (Roleplay)|Ruby Quest]]'' are named after animals from ''[[Animal Crossing]]''.
 
 
== Real Life ==
* The individual chemical components of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemic_acid:Bohemic acid|bohemic acid]] are named after characters from ''[[La Boheme]]''. They include Marcellomycin, Musettamycin, Rudolphomycin, Mimimycin, Collinemycin and Alcindoromycin.
* There is a species of dinosaur called Gojirasaurus, which literaly translates into Godzilla Lizard
* In the American education system, teachers love naming the people in various word problems, fill-in-the blank questions, hypotheticals that you're supposed to write essays about, etc. after one set of characters or another.
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