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* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: The prosthetics lab. Pictures of extreme bondage on the walls with the eyes and mouths crossed out (It's research for torque, apparently), huge bloodstains, torture tools in neat little rows all over the place, and it's such a long area with so many downward staircases and down ramps and side rooms that by the time you fight the guy you're totally freaked out. Which makes him kind of a letdown in the end.
** It's really an interesting bit of meta-horror; the only reason we're not terrified out of our wits by Gimble is that he's bitten off ''way'' more than he can chew.
* [[Rule 34]]: Dear God! Practically ''every single character in the game'' features in ''someone's'' fantasies or artwork. Threesomes of Damsel/Heather/VV, Ming Xiao using her Naughty Tentacles, [[Twincest]] {{spoiler|and [[Screw Yourself]]}} between the Voerman sisters, Venus wearing denim shorts, the blood-stained savagery of shark-toothed Pisha, and even the ''putrid horror of Imalia'' are far from the being only common themes. Even male characters are not immune: there are jokes about [[Flamboyant Gay]] Sebastian LaCroix, [[George Romero]] was made bisexual by the Unofficial Patches, a girl interviewed on the in-game radio wants to have Ash Rivers' [[Dhampir|baby]], while Beckett, Mercurio, Nines Rodriguez, and Smiling Jack simply ''ooze'' with Subpaging raw animal magnetism. The sheer sex appeal of so many gorgeous characters is apparently part of what makes the game a cult classic even years after release.
** [[This Troper]] has even seen a picture involving ''all'' the female cast (both [[Player Character]] and NPC) at once, minus the Nosferatu females, and the Malkavian male [[Player Character]]... though the fact that both Voermann twins are present at once, as well as Heather in both her normal and "gothic" looks, strongly implies the mass lesbian orgy is just a figment of the Malk's demented little mind.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]
** Throughout a large portion of the game, there's a destructive serial killer covered by the news. The player eventually has the opportunity to deal with him.
** Dr. Gimble is one of these, but little does he know that the player character is ''far'' more dangerous.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines/Shout-Out|Has its own subpage]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: There are references in the game to a number of classic and not-so classic vampire movies including ''[[Nosferatu]]'', ''[[The Lost Boys]]'' and of course ''[[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]]''. For example, one of the options when speaking to the bartender is "[[I Do Not Drink... Wine|I don't drink... alcohol]]", a clear reference to Bela Lugosi's Dracula. Additionally, the Camarilla ending is a [[Shout-Out]] to {{spoiler|the final scene of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', which itself was a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Citizen Kane]]''}}.
** One of the weapons the player can use is [[Planescape: Torment|a severed arm]].
** Gorgeous Gary Golden, a former movie star, loves to make these.
{{quote|"Forget it, boss. It's Chinatown."}}
** In the [[Hell Hotel]] level, obviously an [[Homage]] to ''[[The Shining]]'', the ceiling has collapsed right in front of Room 217 (which was replaced in the film by Room 237).
** The dialogue option of "Did I just fight a ''landshark''?" is a pretty obvious reference to the old [[Saturday Night Live|SNL skit]].
** The ship the Elizabeth Dane is the name of the Leper Ship in John Carpenter's ''[[The Fog]]''.
** There are several references to being shot like "Old Yella".
** The flamethrower runs on [[Homestar Runner|burninator]]-brand fuel.
** In a minor side-quest in Hollywood, LaCroix asks you to make a critics review of an Italian restaurant to be a bad one. If you are playing Malkavian and have enough dots in Dementation discipline you can use "Maggots. You are eating maggots." Line from '87 movie about vampires: ''[[The Lost Boys]]''.
*** You even get to [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade it]] in a subsequent dialog choice:
{{quote|'''Tommy Flayton:''' This place will pay for this! As sure as my name is Tommy Flayton, they'll never serve food in this town again!
'''Malkavian [[Player Character]]:''' How could they do that to you? [[Sarcasm Mode|I bet they didn't]] [[Lampshade Hanging|get that idea from a movie]].}}
** Mitnick the computer hacker is a reference to [[wikipedia:Kevin Mitnick|Kevin Mitnick]], previously one of the world's most notorious social engineers. He now runs an IT security consulting service.
** The clock in the [[Player Character]]'s apartment had a brand name printed on it, said brand name being "[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Zaphod]]".
** There's also a reference to ''Traffik'': a [[Samuel L. Jackson|cool, afroed]] [[Jive Turkey]] sends you on a mission to retrieve a [[Pulp Fiction|briefcase, with "beautiful" unknown contents]].
** There's a reference to ''[[Futurama]]'' in the Santa Monica health clinic: if you examine the patients' files on the doctor's computer, one of them suffers from frequent bouts of sexlexia.
*** You can also use Zapp Branningan's classic pick-up line--"I find the most erotic part of a woman is the boobies"--on a would-be Blood Doll in Hollywood. It works about the same as it did for Kif.
** Also in the Santa Monica health clinic's computer, you find a listing of doctors, including a Dr. Roberts, who has never lost a patient. The file notes that "[[The Beatles (band)|No one can succeed like Dr. Roberts.]]"
** And, of course, the Italian Giovanni's desire for an "[[The Sandman|endless night]]".
** Perhaps more subtly, if you choose to {{spoiler|save Heather Poe by giving her your blood}}, the cutscene goes through the exact motions of the scene in ''[[The Vampire Chronicles|Interview with the Vampire]]'' ([[The Movie]]) where {{spoiler|Lestat Embraces Claudia}}.
** There's also a one armed man named "Gimble" who turns out to be a serial killer. [[The Fugitive (TV series)|Sound familiar?]]
** [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|"Nobody expects the Malkavian Inquisition."]]
** A radio ad for a brand of butter called "I Thought it was Margarine" (all the crappy taste of margarine, with all the saturate fat of butter).
** When enduring the Mandarin's experiments, his verbal notes call the squad of commandos you kill "The [[Castlevania|Belmont]] Squad".
*** The experiment right before that, which tests if a cross can repel you, is given the name of Dr. Van Helsing from ''[[Dracula]]''.
** Malkavian to the bail bondsman: "[[Ghostbusters|Are you the key master?]]"
** Malkavians are full of this. "How long have they [[Rage Against the Machine|raged against the machine?]]" when asking Jack about the Anarchs.
** The Malkavian [[Player Character]] has an option of replying "[[The Sixth Sense|I SEE DEAD PEOPLE]]" when asked by Beckett if they have encountered anything out-of-the-way.
** Malkavian to Damsel after you agree to spy on LaCroix: "[[The Pixies|I heard a rumor that he was into field hockey players.]]"
** Dominating one of the employees in the blood bank leads to him saying that [[Metal Gear|he feels asleep]].
** When a Malkavian frees Carson from Gimble's prison, we get this little gem:
{{quote|"''[[The Tonight Show|Heeeeeeeeeerrrrreeee's JOHNNY!]]''"}}
*** Though considering the nature of [[Ax Crazy|Malkavians in general]], that particular one may rather be referring to ''[[The Shining]]'', especially since the player just rescued a man from a psychopath when that particular reference occurs.
*** It's probably a mixture of both. There's a dead psychotic in the room ([[And Zoidberg|And Gimble]]), and the bounty hunter is called '''Carson''' ([[Don't Explain the Joke|as in Johnny Carson, who was always introduced with that catch phrase]]).
*** It's a pretty explicit ''Tonight Show'' reference. [[Never Heard That One Before|Which Carson does not appreciate]].
** If you don't see the reference in the ghoul called [[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Romero with zombie killing as his profession]], you really need to read up on your homework.
*** His job is also the plot to ''[[Cemetery Man]]''.
** Malkavian seducing a woman in the Asylum: "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|I'm not fully functional, but programmed in multiple techniques.]]"
** The Malk response to finding out the blood bank freezer password from Phil (1969): [[Bryan Adams|"Just like the summer."]]
** A male Nosferatu [[Player Character]]'s default outfit consists of [[A Clockwork Orange (film)|white pants, a codpiece and black boots]].
** When you rescue Kiki from the Tong, the first thing she asks you is "[[Star Wars|Aren't you a little short for a Tong?]]".
** If you turn off the power for the house of drug dealers at the beginning of the game, one of them angrily shouts that he was about to unlock [[Street Fighter|"Sheng Long"]].
** The Katana looks like [[Highlander|Connor MacLeod's sword]].
** One of the TV news reports involves a giant squid-like creature being washed up on the shoreline at [[H.P. Lovecraft|Providence, Rhode island]].
** If you talk to the group of thin-bloods at the Santa Monica pier, you can, with sufficient Persuasion, {{spoiler|convince one of them that either a) [[The Lost Boys|killing the head vampire will turn him human again]] or b) that a [[Near Dark|full blood transfusion]] will do the trick}}.
** If you log in to Carson's computer, the messages [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|"Grumble Grumble" and "It's a secret to everybody"]] appear at the top of the screen.
** A very subtle one in the Nosferatu warrens. One of the old ledgers makes reference to three missing workers named [[The Running Man|Whitman, Price, and Haddad]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: With an [[Rule of Fun|Experience system that makes you as powerful as an Elder vampire in matter of days aside]], ''Bloodlines'' is amazingly faithful to its parent setting and contain more [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]] than you can shake a stick at.
** Also, it's implied that {{spoiler|Caine}} has been lowering your generation to help you out. So even the EXPERIENCE AND DISCIPLINE SYSTEM is explained within the plot.
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