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* In the ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' remake, the holy site Calima's name was taken from a partially-covered "Caution Live Animals" sign on the ship.
* In the first ''[[Star Trek]]'' movie, V'Ger started out as the Voyager probe.
** In turn, parodied by a ''[[Codename:
* In ''[[Zardoz]]'', the name of the eponymous "god" is a deliberate corruption of {{spoiler|[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|The Wi
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* [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Mr. Tumnus]] thinking that the Pevensies came from "War Drobe" in the country of "Spare Oom".
* ''[[The Indian in the Cupboard]]'' has Little Bear thinking that he and the other [[Living Toys]] come from something called "plaz-tek".
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Frodo sings an ancient hobbit tune that the narrator notes only survives in fragments today. The verses that are familiar to readers are clearly from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle".
* ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'': Piglet takes an incomplete "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted" sign to be the name of his grandfather, Trespassers William.
* "Magic City" may be the ur example of this. A novelette written in 1943, it featured a post apocalyptic world with people reciting prayers off of signs they read like "O left tur" and "O parki". The country was called Tizathy ... as in "My country, tizathy, sweet land of liberty..."
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