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"In the village," the first figure said.
The second one promptly clonked her on the head again.}}
{{quote|"The look on great-grandfather's face when he found [[Star Trek|tribbles]] under the sheets on his bed..."}}
::There are a couple references throughout the story to this incident.
** In chapter 7, Setsuna references ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' when she tells Priss she's not there to threaten her or her little dog, too.
** The two Galaxy Police officers in the flashback that starts chapter 8 are [[Dirty Pair|Kay and Yoori]].
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** Professor Hiyama owns a CD by DoCo, the vocal group made up of voice actresses from ''[[Ranma ½]]''.
** When Kyosuke, Madoka and Hikaru about to teleport somewhere in chapter 9, Kyosuke, laughing, says, [[Star Trek: The Original Series|"Beam us up, Scotty."]]
** Nene's parents apparently know Shinobu and Lum from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''; Shinobu was a high school friend of theirs, and they all met Lum when she crashed their high school reunion to challenge Shinobu to a tag race for the fate of the Earth. It
** Nene's father is Kazuya Hasekawa from ''[[Here Is Greenwood]]''; he took his wife's name when they married.
** Ryouko calls herself [[The Princess Bride|"the dread space pirate Ryouko"]] in chapter 11, probably as an [[In-Universe]] reference.
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** When the group questing for the Empyrean Silver Crystal encounters a [[Threshold Guardian]], his questions remind several of the participants of the Old Man From Scene 24 at the Bridge of Death in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''.
** As the story gets closer and closer to its conclusions, the number of Biblical allusions and outright quotes grows.
** Early in chapter 17,
** One of the forms SHIVA takes when initially facing Linna is [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]].
** The poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley is referenced in one of the visions of the past offered by SHIVA in the final confrontation.
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{{quote|I AM THE MASTER HERE.
"So where's your Tardis?"}}
** When Linna begins her <s>counterattack</s> rebuttal to SHIVA, she names herself, among other things, [[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant|The Power that Preserves]].
** A subtle one from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' appears late in chapter 18:
{{quote|THE HANDS OF A QUEEN HAVE POWER TO HEAL.}}
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