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== ''[[Unreal (Video Game)|Unreal]]'' ==
* The Skaarj are heavily inspired by ''[[Predator]]'', including such homages as dreadlocks and wrist-mounted blades.
* The second single-player level, [[Sdrawkcab Name|"Nyleve's Falls"]] is named after the levelmaker's<ref>Juan Pancho "Xceptone" Eekels</ref> wife.
** The Vortex [[Star Trek|Rikers]] registration number (NC114-85EKLS) is a reference to him, as well.
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** There's another one, at the beginning. When you exit from the building you start, you'll find a guy drown at the lake. His name is W. Marshall. Warren Marshall is one of Epic Games's employees.
* The map "Glathriel Village", also from ''Return To Na Pali'', has an [[Easter Egg]] which guides to a secret. It has the ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' [[Tournament Play|clan]] Ocrana's logo, and the translator has the following message:
{{quote| ''"Will you die for this? http://www.ocrana.de"''}}
* The map DmAriza has the ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'' shape.
 
== ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' ==
* The team logos are references to [[Unreal (Video Game)|Unreal]]:
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** The blue team one is the [[Prison Ship|Vortex Rikers]] logo, a lightning with three bars.
** The green team one is the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Skaarj]] [[Wolverine Claws|Razik]]. It's also the model for the Damage Amplifier.
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* [[Word of God]] [http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=590 stated] that [[Floating Continent|CTF-Face, a.k.a. "Facing Worlds"]] was inspired by a third-party map from the first ''Unreal''.
* The [[Chainsaw Good]], as stated above, a [[Shout-Out]] to Doom.
{{quote| "Its been 5 years since I've used one of these."}}
* DM-Morpheus is inspired by a scene from [[The Matrix]], and its name was taken from Morpheus, one of the main characters.
* AS-Overlord ("Operation Overlord") is inspired by [[World War II|D-Day]].
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* The map [[Cool Starship|CTF-Orbital]] has, in the ceilings of both flag bases, the Digital Extremes logo.
* The name of the map [[Ancient Egypt|DOM-Sesmar]] is taken from Ramses's [[Sdrawkcab Name]].
* The hallways guiding to the flag bases in the Bonus Pack 1 map CTF-Hydro16 form the number [[Blink -182|182]].
 
== ''[[Unreal II: The Awakening|Unreal II the Awakening]]'' ==
* [[StarcraftStarCraft|Terran]] Colonial Authority, anyone?
 
== ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' ==
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* ONS-Icarus to DM-Morpheus.
* DM-Inferno explicitly references ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''.
* Invasion mode uses the classic ''[[Unreal (Video Game)|Unreal]]'' enemies.
* AS-Junkyard, from its description to the objectives of the map itself, references [[Scrapheap Challenge]] / [[Junkyard Wars]].
* The Nightmare voicepacks have varying shoutouts to horror films:
{{quote| '''Male:''' [[Hellraiser|No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.]]<br />
'''Female:''' [[Evil Dead|I'll swallow your soul!]] }}
* Two of the Thunder Crash members are called [[Star Trek|Picard and Riker]]. Riker even appears in the first game as part of the same team.
* Gorge's team, their suit, and their name, (Juggernauts) are [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to [[The Juggernaut]] from [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]].
* One of the maps is given the name "[[Beowulf|Grendel]]keep".
 
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* Get the "Combo King" award 15 times, and you get the "[[Memetic Mutation|Don't taze me bro!]]" achievement.
 
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