Inside jokes and obscure references

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The Crescent - of course, I almost forgot this one. Mesopotamia existing in the Fertile Crescent. The Crescent, btw, in my opinion, has the best district music of any district in the game. Is there any way to find out who was responsible for that music?

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Yes! I mention the music everytime I run through the zone, which is a LOT in my 30s with any toon. Best music in the game.

I rather enjoy the dialogue references, like the invincible line from Big Trouble in Little China and the TPS reports from Office Space. I'm sure I've heard some more, but I'll have to see if I wrote them down somewhere.

Very interesting topic overall. I find the Talos references were easiest to recognize, greek mythology being so popular and all. Too bad this game wasn't out a couple years ago when I took a Greek Mythology class in college. Could have used it on my paper of mythological references in current popular culture.

One of my personal faves:

Roland- Named Malta boss. Gunslinger. For those of you literary-deprived souls out there, Roland is the main character in Stephen King's opus work The Dark Tower

(Mission spoiler)

In one mission dealing with the warriors, you are tasked with retrieving five Platonic Solids stolen by the Warriors. It also references the Pythagoreans.

If I rember old information correctly, King's Row's areas are named after streets near Criptic's HQ. If I'm wrong, I'm not sure I want to know what a Gish is

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PEREGRINE ISLAND

Curry Cove - not a clue.

Mera Heights - Ah, and finally the Googling pays off. Arthur CURRY (see Curry Cove, above) is the real name of DC comics's Aquaman. His wife was named MERA.

Tempest Quay - a tempest is stormy weather typically associated with sea travel.



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Something else about Tempest Quay:
In relation to Aquaman, as seen above...Tempest was also the name the young adult Aqualad chose to use durring his later Teen Titan stint. Statesman seems fond of the Titans. George Perez (Perez Park) designed the new costume he used, as well...

Baz Pseudopod

For Founder's Falls:

I always thought Louis Forest refered to Louis XVI, the king of France who helped the American Revolutionaries by giving monetary and military support.

Hutchinson could refer to the Governor of Mass., Thomas Hutchinson, who was a Tory, supported the crown, and wrote some letters to King George asking for troops in Boston. The letters were leaked, and Hutchinson was forced to flee.

Don't know if that's what they were going for, but it's the best guess I have.

One of the ones I think is fairly obvious is Cutlass Isles in Peregrine.

If you've ever been over there you know that the whole place is literally SWARMING with Rikti monkeys.

The famous Lucas Arts adventure game series involving monkeys and pirates was, of course, Monkey Island.

Eastgate Park, I think, is because the "Hollows" is actually called "Eastgate", which is a reference to The Lord of the Rings. (Eastgate, or "the Hollows" was added with Issue 2, A Shadow of the Past, which is a LotR chapter title)

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One of the ones I think is fairly obvious is Cutlass Isles in Peregrine.

If you've ever been over there you know that the whole place is literally SWARMING with Rikti monkeys.

The famous Lucas Arts adventure game series involving monkeys and pirates was, of course, Monkey Island.

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Now all we need is a three headed Rikti Monkey.

Since TV is all pulp, could Challenger Tech. be a reference to the character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"?

(sorry for the multiple posts, reading a bit, then posting as I go)

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and States, if I may be so bold, did Hiro Protagonist have anything to do with this interest in Mesopotamian culture?

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off topic: That book was awesome.

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Something else about Tempest Quay:
In relation to Aquaman, as seen above...Tempest was also the name the young adult Aqualad chose to use durring his later Teen Titan stint. Statesman seems fond of the Titans. George Perez (Perez Park) designed the new costume he used, as well...

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Another possible Curry reference is the actor Tim Curry, who played a number of nautical roles (and chewiing scenery with the best of them) including.... (wait for it): Hunt for RED OCTOBER and Pirates of Penzance!

Also Council Werewolves (formerly 5th Column Werewolves) from An American Werewolf In London.

Actually the protector of Crete was Talus, not Talos. And he wasn't a minotaur...he was a bronze giant.

Talos was the nephew of Daedalus, who showed even more talent for invention than his uncle. Before he was ten he'd invented the saw, the compass and one or two others I don't recall. Daedalus killed him out of jealousy. In some versions of the myth he ended up at the Minoan court because he was fleeing punishment for this crime; in others he doesn't kill Talos until after Icarus is dead.

Scylla and Charybdis were monsters, not crashing rocks -- the crashing rocks are from the Argosy, Scylla and Charybdis from the Odyssey. Scylla was a woman with the heads of six dogs attached to her waist; Charybdis was a creature that constantly sucked in the ocean, creating a huge whirlpool. Not even Odysseus could safely pilot a ship through the two; he chose to veer too close to Scylla, sacrificing some of his men, rather than lose the entire ship.

The Argonauts, AFAIK, never encountered Circe. She's from the Odyssey as well.

"Serpent's Teeth" are found in a few places in Greek myth, if you take "serpent" as "dragon" -- including the Argosy. Sowing them like seeds causes them to produce warriors.

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The bilboards around town that have such a paranoia feel are alot like the anti-muti propaganda that the X-Men fought.

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For some reason they remind me of Roddy Piper's movie "They Live"

Draugadan

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One of my personal faves:

Roland- Named Malta boss. Gunslinger. For those of you literary-deprived souls out there, Roland is the main character in Stephen King's opus work The Dark Tower

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http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNot...and/about.html

Roland goes back farther than The Gunslinger. hehe.

Here's one for ya. I've seen Fake Nemisis saying "Another visitor." and "Stay awhile. Stay forever!" These are quotes from an Epyx game called Impossible Mission (not Mission: Impossible) that I've played for the C=64 (That's Commodore 64 for you youngin's out there). These same words were uttered (one of the few games back then that had actual speech in the game) by the main villain in the game as soon as it starts. I'm still waiting for one to say "Destroy him my robots." That's about the only thing left from the game for them to say.

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My personal favorite is from the early (read Lowbie) missions for natural origin heroes. The mission to retrieve crate # 9906769 from the 5th Council. I wonder if this could be a reference to Raiders of the Lost Ark and the crate in which the Ark is stored at the end of the film?

In one of the Freakshow missions a named Freak is The Kerner. He identifies himself as a graphic designer: "This graphic designmer's gonna make you fry!"

Kern is the space between characters in type. It is adjusted for various reasons, such as looks or readability.

So this guy has taken on the title of "One who adjusts the space between letters." (Which would be one of the things a graphic designer does.)

I'm an editor who does a bit of kerning herself, and this really made me laugh. I mean, this guy must have had a really pathetic life.

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Something else about Tempest Quay:
In relation to Aquaman, as seen above...Tempest was also the name the young adult Aqualad chose to use durring his later Teen Titan stint. Statesman seems fond of the Titans. George Perez (Perez Park) designed the new costume he used, as well...

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and rocky horror picture show!

oh wait.. that isnt relevant.. :{

Another possible Curry reference is the actor Tim Curry, who played a number of nautical roles (and chewiing scenery with the best of them) including.... (wait for it): Hunt for RED OCTOBER and Pirates of Penzance!

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..And rocky horror picture show!.. but I dont think thats relevant :[

Benedict Tech- mentioned by npc's as makers of artificial limbs and listed as a maker of some SO's for tech origins.

Benedict was a character in Roger Zelazny's Amber novels who lost an arm and had it replaced with an artificial one.(at least for a short while)

One of my favorites quotes, and I laugh everytime I hear it, is the Tsoo going, "You want to fight, fight me." Just about in every bad Kung Fu movie ever made.

I liked the freak Axel going, "Welcome to the Jungle."

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One of my personal faves:

Roland- Named Malta boss. Gunslinger. For those of you literary-deprived souls out there, Roland is the main character in Stephen King's opus work The Dark Tower

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http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNot...and/about.html

Roland goes back farther than The Gunslinger. hehe.

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Yeah, but childe Roland isn't exactly a gunslinger.

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Something else about Tempest Quay:
In relation to Aquaman, as seen above...Tempest was also the name the young adult Aqualad chose to use durring his later Teen Titan stint. Statesman seems fond of the Titans. George Perez (Perez Park) designed the new costume he used, as well...

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Another possible Curry reference is the actor Tim Curry, who played a number of nautical roles (and chewiing scenery with the best of them) including.... (wait for it): Hunt for RED OCTOBER and Pirates of Penzance!

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if the nautical works of Tim Curry is the link, he also voiced Captain Hook for Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates (very late 80 when fox was still trying to get off the ground). Moderately okay cartoon, but Curry was as amazing as he ever is.. almost as good as in Clue!

I haven't done this mission yet in Issue 3 so maybe it's been changed, but there's a train mission were you have to stop 5th Column from killing hostages. And one of the Nazi Bosses last name is Cheyne. I was not really happy about that.