Marcone: Is this a reference?
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Posted on: 2011-08-22 09:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Probably. It's also a throwback to the old Godfather movies in the same way the Cor Leonis faction of the Council (an Italian organization by origin) is. Don Cor Leonis? >_>
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This isn't WoW, not every name they come up with is referential.
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Not every name is, but that doesn't mean none are. I've never seen that name outside of CoH and those books. I mean, presumably it exists, but I happen not to have run into it.
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Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
This isn't WoW, not every name they come up with is referential.
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I've seen a lot of references in this game. Here are a few REALLY obvious examples:|
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
This isn't WoW, not every name they come up with is referential.
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Unobtanium (Long before Avatar, thank you)
Cor Leonis
Any Dialogue from Family/Mooks
Day, Fillon and Harris from the Instant Army arc
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In fact, here. Go read some of this before you think there aren't references in this game.
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I'm inclinded to suggest that like many film/culture jokes, they're both inspired by the same things, rather than one beign a direct lift from the other. But that's just me.
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I doubt this. Many Council enemy titles derive from astronomical objects Galaxy, Nebula, etc, and Cor Leonis (which is an alternate name for the star Regulus as well as being Latin for "heart of the lion") fits in with that without stretching for the Italian/Corleone connection.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Probably. It's also a throwback to the old Godfather movies in the same way the Cor Leonis faction of the Council (an Italian organization by origin) is. Don Cor Leonis? >_>
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
In fact, here. Go read some of this before you think there aren't references in this game.
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Just because references exist (and nobody's saying they don't) doesn't mean EVERYTHING is a reference.
Which was the entire point of what LL said.
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I believe the OP asked about one specific name only. Whether every name is a reference or not is completely beside the point.
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I think it might be a coincidence.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Go read some of this before you think there aren't references in this game.
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Jack was a huge history buff so he added a lot of that kind of stuff in.
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So, I thought of a villain, and logged in as Ditzy "Pom-Poms" Marcone, an nrg/nrg brute (named for the... distinctive look of energy melee).
Someone complimented me on the name and asked me whether it was a Dresden Files reference.
Hmm. There is a gang boss named Johnny (early books)/Johnnie (later books) Marcone in those books. The first book is copyright 2000, so it predates CoH. Jim Butcher is known to have played CoH at one point or another.
Is the Family name in CoH a pop culture reference?