List of pop culture references in the Halo series: Difference between revisions

{{Title|List of pop culture references in the ''Halo'' series}}

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{{Center|This is a '''list of pop culture references in the ''Halo'' series'''. For a list of references ''to'' the ''Halo'' series made by other works, see [[List of outside references to the Halo series|here]].}}

==Film==

===300===

*With the IWHBYD skull activated, Marines in ''Halo 3'' will sometimes shout "THIS IS SPARTA," a reference to a line in the movie and a popular internet meme.

===Ghostbusters===

When picking up a Spartan Laser, Dutch will occasionally shout "Don't nobody cross my stream!". This is a reference to the proton beams in the ''Ghostbusters'' films, which would theoretically annihilate the entire universe if crossed with one another.

===Star Wars===

*The scene in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' where the Halo is shown and when the camera pans out to show the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]]'' looks quite similar like the opening scenes of each ''Star Wars'' episode.

*Sometimes, with the IWHBYD skull activated, a Marine can be heard saying "They remind me of Wookiees from ''Star Wars'',"  after they kill a Brute. When fighting Brutes, Sergeant Stacker occasionally says, ''"Hey, Chewie. You're about to be turned into a foot rest!"'', in reference to Chewbacca.

*[[Noble Six]]'s line ''"The last transport is away,"'' is likely a reference to ''Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back''. A similar line, ''"The first transport is away,"'' is said when an orbiting Star Destroyer is disabled by a land-based ion cannon, allowing a transport vessel to evacuate Echo Base; In ''Halo: Reach'', SPARTAN-B312's line is said when an overhead Covenant corvette is damaged by a land-based missile battery, allowing a civilian transport vessel to escape.

*The game stats description for the [[BOB]]s in ''Halo: Reach'' is ''"Wipe them out..."'' In addition to referencing the tendency of players to kill the similarly-named non-player characters in Bungie's ''[[Marathon]]'' series, this could be a reference to Palpatine's line ''"Wipe them out... all of them"'' from ''The Phantom Menace'', given that Bungie had previously referenced dialog from that film in their ''Halo: Reach'' updates (namely, ''"A communications disruption can mean only one thing..."'' in relation to the [[Invasion]] gametype).

===Terminator===

*In ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]'' the scream is heard in the classified video [[Michael Sullivan]] shows to his fellow cadets, as an Insurrectionist is thrown against a wall, just after the Spartan announces an unknown hostile.

*In the introductory cinematic to the [[Halo: Spartan Assault co-op missions|Flood missions]] in ''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]'', the scream is heard when the fireball from the [[Fleet of Retribution]]'s glassing strike overwhelms an African city.

===Battlestar Galactica===

===The Dukes of Hazzard===

===Lord of the Flies===

''[[Wikipedia:Lord of the Flies|Lord of the Flies]]'' is an allegorical novel written by William Golding in 1954. It discusses how culture created by man fails and how man shall always turn to barbarism, using parallels of a group of school-boys stuck on a deserted island who unsuccessfully try to govern themselves and consequently have disastrous results, leading to many acts of horrible barbarism and deaths. [[Franklin Mendez|CPO Mendez]] and [[Kurt-051]] had both read the book some time before beginning the training of the first generation of [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III]] soldiers in [[2531]]. Mendez fears that the results of training hundreds of child soldiers would be similarly disastrous, but Kurt disagrees, believing he would provide the leadership to make the SPARTAN-IIIs successful.<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 70''</ref>

===Man in the Iron Mask===

=== Green Day ===

=== Guns N' Roses ===

=== Queen ===

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