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**The "Park Ranger" skin for the Warthog is designed to resemble the tour vehicles seen in the film, and has the description "Spared no expense" - a direct reference to a quote from John Hammond in the first film. | **The "Park Ranger" skin for the Warthog is designed to resemble the tour vehicles seen in the film, and has the description "Spared no expense" - a direct reference to a quote from John Hammond in the first film. | ||
**The "Clever Girl" skin for the Rocket Warthog instead resembles the jeeps used by the staff of Jurassic Park in the film, its name is a reference to Robert Muldoon's famous final words as he is outsmarted and killed by a Velociraptor, and its description "Objects in this mirror are closer than they appear" is taken from an earlier scene where Ian Malcolm, Ellie Sattler, and Muldoon are chased by a Tyrannosaurus. | **The "Clever Girl" skin for the Rocket Warthog instead resembles the jeeps used by the staff of Jurassic Park in the film, its name is a reference to Robert Muldoon's famous final words as he is outsmarted and killed by a Velociraptor, and its description "Objects in this mirror are closer than they appear" is taken from an earlier scene where Ian Malcolm, Ellie Sattler, and Muldoon are chased by a Tyrannosaurus. | ||
===Star Wars=== | ===Star Wars=== | ||
*The | *The [[Type-26 Wraith]] heavily resembles the Armored Assault Tank (AAT) from ''Star Wars: The Phantom Menace''. | ||
*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. | *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. | *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. | ||
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*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). | *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). | ||
*In the ''Halo Reach'' level, Lone Wolf, the checkpoint's name is "There'll be another time", a reference to a line spoken by Han Solo in ''Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back''. | *In the ''Halo Reach'' level, Lone Wolf, the checkpoint's name is "There'll be another time", a reference to a line spoken by Han Solo in ''Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back''. | ||
*In ''Halo Infinite'' | *In ''[[Halo Infinite]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s loading screen, several Star Wars references are made: | ||
**The "A fine addition to my collection" quote of General Grievous' habit to collect lightsabers. | **The "A fine addition to my collection" quote of General Grievous' habit to collect lightsabers. | ||
**Another Grievous reference it's the "You must realize you are doomed" quote, said before his final duel against Obi Wan Kenobi. | **Another Grievous reference it's the "You must realize you are doomed" quote, said before his final duel against Obi Wan Kenobi. | ||
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===Battlestar Galactica=== | ===Battlestar Galactica=== | ||
Marines can be heard saying ' | Marines can be heard saying 'Frak', the trademark expletive of the show. The novel ''Halo: Cryptum'' also shows several parallels to the reimagined version of the show, such as a highly-advanced human civilization forced after warfare to live without technology on Earth, further enhanced by both taking place 150,000 years before the present day. | ||
===The Dukes of Hazzard=== | ===The Dukes of Hazzard=== | ||
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===Lord of the Flies=== | ===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> | ''[[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=== | ===Man in the Iron Mask=== |