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* ''[[VideoGame/LethalLeague Lethal League Blaze]]'' owes its futuristic setting, chunky cel shaded aesthetic, and music to the ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' series, with them even getting composer Hideki Naganuma to contribute a track. The series is given a nod through the character Jet, a grafitti writer and inline skater that would fit right in with the GG's.
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* It's fairly obvious that the New Republic in ''Literature/SingularitySky'' by Creator/CharlesStross is basically 19th century Prussia IN SPACE! Less obvious is that the Republic's military leader's delusion that he is pregnant with an elephant was shared by a real Prussian field marshal (Gebhard von Blucher) during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars.
* In Mick Herron’s spy novel ''Literature/DeadLions'', one of the plot threads involves a skyscraper, a suspected terrorist attack and antagonists who are actually criminals, not political extremists. One [=MI5=] agent caught in the middle of this immediately references ''Film/DieHard'' when she realises what’s going on.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' has a family of four {{superhero}}es (plus a baby) with half of the same powers as the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour''. Naturally, the final villain (right after the [[SuperHeroOrigin origin story]] movie) is a subterranean conqueror, "The Underminer", who is a pretty close match to the Mole Man, the villain in ''FF'' #1.

** Many elements are inspired by the works of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, such as the {{wipe}} transitions. In particular, ''A New Hope'' shares some notable similarities with ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'' (particularly the characters of Princess Leia and the two droids). At one point, Admiral Motti begins to refer to the Rebels' secret base as their "hidden fortress," but can't quite get the second word out before Vader starts Force-choking him.

** Many elements are inspired by the works of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, such as the {{wipe}} transitions. At one point in ''A New Hope'', Admiral Motti begins to refer to the Rebels' secret base as their "[[Film/TheHiddenFortress hidden fortress]]", but can't quite get the second word out before Vader starts Force choking him.

** Many elements are inspired by the works of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, such as the {{wipe}} transitions. At one point in ''A New Hope'', Admiral Motti begins to refer to the secret Rebel base as their "[[Film/TheHiddenFortress hidden fortress]]", but can't quite get the second word out before Vader starts Force choking him.

** Many elements are inspired by the works of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, such as the {{wipe}} transitions. At one point in ''A New Hope'', Admiral Motti begins to refer to the secret Rebel base as their "[[Film/TheHiddenFortress hidden fortress]]", but can't quite get the second word out before Vader starts force choking him.

* ''Franchise/StarWars''

** Writer Creator/PeterDavid called these his Pink Bunny Slippers after an example of one of his storylines. He realised that there are parallels between between his ''The Incredible Hulk'' story line and this other movie, ''Film/RealGenius''. There are similar plot points, so he makes a reference to it that doesn't involve using any more of the pre-existing connection but just throws in this shot of pink bunny slippers (as worn by both the University President and Val Kilmer in the movie) to lampshade it to anyone else who might have also spotted the similarities.

* In ''Ray: the Animation...'' sort of... the story takes a lot of inspiration from ''Manga/BlackJack''. In the manga, a character that is [[LawyerFriendlyCameo suspiciously similar to Black Jack]] shows up. The anime, though, just goes ahead and drops B.J. in there, because the studio that produced had the rights necessary to do so.

* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': The concept of taking a relatively obscure Franchise/DCUniverse figure and re-interpreting it with a deeper mythology was ground well-trod by Alan Moore, in his run on the ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' series. In his first couple of arcs, Gaiman throws in a ton of nods to Moore: the inclusion of the Moore-created [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]], the clues that Morpheus' pet Matthew is the reincarnation of the ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' character Matthew Cable, the similar plot of a formerly goofy DC universe villain taking hold of his powers to become a major threat that the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} can't handle, so the eponymous character must talk down (The Floronic Man/Doctor Destiny), and so forth.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Writer Creator/PeterDavid called these his Pink Bunny Slippers after an example of one of his storylines. He realised that there are parallels between between his ''The Incredible Hulk'' story line and this other movie, ''Film/RealGenius''. There are similar plot points, so he makes a reference to it that doesn't involve using any more of the pre-existing connection but just throws in this shot of pink bunny slippers (as worn by both the University President and Val Kilmer in the movie) to lampshade it to anyone else who might have also spotted the similarities.

* ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk vs Fin Fang Foom'' story "The Fin From Outer Space!" is about the titular dragon creature possessing the members of an Antarctic research team and and leaving corpses behind, creating a paranoid atmosphere. The team leader is called Dr [[Creator/JohnWCampbell Campbell]], the first victim is called Dr [[Creator/JohnCarpenter Carpenter]], and one of the other researchers has the first name [[Creator/HowardHawks Howard]]. Another scientist snaps "Literature/WhoGoesThere" at Bruce Banner. There's also a poster for ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' on the wall of the base in one scene.

* Writer Creator/PeterDavid called these his Pink Bunny Slippers after an example of one of his ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' comic book storylines. He realised that there are parallels between between his ''Incredible Hulk'' story line and this other movie, ''Film/RealGenius''. There are similar plot points, so he makes a reference to it that doesn't involve using any more of the pre-existing connection but just throws in this shot of pink bunny slippers (as worn by both the University President and Val Kilmer in the movie) to lampshade it to anyone else who might have also spotted the similarities.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Criss Cross Crisis" is all about the characters [[FreakyFridayFlip switching bodies.]] In an early part of the episode, there's a movie theater playing "Freakin' Friday".

* ''Film/FearInc'' has the main character - a man whose friends hired the titular company to give him a ''really'' good scare - explicitly call out how similar it is to the plot of ''Film/TheGame''.

* In a few ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' stories, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's Literature/CAugusteDupin (on whom Holmes is based) is mentioned. In one story Holmes explicitly does a trick that Dupin did in one of his stories: as they're walking along one evening, Holmes/Dupin [[InnerMonologueConversation responds to some unsaid thought that their walking companion had at the time]].

* ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' is to some degree ''Series/DoctorWho'' AscendedFanfic. The author had a crush on the character Jamie, played by actor Frazer Hines, who was an 18th century Scot transported to the future. Hence ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'''s plot wherein the heroine is [[InvertedTrope transported back in time]] to 18th century Scotland and falls in love with a Scot named Jamie ''Fraser''.

* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'' actually makes this a plot point, as we see when Zed learned to read, he realized that Zardoz, the eponymous god he worshiped, was actually [[spoiler:''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Wonderful Wi]]'''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Zard]]''' [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Of]] '''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oz]]''']]''.

** As part of this mythology, Gaiman was also responsible for the {{retcon}} that made Franchise/{{Batman}} villainess Poison Ivy a former test subject of Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.

* ''Film/OfficeSpace'' had the main character and his friends robbing their company by rerouting the fractions of pennies that get rounded down when taxes are deducted. They comment that this is what Richard Pryor did in ''Film/SupermanIII''.