History Main / InternalHomage

* ''CtrlAltDel's'' [[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021023 Nice Melon]] and [[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070720 One Thousand.]]

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', [[spoiler: Spock [[SayMyName screams]] Khan's name after Kirk dies in the same fashion that Spock himself did in ''The Wrath of Khan''.]]

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', [[spoiler: Spock [[SayMyName screams]] Khan's name after Kirk dies in the same fashion that Kirk himself did in ''The Wrath of Khan''.]]

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* Some ''{{Castlevania}}'' games have repeated references to past games in the series and even the original ''{{Dracula}}'' novel. A specific example comes from ''Dawn of Sorrow'', at the end of Julius Mode. When the player confronts [[spoiler:Soma Cruz]], he throws his wine glass at the player after taking a sip and starting the fight, which is what Dracula did in the previous games before the final battle. In addition, the song played during the fight and the boss' second form are both from ''Rondo of Blood''.
** In ''Order of Ecclesia'', before Shanoa goes to enter Dracula's castle, she declares: "I am the morning sun, here to vanquish this horrible night!" This a homage to the infamous day/night cycle message in ''Simon's Quest''.

* ''CastlevaniaTheAdventureRebirth'' was released on WiiWare in Japan exactly twenty years after the release of [[CastlevaniaTheAdventure the original Game Boy game]], retelling the story of Christopher Belmont using design decisions that were more consistent with the rest of the pre-{{Metroidvania}} series. And putting Death back in.

* "ThePowerpuffGirls Rule!!", the tenth anniversary special of...well...guess, takes its MarioKart-homage sequence almost directly from the first ''Whoopass Girls'' short, in which the Girls race Him.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' had several of these.

* The ''Franchise/MetalGear'' games love doing this; ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' are full of them.
** Much of the "point" of ''[=MGS2=]'' was that the entire hostage situation was a recreation of the events of ''[=MGS1=]'', in an attempt to control history itself.

* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]'s anniversary episodes always have to do with {{Spider-Man}}'s CloneSaga, because that's what his very first video review was about. He also celebrates the anniversaries of the show proper (the anniversary of his text recaps as opposed to video reviews in general) by reviewing an issue of ''{{Youngblood}}'', his first text recap.

** Seeing as pretty much everyone who works on New Who is a childhood fan (including the [[DavidTennant Tenth Doctor!]]), there are many, many internal homages to Classic Who across the series, some subtler than others.

* In ''Literature/EndersGame'', Ender instructs his {{Space Cadet}}s that, in the zero-gravity environment of the Battle Room, the enemy's gate is down. In ''Children of the Mind'', Peter and Wang-mu are trying to disable the Little Doctor, and he helps her orient herself by telling her: "The device is down. You're falling toward the device."

* The first Sound Stage of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'' involved a dispatch mission that was a homage to the early episodes of Season 1, what with it involving a Lost Logia that landed on earth which created a MonsterOfTheWeek that the rookies had to defeat via sealing, much like Nanoha did on her first outings as a MagicalGirl. Given a LampshadeHanging after the mission was over, with Fate mentioning to Nanoha how the entire thing reminded her of the past and Nanoha thinking of sending an email to Yuuno about the entire thing afterwards.

* For SonicTheHedgehog's 20th anniversary, he's teaming up with his past self (as in, the Sonic from [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog the original games]]) & travelling through levels from past games in ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations''.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part III'' recreates the famous spinning licence plate scene [[spoiler:as the De Lorean is destroyed.]]

* The more recent ''{{Castlevania}}'' games have repeated references to past games in the series and even the original ''{{Dracula}}'' novel. A specific example comes from ''Dawn of Sorrow'', at the end of Julius Mode. When the player confronts [[spoiler:Soma Cruz]], he throws his wine glass at the player after taking a sip and starting the fight, which is what Dracula did in the previous games before the final battle. In addition, the song played during the fight and the boss' second form are both from ''Rondo of Blood''.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' had several of these. The game, however, was unredeemable, and as such is seen by some as a disgrace to those older moments.
** On the other hand, you can expect to find at least one of these in recent ''[[SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' games. And let's not get into ''SuperSmashBros''...
** ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', being another MilestoneCelebration, also features a healthy amount of these, though not the fact that the entire game is levels from previous games (the plot explicitly states this as time travel and is technically not an example). Instead, the levels get several redesigns, causing them to homage levels and songs from other games either by visual appearance or by recreating actual segments of gameplay and level design.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Princess Zelda is one of seven sages who are responsible for placing a seal on the Sacred Realm. In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Princess Zelda (a different one) and six other girls are descended from the seven sages who sealed that realm -- but the twist here is that ''Link to the Past'' came out first. If this wasn't confusing enough, five of the other sages are named Nabooru, Saria, Darunia, Ruto, and Rauru. These are also the names of towns that Link visits in ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' -- which was the second (and arguably least popular) game in the series, thus predating both OOT and LTTP. It's generally believed that the towns were named for the sages, and thus ''Zelda II'' came after OOT chronologically, but this is a good example of why fans can't agree on a definite timeline for the games.
** Actually, the order for the first 4 main games (including all those mentioned here, and excluding ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'') are rarely contested, and the backstories for all of the games seem to be in complete agreement (things get really complicated after OOT, though). Zelda 2 was explicitely a direct sequel to the first game (Ganon is dead, etc) and contained a number of towns with appropriate fantasy-style names. Zelda 3 was written as a prequel which explained the origin of Ganon in its backstory and talked about the 7 sages and featured their descendents. Zelda 5 was written as a prequel to Zelda 3 and covers the events talked about in its backstory, and as a bonus includes characters with the names of the towns from Zelda 2, retroactively causing those towns to have been named after the sages. Not TOO complicated.

* ''Detective Comics'' #387 (the 30th anniversary issue) and ''Detective Comics'' #627 (the 600th issue since Batman showed up), both contained updated versions of "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", the first {{Batman}} story from ''Detective Comics'' #27.

* The POV sequence in the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' movie.

** In ''Order of Ecclesia'', before Shanoa goes to enter the castle, she says something a long the lines of "''I am the morning sun, coming to vanquish this horrible night''", or something. In ''Lament of Innocence'', the character specifically says ''I'll kill you AND the Night''. InternalHomage? Or just a coincidence?
*** "''What a horrible night to have a curse''" and "''the morning sun has vanquished the horrible night''" from [=CV2=] Simon's Quest might have something to do with that.

* ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'' #393, another 30th anniversary issue (pictured above to the right of issue #1), revisited the site of Banner becoming the Hulk, and answered the question of [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to Igor Drenkov, the undercover Commie agent who didn't call off the test explosion of the gamma bomb when Banner ran out onto the field to rescue Rick Jones]]. The [[http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/4/47/Incredible_Hulk_Vol_1_393.jpg cover]] was also an homage to the [[http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/f/fa/Incredible_Hulk_Vol_1_1.jpg first issue's cover]].

* The first {{Barbie}} and Ken dolls came with a zebra stripe swimsuit and red swim trunks, respectively. As an homage, Barbie's 50th anniversary saw the release of a doll with a zebra stripe bikini. Ken's 50th anniversary a few years later coincided with Mattel's announcement that he and Barbie finally decided to become an OfficialCouple again, so a giftset of the two dolls in updated versions of their original swimsuits became available.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s 10th Anniversary saw the re-creation of the children's book the Flash-animated web series was based on (''The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest'') as an episode of said series.

** Similar scenes followed the regenerations of the fourth, sixth, and tenth Doctors, although these all take place in the TARDIS's wardrobe room and it is consequently rather less remarkable that the Doctor should encounter clothing similar to that worn by his earlier incarnations.