History ShoutOut / ASongOfIceAndFire

** House Dayne of Starfall, who wield the sword Dawn, forged from a fallen star, are likely a shout out to [[ComicBook/BlackKnight Marvel's Black Knight]], as one of them named Dane Whitman wielded a sword made from ''Starstone''.

* And Creator/IsaacAsimov also gets one ... late in ''A Dance with Dragons'', with Meereen suffering sickness and hunger under siege, the Green Grace tells Ser Barristan "My people have lost all hope and turned against [[Literature/TheGodsThemselves the gods themselves]] ..."

** Early in the book's epilogue, Ronnet Connington tells the Small Council, which doubts his loyalty in the wake of his exiled older brother's rebellion in support of the young man claimed to be Aegon Targaryen, he will take up arms against his brother himself if desired, to clear himself. "We shall deal with your uncle and his feigned boy in due time", Mace Tyrrell, newly elevated to Hand of the King, responds, in a paraphrase of Grand Moff Tarkin's promise to Leia that "we will deal with your rebel friends soon enough" after blowing up her home planet.

* Leaf tells Bran the river in the cave flows down to a sunless sea, which is a reference to ''Literature/KublaKhan''.

* There are a number of references to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The Iron Islanders worship the Drowned God, saying, "What's dead can never die." The Greyjoys have a kraken for a symbol. These are all references to Cthulhu. One of their kings was called "Dagon," which is also the name of a character in the Mythos. Another character named Dagon (Dagon [[MeaningfulName Codd]]) "[[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth looks like his father had sired him on a fish.]]" The wooded free city of Qohor worships the Black Goat, which is a reference to Shub-Niggurath, "The Black Goat of the Woods." There is a "Cult of Starry Wisdom" in Braavos. The maps in ''The Lands of Ice and Fire'' show that the far eastern regions of the Known World have names straight out of Lovecraft. Almost at the edges of the map you have the cities K’Dath and Carcosa, plus the island of Leng, in the Jade Sea.

** Funnily enough, during the declining seasons of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', disgruntled fans started photoshopping [[https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/6vheqx/jon_snow_in_targaryen_battle_armor_swoon/ Jon Snow's head]] onto the armor from ''Film/DraculaUntold'' in a WhatCouldHaveBeen wistfulness.

* RobinHood:

* Reek is something of a polar opposite of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'': Grenoiulle had no sense of smell and no body odor and started murdering girls to capture their scent and create the ultimate perfume, ultimately using it to kill himself by enticing a crowd to tear him apart. Reek had an unbearable stench which he sought to remove by drinking Lady Bolton's perfumes. He and Ramsay would hunt young girls and rape them, after which Ramsay's dogs would tear them apart.

** Also there the Greeshka in A Song for Lya have a collective consciousness that parallels the Weirwood trees described by the Children of the Forest.

** Jojen's dialogue with Bran in ''A Clash of Kings'' over the latter's emerging psychic abilities sounds like Obi-wan's with Luke:

** Between the North, the Riverlands, and the Westerlands is a bay called ... Iron Man's Bay.

** House Dayne of Starfall, who wield the sword Dawn, forged from a fallen star, are likely a shout out to [[ComicBook/{{BlackKnightMarvelComics}} Marvel's Black Knight]], as one of them named Dane Whitman wielded a sword made from ''Starstone''.

* [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei Lannister]] has been prophesied to be destroyed by "another, younger and more beautiful". [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs What does this remind you of?]]

* House Stark was confirmed to be a reference to ''IronMan'', there are heraldic sigils in Tywin Lannister's army referencing the ComicBook/BlueBeetle, ComicBook/GreenArrow and other comic book characters as well.

* After losing a bet with a friend of his, George Martin, a devout New York Giants football fan, included a reference to the hated Dallas Cowboys in his books. Enter Ser Patrek, a retainer of Stannis Baretheon. His sigil is a blue star on a grey field, the Cowboys' logo, and he is the most insufferable, arrogant and delusional man to ever raise a sword in all of Westeros. He spends most of his on screen time trying to get himself married to Val, the wildling beauty and/or gifted a northern castle and lands for being (in his own mind) Stannis' greatest and most loyal knight when the only people that hate him more than Stannis himself are his actual enemies who want him dead. In the end, he stumbles across Wun Wun , who is offended by him somehow and picks him up by the leg and slams him from side to side like a rag doll, a literal Giant who kills off the Cowboy caricature like a cartoon just to make the TakeThat complete.

* In her last ''A Dance with Dragons'' chapter, as Arya plots Raff's death, she thinks, "A good day for a death", echoing the [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]] saying "It is a great day to die".

* Musing about whether he ought to more vocally protest his conscription into the Second Sons, Tyrion thinks "If you bugger a man you expect [[Film/{{Deliverance}} a squeal or two]]