History ShoutOut / Shadowrun

* ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings''. ''Virtual Realities 2.0'' mentions a decker who has IC "lusting for her chitlins" (trying to kill her). In the novel, when Legolam and Gimlet draw weapons and are about to attack each other it says that they're "lusting for each other's chitlins".

** Supplements ''Sprawl Sites'' and ''Contacts''. One of the Club Owner's quotes is "Look, I don't care what you done someplace else. When you play my club, you're just another act and I expect to get what I paid for." In the film the nightclub owner tells the Hong Kong Cavaliers "When you play my joint, you're just another act. I want some music outta you characters."

* ''Franchise/RoboCop'''s Auto-9 provides the illustration of the Ares Predator I in ''Gun H(e)aven''.

** The supplement ''Tír Tairngire'' has "Frag you and the horse you rode in on" and the ''Lone Star'' supplement has "Frag you and the hog you rode in on". Both are a reference to John Bigboote's line "Damn John Whorfin and the horse he rode in on!".

* In the book ''Year of the Comet," the write-up on the new Awakened animal known as the Horned Bear detailed a story about how one such bear seemed to engage in "honor duel" type combat and later went into a frenzy when its duel challenge was answered with a hail of gunfire. A Jackpointer then ponders if they're sentient, and another poster replies "Not really, though they're [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear smarter than the average bear]]."

* Ares manufactures a grenade launcher named [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Antioch"]].

* A Jackpointer named Website/{{Snopes}} often appears, usually to correct the misinformation of other runners.

* ''Howling Shadows''. One of the most fearful monsters in the Sixth World is a gigantic bear that has fallen victim to several toxic elements of its environment. Its name? The {{Shardik}}.
-->What, [[Literature/TheWastelands no radar dish on its head]]?

** ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. After a riot, five rioters are declared "Missing, believed pacified". In a Creator/MontyPython sketch about curing athletes' foot with dynamite, twelve patients were declared "Missing, believed cured".

* A Jackpointer named Website/{{Snopes}} often appears, usually to correct the misinformation of other runners.
* The anti-metahuman organization Humanis Policlub is basically TheKlan, including their members wearing white robes with pointed hoods.

* A Jackpointer named Website/{{Snopes}} often appears, usually to correct the misinformation of other runners.

** In the entry for [[ChainsawGood chainsaw swords]], references to ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' and ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' are made in the descriptions. For Bonus points, the name brand for the combat chainsaw is [[PunnyName ''Ash Arms'']].

** A decker uses the phrase "un-mutual", a phrase prominently used in ''Series/ThePrisoner'' episode "A Change of Mind".

** Chapter "Dressed to Kill". A decker uses the term "Saturday Night Firefight". This is a reference to the combat system of R. Talsorian Games' original ''Cyberpunk 2020'' boxed set, which was titled "Friday Night Firefight".

* Legitimate ''LordOfTheRings'' references

** Spinrad [=NeverRest=] cyberlimbs are optimized to improve the user's climbing skills. The sales pitch is introduced with "[[TV/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Rock climbing, Joel!]]"

--->'- Thorn

* ''Arsenal'' gives players the option to customize the interfaces of certain electronic devices with personality software. Among the available personalities are [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Hal 9001]], [[MaxHeadroom Max Headnode]] and {{Radio/The Shadow}}.

* ''Safe Houses''
** The conversation on traveling to escape notice:

* ''Data Trails''
** It figures that a book dedicated to the hackers of ''Shadowrun'' would be a shout out to internet culture in general, stuffed with references to internet memes. In the section on new qualities you can find ones like Ninja Vanish (spend Edge to remove all marks on your persona), Nerdrage (a compulsion to vandalize the commlink of anybody who shames or humiliates you), and [=LEEEEEEEROY JENKINS=] (the urge to immediately attack threats without consulting your friends - but you can get a bonus to your first attack if you scream your name at your enemies).

* ''Rigger 5.0''
** The Renraku corporation is known for being a leader of software technology. One result was an insane AI that imprisoned thousands of people for experimentation and built a drone army. Another is [=SkyGuide=], a civil drone traffic control network, prompting this comment:

* ''Howling Shadows''
** One of the most fearful monsters in the Sixth World is a gigantic bear that has fallen victim to several toxic elements of its environment. Its name? The {{Shardik}}.

* ''Stolen Souls''
** At the end of the "Extractor's Toolkit" intro fiction, one of the alleged NYPD Inc. officers identifies his superior to a building manager as Captain Series/BarneyMiller from the twelfth precinct.

** The ''Tír Tairngire'' supplement says that the Tír Tairngire government requires all students to learn creative arts. In ''Earthdawn'', being tainted by a Horror prevented a person from being creative. The leaders of Tír Tairngire were immortal elves who lived during the Earthdawn period and knew that the Horrors would eventually return, so they decided to teach everyone creative arts so it would be easier to identify people who had been Horror tainted.

** The ''Germany Sourcebook'' mentions the FROMATES, a radical environmentalist terrorist group that originally appeared in this novel. FROMATES stood for [=FRiends Of Man And The Earth Society=].

** ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. After a riot, five rioters are declared "Missing believed pacified". In a Creator/MontyPython sketch about curing athletes' foot with dynamite, twelve patients were declared "Missing believed cured".

** ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. The first Fast Response Team was nicknamed "The Brute Squad".
** ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. After a riot five rioters were declared "Missing believed pacified". In a Creator/MontyPython sketch about curing athletes' foot with dynamite, twelve patients were declared "Missing believed cured".

** There were ''many'' references to ''{{Earthdawn}}'', which is not surprising since it was a prequel to ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. They included the Horrors, a previous age of magic and Immortal Elves.
** The ''Tír Tairngire'' supplement says that the Tír Tairngire government requires all students to learn creative arts. In ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'', being tainted by a Horror prevented a person from being creative. The leaders of Tír Tairngire were immortal elves who lived during the Earthdawn period and knew that the Horrors would eventually return, so they decided to teach everyone creative arts so it would be easier to identify people who had been Horror tainted.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}''. There were ''many'' references to ''{{Earthdawn}}'', which is not surprising since it was a prequel to ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.