History ShoutOut / Wizard101

* The sidequest "The Power Is Ours" is one big reference to WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers . The quest tasks you with taking back five stolen rings, each one called and associated with an element (Fire, Ice, Wind, Dirt, and...Guts). The characters that stole them call themselves the "Planet Fears" who try to use them to summon "The Destroyer". The last ring, the ring of Guts is [[Main/WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway mocked by Pierre Gallantmane and called "oft forgotten']] but turns out [[Main/HeartIsAnAwesomePower it is the most important of the rings, as it gives The Destroyer a physical body, allow him to, well, destroy.]]

* The sidequest "The Power Is Ours" is one big reference to [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]]. The quest tasks you with taking back five stolen rings, each one called and associated with an element (Fire, Ice, Wind, Dirt, and...Guts). The characters that stole them call themselves the "Planet Fears" who try to use them to summon "The Destroyer". The last ring, the ring of Guts is [[Main/WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway mocked by Pierre Gallantmane and called "oft forgotten']] but turns out [[Main/HeartIsAnAwesomePower it is the most important of the rings, as it gives The Destroyer a physical body, allow him to, well, destroy.]]

* The sidequest "The Power Is Ours" is one big reference to [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers]]. The quest tasks you with taking back five stolen rings, each one called and associated with an element (Fire, Ice, Wind, Dirt, and...Guts). The characters that stole them call themselves the "Planet Fears" who try to use them to summon "The Destroyer". The last ring, the ring of Guts is [[Main/WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway mocked by Pierre Gallantmane and called "oft forgotten']] but turns out [[Main/HeartIsAnAwesomePower it is the most important of the rings, as it gives The Destroyer a physical body, allow him to, well, destroy.]]

* The level 7 ice school quest "Introduction To Ice" has your wizard say the magic words [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 "Klaatu, Verata, Nictu!"]] to summon the Frost Giant

* The level 7 ice school quest "Introduction to Ice" has your wizard say the magic words [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 "Klaatu, Verata, Nictu!"]] to summon the Frost Giant

* Jean-luc Petcard (pet vendor) may be a reference to the real world Jean Piccard.

* The Creepier Carnival Bundle includes a teddy bear pet called a [[Franchise/CareBears Scare Bear]].

* In one instance, you have to fight witches named [[Series/Bewitched Samantha, Tabitha and Endora]].

* Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone is in the name of the "Sorcery Stones" minigame (using its American title, Sorcerer's Stone).

* In one instance, you have to fight witches named[[Series/Bewitched Samantha, Tabitha and Endora]].

* As if the reference to {{Frozen}} in Khrysalis wasn't enough, a side boss in Night Forest named Ice Queen also refers to some of her lines in cheats. For example, "Let the Storm Rage On" and "Do you want to fight a snowman?"

* This world is based on the Legend of Myth/KingArthur. It has a multitude of references to it as well as parodies, including, of course, Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail:

* Before you fight Kravenly the Hunter for the first time, he tells you that he'll [[Music/{{Scorpions}} "Rock you like a hurricane."]]

* All titles from the same questline: "Music/ExplosionsInTheSky", "Last Known Surroundings", and "Not A Cold Dead Place."

* Winning the skeleton key fight against Ixcax Cursedwing gives you the title "[[Music/TheOffspring Ixnay on the Ixcax.]]"

* This world was released in late 2012, and is themed around dinosaurs and a giant comet. [[Film/{{TwoThousandTwelve}} Sound familiar?]]

* Mak the Knife, a boss in Pitch Black Lake who later helps you, is named after the main character of The Threepenny Opera, which was derived from Theater/TheBeggarsOpera two centuries earlier.

* Mak the Knife, a boss in Pitch Black Lake who later helps you, is named after Music/FrankSinatra's song of the same name (with the C in Mack removed of course).