History ShoutOut / Wizard101

* Characters amongst the Qhats include a [[Literature/{{Dune}} "Pol Atraydies" and a "Reverend Mother Meowhaim"]].

* The "Rebels With a Cause" quest clearly references Film/RebelWithoutACause.

* Overlord Xerxes bears more than a passing resemblance to The Rock as the [[Film/TheMummyReturns Scorpion King]]. His true form is, fittingly, The Scorpion.

* Every character's name and role in this world references Myth/GreekMythology.

* There's a Hundred Legger in Tyrian Gorge who's voice actor is doing a [[Creator/PatrickWarburton Patrick Warburton]] mpression.

* There's a Hundred Legger in Tyrian Gorge who's voice actor is doing a [[Creatror/PatrickWarburton]] impression.

** The mole gardener's name is Roger the Shrubberer, a name that's [[OddNameOut different from the others that end in "-arley".]]

** The "Being the Third Number" quest has the NPC you're working with directly quote the Book of Armaments as she's telling you how to handle the grenade you have.

* 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 ''Theatre/TheBeggarsOpera'' two centuries earlier.
* When you board the eagle statue to fly to Twin Giants for the first time, the narrator tells you of a voice you hear as you do so. It says [[Music/SteveMillerBand "Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future."]]
* [[Music/{{REM}} It's the End of the World As We Know It]] is both a quest name and quoted by a boss after you defeat her. "And I feel...fine."
* A simple dialogue quest is titled "[[Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine Let the only sound be the overflow]]".
* All titles from a single questline: "Music/ExplosionsInTheSky", "Last Known Surroundings", and "Not A Cold Dead Place."

* Located inside the Inn of the Midnight Sun in Walruskberg, you can spot [[VideoGame/Pirate101 Boochbeard's hat and Mr. Gandry]] on your right as you enter.
* Rasputin is keeping a Pingouin named [[Creator/JacquesCousteau Jock Coosto]] in a vault.

* Further than just being an ArabianNightsDays world, one town is even called [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Aggrobah]].

* There is a species of amphibian or reptillian type creatures used to carry cargo known as the [[VideoGame/PacMan [=PackMan=]]], who are all yellow with round heads and large mouths. The resemblance goes further with a side quest called "[=PackMan=] Fever", which is given by a "Madam [=PackMan=] and involves entering a ghost maze to collect magic spheres and fruit.

* Dumoozid heavily resembles Mr. Clean, and is a clean freak who is terrified of letting anyone and anything inside his tent.
* The [[VideoGame/PacMan "PackMan Fever"]] quest. The Pack Man species resembles Pac-Man, of course, and, the quest involves entering a ghost maze to collect magic spheres and fruit; you also fight four ghosts who are only vulnerable when colored blue.

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

* Wyrms you slay in the world include the Bane Wyrm, who quotes [[Literature/TheHobbit Smaug]], and the [[Literature/{{Jabberwocky}} Jabberwock]].

* A sidequest named Film/TheProfessional has you helping a "Cleaner" named Le;acute&on root out a corrupt Inspectors' Brigade official.

* The [[VideoGame/PacMan "PackMan Fever"]] quest. The PackMan species resembles Pac-Man, of course, and, the quest involves entering a ghost maze to collect magic spheres and fruit; you also fight four ghosts who are only vulnerable when colored blue.

* The fact that this world has a heavy WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}-esque feel to it.

* The [[VideoGame/PacMan "Pac-Man Fever"]] quest. You start by meeting a woman who looks like Mrs. Pac Man with limbs. She tasks you with finding her husband, who went into a Ghost Maze to find Magic Fruit, which would cure her Pac-Man Fever. You arrive and team up with the husband who, of course, looks like Pac-Man, and he says he needs "Magic Medicine Balls" to confront germ ghosts. After finding the balls and getting through the maze, you find and battle the ghosts, who are named Achey, Sneezy, Chilly, and Cough. Normally, they're immune to all damage, but every fifth turn they will polymorph into a blue form that allows you to damage them for a turn. You defeat them and find the Fruit, then return to Caravan to find Mr. and Mrs. Packman reunited to complete the quest.

* In Ruined Alcazar, you fight a [[Franchise/MortalKombat Yellow scorpion named Hanzo, who tells you to "Get over here!"]]

* The pre-battle dialogue of the Ice Angler in the Solar Arc references [[Film/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]. The minion he's accompanied by is additionally named 'Adele Dazeem'.

* The Ice Angler's pre-battle dialogue sounds similar to that in a [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} certain super popular Disney movie]]:
-->'''Ice Angler:''' Wizard, the wind is howlin' like this swirlin' storm inside. I can't keep it in, the Spiral knows I tried. I don care what you're gonna say. Imma let the storm rage on. The cold never bothered me anyway.

* The main questline for Firecat Alley mentions that the Fire Elves went rogue while they were rehearsing a song from [[Theatre/{{Cats}} Firecats!: The Musical]] The song specifically is called "Recollection" a reference to the song "Memory" from Cats.

* The main questline for Firecat Alley mentions that the Fire Elves went rogue while they were rehearsing a song from [[Theatre/Cats "Firecats!: The Musical"]]. The song specifically is called "Recollection" a reference to the song "Memory" from Cats.

* 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.]]