Referenced By / Sharpe

Examples of shout outs in other works to the Sharpe series:

In Cornwell's own universe:

• In Cornwell's Gallows Thief, a murder mystery set after Waterloo, the protagonist is an Army veteran whose life was once saved by a Rifle officer and his men.
• Cornwell's American Civil War series, The Starbuck Chronicles, includes a French cavalry officer called Patrick Lassan travelling with the Confederate Army as an observer, who notes that his father was an English rifleman. It's clear to readers of the Sharpe series from context that this man is Richard Sharpe's son.

In other series:

• The Fields of Death, part of a "parallel lives" series about Napoleon and Wellington by Simon Scarrow, features a Rifle officer named Richard who unusually carries a rifle like the rankers.
• Ads for PC game Empire: Total War featured a very Sean Bean-ish redcoat in them, which seems odd until one considers that Sharpe dons his signature green jacket much later. (In Napoleon: Total War, as it were.)
• The Doctor Who novel World Game features a post-Assaye Wellesley musing on the field commission he's just given to Sergeant Sharpe.
  • In one of the spinoff novels, the Lethbridge-Stewart series, "A Funny Turn" centres around celebrations for the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Talavera, where a Captain Sharpe captured a French Eagle.
• Adrian Goldsworthy, the author of a series of books about a British line regiment in the Peninsula, sneaks Sharpe into one: during the night attack at the Battle of Talavera, Goldsworthy's protagonist sees an angry-looking Rifle officer striding past, covered in blood. Sharpe, just after murdering Berry?
• The fantasy-Napoleonic wargame Flintloque has an Albion captain named Rekhardt Sharke, whose Chosen Orcs also have names punning on the Sharpe characters (Sergeant Harpy and Rifleorcs Hagsmun, Purrkinz, Arris, and Tunge).
• There is an achievement in Fable III for dressing up in a military jacket dyed to look like Sharpe's.
• A conversation between Victor Saltzpyre and Markus Kruber in Vermintide II follows the exact same beats as one between Murray and Sharpe. Since Saltzpyre is also played by Tim Bentinck, it's safe to say that this was no accident.
  Saltzpyre: Should I die, Kruber, I want you to have my sword of office.
  Kruber: So people'll think I'm a Witch Hunter?
  Saltzpyre: No. So that they think I liked you.
• Ciaphas Cain features this snippet from an Imperial Guard marching song.
  The Emperor points and we obey, Into the Warp and far away.

References in other Sean Bean works:

• Bean appeared in a number of TV commercials where he would make a pun on "Sharpe", like "Sharp idea".
• In the same vein, a scene was specifically written for the film version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where Boromir cuts his finger on the Shards of Narsil and he announces "Still sharp(e)!"
• Bean's character in The Frankenstein Chronicles is described as a British army veteran of - what else? - the 95th Rifles.
• Bean presented a two-part History Channel documentary on Waterloo on location, with his Sharpe past acknowledged with the opening credits. At one point he watches a troop of 95th Rifles historical reenactors, and they silently recognize him and actually salute him as if he were a real officer, and he salutes them back.

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