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General
- Most of the games use a whimsical excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess as the "Land Settled" jingle.
Anno 1503
- Your ship's commanders will occasionally reply to your orders with "Captain! My Captain!", echoing the famous Walt Whitman poem.
Anno 1404
- The wannabe minstrel Leif Jorgensen will hum a "re-imagining" of the famous Reichston poem by the real-life German minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide."I sat upon a stone, and was stretching my legs.
Then I raised my arm, and suddenly I felt... warm!" note
Anno 2070
- Achievement names contain a lot of these. [[Here
is the original list for those who want it.- Parlay! — Pirates of the Caribbean.
- I am the State — King Louis XIV.
- A Pound of Flesh — The Merchant of Venice.
- Money doesn't stink — Emperor Vespasian.
- Tower on E7 — Chess.
- How about a nice game of Chess? — WarGames.
- No one has the intention of erecting a wall! — East German General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.
- Fiat lux! — The Bible.
- Raiders of the lost flotsam — Indiana Jones.
- Grand Theft Ship — Grand Theft Auto.
- A good deed every day! — boy scouts motto.
- Tortoise and Hare — The fairy tale with the same name.
- There is no ship — The Matrix.
- Laalaalaa-laa-lala-lala-lalaa — The Beatles.
- The big orange — Futurama.
- Give me back my armies! — Emperor Augustus.
- One of the Tycoon buildings in 2070 is called the Ministry of Truth.
Anno 2205
- One of the possible moon assignments is finding a blue box in one of the craters. The quote text mentions how two people without ID mysteriously appeared looking for a blue box. The mission name is even called Timey-Wimey.
- One of the crisis intervention missions revolves around hacking into the Orbital Watch's data network. It takes place in a massive fortified harbor facility, which the Mysterious Woman mockingly calls "Drake'snote fortress of solitude".
