Shout Out / Hannibal

• The murder in the hotel from "Entrée" is another reference to ''The Shining''.
• The scene in the second episode where Will kneels next to a semi-decomposed person right before they reveal themselves to be alive, with a gasp, is remarkably similar to a scene in the crime-thriller Se7en.
• In the same episode, when Jack finds out someone called him from his own house phone to play the recording of Miriam again, he rants about how the Chesapeake Ripper was "In my house, in my bedroom, where my wife sleeps." This is almost a word-for-word quote from The Godfather Part II, when Michael is complaining to Frank Pentangeli about the assassination attempt on him.
• Hannibal wears a plastic raincoat when he kills someone, in reference to the same outfit that Patrick Bateman wears when he kills in American Psycho.
• Hannibal's therapist's last name is Du Maurier.
• In Buffet Froid the killer is a girl with Cotard's syndrome. She's played by Ellen Muth. Cotard's syndrome is a mental illness where you think you are dead. Ellen Muth basically plays a dead girl, just like she did on Dead Like Me (a series created by Bryan Fuller). Even the names, Georgia Lass (Dead like Me) and Georgia Madchen (Hannibal), are basically the same. "Madchen" (or "Mädchen") is the German word for "girl" and "lass" is a synonym for "girl".
• At one point, Hannibal says 'the feast is life,' likely a reference to Dracula and 'the blood is the life.'
• In the first episode, Will tells Hannibal "Please don't psychoanalyze me. You won't like me when I'm psychoanalyzed."
• In "Sakizuki"', Hannibal looks down on the human "mural" and its creator from an opening at the top of a grain silo. When seen from below, it's reminiscent of how God is depicted looking down on humanity in medieval art. For examples, see Annunciazione by Pietro Perugino, Annunciation by Benvenuto di Giovanni.
• Katherine Pimms, from "Takiawase" is named after another beekeeper from a Bryan Fuller show. Kitty Pimms was the fake name Chuck first used in Pushing Daisies' second season opener, which also involved bee-related murder.
• Probably not used this way by Hannibal, but during Will's trial Hannibal remarks that "Will Graham is and will always be my friend."
• In "Kō No Mono" the opening scene is of a flaming body (stated to be Freddie Lounds) in a wheelchair rolling down the ramp of an underground parking garage. It's almost an exact re-creation of the scene in Manhunter with Freddy Lounds as a flaming corpse in an office chair.
• Also in "Kō No Mono" are Mason Verger's blood red surgical scrubs, a nod to the uniforms in Dead Ringers. This is actually a double shout-out, as Katharine Isabelle (who plays Margot Verger) played the titular role in American Mary, who in one scene also performed a rather unconventional surgery wearing the same red scrubs.
• Hannibal flips a coin to decide whether he should save Bella from her suicide attempt, filmed the same way as the iconic coin shot from Wonderfalls.
• Train scene in Episode 5 of Season 3 is very simmilar to a scene in Double Indemnity. Also close-ups of actor's face fading and looming over the next shot seems to be taken straight out of cinema noir.
• The scene in "Dolce" where Verger fantasizes about Hannibal glazed and cooked whole is similar to the ending of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
• In episode "... And The Woman Clothed In Sun", during Dolarhyde and Hannibal's phone conversation, Hannibal asks "Did he who made the Lamb made thee?", a reference to William Blake's poem The Tyger.
• There are a lot of similarities between Will and the younger Professor X in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Will's "pure empathy" is not unlike Charles' mind-reading power (and since Will's brain contains an abnormally high number of mirror neurons, this would make him a genetic mutant), their Blessed with Suck "gift" can cause them a tremendous amount of agony, and they're both tormented by a love-hate, emotionally intimate, homoerotic friendship with a violent man of equal intelligence who has physically harmed them (Hannibal for Will, Magneto for Xavier). Both characters are dedicated to saving the lives of others, but occasionally their actions are morally questionable. In terms of their altruism, Will takes care of numerous stray dogs, while Professor X provides shelter and education to runaway mutants. As a bonus, Hugh Dancy looks somewhat like James McAvoy (both actors are brown-and-wavy-haired, blue-eyed and possess Pretty Boy-like features), so after Hannibal's debut, Dancy became a very popular fan casting choice for Brian Xavier should the X-Men Film Series ever decide to show Charles' father in a flashback.
• Many have noted that Siouxsie Sioux's and Brian Reitzell's "Love Crime" which plays over the final scene and end credits of "The Wrath of the Lamb" episode sounds almost like a James Bond theme song. It's most reminiscent of Garbage's "The World Is Not Enough," Adele's "Skyfall" and Sheryl Crow's "Tomorrow Never Dies."
• There's a few nods to the works of Naoki Urasawa. Will Graham's introduction scene where he re-enacts the murder scene he's investigating in a suburban home is almost identical to inspector Runge's introduction in Monster. The use of antlers as a Calling Card heavily resembles Pluto, and the Stag Man looks like an organic version of the title character.
• The entirety of Shiizakana feels like a love letter to its guest star, Katherine Isabelle. The Killer Of The Week is Randall, a man suffering a sort of...psychological lycanthropy. He's a former patient of Lecter's who suffered an identity disorder and wanted to become 'a beast'. Lecter pushed him towards acting on these murderous urges (like a werewolf, biting a victim, passing on the curse), the way he's been doing with Will and is beginning to do with Margot. Randall even uses a 'suit', made from cave bear skulls and pneumatic pumps to enable him to 'become' the beast and slaughter his victims in a way resembling animal attacks. He finally attacks Will and in doing so, prompts Will to enact his plan against Lecter. To Lecter, it appears Will has finally given into his needs and 'become' the wolf as well -as if the bite has been shared, the curse passed on. Katherine Isabelle's most famous role, by far, is in Ginger Snaps.
• Too many to really count in any realistic way but Fuller appears to be a huge, gigantic, adorig fan of Tarsem Singh. There are several fairly obvious nods to scenes, shots and frames from The Cell and The Fall which suggest a deep and abiding respect. Game recognise game.
• In "Dolce", Hannibal sketches a rendition of the Italian Renaissance painting Primavera by Sandro Botticelli in which he replaces the wind god Zephyrus with Will and the nymph Chloris with Bedelia. For context, in the painting, Zephyrus is about to rape Chloris.
• In "The Great Red Dragon", Hannibal Lecter draws multiple sketches when held in his asylum cell, including one of Bottticelli's Fortitude (from the Seven Virtues set of paintings in Florence) with the face of Alana Bloom.

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