Shout-Out/Fanfic

Many Fan Fics use Shout Outs - to things within fandom, and to other works, because it's all Just for Fun after all.

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Works with their own pages

• Calvin and Hobbes The Series
• Dangerverse
• The DysFUNctional Pirates
• For Good
• Gensokyo 20XX
• Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality
• Kill la Kill AU
• Kyon Big Damn Hero
• Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami
• Mobile Fighter Evangelion
• Nobody Dies
• Pokémon Crossing
• Shinji and Warhammer 40K
• Turnabout Storm

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Butterfly Effect

• In The Butterfly Effect prequel fanfic The Butterfly Effect 0, the head of the Sunnyvale Institution is Dr. Emmett Von Braun.

CSI

• Fanfiction.net has a humorous CSI fanfic in which Ray takes 'Morpheus' as an online username, a shout out to his The Matrix role.

Crossover Fics

• In Clash of the Elements there is one to Super Mario Bros Z in Chapter 45 of Part 1 More specifically, the act of having the Star Spirits appear and using their energy to power-up Mario and the other heroes, a concept which, while it didn't get to appear in the actual series, at least got shown in the intro. Thankfully, the author gives Alvin-Earthworm full credit for the idea instead of claiming it as his own.
• Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations Vol. 2 - Ex-Aid Era feat. Cross Ange and Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations Vol. 3: Fates Intertwined:
  • Several to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
    • Majority of the Space Explorers are expies to Team-Dai Gurren, the author of the story even acknowledges it.
      • Chapter 22 of Vol. 3 has Micchy punching Makoto back to his senses after he inadvertently stabs Alain looks similar to how Simon does to Rossiu when the latter was about to shoot himself.
        • Word of God also points out that Mayu's relationship to Makoto is similar to Kinon and Rossiu.
      • Micchy also adopts Kamina's catchphrase as his own, "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!" Later, it's becoming associated to the main cast as a whole.
    • Taki's Super Mode is even called Tengen Toppa Evolution.
      • Her demon mask even transforms into Triangle Shades in the style of Kamina, and then into a star-shaped one akin to Simon. Much like Simon's goggles transformed into his signature Triangle Shades in the similar way during Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann's first transformation.
      • Heck, one of her finishing moves after she combines her Kris Naga blades into a boomerang is also called Super Galaxy Dai Setsudan.
  • The story also has references to Kill La Kill per Word of God:
    • Anzu starting out as one of the bad guys before she's revealed to be Good All Along, joins with her long-lost sibling, becomes a white-colored Kamen Rider brings to mind Satsuki Kiryuin.
      • Anzu is basically an inversion of Satsuki with Ryuko's goal to get revenge for her father's death. While Goro is Ryuko with Satsuki's charisma. Their robotic pets are also the closest thing to Junketsu (A.G.N.I. Spider Mode for Anzu) and Senketsu (Shadow Winger for Goro).
    • The story's true Big Bad, Kaguya has all the elements of Ragyo Kiryuin, right down from being an Abusive Parent to aspirations of conquering the world. It also doesn't help that she herself had a incestuous fixation with her child, Sayaka, and then with Misora. Much like how Ragyo does with Satsuki, and then to Ryuko.
  • Taki's new white ninja outfit she received from Sento complete with some cyberpunk accents brings to mind Asagi Igawa's in Taimanin Asagi 3.
  • G7 Icarus XYZ's Archangel Cerberus Armor being formed from five robotic wolves screams Voltron into mind.
  • Banjou losing his ability to transform after the final battle against Evolt is reminiscent of Ichigo losing his Shinigami powers after he defeats Aizen with the Final Getsuga Tensho. 
• In A Dark Knight Over Sin City, when Dwight first sees Batman, he says, "It's the goddamn Batman."

Death Note

• There are tons in a A Cure for Love: Matt hums the Star Wars "Imperial March" when Kira enters the meeting room. Also when Light gets a scar on one of their misadventures of getting shot at he grumbles in his Inner Monologue that it makes him look like Harry Potter. Also in the deleted scenes Mello compares Light to the Byronic Hero Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights and his Freudian Excuse is similar in this ficverse. There's a stealth one with the Original Character V who has a vendetta. Also "Matt had just been spectacularly killed by a zombie riding a unicycle" and Near points out that "One does not simply walk into Mordor." Also when Light confides in L about his little problem and why he can't just quit: "Think of Faust, L. It's Faust on a shorter time scale."

Disgea

• Disgaea: Jewel of the gods at the very begining has already gave ones to One Piece, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Soul Eater, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Chrono Trigger, Beyblade, and Metal Gear.

Dr. Who

• EVERYTHING in the Doctor Who webcomic Second Empire.
  • Seriously, DO NOT play the Tropedia Drinking Game if you plan on including all the ShoutOuts in this thing. It'll be very, very bad for your health.
    • How bad is it? The summary (Two Dalek Empires fight for the future of the Dalek race) is a Shout-Out to Remembrance Of The Daleks and it just goes downhill from there.

Fullmetal Alchemist

• The Fullmetal Alchemist series The Elemental Chess Trilogy has a few, both in-universe and otherwise.
  • In the first story, the three main characters sneak into beseiged Central City using a hot air balloon, which is a Call Back of sorts to the 2003 anime adaptation.
  • Edward Elric's son is named Lucas, after Luke Triton from the Professor Layton games.
  • The Brotherhood anime showed a photograph of Roy Mustang after the end of the series in which he has a mustache, for reasons unexplained. Many members of the fandom prefer to believe that, as the picture in question belonged to Ed, he had drawn the mustache onto it; this Epileptic Tree is firmly planted in the fanfic.
• In Mary Mary? Quite Contrary!, there are many shout outs made in the "Sparkly Shiny Alchemist" story. For one thing, the protagonist's full name is Christiana Sophia Maysalee Thomas. And there's this quote from her "bro" Jeff:

"I'm a mog. Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!"

• • From the same author, we have Fullmetal Eds, in which Ed exclaims "Holy *** on a ** sandwich!"

Glee

• In Whose Gay Line Is It Anyway, the Glee club plays a game of Questions Only. Slash (and hilarity) ensues.

Puck: Do you come here often? Kurt: Do you normally cruise an art gallery looking for fashionable and attractive men?

Harry Potter

• Arabella and Zsenya's epic fanfiction After the End contains a significant Shout-Out to an in-fandom joke: in the Shipping wars, the Good Ship Harry/Hermione had the iconic symbol of pumpkin pie. In After the End, (a fic that is very Ron/Hermione, based on a website that is strongly geared towards the same) Ron angrily tells his mother that he hates pumpkin pie.
• A.L. de Sauveterre's Harry Potter and the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus pushes over into Reference Overdosed, which works with the fairly tongue-in-cheek tone of the story. A short sample:
  • The prologue refers to a tapestry with the cast of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on it (with the implication that Harry may be descended from the Pevensies).
  • Colin Creevey dressing up for Halloween as famed (Muggle) photographer Annie Liebovitz.
  • Draco Malfoy is encouraged to read Ernest Hemingway's Death In The Afternoon.
  • The Three Musketeers (all four of them) show up in paintings to give Ron love advice, and continue to pursue the now-vampiric Milady.
• In The Ollivander Children, by vifetoile, a certain theory of wandless magic is called Weatherwax magic (a shout-out to Discworld) and the Muggle character, Mark, makes frequent references to The Princess Bride and The Lord of the Rings.
• In Oh God Not Again, there are several shout outs, including ones to Star Wars, The Princess Bride, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. What's most notable, though, is that at one point, this trope is lampshaded (along with everything else).
• In The Lie I've Lived, a throwaway line has Harry saying, "Yeah, just call me 'Ambassador Potter', expert at foreign diplomacy and purveyor of international goodwill." This refers to one of author's other works Bungle in the Jungle.

His Dark Materials

• The His Dark Materials fanfiction Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate has Will doubling over in laughter when Lyra tells him she put a wardrobe over an opening to another world.

JAG

• In the JAG fanfic Abyss of the Soul, Marine Staff Sergeant Jonathan Scott Beckett had faked his death and was living under the alias "Sam Archer" when he was arrested.

Lord of the Rings

• Lord of the Land of Fire is prone to lacing the plots of his stories with references to things like World War Two or The Book of Revelation, among other things.

Psych

• The titles of the Psych fanfic Lassiter Learns how to Bend as well as its sequels Carlton's Worst Inhibitions and The Case of the Friendly Indians are all shout outs to the show's theme song, the first two to the lyrics and the last one to the band who sings it.

Real Person Fic

• With Strings Attached has a number of shout-outs, including:
  • Plenty of subtle Beatles references, of course.
  • A line lifted from Sweeney Todd.
  • A reference from a Sheri S. Tepper book.
  • Several references to lines or incidents from the Flashman series.

Star Fox

• In Ringshadow's Slice of Life Star Fox fanfic Butterfly Photographs, Slippy programmed an AI into his pickup truck which has the ability to drive it. Its avatar is a face on a video screen, and its name is Max. At one point a character asks if Max is in one of the stages of rampancy in reaction to Max's slightly odd behaviour.

W.I.T.C.H

• W.I.T.C.H. Fanfic Kieva Lynn's Season Three features C'thulu in one episode. The episode title "The Telemarketing Call of C'thulu" is a play on the title of Real Ghostbusters episode "The Collect Call of C'thulu." They even beat him in much the same way.

Yu-Gi-Oh

• Decks Fall, Everyone Dies. Examples: "Reverse card open" is a shout-out to the MAD videos that feature Kaiba repeating that line. Yami's line calling dice "rolling bones" (astragali) is a shout-out to the manga.

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