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List of references to Star Wars in miscellanea

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[edit] Advertising

  • Several independent T-shirt manufacturers have made T-shirts with graphics illustrating various humorous representations of "Snakes on a plane" for the movie Snakes on a Plane. One, with a cartoon representation of Samuel L. Jackson's character Mace Windu cutting down snakes with a lightsaber, was pulled, presumably for copyright reasons.
  • A advertising poster for an intercultural teacher training at Södertörn University College in Stockholm, Sweden, used the slogan "Socrates, Obi-Wan, and you."
  • An advertisement jingle for EGStoltzfus, a construction company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was a variation on Mad About Me. That jingle had been added to the company's website, along with several others that are a part of their current advertising campaign.

[edit] Online MMO's

In the very popular MMORPG, TornCity, there is an item called 'Yoda figurine.'

  • In Neopets,when one gets a 404 Error,two messages say "The 404 will be with you,always" and "I find your lack of page disturbing".Also in the Neoboards,for the Altador Cup a Sith mention was made.

[edit] Anime and Manga

[edit] Appleseed

  • The multipede mecha, which was originally designed to be a grounded crawling mecha is redesigned in the anime movie Appleseed, being attributed with the ability to fly. It is reminiscent of an Imperial probe droid; anime expert Jonathan Clements has theorized that the redesign probably is directly inspired by the probe droid design from Star Wars.

[edit] Crayon Shin-chan

  • Episode 27, "Shin Wars", is an entire episode that is a parody of "Star Wars". It stars Shin as Luke (Puke Skypooper), his mother Mitzy as Leia (Princess Labia), his father Hiro as Darth Vader (Darth Bader), a pig as Han Solo (Ham Solo), his baby sister Hima as Jabba the Hutt (Baby the Butt), his grandfather as Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ani-Wan Kanblowmi, Principal Ench as Emperor Palpatine (Emperor Principalpatine), his classmates as the Ewoks (Weekoks), and his pet dog Whitey as a combination of R2-D2 and C-3PO (YT-D2).

[edit] Excel Saga

  • Episode 2, "The Woman from Mars", features an opening crawl made in the Star Wars style, in English, with Japanese subtitles on the right:
EPISODE II 
A LONG TIME AGO IN A
GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY...
THERE WERE TWO DOMINATING
POWERS CONTINUOUSLY
FIGHTING A FIERCE WAR WITH
EACH OTHER...... I DON'T
KNOW IF IT IS TRUE OR NOT
AND, HONESTLY, I DON'T
REALLY CARE......
ANYWAY, I, RIKDO KOSHI,
ALLOW "EXCEL SAGA" TO BE
MADE INTO AN ANIMATED
SCIENCE FICTION FILM.
  • Additionally, the Puchuu starship in the same episode resembles a Star Destroyer.

[edit] Hellsing

  • While searching for a secret terrorist organization known as "Millennium," Walter the butler asks for information from the Star Wars Fan Club in Los Angeles, supposing a connection to the name of the Millennium Falcon.

[edit] Inuyasha

  • In one episode of the series, Inuyasha, forced to be detained in a hut sealed with magic spells while his wounds heal, is taunted by the shapeshifing kitsune Shippoh, who changes into the form of Inuyasha's love interest, Kagome. Inuyasha responds to this by kicking Shippoh and exclaiming "Laugh it up, fuzzball!"

[edit] Mobile Suit Gundam

  • Throughout the Gundam series, among the main melee weapons of the mobile suits are "beam sabers", which is very much like a lightsaber.

[edit] Mobile Suit Gundam Seed

  • The nature of the relationship between the characters Kira Yamato and Cagalli Yula Athha (both were twins that were separated at birth and even nearly fall in love with each other in adulthood) is an obvious reference to the relationship of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. Plus, Kira even shares other similarities with Luke, such as being impatient, natural born pilots, and even deemed to be powerful in each of their respective series (Kira was designed to be the Ultimate Coordinator, while Luke is the son of Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force). Apart from that, even Cagalli and Leia are similar in many ways, for example, both are princesses who are adopted by royal families, have fiery tempers, and are also willing to fight to bring peace and order to their country/galaxy.

[edit] Naruto

  • The series has a number of similarities with Star Wars in terms of story, characters, character development, etc. For example, the character Sasuke Uchiha's life has a fairly similar development to Anakin's.
  • The ninjas in the series use a power known as chakra and use it akin to the same manner Sith, Jedi, and Dark Jedi use the Force.
  • In the "Land of Tea" Story arc, the protagonist Aoi Rokusho uses a sword known as the Sword of the Thunder God, which is used (and sounds) very similar to a lightsaber.
  • One of the Antagonists, Pain, has techniques that work very similarly to Force Push, Force Pull, and Force Repulse.
  • The author has said he has used Chakra as a hook and compared it to The Force directly.


[edit] Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • In Episode 7: A Human Work, Misato is preparing to enter the radioactive robot, Jet Alone, to try and stop his ceaseless rampage. After almost losing her grip and falling 100' straight off the robot, Misato manages to cling on and crawl back towards the hatch. After opening the hatch and looking far down into the red-hot engine of the robot, Misato utters Luke Skywalker's phrase, "I have a bad feeling about this."


[edit] Puni Puni Poemy

  • This raunchy and eclectic anime parody series features a giant moon-sized spaceship patterned after the Death Star and a computer-generated homage to the trench run from A New Hope.

[edit] Sailor Moon

  • In the episode "The Culture Fest is for Me?! Queen Rei Sings with Passion" (North American title "Raye's Day In The Spotlight"), the characters of Ail and An (Alan and Anne) take part in a fashion show. During the fashion show, they pose while wielding lightsaber-style weapons.

[edit] Sonic X

  • The name of a robot of Dr. Eggman "E-11" is identical of the name of stormtrooper's E-11 blaster rifle
  • The Dialect of E-77 is similar of R2-D2
  • The X-tornado is developed from the X-wing

[edit] Tenchi Muyo

  • The main protagonist, Tenchi Masaki, comes into possession of the Tenchi-ken ('Sword Tenchi' in the English language version), a sword hilt with an extendable energy blade. Also there are few other characters such Ryoko and Kagato who are capable of producing generating similar energy blades from their hands. These blades have the same activation sound effect as lightsabers in the Star Wars universe.
  • The Jurai's space vessels mirror the Mon Calamari cruisers that the Rebels use during Return of the Jedi.

[edit] Urusei Yatsura

  • Star Wars gags abound in the series, especially episode 89, "Lum and Ataru, a Night Alone," where after Lum announces her intentions to actually sleep with Ataru (although she means platonically, a nuance that escapes everyone else), the other main male characters go into a lengthy hallucination sequence which is one long parody of Return of the Jedi set to the TV show's first ending theme.
  • Further in one of the opening sequences for the show, the character "Sakuranbo" (Cherry) appears dressed as Darth Vader.

[edit] Yu Yu Hakusho

  • This whole series seems to be greatly influenced by "Star Wars". Luke Skywalker and Yusuke Urameshi have so much in common. Both are arrogant punks who glamor and boast big when it comes to fighting but lack the much needed discipline to pull off a win for themselves alone. Both these guys have an elderly sensei with green skin who's much shorter than they are, but is lightning on their feet and kill with vicious intelligence and great command of the battle. After Yusuke achieves the much-needed powers to defeat a major enemy, Toguro, Genkai dies on him, same as Yoda did on Luke. Luke's major enemy would be Palpatine. Also Yusuke goes up against his evil father, Raizen in battle, same way Luke fights against his evil father, Darth Vader. Both fathers die on their sons.

[edit] Comics

[edit] Astonishing X-Men

  • In #21, while freezing in an ice storm, Hank says "You're amoral, you're abrasive, and right now you're looking at me like I'm a taun-taun." Agent Brand replies "You can stop whining. I don't need your guts to keep me warm."
  • In #22, on spotting the giant orbiting weapon targeting Earth, Hank says "You know, I thought I'd have a lot more fun if I ever had to say this…" "Say what?" "That's no moon…"

[edit] Cable & Deadpool

  • In issue 35, Deadpool accuses Cable of using "some kind of Jedi mind trick thingie" on him after he spent most of the day arguing with hallucinations of all the people he had killed.

[edit] Calvin and Hobbes

  • When Calvin's mom makes Calvin an onion suit for a school play and asks how good it is, Calvin replies "Jabba the Hutt meets Rudolf the Reindeer, I dunno."

[edit] Dark Claw

  • The comic "Dark Claw Adventures" briefly features a character called "Agent THX 1138".

[edit] Dilbert

  • In the May 13 2009 strip titled "Wally Dabbles in Crime", Wally is telling Dilbert how many think that crime is a bad thing, but it depends on the role models, and says "I lean toward governors, bankers, athletes and Sith Lords."

[edit] Doctor Who

[edit] The Family Circus

  • On September 13, 2009, a TIE fighter, an AT-AT, and possibly an AT-ST are seen as members of Billy's toys.

[edit] FoxTrot

  • In the January 18, 2009 Sunday edition of the daily comic strip, Jason has a dream where he finds himself on Hoth, then Tatooine, back and forth again, in response to the thermostat changes that night.

[edit] Get Fuzzy

  • On June 7, 2009, Rob received an unopened Jawa action figure which was subsequently devoured by his dog, Satchel.

[edit] Green Lantern

[edit] Grimm Fairy Tales

  • In issue 33, the main character's son wears a Boba Fett t-shirt and plays with an X-wing starfighter.

[edit] Jump Start

  • In the May 30, 2008 strip of the daily comic, the character Doctor Appleby is being filmed by his classmate, Sunny. Sunny stops filming to ask what music is playing in the background, to which Doctor Appleby enthusiastically replies, "Darth Vader's theme song! Ya like it?"

[edit] The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[edit] Outer Orbit

  • In issue 2, Krunk says to Quinn, "I have you now," while chasing him in a spacecraft.

[edit] Rocky

  • In one comic featured in the first volume of the albums published in Sweden, Rocky and his friend Mange walk by a movie theater were some Star Wars fans are queuing to get tickets for The Phantom Menace. When asked if he has seen it, Rocky expresses his dislike for the Star Wars franchise. As a payback, Mange tricks the fans into gluing a Darth Vader helmet onto his head.
  • In a comic published in the eight volume of the Swedish albums, Rocky's friend Rippo tells Rocky and their other friend Flavio about his classmates at the university. According to Rippo, they've just gone through boot camp and during this time acquired a "firm grip." Rippo angrily wonders if these people, instead of hurting his hand every time they shake hands, can't just crush his head like Darth Vader.
  • In a comic presented in the eleventh volume of the Swedish albums, Rocky and Rippo are discussing false ID's. In a somewhat exaggerated attempt to explain the difficulty in forging modern ID's, Rippo exclaims that they come with a hologram of Princess Leia that tells you your social security number, and that you'd have to be Steven Spielberg to forge one of those.

[edit] Runaways

[edit] Sally Forth

  • On June 5, 2009, Ted Forth reveals his dream of his and Sally's mortgage being paid off by the eventual sale of his unopened Boba Fett action figure.
  • On July 5, 2009, Ted Forth compares sparklers to safer versions of lightsabers.

[edit] The Sandman

[edit] Sonic the Hedgehog

  • The Death Egg is obviously a tribute to the Death Star in both appearance and name.
  • One cover was a reference to the Attack of the Clones poster.

[edit] Thunderbolts

  • In issue #130 of May 2009, while attempting to escape an attack by the Thunderbolts, Deadpool happens upon closed doors, yelling "Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!"

[edit] Ultimate X-Men

  • In issue #46, Cyclops recalls his father buying him The Empire Strikes Back when he was 7 years old.
  • In issue #48 and #49, the X-Men's stealth jet is called the "X-Wing".

[edit] X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong

  • In the first issue, the Three-In-One, using their telepathic powers in a similar manner to the Jedi Mind Trick, make a fellow student at the Xavier Institute say "These aren't the droids you are looking for".

[edit] Y: The Last Man

  • In issue 4, the main character, Yorick, when sent to locate Dr. Mann, an expert on cloning, grumbles about "dragging me to some Attack-of-the-Clones doctor." On the next page, he says that he and his sister are "like Luke and Leia...um, minus the French kissing."
  • In issue 6, Yorick asks Dr. Mann why she couldn't "you know, scrape a few cells from my cheek and do your Clone War experiments without me." Mann (whose mother was Chinese) later says that she gave herself a new last name after Mann's Chinese Theatre.
  • In issue 14, Yorick cries out, "It's a trap!"
  • In issue 27, when in San Francisco, Yorick says, "No wonder the Federation of Planets put their headquarters here." Agent 355 asks if "That's some kind of dumb Star Wars reference, right?" to which Yorick responds, "You wound me."
  • In issue 45, Yorick explains that "you're experiencing my master plan. Our new pal didn't really betray us. She just used me as leverage to gain the bad guys' trust. A classic Lando!"

[edit] Magazines

[edit] Mad Magazine

  • It would parody Star Wars and all the other episodes in its issues, plus release Super Specials that were nothing but Star Wars parody.

[edit] Sports Illustrated

Throughout the magazine's history, there are several references to Star Wars, namely about the fans being nerds.

[edit] Major websites

[edit] Homestar Runner

  • In the Strong Bad Email "Greeting Cards", one of the cards read "Thinking of you...and how terrible your stupid Star Wars spoofs are."
  • In the Halloween special "Halloween Potion-ma-jig", Homestar Runner thought Bubs, dressed as Apollo Creed from Rocky, was dressed as Lando Calrissian--a reference to the resemblance between Billy Dee Williams and Carl Weathers.
  • In the Strong Bad Email "what i want, Strong bad says to Talon Jendro, "Where'd you get that name? George Lucas?"

[edit] Something Awful

[edit] The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

[edit] YTMND

Star Wars Silent Movie and Star Wars Cantina. Darth Vader's infamous "Nooooo!" is also a fad.

[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

  • The ending of Episode 3, "My Cards Will Go On," features a short clip of Admiral Ackbar holding up a "trap card," and shouting, "It's a trap!"
  • Episode 15, "Card Wars," parodies several lines from the films, and even opens with a parody of the opening crawl.
CARD GAMES
EPISODE XV
DUEL OF FATES 
It is a period of civil war.
Yugi Moto, having lost a
children's card game, has gone
all emo.

Meanwhile, Seto Kaiba has
infiltrated Pegasus's castle
(again) in a desperate attempt
to rescue his far more appealing
younger brother.

Unbeknownst to either of them,
George Lucas is planing a Super
Special Awesome Edition of
Yu-Gi-Oh where they'll both be
replaced by dancing CGI monkeys.

In America.

[edit] Novels

[edit] Alex Rider series

  • In Point Blanc, one of the characters James Spritz wears an old Star Wars t-shirt.
  • In Ark Angel, the protagonist Alex Rider recalls watching Harrison Ford in the Original Trilogy while making his way through a zero-gravity space station called Ark Angel. He realises that wading through space is different from the films' depiction.

[edit] Angels & Demons

  • 2000 Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code) published the first adventure of his hero Robert Langdon. In this thriller Langdon is brought to Geneva, Switzerland to investigate the murder of a scientist, which has religious, symbological overtones. While discussing a top secret experiment with two scientists Kohler (the director) says, "You mean God?" To which Vittoria Vetra responds, "God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point -- call it whatever you like -- the result is the same."

[edit] Good Omens

  • The Antichrist has a squadron of model X-wings hanging from the ceiling of his room.
  • The Antichrist's childhood gang is said to enjoy playing a game "based on a highly successful film series with lasers, robots, and a princess who wore her hair like a pair of stereo headphones." Darth Vader's helmet is also compared to a coal scuttle.
  • In one part of the book, a pepperpot-shaped beeping alien robot lands, and it is debated whether it more closely resembles R2-D2 or a Dalek.

[edit] Hellbound Snowballs

  • Sissy is seen to wave her hand "subtly like a Jedi" early in the book.
  • Chapter 18 is titled "If You Strike Me Down, I Shall Become More Powerful Than You Could Possibly Imagine." Echoing the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi moments before he is killed in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader.
  • When Jan fails to tempt Connor toward committing murder he muses about the possibility of tempting Connor's love interest instead, mirroring a similar threat by Darth Vader to turn Leia Organa to the Dark side of the Force.
  • Connor shouts, "That's not true! That's impossible!" This is Luke Skywalker's reaction when he learns that Darth Vader is his father.

[edit] Kasabian: Sound, Movement & Empire

  • In this unofficial biography about the successful British band Kasabian one of the chapters is titled "Not That Long Ago, In A Cowshed Far, Far Away", though the mentioned cowshed has nothing to do with Kasabian.
  • Later in the book, it is mentioned that the lead singer, Tom Meighan, was interviewed by starwars.com following a gig, where he had worn a T-shirt featuring Darth Vader.
  • The last chapter is called "A New Hope", a reference to episode IV.

[edit] Mortal Engines

  • In Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, the novel opens with a chase scene between the Traction City of London and the town of Salthook, paralleling the pursuit between Darth Vader's Imperial-class Star Destroyer Devastator and Leia Organa's CR90 Corvette Tantive IV. As with Tantive IV, Salthook is soon captured and torn apart by London.
  • In a parallel with Luke Skywalker's first encounter with Han Solo's Millennium Falcon at Mos Eisley, one of the main characters Tom Natsworthy describes the aviatrix Anna Fang's airship Jenny Haniver as "made of junk!". Fang replies by commenting that her airship was "built from bits of the finest airships that ever flew".

[edit] The Musashi Flex

  • In The Musashi Flex by Steve Perry, which is a prequel to his Matador book series, Teräs Käsi, is mentioned briefly as one of the fighting styles used by the main character of the novel. Later in the novel, John Williams' music is mentioned as well.

[edit] Net Force

[edit] Scarecrow

[edit] Warcraft: War of the Ancients, Book 2: The Demon Soul

[edit] World War Z

Gavin Blaire (a female aircraft pilot) complains about losing the opportunity to fly "the closest thing to an X-wing" due to a shortage of fuel.

[edit] BIONICLE Adventures 10: Time Trap

In this book there is a conversation between a mercenary leader, The Shadowed One, and one of his mercenaries, a female called Lariska. The Shadowed One orders her to punish a member of his organization, Triglax, because he held back payment intended for TSO. When Lariska asks TSO whether she should remove Triglax's hands during the torture, he says no and explains this with "I think enough hands have been removed this year." Author Greg Farshtey wanted this to be an allusion to the extensive hand-losses during lightsaber combat Star Wars, as seen in Episode III (released in 2005, the same year the book was released) in the fights between Anakin and Dooku and Obi-Wan and Vader.

[edit] Restaurants

[edit] Sports

[edit] Major League Baseball

  • In many sports arenas and stadiums (including Yankee Stadium) John Williams's themes to Star Wars are often played. At Yankee Stadium, the Yankees are always introduced one by one accompanied by the Award Ceremony theme from A New Hope, while the opposing team is always introduced with the Imperial March.
  • During the 2004 Major League Playoffs, the legendary rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox brought Star Wars into the mix when the Red Sox began to call the Yankees the "Evil Empire", an obvious reference to the Galactic Empire.[source?]
  • 2007 New York Mets backup catcher Ramon Castro uses the Imperial March as his walk-up music before coming to bat.

[edit] National Football League

  • The Imperial March is often used by such teams as the Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers, both considered dark and evil to other teams. Various Raiders fans will come to the game as Darth Vader. In addition, Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis is sometimes known as the Darth Vader of the NFL.
  • As a promotion for the release of the original Star Wars films on DVD, Imperial Stormtroopers and Darth Vader both made appearances at an Oakland Raiders home game in week three of the 2004 NFL season. An amusing moment came when Raiders owner Davis and Vader met and shook hands.
  • After an incredible season in 2004, then-Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper was asked if he could have another MVP-like season. Culpepper responded by saying he felt like a Jedi Knight.

[edit] Cycling

  • In the 2006 edition of Tour de France, German cyclist Jens Voigt's friend and roommate throughout the race, the American Bobby Julich, was forced to abandon due to a crash. Voigt should now share hotel room with Luxembourger Fränk Schleck. Voigt commented: "I room with Fränk now, he's my new Padawan, and I show him how to use the Force."

[edit] Fan films

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