References in Heavensward

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I haven't seen a topic like this yet. But what were all the references to pop culture you've seen?

-Quest named "I Believe I Can Fly"=Song of the same name
-FATE named "We Fought a Dzu"=Film called "We Bought a Zoo"
-Main Story Quest named "A Series of Unfortunate Events"=Book series by the same name
-FATE named "Abominable Me"=Film called "Despicable Me" possibly.
-FATE named "Sprite Club"=Filmed called "Fight Club"

[EdwinLi]

Biggest kick in the Nostalgia refernece in 3.0 is...

SPOILER

Matoya and Matoya's Cave with the remix of Matoya theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orvKqkgWZOc

[Gilraen]

Here's an XI reference, not that there isn't alot of them.

The NPC Hilda is a rather creatively rewritten reference to XI's Lilisette, who was also the child of an Elvaan knight and Hume... something or other. She also (sort of) spearheaded a troupe of 'warriors'.

[Amiaze]

I've seen two Game of Thrones references so far.

Near the marketboard in Coerthas, a girl and boy are inspecting a piece of paper. The boy asks, "Is this a P or a R?", and the girl responds something like, "If you'd spent more time studying instead of playing Knights and Knaves, we might have lemoncakes now!"

Lemoncakes are Sansa Stark's favorite dish. I count this as a reference because there are other GoT references in both 2.0 and 3.0, including the achievement "Stick them with the pointy end!"

As a matter of fact, the

trial by combat that you enter after being named as Tataru's champion is something we've seen a lot of in GoT recently. Given that we're now dealing with dragons and a winter climate, I think this was a nod to the series.

[Nadirah]

Biggest kick in the Nostalgia refernece in 3.0 is...

SPOILER

Matoya and Matoya's Cave with the remix of Matoya theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orvKqkgWZOc

I love that remix.

[Hayward]

You've got to be an old-school NCAA basketball fan to get this one:

Phi Slamma Gamma (West/East).

[TheCurls]

Coeurls Chase Boys Chase Coeurls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GBT37_yyzY

[Enkidoh]

I've seen two Game of Thrones references so far.

trial by combat

That's hardly a GoT reference though, given the fact it's actually from real-world history (and given the fact the Tribunal is clearly based on the historical Catholic Inquisition this makes the real-world connection even more obvious).

Another possible film reference in Heavensward though is the name of Ishgard's advanced (and broken) battle airship the Protector - this may be a parody of the ship the NSEA Protector featured in the Star Trek spoof Galaxy Quest - the joke being furthered that the Ishgardian airship is broken and that it was apparently a design the Ishgardians based on Cid's designs (hence they didn't completely understand the technology and ended up messing it up, eventually having to call in Cid himself to fix it).

This is a reverse of the situation on Galaxy Quest where the ship was originally fictitious (being depicted in a sci-fi show-within-the-movie), but which the aliens in the film actually thought was real and made their own fully functional version, including working versions of technologies that actually didn't exist! I thought that was a clever reference to one of my favourite films.

[AskaRay]

The big one of course (spoilers ofc)

[Allyrion]

That's hardly a GoT reference though, given the fact it's actually from real-world history (and given the fact the Tribunal is clearly based on the historical Catholic Inquisition this makes the real-world connection even more obvious).

Yea. Dusk Vigil was certainly a GoT reference, though, with their ice zombies in the Lord Commander's room.