Champions Online - TV Tropes

Champions Online pretty much runs on these to an incredibly large degree. Name a work of media and there will probably be a reference.

• Team Fortress 2, twice. There're hidden NPCs resembling Heavy, Spy, Pyro, and Soldier, and in Vibora Bay, in the arcades you can see Team Buttress 2 and Left 4 Lunch
• Warhammer40000: In reference to Ork using their teeth as money and referring to it as "Teef".
• Qwyjibo is named after a word Bart Simpson invented in order to win at Scrabble, what's even better is that he pretty much fits the definition Bart gives.
• Hulk-expy Grond: "You as uninteresting as rival MMO! Grond leave now."
• Animal Crossing: In Monster Island, look for an NPC named Tim Nook who sells loan installments on a suspicious land (reminds you of a certain raccoon who forces players to buy a lot in a certain land?). Oh, and buying one loan (which is cheap) results in a perk/achievement aptly named "Manimal Crossing".
• The Archetype "The Unleashed" is one massive shoutout to Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic and The Force Unleashed.
• If you take a closer look at some of the buildings in Millennium City, you'll find some familiar names:
• Noah's Arcade
• Lackluster Video
• One of the bad guys in the Sapphire stalker arc in Vibora is a sparkling vampire by the name of Edmund Cully. No points for guessing what this references.
• Two DEMON officials in the late game are called Aleisteria Crovay and Antonia Crovay - a Shout-Out to famous Satanists Aleister Crowley and Anton LaVey.
• There's a bank teller named Jon E.Cash
• In the Vibora Bay labyrinth – er – maze, a dancing NPC appears in the middle circle at times and says "I'm Bowii the Goblin King, dance with me." Guess who he looks like.
• One of the earned character titles is "Winter of Discontent"
• There have been no confirmed in-game sightings of it, but a former dev has gone on record stating that there is a coded event in the Southwest Desert for a flying fridge to randomly hit the player.
• The entire WCOC Newsroom is a large-scale shout-out to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
• At Force Station Steelhead, there are two Lieutenants named Robert and Douglas Mackenzie, who are a reference to the main characters of the movie Strange Brew
• The Second Issue of the comic series Whiteout has a list of references to The Thing (1982)
  • The Roinesh are based on the title alien, except they can also shapeshift into inanimate objects.
  • Some of the survivors you have to rescue are based on characters that appear in the movie.
    • Jane Clark is based on Clark, the dog handler.
    • Peter Bennings is probably the brother of George Bennings the first person to be infected by the Thing.
    • Keith Childs is a combination of Childs and Keith David, the actor who portrayed him.
  • McReady makes an appearance at the end of the issue, an obvious reference to Kurt Russell's character
  • The Steelhead Flamethrower you get for defeating the Roinesh Commander is the best weapon to use against the Thing .
• Snake Gulch, a Wild West Theme Park populated by cowboy robots who have rebelled against humanity is most likely a reference to Westworld.
• In a dock at the south of Monster Island you can find three Viper soldiers named Vinz Clortho, Zuul and Gozer.
• There's a quest in Millennium City called "Chew Bubble Gum and" which has you fighting a guy named Reckless Roger Piker and taking his special glasses which allow the wearer to see through the holographic disguises of Gadroon invaders.
• There's a quest called "The Glasses Menagerie."
• Finding all of Sammie Croix's lost dollies awards the perk "Voodoo Child."
• The " Unusual Dance" emote is the Carlton Dance.
• One of the quests on Monster Island is called "Where the Wild Things Are."

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