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Ah yes, never forget Salad Fingers.
Fun fact Salad Fingers is 20 years old today.
the first one is giving me Vision vibes from avengers
"An entire questline with its own dedicated area is about as big a reference as you're gonna get"
Bro forgot how at least 50% of Uldum was Indiana Jones
Haris pilton
I think the plants vs zombies was also to reference their merger with King mobile games.
As much as I disliked Korthia, I appreciate that it had a reference to my favorite game, Myst. The (azure) book of binding: The tormented sorcerer and the (crimson) book of binding: the mad witch, both asking for colored pages and telling you not to collect the other book's pages in reference to Sirrus and Achenar being trapped by their father in blue and red books.
you could do top 10 pop culture references for each zone…
Does anybody else remember the "Head On: Apply directly to the forehead" reference moreso from Myndflame machinima instead of the advert??
I came across a random NPC who replied "Welcome to the party pal" which is from Die Hard of course. You could make a list of 100 easy.
Bruh…how did you not even mention the entire Indianna Jones quest chain in Uldum?!
I like how Crendor's videos evolved to being barely worth the duration
4:05 it's a bit funnier than that. A wolverine is a furry animal that looks like that. So they basically turned the comics wolverine into a literal wolverine.
The reason most of the Nintendo references were removed probably had something to do with how litigious Nintendo has become in the last 12 years. The lawyers probably don’t feel comfortable having more than a visual gag associated with the reference, IE quests/or involved in quests.
1:16 I wonder if these two and and their other friend, probably named Chandelier ever had to bring one of those couches upstairs with Chandelier insisting they piviot?
4:12 Something most people don't know is that his real name is actually James Howlett. Logan was originally just the civilian name he went by after escaping the Weapon X program (his biological father is Thomas Logan though he was raised as John Howlett''s son), it stuck as a nickname later on I guess.
4:24 Wolvars are humanoid wolverines.
4:31 That would be Deadpool's clone Evil Deadpool. Right up until a universe collided into 616 in events leading up to the 2015 version of Secret Wars and he stayed dead.
Ah, the memories. This video is great fun. I used to torment a friend of mine with pop culture references from WoW because he hates pop culture references in RPGs because they "take him out of the fantasy."
Gotta say, though, you certainly butchered the pronunciation of the word "Legerdemain" in #9. 🙂
There are so many pop culture references in WoW you could easily make another top 10 in the future! 😉
One of my favorite references is also in the Legerdemain Lounge! The blood elf that used to sit at the table/mage tower boss named Karam Magespear is a reference to the Dragonlance series character Caramon Majere, same with the twin brother NPC Raest Magespear as Raistlin Majere from the books
A wild guess here but I think about 70% of the game has pop culture references. The achievement list being the biggest sinnner in that regard. My favorite reference is the Harry Potter WQ in Stormsong Valley (BFA). Spoilers: Snape has killed our 3 heroes and its our job to kill Snape
I like the Big Lebowski reference in Howling Fjord. Always got a kick out of it.
a small one I like is an npc saying " Thank you. Pray return to the Waking Shores." which is a reference to FFFXIV of an NPC saying "Praythe return to the Waking Sands" If I remember correctly.
The Cooking Trainer in Stormwind is named Steven Ryback – complete with ponytail and everything. Clearly a reference to Steven Seagals character, Casey Ryback, from the Under Siege movies who was also a chef in addition to a former militia black ops soldier.
There are so many funny, subtle (and not so subtle) references in WoW that you could easily do a Pointless Top 100 and still only cover a few of them.
Still haven’t played wow will never play wow love the videos thanks
Dude. These were great. You could do so many of these on so many topics. Sci-fi references. Cartoons. Music. Mythology. Endless possibilities.
Thaldraszus has a pretty cool Yu-Gi-Oh reference that includes a quest line with characters that are similiarily portrayed from the show
Legerdemaine = "lezher-de-main [ˌlɛdʒ ər dəˈmeɪn]," French for "sleight of hand" 🙂 It's a reference to magic tricks.
And Robin Williams played a LOT of WoW and games in general (probably the third biggest celeb actual player after George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher [vocalist for Cannibal Corpse] and Henry Cavill). He named his daughter Zelda after the video game franchise as well 🙂
Head on, apply directly to your forehead!
Head on, apply directly to your forehead!
Head on, apply directly to your forehead!
Oh wait, one of those has gameplay and awards a pet? Oh Crendor, I think we may have crossed a line here, this is not pointless anymore.
(In fact, this quest got me into playing Plants vs Zombies way back then)
I am very happy you put the Robin Williams tribute on this list! From anothet resource I think he actually did play WoW, which was part of why a tribute was made to him after his passing.
Ive also seen Winnie the Pooh and gang in the game and Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner. Theres an Ace Ventura reference in a dungeon (dont ask which one, I cant remember lol) where an npc is named Einhorn Finklestein or something to that affect
Wolvar are wolverines lol
Could you do a Top 10 tributes? Items/NPCs that were put in the game to pay tribute to fans or people that have worked on the game that have passed.
O'rly the owl in classic wow.
Haha. Never played wod, but love the Charlie the unicorn references
5:38 The 2000s were a weird time for animation in general. So much was getting thrown at the wall to see what would stick in the industry and web animation had just become a thing and the internet being the internet before the social medias became more sanitized to appease advertisers and we were still using message boards at the time, most of it was crass and crude (and Newgrounds, a product of this time, still hosts new animations like that to this day if that's your thing, sure as heck isn't mine though). Ever heard of Legendz? It's a very bizarre mon anime that seems very anachronistic, like it belonged a few decades before it aired in 2004. Haven't looked at the manga yet though.
I´d take a WoW cameo over any prize
There’s so many pop culture references in WoW that even a top 100 would barely scratch the surface.
6:32 Linken reappeared as one of the possible companion NPCs for The Protectors of Hyjal (whith such classic quotes as "Excuuuuse me, princess!" and "Oh, boy! I'm so hungry, I could eat a fire elemental!" ) and during the Great Gnomeregan Run micro holiday, he shows up outside the rebel camp to cheer on the participants. Because he's a gnome. Also the Warcraft Zelda is a gnome apparently as she appeared in a faded photograph Linken used to have you find though she apparently never appeared in person so she went unnamed.
7:32 One does not simply fly to Tanaan Jungle.
7:58 The d in Djinn is silent. Probably why an alternate romanization of the original word drops the d outright. See also: Ifirit and Efreet.
"Genie" is actually an anglicization of djnn BTW.
8:58 Honestly I think it's bigger how they managed to work WoW mechanics into making a minigame that properly replicated PvZ gameplay.