Have you ever realized just how some references there are to “pop culture” in the World of Warcraft games? Well, there are LOTS! If you're like me, you'll encounter this stuff fascinating. Some of these things are way obvious, but some of them are pretty obscure. It makes you wonder...did these guys deliberately set around and put these references in, or were they just a natural result of being a part of today's society? Either way, it makes for some pretty interesting reading, and it module definitely intend you watching for more references (because I'm not gonna tell you all of them in this article – maybe not even in ANY article....mmwwaahahaha). Visit Best Alliance Leveling Guide AND a Horde Leveling Guide
Ok, back to the real me...or WAS that the real me? Anyway, let's intend started with the pop culture references. But where to start? Warcraft? Warcraft II? Warcraft III? World of Warcraft? The Burning Crusade? Yes, it's true. They've ALL got loads of pop culture references. But let's start at the beginning, shall we? Since they started out light, we module too. But not to worry – there are plenty more where these come from!
In Warcraft: Humans and Orcs, to enable wander mode, you type “Corwin of Amber. Corwin is a character in a series of books called The Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny.
But we're just getting started! Let's move on to Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. 1. The good effects of the sword fighting are taken directly from the soundtrack of the Black Knight environs in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
2. The wander code for unlimited mana and all spells researched is “every little thing she does”. This, of course, is a line from the Police strain “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”. Cool, huh?
3. How about this... “onscreen” is a map wander code and “makeitso” is a fast build cheat. If those phrases good familiar, it's because they are frequently used by Captain Picard on Star Trek TNG! Also from the show, “It is a good day to die”, a Klingon proverb, is an invulnerability cheat. The REAL origin of that phrase, though, lies in Greek history. At the Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas' army had no chance of winning against the Persians, and this phrase is what he said to the Persian emissary who came to ask for his surrender.
Now on to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos/The Frozen Throne. If I traded them all here, this article would go on forever. However, I module list some of the one I personally encounter particularly hilarious.
• \"Nananananananana... ME!!\" -Troll Batrider (Batman)
• “Look! In the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's me!” -Windrider (Superman)
• “Mortar Kombat!” -Dwarven Mortar Team (Mortal Kombat)
• “I stole your precious” -Spellbreaker (Gollum in LOTR)
• “In the depths, no one can hear you scream. Well...they can, but it's really muffled.” -Naga Royal Guard (famous line from Alien...sorta...LOL)
• “There is no Banshee, only ZUUL!” -Banshee (Sigourney Weaver again, this time in Ghostbusters)
• “There is no spoon.” This wander for unlimited mana comes from The Matrix.
• “Say hello to my little friend.” -Troll Headhunter (Al Pacino in Scarface)
• “keysersoze” is a wander code to intend extra gold. It refers, of course, to the movie The Usual Suspects, in which Keyser Soze is the mysterious evildoing boss...*wink*.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: these are just a few...
* ”I never feature NI!” -Knight (The Knights who feature Ni)
* “Help! Help! I'm being repressed!” -Peasant (Dennis the constitutional peasant)
* “You're the king? Well, I didn't vote for you!” -Peasant (The Fifth Harvesting Peasants)
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* “We have a witch! May we burn her?” -Peasant (witch burning scene)
* “It's only a flesh wound!” -Footman (The Black Knight)
• Star Wars...just giving you a limited few here, too...
* “Once you head down the dark path, forever module it dominate your destiny. Plus, you got dental.” -Acolyte (Yoda – sorta...LOL)
* “We aren't the Dryads you're looking for.” (“These aren't the droids you're looking for” -Episode IV)
* “At last we shall have revenge” -Demon Hunter (Darth Maul – Episode I)
• “I wager dead people” -Far Seer
“Me take dead people” -Ghoul
“I wager undead people” -Necromancer
(All, of course, references to Haley Joel Osment's proclamation in The Sixth Sense).
• “Click me baby, one more time” -Sorceress (Britney Spears)
• “Shot through the heart, and I'm to blame” -Archer (Bon Jovi)
• “Where I lay my head is home! You wager that rock? That's my pillow!” -Rexxar (Metallica...sorta...LOL)
• “My tiger is trained for war. He's grrrrreat!” -Huntress (Tony the Tiger)
• “D'oh” -Annoyed Peasant / “Doe” -Annoyed Dryad (Homer Simpson)
• \"Fukui-san!\" \"Yes, go ahead.\" \"What the Iron Troll is doing right today is putting heads in a pot. They have to boil for 20 minutes so the eyes can be used in a second dish, an eye and raspberry sorbet.\" \"Mmmm, Sounds good!\" –Troll Witch Doctor (Iron Chef spoof)
• “This is my owl. There are some like it, but this one is mine”. (Full Metal Jacket and Jarhead)
• “Only you can prevent forest fires” -Druid of the Claw (Smokey the Bear)
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