Pop Culture References in WoW

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Our own Benjamin Sell recently wrote an excellent and very entertaining article about pop culture references in WoW. Obviously it would be impossible to list them all, or even know what they all are! So we would like our readers to share some of the ones they have found in their own gameplay.

Please post your own finds here. Links to pictures and screneshots would be great too!


Written by Michael Hartman (10,439 pts ) in MMO & MMORPG Gaming Blog
Last Edited on Mar 13 2009, 07:50 PM

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Mar 28, 2009 9:27 PM
re: Pop Culture References in WoW
Oh good find!
Mar 26, 2009 10:04 PM
re: Pop Culture References in WoW
Not 80's Pop culture references, but all the engineers working on teleporting devices are named after characters in the Star Treck universe. Skadi, the Dwarf, Sprock, the Goblin, and Jhordi Lapforge (a gnome).

Mar 14, 2009 1:47 AM
re: Pop Culture References in WoW
Oh, and what about the gorilla in Un'Goro Crater? The one from the Michael Crichton movie? And that's also where they have the Linken's boomerang. Come to think of it, Un'Goro Crater has tons of pop culture/inside jokes. The crystals themselves are a lot like the things from Land of the Lost.
Mar 13, 2009 8:11 PM
re: Pop Culture References in WoW
Yeah, Haris Pilton sells the bag you need for the "Gigantique" achievement.

Has anyone else seen "Bambina" in Grizzly Hills? She's a baby deer and hangs out with a rabbit and a skunk. When a hunter near Westfall Brigade kills her mother, she goes berserk and kills him. I nearly wet myself the first time I saw it.

Another favorite of mine is "Father Inigo Montoy" at Light's Hope chapel. Obvious reference to The Princess Bride. "I am Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!"
Mar 13, 2009 7:54 PM
re: Pop Culture References in WoW
Isn't there a Paris Hilton blood elf imitator in one of Shattrath's inns?
 

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