Schlock Mercenary/Trivia

• Shout-Out:
  • both Pronto and Pi were named after the screen names for two regulars on the series forum. Shep's visor resembles Geordi's from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • And the general uniforms for the Mallcop Command arc are effectively Next Generation command uniforms with the colors reversed.
  • Given his status as the Butt Monkey, Der Trihs' first name (John) may be one of these, too.
  • If you're in a decently equipped lab, you might see Xenomorph-in-a-Tube. And one mission had a teraport booth that resembled a certain blue police box...
    • As well as an adult Xenomorph here
  • This. (With a Take That in the commentary beneath.)
    • And the events leading up to that strip involved a salute to David Drake's Hammer's Slammers: the mercenary unit Pranger's Bangers, led by Colonel Drake Pranger, whose head, Word of God pointed out, is somewhat hammer-shaped.
  • There's a city on Celeschul called San Asimov. And a Port Weber is briefly mentioned.
  • Sherlock Holmes :

Doctor Bunnigus: If you don't mind a painkiller dependency, you could be a great detective.

• • LOTA. "I don't think we'd like it when it's angry." Also, Lota is too large for your puny pronouns.
    • Incredible Hulk again - "I like her when she's angry".
    • And later Clone-Cone made Schlock look like a Dronuri who "got sick, then turned big and green and started smashing things". Schlock then remembers "a show about a big Bruce guy…"
  • LOTA and the Burana-Bots performing the opening number from Aperture Science: The Musical by Coulton, Scalzi, and Wheaton
  • Retired Rear Admiral Mikhail von Mauser. Stealthy until Thurl refers to him as "Mikki."
  • In this strip, Tailor says 'We're in a maze of twisty passages, all alike!', a reference to either Zork or Colossal Cave Adventure.
  • In this strip, Shlock gets put back together by jumping into a pod and reassembling. Once he gets out of the pod, he says "Whoa! I know kung fu," a reference to Neo in The Matrix.
    • Later an ex-Gav makes a point of saying he didn't say "I know kung-fu!" upon emerging from the Transmogrifier.
  • Here is a comparison between uplifted Apes and Dwarves
  • The ape raises the issue of The Lion King.
  • Sinfest... er... reverse guest comic.
  • Although it was subtle enough to require Word of God confirmation, "key lime pie" is a reference to the second Erfworld strip.
  • Gavcorps gets one to Calvin and Hobbes here
  • The species of Acey Nubs have generally humanoid shape, but with two thin hands on one side and one strong on the other, like the Moties
  • Cluehammer 40,000
  • The mobile body of Tenzy resembles EVE visually and even functionally (miniature flying cannon).
    • ...but if a Shout-Out to WALL-E indulges in cannibalism, does this also count as a Shout-Out to Full Frontal Nerdity?
  • "Say goodnight, Gracie" here (spoiler).
  • Tailor references The Hobbit, but Captain Tagon doesn't get it:

Kaff Tagon: Six fobott'r, two humans, a frellenti, a kreely, a rilla, and an esspee... plus Schlock, that's thirteen.
Tailor: Do we need to hire a burglar?
Kaff Tagon: (Beat) You're using the joke voice, so I think we probably do not.