Skulduggery Pleasant/Shout Out

It bears mentioning Derek Landy is a self-professed comic reader, gamer, movie geek, etc. Which is probably why there are so many of these.

• To Watchmen in the second book.
• Possibly to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with the tagline of book three- 'Do Panic' on the cover.
• The Cthulhu Mythos are discussed several times.
• To The Blair Witch Project in book four.
• To Hamlet on the Book Four cover.
• Part of a chapter towards the end of the fifth book seems to be lifted straight out of a certain swordfight scene from The Princess Bride.
• There is a moment in the fifth book which references the "spanish inquisition" sketch from Monty Python.
• It was... an ex- rabbit.
• One of the words used to open the Crucible was "Mellon".
• Look out for the Empire Strikes Back reference in Book Five: "Not a scratch, Ghastly"
• There's a Posthumous Character named Trope in the third book. Coincidence? I think not.
• Valkyrie is worried about "hulking out" in book six.
• "Help, Sigourney Weaver! Help!"
• "Like Jules, in Pulp Fiction?"
• "We're not Buffy and Angel, OK? We're not Romeo and Juliet. We're not those guys in West Side Story. We're not even Edward and Bella."
• In book 6, when Carol and Crystal ask Valkyrie to teach them some "tricks", she tells them they're not called tricks, and the twins correct themselves to saying "illusions" instead.
• Darquesse mentions flying like Superman.
  • There's an earlier Superman reference in Playing With Fire, where Valkyrie comments that Dusk ripping off his human skin is similar to how Clark Kent rips off his shirt.