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A german guy doing his best to tell the tale of the Trail of a Shooting Star. If you like it, why not join the Ranger HQ group for possible sidestories? Or hunt for references?

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Jul
29th
2013

Trail of a Shooting Star - Book One - The Rising Threat - A Reference Guide · 5:32pm Jul 29th, 2013

As announced and promised, here I give to you a guide to all the references I used for Book One. There are things that furthermore inspired me and aren't really references, these kind of things are not mentioned here.
I won’t count pony-related references from the show and movie. You should know them by now. Some of these references find their origin in old and I mean really old stuff. 1947 is the oldest reference I have so far.
They are chronological, so you should find them rather quickly now. Some of them are slim, very slim.

1. Skyrim (Reference 1)
2. Thor
3. Titan AE (Reference 1)
4. Hulk vs Thor (Reference 1)
5. Meet the Pyro (Team Fortress 2)
6. Slenderman
7. Star Trek
8. Aliens (Reference 1)
9. Doctor Who (Family of Blood) (Reference 1)
10. Prince of Egypt (Reference 1)
11. Starcraft II (one liner) (Reference 1)
12. Hulk vs Thor (Reference 2)
13. Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
14. Hulk vs Thor (Reference 3)
15. Hulk vs Thor (Reference 4)

And we’re in chapter 5 by now…

16. Superman 4 (Reference 1)
17. Masters of the Universe (the movie) (Reference 1)
18. Doctor Who (Reference 2)
19. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
20. Batman The Animated Series (Reference 1)
21. Superman 4(Reference 2)
22. Doctor Who (Reference 3)
23. Phantom of the Opera (Reference 1)
24. Phantom of the Opera (Reference 2)
25. Disney’s The Black Hole (Reference 1)
26. Alien Resurrection
27. Watchmen (Reference 1)
28. World of Warcraft – Mists of Pandaria (Reference 1)
29. Alpha Centauri (PC Game)
30. Doctor Who (Reference 4)
31. Hitchhiker’s Guide through the Galaxy
32. Princess Molestia
33. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Reference 1)
34. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Reference 2)
35. Asterix Versus Caesar
36. Star Wars – The Empire strikes back
37. Watchmen (Reference 2)
38. The Secret of NIMH
39. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Reference 3)
40. Diablo II (PC Game) (Reference 1)
41. Doctor Who (Reference 5)
42. Legend of Zelda (Navi)
43. Diablo II (PC Game) (Reference 2)
44. Star Wars – Return of the Jedi
45. Wing Commander 4 (PC Game) (Reference 1)
46. Snakes on a plane
47. Diablo II (PC Game) (Reference 3)
48. Diablo III: Wrath
49. Masters of the Universe (the movie) (Reference 2)
50. Doctor Who (Reference 6)
51. Superman (1978)
52. 2010
53. Animatrix – The Second Renaissance – Part 2

And we’ve reached the beginning of Chapter 10.

54. Hulk (2003)
55. The flying Dutchman
56. Watchmen (Reference 3)
57. Doctor Who (Reference 7)
58. Wing Commander 4 (PC Game) (Reference 2)
59. Starcraft II (Reference 2)
60. Starcraft II (Reference 3)
61. Ali Baba and the forty thieves (1944)
62. Terminator
63. Matrix Reloaded (Reference 1)
64. Starcraft
65. LEXX
66. Aliens (Reference 2)
67. Doctor Who (Reference 8)
68. Matrix Reloaded (Reference 2)
69. (Indian Robot) a very slight reference…
70. Starcraft II (Reference 4)
71. Starcraft II (Reference 5)
72. Wing Commander 3 (PC Game)
73. Doctor Who (Reference 9)
74. Wing Commander 2 (PC Game)
75. Pulp Fiction
76. Starcraft II (Reference 6) - short
77. Doctor Who (Reference 10) - short
78. Matrix Revolution – short
79. Starcraft II (Reference 7) - short
80. Frank Herbert’s Dune (Reference 1)
81. 81. Metal Gear Solid 3
82. Frank Herbert’s Dune (Reference 2)
83. The Chronicles of Riddick – Escape from Butcher Bay
84. Frank Herbert’s Dune (Reference 3)
85. Doctor Who (Reference 11)
86. Deliverance
87. Frank Herbert’s Dune (Reference 4)
88. 300 (Reference 1)
89. Valkyria Chronicles
90. Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots
91. Lord of the Rings – Return of the King
92. Skyrim (Reference 2)
93. Frank Herbert’s Dune (Reference 5)
94. Doctor Who (Reference 12)
95. Batman The Animated Series (Reference 2)
96. Cupcakes
97. Catherine (PS3) (Reference 1)
98. Meet the Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
99. Disney’s the sword in the stone
100. Batman The Animated Series (Reference 3)
101. Judge Dredd (movie) (Reference 1)
102. The Silence of the Lambs
103. 300 (Reference 2)
104. World of Warcraft – Mists of Pandaria (Reference 2)
105. Disney’s The Black Hole (Reference 2)
106. Titan AE (Reference 2)
107. Power Rangers
108. Aliens (Reference 3)
109. Disney’s Pocahontas
110. Doctor Who (Reference 13)

And chapter 15 is done.

111. BraveStarr
112. Ghostbusters 1
113. Doom3 (PC Game)
114. Starcraft II (Reference 8)
115. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
116. Disney’s The Little Mermaid
117. Disney’s Lion King
118. Star Trek V – The final frontier
119. Casablanca
120. Flash Gordon
121. Animatrix – World Record
122. The Godfather
123. Meet the Spy (Team Fortress 2)
124. AH My Goddess
125. Urotsukidoji III
126. Doctor Who (Reference 14)
127. Superman II
128. Doctor Who (Reference 15)
129. Judge Dredd (Reference 1)
130. Phoenix Right
131. Judge Dredd (Reference 2) loooong reference
132. Full Throttle (PC Game)
133. The X-files

We're done with chapter 20 by now

134. Sinbad the Sailor (1947) (Reference 1)
135. The Hunt for Red October
136. Star Trek II – Wrath of Khan
137. Sinbad the Sailor (1947) (Reference 2)
138. The Thing (PC Game)
139. The Ten Commandments (1956)
140. Doctor Who (Reference 16)
141. Robin Hood: King of thieves (Reference 1)
142. Star Trek Voyager (8 words)
143. Beneath a Steel Sky
144. Pirates of the Caribbean
145. Dragon Ball Z (Reference 1)
146. Street Fighter The animated Movie (Reference 1)
147. Metal Gear Solid (2 words)
148. Street Fighter The animated Movie (Reference 2)
149. Dragon Ball Z (Reference 2)
150. Street Fighter The animated Movie (Reference 3)
151. Phantom of the Opera (Reference 3)
152. Iron Sky
153. Robin Hood: King of thieves (Reference 2)
154. Godzilla
155. Doctor Who (Reference 17)
156. Robin Hood: King of thieves (Reference 3)
157. Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks
158. Doctor Who (Reference 18)
159. Beetlejuice
160. Resident Evil 5 (PS3)
161. Doctor Who (Reference 19)
162. Coming to America
163. Teen Titans

And that's chapter 25. Have fun! :twilightsmile:

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Comments ( 3 )

And who caught them all? This guy! But I'm not saying where they're at because that would spoil the fun!

damn, i thought i was doing pretty good, but i did miss a few lol :ajsleepy:

and now the hunt through book two begins :pinkiehappy:

SO, I spend A good 5 hours (very rough estimation) looking for each and every reference and then looking up some things that might be references only to realize I haven't been taking note of them and me being me forgets a good 37% of them so ya. :facehoof:

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