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  1. More events: -Ego Has Landed: a play on "The Eagle has landed," the first message broadcast from the surface of the moon to Earth. -The Man Inside Me: this one seems too odd NOT to be a reference. On the TV show Arrested Development, one of the characters writes a book called "The Man Inside Me". It didn't sell very well among heterosexuals, but it sold amazingly well in the gay community... -Clobbering Time: The Thing's catchphrase from Fantastic Four. -There Can Be Only One: Highlander. -Times of Trouble: Forget the D&D thing, it was a real historical event first. It refers to the period of political instability and famine that hit Russia at the start of the 17th century. When Sweden and Poland are fighting over who gets to pick your corpse clean, you know your country is in trouble. -It Tolls for Thee: John Donne. "Ask not for whom the bell tolls..." -Clash of the Tartans: Ray Harryhausen film "Clash of the Titans". Some arena references: -ANSI Stadium. ANSI stands for "American National Standards Institute". Computer programming leans heavily on standards established by ANSI. -Kalmar Bar & Grill. Kalmar is a minor city on the Swedish east coast. The only thing it's even remotely famous for is the Kalmar Union, a treaty that (temporarily) united the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under a single ruler. Not really a reference, more a background on where the name came from--I hadn't even been aware there was still a town there. -The Lowe Ballroom. They're always trying to pay you less than your share of the ticket sales... -Stanley Hall was an early pioneer in child psychology. -Sunrise Sunset was a famous song from the musical "Doctor Zhivago". -The Dust Bowl was a series of Depression-era dust storms that ravaged midwestern north America, leaving over half a million homeless and forcing another 2.5 million to migrate to the coasts. -The Grey Dog Software Arena sounds like it may be a reference, but I haven't been able to find any info about it anywhere. Maybe a reference to Greyhound, a UK band? -And finally, another Buffy reference: Whedon Stadium.
  2. More Buffy references: -The Big Bad. -Bully Benrubi: Abraham Benrubi played Olaf the Troll on a couple of Buffy episodes. He also played the bully on an old 90's TV show, Parker Lewis Can't Lose. -Arson Wells is maybe Orson Welles? -Bigger Dan Ewe, obviously, is Bigger Than You. -Billie Krystal is Billy Crystal. -Black Hat Bailey is a reference to old-school westerns, where the villain always wore a black hat. -I can't see the name C.H. Threepwood without thinking of Guybrush Threepwood. -Chuck Everlasting: Tuck Everlasting. -Davis Wayne Newton: Wayne Newton is an American musician. -Dean "Deano Machino" Daniels: "Deano Machino" is one of the nicknames Chris Jericho called Dean Malenko during their famous feud. -Dermot O'Logical: probably obvious, but a dermatology reference. Note the misspelling; wrestlers aren't known for their grammar. -Duke Hazzard: The Dukes of Hazzard. -Someone mentioned Clinton Washington. Well, there's also Grant Truman. -Ed Monton: Edmonton, Canada. -Eva Berlin: Hitler's wife, Eva Braun. -Helen Bach: Hell and back. -Helen Earth: Hell on Earth. -Jeri Behr: Jerry Garcia. -Probably unintentional, but Kashmir Singh was an Indian spy. -Little Bill Lewbowski: The Big Lebowski? -Marshall Dillon was a character on Gunsmoke. -Mercutio Sleep: One of Mercutio's most famous monologues in Romeo and Juliet is about sleep and dreams. Though on rereading, it has a lot more to do with dreams than sleep, so a bit of a stretch. -Nelson Callum: Nelson's Column. -Nevada Nuclear: It's pretty well known that the U.S. has done a lot of nuclear weapons tests in the Nevada desert. -Notorious F.R.E.A.K.: Notorious B.I.G.? -Pablo Rodriguez: This one is a major stretch, but in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the priest who took them in when Clint Eastwood's character was dying of dehydration was Pablo Ramirez. -Roger the Dodger was American football player Roger Staubach's nickname, but it's also apparently a UK comic strip character, which seems the more likely reference. -Sam Sparrow: Australian singer Sam Sparro? -Whiskey Jack is a common anglicized form of Wisakedjak, an Algonquin spirit. He showed up, among other places, in Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel, American Gods. Some finishers: -Vendetta's Anarchy in the USA move is a reference to the song Anarchy in the U.K. -Jessica Bunny's Bunny Boiler finisher is a Fatal Attraction reference. -Catherine Quine's Cat's Cradle is a Kurt Vonnegut reference. -Ashley Grover's Chicago Hope might be named after the TV show. -Art Reed's Dark Matter might be named after the Porcupine Tree song. -Delirium's Dazed and Confused is probably named after the movie. -Slayyer's Dead Zone is probably from the Steven King novel. -Sean McFly's Delorean Driver is from Back to the Future. The main character is Marty McFly, and to travel in time, he drives a Delorean. -Sergei Kalashnov's Eastern Block is a reference to the Eastern Bloc, a Cold War era name for the communist countries in eastern Europe. -The Enygma Variation is a reference to the Enigma Variations, a piece of classical music. -Sister Beth Mercy's Flying Nun is probably from the TV show. -Notorious F.R.E.A.K.'s Freak Out could be named after the album by the Mothers of Invention, though it more likely comes from the slang term. -Frehley's Comet: Haley's Comet. -From Canada With Love: From Russia With Love. Steven Parker's Future Shock comes from the book by Alvin Toffler. -Gentleman Jim King's King Maker is a reference to England's War of the Roses. -Owen Love's Love Gun is from the KISS album. -MDK is referenced by several moves. It's short for Murder Death Kill, a phrase from the movie Demolition Man. -Pandemonium is the capital city in Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost. PandAmonium is Panda Mask's finisher. -Whistler's Rebel Yell probably comes from the Billy Idol song. It probably doesn't come from the Civil War Confederate battle cry, seeing as how he's playing a Patriotic Face character in a northern promotion. Though it does give me an idea for a heel turn... -Tommy Cornell's Rough Ride is hard to pin down. The most common mainstream association with the phrase is Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, but as it turns out, there's also a British military regiment with the same nickname. Since the British unit took their name from the American one, I'm going to call it a TR reference. -Flemmy Lemming's Suicide Solution was an Ozzy Osbourne song. -Eric Future's Time Slice may be a Terry Pratchett reference. In his novel "The Thief of Time", his character Lu-Tze uses a time travelling technique called "Time Slice" to do otherwise impossible things. -KC Glenn uses "Tune Up the Sunshine Band". Almost certainly a KC and the Sunshine Band reference. I don't know if you're counting the other Cverse mods, but in Cverse 97, there's Outbacker Harris and Outbacker Rolf: Australian musician Rolf Harris.
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