References

[ShaunGBD]

I literally just got the Mirror Universe Reference, I feel so stupid

 

What do you mean?

[praguepride]

Alison Capone - Al Capone

Amazing Fire Fly - reference to Whedon's Firefly

Andriy Boronin - Andriy Voronin former Liverpool player

Angry Gilmore - reference to Thea Gilmore the singer-songwriter

Annie Hitch**** - Alfred Hitch****, renowned Director (lousy filter!)

Arson Wells - Orson Welles

Arthur Dexter Bradley - the name of one of the petty thieves who identified Rubin "Hurricane" Carter as a perpetrator of a triple murder

Ash Campbell - Ash Campbell- Army of Darkness (Ash is the main character portrayed by Bruce Campbell)

Aud D'Hoffryn - Aud was Anya's original name, D'Hoffryn her demon boss

Bart Biggz - Bart Star, a Packer's quarterback

Bigger Dan Ewe - pun name: Bigger Than You.

Billie Krystal - Billy Crystal.

Bobbie Dylan - Bob Dylan. As a chick. The "Woodstock Warrior" nickname kinda gives it away...

Bonnie Clyde - Bonnie and Clyde

Bradford Peverell - A town in Dorset, England

Brett Biggz - Brett Favre, another big-name quarterback

Brickhouse Baldo - Bobo Baldo

Bully Benrubi - Abraham Benrubi played Olaf the Troll on a couple of Buffy episodes

Cannonball Logan - Cannonball Run and Logan's Run, two movies

Carol Singer - Carol singers. God, I hate them. That's why I never hire her.

Charlize Angelle - Charlie's Angels Or, rather one of them.

C.H. Threepwood - Monkey Island Guybrush Threepwood.

Chuck Everlasting - Tuck Everlasting.

Calamity Jona - Calamity Jane

Chopper Rourke - Chopper Reed Aussie nutcase criminal

Chris Everton - The Club Everton

Citizen X - his alternate name E.M.M. Moe is a pun name on "emo", MMO, or according to Adam "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"

Crockett Tubbs - Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice

Dan DaLay - Refers to Speedy Gonzales cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!"

Daniel Black Francis - named after Black Francis, the lead singer of the Pixies

Danny Fonzarelli - The Fonz, dude!

Danny Rushmore - a Mt. Rushmore reference.

Davey Celtic - Celtic

Davis Wayne Newton - Wayne Newton

Dermot O'Logical- pun name on Dermotological

Desert Storm - The codename for the first Gulf War.

Dharma Gregg - Dharma and Greg, a 90's sitcom.

Duke Hazzard - The Dukes of Hazzard, 80s TV show and recent movie

Dusty Bin - Mascot from 3-2-1, the gameshow

Ed Monton - Edmonton, Canada.

Eric Blackely - Derek Black, forum guru & testor for the game

Elmo Benson - Elmo from sesame street

Eva Berlin - Hitler's wife, Eva Braun.

Extreme Deluxe - A reference to some crappy wrestling sim or other.

Faith - Faith from BtVS, right down to the whole no surname thing (unless you've read the RPG, in which case you know it's Lehane).

Fearless Blue - His real name, Kris Turkleton, is a reference to the Scrubs character Chris Turk

Gabriela Ortega - A portmanteu (nice word ¬_¬) of Gabriel Batistuta and Ariel Ortega, two famous Argentine footballers.

Geena the Warrior Princess - Xena, Warrior Princess.

Genghis Rahn - Genghis Kahn + Arlie Rahn

Golden Delicious - A variety of apple.

Groucho Bling - Oscar the Grouch, from sesame street

Hannah Potter - Sounds like a Harry Potter reference to me...

Honey Golightly - Probably a reference to Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's

Humphrey Woolsey - A combination of Sir Humphrey and Bernard from Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister's names.

Jason Azaria - Hank Azaria from the Simpsons

JD Morgan - a reference to Jeff Dean Morgan OR Jack Daniels + Captain MOrgan

Jed High - (i.e. Jedi, star wars reference)

Jessica Bunny - Jessica rabbit

Joey Beuchamp - footballer who played for Oxford and West Ham I think.

Kali Fornia - Kalifornia is the title of a movie starring Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis, which I frickin' love.

K-Squared - His real name Kenny Kuntz and the mention of "creative chants" in his profile may well b a reference to Fantasy Football League, and their relentless mocking of the German footballer Stefan Kuntz during Euro '96.

KC Glenn - KC and the Sunshine Band

Knuckles - sonic the hedgehog character

Leper Messiah - metallica song as well as line in David Bowie song

Little Bill Lewbowski - The Big Lebowski

Lobo Blanco - White Wolf Games.

Louis Figo Manico - Luis Figo, the footballer.

Loxley Robbins - Sir Robin of Loxely, from Robin Hood

Mainstream Hernandez - has various references to Thea Gilmore

Mercutio Sleep - Romeo & Juliet

Miss Information - pun name, as in misinformation

Nelson Callum - Nelson's Column.

Nevada Nuclear - most US nuke testing is done in Nevada desert

Norman Gates - Norman Bates from Psycho

Notorious F.R.E.A.K.- Notorious B.I.G.

Optimus - Optimus Prime from the Transformers

Owen Love - Owen Hart (possibly)

Puffy the Sand Iron Player - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pylea - Home planet of the green guy from Angel

Randall Hopkirk - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), a British TV show about a detective and his dead partner.

Remo - named after the title character of The Destroyer series of novels

Rico Santana - road agent for FCW......WWC's long time road agent and former wrestler was Cuban born Ricky Santana

Ring Generals- Muppets (Waldorf and Statler are the old guys in the balcony)

Ripper LeStat - named for Lestat de Lioncourt, main character of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novels.

Rocky Golden - his previous gimmick - Prince Adam, is the name of He-Man

Rolling Johnny Stones - The Rolling Stones.

Rosa the Surfer - named after Pixie's album Surfer Rosa

Sara Silver - Comedienne Sarah Silverman

Sean McFly - Back to the Future reference

Sean Quartermainne - League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Alan Quartermainne is played by Sean Connery!

Scout - 1960 book / 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird

Steve Grayson - Speedway character played by Elvis Pressley

Super Sonic - sonic the hedgehog

Tank Bradley - Bradley Tank

The Big Bad - B:tVS reference

The Outbackers, Rolf and Harris - Rolf Harris, an Australian entertainer

Toby Juan Kanobi - (i.e. Obi Wan Kenobi, star wars)

Vengance/Skull DeBones - Skeletor

Wanda Fish - A Fish Called Wanda

Whiskey Jack - Jack Daniel's Whiskey

Willow - Willow from B:TVS

Wonder Boy - Tenacious D song

Wooton Fitzpaine - Wooton Fitzbaine in Dorset

Xander Summers - another Buffy reference, namely Xander and (Dawn) Summers

Zeus Maxmillion - Maximillion Zeus, Batman villain.

Zoe Ammis - Agent 69 was the original name of Get Smart's agent 99 before censors demanded a rename

 

 

Have fun!

[20LEgend]

I like the Scout one as his real name is Jeremy Finch which is also a reference.

 

I also like the football references because I've always wondered about most of them (some are obvious (Louis Figo Manico).)

[Phantom Stranger]

PP, that's probably not where Whiskey Jack comes from, given the existence of US folktales about Wisakedjak/Whiskey Jack...

[praguepride]

I am also wary of names that are identical.

 

If you look at most of the "reference" names, they're similar, but not identical.

 

So when someone says that, say

 

"Whisky Jack" is the same as Whisky Jack, the folktale, I'm thinking

 

Blackjack Bailey = Bailey's

Whisky Jack = Jack Daniel's

 

 

You know...similar, but not identical.

 

 

edit: Also, most of these pop culture rerferences comes from Adam's own experiences and tastes. Hence why there's so many Joss Whedon references, or Pixies or British/US sitcom stuff.

 

Having a random "ancient native american mythology reference' when there are no other supporting references makes me think that this is cooincidence, not intent. My thought is that it's far more likely for these to be alcohol references (what programmer DOESN'T use alcohol references ) rather then some random outlier.

 

In all honesty, Whisky Jack might just be a random name. Like how Jack Bruce turned out to just be a random name generator rather then any actual pop culture reference.

[lazorbeak]

Saying something is a reference to LXG is sort of missing the point of LXG. Alan Quatermain was the star of King Solomon's Mines and several other novels written by H. Rider Haggard (best porn name ever, btw). Whiskey Jack was also the americanized name of the trickster figure in Neil Gaiman's American Gods, so it's not that obscure a reference.

[BHK1978]

Bart Biggz - Bart Star, a Packer's quarterback

 

I am not sure about this one. Is Adam a fan of the NFL? And if he is would he take the name of a QB from the 1960's? And why not name a character after Y.A. Title?

[lazorbeak]

I am not sure about this one. Is Adam a fan of the NFL? And if he is would he take the name of a QB from the 1960's? And why not name a character after Y.A. Title?

 

It only works if you remember that his brother's name is Brett, the surname of another famous Packer QB. not sure it's true though.

 

 

I always wondered if the Bumfholes are references to Michael Hickenbottom (aka Shawn Michaels), based on their similarly embarrassing names. Another possibility is 80's worker Buck Zumhofe (can you believe that didn't become a household name?) based on flipping Zimmy's first and last initials.

[praguepride]

Saying something is a reference to LXG is sort of missing the point of LXG. Alan Quatermain was the star of King Solomon's Mines and several other novels written by H. Rider Haggard (best porn name ever, btw). Whiskey Jack was also the americanized name of the trickster figure in Neil Gaiman's American Gods, so it's not that obscure a reference.

 

 

 

 

true but the key for both look and name is the LXG version played by Sean. its not a reference to solomon's mine.. its a reference to LXG which is itself a reference to other works. but you cannot just skip the middle without losing connection to Mr. Bond

[Adam Ryland]

I know virtually nothing about American sports, so if there are any references in the game to real life players then it's purely coincidental.

 

Dan DaLay - Refers to Speedy Gonzales cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!"

 

I think that wins the prize for most bizarre suggestion so far. Dan DaLay is a reference \ quasi in-joke, and quite a cheeky one at that, but it's got nothing to do with phonetic spellings of Speedy Gonzales' catchphrases - I haven't quite gone to those depths of obscurity yet.

[20LEgend]

Even I now I still think "Dan DaLay - Refers to Speedy Gonzales cries of "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale!" is a great shout even if it is off the mark

[Blake Trask]

The only reference I can think of from DaLay is that he and Catherine Quine were in EWR. DaLay wrote one of the columns... I think it was the one flashing a spotlight on a promotion 'DaLay of the land'

 

...I'm not very good at this game. Haha.

[Kluge]

I'm still in shock The Biggz brothers aren't Packer referances I'm one sad panda

[alden]

i take it adam is a big btvs and pixies fan *and who can blame him *

[praguepride]

Dan DaLay -> Dan The Lay?

 

Are you hanging round some man whores

 

 

edit: Topher Smith -> Topher from The Dollhouse

 

Echo is Echo, but a male version of her. The bio confirms it, person is a mystery, uses lots of marital arts moves,

[James Casey]

Echo is Echo, but a male version of her. The bio confirms it, person is a mystery, uses lots of marital arts moves,

 

Don't be too sure - Faith in-game seems like a straight reference to Faith in Buffy (even down to the ref in her bio about a missing surname) but Adam confirmed it wasn't a deliberate reference.

 

I'm not saying it's not right, but Echo as a codename for a mysterious character is right up there with Alpha, Delta and so on.

[Derek B]

I just accidentally found something that is almost certainly of no relation to how Rafael Ruiz's name came about, but is brilliant nonetheless. From a LastFM bio

 

"Los del Río (Spanish for "those from the river", referring to the Guadalquivir or the Guadaira) is a Spanish music duo, consisting of Antonio Romero Monge and Rafael Ruiz"

 

So now we all know the shocking truth... "The Mexican Pitbull" Rafael Ruiz is actually the genius behind the Macarena, a song that I continue to insist be adopted as the Mexican national anthem, and danced to by crowds at the start of every lucha event.

[eayragt]

I just accidentally found something that is almost certainly of no relation to how Rafael Ruiz's name came about, but is brilliant nonetheless. From a LastFM bio

 

"Los del Río (Spanish for "those from the river", referring to the Guadalquivir or the Guadaira) is a Spanish music duo, consisting of Antonio Romero Monge and Rafael Ruiz"

 

So now we all know the shocking truth... "The Mexican Pitbull" Rafael Ruiz is actually the genius behind the Macarena, a song that I continue to insist be adopted as the Mexican national anthem, and danced to by crowds at the start of every lucha event.

 

He's just lost his hard man image...

[The Celt]

>Marshal Dillon

>Robert Dillon

>"Bob" Dillon

>Bob Dylan

[20LEgend]

In WMMA 3 there is a reference to flight of the conchords with New Zealand fighter Murray Darby from Murray Hewitt played by Rhys Darby

[jhd1]

>Marshal Dillon

>Robert Dillon

>"Bob" Dillon

>Bob Dylan

 

I always figured his name came from the main character from Gunsmoke - Marshal Matt Dillon. Could be a combination of the two...

 

Bobbie Dylan obviously takes her name from Bob Dylan (too).

[bassplays]

Does the 70s mod count?

 

Because there is Brick Fantana, a play on Brian Fantana and Brick Tamblin, Paul Rudd and Steve Carrell's characters in Anchorman.

 

70% of the time, it a reference, everytime.

[The Celt]

There's only one rule in a San Diego street fight: No touching of the hair or face...

[NWO4until01]

I ate a big, red candle...

[20LEgend]

May be a long shot but Ricardo Fuller used to play for Preston, hence

October 2014 new worker Preston Fuller?