Half the things This Troper says are shout outs. In an English assignment, I had to create a city of the future with supplementary (backstory and stuff) materials. The world is half GhostInTheShell, half DeusEx with a bit of other universes, including space elevators and Tokyo devastated by an earthquake, the city flooded and Tokyo Tower sideways. The slang is part made up stuff, part modern gamer slang, part {{Firefly}} Mangled-Mandarin along with "Gorram". The fashion includes WW2 pilot dress uniforms, a bowties are cool movement and basically everything else. I even got crap past the radar, describing a look popular among elementary-age girls: eight pink ball hair decorations, two on top of a pigtail and two on the bottom for both, with pigtails reaching the knees. That's right, I made a KodomoNoJikan reference in a school assignment. The best part is, if the teacher actually gets it (The Doctor landing in my house is more likely), it's not like she can call me out on it. How would she explain knowing about it?

Not only does this troper normally end up making shout outs in his statements, comments, sarcasm and everything else, but some character names in games end up shout outs. For example, my Femshep Adept is named River and a neutral female badass who goes where the money is in {{Fallout}} 3 that I made is named Tex.

You're not alone. This troper made a character in ''Fallout: New Vegas'' named {{Rango}}. Contrary to expectations, he's an ax-crazy, Chaotic Evil that likes to kill people. He does his best to get rid of anyone that happens to witness his rather gruesome "hobby".

This troper's contributions in English class are pretty much ''all'' shout outs to TV Tropes. I'm starting to get slightly odd looks from my teacher.

This troper cannot write ANYTHING without at least ''five'' of these. Specific examples below. I'll keep it to the character designs of a graphic novel I plan on publishing so we're not here all day.

The main trio first: two of the three main characters were created shortly after I finished ChronoCrusade (and yes, I ''was'' upset by the ending, hence their Expy-ness). One character, Sorriet, has Rosette Christopher's hairstyle, and her full name can be rearranged to spell "Rosette Christopher". The other is named Joshua Christopher. If the name alone doesn't tip you off, he's also a half-demon who's searching for his missing parents, who are believed to have died years ago. Natalie, the final character of the main trio, is a tad less obvious... unless you're familiar with Kouta Hirano's earlier works. It gets a touch more obvious in one sequence where she lashs out after getting her glasses knocked off. She's a look-a-like of Yumie/Yumiko Takahagi, and she takes her name from the character in question's prototype, from the hentai oneshot ''Coyote.''

Several characters also have Fairy Companions; it started with a pair of fairies that give the Natalie and Sorriet their MagicalGirl powers, called Rein and Ari. Rein takes her name and outfit from Reinforce of MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, while Ari looks a lot (though the Expiness is considerably less than other characters) like Agito, from the same anime. Another fairy shows up a few chapters; his name is Ven. This then crosses over into lawsuit-worthy territory when several more fairies show up; Aqua, Terra, and Vanitas. There are also passing mentions of others by the names of Even, Ienzo, Braig, Isa, and Lea. Also: Ven, on at least one occassion, picks up a key (normal sized to everyone else, but the fairies are the size of figurines, so the key is gigantic to Ven) only to have Terra say "Do You Wanna Get Sued" and make him put it down.

This troper frequently shouts out "YOU LIE" at his classmates. Also, while playing music, my classmates ask me what I am playing. When I am just improvising, I say Lick My Love Pump for the lulz.

This troper is writing a comic with 4 main guy characters. One is named John after John Barrowman, one named Neil after Neil Patrick Harris. And then 2 are named after tv characters. One is Jason, after Jason Teague from Smallvilld, and the other is named Dean, after Dean Winchester from Supernatural. This was mainly done because both the character I named my characters after are both played by Jensen Ackles.

This troper, who plays Quincy Archer, is actively trying to put as many shout outs as he can in Quincy's posts. So far he's done NoMoreHeroes, HomestarRunner, MontyPython, SayonaraZetsubouSensei, and ZeroPunctuation, as well as a LiteraryAllusionTitle to IWannaBeTheGuy.

With a name like "Quincy Archer", this troper hopes you're including as many {{Bleach}} shoutouts as possible.

As does this troper.

"Oh, ''poopy''" was also the catchphrase of Dr. Clayton Forrester from ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and his last line in the series.

Also, Guy Rapide mentions in passing having had a friend named Elder Scrolls}} Lucien Lachance.

@/SeanTucker, who played Sloan Henriksen, made a TengenToppaGurrenLagann reference in a scene shortly before his death.

This troper, playing as Liam Black, made him do a Kefka reference three times, in the form of "HATE HATE HATE HATE". Considering Liam is starting to look as crazy as Kefka himself, it suits him perfectly.

...This troper has said "HATE HATE HATE HATE" in the real world with no idea it was a Kefka reference. (More often with three hates, though.)

@/SilentHunter usually tries to get at least one Python reference into every game of ''{{Harpoon}}'' he plays, as well as his role-plays. In his ''Series/DoctorWho'' RP at AJJEGames, he had a character reference "All The Strange, Strange Creatures", a piece of music from that show.

@/{{Azvolrien}} enjoys putting subtle Shouts Out in her (unpublished) original fiction, though she's not sure why she bothers. Freighter ''Tranquility'', anyone? The line it appears in makes it a lot more obvious: "''Tranquility'', did she say? Reynolds, isn't that your brother's ship?"

@/{{Skazka}} is prone to putting these in schoolwork (sometimes even during in-class discussion) as well as in text roleplaying games. Her current (as of writing; now former) character on one such board is a rather psychotic Victorian fellow... with a play-by of Christian Bale. She's been forced to restrain herself from referencing every film he's ever been in- except the loosely period-correct ''Newsies'' references, and the odd offhand comments about Patrick Bateman...

This same troper also joked about a character of hers with an original PB that was extremely blond and a character that was dementedly childlike as "just your regulation psychopathic manchild with a glass eye and a thing for knifes". Never mind that he ''didn't'' have a glass eye-- at least not at the time. He did. Later.

And ''again'', on a different set of roleplays, a particular mini-plot in the Nolanverse Batman continuity involved her dear Dr. Crane and ''his'' psychologist-slash-interrogator forced into close proximity. Fairly early on I'd commented about how he'd obviously attempt to HannibalLecture the poor girl into submission, and upon the revelation that my roleplaying partner had never seen ''Silence of the Lambs'', jokingly included shout outs whenever possible. (In-character, too. Making clear that the characters' familiarity with the film mirrored the players', such as Jonathan referencing horrible things happening to his nurses and allowing a very loopy drugged Crane to state that the press would think they were in love. Thankfully, I forced my RP partner to nip out and see the film at the first opportunity, but her character never got the joke.)

@/GwenStacyWannabe has nicknamed the star of her PE class "Dylan the Boy Wonder." Unfortunately, the reference had to be explained to him...

@/{{Nomic}} tends to add shout outs into pretty much every piece of fiction he writes. The comic he writes (and hopes to publish in the web eventually) has a very large amounts of them, mostly to HPLovecraft (for example it's implied to take place in Arkham), but also to various games and TV series this troper enjoys. Both the comic and one story he has written feature Nyarlathotep as an antagonist, although that goes beyond a shout out. He also overdid it once, when he wrote a science fiction story and decided to make every single character name a shout out to Metroid games.

This troper likes calling the band teacher Haibara-sensei. She looks like Ai from DetectiveConan. I'm planning on seeing how she'll react.

Pop culture, earworms, and memes leak into many aspects of this troper's life.

Are you me?

This troper and her best friend both write original short stories. It's a bit of a game to try to find all the video game, literature, and television references in each one I, too, have named a small ship "Tranquility", and one of my friend's recent characters was "pretty much Auron in a knight's getup".

This guy had to write a how-to for reporting on various hall programming in universities. He peppered it liberally with ''DeathNote'' references (example: X Program is in the Penber Room).

This troper makes references to things he's familiar with whenever he can, which is a good bit. A lot of times they're internet memes, and Evangelion is also a personal goldmine of jokes.

@/DarkInsanity13, as said in the TroperTales/IAlwaysWantedToSayThat article, tries to add shout outs and references to anime/manga/video games/tv shows/movies/books/memes/TV Tropes/other/etc. at every chance she gets. It becomes more fun when it's something obscure/in context and only one person seems to catch onto it. I.E. when one person said they were going home to bake/eat cake (can't remember which), this troper, with a smirk, stated "The cake is a lie." Only one of the other people there got it, and after departing from the group, we discussed Portal with great delight. Recently, she had to avoid saying "to create absolute despair" when asked why the Spartans chose the conditions of surrender they did for the Athenians during the Peloponnesian Wars.

This troper did two with character names in her original scifi-comedy blog. She needed random names for the engineer to recommend for commendations after a battle. She invented two and pulled two others from Stargate: Aftermath, the SG RP she's a member of. At least one person from Aftermath noticed and commented on it. She doesn't know if anybody else is reading the blog.

This troper, for no reason, always has his Cloudcuckoolanders or {{Butt Monkey}}s as the designated "reference-a-minute" guys. Case in point: One of his Shadowrun characters is more-or-less a Bishonen Deadpool who reads /b/, /a/, /co/, and /vg/ WAAAY too much and is a master of disguise. So far, he's called a Russian arms dealer "Yuri" or "Gurokovich", a gravelly, hooded arms dealer with a limp "That hooded Australian asshole from RE", and so on.

One of this troper's characters is loosely based on a public domain superhero that many consider the first female comic book superhero (pre-dating Wonderwoman). In his universe, she is a Wonderwoman fan and following her retirement was one of the more recognized heroes in the 'verse.

This troper used to play Mafia a lot (the forum game, otherwise called Werewolf) and tended to use a lot of Death Note references. Favourites were, when playing as a mafioso, remarking "just as planned" to teammates after a success or "Farewell, Ray Penbar" when the cop was successfully knocked off. (General note: although it is fun to sit like L and eat sweets while playing Mafia, do not attempt this in a swivel chair.)

And why didn't you lounge on your chair while eating chocolate dramatically, instead? After all...

This troper is writing a book in which the villain is story obsessed, so he can use many Shout Outs to all fantasy books.

This troper is using an in game map maker to make something for a school project (don't ask). And he got bored, so he decided to make an entire village a giant, living shout out to Monty Python. It includes, among many others, the chorus of vikings called spamspamspamspamspam, The Black Knight, a villager named for every cast member,The Knights Who Say Ni, their shrubbery, and, in a little way away, Rodger The Shrubber. And he has a cart called The Shrubmobile. Oh, and hidden among about twenty chickens, there's one called a Norwegian Blue.

@/{{Sainsbury}} wrote a piece of writing for Year 12 Literature and decided the main character should have two dogs. The dogs were eventually named Wash and Zoe. Guess which one was dead by the end.

@/{{Shaon}} maintains an extensive pantheon of gods and doesn't exactly restrain from shout outs. Highlights include Gregorius, God of Medicine and Giegue, God of Emotion.

This troper peppers her day-to-day conversations with game/show/anime/book references. When she writes, she also tends to include references to her recent obsession.

This troper is currently working on a programming project involving hashmaps. He named his map "theMap", as in "HERE--IS--THE MAP."

This troper includes shoutouts to almost every pop culture icon ever in his fanfiction and scripts. He also does this while playing video games. In ''Final Fantasy IX'' he named Steiner- Lightyear after Buzz from ''Toy Story''.

HAH you too! since day one of seeing production images of that game I have stated constantly "just look at Steiner, he's frigging Buzz Lightyear!" to everyone who would listen

This troper likes to put shout outs and references in pretty much anything created. The current favorite is a city called Bohemia, famous for it's music and rhapsodys. The neighbouring continent is called Iwan Titall.

@/AstraKiseki wrote a story that had plenty of shout outs (some are jokes for the forum the story was posted on), but one was completely unintentional. Two of the possible love interests were named Summer River, and Tam Glau.

This troper's younger brother left a message on their mother's phone once: "Mummy? Mummy? Are you my mummy? I want my mummy!" (And he actually ''did'' want to ask her a question.) The troper herself had to write a short essay on nuclear weapons for her American Government course -- specifically, about who should have the authority to "press the button." In it, she managed to paraphrase "a great big threatening button which must never under any circumstances be pressed!" rather successfully.

@/{{Malus}} has managed to sneak shout outs to TVTropes itself in an AfterTheEnd world that doesn't even have any computers. Justified by the character having been brought forward in time on accident.

@/{{Magnezone}} is a writer of {{Pokemon}} fanfiction. She is also a fan of this trope, and loves to make use of it whenever she could. So, when one Porygon ('the first man-made Pokemon') was startled into entering a Trainer's Pokedex ('an online encyclopedia!') and the Trainer demanded he get out. (The second time Porygon spoke was a reference to a previous fic, ''Metal Coat''... in it, a man who perfectly fit Porygon's description was turned into a Magneton and back again.) This is what happened. #QUOTE# '''Rodney''': Why do you need an Electrizer to get out of the Pokedex, Porygon? #QUOTE# '''Porygon''': I got sucked in here by the resemblance to a computer. I was startled to be out of the Pokeball. If I can draw myself out and into the Electrizer... I should be able to escape easily. #QUOTE# '''Rodney''': Can't you use a Magneton (a robotic Pokemon) instead? #QUOTE# '''Porygon''': Magneton are no ''fun''... They're completely emotionless. And they're always bad guys. Every single time. If they were mortals, they'd be really tall and stoic and their eyes would be all cold and gray and stuff and their hair would be all spiky and blue-gray, and they'd probably do something REALLY REALLY EVIL!

This troper's appropriated "Jackpot" and "Let's rock" as catchphrases. I swear if someone else calls me Dante...

@/EddieVanHelsing's very handle is a shoutout to both the band Van Halen and to ''Dracula''. He also has a recipe for "Megaflare Chili", and doesn't simply "nuke" food, he casts either Megido, Megidola, or Megidolaon on it. And don't ask him about the novel he's been working on. It groans beneath the weight of the shoutouts. Among other things, one character's favorite band is "Keep Firing Assholes", who released an album called ''Even in the Future Nothing Works''.

@/{{Magus}} created a [=DnD=] pantheon comprised completely of ''Internet memes.''

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This troper probably needs to cut back on the number of shout outs in his story ideas. One example is an entire family named for NamesToKnowInAnime, including an artist named Hayao, a distant father figure named Hideaki, and an engineer named Shirow (also a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy for bonus points). Others range from StarTrek to {{Firefly}} and often cause entire scenes to be added in for the sole purpose of having the shout out. Case in point: a showdown between two vessels, the latter rogue, named "Kataang" and "Zutara" respectively. I don't even watch the show and I'm giving it shout outs!

@/{{Ronnie}} has a universe full of this. A secret organization named after The Question's secret identity, with agent codenames linked to said character and artists related to it, and a geek character who absolutely ''loves'' referencing comics and etc.- He convinces his technorganic girlfriend of her worth using ''Star Trek'' as analogy, and quoting Hellboy ("In the words of a man with a RedRightHand: 'Screw Destiny.'") to ''an Angel of Death.''

This troper tried to fit as many shout outs to various anime as he could on hisWASL test (one of those icky standardized tests they make you take that suck) for writing a fiction story. It also had vividly described erotic scenes in response to the prompt about a message in a bottle or something. Guess which WASL test was the only one this troper didn't pass with flying colors, instead getting a 0.

@/SlackerSpice once called our Christmas tree (which we hadn't put up yet) the Invisible Christmas Tree of Destiny.

@/AirshipCanon, while playing Armored Core For Answer has a series of mechs that are all shout outs to TalesOfSymphonia, the Angel Series. Also, his main blading next is ACN-STD-026 "Zephiris", a shout out to ScrappedPrincess.

I find ways to reference things I don't even know much about, I even try to put in references in my homework. There's only a few people who get them though, and people who don't understand the reference would probably find the thing very, very, weird.

This troper hasn't seen ''{{Firefly}}'' yet (it's on his To Do list), but if he ever gets the chance to name bits on a fictional world you can bet your life that there'll be a river named the Tam.

And then there's a ''{{Paranoia}}'' gadget - a sort of glorified Magic 8-Ball - he nicked off the Internet and gave the name "Tactical Assessment Reconnaissance Display Information Spheroid". Now look at the acronym...

This troper has a story where all the chapter titles are underloved lines from action movies.

This troper throws them around in his programming projects. For instance, in a project he calls "Animal Edit," he named one his variables "ae86Trueno".

This troper is writing a NeonGenesisEvangelion / MazingerZ crossover. So far, he's stated that Koji Kabuto and Shinji Ikari have a classmate named Shiiba Hiroshi, and he introduced three soldiers who dream about getting their own robot which they would pilot together. Their names ? Ryoma, Hayato and Benkei.

This troper, a big space geek, was doing an RPG where a random NPC accidentally ate truth serum and shouted "My real first name is Virgil!" Later, he came back into the story and lost a bet to be the one demonstrating the serum to FBI agents and went "And my middle name is Ivan!"

When this troper took Spanish 5 last year in her senior year, she had to write a lot of journal entries in Spanish. To get the assignment done, guess what she wrote about? Doctor Who! In fact, she wrote out all of the serial/episode titles in Spanish--which took up several entries! What a way to blow it off and still get credit.

I managed to do an intentional and an unintentional one. Intentional one, in Serebii Forums, I did a shout out to MontyPythonandtheHolyGrail, with Sir. Not appearing in this anime. And my unintentional one was in my Drama Class, we had to do a dream of one of the two 'teachers', and my character got shot, in an intentional shout out to Scarface, and I ran across, died, and then got better just to say, "I'm dead." Which is a shout out to TeamFortress2.

@/AngryScientist's Engineering classroom has this xkcd strip hanging on the wall with "Engineering 2009" photoshopped over "Wikipedia" and "Mr. ----- Talking" over "Fascinated Clicking". Sadly, nobody gets the ShoutOut or just fails to notice it.

@/PentiumMMX2 tends to have these slipped into his stories, from just about anything you can imagine (Most of which, as of late, are references to Series/DoctorWho)

Whenever this troper plays Dead Space, he would always shoot the enemies once even when they were dead while shouting "Double Tap!", as a shout out to Zombieland.

This troper sees potential shoutouts everywhere. His History notes on WW2 has General Tomoyuki Yamashita renamed to Tomoyuki Nagato. He wants to genderbend all the males On}} in his friend's band because doing so, and transferring them all into the same school and giving them a love for cake and tea would make life cooler. He wants a notice delivered to the principal to tell him that someone blacklisted him. And most of all, he wants to steal a nuclear submarine to get his hat back should anyone steal it.

This troper has a tendency of coving bad words with Shout outs. Folr example, One time I was about to shout 'Oh my God' I changed it to 'Mata Nui' as in the bioncle great sprit.

In my gym class today, the soccor team apposing mine named themselves the Blue Lazors.

This one never made it to the final cut, but was definitely a fun placeholder: While trying to write an essay on TheGreatGatsby through a psychoanalytic lens, this troper couldn't figure out a good hook. I tried various statements about how the brain worked, and eventually (without thinking about it) put down "The human mind". Immediately, my ''own'' mind went elsewhere and it was followed by "600 miles of synaptic fiber, five and a half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter... a three-pound pile of dreams."

I'm bad at making up my own names for any game that I play, so I just end up using a name from some other game, book, movie, or tv show. The latest one, and one that makes me smile when I think about it, is my Death Knight in WorldOfWarcraft; I named her after my favorite poem, Lady Lazarus.

I make refrences to internet memes and other things, unfourtenetly most people don't get them.

0dd1: If I can fit a song reference into something (be it anything from a school assignment or paper to general conversation), even if it takes a lonely lifetime, '''I will.''' ''Especially'' if it's a Beatles reference. Sometimes it's not so egregious to others, though, especially if they don't know the songs I reference. I don't mind--I think they're crazy.

This troper tends to make Shout Outs in anything she writes. At one point, I made a Shout Out to Rurouni Kenshin and Katekyo Hitman Reborn in two different poems.

I once managed to pull one of these off in an RP where one of the characters, named Nevermore, who speaks using PokemonSpeak, said "Nevva! Nevermore!" I even made it so that the character said 'nevermore' after Nevva, with an implied 'is' between them.

Out of boredom, I added to my English essay about friendship "I've become a part of their heart just as they've become a part of mine."

This troper makes ridiculous amounts of them. He made a Facebook note titled "Does Facebook Dream of Electric Stupidity?", just to give but one example.

I do this just about every time I talk to someone. However, as many of my shout outs are to things like QueerAsFolk (which only one of my friends has seen in its entirety), or fanfics that only I have read or music that only I listen to, people around me very seldom realise that what I just said was a shout out.

I once created a female character who's basic creation idea was to stuff as many recognizable items on her as it was possible: she has a black beret, a Chocobo feather attached to it, wears Light Speed Shoes, wields two guns etc.

This troper has a story that has many, including ones to JohnnyCash, the SCPFoundation, BioShock, and CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator. Another story he wrote has two for FirstEncounterAssaultRecon, for the lulz.

I remember doing this. #QUOTE#'''Me:''' If you mention that one more time, your colon is going to have a brilliant idea.

Just one from today, actually (though I probably only think it's funny because I'm a complete and total nerd) and it's literally a shout out, since it was being held across the room. #QUOTE#Student 1: (heading out the door) Let's'a go! #QUOTE#Student 2: ({{Beat}}) Okie-dokie!

this Troper and her friends can carry hours long conversations that actually have coherence using nothing but quotes or references from the Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama

also my bard character in D&D was made of this, occasionally pulling the rest of the party along for the ride, among her greatest hits is mentioning another bard in universe named Lucas who is well known for writing a play about a young peasant fighting a dark paladin, mentioning a half-mercury dragon named Fredrick, and at one point our party had to sneak into an enemy stronghold in disguise, her disguise of choice was a straw hat and blue cloak concealing her face except for the eyes, the rest of the party then adopted a white hooded robe with red trim, a red karate gi, and a red outfit with a fancy red hat with a white feather

our DM got in on the act once too, in a sea voyage we were on aboard a mystical ship that traveled to alternate dimensions (don't ask) had our characters meeting up with Sonic the Hedgehog, Hamtaro, Final Fantasy 7, and Transformers, versions of themselves

I snuck a couple Creepers from {{Minecraft}} into a history assignment. Why? Because that's how I roll.

This Troper likes to use some obscure shout outs to video games and memetic shows that hardly anyone understands but at least it makes her giggle.

Tropers/{{Mort08}} loves to put the most obscure shout-outs she can think of in her fanfics, just to see if anyone will get them. She's made subtle allusions to TropicThunder, YoungFrankenstein, BlackSwan and even had that iconic line from GoneWithTheWind spoken in ''Latin.'' More recently, she was at a party and got into a friendly back-and-forth with a much younger girl she's friends with. They eventually began attacking each other with imaginary weapons and troper ended the fight by deadpanning, "I've got this hammer only I can lift, and I stuck it on your chest so you can't move."

It's only just occurred to this troper how utterly ''horrible'' she is about this, despite the literal ShoutOut detailed earlier. The epiphany came as I reviewed my PC boxes in PokemonBlackAndWhite and found, among others, an Emolga named Rocky, a Klink named Klunk, a Larvesta and Volcarona named, respectively, Volvagia and Valoo and an Elgeyem (complete with {{Telepathy}}) which I'd merrily dubbed Raz mere moments beforehand. There are plenty more, like Dwight the Dwebble, Morgana the Frillish and, Lili the Gothita who, ironically, had been captured and forgotten about long before Raz.