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Discuss all things Destiny 2.
Edited by NeonPropose: 9/16/2018 12:33:09 PM
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The literature and pop-culture references in the Destiny Universe:

This post is a little different from my other posts. You’ll find references to Films, TV, other games, media icons and musicals/play. Enjoy: [spoiler]some of these you may have seen in previous posts.[/spoiler] Weapons: - Sturm & Drang - The lore is also based on a late 18th century, German literary movement, such as ‘The Sorrows of young Werther’ by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. - Moriaen-D - a 13th century Arthurian romance in Middle Dutch, detailing the story of Moriaen, the Moorish son of Aglovale, one of King Arthur’s knights of the round table. - - Izdubar-D (Babylonian) - the representation of Gilgamesh (the king of the Sumerian (southern Iraq) city-state of Uruk and a major hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology), in the Victorian era story ‘Ishtar and Izdubar, the epic of Babylon’ (1884) by Leonidas le Cenci Hamilton. - Hard Light - the lore tab is very similar to Steve Jobs’ speech when Apple released the iPhone. - “against all odds - this machine gun is a possible reference to the line by C3-P0. Ornaments: Thanks to user Bumblebee793: [quote]- raging Lupus - possible reference to Monty Python and the holy grail. [/quote] Armour: - heart of the Praxic Fire - the Armour perk is named “praise the sun” a reference to dark souls. The flavour text also makes reference to a line by Solaire of Astora. Thanks to Ult loot crate: [quote]- ACD/O feedback fence - references the band AC/DC in the lore tab. The part that references the band goes as follows “ It is not an AC-DC Feedback Fence and it is not named for any work of pre-classical music. I am not winking. That is a malfunction”[/quote] Ships: - Captain Nemo - name of the main character from the 1870 book “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne. - Antonio - references to the main character from Shakespeare’s 16th century play “The merchant of Venice”. The flavour text reads, ‘well, tell me now what lady is the same to whom you swore secret pilgrimage?-Shakespeare’, which is a direct quote from the play. - Bassanio - references to the another character from Shakespeare’s 16th century play “The merchant of Venice”. The flavour text reads, ‘In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self same flight-Shakespeare’, which is a direct quote from the play. Sparrows: Thanks to user BookGoblin: [quote]- Annabel Lee - this is a reference to a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. The flavour text is the poem “And neither the angels in Heaven above / Nor the demons down under the sea / Can ever dissever my soul from the soul / Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...”[/quote] Mission/bounties/patrols: - “Reverse the Polarity” - the name of the EDZ adventure, was used during the Third Doctor’s era as a catchphrase. The full quote was “reverse the polarity of the neutron flow”. - “Hack the planet” - the name of this Nessus adventure is a popular line from the film “Hackers”. - “Four arms good, Two arms better” - this old Russia patrol is a reference to the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwel, in which a similar line “four legs good, two legs better” was used. - “It’s all in the game” - this old Russia patrol has you collect “wire wraps”. The line and objective are nods to the HBO show “the wire”, from which the patrol’s name is a reoccurring line. - “The Hero We Deserve” - This solstices heroes bounty is a play-on the line from “Batman: The Dark Knight”, delivered by Gary Oldman’s Jim Gordon, “He’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now”. - “The Very Best” - this solstice of heroes bounty is a quote from the Pokémon theme. Thanks to Doug Dimmadome: [quote]- “captain o captain” - this is a reference to the line from Robin Williams character in the film Dead Poets Society. [/quote] Thanks to Matt boy72: [quote]- "Ride the Lightning" - a reference to Metallica's hit song/album of the same name.[/quote] Dialogue: - “Outgunned, Outmanned, Outnumbered, but not outplanned” - this is a reference to the Musical “Hamilton”, specifically the number “Right Hand Man”, by Lin Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom jr and Christopher Jackson. - “Do re mi fa sol la si do” - Solfège, a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing of western music. Misc: - law of the Jungle - this poem by Rudyard Kipling was used during a D1 live action trailer of the same name. [spoiler]if you got this far, thank you for reading. I’d really appreciate if you leave any that I couldn’t find and I’ll edit OP with your find. Link to my master post https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/247827988/0/0 [/spoiler]

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  • 2 more that I found: - The grenade launcher "Play of the Game", clear reference from Overwatch's play of the game. - The new Tommy gun that has a perk called "Heat of the Moment" a song from Asia.

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  • A few extra ones if you're still collecting. In the first dreaming city mission in Forsaken, Toland asks, "Am I to be your Virgil?" -Reference to the Divine Comedy and the character Virgil, who guides Dante through Hell and Purgatory In the Dawning, a holiday quest step was called: "And Miles to Go Before I sleep." A line taken from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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  • Jabberwocky references everywhere- Vor Pyl VIII- “The interstellar blade that goes snicker-snack.” The Frumious armor set, as well as the Frumious blue shader. Also, Zavala’s Grenade launcher Outrageous Fortune is another Shakespeare reference- “To be, or not to be. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...” -Hamlet

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  • The ghost shell , our ghosts are the Ghost in the Shell, get it?

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  • Also on IO there is an adventure when Ghost has the dialogue and says “These aren’t the robots we’re looking for” which I’m pretty sure may be a reference to Star Wars

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    • Zen Meteor- A sniper rifle from Destiny 1 that came out with the April Update (originally PS exclusive) had a reference to the song [i]Killer Queen[/i] by Queen. The exotic perk that came unlocked on the gun was called "Dynamite . . .", and the the last perk unlocked was ". . . With a Laser Beam." That information is guaranteed to blow your mind.

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      • The Desperado perk on Redrix is an Eagles song.

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      • Great job! Very interesting read. It's "Do re mi fa sol la si do" BTW.

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        • Isn’t there a patrol, “It’s not murder if it’s robots” against the Vex? I know that’s been referenced in lots of things, like Rick and Morty, but I’m not sure where it originated

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        • What about the Marine pulse rifle. It's description reads: Improvise, adapt, overcome. That's a meme. You could also include the kek armor for the hunter that bungie changed for whatever reason.

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        • Edited by Wolfe: 8/25/2018 2:03:03 PM
          In the lore for ghost fragment: ghosts it references Claudio Sanchez ' "The Amory Wars" comic book series (You might better know it as Coheed and Cambria). It references 7 suns in reference to the seven stars of Sirius, it also references how it's "full of life" and souls just "stand or float about" in reference to the keywork which is made up the souls of the dead and connects the seven stars. It also references world's that were carved up by the forces in charge in reference to how The Writer (God) inherently ended that entire universe by shutting down the stars and causing the remaining 69 planets to crash together with the keywork not there to hold them apart. It also references us because in the "Second stage turbine blade" chapter of the book, star VII is shut down and the 9 planets of sector 12 are sent spiraling into space after Coheed was taken by the monstar virus and shut it down, at which point Cambria kills him and in grief ends her own life reigniting the star and turning it into a sun. "Which is us, ofcourse ."

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          • The salty emote was inspired by a video of “Salt Bae”, in which a Turkish chef sprinkled salt in a very stylish manner. The alliterative dance is a reference to the PPAP music video (the dances are very similar), in which an odd Japanese man dances and sings about fruits and pens... that was a meme too.

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            • Edited by GrayWulf25: 8/26/2018 10:54:06 AM
              The D1 Iron Banner special space-ship "Hebridean Thoughtcrime" (Y2) is a reference to 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell wrote his master-piece (the greatest novel of the 20th century) on the Isle of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, a series of small islands off the West coast of Scotland. He wrote it in poor health, suffering from the tuberculosis that would eventually kill him aged 46, a short time later. If you need the thought-crime part explained, read the book!

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            • The Vor Pyl VIII legendary ship is a reference to The Jabberwocky gibberish poem by Lewis Carroll. "The Vorpal blade went snicker-snack"

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              • Zavala has taken to directly quoiting Shakespeare in D2 with "Our battle is more full of names than yours, Our men more perfect in the use of arms" which is a famous quote from Henry IV Part 2

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                • Self bump

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                  • The two dance emotes "Odd dance" and "odder dance" are from the tv show Arrested Development.

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                  • There was a Dead Orbit sparrow in D1 called “Arecibo Answer”, having to do with the largest radio telescope in the world in the town of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. It has been used for many years in the search of extra terrestrial life and was featured at the start of the movie Contact from the Carl Sagan book.

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                    • in the adventure road rage there's a reference to star wars ghost: are you sure we got the right vex asher: what do you mean the right vex ghost: you know, are these the robots were looking for here it is if you want to see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPYZpwSpKmA

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                    • Edited by GrayWulf25: 8/26/2018 11:22:31 AM
                      ' “captain o captain” - this is a reference to the line from Robin Williams character in the film Dead Poets Society' Well, the film Dead Poets Society has references to the Walt Whitman poem, but is not the original source. "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem by Walt Whitman written in 1865 about the death of Abraham Lincoln

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                      • Another Minor detail is the ornament Raging Lepus for the Jade rabbit that changes the rabbit logo on the magazine to a white rabbit with fangs and red eyes, which could be a reference to the movie Monty Python and the holy grail, or a minor kids novel bunnicula (it's a book I saw at a bookstore that I assume is about a vampire bunny). On the same page as Monty Python, I'm going to dub the new dawnblade warlock grenade the "Holy hand grenade"

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                        • That's not an AC/DC reference lol

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                          • I look forward to the next one

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                          • Peregrine greaves is essentially a falcon kick

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                          • Very nice work, as always.

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                          • Nice job. How do you pull this of seriously man...

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