Here you can discuss interesting parrallels to other places in the world that may relate to LFG, be it purposeful or not. This should lead to some interesting conversations.

*note* Yes. There is WoW. Good job, you noticed it. So do the rest of us, don't point that oh so obvious one.

Allusion wise you have WoW, yes. Sword of truth series. Drizzt from Forgotten Realms. The bible. Skittles commercial. Star wars. More I can't remember atm =P.

Skittles commercial?

All the colors of the rainbow. One of the elves talking about butterflys, or something.

Don't forget the LoTR reference!

CENTA. =D

(he's my favorite)

Defiently some refrences to the sword of truth series ... personally I think anything fantasy Sohmer has read or seen has gone into this comic.

And don't forget about the "A Song of Ice and Fire" reference too!

possibly JtHM when Richard was playing with the fork. relating to the spork of doom but thats questionable.

Krunch says "fire it up" a few times witch is a key line from a firebat in the game starcraft.

this gives a good reason to reread to see what can be found.

There is a small but non-zero chance that there's a reference to an old song by Amorphis, First Doom:

...Hail to the ones who hail...
is part of it's lyrics. Richard in the little village, anyone?

You know what an indirect reference is? In Super Smash Bros. Melee Marth's sword looks like the depiction of the SoT

Questionable, yes. It's more likely Richard was just being facetious and just ran with the joke.

If Sohmer read JtHM, I would worship him even more.

JtHM?

johnny the homicidal maniac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac

good stuff

there was Jaws getting spoofed

How can we forget the 300 spoof during the Troll arc. "This...is...SOOBA!!" With the fork of truth, no less.

*leaves the well known movies*
When the troll king said "fetch me my armour, we'll meet whatever feeble attack..."

13th Warrior
King says "Bring me my armour, I will stand the watch with you..."

I want to say that the quote is actually more directly from something else...but I can't recall what right now. It's kinda nagging at me. >_<

Incidently, your avatar is equally cute and creepy. I wanna 3d model it with teeth. >_>

End of page 22, Eurotrip reference

they speak in english

WOAH GIANT REPRESENTATION BETWEEN WORLDS, CAN'T BELIEVE YOU MISSED THAT...

Page 33 is a homage to the way Robert Jordan started the Wheel of Time books.

A couple MMO references, on page 34, when Richard is killing rats, and says he has the uncontrollable urge to do so, it's like in any MMORPG with one shotable critters(notably, WoW). People just randomly run by and nuke the critters for no reason at all. I used to see it happen all the time.

During the battle with the Elementals, there's an Everquest reference when Benny is giving Krunch a hard time and says "What can I do for you A Drowned Rat?" That's a reference to when guards would trash talk before killing rats near the cities. "Time to die, A_Giant_Rat!" Reminds me of the good old days. =)

Lots of things from LFG are related to WOW cant really so say much but i know allot but your reference to wow players killin critters is absolutely TRUE!

deep...
run...
tram...

they're practically asking with big flashy signs and a prize if you can kill them all before the tram arrives. i tell you this, I've killed every rat ONCE! before the tram arrived. It IS possible. what did i win? they told me to keep it a secret...

Yeah, the deep run tram is an example, though I usually go and make a sandwich while waiting on the tram. lol I know anytime I run past a critter, I can't resist killing it. They even made it so if you kill a cat in Silvermoon City, you get a debuff called "Bad Luck". Good stuff.

lol i like killing the little bunny things that you can only see when your drunk now those are fun

Dirty Dancing.

Ah yes...Nobody puts Richard in a corner. *nods*

It's not really a real allusion, but I had a teacher in high school named Mr. Sooba. We called him Soobatron. >_>

Name one things/person/element that can defeat Richard?

Richard.

good point

naw, scientists have concluded that if 1 richard fwoom met 1 richard fwoom... the results would just end the universe. end of story, it'd just go kaput.

*Richard meets Richard*
Universe: Ok, that's it! In the words of Eric Cartman, "Screw you guys, I'm goin' home!"


Ahem. Back to topic.........I stated this already in the "Elf Who Would Be King" thread, but I've noticed alot of Arthurian referrences(possibly direct, possibly an indirect result of The Wheel of Time series).

Shamans.

Didn't work.

Sure it worked. If one spell could hurt Richard that badly, imagine what the shamans could have done to him if they really tried. They were in the middle of a battle, so they couldn't be bothered to finish him off.

And then sooba jumped in.

Heh... Panel 4 is a slight parody of the scene in At Worlds End where all the east india ships come out of the fog.

It would have been a great allusion if the creature looking up at Richard in the last panel of today's (119) comic had been a crab or a yellow flounder.

yeah well then the warrior would kill sooba and the shamans finish richard off... then again richard would just bring sooba back to life and give him super natural powers

Not while the shamans were hummin'.

ow yeah there's that but who says that they will fight at the same time?

On page 59 when Richard says "Killing means never having to say you're sorry" It's a reference to 'Love Story' with the quote "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

great now we are telling people about quotes

Problem?

I was reading some Lord of the Rings fanfics and noticed that a couple of different authors used an elven character named Tavor. Turns out that in the LoTR universe, the word means "woodpecker" in Elven. Whether it's an intentional reference or not, I don't know.

oh so you now like woodpeckers lunaya instead of turtles?

A Tavor is a type of assault rifle... [link]

Page 101 is a reference to the movie Big starring Tom Hanks.
The genie-looking guy outside the window looks like Zoltar, the genie in the machine that grants the kid's wish to be big.

And now thanks to page 123 we must add Scarface and Looney Tunes to the list.