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Xuncu: /* Hoverboards would've been useful, too */

2015-12-19T02:35:06Z

Hoverboards would've been useful, too

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	== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==		== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==

	And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line. Also, in EW, the codename for meld research is ~~purity~~, a reference to the purity control from the X-Files.		And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line. Also, in EW, the codename for meld research is "Purity," a reference to the purity control from the X-Files. And on occasion, when using the Arc Thrower to repair a SHIV or MEC unit, the user will comment upon a "bad motivator," referencing the red R2 unit that explodes when Luke first acquired R2D2 and 3CPO.

Hardcorecasualgamer: /* Hoverboards would've been useful, too */

2015-09-20T17:05:37Z

Hoverboards would've been useful, too

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	== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==		== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==

	And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line.		And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line. Also, in EW, the codename for meld research is purity, a reference to the purity control from the X-Files.


	[[Category:Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense]]		[[Category:Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense]]

N21: /* In Civilization */

2013-08-25T19:34:55Z

In Civilization

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	:You sure it was a Sectoid specifically? I mean, they're pretty much just Greys, and Greys have been around for decades. [[User:Phasma Felis\|Phasma Felis]] 23:04, 16 June 2008 (PDT)		:You sure it was a Sectoid specifically? I mean, they're pretty much just Greys, and Greys have been around for decades. [[User:Phasma Felis\|Phasma Felis]] 23:04, 16 June 2008 (PDT)

			::Here is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6Tj9qL5QM&t=28s proof] of this.

	It was the Sectoid UFOpedia image specifically. Gave me quite a surprise when it flashed up on my screen.		It was the Sectoid UFOpedia image specifically. Gave me quite a surprise when it flashed up on my screen.

Hobbes: categorizing

2013-07-23T03:24:35Z

categorizing

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	And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line.		And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line.

			[[Category:Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense]]
			[[Category:TFTD]]
			[[Category:Apocalypse]]
			[[Category:Enemy Unknown (2012)]]

Xuncu: /* Hoverboards would've been useful, too */

2013-07-10T06:40:08Z

Hoverboards would've been useful, too

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	== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==		== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==

	And in ~~a unique case~~ of XCOM refrencing an unrelated ~~franchise~~: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films.		And in rare cases of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchises: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films, or "Ride the Lightning!", a song by the American metal band, Metallica. And sometimes, when rescuing civillians, both male and female soldiers suddenly use an Austrian accent to say "Get to da choppa!", a refrence to a famous Arnold Schwarzenegger line.

Xuncu at 20:14, 23 March 2013

2013-03-23T20:14:53Z

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	In the popular rogue-like Nethack, your hero may get confused or start hallucinating (due to any number of random circumstances). This causes names of enemies and objects to get scrambled and randomly replaced with others names. The name Sectoid will sometimes pop up as one of the names. They otherwise do not appear in the game, though avid X-COM fans will no doubt find amusement at the reference.		In the popular rogue-like Nethack, your hero may get confused or start hallucinating (due to any number of random circumstances). This causes names of enemies and objects to get scrambled and randomly replaced with others names. The name Sectoid will sometimes pop up as one of the names. They otherwise do not appear in the game, though avid X-COM fans will no doubt find amusement at the reference.


			== Hoverboards would've been useful, too ==

			And in a unique case of XCOM refrencing an unrelated franchise: when stunning aliens with the Arc Thrower in the 2012 Enemy Unknown game, soldiers will sometimes exclaim "1.21 Jiggawatts!", an obvious refrence to the ''Back to the Future'' series of films.

Binkyuk: it's not red, or does it resemble a cosmetic.

2013-03-12T12:03:33Z

it's not red, or does it resemble a cosmetic.

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	== Nethack ==		== Nethack ==

	In the popular ~~rouge~~-like Nethack, your hero may get confused or start hallucinating (due to any number of random circumstances). This causes names of enemies and objects to get scrambled and randomly replaced with others names. The name Sectoid will sometimes pop up as one of the names. They otherwise do not appear in the game, though avid X-COM fans will no doubt find amusement at the reference.		In the popular rogue-like Nethack, your hero may get confused or start hallucinating (due to any number of random circumstances). This causes names of enemies and objects to get scrambled and randomly replaced with others names. The name Sectoid will sometimes pop up as one of the names. They otherwise do not appear in the game, though avid X-COM fans will no doubt find amusement at the reference.

NKF: Added Nethack

2013-03-12T11:13:32Z

Added Nethack

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	*Cydonia: an actual reigion of Mars, it became involved in the public eye in 1976, when Viking 1 sent back photos of the infamous Face On Mars. Subsequent mapping with more advanced sattelites in different times of Martian day reveal that the face is an optical illusion. Why aliens would carve a human face on their own planet was never answered.		*Cydonia: an actual reigion of Mars, it became involved in the public eye in 1976, when Viking 1 sent back photos of the infamous Face On Mars. Subsequent mapping with more advanced sattelites in different times of Martian day reveal that the face is an optical illusion. Why aliens would carve a human face on their own planet was never answered.
	Naturally, many more refrences that the XCOM games make exist across the franchise.		Naturally, many more refrences that the XCOM games make exist across the franchise.

			== Nethack ==

			In the popular rouge-like Nethack, your hero may get confused or start hallucinating (due to any number of random circumstances). This causes names of enemies and objects to get scrambled and randomly replaced with others names. The name Sectoid will sometimes pop up as one of the names. They otherwise do not appear in the game, though avid X-COM fans will no doubt find amusement at the reference.

Xuncu: /* Don't get it backwards */

2012-12-27T10:42:22Z

Don't get it backwards

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	== Don't get it backwards ==		== Don't get it backwards ==
	As I mentioned in the Shin Megami Tensei refrence, there's many subjects that XCOM refrences from popular UFO culture before it.		As I mentioned in the Shin Megami Tensei refrence, there's many subjects that XCOM refrences from popular UFO culture before it:
	Sectoids: "Greys" have been in popular culture's shorthand for Alien/Martian since at least the Roswell 'UFO' crash in 1947, and became popular after Betty and Barney Hill's alleged abduction (and the subsequent 'mania' of mass reports of encounters and abductions) in 1961.		*Sectoids: "Greys" have been in popular culture's shorthand for Alien/Martian since at least the Roswell 'UFO' crash in 1947, and became popular after Betty and Barney Hill's alleged abduction (and the subsequent 'mania' of mass reports of encounters and abductions) in 1961.
	Elerium: Element 115 likeley does not exist in any form in nature, except perhaps a few ticks of Plank Time during particularly large supernovae, but has been synthesized, and existed for about 1/10th of a second. There is a predictive model about the stability of large elements (Element 94, Plutonium, is the largest naturally occuring element: anything larger is too physically unstable to hold together. All higher elements confirmed to exist were all proven so by being human-manufacured) that 115 lies upon, and conjectured that (if it existed long enough before it decayed into lighter elements) it should behave similar to Element 83, Bismouth. Due to Robert Lazar's misunderstanding of the properties of bismouth, he belives that 115 should have a physics-defying gravitational field. He then worked it into his story that he worked at Area 51 and that it was the fuel that anti-grav UFOs ran on, leading to it's inclusion in XCOM mythos.		Elerium: Element 115 likeley does not exist in any form in nature, except perhaps a few ticks of Plank Time during particularly large supernovae, but has been synthesized, and existed for about 1/10th of a second. There is a predictive model about the stability of large elements (Element 94, Plutonium, is the largest naturally occuring element: anything larger is too physically unstable to hold together. All higher elements confirmed to exist were all proven so by being human-manufacured) that 115 lies upon, and conjectured that (if it existed long enough before it decayed into lighter elements) it should behave similar to Element 83, Bismouth. Due to Robert Lazar's misunderstanding of the properties of bismouth, he belives that 115 should have a physics-defying gravitational field. He then worked it into his story that he worked at Area 51 and that it was the fuel that anti-grav UFOs ran on, leading to it's inclusion in XCOM mythos.
	Tall Man: most likeley a refrence to UFO mythology of the Men in Black (which themselves may be the modern interpertation of 'encounters' with demons and Incubi), also popularized in the UFO craze of the 60's and 70's (which was also based on the in-progress mania of the "Red Scare" of Communism, particulalry the sucessful launch of the Spudnik sattelite). Reported encounters vary in suggestion between Amercian govenrment working to supress UFO knowledge, and, as per the game, alien infiltration units, who's tells include 'not looking quite right' and behavior that suggested a lack of understanding of human culture and devices (as demonstrated in a certain level of ''Psychonauts'').		*Tall Man: most likeley a refrence to UFO mythology of the Men in Black (which themselves may be the modern interpertation of 'encounters' with demons and Incubi), also popularized in the UFO craze of the 60's and 70's (which was also based on the in-progress mania of the "Red Scare" of Communism, particulalry the sucessful launch of the Spudnik sattelite). Reported encounters vary in suggestion between Amercian govenrment working to supress UFO knowledge, and, as per the game, alien infiltration units, who's tells include 'not looking quite right' and behavior that suggested a lack of understanding of human culture and devices (as demonstrated in a certain level of ''Psychonauts'').
	Cydonia: an actual reigion of Mars, it became involved in the public eye in 1976, when Viking 1 sent back photos of the infamous Face On Mars. Subsequent mapping with more advanced sattelites in different times of Martian day reveal that the face is an optical illusion. Why aliens would carve a human face on their own planet was never answered.		*Cydonia: an actual reigion of Mars, it became involved in the public eye in 1976, when Viking 1 sent back photos of the infamous Face On Mars. Subsequent mapping with more advanced sattelites in different times of Martian day reveal that the face is an optical illusion. Why aliens would carve a human face on their own planet was never answered.
	Naturally, many more refrences that the XCOM games make exist across the franchise.		Naturally, many more refrences that the XCOM games make exist across the franchise.

Xuncu at 10:40, 27 December 2012

2012-12-27T10:40:33Z

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	In 2003 tactical RPG Silent Storm there's a hugely overpowered weapon hidden in a very rare random encounter. It's a rather obvious homage to the [[Laser Rifle]].		In 2003 tactical RPG Silent Storm there's a hugely overpowered weapon hidden in a very rare random encounter. It's a rather obvious homage to the [[Laser Rifle]].
	[[Image:Silent_Storm_easter_egg.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|That's some fancy tech for 1943]]		[[Image:Silent_Storm_easter_egg.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|That's some fancy tech for 1943]]




			== Don't get it backwards ==
			As I mentioned in the Shin Megami Tensei refrence, there's many subjects that XCOM refrences from popular UFO culture before it.
			Sectoids: "Greys" have been in popular culture's shorthand for Alien/Martian since at least the Roswell 'UFO' crash in 1947, and became popular after Betty and Barney Hill's alleged abduction (and the subsequent 'mania' of mass reports of encounters and abductions) in 1961.
			Elerium: Element 115 likeley does not exist in any form in nature, except perhaps a few ticks of Plank Time during particularly large supernovae, but has been synthesized, and existed for about 1/10th of a second. There is a predictive model about the stability of large elements (Element 94, Plutonium, is the largest naturally occuring element: anything larger is too physically unstable to hold together. All higher elements confirmed to exist were all proven so by being human-manufacured) that 115 lies upon, and conjectured that (if it existed long enough before it decayed into lighter elements) it should behave similar to Element 83, Bismouth. Due to Robert Lazar's misunderstanding of the properties of bismouth, he belives that 115 should have a physics-defying gravitational field. He then worked it into his story that he worked at Area 51 and that it was the fuel that anti-grav UFOs ran on, leading to it's inclusion in XCOM mythos.
			Tall Man: most likeley a refrence to UFO mythology of the Men in Black (which themselves may be the modern interpertation of 'encounters' with demons and Incubi), also popularized in the UFO craze of the 60's and 70's (which was also based on the in-progress mania of the "Red Scare" of Communism, particulalry the sucessful launch of the Spudnik sattelite). Reported encounters vary in suggestion between Amercian govenrment working to supress UFO knowledge, and, as per the game, alien infiltration units, who's tells include 'not looking quite right' and behavior that suggested a lack of understanding of human culture and devices (as demonstrated in a certain level of ''Psychonauts'').
			Cydonia: an actual reigion of Mars, it became involved in the public eye in 1976, when Viking 1 sent back photos of the infamous Face On Mars. Subsequent mapping with more advanced sattelites in different times of Martian day reveal that the face is an optical illusion. Why aliens would carve a human face on their own planet was never answered.
			Naturally, many more refrences that the XCOM games make exist across the franchise.