Cell's hunt of Androids 17 and 18 is Z's homage to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, especially when Android 16 steps up to stop him, as their dynamic is similar to that of T-800 and T-1000.The first few parts of the story appear to be a homage to Super Hero fiction (including Golden Bat, Prince of Gamma, and Superman) and other Sci-Fi themes.Dragon Ball is a homage to the classic Journey to the West, particularly the first arc, with Bulma in a gender-flipped Xuanzang role, Son Goku is Sun Wukong (in turn a homage to Hanuman from Ramayana), Oolong is Zhu Bajie, and Yamcha is Sha Wujing.Citramon, originally BomberNanimon, became an homage to Don Patch of Bobobo-Bobo-Bobo, complete with matching voice actor! The dub writer, Jeff Nimoy, was told that the giant walking bomb had to be censored or the episode was cut they made the best of a bad situation.Made even funnier in the dub, as Takato and Savers' Agumon are both voiced by Brian Beacock. Somewhere between homage, Internal Homage and Mythology Gag is a scene in the second episode where Masaru attempts to hide Agumon by walking him around underneath a box - much like Matsuda Takato from Digimon Tamers before him.The first part of the Mujina Bandits arc on the Boruto Anime is a straight-up Homage to The Shawshank Redemption.A two-part story in Ai Kora pays homage to The Kindaichi Case Files, complete with panels introducing the suspects and a mystery involving apparently supernatural causes.See also Expy, where the homage is a specific character. See also Actor Allusion, Genre Throwback, Homage Shot, Postmodernism, Shout-Out, Trapped in TV Land, Whole-Plot Reference, Homage Derailment. If a series is doing anything deliberately evocative of its own past, then it is an Internal Homage.

But sometimes it's a weird or haunting reflection of the original series that is a native part of the 'reality' of the show in which it is found.Ī Pastiche is a very common type of homage, which involves trying to copy the style of a work or artist. Sometimes - especially when the Homage is blatant, or is part of a comedy series - it's All Just a Dream. A homage is an extended sequence, significantly more than a simple Shout-Out, but does not actually constitute a crossover even when some of the original stars recreate their roles. Usually this is done for comedic effect, but occasionally it is serious. Homage (literally, an honor or tribute) is the deliberate, but respectful, recreation of one work of fiction within the context of another. Zero Punctuation on South Park: The Stick of Truth

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