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* Morgana is named for [http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Moxana Moxana], an automaton with similar abilities from Girl Genius | * Morgana is named for [http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Moxana Moxana], an automaton with similar abilities from Girl Genius | ||
* Brother Etienne was reading a collection of stories by Justine du Paix, including The Blackwood Portrait ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray]) and Guillaume Guillaumin ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilson_(short_story) William Wilson] -- that, or Sweet Valley High) | * Brother Etienne was reading a collection of stories by Justine du Paix, including The Blackwood Portrait ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray]) and Guillaume Guillaumin ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilson_(short_story) William Wilson] -- that, or Sweet Valley High) | ||
* Stefan's relationship with his orchids threatens to turn into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(musical) Little Shop of Horrors] thing, but that hasn't happened yet; on the other hand, the blood-drinking and aphrodesia and stuff are based on real historic beliefs about orchids | |||
Revision as of 23:36, 31 August 2008
Miseri spends inordinate amount of time putting in references, so it would be a pity not to write down the stuff we notice:
- Helvetica and Geneva are fonts, of course
- The Pervenches are the kids from Narnia, complete with disappearance into wardrobe
- Louise Beauclair (the barber's wife), her downstairs neighbor (Mme L'Amour, the baker's wife), and Judge Dupin are from Sweeney Todd, though the events therein had not yet taken place when we met them.
- Lucille (the vampire) is eventually buried in a tomb with Wilhelmina Murray
- Lucille also attacks Camilla Karnstein, in a reversal of Carmilla (and note we also have a Laura)
- Sir Galahad Locksley's name is at least three refs (Tennyson's Sir Galahad (he's a poet); Locksley, for Robin of Locksley; and Gilderoy Lockhart)
- Obviously we have a Scarlet Pimpernel thing going on with rescuing folks from Bois-Franc, but there haven't been any explicit refs as far as I've noticed
- Maria von Pinn and some students are from The Sound of Music, and her surname is undoubtedly a reference to Von Pinn from Girl Genius
- Adelheid Sessemann is from Heidi
- Dupin is (I assume, though there's no evidence besides his name and nationality) Auguste Dupin
- Cujo the Alsatian is of course Cujo, and despite being named for this fictitious monastery, the Alsatian is a real-world breed better known as the German Shepherd
- St. Alsace is (I assume) referencing Alsace, a region with similar geography to Helvetica. Lake Lorraine, counterpart to the real Lake Geneva, is named after the adjoining region.
- It has been implied that Nicolette is based on an existing story as well about a character whose name begins with C, but which story that is has not yet been determined.
- Armand Chevalier's names both mean 'knight'; is this irony or a Clue?
- Morgana is named for Moxana, an automaton with similar abilities from Girl Genius
- Brother Etienne was reading a collection of stories by Justine du Paix, including The Blackwood Portrait (The Picture of Dorian Gray) and Guillaume Guillaumin (William Wilson -- that, or Sweet Valley High)
- Stefan's relationship with his orchids threatens to turn into a Little Shop of Horrors thing, but that hasn't happened yet; on the other hand, the blood-drinking and aphrodesia and stuff are based on real historic beliefs about orchids
