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=== Video games === | === Video games === | ||
==== ''Borderlands 2'' ==== | |||
*A random citizen will sometimes say "I'm missing the new episode of Constable What!", a parody of Doctor Who. | |||
*After blowing up the dam in a mission, Jack will list four names of workers killed in the flooding, all of which are the names of the first four actors playing the Doctor in Doctor Who. These are William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, and Tom Baker. | |||
*At the beginning of the game Claptrap says "Allons-y!", a catchphrase by the 10th Doctor. | |||
*The NPCs constantly knocking on walls in Sanctuary seem to be doing so in a similar beat and fashion to the subliminally-controlled humans in the Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums." The Master also refers to Captain Jack Harkness as "Handsome Jack" in that episode. | |||
*ECHOs found in Lynchwood bandits named 'John' and 'Barrowman' reference Doctor Who and Torchwood actor John Barrowman, who plays Jack Harkness. | |||
*There is a skin for Maya called Rose Tailor, a play on Rose Tyler. | |||
*In the Bloodshot Ramparts, there is a small platform aside a crane that has a teddy bear with a bow tie and 3-D glasses, referring to both the 10th and the 11th Doctor. | |||
*Hyperion robots can often be heard uttering "Deleted!" which is a popular phrase of the Cybermen. | |||
*In the character selection screen, CL4P-TP sometimes says, "I need to pee," which will trigger him to go into the outhouse. Said outhouse will then vanish, and pop back up, much in the same manner of the Doctor's TARDIS. | |||
*The character Maya was given to the Order of the Impending Storm, a play off of the nickname Oncoming Storm, given to the Doctor by the Daleks. | |||
==== ''Fallout'' ==== | ==== ''Fallout'' ==== | ||
* The TARDIS [[w:c:fallout:Dr. Who|can be found]] in the Desert, although it disappears after a while. K9 can also be found. | * The TARDIS [[w:c:fallout:Dr. Who|can be found]] in the Desert, although it disappears after a while. K9 can also be found. | ||
==== "Fallout New Vegas" ==== | ==== "Fallout New Vegas" ==== | ||
*In the Z-43 Innovative Toxins Plant in one building, a man in a suit with a skeleton rather than a head says, "Hey, who turned out the lights?" referring to the episode [[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]] | *In the Z-43 Innovative Toxins Plant in one building, a man in a suit with a skeleton rather than a head says, "Hey, who turned out the lights?" referring to the episode [[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]] | ||
