Future Cop!/References - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 14:52, February 20, 2025

2025-02-20T14:52:29Z

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */ replaced: {{ap|RoboCop|franchise}} → RoboCop (2)

2025-01-22T14:48:58Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{ap|RoboCop|franchise}} → RoboCop (2)

Solar Dragon at 23:31, October 19, 2023

2023-10-19T23:31:24Z

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: Do Or Donut → Do or Donut (2)

2022-02-27T19:07:21Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: Do Or Donut → Do or Donut (2)

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{W|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}} → Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2022-02-26T17:49:38Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{W|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}} → Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: Raphael → {{ap|Raphael|Future Cop!}}

2021-12-11T13:34:19Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: Raphael → {{ap|Raphael|Future Cop!}}

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{w| → {{W| (16)

2021-10-15T23:40:28Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{w| → {{W| (16)

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: The Hulk → the Hulk

2021-07-07T14:53:00Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: The Hulk → the Hulk

SolarBot: /* Continuity */

2021-05-15T14:19:40Z

‎Continuity

SolarBot: replaced: == Cultural References == → == Cultural References == (2), == → == (2), == → == (2), == Cultural References == → == Cultural references ==

2020-12-12T19:30:11Z

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 **[[Marty McFly]] and a girl who identifies herself as his "clone-daughter" are riding on hoverboards.
 **The town they are in resembles the Hill Valley of 2015, as seen in ''Back to the Future Part II''.
-**A movie theatre is showing ''[[Finding Nemo 19]]'', a reference to the Hill Valley theatre showing ''Jaws 19''.
+**A movie theater is showing ''[[Finding Nemo 19]]'', a reference to ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' and the Hill Valley theater showing ''Jaws 19''.
 **When [[Snake]] steals Marty's bitcoins, he is dressed like {{W|List of Back to the Future characters#Griff|Griff Tannen}}.
 *''[[Transformers]]'': Wiggum's rifle/partner "[[Officer Shooty]]" can transform into a flying robot.
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 *Wiggum and Cornelius respond to a dispute between neighbors in [[Terminator]] Town.
 **One of the neighbors is a Terminator endoskeleton complaining about the other's dog pooping on his lawn. The other, who looks like [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s Terminator character, says he was going to pick up the poop later and "I told him I'd be back!", echoing one of Schwarzenegger's Terminator catchphrases.
-**The endosleleton's backyard landscaping consists of a layer of human skulls, which is a recurring visual in post-Judgement Day scenes from the films.
+**The endoskeleton's backyard landscaping consists of a layer of human skulls, which is a recurring visual in post-Judgment Day scenes from the films.
 **When Wiggum and Cornelius leave, Wiggum says his first two visits to Terminator Town were great, but they got lamer after that, a reference to the consensus among ''Terminator'' fans and critics that the third and later movies weren't as good as the first two.
 *Leeloo from ''{{W|The Fifth Element}}'' falls seemingly out of nowhere and lands on the windshield of Wiggum's and Cornelius's air car, as she does to Korben Dallas's flying taxi in the film.

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 *At Future Police Headquarters:
 **Wiggum's boss is [[Police Commissioner Zordon]], a parody of {{W|Zordon}} from ''{{W|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers}}'' as well as a pun on Commissioner Gordon from ''[[Batman]]''.
-**''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': An anti-drug poster reads "Talk to your kids about Nuke", which was the designer drug being produced and sold by the villain's gang in ''{{W|RoboCop 2}}''.
+**''[[RoboCop]]'': An anti-drug poster reads "Talk to your kids about Nuke", which was the designer drug being produced and sold by the villain's gang in ''{{W|RoboCop 2}}''.
 **Another poster reads "This is your brain. This is your brain on Tek.", a reference to the "{{W|This is Your Brain on Drugs}}" TV and poster advertising campaign of the 1980s.
 *Wiggum has a holographic communications device on his wrist, similar to {{W|Dick Tracy}}'s wrist radio.
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 *''{{W|Blade Runner}}'': A man with a gun chases another man down the street, yelling "You're a replicant!" at him. The man being chased yells back, "I know you are, but what am I?", a reference to the controversy about whether {{W|Rick Deckard|Deckard}} is a human being or a replicant.
 *''[[Star Wars]]'': Wiggum and Cornelius eat at a restaurant called [[Do or Donut]], a reference to [[Yoda]]'s "Do or do not" catchphrase. Also, the restaurant has on its roof a statue of Yoda levitating a giant donut.
-*''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': Wiggum's ex-partner [[Murphy]] shows up at Do or Donut and starts an argument with Cornelius. Wiggum calms Murphy down and Murphy walks away, upset, with an ED-209 droid with whom he seems to be friends (or partners).
+*''[[RoboCop]]'': Wiggum's ex-partner [[Murphy]] shows up at Do or Donut and starts an argument with Cornelius. Wiggum calms Murphy down and Murphy walks away, upset, with an ED-209 droid with whom he seems to be friends (or partners).
 *Wiggum and Cornelius respond to a dispute between neighbors in [[Terminator]] Town.
 **One of the neighbors is a Terminator endoskeleton complaining about the other's dog pooping on his lawn. The other, who looks like [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s Terminator character, says he was going to pick up the poop later and "I told him I'd be back!", echoing one of Schwarzenegger's Terminator catchphrases.

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 *At Future Police Headquarters:
 **Wiggum's boss is [[Police Commissioner Zordon]], a parody of {{W|Zordon}} from ''{{W|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers}}'' as well as a pun on Commissioner Gordon from ''[[Batman]]''.
 **''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': An anti-drug poster reads "Talk to your kids about Nuke", which was the designer drug being produced and sold by the villain's gang in ''{{W|RoboCop 2}}''.
 **Another poster reads "This is your brain. This is your brain on Tek.", a reference to the "{{W|This is Your Brain on Drugs}}" TV and poster advertising campaign of the 1980s.

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 *Wiggum and Cornelius later arrest {{W|Charlie Chan}} for littering (leaving {{W|origami}} cranes in the street).
 *''{{W|Blade Runner}}'': A man with a gun chases another man down the street, yelling "You're a replicant!" at him. The man being chased yells back, "I know you are, but what am I?", a reference to the controversy about whether {{W|Rick Deckard|Deckard}} is a human being or a replicant.
-*''[[Star Wars]]'': Wiggum and Cornelius eat at a restaurant called [[Do Or Donut]], a reference to [[Yoda]]'s "Do or do not" catchphrase. Also, the restaurant has on its roof a statue of Yoda levitating a giant donut.
+*''[[Star Wars]]'': Wiggum and Cornelius eat at a restaurant called [[Do or Donut]], a reference to [[Yoda]]'s "Do or do not" catchphrase. Also, the restaurant has on its roof a statue of Yoda levitating a giant donut.
-*''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': Wiggum's ex-partner [[Murphy]] shows up at Do Or Donut and starts an argument with Cornelius. Wiggum calms Murphy down and Murphy walks away, upset, with an ED-209 droid with whom he seems to be friends (or partners).
+*''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': Wiggum's ex-partner [[Murphy]] shows up at Do or Donut and starts an argument with Cornelius. Wiggum calms Murphy down and Murphy walks away, upset, with an ED-209 droid with whom he seems to be friends (or partners).
 *Wiggum and Cornelius respond to a dispute between neighbors in [[Terminator]] Town.
 **One of the neighbors is a Terminator endoskeleton complaining about the other's dog pooping on his lawn. The other, who looks like [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s Terminator character, says he was going to pick up the poop later and "I told him I'd be back!", echoing one of Schwarzenegger's Terminator catchphrases.

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 **[[Wonder Woman]]
 **[[Deadpool]]
-**{{ap|Raphael|Future Cop!}} from ''{{W|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}}''
+**{{ap|Raphael|Future Cop!}} from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''
 **[[Hulk]]
 **[[The Flash]]

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 **The town they are in resembles the Hill Valley of 2015, as seen in ''Back to the Future Part II''.
 **A movie theatre is showing ''[[Finding Nemo 19]]'', a reference to the Hill Valley theatre showing ''Jaws 19''.
-**When [[Snake]] steals Marty's bitcoins, he is dressed like {{w|List of Back to the Future characters#Griff|Griff Tannen}}.
+**When [[Snake]] steals Marty's bitcoins, he is dressed like {{W|List of Back to the Future characters#Griff|Griff Tannen}}.
 *''[[Transformers]]'': Wiggum's rifle/partner "[[Officer Shooty]]" can transform into a flying robot.
 *The "Future Cop" uniforms worn by [[Chief Wiggum]] and [[Officer Cornelius]] look like Street Judges from ''[[Judge Dredd]]''.
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 **Wiggum's boss is [[Police Commissioner Zordon]], a parody of {{W|Zordon}} from ''{{W|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers}}'' as well as a pun on Commissioner Gordon from ''[[Batman]]''.
 **Zordon is a head floating in a jar, a possible reference to ''[[Futurama]]''.
-**''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': An anti-drug poster reads "Talk to your kids about Nuke", which was the designer drug being produced and sold by the villain's gang in ''{{w|RoboCop 2}}''.
+**''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': An anti-drug poster reads "Talk to your kids about Nuke", which was the designer drug being produced and sold by the villain's gang in ''{{W|RoboCop 2}}''.
-**Another poster reads "This is your brain. This is your brain on Tek.", a reference to the "{{w|This is Your Brain on Drugs}}" TV and poster advertising campaign of the 1980s.
+**Another poster reads "This is your brain. This is your brain on Tek.", a reference to the "{{W|This is Your Brain on Drugs}}" TV and poster advertising campaign of the 1980s.
-*Wiggum has a holographic communications device on his wrist, similar to {{w|Dick Tracy}}'s wrist radio.
+*Wiggum has a holographic communications device on his wrist, similar to {{W|Dick Tracy}}'s wrist radio.
 *''[[Planet of the Apes]]'': When Shooty has the weekend off, Wiggum is partnered with an ape named [[Officer Cornelius]]. Wiggum later disintegrates Cornelius because "He joined the rebel apes and tried to overthrow humanity."
 *Wiggum and Cornelius pull [[George Jetson]] over for ejecting his son from a flying vehicle, even though George protests that he was dropping him off at school. George's protest is a reference to the opening sequence of ''[[The Jetsons]]'', where George does indeed drop Elroy off at school by ejecting him (safely, in a floating bubble) from his air car.
 *''{{ap|Soylent Green|film}}'': A storefront advertises "Discount Soylent".
-*Wiggum and Cornelius later arrest {{w|Charlie Chan}} for littering (leaving {{w|origami}} cranes in the street).
+*Wiggum and Cornelius later arrest {{W|Charlie Chan}} for littering (leaving {{W|origami}} cranes in the street).
-*''{{w|Blade Runner}}'': A man with a gun chases another man down the street, yelling "You're a replicant!" at him. The man being chased yells back, "I know you are, but what am I?", a reference to the controversy about whether {{w|Rick Deckard|Deckard}} is a human being or a replicant.
+*''{{W|Blade Runner}}'': A man with a gun chases another man down the street, yelling "You're a replicant!" at him. The man being chased yells back, "I know you are, but what am I?", a reference to the controversy about whether {{W|Rick Deckard|Deckard}} is a human being or a replicant.
 *''[[Star Wars]]'': Wiggum and Cornelius eat at a restaurant called [[Do Or Donut]], a reference to [[Yoda]]'s "Do or do not" catchphrase. Also, the restaurant has on its roof a statue of Yoda levitating a giant donut.
 *''{{ap|RoboCop|franchise}}'': Wiggum's ex-partner [[Murphy]] shows up at Do Or Donut and starts an argument with Cornelius. Wiggum calms Murphy down and Murphy walks away, upset, with an ED-209 droid with whom he seems to be friends (or partners).
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 **The endosleleton's backyard landscaping consists of a layer of human skulls, which is a recurring visual in post-Judgement Day scenes from the films.
 **When Wiggum and Cornelius leave, Wiggum says his first two visits to Terminator Town were great, but they got lamer after that, a reference to the consensus among ''Terminator'' fans and critics that the third and later movies weren't as good as the first two.
-*Leeloo from ''{{w|The Fifth Element}}'' falls seemingly out of nowhere and lands on the windshield of Wiggum's and Cornelius's air car, as she does to Korben Dallas's flying taxi in the film.
+*Leeloo from ''{{W|The Fifth Element}}'' falls seemingly out of nowhere and lands on the windshield of Wiggum's and Cornelius's air car, as she does to Korben Dallas's flying taxi in the film.
 *''{{ap|Back to the Future|franchise}}'': Leeloo jumps off of the police air car and bounces off of the flying DeLorean, with [[Doc Brown]] at the wheel.
 *''[[Mork & Mindy]]'': When Wiggum receives a report of a domestic dispute, he exclaims "Shazbot!" in dismay.
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 **Maximilian from ''[[The Black Hole]]''
 **[[Morbo]] and [[Bender]] from ''[[Futurama]]''
-**An alien that resembles the {{w|Flatwoods monster}}
+**An alien that resembles the {{W|Flatwoods monster}}
 **[[Doctor Strange]]
 **A Dalek from ''[[Doctor Who]]''
 **[[Hellboy]]
-**Simon Phoenix from ''{{w|Demolition Man}}''
+**Simon Phoenix from ''{{W|Demolition Man}}''
 **Also, Wiggum wields a lightsaber as he works to put down the riot.
 *When Wiggum wakes up from his dream, he's at the [[Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con]]. The attendees include people costumed as the following:
 **A [[Cylon]] from ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''
 **A Visitor from ''{{W2|V|franchise}}''
-**[[Gort]] from ''{{w|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''
+**[[Gort]] from ''{{W|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}''
 **Twiki from ''{{W2|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century|TV series}}''
 **[[Alf]]
-**Uncle Martin from ''{{w|My Favorite Martian}}''
+**Uncle Martin from ''{{W|My Favorite Martian}}''
 **[[Obi-Wan Kenobi]]
 **[[Booberella]]
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 **[[Neytiri]] from ''[[Avatar]]''
 **[[Spock|Mr. Spock]]
-**[[Goku]] from ''{{w|Dragon Ball}}''
+**[[Goku]] from ''{{W|Dragon Ball}}''
 **[[Hellboy]]
 **[[R2-D2]]
 **[[Wonder Woman]]
 **[[Deadpool]]
-**[[Raphael (Future Cop!)|Raphael]] from ''{{w|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}}''
+**[[Raphael (Future Cop!)|Raphael]] from ''{{W|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles}}''
 **[[Hulk]]
 **[[The Flash]]
-*The caption box at the end says "Chief Wiggum will return in ''Future Cop 2: A Fistful of Future''!", a reference to ''{{w|A Fistful of Dollars}}''.
+*The caption box at the end says "Chief Wiggum will return in ''Future Cop 2: A Fistful of Future''!", a reference to ''{{W|A Fistful of Dollars}}''.
 == Continuity ==

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-== Cultural References ==
-The story is replete with movie and TV references.
+== Cultural references ==
 *The title is a reference to the television series ''{{W2|Future Cop|TV series}}'', which aired in 1977 and starred [[Ernest Borgnine]].
 *''{{ap|Back to the Future|franchise}}'':