Geekculture References in APs

[siegfriedliner]

I have been playing outlaws of alkenstar and gotten a very wild wild west feel to the setting and the way it plays out. Wild Wild West is both a terrible movie with will Smith's which spawned an ear worm and an awesome old syndicated tv show. What I found amusing was that one of the important npcs for game was called loveless which may or may not have been a reference to the main villain from the movie.

So I was wondering are there any other spoiler free references made to pulp sci-fi and fantasy I am missing in some of the other adventure paths.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

This is an old one (1e), but it's NEVER left my brain:

In both Council of Thieves and Hell's Vengeance the PCs will encounter Paralictor Gonville Chard of the Order of the Rack as an ally (grudging or grateful depending on which AP you're playing) in Westcrown. The Paralictor's name is a mashup of the names John Chard and Gonville Bromhead, the commanders of the British forces at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, where they led a force of about 150 soldiers against a 3,000 to 4,000 strong Zulu army and survived.

The inclusion of the names to make this NPC was, as far as I'm aware, less a nod to the historical event itself and more to the 1964 film that dramatized it, Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine as Chard and Bromhead respectively. At least, I remember F. Wesley Schneider referencing it once or twice while he was part of Paizo...