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*The Brain's second line is a mixed metaphor based upon | *The Brain's second line is a mixed metaphor based upon these words from Pistol in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor": "Why then the world's mine oyster,/Which I with sword will open." Although the line originally had darker implications, in modern English the phrase "the world's my oyster" refers to the world offering riches or other good things for the person who reaches out to take them. | ||
*The Brain's third line paraphrases a speech by Shylock in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" which is often called "[[wp:Shylock# | *The Brain's third line paraphrases a speech by Shylock in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" which is often called "[[wp:Shylock#Sympathetic reading|Hath not a Jew eyes?]]". The most familiar line from the full speech is "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" | ||
*The Brain's | *The Brain's final sentence is a reference to the disconnection of HAL by Dave Bowman in "2001: A Space Odyssey". As HAL slowly loses his higher faculties and regresses to his earliest memories, he sings "Daisy Bell", which apparently was taught to him in the lab where he was built. This song includes the line "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do..." (and HAL's recitation is, in turn, a reference to "Daisy Bell" being the first song sung by a computer [[wp:Daisy Bell|in real life]]). | ||
*Shinatama's next-to-last line of dialogue references "rampancy", a concept found in the [[Marathon]] game series. See [[Easter eggs#Rampancy]] for details. | *Shinatama's next-to-last line of dialogue references "rampancy", a concept found in the [[Marathon]] game series. See [[Easter eggs#Rampancy]] for details. | ||
*The Deadly Brain is likely inspired by the Magi supercomputers in [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]. While made of mechanical components, the computers contain a core "personality unit" which resembles a human brain, but larger. These contain aspects of the personality of their creator, Dr. Naoko Akagi, which were imprinted onto each computer to give it a unique psychological profile. | |||
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