World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade – Easter Eggs and Pop Culture References

Actor Aaron Douglas plays as Chief Tyrol – The Chief of the Deck onboard Galactica, in charge of the reparation of the “Vipers” (The ships human pilots are using to fight the Cylon)

Actress Katee Sackhoff plays as … Kara Thrace “Starbuck”. Got it?  Kara Thress

Inscription: “Use: Knocks sense into worthless, lazy peons.

It is a reference to the Marines and how they say the same line about their rifle. It is also seen in the movie Jarhead when they make them repeat the line.

Excerpt: “This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I WILL…”

In Serenity, actor Yan Feldman plays as Mingo. His twin actor Rafael Feldman plays as Fanty.

Fanty and Mingo are twin brothers who appear in the Serenity comic as well as the film. They are seen as fences for goods acquired (coughs, Reagent Vendors) by Mal Reynolds and the crew of Serenity. Although identical twins, Mal is able to tell the two of them apart (he claims “Fanty’s prettier”). Their full names are Mingojerry and Fantastic Rample. The novelization states that they were named at birth by their mother – Mingojerry as a mis-remembered Mungojerrie from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, and Fantastic for what she said when she realized that she was carrying twins, meaning she had to give birth again.

Her name is a reference to the five note tune played in the Steven Spielberg UFO movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Re, Mi, Do, Do (an octave lower), and Sol.