Ooh, they did the same thing in Superman... Kal-El, Jor-El, and so forth.

I didn't even think about it in this book, though.

I don't know if it's really an easter egg, but Dr. Never's rant about hero quips now verses his day seem to be a commentary on the different dialog styles of the Golden Age and current writters. Also, each of those literary tools Never mentions are used in the book, some of them as titles. Puns (any of the crab episodes *shutters*), plays on words (College Daze even tagged it), a juxtaposition of the current situation at hand and modern world events (The thing about FCC regulations to say Terrorism every 2 minutes comes to mind. Ya know, like how the media was feeding people BS so they would see Nuke as an impending threat. Clever Clevinger, clever.), and a mythological reference to boot (do I even have to say it?).

like how benny's (that one diner at the beginning of the book) happens to be related to denny's somehow?

or bennys could be bennigans... and most likely its just a brain fart... but please do metnion the boot...

I'm at work right now, so I don't really have time to check, but I believe there is a point towards the end of the book where Nihel states something along the lines of

"Here we are, born to the Kings. We're the princes of the Universe" etc etc. Damn myself for not being able to remember the whole thing.

Anyway, that's a rip from Queen's song "Princes of the Universe" which was the theme to the Highlander television Series.

Actually I think it's Mort who says that line.

I didn't pick up on too many. Only Titanic parody, Turbo Fighter: Street Edition (if you didn't get that you need slapped) and the Family Guy referance where Nuke talkes to the college kids.

Page 175. "Atomik Lad took .04 seconds to remind himself of cheesy movies where the male lead avoids certain death about a dozen times only to (re)unite with the love interest. Of course, even in the movies fate can't be avoided forever and one of the young lovers has to die in order to kep the Karma balanced. Foreshadow much?

Actualy, Aero, I'm pretty sure I wrote that whole scene before Family Guy aired.

Well coinsidences happen. Not like I haven't made things that appear on TV a few weeks later.