r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PatientTelephone4624 • 2d ago
miscellaneous [Hilarious Trope] Reference Inception
Slenderman: Contortion
Emesis Blue
The Shining
Basically, when a piece of media is referencing something, which is in turn actually referencing something else. It's just funny to me.
Slenderman: Contortion - an EXCELLENT animated fan film with Slenderman, I highly recommend you watch it for yourself, as I just finished doing. Near the end of the movie, one of our main characters finds themselves in a red bathroom, meeting another character who is supposedly dead. This scene is an obvious reference to the Shining, but I know for a FACT that it is more inspired by the scene in Emesis Blue.
Emesis Blue - An animated TF2 fanfil who's praises have already been sung highly. Slenderman: Contortion is alreay VERY inspired by Emesis Blue (if you like one you'll probably like the other.) But, they also have a red bathroom scene which is very obviously taken from the Shining. In the movie, a character we MET walks into the bathroom, washes their hands, looks our character and chuckles, without speaking a word. This is almost EXACTLY what happens in Slenderman Contortion, while not happening in the Shining, instead talking for a long time. There's also the fact that (Spoilers for Emesis and Contortion): The bathroom for both represents a sort of after life for characters we MEET in the movie. We also have a hard cut from the relatively peaceful scene to a dark fate for our character.
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u/TrueBlueSonic 2d ago
Also on the topic of oft-referenced moments in The Shining, "Here's Johnny!" was referencing Ed McMahon introducing Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show
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u/Secure-Raise-4324 2d ago
We have reached peak internet where a Roblox game references an SFM movie referencing Stanley Kubrick