King Kong: Seen in as an obstacle in a virtual race. rex is seen as an obstacle in a virtual race. Tron: A light-cycle is seen in a virtual race.Īkira: A motorcycle modeled after Kaneda’s is seen in a virtual race. A modified Rubik’s Cube called a Zemeckis Cube (named after Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis) allows a character to travel back in time. Speed Racer: Speed’s car, the Mach 5, is seen in a virtual race.īigfoot: The famous monster truck is seen in a virtual race.īack to the Future: Wade drives a virtual DeLorean. A character uses Ryu’s famed “hadouken” fireball to attack someone. Characters Ryu and Chun-Li make appearances as player avatars in fights. Street Fighter: Logo seen in a marketplace for gamers. Later, we see a Klingon bat’leth weapon on a windowsill. Star Trek: OASIS creator James Halliday has a Star Trek–themed funeral. Harley Quinn: Seen in the virtual nightclub.Ī Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger seen as an avatar in a battle royale.įriday the 13th: Jason Voorhees seen as an avatar in a battle royale. Someone else in a Joker avatar hangs out in a virtual nightclub. The Joker: Wade’s virtual avatar is briefly modded to look like the Batman villain. The Batmobile from the 1960s Batman TV show is seen in a virtual race. Minecraft: The popular video game is one the many worlds gamers in the film can visit as part of the OASIS virtual-reality system.īatman: The protagonist, Wade Watts, tells us one can hang out with a virtual Batman inside OASIS, and we see him climbing Mount Everest. Let us know in the comments if you find ones we missed, of which there are surely more than a few. Here, we’ve attempted to list as many of them as we could notice and scribble down in the darkened theater. In Steven Spielberg’s latest picture, there are dozens upon dozens of pop-culture references in dialogue and mise-en-scène so many that a single pair of human eyes is incapable of catching them all. Typically, such references are given some room to breathe so the crowd can go wild at the excitement of recognizing what the filmmakers are implying. It’s common in - though by no means restricted to - superhero movies, which will commonly drop hints or include cameos that demonstrate a connection to elements the viewers might remember from comic-book source material or separate movies in the same shared universe.

Ready Player One is the apotheosis of a rising trend in film that we might refer to as “recognition cinema” - the phenomenon of trying to please an audience by including brief references to other pieces of fiction.

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