![]() In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ditches the tetrahedron of transparent crystal from The Sentinel and depicts The Monolith as shown in Kubrick's film and serving the same purpose as cryptic civilization seeders and primordial observers on Earth, the Moon and Jupiter.As it turns out, the entire story is a Stealth Prequel to 2001. The Polish-French comic The Great Power of Chninkel features a mysterious God who appears as a black monolith to its mortal creations.When Nobody gets shot by Alternate!Dylan causing the deletion of this AU before Nobody awakens as a zombie in the "canon" universe, Space Station V also appears. "Story of Nobody" (#43) presents an Alternate Universe created by a dying Mister Nobody, in which Dylan and Xabarax aren't related or enemies and the latter mentions how in their universe the Eiffel Tower is in London and the Discovery ship is real and going on a mission to Jupiter.In the final narration, Dylan mentions that the Girl of the Week expects a baby (having been impregnated by an extension of Alpha), and the story ends with a giant Star Child-like figure looming in space. Afterwards a voice from inside the probe gives Dylan an Exposition Dump on how "Alpha" was a chimp sent in deep space that became a higher being after going through a black hole that resembles the Stargate sequence, and it has returned to Earth to deliver a gift before dying. ![]() And just like the monolith, the Omega probe releases a high pitched sound when it gets touched. "Alpha and Omega" (#9) is pretty much Tiziano Sclavi's remix of 2001, with Dylan and the scientists wearing spacesuits and moving to see the crashed Omega probe in a fashion that is directly based on Floyd and his group inspecting the monolith on the Moon.The Italian comic Dylan Dog, being quite Reference Overdosed, hasn't skimped on homaging 2001 in various occasions, standing out in these:.The Mystery of Mamo has a shot near the end of the film (when Mamo's brain floats into the Sun) that homages the opening planet sequence of Odyssey.The use of music and the camera panning from behind the Monk's head invokes the famous opening sequence of the Sun rising above the Earth. An odd parodic example in the recap episode of Samurai Champloo during a scene with Mugen verbally abusing a Monk.In the Rebuild continuity NERV also set up a lunar base where Evangelion Mark.06 is being built within a pit resembling the excavated Monolith. Neon Genesis Evangelion pays tribute to 2001 with SEELE members holding their meetings through computerized black slabs that resemble the Monolith.Millennium Actress features a fictional SciFi picture that Book Ends the film which homages 2001 with the subterranean base on the Moon and the look of the spacesuits.The episode of Galaxy Angel where Mint gets turned into a tree ends in a loose parody of the Star Child ending, as the world ends and Mint is reborn on another planet as a sprout.The crew then float around in the Bebop unconscious as "Waltz of the Flowers" plays and the ship flies on autopilot, a clear reference to the opening "Blue Danube Waltz" sequence in Odyssey. " Toys in the Attic" ends with Spike throwing the contaminated fridge into space.Luckily, this AI is not as sinister in intentions as HAL. " Jamming with Edward" features a very HAL-like AI in both mannerisms and design.Cowboy Bebop has very strong references to the film in two episodes:.Kyle Hebert cites the voice of HAL as an inspiration. Bleach has Aizen, who in the English dub speaks with a creepy, soft monotone completely devoid of emotion.The title itself, and some storylines (mainly "Sea of Fertility", "Discovery" and "Lucifer Rising, Part 2") contain many nods to 2001. 2001 Nights is meant to be a loveletter to classic hard scifi stories, including Arthur C.The floppy disk is positioned to resemble the Monolith. 1 Issue of "Computer Gaming World" magazine, published January 1982, features a cover depicting ape-men gathered around a giant, glowing black floppy disk game cartridge set in a rocky landscape. Baboon) gathering around the Cartoon Network logo while "Also sprach Zarathustra" plays. A late-1990s Cartoon Network bumper (that often played before movie presentations) featured a bunch of monkeys (including Magilla Gorilla, Grape Ape and I.IBM's "Codernauts" advertising campaign showed two men dressed in blue 2001-style spacesuits.See also The Monolith and Also sprach Zarathustra. Much like several other films from Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey was a groundbreaking work that entered pop culture for being influential to other forms of media and for having iconic and easily recognizable scenes that keep getting homaged and parodied to death to this day.
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