In veel films is het heel normaal om in dialogen of karakters verwijzingen te maken naar popcultuur of naar literatuur, waarbij de Amerikaanse TV serie Lost er een hele sport van maakte. Maar dit fenomeen gebeurt ook in videogames, en daarom heeft de website Topless Robot nu deze lijst gemaakt.

8) High Hrothgar, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

As you may recall from high school English class (or at least from the wacky motion-capture antics of the 2007 movie), Hrothgar is the name of the Danish king in the classic Old English epic poem, Beowulf. This may seem a little odd at first, but Skyrim generally draws from Scandinavian and Norse mythology (in case this wasn't super-obvious, the indigenous people of Skyrim are called, uh, Nords). Also, dragon slaying plays something of a role in this game, and I hear Beowulf has something to do with dragons, so the addition of this reference isn't too inappropriate. It's just kind of weird that it's the name of the sanctuary of the sagacious Graybeards. Why not a mead hall, or a castle, or the mountain itself? Moreover, why is there only a High and not a Low or Middle Hrothgar to complete the sequence? I tend to believe that Bethesda was sending us a coded message that Anthony Hopkins was blazed throughout the filming of the Zemeckis picture, which is why they had to use computer animation to cover the coughing fits. While Hrothgar is a fine, strong name, it's a little too mainstream for a master's level English scholar such as I. As such I'm profoundly disappointed they didn't go with some of the deep cuts of the poem, like Hyglac or Modthryth or Ecgtheow. "High Ecgtheow" just rolls off of your Anglo-Saxon tongue, doesn't it?