What movie universes are connected that would surprise most people

Submitted by pm_meyourlegs t3_z6ub3m in movies

I was recently watching A Million Ways to Die in the West and they make a lot of pop culture references. They make a Christopher Lloyd Back to the Future reference and then at the very end a Django Unchained bit where Django kills the shooting gallery shoot the slave bit. This got me thinking they clearly had permission to do these that would link the universes together. So Django Unchained happened in the Back to the Future universe. Also clearly A Million ways to Die in the West happened in the Back to the Future universe.

What other movies have links like this that most people aren't aware of?

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pajamatheater t1_iy36kxh wrote

That movie is a Seth McFarlane pick; I highly doubt the universes are connected as opposed to the creator of Family Guy not being able to write anything without tons of pop culture references and jokes

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pm_meyourlegs OP t1_iy38jrm wrote

Yeah they make pop culture references but the methodology matters. Like Ready Player One or Free Guy. The movie existing within the universe doesn't make it part of it. However incorporating it into the movie itself would entangle the actual universes.

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pajamatheater t1_iy38ziv wrote

Do you believe the original writers for BTTF and Django Unchained really sat down and agreed that their stories are linked?

This is more likely a case that the studio owns the rights to these films and casually said "go for it" when Seth McFarlane asked permission. If that is indeed the way this went, then I can't seriously look at your idea and say "wow those films are connected 🤯"

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pm_meyourlegs OP t1_iy39qxp wrote

The entire point of the post was to ask what movie universes are connected not nit pick my one example. My one according to some people bad example.

I was just asking a fun question. Thought id ask because it is something that interests me.

Either way im crashing been a long night of sleep schedule resetting.

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pajamatheater t1_iy410pu wrote

I apologize if I upset you. Your post is meant to be fun. I just got defensive because I like BTTF too much.

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froghorse3345 t1_iy3d9zm wrote

“the creator of Family Guy not being able to write anything without tons of pop culture references and jokes”

Lmao. Are you high on crack?!

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Jingleheimer_smyth t1_iy35red wrote

Spy Kids movies and the Machete movies are connected, Machete appears in the spy kids movies

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raptors661 t1_iy36iij wrote

Collateral and The Transporter share a key character.

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heftylefty1988 t1_iy37sdv wrote

Alien series and blade runner are set in the same universe.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_iy384wj wrote

Kurt Russell’s sci fi flick Soldier (1988) is set in the same universe as well.

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pm_meyourlegs OP t1_iy389i7 wrote

Soldier is such a bizzare movie. Great movie but bizzare.

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RyzenRaider t1_iy3aa0n wrote

I've got a big universe... And I will die on this hill, they are canon! MCU ain't got shit on this!

Predator 2 features a xenomorph skull. So even before the AvP movies, these two alien species were in the same universe.

Spaceballs features a xenomorph jumping out of John Hurt ("Oh no! Not again!"). This happens in a diner near the end of the movie, and Lone Star's Winnebago is parked outside, next to the Millennium Falcon. So Star Wars is connected.

Star Wars prequels feature ET creatures in the senate. And ET seems to recognize Yoda (Halloween costume) while walking on the street.

Going back to Aliens, the marines use a USMC Smartgun. In Soldier, Todd's certifications include this weapon. So they exist in the same universe. Soldier also features a spinner from Blade Runner in the junk on the planet. The writer David Webb Peoples confirmed that the films exist in the same universe. I believe Todd's combat history include references to the Shoulder of Orion and Tanhauser Gate, which Roy mentions before he dies.

Todd's history also connects to Star Trek, with references to the Nibian Moons, Antares Maelstrom War and War of Perdition's Flames. So that captures Star Trek.

If you want to start stretching it further, Todd was also credited with Plisken Patch, O'Neil Ring Award, Captain Ron Trophy, Macready Cross, Cash Medal of Honour, and the McCaffrey Fire Award. If you squint through this, then technically you could consider those Kurt Russell movies to be canon. Squinting a bit further, the SG-1 shows are considered canon from the Stargate film, so now you're getting into TV.

So Predator, Aliens, Spaceballs, ET, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Soldier - and maybe even a bunch of Kurt Russell's filmography - all exist in the same universe.

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MurielHorseflesh t1_iy38bki wrote

James Gunn’s Super and Brightburn are set in the same universe. At the end of Brightburn there is a conspiracy theory guy ranting about superheroes and villains out there and Crimson Bolt from Super is mentioned. James Gunn said he’d like to make a third movie where Crimson Bolt tries to take down Brightburn but that wouldn’t be much of a movie.

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Peaches_En_Regalia t1_iy36ta6 wrote

The Lone Ranger and Green Hornet radio shows were created by the same man and had small hidden connections. Green Hornet was the son of Lone Ranger's nephew, a supporting character. I always like to think that Seth Rogen's Green Hornet and Armie Hammer's Lone Ranger share this connection because they're both similar reboots of the characters, being more comedic and specifically having the leads be less effective than their respective sidekicks.

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Trently99 t1_iy3840k wrote

The Transformers movie (2007) and 'Friday the 13th' (2009). Travis Van Winkle is in both as a character called 'Trent' and I swear Michael Bay has said they're the same character

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waterfromthecrowtrap t1_iy449xd wrote

okay, this is a wild one. Yayan Ruhian plays Mad Dog in The Raid (2011) and Yakuza Apocalypse (2015). while it's his nickname and could just be fun character naming (like how Stephen Chow would frequently play a character named Stephen Chow or a variant on it) you don't see him specifically play a character named Mad Dog elsewhere (unless I have some other names to translate). so, tongue planted fully in cheek, you could make an argument for The Raid and Yakuza Apocalypse at least being AUs of each other

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Setanta777 t1_iy4b7x6 wrote

X-Files is part of the Law & Order universe, with Detective Munsch appearing in an X-Files episode.

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Freshrendar t1_iy4esw1 wrote

Casper the friendly ghost and the Ghostbusters.

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bolshevik_rattlehead t1_iy4l0hr wrote

The 1998 Kurt Russell action/sci-fi film Soldier is a spin off film to Blade Runner.

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closeface_ t1_iy5e5ei wrote

Spy Kids and Machete!

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nthehdl t1_iy5qbvt wrote

This is TV, but the last episode of Psych tied into Monk (from imdb trivia):

When Shawn and Gus arrive in San Francisco, they inquire after a consulting position with the San Francisco Police Department. Chief Vick tells them the SFPD already has a consultant, and Juliet says, "He's in the kitchen alphabetizing the pantry." This is a reference to Monk (2002), a show set in San Francisco about a detective with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, which also aired on the USA Network.

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Wouldyoulistenmoe t1_iy5qd8f wrote

The Tommy Westphall Universe is for TV, but would capture a lot of movies with TV crossover

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raven080068 t1_iy34x8v wrote

You want cultural references? Ready Player One

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newscumskates t1_iy36727 wrote

Yuck.

Edit - I'm serious.

Just because a film decides to insert other films into its canon doesn't make them connected to it in any way.

Beyond that, it's just typical of that fuckhead MacFarlane to self impose his cum stained, giant turd of a film onto other great films in some vein attempt of self aggrandisement.

Fuck that piece of shit. Fuck him to the tar pits with a tyrannosaurus leg bone, unlubricated and hopefully splintered.

And fuck anyone who thinks it's a good or even noteworthy film and that mentioning the dumb shit within it like it has any importance outside of the above.

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