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Anyone who got all the references in this story, without Google or reading the comments, wins one hundred geek points.
(Because of the implied depth of coverage required to completely overlap a sample of someone else's reading/viewing.)
I figured part of the enjoyment would be getting together in the comments to work it out.
This is what I've got. I suspect some of the characters I couldn't place are from anime/manga, which I've never been interested in. Otherwise, in rot13:
Gur guerr vqragvpny-ybbxvat oblf: Gbz Fjvsg?
Gur zvqqyr-ntrq jbzna jvgu n "dhvgr crphyvne qrzrnabe": Nyvpr.
Gnyy zna jvgu n funirq urnq: Ybhvf Jh.
Obl jvgu gur fpne ba uvf sberurnq: Uneel Cbggre.
Zna jvgu gur fubpx bs lryybj unve: Wbua Pbafgnagvar.
Obl va benatr jvagre pbng: Xraal.
Gur gnyy zna jvgu chcvyf "yvxr fgnef va gur avtug": Qernz (gur Raqyrff).
Gur zna jub bayl fnvq "Trg ba jvgu vg!": Wbua Pyrrfr, V fhccbfr?
Gur Anzryrff Bar vf sebz Cynarfpncr Gbezrag.
Gur Qbpgbe jvgu gur fpnes vf gur Sbhegu.
Gur jbzna jvgu gur fvyire ubbc: Kran.
Gur thl jub yvtugf gur gerr fghzc ba sver: Envfgyva Znwrer, V nffhzr?
Gur zhfphyne zna jvgu gur yragvphyne pelfgny: N Yrafzna (Ivetvy Fnzzf?)
For the first one... you mean the ones with the numbers on them? I don't quite understand why you think they are who you seem to think they are.
I thought the numbers were some clever Tom Swift reference, although for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. Swift popped into my mind because there have been at least three Tom Swifts about which it was unknown if they were the same person. I have no idea what those numbered characters might be from.
It's three different versions of Shinji Ikari, each coming from a different fanfic: "Thousand Shinji", "Shinji and Warhammer 40,000", and "Once More With Feeling".
Ah, I was wondering about those - I recognized the Eva characters instantly (I consider myself something of an Eva expert), but I couldn't figure out where the deuce the Shinjis were from (since I've long shunned Eva fanfics).
The first one made me laugh out loud. Three copies of Tom Swift hanging around, um, Asuka Langley Soryu...
The rest are correct, except that Wbua Pyrrfr is more of a generic representative for the show as a whole, and for Ivetvy Fnzzf I had in mind KK, not VS - though on reflection, VS would probably fit in better with the crowd.
Hrm, I thought it was supposed to be specifically "vg'f" thl sbe gur zbagl clguba bar.
I got an awful lot of the references but some I can't crack without at least some Googling.
Two references you really, really should have made, but didn't:
Also, Rincewind is the Discworld character who got stuck dimension hopping (including a brief visit to the real world), not Vimes.
But having Vimes along would be so much more useful! Rincewind just isn't a team player.
You're probably right about that; Rincewind would be constantly looking for opportunities to run away. He'd fail, but he'd still try. I'd rather bring along Granny Weatherwax or Susan Sto Helit than Vimes, though.
Which would make the best LessWronger? I'd call Vimes the doggedly rational type... but Susan is probably more likely to go about her dogged rationality in a theoretical/mathematical way. And Granny Weatherwax does like methods that WIN, but I'm not sure that she cares very much just how they achieve it.
Obviously, Vetinari would, if he would deign to deal with us mere bloggers. ;)
I wouldn't call Vimes doggedly rational - at least, not compared to Granny, who is as rational as you can get in a world shaped like a disc resting on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle swimming through space. Vimes just wishes the world made sense. Granny knows it doesn't.
Hrm... Can I request some sort of hybrid of Granny Weatherwax and Ponder Stibbons with a bit of Moist von Lipwig thrown in for good measure?
EDIT: and give the resulting being a carefully dose of Klatchian coffee.
Rincewind tends to be terrified of everything... but he does get stuff done. And in "Sceince of Discworld 2", he was the one who orchestrated the entire plot to free roundworld from the elves.
(Although that book pissed me off in other ways. Thermodynamics is just "a theory about gases"?! (That was its explicit justification for stuff for dismissing the relationship between thermodynamic entropy and information entropy))
Wouldn't Jake constitute a Dark Tower ref?
It's a different Jake. This one, Jake Stonebender, is from the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories. (I had to Google the name.) The Jake from the Dark Tower series is Jake Chambers.