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Easter Eggs
For in-game aspects and explainations, see Trivia.
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Thief: The Dark Project and Thief Gold 
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Quote List bedroll in the basketball court of A Keeper's Training.
In-Jokes Edit
List the names of developer team members as characters mentioned in in-game texts as cameos.
References Edit
Literary, Theatrical, Music, & Movie References seen and heard.
- A guard whistles "If I Only Had a Brain" from the motion picture musical The Wizard of Oz.
- Lovecraftian Great Old Ones in Karath-Din
- In the mission The Lost City, Garrett comments, "Creepy", reacting to one solitary statue on a pedestal on the way to the Fire Talisman Tower. The idol is quite clearly a depiction of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu.
- In the same mission, there is a reference to the Temple of N'lahotep, which similarly must be assumed to be a reference to Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.
- Dragonslayer in Karath-Din
- In M9BOOK.STR there's a reference to the Dragonslayer movie. In the movie, an elderly servant Hodge (Sydney Bromley) dies, making to say that Urland's ashes must be spread over "burning water". In M9BOOK.STR, there's a passage about a Keeper called Hodge that died, and his last words were "burning water".
- If I had a Hammer...
- In the mission Strange Bedfellows, you can find a book which says: "Hadst I a hammer, wouldst I hammer in the morning. Wouldst I hammer in the evening, all over this land." This is a reference to the opening lyrics of the song "If I had a Hammer".
- Tomb Raider
- In the mission Down In The Bonehoard, when Garrett enters the Bonehoard, he says, Time to... Raid some tombs...
Thief Gold Only Edit
Quote List bedroll in the basketball court of A Keeper's Training.
The Blooper Reel behind-the-scenes mission.
In-Jokes Edit
List the names of developer team members as characters mentioned in in-game texts as cameos.
References Edit
Literary, Theatrical, Music, & Movie References seen and heard.
- Lupin Thief
- Two guards in "The Mage Towers" speak of Bradwort, who was caught stealing lupins from the mages. This is a reference to the Monty Python skit "Dennis Moore".
Thief: The Metal Age Edit
- Changing Madame Volari's appointment list M02B14.str to M02BB14.str in Shipping... and Receiving.
- The dancing zombies outside the wall of Shoalsgate Station at the beginning of Framed.
- The eight-hour wait for the time vault in First City Bank & Trust to open itself.
- The Quote List in Sabotage at Soulforge.
In-Jokes Edit
List the names of developer team members as characters mentioned in in-game texts as cameos.
- In Shipping... and Receiving, T.M. Blackheart is named after the real Thomas M. Blackheart, playtester and musician, and the music recording on the wax cylinder is his own composition.
References Edit
Literary, Theatrical, Music, & Movie References seen and heard.
- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World in Ambush!
- To the south, next to the canal off of Helena Way, there is a wooden "W" on a wall, with three torches. In the canal below the "W" is a coin purse.
- Plagiarizing Azal's explanation: In the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the character Smiler Grogan buried a large amount of money beneath a mysterious "Big W", and the big race for the hidden fortune formed the basis of the movie.
- Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll in Casing the Joint and Masks
Thief: Deadly Shadows Edit
In-Jokes Edit
List the names of developer team members as characters mentioned in in-game texts as cameos.
- all portraits in the game show members of the T3 development team (they are located here: YourPathToThief3\Thief3\CONTENT\T3\PCTextures\DynamicallyLoaded)
References Edit
Literary, Theatrical, Music, & Movie References seen and heard.
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