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The cultural references in that film I think are ironically all things he was never interested in, wasn't he a pre-teen when most of those pop culture icons in the film show up? I can't recall many in the film he would have actually known, his peers in school probably would have, the monty python easter egg probably doesn't count, since Chris was never really invested in it, he just really chucked a reference in his comic to make it more "original".Does anyone know if Chris saw ready player one? His latest something about the merge in the brony anyalists cartoon sounds an awful look like the Oasis only instead of being done through technology it's powdered by pure autism and wishful thinking
The film came out more than half a year before most of the merge shit started, so I don't think it would have contributed to his delusions too much. To a certain degree, he already believed that some aspects of his fantasy world where somewhat real.
Edit: Sorry my mistake, the idea guys were already self inserting ideas about the existence of other dimensions and counterparts having super powers around late 2017, maybe they might have been influenced by the promotional material of the film as well as the book if they really wanted to base their discussions to Chris about other fictional characters showing up in an online game universe/world, but since Chris didn't really use any other types of characters relating specifically to the merge when he was talking about C-197, he only did if they had a universal counterpart or something brought up later on, post merge.
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