Ready Player One: 135 Easter Eggs & References Explained

36. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

And just to close the loop on that reference, an actual Turtle - seemingly from the recent Michael Bay produced movies - appears alongside the Battletoads in the big fight. Pretty sure it's Raphael.

In the final battle sequence there's also a cameo for Tokka, the snapper turtle mutant that Shredder creates in Turtles II.

35. It's A Wonderful Life

In the film's climax when the OASIS players rebel against Sorrento and he laments his failure, i-R0k quotes a famous line from It's A Wonderful Life to make him feel better saying “No man is a failure who has friends.”

34. Hamlet

When we first meet I-R0k he's doing a “Poor Yorick” skit with the dead Steam Punk Pirate’s skull in unexpected homage to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

The nightclub being called The Distracted Globe is also a Hamlet nod - but subtler - as Hamlet uses the term as an insult to his court, implying they are distracted by low-brow entertainment while his father's death goes unpunished.