Some Indirect References In Other Authors' Works

See "Orion Shall Rise!"

 

"I did not even doubt the reality of that mysterious being whom the eldila call Maleldil and to whom they appear to give a total obedience such as no Tellurian dictator can command. I knew what Ransom supposed Maleldil to be."

-CS Lewis, Perelandra IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 145-348 AT 1, p. 155.

But the identity of Maleldil is not spelt out for us just yet.

In Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, when something blue accompanied by a disembodied voice and apparently more powerful than a locomotive has crossed the city faster than a speeding bullet and leapt a tall building with a single bound, Robin asks: "...but back there - - was that him?"

When Miller wrote Marvel characters, a panel caption declared: "Suddenly they were there... A voice that could command a god..." Next: "And does." Speech balloon: "Thor! Deal with that fire!" But the speaker is not named.

In The Prisoner TV series, elaborate circumlocations were used to avoid naming the title character, e.g.:

Young woman: You know where he is, don't you? You were involved in his disappearance, weren't you?

Her father: I take it you are referring to your fiancee?