References

There are many direct and indirect references to films, other games, and real people and events throughout Heavy Rain, including the following:Original source for many of the items on this list: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/HeavyRain?from=Main.Heavyrain
* Harry, the bartender who gives Norman Jayden advice, is practically identical, down to the outfit, to Lloyd, the bartender in The Shining. His existence as a living being is also just as ambiguous.
** Harry and Lloyd share their names with the characters played by Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber. However, this is likely a coincidence.
* Scott Shelby shares his last name with a similarly conflicted protagonist from Memento.
* Ethan Mars and Scott are similar to characters from the Silent Hill franchise.
** Ethan resembles Harry Mason in appearance and personality.
** Scott is similar to Douglas Cartland; both are private detectives haunted by the death of a family member. Scott's outfit is also near-identical to Douglas'.
* Madison Paige can hide in a refrigerator to save herself from an explosion, much like a certain archaeologist did to hide from a nuke.
** Another possible Indiana Jones reference occurs in the last chapter with a fight atop a conveyor belt that ends in a deadly grinder. Like in The Temple of Doom, the villain can die by reaching the end of the conveyor.
** Yet another: Norman's last (optional) fight with Mad Jack closely mirrors the fistfight between Indy and a large Nazi soldier near a plane in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The villain in both cases dominates the fight but is killed by being caught in an advancing lethal machine (a plane's propeller in Raiders of the Lost Ark and an excavator's treads in this game). It also has some similarities to the aforementioned fight from The Temple of Doom, in both of which the villain dies when his clothing gets caught in machinery.
* Bill Rubin, the carousel ticket seller from the park, has a name similar to a clue Dr. Hannibal Lecter gives Clarice Starling to help her track down Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.
* Dr. Adrian Baker astonishingly resembles Dr. Josef Heiter from The Human Centipede (First Sequence) in both appearance and mannerism. He also bears a close resemblance to Dr. Christian Szell from Marathon Man.
* In the flashback with a young John Sheppard, before taking a leap while wandering around the construction site he clearly says "Yippie-ki-yay" - a catchphrase associated with John McClane in Die Hard.
* The scene where Madison is forced to do a striptease at gunpoint plays out like a darker version of a similar scene from True Lies.
* In the opening credits, a store sign has a pawprint on it that says "Naughty Dog."
* The subway entrance through which Madison and Ethan make their escape from the police is identical to the subway entrance used by Lucas Kane in the beginning of Quantic Dream's Fahrenheit.
** The condominium in "A New Life" and "A New Start" is very similar to Lucas Kane's apartment in the same game.
* One of the endings, "Tears in the Rain," shares its name with Roy Batty's iconic speech in Blade Runner. The killer's usage of origami figures is also a nod to the film, where origami figures serve as a signature item clue.
* The Origami Killer's methods and trials are very similar to the Jigsaw Killer from the Saw franchise.
* The Origami Killer is compared to the Zodiac Killer in "Welcome, Norman."
** Ann Sheppard's name is inspired by Cecelia Ann Shepard, one of the Zodiac Killer's victims.
* The Origami Killer seems to have been at least partially based on the Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK), a serial killer who was active in Michigan between February 1976 and March 1977.
** Both are serial killers who abducted children and held them captive for periods of time before killing them during specific weather conditions (snowfalls in the OCCK's case, heavy rain in the Origami Killer's) in a way that had to do with preventing the children from breathing (smothering in the OCCK's case, drowning in the Origami Killer's case).
** Both dumped their deceased victims' bodies in places where they could be easily found, and laid them completely dressed, in a somewhat "dignified" way.
** In both cases, the killer was at some point suspected to be the son of a prominent family who protected him from the legal consequences of their crimes (Christopher Busch in the OCCK's case, Gordi Kramer in the Origami Killer's).
** There are a few major differences between the two: while the OCCK targeted children of both genders and only sexually assaulted males, the Origami Killer only targeted males and never sexually assaulted his victims. Also, on one occasion, the OCCK killed one of their victims with a shotgun blast.
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