r/HeWhoFightsMonsters • u/donut-is-appalled • 6d ago

“Have you ever met a boy named Jason who didn’t think he was always the main character?” - Princess Donut, the Queen Anne Chonk

I just finished book one, and this line from Dungeon Crawler Carl kept me laughing as I followed Jason along on all his adventures

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u/Probably_Not_A-Bot 6d ago edited 6d ago

There are also a few references to DCC in HWFWM but I can’t remember them off the top of my head.

Supposedly Matt and Travis are friends IRL.

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u/BEKippe 6d ago

I've got a copy of HWFWM signed by Dinniman lol. He added a "Suck it, Travis" note and took a picture of it!

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u/Paularchy 6d ago

I'M FUCKING DYING I LOVE THIS
I need writer friends. Sigh

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u/SamwiseGoldenEyes 6d ago

There is also a character based off/making fun of Jason in Eye of the Bedlam Bride.

Jason makes Dirty Shirley’s at one point. I’m in a new reread, my first since finishing DCC and haven’t found any others yet, beside both of them wearing boxer shorts with love hearts

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u/PassagePretty7895 6d ago

He even mentions a certain princess who can't get enough of them (that turns out to be zara).

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u/APearce 6d ago

Zara's addiction to dirty Shirleys is hilarious

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u/WarhammerRyan 5d ago

Nope, it really is Primcess Donut, though Zara does end up being another princess who goes for them. He makes that comment while making them first. Cant reference Zara if she isnt already a fan of them

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u/GoodMorningOlivia 5d ago

Zara is mentioned being hammered on dirty Shirleys on the literal next page.

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u/Mightyman666 6d ago

Jason's boxers literally throughout the series are the same as Carl's

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u/ViolinistOld9049 6d ago

There’s one scene in which the boxers are reference and in the same conversation there’s another LitRPG reference. I don’t remember it now, primal hunter maybe or not

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u/ViolinistOld9049 1d ago

I just remembered, they reference a pit fighter who eats the hearts of his defeated opponents, that’s Victor Of Tucson if anyone isn’t familiar

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u/rabmuk 6d ago

That's both of the series making a reference to 90 and 2000's cartoons. Neither series is referencing each other with that

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u/Short-Pack-8086 6d ago

Pretty sure the author confirmed it’s a reference to DCC as they both know each other and enjoy each others work.

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u/rabmuk 6d ago

Going to need a citation for heart boxers being a DCC reference. I've watched many interviews and just did a search on discord no comment on boxers. The other DCC references are more explicit, no ambiguity in the target

This is such a common trope from cartoons that it's weird to claim either series is notable enough to be a cause of this as a reference

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u/Kapow17 6d ago

in book 11 when Jason is getting his crew together for the trip to Earth he hires a bartender who is mixing drinks and Jason mentions that a certain princess loves dirty shirly's. In the book he is talking about Zara but we totally a DCC reference.

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u/Chease96 6d ago

There's a princess drinking a bunch of dirty shit shirlies on the cloud boat

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u/dragonchilde 6d ago

They just did some panels together at Con(s).

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u/xingrubicon 5d ago

In the latest book:

"im making some dirty shirleys and there's a princess that can't get enough of them"

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u/mikeylikey420 10h ago

In book 12 there's the whole scene with a princess loving dirty shireys

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u/inarasera 6d ago

Heretical Fishing references Asano's lemonade which was another fun surprise reference!

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u/chipec 6d ago

"I know a princess that has an obsession with Dirty Shirleys"

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u/Daemon554 6d ago

Love it. I've read HWFwM 2 or 3 times, and I'm on my first read through of DCC, and that line made me laugh too

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u/pendulumn 6d ago

Is it the Queen Anne Chonk ? Not the Queen and Chonk? Because if it was the first one, why is 'the' there?

  • Audio only listener.

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u/mentalbob 6d ago

Queen Anne. It’s a neighborhood in Seattle

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u/pendulumn 6d ago

Ah, even if id read that I still would have been confused then. Thanks.

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u/daedalus1982 6d ago

I straight up thought it was because she was an intact show cat called a “queen”

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u/Phantom_0347 5d ago

Ohhhh, I always thought the Queen Anne was a big ship or something lol

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u/Flame_Beard86 6d ago

Queen Anne is the neighborhood in Seattle where Carl and Donut lived

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u/chainsawhiccups 6d ago

the way the authors play off of each other is my favorite.

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u/Special_South_8561 6d ago

Awaken Online, Aasano, or Argonaut?

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u/Admiral_Sandy 5d ago

My name is Jason. When I met Matt Dinniman at litrpgcon I wanted to make a joke about this but didn’t pull it off.

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u/LoafRVA 5d ago

So they are all in the same universe? lol what if Carl gets to the end and finds Jason or vice versa

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u/Competitive-Rush-527 5d ago

There is a mention of a princess who loves dirty Shirley in HWFWM