A Hero’s Past is where the callbacks and references really started coming. I figured I kinda had to reference the first movie a bit since this was a prequel story.

Right off the bat, the story starts out with the ending paragraph from Legend and that’s because this is the beginning of the entire Alpha and Omega story. I detto at the end of Legend that the story told around the logboard always began with those words, so I decided to include them in quotations at the very start of the very first story.

In chapter two, I made a quick reference to the third movie when I mentioned the Great lupo Games. In chapter three, when Humphrey first learns to logboard, I made a reference to when he swung the logboard around in the first movie da having Gary do the exact same thing, implying that that’s where Humphrey learned it from. Almost immediately after, there’s another reference to the Film regarding logboarding and it’s to the constant theme that they never know how to actually stop.

There’s a reference to the secondo movie in chapter four when Humphrey hurts himself trying to howl. In the secondo movie, Runt is taken da the Rogue Lupi and Garth and Humphrey distract them while Kate sneaks in to grab Runt. They basically pull a tall guy trick in the tall grass, pretending to be one big lupo and Humphrey has to try and assert his dominance da howling, but he ends up hurting himself.

One of the few references to something outside of the Film is also in chapter four with Martha telling Humphrey to just do instead of try, which is a nod to “do o do not. There is no try” from stella, star Wars. There’s one last reference in chapter four at the end when Martha kicks a bunch of snow onto Gary, which Kate does to Humphrey in the first movie.

There’s another reference to stella, star Wars in chapter nine when Mick says that he “prefers a good fight to all this sneaking around” which is a line that Han Solo says when they’re sneaking around on the Death stella, star in the original movie.

I put a fun little reference to the first movie in chapter twelve when Arnold and Humphrey meet. In chapter twelve, Arnold mistakes Humphrey for a coyote pup, which is a callback to the first movie when Garth made fun of Humphrey, calling him a coyote.

At the beginning of chapter seventeen, there’s another reference to the first movie. I wrote that Humphrey was glad he was a fun-loving lone wolf, which is what he called himself toward the end of the first movie. Also, the entire thing of him living off of berries while he was in the woods is a callback to how he sometimes likes to eat berries in the movies. I’m not sure if I should call the epilogue a callback since it literally is the opening of the first movie, but I’ll put it here anyway.