Shaka When the walls fell

Mischievous girl, her house burning.

Leonardo DiCaprio, pointing at the television!

Serious little boy, his upturned fist presented!

Morty, his hands making finger guns.

Eric Andre, his mag dumped behind him; his face filled with confusion.

Pikachu, his mouth open

Image searching returned too many really tone deaf or just plain stupid ones made by far right American mouth breathers.

Colbert, his finger extended.

The fox in fuckin wimd.

Monsoon to Raiden, his voice in awe

We already do this, even when the original reference is forgotten.

We use idioms that refer to Greek mythology (hanging over your head, as with the Sword or Damocles, or Achilles heel), or Bible stories (Judas meaning betrayal, shibboleth meaning some kind of identifier of membership in a group), or Shakespeare (pound of flesh), or horse racing (frontrunner, hands down, across the board) or other sports (bullseye, slam dunk, par).

And in terms of our technology, we use all sorts of things that harken back to some obsolete technology. We use a save icon that is a floppy disk, a database icon that uses cylinder drum memory. We refer to the smartphone interface that enters phone numbers as a "dialer" from the "dial" in the days of rotary phones.

skeletor, laughing with a toothy grin.

Jeremiah Johnson, his head nodding