Film

Films are recurring cultural artifacts in Homestuck. Posters and images from real life films are seen decorating the walls of many bedrooms and respiteblocks across Earth and Alternia. These serve to highlight the interests of the characters they belong to, but also often hold hints at the story and themes of the comic.

“AFTER RACKING UP THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF FILM HISTORY” Alternia began to run out of distinct titles for films, and in Alternia's modern day their names can be quite long and descriptives, sometimes taking up most of or all of the poster for the film: just part of one Alternian movie title is “WHEREIN NUMEROUS VIGILANTES CONFRONT PERIL; ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE OTHERS; (BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG); / SEVERAL ATTRACTIVE FEMALE LEADS PROVOKE ROMANTIC TENSION; FOUR MAJOR CHARACTERS WEAR UNUSUAL HATS; ONE HOLDS PLOT-CRITICAL SECRET; / 47 ON-SCREEN EXPLOSIONS, ONE RESULTING IN DEMISE OF KEY-ADVERSARY; 6 to 20 LINES THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS HUMOROUS; ...”. In contrast, Alternian television “is a much newer form of media”, and troll television programs have much shorter names.

John's room[]

North Wall (From Left to Right):

Ghostbusters II (1989)
Mac and Me (1988)
Deep Impact (1998)

South Wall (From Left to Right)

Armageddon (1998)
Ghost Dad (1990)

East Wall (From left to right)

Contact (1997)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Failure to Launch (2006)
Face/Off (1998)

West Wall (Left to Right)

Little Monsters (1989)
Con Air (1997)

Karkat's respiteblock[]

North Wall (Left to Right)

Hitch (2005)

West Wall (Left to Right)

50 First Dates (2004)
Serendipity (2001)

Jake's room[]

Middle wall (top to bottom, left to right)

National Treasure (2004)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Little Monsters (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

Eastern Wall (Left to Right)

The Mummy (1999)
Stargate Atlantis (2004 TV series)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Stargate (1994)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
A T-800 Cyborg from the Terminator franchise
Time-Traveling Demon (Not actually a film. Created as Homestuck fanart by Deviantartist Plegathon .)
Smurfette from The Smurfs (2011)
Indiana Jones in the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Avatar (2009)
Mystique from X-Men (2000) or one of its sequels.

Northern Wall (Left to Right)

National Treasure (2004)
Ghost Rider (2007)
The Alien Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element (1997)
(Unidentified Robot)
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
The Wicker Man (2006)
Aayla Secura from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002).
Army of Darkness (1992)
A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Black Knight (2001)
A Knight in Camelot (1998)

Vriska's Shrine in the Veil[]

From Left to Right:

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
City of Angels (1998)
The Weather Man (2005)
Con Air (1997)
Windtalkers (2002)
Face/Off (1998) (Though it has been roughly torn in half, leaving only the right side featuring Nic Cage)

Other rooms/respiteblocks[]

In Jane's room, a poster of Doctor Manhattan as he appeared in Watchmen (2009) can be seen over the bed. His private parts are covered by a picture of Howie Mandel's character in Little Monsters (1989).
Dave and Dirk have the exact same two images of Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller from Starsky & Hutch (2004) located their bedroom walls in the exact same spots pre- and post-scratch.
A poster of Troll Indiana Jones from Temple of Doom (1984) can be seen in Aradia's respiteblock.
Of all identified posters, 9 have starred Nicolas Cage.

Posters in Hiveswap[]

Joey's posters[]

Left wall
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1992)
- The NeverEnding Story (1984)
- Tiny Toon Adventures (1990)

Back wall
- Super Metroid (1994)
- Final Fantasy VI/III (1994)
- Tetris 2 (1993)
- Mother 2/Earthbound (1994)
- Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (1993)