Kenneth Irons says the Witchblade is a mystery wrapped in a riddle and cloaked in the conundrum. In 1939 Winston Churchill said of Russia that it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Variations of that phrasing have become a standard, if pretentious, description of anything puzzling.
A dying Black Dragon says, "Come not between the dragon and his wrath". In Act 1, King Lear is enraged at his youngest daughter for her being honest instead of flattering. Kent risks banishment by defending her and Lear warns Kent of the danger of doing so. "Come not between the dragon and his wrath".
The Velvet Uderground nightclub shows movie clips on its walls. Included is footage from "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" and "The Attack of the 50 Foot Woman", both 1950s B-movies.
Ghost Danny says to Sara, "So foul a sky clears not without a storm". In Act 4 of Shakespeare's ' The Life and Death of King John' things are really starting to fall apart for King John. Enter a messenger with troubled expression. John says, "So foul a sky clears not without a storm: pour down thy weather: how goes all in France". The messsnger's news is all bad, very bad.
Moby intones to Irons, "On the hungry craving wind my spectre follows thee behind". In 1800 William Blake wrote a poem titled 'My Spectre around me night and day'. The spectre seems to be pursuing someone who killed seven someones. Blake was an extreme mysticist; scholars have built entire careers arguing what he ever meant.