I was reading The Odyssey this morning and one scene struck me as being eerily reminiscent of another from Final Fantasy X.

After being shipwrecked on the shores of Phaeacia, Odysseus passes out and is woken up by the sound of Nausicaa and her maids playing ball. Similarly, Tidus is woken up by Wakka and his team practising blitzball on the shores of Besaid. Maybe an intentional allusion, maybe not. The two stories are pretty similar in theme, though.

What other allusions, intentional or otherwise, have you picked up on throughout the series? Clearly some are more obvious than others. What ones caught you by surprise/only dawned on you years later?