Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Kathleen Wilder

Kathleen Wilder – Joan Wilder as played by Kathleen Turner
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Kathleen_Wilder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancing_the_Stone

Kathleen Wilder

Kathleen Wilder is a Marleybonian romance novelist that Wizards rescue from Zolo Stone Heart in the Forest Clearing located within Zultun Dock in the Romancing El Yollotl quest. In the ‘Jewel of Denial’ quest she sends you to Zemeckis Cave to find the stone.

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also starred in the film alongside co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film follows romance novelist, Joan Wilder who must venture beyond her New York City comfort zone to Colombia in order to save her sister from criminals who are holding her for ransom as they search for a priceless treasure, an enormous emerald called El Corazón (“The Heart”).

Kathleen Turner plays Joan Wilder, the successful but lonely romance novelist from New York City. She longs to meet and fall in love with a man resembling the heroic male characters from her own writing.

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito reprised their roles in the 1985 sequel, Jewel of the Nile.

Michael Douglas as Jack T. Colton and Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder
in 1984’s Romancing the Stone

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Kathleen Wilder image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Romancing the Stone movie poster and image (c)1984 20th Century Fox

Jewel of the Nile movie poster (c)1985 20th Century Fox

Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

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