character in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, was named to suggest a relationship to John Shaft. Stated Tarantino: "Her and Django will eventually have a baby, and then that baby will have a baby, and that baby will have a baby, and that baby will have a baby, and that baby will have a baby ... and one of these days, John Shaft will be born". Parodies in other films Good Burger I'm Gonna Git You Sucka I Got The Hook Up Black Dynamite The Hebrew Hammer Reception The character has had a mostly positive response. Literary references References External links Page from 'Thrilling Detectives' Steve Aldous' Guide to Shaft Film characters introduced in 1970 Fictional male detectives Fictional private investigators Fictional shotokan practitioners Fictional kyokushin kaikan practitioners Fictional Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners Fictional Wing Chun practitioners Fictional Shaolin kung fu practitioners Fictional judoka Characters in American novels of the 20th century Male characters in film Series of books Fictional African-American people Black characters in films