History ShoutOut / Deltarune

* Kris throwing their SOUL into the birdcage might be a reference to a song called, [[https://youtu.be/NhjSzjoU7OQ "Birdhouse In Your Soul"]].

* Queens digitalized head, which you can see when you start Chapter 2 or as one of attacks during her battle, looks similar to [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma Virus.]]

-->'''Spamton:''' [[Series/DealOrNoDeal DEAL OR NO DEAL]], THAT'S THE TV SHOW WHERE THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T TAKE THE DEAL GET FILLED WITH BULLETS FIRED FROM THE HOST'S MOUTH!!!

* When Pizzapants talks about his fellow pizzeria employees, he mentions a [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys "Purple Guy"]] and wonders if he even works there.

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* If you manage to recruit Hacker into your town, you can chat with them on the giant stone pillar west of the town's entrance -- they'll say that the town is nearly as good as the one they made in [[WebVideo/MinecraftWithGadget Minecrap]]. Another reference to "Minecrap" is made by Spamton on the Weird route. The jokes themselves could also be a reference to Music/SiIvaGunner, who prominently uses the "Minecraft with Gadget" video in rips.

* Rudinn's bio in the Recruits section has the phrase [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on, you lazy diamond!"]] at the very end.
* Also, Ambyu-Lance's bio in the Recruits section states that they're "not [[Music/{{Disturbed}} down with the sickness]]".

* If you manage to recruit Hacker into your town, you can chat with them on the giant stone pillar west of the town's entrance -- they'll say that the town is nearly as good as the one they made in [[WebVideo/MinecraftWithGadget Minecrap]]. Another reference to "Minecrap" is made by Spamton on the Weird route. The jokes themselves could also be a reference to ''Music/SiIvaGunner'', who prominently uses the "Minecraft with Gadget" video in rips.

* If you manage to recruit Hacker into your town, you can chat with them on the giant stone pillar west of the town's entrance -- they'll say that the town is nearly as good as the one they made in [[WebVideo/MinecraftWithGadget Minecrap]]. Another reference to "Minecrap" is made by Spamton on the Weird route.

* If you manage to recruit Hacker into your town, you can chat with them on the giant stone pillar west of the town's entrance -- they'll say that the town is nearly as good as the one they made in [[WebVideo/MinecraftWithGadget Minecrap]].
* The Hacker refers to your task of finding all the blue checkmarks as a [[VideoGame/ChexQuest "Checks Quest"]].

* Not only does Spamton NEO sport an ArmCannon vaguely reminiscent of a ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' Mega Buster, he also fires out egg-shaped projectiles called "Pipis" which explode into several smaller Spamton heads when they reach your screen. This is based on the [[https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Pipi Pipi]] enemies from the same series, a bird robot that drops eggs which hatch into several smaller copies of itself.

* If you manage to recruit Hacker into your town, you can chat with them on the giant stone pillar west of the town's entrance -- they'll say that the town is nearly as good as the one they made in [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Minecrap]].

* If you manage to recruit Hacker into your hub, you can chat them up on the giant stone pillar west of the town's entrance -- they'll say that the town is nearly as good as the one they made in [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Minecrap]].

* The way Queen's dialogue is formatted is a dead ringer for [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Kanaya's]] typing quirk (capitalizing the first letter of each individual word and leaving out punctuation), with occasional mood words in parentheses and chatspeak sprinkled in.

* Just like in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''Deltarune'' has specific references to {{Creator/Falcom}}'s forgotten dungeon crawler series ''VideoGame/{{Brandish}}'', particularly the scene where Kris and Susie's falling to the Dark World, which [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_falldown.png references the intro]] of ''Brandish 1'' where [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brandish__u_____001.png Ares/Varik and Dela/Alexis' fall to the underground ruins]], while Kris' Dark World outfit gives them iron armor and a cape, which alongside their HiddenEyes [[[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unknown_2_71.png creates a likeness]] to [[VideoGame/{{Brandish}} Ares]]/[[VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack Varik]].

** The mechanic used for gaining TP is essentially the graze system from ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Touhou]]'', complete with a near-identical sound effect.

* Kris' Dark World outfit gives them iron armor and a cape, which alongside their HiddenEyes creates a likeness to [[VideoGame/{{Brandish}} Ares]]/[[VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack Varik]].

[[folder:Chapter 1: The Beginning]]
* Toriel asks Kris about the game they and Asriel used to play, asking if it was called ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smashing Fighters]]'', and mentions how Asriel liked "the green lizard," referencing [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi]]. And for a triple whammy of references, she then talks about how Asriel hated [[Creator/DrSeuss "that book about eating green eggs"]] after his father cooked some eggs that were decorated to look like Yoshi's eggs.
* Lancer's declaration that "[[WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder he's the bad guy.]]"

* When Burgerpants talks about his fellow pizzeria employees, he mentions a [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys "Purple Guy"]] and wonders if he even works there.

* In certain areas, you'll be treated to some pitch-bendy sine wave ambience that resembles the kind you would hear in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

* Kris' Dark World outfit gives them iron armor and a cape, which alongside their HiddenEyes creates a likeness to [[VideoGame/{{Brandish}} Ares]]/[[VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack Varik]].
* The name of the battle theme, "Rude Buster," appears to be a homage to a PC-98 ShootEmUp game titled "Rude Breaker."

* Rudinn's bio in the Recruits section has the phrase, [[Music/PinkFloyd "Shine on, you lazy diamond!"]] at the very end.
* Also, Ambyu-Lance's bio in the Recruits section states that they're "not [[Music/{{Disturbed}} down with the sickness]]".

** Also, fter defeating Queen in the Punch-Out style arcade game, her on-screen (vector-based) character's head explodes using a VERY similar graphic to the one used in the vector game portion of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22zSrpeSA4&t=87s video games]].

* Continuing Asriel's love of Yoshi from the previous chapter, Alvin remarks that when Asriel was younger, he would tearfully confess his sin of "dropping the lizard in the pit to jump high" in a video game. This is a reference to a hidden stage in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' where you have to dismount Yoshi over a BottomlessPit in order to reach a hidden exit, sacrificing Yoshi to do it.