History ShoutOut / FateGrandOrder

* Tomoe Gozen's team's doujinshi for the second [=ServaFes=] covers Lady Avalon's Altria themed Tabletop/GameOfLife; [[VideoGame/GhostNGoblins Ghost 'n Faeries]], a game where you play as Lancer Altria fighting against wicked faeries and evil dragons; and [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Altriacraft]], a game where you play as Altria Caster journeying to find materials to build her dream Camelot. Tomoe herself is about to name-drop ''Minecraft'' when the Protagonist stops her from going any further.

* Oberom's Bond CE shares its name with Maurice Ravel's ''[[https://youtu.be/GKkeDqJBlK8 Pavane for a Dead Princess]]''. Sadly appropriately, this CE features [[spoiler: a dead Blanca]].

* Archer Helena has a [[Franchise/UltraSeries Specium Ray]] animation for her extra attack. Heck, even her second costume is like Ultraman, and her Extra attack is a [[MemeticHandGesture Specium Ray blast]]! Also her NP animation heavily resembles a [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Synchro Summon]].

** While Lostbelt 7's setting in the Americas has been long-settled, the fact that nearly all of the major playable (Kukulkan, Tlaloc [particularly her water-based powers] and Tezcatlipoca's "Jaguar Man" armor) and non-playable (Izcalli/[[spoiler:Moctezuma]]'s black-and-gold Puma armor) characters share their Mesoamerican influences with the plot of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' is pretty close for comfort.[[note]]For reference, ''Wakanda Forever'' premiered October 2022; Lostbelt 7 was released on Christmas Day 2022.[[/note]]

* Morgan's entire story seems to be a reference to [[Characters/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaHomuraAkemi Homura]]'s arc from Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, from having UsedToBeASweetKid, using time travel shenanigans to try to save her people, the fairies [[UngratefulBastard persecuting her over and over again]], and finally turning cold and cynical after several attempts of failing to save them.

* The entire Prologue of Part 2 (which involves an enemy unit of special operatives attacking your base, killing your allies and reducing your crew to a handful of people -- which now forces you to rebuild your forces ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation in-story]] at least) is pretty much the plot of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV''. For her part, Koyanskaya/[[spoiler:Tamamo-vitch]] plays the part of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes Skull Face]]. Mash, your main fielded Servant, even gets cybernetic upgrades a la [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Big Boss/Venom Snake]].

* The original Avalon le Fae was called [[VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia Tonelico]].

** Additionally, his Noble Phantasm is "Amakakeru Ryū ga Gotoku" (Like a Soaring Dragon), which is very similar to the Japanese title of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' games, "Ryū ga Gotoku" (Like a Dragon) . Cementing this was the ''Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!'' (Restoration!) NoExportForYou game where the cast portrayed different members of UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi and the main character was Ryoma himself. (In an AlternateHistory where Ryoma joined the Shinsengumi)

* Musashi's My Room dialogue with Danzou is very reminiscent of how [[LightNovel/{{Haganai}} Kashiwakazki Sena fawns over Hasegawa Kobato]].

** Ishtar's own characterization is similar to Aqua from ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'', particularly in the second Summer event where her Rider version is featured.

** Sometimes during their Noble Phantasm, Oryuu photobombs their SuperMovePortraitAttack with a pair of peace signs while saying "Yeah, peace peace!" in GratuitousEnglish. This is a reference to Ononoki from [[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} the Monogatari series]] and her tendency to do the same.

* When the player imagines the reaction of the female servants if (s)he gets stuck in a tea party with Nursery Rhyme forever, (s)he imagines Mash [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD calling them the worst.]]

** Her Noble Phantasm is a direct one to ''Anime/CombattlerV'''s "Choudenji Tatsumaki / Choudenji Spin".

* About a third of the chapters from ''Spiral Testimonial World - Lilim Harlot ~Roses without Applause~'' ie the Arcade Collab are lyrics to songs from ''Anime/FateExtraLastEncore''
** Case in point, when [[spoiler: Draco finally ascends]] her first line is "A bright burning shout, my contractor!"
[[https://youtu.be/BIZ-4jUJLk8 Bright Burning Shout]] was the opening for ''Anime/FateExtraLastEncore''.
*** And of course, at the very end, [[spoiler: Hakuno themself]] shows up.

** One Craft Essence homages ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', with Rin in the role of Katarina and Luvia in the role of Maria.

** One of her Buster attack animations in her 3rd ascension has her [[VideoGame/DarkSouls doing the "Praise the Sun" pose to damage opponents with her glorious incandesence]].

** Another is ''[[Manga/GiantRobo Giant Babbage]]'', complete with [[Anime/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Yokoyama's Zhuge Liang]] replacing Waver and Mecha Eli having Robo's iconic frown. According to the characters the doujin even manages to have the exact same flaws as the ''GR: The Day The Earth Stood Still'' OVA series, like gratuitous, meaningless cameos and [[spoiler:an unsatisfying cliffhanger ending.]]

* During "Heian-kyō Hell Mandala", a version of Minamoto no Yoshitsune gets summoned by Douman fused with the [[VideoGame/GenpeiToumaDen vengeful ghost of Taira no Kagekiyo]] and becomes an Avenger.

* The very end of the first part of Lostbelt 7 has an apocalyptic vision / prophecy called [[spoiler: The Day of Ort.]] It is very easy to compare this to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC_BUaKN3is The Day of Lavos]] from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.