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* When Juan meets Jaguar Javier in the Darkest Timeline, it briefly shows the two engaging in the Epic Handshake from ''Film/{{Predator}}''.
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Like the first game, VideoGame/Guacamelee2 contains a ton of references to video games, movies, luchadores and the like. Grab a seat, these will take a while...
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* The very first scene of the game is a remake of the original game's final boss, which doesn't seem like much of a reference until the characters start openly quoting [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight the infamous "miserable pile of secrets" exchange]].
* The Goat Hermit gets lost taking Juan to the Darkest Timeline, first they end up in [[VideoGame/{{Limbo}} Pueblimbo]], a gloomy world of mist and silhouettes (complete with a GiantSpider hanging off the wall above the exit, trying to spear you with one of its legs just as you escape), and then to [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Riviera City]], a BeatEmUp kind of town with advertisements for [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Triple Dragon]], and a man asking if you're a [[VideoGame/BadDudes bad enough hombre to rescue El Presidente]].
* Before the boss fight Salvador says [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy if you want to be the Luchador]] [[Wrestling/RicFlair you have to beat the Luchador]].
* The Three Relics, each of them looking like pixelated triangles, combine into an object that looks ''extraordinarily close'' to the 8-bit [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI Triforce]]. The negative space between the triangles forms the golden nacho that serves as the key to El Otromundo.
* The [[Franchise/StreetFighter Fight Streeter]] "bonus timeline", wherein you [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII fight and demolish a car at the dockyard]] (specifically, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_in_Mexico Volkswagen Beetle]]). Completing both stages nets you a "Perfect!" trophy. Also, both times, [[VideoGame/FinalFight the owner of the car will lament his loss]].
** The second Fight Streeter stage pits you against a lime-green "volchito" with a white roof. These are the colors of the infamous "eco-taxis" seen everywhere in Mexico City during the 80s and 90s, and memetic in their own right.
* When the deadly time rifts start appearing, a villager acknowledges their unique shape and wonders [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} if they would disappear if they could get a whole row of them lined up]]. Meanwhile, another villager laments not getting the chance to complete her [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Luchadex]], especially since they add 150 new luchadores to the roster every time.
* In the town of Isla Bonita, you meet "[[SdrawkcabName Inatawi Urot]]", who gives you free access to his coin collection if you can retrieve them all from [[VideoGame/PacMan his maze]] in under two minutes.
** [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink I Am Error]] returns, but this time he bars your way if you try to advance to an area you're not supposed to go to yet.
* [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot]] show up as a piñata in a piñata afficionado's house, and as golden idol in the Chicken Illuminati temple, respectively. The former also has a piñata of [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Unikitty]].
* The [[ChestMonster Mimic]] in El Infierno [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI asks if someone has rang the Bell of Awakening and refers to you as a Chosen Undead]].
* A chicken named after [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Chris Houlihan]] shows up in a hidden underground room.
* The Temple of the Snake has not only a giant, one-hit kill snake, but also large and spike-filled open sections that you must traverse by [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} climbing onto smaller, but still huge, snakes that twist and turn around obstacles]]. It also has a lava-filled room that must be crossed by riding on [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld a platform made of blocks that twists and turns like a snake as it moves]].
* The room where you collect the Eagle Boost technique (which allows you to latch on to "grapple points" to sling yourself through the air) has statues of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link wielding the Hookshot]], the titular character of VideoGame/{{Flinthook}}, and [[VideoGame/BionicCommando Rad Spencer]].
* Upon completing your first Pollo Challenge dungeon, the chicken form being equivalent to [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} the Morph Ball required to slip into narrow tunnels]], you earn the "[[Website/{{Miiverse}} y cant guacamelee crawl]]" trophy.
* The "Luchonarrative Resonance" trophy, named after a certain critique of ''VideoGame/BioShock'', is awarded to you by "[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Killing 1000 mean, nasty skeletons without families.]]"
* The "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Juan Punch Man]]" trophy comes from defeating an enemy in one hit using a special move.
* The "[[Franchise/TombRaider Temple Raider]]" trophy is earned by obtaining 100% of chests in a temple.
* The trophy obtained for defeating the final boss, "Nacho Libre", should be [[Film/NachoLibre self-explanatory]].
* One of the Goat Hermits has, among others, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Rafiki's staff]] and [[Manga/{{Dragonball}} Master Roshi's cane]] hanging from his wall.
* The Goat Hermit that teaches you Double Jump greets you by orating the first couple of paragraphs of [[https://www.poesi.as/op01041b.htm Octavio Paz's poem, "Viento".]]
* The Pico de Gallo bonus timeline, wherein you fight your enemies [[spoiler:[[UnexpectedGameplayChange in JRPG battles]]]], is called "[[LevelGrinding The Grindiest Timeline]]".
* A chicken captive in the "El Corazón" prison has [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption a poster]] of [[Creator/RitaHayworth Rita Henworth]] in its cell.
* A girl named Daniela is constantly calling out "[[Podcast/MyBrotherMyBrotherAndMe Camarón! Cielo! AHORA!]]" ("Shrimp! Heaven! NOW!") to the frustration of her father.
* The house in Isla Bonita that leads you to the Git Gud Treetops has two {{paintings}} in the World of the Dead: Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", and the self-portrait of Creator/FridaKahlo (the latter, being a closeup, crops out the hummingbird seen in the original painting; the World of the Living version is a painting of a hummingbird).
* Speaking of paintings another house in Villachula has World of the Living paintings of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps Napoleon riding a giant chicken]] and, once again, the chicken version of the Three Wolves Howling At The Moon t-shirt.
* Another house has a World of the Dead painting of a [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Marowak]].
* Yet another house has the Tall Tall Mountain painting from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Another portrait, this time of a [[VideoGame/MediEvil suspiciously familiar jawless skeleton]], can also be found in the world of the Dead.
* ''Another'' house in Villachula, the one that leads to the "service-based" timeline, has both Living and Dead versions of a portrait of [[Film/{{Audition}} a long-haired woman wearing rubber gloves and holding scissors]].
* Still in Villachula a large mansion has a corridor containing statues based on Tostada's design from the previous game, and some portraits including a luchador with [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Reaper]]'s mask and the so-called Rainbow Wizard from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''.
* Wrapping up Villachula, the bottom level of the World of the Dead has a building named "[[Series/StrangerThings Strange Things Odditorium]]" with the appropriate neon red billboard.
* A building in Isla Bonita has a billboard for [[Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds Mystery Luchador's Wrestleground]]. Its World of the Dead counterpart is for [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Fightnight]] [[MorePopularSpinoff Lucha Royale]] instead. Another billboard advertises a mexican counterpart of ''VideoGame/FrogFractions''.
* The Mariachi Club in Villachula has a billboard of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusheen Pusheen the Cat]] sitting in a teacup. Just beneath it, the "Generic Store" becomes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble Bones & Noble]]" in the World of the Dead.
* And speaking of cats, the El Corazón prison has grafitti of everyone's favorite glutton, [[VideoGame/NekoAtsume Tubbs]], eating a huge bowl of guacamole.
* While we're on the subject of El Corazón and grafitti, the Olmec Head at the gates rests beside a wall painting of skeletal versions of the characters of ''VideoGame/LoversInADangerousSpacetime'', and nearby is a painting of a winged strawberry straight out of ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}''.
* When wearing the El Portero costume, the body of your chicken form turns into a soccer ball. When it rolls ahead, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 it becomes a tilted, spinning oval with a blue trail]].
* The music for the Temple of the Chicken Illuminati starts with a few bars from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''; Pollo Challenge dungeons have off-key versions of the [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Deep Norfair theme]].
* Like in the first game, towns display a plethora of background posters for upcoming lucha matches and product advertisements:
** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 "El Hombre" vs "Esqueleto"]] ("El Hombre" being a deliberately jokey BlindIdiotTranslation of "He" and "Man" that was a memetic joke in Mexico for a brief while in the 80s.)
** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Evento especial, "El Pantera"!]]
** [[VideoGame/{{Severed}} The mysterious Sasha]]. ''Severed'' is also referenced by the trophies awarded upon each of Uay Pek's defeats.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY El Halcón Luchador]].
** A poster with "Papá" and "Chico" ([[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Dad and Boy]]), tag-team duo.
** "Mito v Mito: [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Serpiente contra Ocelot]]".
** [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries El Capitán]] (masked, natch) vs [[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Reptil]].
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis El Némesis]] vs [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 Pirámide Roja]]. The World of the Dead version of this poster shows [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight a horned skeleton wielding a shovel]] fighting [[VideoGame/HollowKnight an insect-like skelton wielding a nail]].
** [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fight]], masked luchador.
** A "missing" poster for UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat, [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a black-striped orange cat]] that appears "alive" in the World of the Living poster, and as a skeleton in the World of the Dead version.
** Another tag-team, the Esqueleto Hermanos ([[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Skeleton Brothers]]).
** A luchador in a blue, spiny outfit advertised with the tagline "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Gotta go fist!]]"
** "Triple Amenaza: Las Gemas" ([[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Triple Threat: The Gems]].)"
** [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} La Gran Cabeza de Copa!]]
** [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimo VS Mega]].
* After you defeat The Crucible, you can find a hidden room which [[spoiler:leads to the message "[[https://www.mariowiki.com/Funky_(level) YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER]]"]] to congratulate you for [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld defeating the game's hardest platforming challenges]].
* And ''finally'', the prison has another instance of ''VideoGame/{{Fez}}'' script; once again, [[spoiler:[[Film/AChristmasStory your translating efforts are rewarded with a useless Ovaltine reference]]]], only, this time, it must have been written by [[spoiler:[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kenny Bania: "Why do they call it Ovaltine the mug is round the jar is round they should call it roundtine"]]]].
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* The very first scene of the game is a remake of the original game's final boss, which doesn't seem like much of a reference until the characters start openly quoting [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight the infamous "miserable pile of secrets" exchange]].
* The Goat Hermit gets lost taking Juan to the Darkest Timeline, first they end up in [[VideoGame/{{Limbo}} Pueblimbo]], a gloomy world of mist and silhouettes (complete with a GiantSpider hanging off the wall above the exit, trying to spear you with one of its legs just as you escape), and then to [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Riviera City]], a BeatEmUp kind of town with advertisements for [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Triple Dragon]], and a man asking if you're a [[VideoGame/BadDudes bad enough hombre to rescue El Presidente]].
* Before the boss fight Salvador says [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy if you want to be the Luchador]] [[Wrestling/RicFlair you have to beat the Luchador]].
* The Three Relics, each of them looking like pixelated triangles, combine into an object that looks ''extraordinarily close'' to the 8-bit [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI Triforce]]. The negative space between the triangles forms the golden nacho that serves as the key to El Otromundo.
* The [[Franchise/StreetFighter Fight Streeter]] "bonus timeline", wherein you [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII fight and demolish a car at the dockyard]] (specifically, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_in_Mexico Volkswagen Beetle]]). Completing both stages nets you a "Perfect!" trophy. Also, both times, [[VideoGame/FinalFight the owner of the car will lament his loss]].
** The second Fight Streeter stage pits you against a lime-green "volchito" with a white roof. These are the colors of the infamous "eco-taxis" seen everywhere in Mexico City during the 80s and 90s, and memetic in their own right.
* When the deadly time rifts start appearing, a villager acknowledges their unique shape and wonders [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} if they would disappear if they could get a whole row of them lined up]]. Meanwhile, another villager laments not getting the chance to complete her [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Luchadex]], especially since they add 150 new luchadores to the roster every time.
* In the town of Isla Bonita, you meet "[[SdrawkcabName Inatawi Urot]]", who gives you free access to his coin collection if you can retrieve them all from [[VideoGame/PacMan his maze]] in under two minutes.
** [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink I Am Error]] returns, but this time he bars your way if you try to advance to an area you're not supposed to go to yet.
* [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot]] show up as a piñata in a piñata afficionado's house, and as golden idol in the Chicken Illuminati temple, respectively. The former also has a piñata of [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Unikitty]].
* The [[ChestMonster Mimic]] in El Infierno [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI asks if someone has rang the Bell of Awakening and refers to you as a Chosen Undead]].
* A chicken named after [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Chris Houlihan]] shows up in a hidden underground room.
* The Temple of the Snake has not only a giant, one-hit kill snake, but also large and spike-filled open sections that you must traverse by [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} climbing onto smaller, but still huge, snakes that twist and turn around obstacles]]. It also has a lava-filled room that must be crossed by riding on [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld a platform made of blocks that twists and turns like a snake as it moves]].
* The room where you collect the Eagle Boost technique (which allows you to latch on to "grapple points" to sling yourself through the air) has statues of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link wielding the Hookshot]], the titular character of VideoGame/{{Flinthook}}, and [[VideoGame/BionicCommando Rad Spencer]].
* Upon completing your first Pollo Challenge dungeon, the chicken form being equivalent to [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} the Morph Ball required to slip into narrow tunnels]], you earn the "[[Website/{{Miiverse}} y cant guacamelee crawl]]" trophy.
* The "Luchonarrative Resonance" trophy, named after a certain critique of ''VideoGame/BioShock'', is awarded to you by "[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Killing 1000 mean, nasty skeletons without families.]]"
* The "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Juan Punch Man]]" trophy comes from defeating an enemy in one hit using a special move.
* The "[[Franchise/TombRaider Temple Raider]]" trophy is earned by obtaining 100% of chests in a temple.
* The trophy obtained for defeating the final boss, "Nacho Libre", should be [[Film/NachoLibre self-explanatory]].
* One of the Goat Hermits has, among others, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Rafiki's staff]] and [[Manga/{{Dragonball}} Master Roshi's cane]] hanging from his wall.
* The Goat Hermit that teaches you Double Jump greets you by orating the first couple of paragraphs of [[https://www.poesi.as/op01041b.htm Octavio Paz's poem, "Viento".]]
* The Pico de Gallo bonus timeline, wherein you fight your enemies [[spoiler:[[UnexpectedGameplayChange in JRPG battles]]]], is called "[[LevelGrinding The Grindiest Timeline]]".
* A chicken captive in the "El Corazón" prison has [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption a poster]] of [[Creator/RitaHayworth Rita Henworth]] in its cell.
* A girl named Daniela is constantly calling out "[[Podcast/MyBrotherMyBrotherAndMe Camarón! Cielo! AHORA!]]" ("Shrimp! Heaven! NOW!") to the frustration of her father.
* The house in Isla Bonita that leads you to the Git Gud Treetops has two {{paintings}} in the World of the Dead: Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", and the self-portrait of Creator/FridaKahlo (the latter, being a closeup, crops out the hummingbird seen in the original painting; the World of the Living version is a painting of a hummingbird).
* Speaking of paintings another house in Villachula has World of the Living paintings of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps Napoleon riding a giant chicken]] and, once again, the chicken version of the Three Wolves Howling At The Moon t-shirt.
* Another house has a World of the Dead painting of a [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Marowak]].
* Yet another house has the Tall Tall Mountain painting from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Another portrait, this time of a [[VideoGame/MediEvil suspiciously familiar jawless skeleton]], can also be found in the world of the Dead.
* ''Another'' house in Villachula, the one that leads to the "service-based" timeline, has both Living and Dead versions of a portrait of [[Film/{{Audition}} a long-haired woman wearing rubber gloves and holding scissors]].
* Still in Villachula a large mansion has a corridor containing statues based on Tostada's design from the previous game, and some portraits including a luchador with [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Reaper]]'s mask and the so-called Rainbow Wizard from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''.
* Wrapping up Villachula, the bottom level of the World of the Dead has a building named "[[Series/StrangerThings Strange Things Odditorium]]" with the appropriate neon red billboard.
* A building in Isla Bonita has a billboard for [[Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds Mystery Luchador's Wrestleground]]. Its World of the Dead counterpart is for [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Fightnight]] [[MorePopularSpinoff Lucha Royale]] instead. Another billboard advertises a mexican counterpart of ''VideoGame/FrogFractions''.
* The Mariachi Club in Villachula has a billboard of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusheen Pusheen the Cat]] sitting in a teacup. Just beneath it, the "Generic Store" becomes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble Bones & Noble]]" in the World of the Dead.
* And speaking of cats, the El Corazón prison has grafitti of everyone's favorite glutton, [[VideoGame/NekoAtsume Tubbs]], eating a huge bowl of guacamole.
* While we're on the subject of El Corazón and grafitti, the Olmec Head at the gates rests beside a wall painting of skeletal versions of the characters of ''VideoGame/LoversInADangerousSpacetime'', and nearby is a painting of a winged strawberry straight out of ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}''.
* When wearing the El Portero costume, the body of your chicken form turns into a soccer ball. When it rolls ahead, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 it becomes a tilted, spinning oval with a blue trail]].
* The music for the Temple of the Chicken Illuminati starts with a few bars from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''; Pollo Challenge dungeons have off-key versions of the [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Deep Norfair theme]].
* Like in the first game, towns display a plethora of background posters for upcoming lucha matches and product advertisements:
** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 "El Hombre" vs "Esqueleto"]] ("El Hombre" being a deliberately jokey BlindIdiotTranslation of "He" and "Man" that was a memetic joke in Mexico for a brief while in the 80s.)
** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Evento especial, "El Pantera"!]]
** [[VideoGame/{{Severed}} The mysterious Sasha]]. ''Severed'' is also referenced by the trophies awarded upon each of Uay Pek's defeats.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY El Halcón Luchador]].
** A poster with "Papá" and "Chico" ([[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Dad and Boy]]), tag-team duo.
** "Mito v Mito: [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Serpiente contra Ocelot]]".
** [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries El Capitán]] (masked, natch) vs [[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Reptil]].
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis El Némesis]] vs [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 Pirámide Roja]]. The World of the Dead version of this poster shows [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight a horned skeleton wielding a shovel]] fighting [[VideoGame/HollowKnight an insect-like skelton wielding a nail]].
** [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fight]], masked luchador.
** A "missing" poster for UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat, [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a black-striped orange cat]] that appears "alive" in the World of the Living poster, and as a skeleton in the World of the Dead version.
** Another tag-team, the Esqueleto Hermanos ([[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Skeleton Brothers]]).
** A luchador in a blue, spiny outfit advertised with the tagline "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Gotta go fist!]]"
** "Triple Amenaza: Las Gemas" ([[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Triple Threat: The Gems]].)"
** [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} La Gran Cabeza de Copa!]]
** [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimo VS Mega]].
* After you defeat The Crucible, you can find a hidden room which [[spoiler:leads to the message "[[https://www.mariowiki.com/Funky_(level) YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER]]"]] to congratulate you for [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld defeating the game's hardest platforming challenges]].
* And ''finally'', the prison has another instance of ''VideoGame/{{Fez}}'' script; once again, [[spoiler:[[Film/AChristmasStory your translating efforts are rewarded with a useless Ovaltine reference]]]], only, this time, it must have been written by [[spoiler:[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kenny Bania: "Why do they call it Ovaltine the mug is round the jar is round they should call it roundtine"]]]].
