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The game has plenty of references.
* An obtainable item is the VideoGame/{{Frantic Frigate|s}}, which acts as a GlobalAirship to perform movement around the world map.
* The Zombie Horde's first upgrade is "Series/TheWalkingDead".
* Blue Specter's unlockable skills are lyrics from ''Music/{{Eiffel 65}}'s'' "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"- "Blue Inside", "Blue Outside", and "Dabadee".
* Pretty much all of the Swarm of Bats' unlockable skills are references to ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' franchise like "POW", "BAM KABOOM", and "NANANANANANA".
* The Flying Squid's bears some resemblance to the UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, and one of its skills is even named "Pastafury".
* The Tomb King's abilities are "[[VideoGame/{{Spelunker}} Spelunker's Demise]]", "[[Franchise/TombRaider Tomb Rider Raiding]]", "[[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Ark Hiding]]", and "[[Series/GameOfThrones Joffrey was the best]]".
* Bob's Halloween 2016 disguise is [[Series/{{TheJoyOfPainting}} Bob Ross]].
* The Christmas 2016 event has Bob imitating [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas the Grinch]] on the loading screen, the event is even named "Bob stole Xmas".
* The Black Lich has a lot of references in his forge lines, including [[{{VideoGame/Starcraft}} "Power overwhelming" and "We need focus"]], [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 "Whaddaya buyin?"]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "The goggles! They do nothing!"]]...
* The FlavorText for the Passports item is "[[VideoGame/PapersPlease Glory to Goodlandia]]".
* The Spectre Genie code is made up of two adjectives followed by an animal, in CamelCase without spacings (e.g. [=SassyOutrageousLion=]). One of the devs is definitely a fan of ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'', since two of the possible animal types are "Boomrat" and "Boomalope"
* If you try to get the "purchasable" ludicrous pack, the ensuing messages talk about Undertale and Mother 3/Earthbound for a while.
* The 2017 Easter event has you destroy houses to hunt for Easter Eggs... which resemble [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph eggs]].
* The first Chest Guardian of Recon Site is "The Xeno" and it's essentially a XenomorphXerox... but with the face of those cute green aliens.
* The second Chest Guardian of Recon Site is "The Hunter" and it's essentially a Franchise/{{Predator}}... and also has the face of those cute green aliens.
* The third Chest Guardian of Recon Site is "The Red Shirt" and it's one of those cute green aliens wearing the same red shirt from the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise and wielding a Klingon weapon.
* The description for the Chaos Resort has well, this:
--->It's no [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Izalith]], but it'll do. A more comfortable demon offers more lucrative deals.
* The FlavorText for the Rubbish item[[note]]Why would you want this? Perhaps you need help[[/note]] is ''extremely'' similar to that of the Rubbish item from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''[=/=]''VideoGame/DarkSouls3''[[note]]Who in their right mind would bother carrying this around? Perhaps you need help.[[/note]].
* When leveled up, the Giant Zombie might say "[[Music/SmashMouth SOMEbody]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Once]]...", the Big Plague uses motivational poster quotes ("I rejoice in my capabilities" "My best teacher is my last mistake" "My feelings are relevant"), while the Flying Squid will sometimes spout [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles "NOTICE ME SENPAI!"]]
* There's a language option that turns all the game's language, and subsequently text into "[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Hodor]]"
* The abort button for boss fights used to read "Surrender", now it might read "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} I'll be back]]", "[[Film/{{Predator}} Get to the Frigate!]]" or "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing Fly, you fools!]]"
* The Challenge boss to obtain the Durahell Batteries for the Arcane forge is the Durahell Bunny -- a huge blue cyborg Duracell/Energizer Bunny expy.
* The three parts that can be modified per the Fun with Surgery update are the Brain, Heart, and Toe. The toe is a nod to another wizard with a magical toe, [[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob Magical Trevor]].
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