History Trivia / BrutalLegend

** Doviculus is [[{{Legend}} the Lord of Darkness.]]

** [[TimCurry My seed]]...[[{{Legend}} germinates within you!]]''

** [[{{Legend}} The sunshine is my destroyer!]]

* [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch Complaining About Games You Don't Play]]: TimSchafer says that those who ATTEMPTED multiplayer enjoyed the game the most, and that those who complain about the Stage Battles are merely spouting "RuinedFOREVER" over seven tutorial missions without ever touching multiplayer, and that reviews reflect it and remain high regardless.
-->'''Tim Schafer:''': When we showed the game to EA, they were interested but wanted to test the concept. In focus tests, the stage battles rated high. What's interesting is the people in those groups aren't told anything about the game and have no expectations for it. One of the things you notice looking at [[http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/brutal-legend Metacritic ratings]] is that the highest scores come from those who really enjoyed the stage battles, and when you get down to the critics who didn't like the stage battles those reviews often [[RuinedFOREVER center around their expectations about what we were going to make]], instead of looking at the stage battles for what they are in a fresh way.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Eddie is [[SharkTale Lenny]].

** [[{{Motorhead}} "No sleep till Battersmith!"]]
** [[{{Motorhead}} "Everything louder than everyone else."]]

** [[{{Motorhead}} Motörhead]] ''Back at the Funny Farm'', ''In the Black'', ''(We Are) The Roadcrew''

* CultSoundtrack / NothingButHits: The full list of licensed songs and the original score by Peter [=McConnell=]. So much and so significant, the track listing really wouldn't look right anywhere but the bottom of the page! YourMileageMayVary regarding which songs and artists are good, naturally.

** '''Eddie''': [[{{Pokemon}} Super-effective!]]

** The Screamin' Demon is [[Film/KungFuPanda Crane.]]

** The story (the beginning at least) itself appears to be an {{Homage}} to the short "Den" from ''{{Film/Heavy Metal}}''. Both involve an unassuming hero being unwittingly transported by a mysterious artifact into a land that appears to be based upon Music/HeavyMetal album covers. He then discovers that he is a warrior, meets a girl and falls in love, fights druid-like figures in and around old temples, and struggles against a CampGay antagonist.

* BrokenPedestal: WebOriginal/ZeroPunctuation towards TimSchafer.

** Not only do some metal legends provide voices for the games (and two of them effectively playing themselves), Lars [[{{NoCelebritiesWereHarmed}} looks suspiciously like]] [[{{Megadeth}} Dave Mustaine]].

** {{Megadeth}} ''High Speed Dirt'', ''Tornado of Souls''

** [[IronMaiden Eddie]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Riggs Riggs]].

** BattleCry is a reference to "One Shot at Glory" by Judas Priest.

** The Rockcrusher kills achievement is called [[JudasPriest Painkiller.]]

** JudasPriest ''Electric Eye'', ''One Shot at Glory'', ''Leather Rebel'', ''Painkiller''

** BlackSabbath ''Children of the Grave'', ''Never Say Die'', ''Symptom of the Universe''

** To be fair, the game's predecessors ({{Sacrifice}}, and the [[{{Battlezone}} Battlezone remake]]), were well received by critics but did not catch on either.

** Dokken ''Mr. Scary''

** [[{{Metallica}} Kill Em All!]]

** There's also the fact that ''Jack Black'' is playing Eddie. While Eddie was based on [[InkSuitActor Black's mannerisms]] from the beginning, Schafer and his team never expected that they'd actually ''get'' Black to play the character. How did they get him? He loves rock, he loved the concept, [[OneOfUs and he loved]] ''{{Psychonauts}}.''

* PromotedFanboy: JackBlack, who voices Eddie Riggs. He wanted to make his own awesome game after playing -- are you ready for this? -- ''{{Psychonauts}}''

** The guy Eddie rescues in the opening scene was doing the "Eh eh eh" dance done by Bobby Zilch and [[ActorAllusion Razputin]] in ''{{Psychonauts}}''.

** Lita Halford is [[DextersLab Dexter's mom.]]
** The Screamin' Demon is [[KungFuPanda Crane.]]

* BrokenPedestal: ZeroPunctuation towards TimSchafer.

** {{Accept}} ''Fast as a Shark''

** The {{Scorpions}} ''Blackout'', ''Holiday''

** BattleCry is a reference to One Shot at Glory by Judas Priest.

** The EmoTeen zombie unit is called a GraveDigger.

** [[{{Megadeth}} Kill Em All!]]

** [[LedZeppelin Bring it on Home]]

** Eddie's ultimate solo, Bring It On Home creates a flaming [[LedZeppelin Zeppelin]] crashing down on your position.

** RobZombie ''Superbeast''

*** Although he is named after a guy from [[{{Metallica}} That Other Band.]]

*** [[{{Metallica}} "Why don't you make them ride your lightning for a change?"]]

** {{Slayer}} ''Metal Storm / Face the Slayer''

** The story (the beginning at least) itself appears to be an {{Homage}} to the short "Den" from ''{{Film/Heavy Metal}}''. Both involve an unassuming hero being unwittingly transported by a mysterious artifact into a land that appears to be based upon HeavyMetal album covers. He then discovers that he is a warrior, meets a girl and falls in love, fights druid-like figures in and around old temples, and struggles against a CampGay antagonist.