Line #71 ShoutOut/Magicka


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6	* The very first sentence to be uttered in the cutscene before the first level has no less than ''six'' shout outs. See for yourselves: "[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Stay a while and listen]], and I will tell you a story. A story of TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, of [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Orcs and Goblins]], of [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Ghouls and Ghosts]], of [[VideoGame/KingsQuest Kings and Quests]], but most importantly -- of Wizards and Vamp -- Well, a story of Wizards."
7	** The Russian translation, though unspectacular at times, hits the mark rather well by changing "Kings and Quests" into [[Creator/OHenry Cabbages and Kings]].
8	* The imps in the tutorial bear a striking resemblance to those in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper''. They even chip at the walls with their little pickaxes.
9	* The first [[spoiler:(and only)]] sidequest in the game involves [[RatStomp killing rats in the basement]], except that the NPC [[SubvertedTrope changes her mind]] upon realizing how trivial that problem is.
10	* The first thing you hear from a goblin is a call to his friend [[http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Rakanishu "Rakanishlol"]].
11	** Also, the bleak village in the middle of the swamps in Chapter 9 features what anyone familiar with the game will instantly recognize as the Tristram music from VideoGame/{{Diablo}} (even though it's actually not, obviously).
12	* In the room before the tutorial boss, there's a sign saying "[[VideoGame/YouHaveToBurnTheRope You don't have to, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to burn the rope.]]" And sure enough, you can burn the rope, dropping a chandelier on poor [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Behold]], the [[CaptainErsatz Watcher]], killing him instantly.
13	* Pretty much ALL of the achievement names, some of which include "I put on my RobeAndWizardHat" and "I think Magicka is a Pretty Cool Guy". If it's a [[MemeticMutation meme]], it's in there somewhere.
14	** There are also achievements called [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture 88mph]], [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist State Alchemist]], [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark OMG, They Killed Yellow!]], [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Blue... No, Yellow!]], Film/DeepImpact, [[VideoGame/{{Battlefield}} Good Company]], [[ComicBook/SpiderMan No Power = No Responsibility]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship Is Magicka]] and [[Anime/DragonBallZ It's Over 9000!]] among others.
15	* The same goes for many of the [[http://www.magickapedia.net/wiki/Magicks magicks' pictures]]:
16	** The image depicting the Grease magick shows the three mages in exact same poses as the Wehrmacht soldiers from [[http://www.hammerzeit.us/images/hammerzeit.jpg the "Hammerzeit" photo]] (minus the leftmost one).
17	** The image for the Crash to Desktop magick pretty nicely mimics the [[http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt142/Excess2itall/fuuuuuuuuu.jpg FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- image macro]].
18	** The image for Summon Death resembles a scene from ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' which in turn parodies [[ChesswithDeath The Seventh Seal]]. Fittingly, [[spoiler:you fight Death on a giant chessboard]].
19	** The image for Vortex strongly resembles the title scene from ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
20	** The slowing magick is called [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]].
21	** Tractor Pull was inspired by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtJQwqmogjM fan-made video]].
22	** And, well... VideoGame/{{Portal}}.
23	* Literature/TheHobbit and Literature/TheLordOfTheRings:
24	** The Staff of the White Wizard, which frightens enemies and upgrades your light radius.
25	** A sword called Stung, which glows whenever enemies are nearby... and which is found near two small skeletons, a frying pan, and a spider web.
26	** The Morgul Blade, which, unsurprisingly, poisons enemies.
27	* The reservoir robes description [[Film/ReservoirDogs "I don't want to read about no reservoir wizards."]]
28	* The overworld map shown in chapter intros features the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos island of R'lyeh]].
29	** Which you actually go to in the DLC ''The Stars are Left''.
30	* In chapter 2, you'll come upon Gram's Workshop, from which [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} "a powerful hammer of the dark and gritty sort"]] can be retrieved.
31	** And if you speak to the villagers in the town just before that, one of them says he heard that "in the distant north, there is only war."
32	* A [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Sword of the Masters]] which shoots arcane bolts on swing if you're at full health.
33	** The cover art looks a lot like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords Four Swords'.]]
34	* Vlad, who is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally not a vampire]], says in the middle of chapter 3, [[Franchise/StarTrek "To boldly go where no vamp .... err MAN has gone before"]].
35	* A guy named [[Franchise/{{Highlander}} MacLeod]], standing in front of a grave at a cliff edge with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. [[spoiler:You even get the achievement "There can be only one" for killing him!]]
36	* When you get the [[spoiler:M60]], the dialogue goes something like, "Our blacksmith and handyman [[Series/MacGyver1985 Angus]] made this using nothing but a paperclip... and a shotgun."
37	* By itself, ''Franchise/StarWars'' gets a huge number of references:
38	** The first six chapters are named, respectively, [[Film/ThePhantomMenace The Fancy Menace]], [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Attack Of The Goblins]], [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Revenge Of The Tribes]], [[Film/ANewHope A New]] [[ShapedLikeItself Hope]], [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Havindr Strikes Back]], and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Return Of The Wizard]].
39	** A wizard studying a dead moose in the first chapter mentions that "only goblin rangers are so precise".
40	** You find two dead burned corpses in front of a burned farmhouse in the beginning of Attack of the Goblins who resemble Owen and Beru's corpses.
41	** During [[spoiler: the city assault portion]] in chapter 4, you and three [=NPCs=] will get surrounded by enemies in the town square. One of the [=NPCs=], Admiral Agnar, shouts, "IT'S A TRAP!"
42	** After the wizard holding the King hostage at the end of chapter 4 is defeated, he begins charging a massive lightning spell, only to have the king pick him up and throw him down a conveniently placed shaft as electricity arcs around him.
43	** There is a lightsaber to be found next to a charred skeleton lying by a lava river...
44	** During your duel with him, [[spoiler:Vlad]] makes a few random comments, one of which is: [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "Impressive! Most impressive!"]]
45	** When you win the mind duel, Grimnir says: [[Film/AttackOfTheClones It seems that this battle will not be decided by the strength of our minds, but by our skill in spellcasting.]]
46	** At the very end of the game, [[spoiler:Future Vlad, Behold the Watcher, and the Headmaster]] all appear before you, like Yoda, Anakin, and Obi-Wan at the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
47	** Upon entering the goblin camp in Chapter 2, the goblins yell "Intruders!" and "Blast them!"
48	** Prior to abandoning ship in Chapter 3, Vlad says he senses a great disturbance in his town.
49	** One of the villagers in Chapter 2 says: [[Film/ANewHope "Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways! Yeah, you heard me right! What're you going to do? Strangle me?"]]
50	** In the swamp: [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "There's a faint outline of a small X-shaped vehicle in the water."]]
51	** At the end of Chapter 11, Vlad implores Fafnir to help the heroes by saying: "Help us, Fafnir. You're our only hope."
52	** The end boss shouts "DO NOT WANT!" as he dies.
53	** At one point a character says "that's impossible even for a computer".
54	* The names of chapters 7-11 ([[VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein Return to Castle Aldrheim]], VideoGame/{{Mine Sweeper}}s, [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the]]
55	''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', [[VideoGame/GrimFandango A Grim Tango]] and [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Raiders of the Lost Ruins]]) are video game and/or movie titles.
56	** In the Count's castle on level 9, you find [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} a guy in a leather skirt with a whip]] lying dead on the floor.
57	** In Chapter 10, [[spoiler: Future Vlad]] explains that the ruler of the underworld, Death, is part owner of a [[VideoGame/GrimFandango travel agency]].
58	* Finally, Chapter 12 is titled Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness, already foreshadowing the [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] chapters to follow in the ''The Stars are Left'' DLC.
59	** The true final boss [[BossSubTitles is introduced]] as [[Literature/TheKingInYellow "The King In Yellow"]], [[spoiler: as befits a yellow-robed (vaguely) HumanoidAbomination]].
60	** And when you beat him, he lets out a BigNo, of [[MemeticMutation memetic]] [[RecursiveTranslation proportions]].
61	* The King who, in a conversation with a soldier right next to a pit says "[[Film/ThreeHundred Madness?!?]]... [[SubvertedTrope Well, yes, now that you mention it, I suppose you're right...]]" Though you can throw the soldier into the pit yourself. [[spoiler:(For an aptly named achievement: "[[DoubleSubversion This is Magicka!]]")]]
62	* A [[VideoGame/CounterStrike knife of Counter-Striking]] which makes you run incredibly fast.
63	* The achievement for killing 20 enemies with one spell or Magick (harder than it sounds), is appropriately named "[[VideoGame/UnrealTournament MU-MU-MU-MULTIKILL!]]".
64	* The achievement for winning 20 matches in a row is called [[Film/FlashGordon1980 "Nothing but a man, who can never fail"]]
65	* The Yeti from VideoGame/SkiFree didn't forget you; it just patiently waited until you decided to play Magicka.
66	** Fittingly, the first time you encounter a yeti (or "Snow Troll") is at the beginning of the snow chapter. You see a soldier skiing down a snowy mountain, jumping off a rainbow-colored ramp shortly before the yeti devours him. Also, while the other trolls are very slow and the Cave Troll's instant death attack takes a long time, the Snow Troll is '''really''' fast and it devours your wizard in less than a second.
67	* "Remember: [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy The safety word is banana!"]]
68	* The Vietnam expansion DLC added even more.
69	** In the trailer, the beginning is a reference to VideoGame/CannonFodder
70	*** The trailer song is a clear reference to the song [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin%27_Bird Surfin' Bird]], which in turn is a reference to its use in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''.
71	** One of the new achievements is titled, aptly, [[Film/TropicThunder Lead Farmer]].
72	** One of the [=POWs=] that you have to rescue in the DLC mission is [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} named John, and attacks enemies with explosive-tipped arrows]].
73	** At the end of the rescue mission, Captain Vlad [[BigDamnHeroes swoops in on a Huey]] and shouts, "[[Film/{{Predator}} Get to the chopper!]]"
74	* The {{DLC}} Challenge map, Marshlands, boasts the following description: [[VideoGame/Left4Dead Left for dead]], your party must fight to survive the unrelenting hordes of the undead and all their friends."
75	* The entire Final Frontier DLC is an obvious reference to [[Franchise/StarTrek the Star Trek series]]. Even the new robe is based on the Star Fleet uniform.
76	* The chests in versus mode walk around on [[Literature/{{Discworld}} hundreds of little legs and try to eat you]]
77	* The [[MediumBlending live-action]] trailer for the new Player versus Player mode is a straight shout out to the "nicknames" scene from ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.
78	* The fifth boss, an Orcish warlord, is named Khan. The developers admit in the commentary that the sole reason for this was so the king could do a [[SkywardScream KHAAAAAAAAAN!]] [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan scream]].
79	* The [[http://bigtig.com/pics/braid-hourglass.jpg broken hourglass]] from the front cover of ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' can be seen in Chapter 10.
80	* In Chapter 2, there's a house that if you knock on, a person inside will say [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Go away! I'm... not dressed properly!"]].
81	* The Mace of the Molten Core's name is a nod to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. The Epic Wizard could refer to any of the end-game raids.
82	* The map at the start of Chapter five has an island named Music/TheLonelyIsland and there's a boat right next to it.
83	* There is an achievement for pushing someone off a cliff called [[Franchise/HarryPotter Wingardium Leviosa]]
84	* The Gamer Robes DLC pack added three new robes: [[VideoGame/HalfLife a zombie with a parasite on his head wielding a crowbar]], [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft an epic equipment set]], and [[VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle a purple tentacle monster]].
85	** Didn't recognized where came the three sets from the Mega Villain Robes? It's three of the most famous [[Franchise/MegaMan Robot Masters]], Iceman, Fireman, and Elecman.
86	* The free community update added [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} a space marine armor set]] and [[{{Franchise/Tron}} a cyber robes set]].
87	** Other robes include the "Reddit Robe", whose staff is topped with the Reddit mascot's antenna and wields and a "Votal Sword" (shaped like an Upvote arrow), the "[[Series/DoctorWho Which Dr.]]" robe, who wields a "Sonic Tuning Fork" and wears a fez, and the "Epic Sax Robe", presumably named after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1B3agGNxw Epic Sax Guy]].
88	* There's a skeleton wearing brown shorts and a teal shirt lying on the floor of a tomb. Upon examining it, you're told that it "seems she was [[Franchise/TombRaider raiding this tomb]]".
89	** The developer commentary / LetsPlay elaborates that this reference was meant to go even further by having "milk jugs" on the floor as well.
90	* Film/JamesBond gets an obvious reference in Chapter 4, both in dialog and in the way the boss decides to kill the king using a ridiculous contraption.
91	* Chapter 3 gives us a twofer in the form of a stone circle with some druids and the corpse of a knight in blue. When engaged in combat, the druids shout [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Shrubbery!" and "Ni!"]]. The description for the knight says that he [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonstone:_A_Hard_Days_Knight looks like he's had a really hard day]]. The sheer amount of blood and gore in the game is very much reminiscent of Moonstone as well.
92	* The bosses of Chapter 8, the goblin ruling body, are referred to as TheAristocrats. The achievement for defeating them is called "More like WesternAnimation/TheAristocats".
93	* One shout out doubles as a StealthPun - at one point you encounter a goblin archer wearing a green shirt and a hat straight out of the Errol Flynn film, making him of course [[spoiler:Goblin Hood]].
94	* One of the bosses is introduced as Fafnir, [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner the Burninator]].
95	* If you go into "cover mode" in the Vietnam game mode, you start to regenerate health.
96	* Gram (of Gram's Workshop) quotes lyrics to the Music/IronMaiden song 'Run To The Hills' when the goblins come. "RUN TO THE HILLS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!"
97	* You have the checkpoint fairy following you around, constantly interrupting with "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hey! Listen!]]"
98	* In the area where you pick up the Nullify spell, the goblin shaman shouts [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom Kah-lee-mah!]]
99	* The Steam achievement "Ice Age" mentions in its description that [[Film/BatmanAndRobin "It's what killed the dinosaurs."]]
100	* When the troll breaks through the encampment gate near the start and the captain yells "Vid Balder's Balle!" ("By the ball of Balder!" - and yes, it's the genital kind of ball), it's a shoutout to the Swedish viking sitcom Hem Till Midgård.
101	* The first boss of "The Stars are Left" is a giant spider. It's name? [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Parker]].
102	* "The Stars are Left" has the Enderman from ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', another Swedish game. And it's a much deadlier foe here, as it can teleport to you and pull a OneHitKill!
103	* "The Stars are Left" features multiple items that reference ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld''. Namely, there is Cthulhu's Cursed Sword that allows you to confuse enemies on attack[[labelnote:]]In ''Cthulhu Saves the World'', the Cursed Sword is one of the weapons available to Cthulhu that allows him to instantly drive enemies to insanity[[/labelnote]], Umi's Trident that allows you to cast Lightning while wet[[labelnote:]]Umi is Cthulhu's first ally that is primarily associated with water and oceans, and can also learn to electrify her trident to jab her enemies[[/labelnote]], Sharpe (though he's just a regular sword here)[[labelnote:]]Cthulhu's second companion from ''Cthulhu Saves the World'', a sword referred as "great swordsman...er, swordsword" that can fight on its own, a tidbit that didn't go unnoticed by the weapon's tooltip[[/labelnote]], October's Whip that allows you to drain enemies' health on attack[[labelnote:]]October is another companion of Cthulhu, a necromancer with a whip (the item's tooltip also references how the whip is used by necromancers). One of the weapons available to her, Vampire Whip, allows her to drain an enemy's health on attack[[/labelnote]], and Were-Zompire Claw[[labelnote:*]]A reference to Molly the Were-Zompire, a character from one of the first games developed by Zeboyd Games, developers of ''Cthulhu Saves the World''. Molly herself also appears in ''Cthulhu Saves the World'' as a party member in "Cthulhu's Angels" campaign, and she also uses claws as a primary weapon[[/labelnote]].
104	* The Wurstmacher in ''Dungeons and Demons'' DLC is a pretty obvious one to the Butcher from the Diablo series.
105	** The same DLC also has books such as "[[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey 20 Shades of Green]]" and "[[Literature/HarryPotter Tom's Marvelous Book of Riddles]]"
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109	* The Steam Engineer Robe's Flavor text mentions that their creators (nerdy wizards) took a weird Creator/{{Valve}} with them to their lab.
110	* The Assassin Robe's text mentions that [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed an order of assassins exist in Mdgard and that they revise their manifest yearly]], they also resemble an Eagle, referring the eagle vision ability.
111	* The Daft Robe is affiliated with lightning magic, also wizards only wear it to [[Music/DaftPunk look mad sick on the dancefloor]]
112	* The Astronomer Robe look like a [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} certain other wizard]]
113	* The Amazon Robe is armor worn by warriors on a remote island, [[ComicBook/WonderWoman who spend their free time deflecting arrows with bracelets]]
114	* The Vizier Robe is mentioned to be perfect for advisers of easily manipulated rulers. The Black Turban, the red and purple color scheme [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} does it come with a snake staff too?]]
115	* The [[ProngsOfPoseidon Trident]]'s flavor text says that it was [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 found next to the corpse of a giant squid lady]]
116	* In Duel Mode, the Announcer says "[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Heaven or Hell? Duel (Match Number). Let's Rock!]]"
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