Shout Out / Dueling Trigger Finger

• Constant nods to 'Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series'' are scattered throughout the fic. Case in point, one of the competitors in the Kaiba Corp Grand Prix was based off of LittleKuriboh.
• Gundham bellows that Espa Roba should believe in Gundham, who believes in him.
• When dueling Sonia in Chapter 13, Gundham laughs that they shall sing a song of conquest and fate.
• Ibuki mentions the Kobayashi Maru during Joey's duel with Celeste.
• In Chapter 19, there's a man who screams "My Cabbages!"
• Ibuki compares the Rare Hunters to Team Rocket.
• Chiaki directly mentions Silent Hill and The Walking Dead during Chapters 28 and 27 respectively.
• Kaiba laughs when Ishizu does not go against him in the tournament, exclaiming that "you thought you'd be dueling me, Ishizu, but it was Naegi all along!"
• Phoenix Wright is often referenced more than once, mainly whenever someone (usually Chiaki) gives someone the pointer finger.
  • A reference to Miles Edgeworth was also alluded to in Chapter 40.
• Celeste in Chapter 40 says "Don't fuck with a witch!"
  • In that same chapter, she also mimics Miles Edgeworth.
• Chapter 43 is practically reference overload.
  • Monokuma states "I'm sorry, Seto, I'm afraid I can't do that." The narration even says he's doing his best HAL-9000 impression.
  • He also later refers to Kaiba as Ebenezer Scrooge.
  • At one point, it seems like Monokuma is setting up the "Mommy's very angry" line from Jurassic Park, but Kaiba puts the kibosh on that before the joke comes to fruition.
  • At one point, Monokuma shouts, "Mommy, no!" likely referring to when Raphael said the line in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. However, unlike Raphael, Monokuma was just likely doing this to be a Troll.
  • He also tells Kaiba that if he's so anti-fun he should Put the fun in camps like some sort of fun nazi.
  • When Kaiba shouts, "Hyozanryu, return!" Monokuma asks if they suddenly were now playing Pokémon.
  • Later still, Monokuma says, "I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do isn't very nice." He also calls Kaiba "Bub".
  • Piggybacking off of that last one, Kaiba also states that Deadpool is superior to Monokuma.
  • Monokuma even manages to channel Billy Mays as he shouts, "But wait! There's more!"
• At the start of Chapter 44, Ibuki, Komaru, and Mai, discuss the cruelty of leaving Terry, their friendly Mad Sword Beast and a dinosaur-type monster, behind. Ibuki states, "Well, at least we're not dropping him in a pit, to reach a flagpole."
  • Later that chapter, Ibuki sets the background music to Guilty Love.
• In Chapter 45, Ibuki tells Chiaki that if she needs to go into stealth mode, she should use a cardboard box.
• In Chapter 47, Mikan, in an imagine spot of her becoming a bully, quotes Polygon Man: "We're playing a roleplaying game. Today, you're the pinata."
  • Additionally, starting this chapter, Gundham begins referring to Marik as The Fell Dragon and even continues with mentions of Falchion.
  • Also in the same chapter, Ibuki's practically squees in joy when Joey uses one of her combos. The dialogue between her is a direct reference to Sword Art Online Abridged, where Klein squees in joy at Kirito not giving up on humanity.
• In Chapter 48, the usually surly Kaiba muses that he's experiencing a new feeling: pride in someone else.
• In Chapter 51, an 8-bit Noah gets chased around by a Blue-Eyes White Dragon head in a reference to Pac-Man.
• Chapter 59's title seems to be a Shout-Out to the Fallout video games.
  • The chapter also features Munakata getting a call from a 'deceptively attractive detective'. The author note in the following chapter confirmed it was Naoto Shirogane.
• The title to chapter 61 references the title of the opening song to Despair-side and for good reason.
• Chapter 65 has Ibuki telling Joey "I don't feel so good" when her soul is taken by the Orichalcos.
• Chapter 66 has Yukizome pull inspiration from Escanor as she reiterates his famous "Who decided that?" speech during his battle with Estarossa.
• In Chapter 76 as Gundham loses his soul, his final words are similar to the dying words of Dinobot.
• Chapter 82's title is a reference to the song of the same name in Persona 3. References to the franchise are littered throughout the chapters. The designs of Dartz's Orichalcos minions are clearly inspired from the various Personas in the series. When remembering Kyosuke, Yukizome remembers the first card her gave her; Izanagi (A clear reference to fans comparing Kyosuke to Yu Narukami). When it evolves, it's a dead-ringer for Izanagi-no-Okami, Yu's ultimate Persona. And hell, Yami and Yukizome summon a monster based on Joker's ultimate Persona; Satanael.
• Junko is quite fond of dropping JoJo's Bizarre Adventure references. Especially Dio memes.
• In Chapter 94, Hajime's dad reveals that he used to work as a security guard for a pizza restaurant from midnight to 6am where the animatronics were trying to kill him.
  • In the same declaration he mentions that at one point he thought he saw the face of god, but it was just the night janitor.
• Celeste tries to play it off that she actually experienced the Nonary Game before Chiaki calls her out on it.
• Class 78's teacher at Hope's Peak remarks that she stayed up late the night before playing ShovelForge.
• Many of Kotomi's mannerisms and lines reference Kamina including "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AAAAAAAAAM?" She even pulls out a pair of Kamina's sunglasses.
  • Later that same chapter, Miaka makes mention of a certain student council president's Paper-Thin Disguise when telling Kotomi she lacks subtlety.
• Chapter 128 has the cast making JoJo memes and jokes after Junko shows off her iconic "Dio" pose to Chiaki.
• Serenity shouts Kamina's famous line, "Believe in the me that believes in you!", in chapter 130.
• In chapter 136, Monaca and Junko are talking while playing Pong with the score going up at crucial moments in their discussion, which brings to mind a very old SNL sketch.

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