Fight'N Rage, as a love letter to the Beat 'em Up genre, does have a lot of references:
- The first screen that you see after you start the game is an Expy of a Capcom CPS arcade board.
- It's not the first time that the animals had returned to reclaim the Earth following an Apocalypse How...
- And you have the opportunity to ram through enemies and drums on a bike in an early level, just like in the Capcom game, but without a boss.
- Gal's design isn't really based on the usual suspects like Mai Shiranui or Chun-Li. Instead, Word of God confirmed in a stream gameplay that her design was inspired instead by Mina Majikina. Gal's name is also a Distaff Counterpart version of Guy.
- Ricardo is a Haggar expy; also, having a playable minotaur character in a brawler reminds of Ban from Metamorphic Force.
- Tracy and her palette swaps are expies of either Linda Lash or Poison (and if you're wondering, yes, they are female in this game).
- The cat boss and two wolf enemies are named O'Hara, Bolo, and Williams, respectively. Just like one of the first Beat'em ups that did this shout-out before.
- The wrestler enemy on the Night Club stage is called Attary, and is a big but not smart jaguar.
- The group of turtle bosses of the Beach stage (appropiately named Mutant Ninja Sands) are called Bash, Blitz, and Granuja.
- The boss of the raft stage is called Raven, a bat just like Viewtiful Joe's Charles III.
- The Kickboxer birds on the second-to-last stage are named from the characters of the eponymous movie.
- Continuing with the action movie references, the two cat subbosses on the second-to-last stage are called Stegal and Seaven.
- The Boss has the same good taste for guns as Mr.X. Alternatively, you can see him as a fully mutant, ruthless version of Gado.
- The Electricat enemies can perform some of Blanka's signature moves.
- F.Norris is basically a Chuck Norris ninja.
- General Tigar, the boss of the first stage (if you go on the straightforward path), dresses like M. Bison, and even uses his sliding kick attack.
- The bird ninjas are named Ryu and Kenden, after Ninja Ryukenden (the Japanese title of the Ninja Gaiden arcade game). They're also birds because the protagonist of said game, (Ryu) Hayabusa, means falcon, a bird species.
