Shout Out / Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

Just like its parent game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has a large number of references to pop culture:

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Basic and Classic

• Abomination's attack quote "Rip and tear" is a reference to the Doom Comic, where Doomguy says the quote while under the effects of a Berserk powerup. The full quote is "Rip and tear! You are huge! That means you have huge guts!" Quite appropriate for the A-bomb.
• The Battle Cry and flavor text of the hunter card Houndmaster both reference the famous Baha Men song "Who Let The Dogs Out".
• The Black Knight returns as a card, with all the Monty Python references intact. The flavor text of the shaman card Ancestral Spirit also references the same scene. And while The Skeleton Knight is mostly Game of Thrones references, his flavour text is "Apparently it really was just a flesh wound..."
• The warrior card Commanding Shout has flavor text claiming that novice warriors are told to "Shout, shout, let it all out".
• The flavor text on the Hungry Crab card reads, "Murloc. It's what's for dinner.", referencing the famous advertising slogan for beef.
• The flavor text on the warrior card Rampage reads, "Minion get ANGRY. Minion SMASH!" Also, the warrior card Battle Rage has the following: "You won't like me when I'm angry."
• The warrior card Brawl's flavor text asks if you know about the first rule of Brawl Club.
• The hunter card Snake Trap has flavor text referencing one of Indiana Jones's most famous lines.
  • Druid of the Fang's entry quote is the same line.
• Another hunter card, the Savannah Highmane, has flavor text that's a twist on the chorus of the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". This reference doubles as a reference to The Lion King (1994) as this is the way Scar probably died - the song is also featured in this movie.
• The paladin card Sword of Justice has the following flavor text: "Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!"
• Lorewalker Cho's flavor text says that his favorite story is one where Joey and Phoebe go on a road trip.
• The Stranglethorn Tiger has flavor text telling us that the wonderful thing about tigers is that tigers are wonderful things.
• The druid card Claw declares that the claw decides who will stay and who will go.
• Shadow Word: Death, a priest card, notes that it leaves a lightning bolt-shaped scar on the target if it misses.
• The text for the druid's Naturalize spell reads, "Another one bites the dust".
• The flavor text for the mage's Blizzard spell is a self-reference to Blizzard Entertainment.
• The flavor text for the mage's Ice Block secret, "Ice is nice, and will suffice", is a reference to Robert Frost's poem, "Fire and Ice".
• The text for the rogue's Preparation spell, "Be Prepared" - Rogue Motto. is actually the motto of the Scouts.
• The flavor text for the Raid Leader and the warrior's Upgrade spell are both references to the "Onyxia Wipe" skit from World of Warcraft.
• The Argent Protector's flavor text is a reference to Morpheus's lines from The Matrix.
• The Arcanite Reaper's flavor text says that, "No... actually you should fear the Reaper," referencing Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper".
• The Eaglehorn Bow's flavor text is a reference to The Mask of Zorro.
• The Mage's Frostbolt spell says it's customary to yell, "Chill out!" or "Freeze!" or "Ice ice, baby!"
• The warlock's Drain Life spell says, "I've just sucked one year of your life away."
• Whenever the priest's class legendary, prophet Velen, is summoned he will say, "Not all who wander are lost," a reference to The Lord of the Rings. Likewise, the Shieldbearer will proclaim, "You shall not pass," when summoned, a reference to Gandalf's famous line.
• When the Knife Juggler is summoned, he will prompt you to, "Put this apple on your head."
• The Venture Co. Mercenary's flavour text states: "No job is too big. No fee is too big."
• "Lightning Bolt!! Lightning Bolt!! Lightning Bolt!!"
• Patient Assassin's entry quote is "Go ahead... make my day."

Curse of Naxxramas

• Another Holy Grail shout-out is the Undertaker's battle cry: "Bring out your dead!"
• Deathlord's flavour text simply states "Rise from your grave", but attributes the quote to Kel'thuzad
• The Unrelenting Warrior will have you know that he'll be back - he will be, too.

Goblins vs. Gnomes

• Troggzor the Earthinator's name and flavor text are a Shout Out to Trogdor the Burninator.
• The Flying Machine's attacking cry is stay on target and since he will usually attack twice with his windfury ability, he will often be quoting Star Wars: A New Hope.
• Doctor Boom has nothing to do with a certain comic book villain, even though he looks like him. His boom bots are also purely coincidental.
  Flavor text: Marvel at his might!
• V-07-TR-0N is a thinly veiled shout out to Voltron, complete with transformation sequence and theme. That is, if you get to activate Mimiron's head's ability
• The flavour text for Sabotage is "Rogues can't stand it. They know you planned it! They are going to set you straight!"
• Shielded Minibot: "He chooses to believe what he is programmed to believe!"

Blackrock Mountain

• Emperor Thaurissan has the card "Heart of Fire" which has him emote "By the power of Ragnaros! I have the power!" He also says this when he is played as a card.
• The hunter spell Quick Shot has just three words for its flavor text: "Han shot first."
• Majordomo Executus: "You thought Executus turned you into Ragnaros, but really Ragnaros was in you the whole time."
• Also, the art for Resurrect looks more like the card was originally called Regenerate.

The Grand Tournament

• The Maiden of the Lake joins the Monty Python shout outs with her flavour text: "Not a good basis for a system of government."
• Argent Horserider's summoning quote is "Don't worry loves, the cavalry's here!" (Note: The first airing of the Overwatch first trailer was before The Grand Tournament was unveiled)
• As mentioned above, The Skeleton Knight's entry quote is "In the Grand Tournament, you win or you die" and his attack quote is "Pay the Iron Price".
• The flavour text on Saboteur is "Listen all y'all it's a saboteur!"
• There's a reason the elven archer with long red curly hair bears the card name Brave Archer.
  • The card's text makes the shout-out more pronounced, as does its entry cry.
• Mukla's Champion's flavor text references Star wars by calling him: "An elegant gorilla, for a more civilised age."
• North Sea Kraken's flavor text lets you know that: "You have no idea how tired this guy is of being released."
• The flavour text for Light's Champion is "When there's something strange (say, a gibbering demon) in your neighborhood, who are you going to call?"
• Flash Heal's flavour text is the fairly predictable "Flash! Ahhhhhhh~"
• According to its flavour text, people like to call the Void Crusher "Wesley".
• There are a lot of references to Portal in the art from the Mage Card "Mirror Entity": It shows a man crossing two portals, that are blue and orange. He is also wearing accesories that look a lot like the Aperture Science Logo, and another one that looks like a Companion Cube.
• Evil Heckler apparently learned to taunt from a certain bunch of French guys.

The League of Explorers

• Excavated Evil: "MOM! DAD! DON'T TOUCH IT! IT'S EVIL!!!!!!"
• Eerie Statue: "Don't blink! Don't turn your back, don't look away, and DON'T BLINK."
• One of the artifacts that Arch-Thief Rafaam offers is the Lantern of Power, which gives a minion +10/+10. It is also green.
• Raven Idol: "Was petrified when it found out it didn't make the cut for Azerothean Idol."
• If you run through all of the artifacts in the Final Boss fight against Rafaam and start getting Boom Bots, Reno tells you to "FINISH HIM!" in almost the exact same tone as the Mortal Kombat announcer.

Whispers of the Old Gods

• The flavour text for On the Hunt notes that "the mastiff giggles if you don't hit any ducks."
• Carrion Grub's flavor text: "Carrion, my wayward grub."
• N'zoth's flavor text claims that he had "Under the Sea" stuck in his head for the last 10,000 years. And he's not happy about it.
• Twilight Geomancer, a card that gives Taunt to C'thun, brings yet more Monty Python references to the table: "Ok C'Thun, repeat after me: 'Your mother was a hamster.'"
• The Aberrant Berserker's cart text states "I berserk, therefore I am." in reference to René Descarte's statement "Cogito ergo sum", usually translated as "I think, therefore I am".
• The Twilight Summoner's text states that "If you strike him down, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
• Evolve's flavor text paraphrases the Beatles' song "Revolution".

Mean Streets of Gadgetzan

• The flavor text for Kabal Chemist is a reference to Family Guy.
• In the Gadgetzan game board, one of buildings - implied to be one of Jade Lotus' dens - has a katana stuck in its wall. When rapidly clicked, it'll spawn a green magical dragon, similar to one that appears whenever Genji draws his Dragonblade.
• White Eyes: "My life for Aya!"
• Aya Blackpaw's entry quote is "Golems are a girl's best friend!"

Journey to Un'Goro

• Kalimos, when played, says "By the elements combined!" and yells "The power is mine!" when attacking. Both lines reference Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
• Cornered Sentry says "Clever girl...!" as she dies.
• Vilespine Slayer's text paraphrases Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off": "'Cause slayers gonna slay, slay, slay, slay, slay."
• "I am the Voraxx. I speak for the weeds."
• Pyros's text claims that "If you strike her down, she shall become more powerful than you can possibly… well, she'll become a 6/6 anyways."
• Primordial Drake: "Before he became a rap artist."
• "Tar Lord, man... legendary monster? Aw, forget it."
• Thunder Lizard: "What? THUNDER LIZARD is adapting!"
• Evolving Spores's text claims that the best mushrooms are always in boxes marked with "?"

Knights of the Frozen Throne

• The Flavor Text for Rattling Rascal reads "Don't give up, skeleton!", a reference to the frequency of players leaving encouraging messages (often consisting exactly of "Don't give up, Skeleton!") for random skeletons in the Dark Souls series.
• Druid of the Swarm's flavor text reads "The Druid awoke from troubling dreams to find herself transformed into a giant spider."
• Ultimate Infestation's flavor text reads "Ghouls in the pipe, five by five."
• Venomstrike Trap's flavor text reads "Snakes on a frozen plain."
• Forge of Souls: "Powerful weaponry forged by Bornjahm, the Godfather of Souls."
• Acherus Veteran: "This is my Runeblade. There are many like it, but this one is mine." (Based on the Rifleman's Creed of the U.S. Marine Corps, widely known from Full Metal Jacket.)
• Archbishop Benedictus: "Nobody expects the Archbishop's Benediction!" It's like Blizzard set themselves a quota of one Monty Python reference per expansion by this point.

Kobolds & Catacombs

• The artwork and flavor text of Crushing Walls both reference the trash compactor scene from A New Hope.
• Branching Paths' text parodies the Robert Frost poem, "The Road Not Taken".
• Raven Familiar's text reads "Quoth the raven, 'does yours cost more?'"
• Aluneth's text: "PHENOMENAL ARCANE POWER... itty bitty living space."
• Kobold Barbarian mulls over what is best in life: "To make candle. To keep candle. To hear lamentations of candle-takers."
• The Lone Champion's text notes that "He is a champion with no friends. He'll keep on fighting, till the end!"
• Kobold Monk claims that there is no candle.
• Rin, the First Disciple is a black-haired magic user heavily associated with Summoning Rituals, which sounds a lot like another Rin you may know. As a bonus, the summoning runes used in Fate are drawn in blood, while the Hearthstone Rin's summoning effect requires her to die.
• As an 8-mana 7/7 creature that summons seven 1/1 tokens on death, the resemblance between Violet Wurm and Magic: The Gathering's Symbiotic Wurm has not gone unnoticed.
• Marin the Fox's flavor text: "My name is Marin the Fox. You took my treasure. Prepare to die."

The Witchwood

• Woodcutter's Axe is a lumberjack's axe, and that's okay. Yes, Blizzard loves their Monty Python references.
• "Emeriss uses Wing Blast. It's super effective!"
• Countess Ashmore channels Count von Count: "1 minion… ah, ah, ah! 2 minions… ah, ah, ah! 3 minions… ah, ah, ah!"
• Prince Liam's text reads like something you'd expect from a certain other Liam: "I have a very particular set of skills. Skills that make me a nightmare for witches like you."
• Hunting Mastiff's flavor text reads "Shh! You're going to start a howl!"
• Squashling: "Everyone hail to the squashling song!"
• Hagatha the Witch's card text claims that she is, among other vile things, a Hanzo main.
• A lot of Glinda Crowskin's Easter Egg dialogue during her boss fight is taken from the witches' dialogue in Act IV, Scene I of Macbeth, as is the Cauldron Elemental's entry quote "Fire burn and cauldron bubble!"
• Houndmaster Shaw's text is "They're good dogs, Tess." This references a meme that sprang up when a Twitter account that rates dogs responded to someone criticizing their rating system with the line "they're good dogs Brent".
• Wharrgarbl's Hero Power pulls double-duty: It's named "It's Raining Fin", and its icon resembles the cover for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
• One of the bosses in the Monster Hunt mode is Gustave, a crocolisk (basically a fantasy crocodile in Warcraft verse). There actually is a real life man-eating crocodile named Gustave.
• When playing as Houndmaster Shaw, one of his unique treasures is a weapon. Its name? Shaw's Shank.
• If the player emotes during Tess's Nemesis fight against Captain Shivers, he responds with "You best start believin' in ghost stories, missy."
• Blackwald Pixie's flavor text is a reference to, of all things, The Room.
• Felsoul Inquisitor's text drops yet another Monty Python reference: "Everyone expects an inquisition reference."
• The Glass Knight is a knight come to life from a stained glass window, which also happens to sport Samus's color scheme.
• Everything about the Shudderwock is some kind of Jabberwocky reference.

The Boomsday Project

• Rusty Recycler is a slightly modified WALL•E. Its flavor text gets in a second shout-out by referencing Revenge of the Sith: "Ironic. It could recycle others, but not itself."
• Holomancer follow up on the Star Wars references with "Help me, worthy opponent. You're my only hope."
• One of the neutral Legendaries of the set is called Harbinger Celestia, and the card text confirms that the reference is intentional. With this in mind, Mage's Legendary minion from the set being named Stargazer Luna is probably not a coincidence.
• Skaterbot is a thinly-veiled reference to Avril Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi."
• Dr. Boom, Mad Genius: "Of course I've gone mad with power. Ever try going mad without it?"
• Dendrologist's trying to teach his treant buddy to talk. But all it says is "I am Gloop."
• Landscaping summons a happy little tree, and gives him a little friend.
• "Wrecks a dude, any size. Catches thieves, eats those guys. Look out! Here comes a Spider Bomb!"
• Prismatic Lens depicts a crystal refracting light into a rainbow. Apparently, it was mined exclusively from The Dark Side of the Moon.
• E.M.P. Operative: "I said this looks like a job for me/So everybody just follow me/'Cause we need a little E.M.P/'Cause it feels so mechy without me…"
• Crystalsmith's Kangor's first puzzle in the Puzzle Lab is named after, of all things, the "Just Monika" scene from Doki Doki Literature Club!.
• Phasing Portal, a Puzzle Lab exclusive spell, is an even more blatant Portal reference than Mirror Entity, depicting what's basically a gnome Chell with a portal gun in front of a blue portal.

Rastakhan's Rumble

• Arcanosaur's flavor text references Jurassic Park with "Arcane energy... finds a way."
• Zandalari Templar's flavor text is one of Kormac's lines from Diablo III.
• Surrender to Madness tells you to "Never give up, always surrender!"
• Spirit of the Shark's text claims that its ominous theme music always gives it away. Gral, the Shark naturally follows up on the reference with "We're gonna need a bigger board."
• Spirit of the Bat's flavor text is simply the first sixteen notes of the 1966 Batman theme. You know the one.
• Hir'eek the Bat: "REPEL'S EFFECT WORE OFF." Very appropriate for a card that swarms you with, well, bats.
• Da Undatakah is a troll-ified tribute to the wrestler of almost the same name. In addition, flavor text refers to "throwing Mon'kind off a steel cage".
• Zul'jin's text claims that "If you can dodge an axe, you can dodge a ball."

Rise of Shadows

• Arcane Fletcher: "Stop trying to make fletch happen. It's not going to happen."
• I'm addicted to him, but I know he's Toxfin.
• Exotic Mountseller: *Taps roof of mammoth* “You can fit so many squirrels in this thing!”
• The bartender encounters from The Great Dalaran Heist: "Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your deck."
• EVIL Conscripter: "Kobold! There's a place you can handle/I said kobold! When you're short in the candle/Cast a spell with the E! V! I! L!"
• Witchy Lackey's quotes are, once again, taken from the witches in Macbeth.
• Moon Priestess Nici, one of the random bosses from The Dalaran Heist, yells "Moon priestess power!", "Elune healing escalation!", and "In the name of Elune, I have punished you!"

Saviors of Uldum

• Frightened Flunky◊ looks mighty similar to a certain Shaggy Rogers.
• Pyschopomp offers you to come with him if you want to re-live.
• Oooh, see that wasp! Watch that sting! Dig in the Sandwasp Queen!
• The Cloud Prince of Skywall: "In West Cloudidelphia, born and raised; flinging lightning for the rest of my days."
  • Possibly double-duty, considering Could Prince is an air elemental, and genies in WoW are air elementals as well.
• Activate the Obelisk's text is "A one-eyed, one stone, towering purple minion healer", based on a certain Sheb Wooley song.
• Weaponized Wasp was a request from Dr. Boom for wasps with flippin' laser beams attached to their (flippin') heads.
• Sandstorm Elemental (predictably) gets an onomatopoeic rendition of the infamous "Sandstorm" by Darude.
• Diseased Vulture: "He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket! THIS IS AN EX-VULTURE!" Just in case you thought Blizzard was done with Monty Python.
• High Priest Amet: "All minions are equal, but some minions are more equal than others."
• Kobold Sandtrooper looks a lot like a kobold Deckard Cain and wants you to "Stay awhile, take candle."
• Plague of Flames: "This is fine."
• Hyena Alpha: "Everything the sun touches is ours - as long as it's already dead." Bonus points for its Battlecry summoning two more hyenas.
• The Plague Lords and the fact that they are in an Egyptian setting appear to be references to the Ten Plagues of Egypt, with four of them even drawing parallels to some of the Plagues themselves.

Descent of Dragons and Galakrond's Awakening

• One of Druid's new cards is a spell called "Embiggen" with the flavor text "Did you set it to 'wumbo?'"
• Shudderwock from The Witchwood is joined by his little brother Bandersmosh, named after the "fruminous Bandersnatch".
• Shaman gets the card Cumulo-Maximus, with the flavor text "Are your clouds not entertained?!"
• How does Transmogrifier work? All it takes is some imagination and a cardboard box.
• Winged Guardian asks you to take these broken wings, be reborn, and learn to fly again.

Ashes of Outland

• The art for Skull of Gul'dan depicts a hand holding said skull aloft, and Illidan says "Alas, poor warlock" when playing it.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire

• The Darkmoon Rabbit card is a very clear reference to the Killer Rabbit, complete with both Cleave and Poisonous.
• C'Thun, the Shattered starts the game, well, shattered into four pieces. Once you play his pieces, C'Thun has a game-winning effect. Sound familiar? The kicker is his Flavor Text: "My grandfather's deck has no useless cards!"
• How do you know the Sword Eater's tough? He eats swords for breakfast, without any milk!
• A localisation-specific example: The Nameless One in Polish: "- I'm... - I don't care who you are."^note "- Jestem... - Nie obchodzi mnie kim jesteś."

United in Stormwind

• Elwynn Boar is a unique case in that it's technically both a Shout-Out and a Mythology Gag, since it's a reference to the iconic South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", which Blizzard helped create. The minion itself is what the boys continually killed to grind for XP, and having 7 copies of Elwynn Boar die, thereby successfully activating its Deathrattle, rewards you with the one and only Sword of a Thousand Truths. The requirement is, mercifully, significantly lower than Cartman's grinding estimates, as the card's flavor text notes:
  Be thankful we lowered the requirement from 65,340,285.

March of the Lich King

• Tear Reality's flavor text says that it once gave a black flower, a smiling pot, and a foil first edition Dracthyr.

Festival of Legends and Audiopocalypse

• Audio Medic is the spitting image of Lucio as a Hearthstone minion - not only in appearance, but the Rush and Lifesteal keywords referencing the hero's abilities to increase his team's movement speed and healing. His flavor text even says, "His performance isn't over, watch!"
• Candleraiser: You would not believe your eyes If ten million kobold guys Lit up the world to this ogre beat
• Mosh Pit: Let the corpses hit the floor!
• Screaming Banshee: Her flavor text promises that her singing will wake you up, wake you up inside.
• Bunch of Bananas: It's spelled B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
• Photographer Fizzle's flavour text asks you to look at this photograph.
• Arrow Smith is likely a reference that other Aerosmith. Ditto for Flowrider.
• There's a neutral minion that's a bird with Charge. It's name is Freebird.
• Big Dreams: Just a small town taunka, living in a lonely... waunka
• Fan Club: The flavor text describes an experience of going to a fan club, hearing the chairman talk for ten minutes, and getting a bike voucher in exchange.
• Bounce Around (ft. Garona): "Another one."
• Brass Elemental: His flavor text asks you to handle the water spells because he's got the earth, wind and fire spells covered.
• Remixed Rhapsody: Is this real life? No, this is a card game.
• Jukebox Totem says that if you like Hearthstone, then put another coin in the totem, baby!

TITANS and Fall of Ulduar

• Flame Revenant is described as "4x weak to water."
• Careless Mechanist's instructions? "Fly lower, you fools!"
• Fate Splitter quotes a pretty important scene in Hercules: "What's the matter with these scissors!? The thread won't cut!!"
• Algalon the Observer: "That's so Algalon, it’s the future he can see."
• Down With the Ship's flavor text says "It has been a privilege playing with you tonight", paraphrasing another quote from a movie where a band did indeed go down with the ship.
• Runic Adornment: "Rune, rune on the wall, who's the greenest of them all?"
• Embrace of Nature: "BY OUR POWERS COMBINED..."
• Conservator Nymph would like to warn you to not water your Treants after midnight.
• Wisdom of Norgannon suggests that what we need next is the Power and Courage of Norgannon.
• Gear Shift: "You mean the PRNDL?"
• Pit Stop evokes a moment of awesome by calling out a certain blue vehicle from Cars: "Guido! It's time."
• Lightning Reflexes: "If you can dodge a lightning bolt, you can dodge a ball."
• Wing Welding's flavor text points out that it is NOT how you train your dragon.
• The Meddlesome Servant has successfully gotten away with it, too.

Showdown in the Badlands and Deep into Deepholm

• High Noon Duelist: My ultimate is rea- ah, errr, I mean, I have enough Mana.
• The flavor text of Crop Rotation mentions a certain "Dave" and lets Dave know that the plants ARE the zombies.
• The art of Maw and Paw references American Gothic.
• Parched Desperado is green, and he's about to die, da ba dee da ba di.
• Bartend-O-Bot shares his initials with another robot named B.O.B., and his flavor text asks that he "make my Outcast card DO SOMETHING!"
• Cactus Construct has Malfurion take a leaf out of Toph's book by saying, "I am not Malfurion! I am Cactus Lord!" in its flavor text.
• Splish-Splash Whelp: Little whelpy, you're the one / You make Mana lots of fun
• Bovine Skeleton mentions that the secret cow level has been unearthed.
• Blastmage Miner: "So anyways, I started blastminin'!"
• The Badland Bandits: Bandits... ASSEMBLE!
• Living Prairie: Whooooooa, we're halfway there. Whoooooa -
• Minecart Cruiser: Where are you drivin', Minecart Cruiser? Where is your bounty, fortune, and fame?
• Skarr, the Catastrophe: "We're not in Karazhan anymore, Reno."
• Blast Tortoise appears to be a reference to another blasting tortoise, with its flavor text even transcribing a familiar segment from the show: "Who's that minion? It's Blast Tortoise! ("Blast Tortoise.")"
• Sheriff Barrelbrim's flavor text asks if it truly is Sheriff Barrelbrim, owner of the Badlands Barrelbuilding.
• One card in Deep into Deepholm is called "Digging Straight Down", with the flavor text of "You only make this mistake once", referencing an infamous blunder often made by first-time Minecraft players.
• Quartzite Crusher isn't just a weapon, it's a rock!

Whizbang's Workshop:

• Amateur Puppeteer: I'm a real toy!
• Chia Drake is, as the name implies, a dragon-ified Chia Pet. Its flavor text even references the famous commercial catchphrase: "Huh-huh-huh Hearthstone!"
• Ensmallen is a direct Call-Back to Embiggen from Descent of Dragons, with Ensmallen's flavor text basically picking up from where Embiggen's left off: Come on, you know- I ensmallen, you ensmallen? He she me Ensmallen? Ensmallogy: the study of ensmallening?! IT'S FIRST GRADE.
• Sky Mother Aviana: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's 10 copies of Leeroy Jenkins!
• Wind-Up Sapling: I am Wind-Up Sapling.
• King Plush: He's so fluffy you're gonna DIE!
• Puzzlemaster Khadgar: Khadgar Khadgar in the ball, who is the smartest white-haired, tall, handsome mage of them all?
• Boom Wrench: Boom, the Inventor; Can he fix it? Boom, the Inventor; No he can't!
• Bucket of Soldiers: Life is like a bucket of soldiers. You never know what bonus effects you're gonna get.
• Factory Assemblybot: I call it Mini-me.
• Forgotten Animatronic ALWAYS comes back.
• Plucky Paintfin: Not everyone can become a great painter. But a great painter can come from anywhere.
• Endgame's flavor text is "2:29:55". If you watch Avengers: Endgame, that's the exact timestamp Thanos says "I am inevitable!".
• Wretched Queen's flavor text warns you to mind your head when you're around her.
• Shining Sentinel's flavor text plays off its Elusive keyword and the "Shining" half of its name to make a joke about shiny Pokémon hunting: "OMG, I FINALLY GOT A SHINING SENTINEL AFTER 3 PHASES AND 8192 RESETS!!!!!"
• Repackage: I don't want to play with you anymore.

Mercenaries

• Many of Maestro of the Masquerade's tasks are named after lyrics from Persona 5's "Beneath the Mask".

Achievements

• "Forbidden Jutsu", in reference to Shadow Clone, is a joke about Naruto's signature ability to copy himself.
• "IT'S SO FLUFFY", named after a scene in Despicable Me where Agnes freaks out about a fuzzy unicorn plushie.
• "Two-Punch Man" > One-Punch Man.
• "Missing: Holy Hand Grenade" is another reference to a joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• "Mine! Mine! Mine!" is taken from Finding Nemo, where a bunch of seagulls chant the phrase to call dibs on food.
• "Burn, Baby, Burn!" and "Disco Arcano" are named for the chorus of the song "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.
• "Windfast and Windfurious" > The Fast and the Furious.
• "But You Have Heard Of Me" is named for a memorable line from Captain Jack Sparrow regarding his notoriety as a pirate.
• "You've Got A Fiend In Me" > "You've Got A Friend In Me".
• "Burninating the Countryside" is named for a line in the Troggdor song from Homestar Runner.
• "Game Done Quick" > Awesome Games Done Quick.
• "Dude, Where's My Cards?" > Dude, Where's My Car?.
• "An Even Larger Man" refers to a joke from Day9, who was making a crack about Jade Druid at the time.
• "Raiders Of The Lost Cards" > Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• "Girls Just Aranna Have Fun" > "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".
• "Salty Bets" is named after a popular, long-running M.U.G.E.N livestream where the viewers bet on fights between the game's (many) characters.
• "Show Me Your Moves" is a reference to Captain Falcon's popular Catchphrase from Super Smash Bros..
• "Phenomenal Cosmic Powers" is yet another reference to a funny line from Aladdin.
• "Duel of the Fates" is named for an extremely popular song from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
• "No Pathetic Cards" comes from, as mentioned under C'Thun, the Shattered in Madness at the Darkmoon Faire, an iconic line from Yu-Gi-Oh! (incidentally, the achievement requires killing a full-health opponent with C'Thun's Battlecry).
• To complete the reference listed under The Nameless One, "One Has No Name" is called "Welcome to the Colony!"^note "Witamy w Kolonii!" in Polish.

Misc/Unsorted

• The first Tavern Brawl of 2017 pitted the player against an AI-controlled Dark Wanderer, who started with three Secrets in play. Triggering all of them summoned a portal that, on the next turn, transformed him into the Cow King, heralded by "You have made it to the Secret Level!"
• One of the weapons in the Rumbledome Tavern Brawl is a Board With a Nail in It.

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