Shout Out / Kill Six Billion Demons

Book 1: Kill Six Billion Demons

• White Chain rattles off the names of the Demiurge-founded knightly orders:
  "It was they who founded the four orders of knights. Geas. Belligerent. Peregrine. Mendicant."
• During their fight in Hell 71, Delicious attacks White Chain with a series of Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs. The sound effect of the attack is rendered as "TA TA TA TA TA" and the Alt Text for the panel reads "お前はもう死んでいる".
• Maya quotes Linji Yixuan as payment for her noodles (she is probably being a lot more literal than the Zen master, however).
• When Allison returns to our world after her first visit to Throne, she has been gone for three days. Her friends show up and all ask at once where she's been and what's with the sword, and one can be seen saying "But if you have been to Narnia then you better tell me."

Book 2: Wielder of Names

• The Alt Text for the first page references Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
• 2 Michael has the same philosophy as Martyr Logarious: "Not all acts of evil are foolish, White Chain. And not all acts of good are wise". Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to care for the second part of Loagrious' saying: "Nevertheless, we should always strive to be good". Lampshaded in the Alt Text, where Abbaddon mentions he didn't realize the quote's source until two days after he'd finished the page.
• Lawrence of Arabia is quoted on the Alt Text of the page explaining the Thorn Knight's motivations.
• Liminal Blossom's last words, "Glory to the new flesh!", echo Max's last words in Videodrome, "Long live the new flesh!"
• Ciocie Cioelle's costume design appears to be a nod to that of Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. To wit: Large orange-tinted glasses, a straw hat, and a long black cigarette holder. Given that she's also a "historian" that involves herself in the events she writes about, you could also interpret her character as a kind of gonzo journalist, much like Duke.
• Vladok's new Blue name, Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire.
• When Cio creates a paper bird, its head is nearly identical to that of Eightfold.
• Mottom's husband Hastet-Om turns into a tree, referred to as the Tree of Woe.

Book 3: Seeker of Thrones

• When White Chain reveals the plot to Allison, the Alt Text mentions that Abbaddon was trying really hard to keep the everyone from posing in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure style (and judging by the last panel, failed).
• The second time Incubus appears, he takes on the hairstyle, clothing, and mannerisms of Jareth, David Bowie's character from Labyrinth. On the next page, Allison turns into Sailor Moon and he turns into Tuxedo Mask.
• On a page where the protagonists are attacked by monsters disguised as ordinary objects, the Alt-Text declares that Mammon's interior designer was the infamous warlock Gari Gy'Gax.
• The only law devils follow, "Do as thou wilt", is a reference to Aleister Crowley and, specifically, the Law of Thelema.
• The door guarding the entrance to Mammon's labyrinth starts screaming until it's provided a Human Sacrifice. The Alt Text for the page revealing this reads FEED ME A STRAY CAT.
• The Rant of Page 66 reveals that Au Vam, Pankrator of the Yellow City, would always have an uneducated 16-year old peasant present in all his war councils. Any general's plan she could poke holes in would be immediately discarded.
• When White Chain performs G-Gundam's Erupting Burning Finger on an enemy angel, they gasp out the name of the attack.
• The mantra and battle-cry of the Priests of the Holy Count starts with the same "Iä! Iä!" as in the iconic prayer to Cthulhu.:
  "Pity the Dragon! Venerate the Count! IÄ! IÄ!"
• When Allison reaches Mammon, they are confronted by Mammon's Emissary, who quotes Crossbreed Priscilla to them.
• When Princess pile-drives a Priest of the Holy Count during the escape from the Bank, the Alt Text reads "WITH GOD AS MY WITNESS THAT MAN WAS BROKEN IN HALF"

Book 4: King of Swords

• Solomon David is often surrounded by wisps of purple-blue flame that resemble the purple "ゴゴゴゴ" characters that appear whenever a character poses ominously in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The similarity is most apparent here and here, where Solomon David poses and shows off his Heroic Build in a manner similarly evocative of the aforementioned series.
• The Alt Text of the last panel in the Concordance of the Demiurges is the last verse of "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe.
• The description of the Ki Rata Fist Art mentions users who can create destructive blasts of air pressure simply by flicking a finger, but also notes that they can destroy their own bodies if they use it improperly.
• The "Path to Glory" page includes several characters from various other pieces of media, including a Sliver, an Eldrazi, One-Eye, Bowie Enocraz Yaramund, Zazu, Necron 99, Tira, Norgal and Agatha the Blue Witch (with Norgal appearing as a yeti-like Servant).
• The Rant during the Tournament Arc tells the story of a young boy called Yaun who is drafted into a mercenary unit known as the Corpse Legion.
• During the Tournament Arc, White Chain uses Krayu Mat to separate her body and shell and attacks using Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs from her wings, causing the Alt Text to read "ORA ORA ORA".
• The first time in the comic Solomon David unleashes Ki Rata in an actual battle, the Alt Text reads "お前はもう死んでいる".
• The Alt Text when Gog-Agog is mocking Solomon David here, revealing she's capable of being far more lucid than she seemed, is "h o n k", referencing a similar Monster Clown-related reveal from Homestuck.
• The Alt Text when White Chain demands her boon of Solomon David says "Pose as a team, because shit just got real!".

Book 5: Breaker of Infinities

• The alt text for Breaker Of Infinities 1-11, where Mammon calls down a meteor shower, is "Mammon cast Draco Meteor!" The next comic, where Jagganoth shoots every meteor out of the sky, is "it was not very effective!"
• In page 42, after the Demiurges' binding turns out to be The Worf Barrage the Alt Text reads "so long suckers! i rev up my ultimate attack and leave a huge cloud of dust, when it clears im lying completely dead on the pavement".
• When Aspected Chaos lifts the remains of the arena into orbit two pages later, the Alt Text reads "Final Destination, no items".
• The alt text on this page, when Jagganoth transforms to keep the boss fight against him going still further, references Demonhead Mobster Kingpin from Problem Sleuth, whose boss fight took up the majority of the story. The following page's alt text is simply a link to this video of Ultima's first battle theme from Final Fantasy Tactics.
• Gog-Agog's 'world of Gog' form resembles the world of the Eclipse from Berserk. The Alt Text simply reads 'RIP Kentaro Miura'
• Solomon David's ultimate technique against Jagganoth is called 'Technique of Relief'. Its subtitle, 'Transmigration of Immortal Souls', is close to several of the English translations of Musou Tensei.
• Allison's refutal of Jadis' philoophy, that if nothing matters and everything is predetermined then one might as well stop agonizing about it and just be happy regardless, is the core tenet of Absurdism. The description of the page is simply "Sisyphus", in reference to the most famous work of Absurdist literature, The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
  "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
• The Alt Text for When Allison leaves Jadis' pyramid simply reads 'so it goes'.

Book 6: Wheel-Smashing Lord

• The cover, with Allison giving a Kubrick Stare while sporting The Un-Smile, is a reference to one of Guts' most infamous smiles from Berserk.
• The stage where Allison has a serious talk with Gog-Agog and gets clues to several key secrets of the setting in enigmatic terms is a dead ringer for the Red Room from Twin Peaks.
• Some of the furniture from the interview with Gog (such as the frame of concentric squares behind the desk and the chair for Allison) is also from The Eric Andre Show. The reference to the Eric Andre show continues onto the next page, where Gog-Agog casually shoots another Gog-Agog without warning in a manner similar to the Who Killed Hannibal? bit; the Alt Text on that page references the Eric Andre show explicitly.

Tumblr and supplementary materials

• Considerable pieces of the lore (as well as much of it being intentionally contradictory) draw from The Elder Scrolls series, particularly Morrowind. Gog-Agog's title of "Queen of Worms", for instance, is a reference to Mannimarco, who was known as the King of Worms. The tagline "Reach Heaven Through Violence" is a reference to a line in Vivec's 36 sermons. And on a larger scale, the concept of the universe being a wheel (and the secret name of god being "I", as a result of looking at the wheel sideways), the themes of reality simultaneously being true and untrue, draws heavily on the concept of CHIM.
• Similarly, Meti's philosophy that a true Master Swordsman shouldn't need an actual sword resembles the teachings of the The Elder Scrolls's Ansei, a warrior order who could shape their souls into blades. Maya's Maybe Sword is also likely a reference to the Maybe Sword wielded by Uther Doul, a character in the second book of the Bas-Lag Cycle.
• Meti's 18 precepts of swordfighting resembles passages from Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings, especially the passages on the essence of swordfighting being Killing Intent and Cutting Down Your Opponent.
• A great many of the comic's recurring themes are heavily inspired by Dark Souls. Throne and the Demiurges (a once prosperous kingdom reduced to a dystopian Crapsack World after it's divine rulers fell to madness) resemble Anor Londo and the Lord Soul Bearers. While Allison's character arc as a stubborn Action Survivor charged with slaying an army of gods and monsters that could kill her with a finger mirrors the situation the player starts off in at the start of all three games.
• The various references to "Sword Law", "cutting" as an abstract expression of will, and a Blood Knight "King of Shapes" may collectively be an allusion to the philosophy of the Hive from Destiny.
• In the Broken World spin-off RPG, the Beggar archetype is a reference to the Beggars' Sect from The Legend of the Condor Heroes; several of the names of its moves (such as No Dogs Under Heaven) are taken directly from Beggars' Sect moves.
• The two factions in the War for Rayuba OC character tournament are known as "The Bastion" and "The Pyre". The judges are represented In-Universe by OC characters as well, two of whom resemble The Transistor and Hades (all four games are made by the same company).
• Abaddon has referred to the version of Allison shown here◊, with a missing eye, as "Punished Allison", a reference to Punished Snake from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, who has very similar injuries.

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