Edmund McMillen's games commonly have enough instances of a Shout-Out in them to merit separate pages, and Mewgenics is possibly the greatest example of this, just due to the sheer amount of them.
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Cat Names
In early 2023, Tyler Gladiel published a poll where any Twitter user could submit possible names for the cats that may show up in the game. As a result, there's probably too many references to count (to wit, at the time of writing there are nearly two-thousand confirmed names, and that's only the ones already processed). Here's a definitively non-exhaustive list of the ones that are pop-culture references.
- Garfield, naturally.
- The Great Catsby
Skills
- Metronome, an active skill that randomly chooses and then executes any skill that can be learnt by a cat, is a reference to the Pokémon move of the same name.
- The name of the My Leg! passive skill is a clear reference to the Running Gag involving that phrase from Spongebob Squarepants, and the skill itself even activates when that cat breaks all four of their legs.
Enemies
- The Expy With No Name shows up in the desert area as a black bipedal cat with a ragged poncho and hat along with his trademark displeasured expression. He's not quite as stoic, however, as he will crack a wicked grin before firing his gun.
- One burly, beaten up feline foe is called Popeye.
- A duo of enemies who can turn into each other are called Jekyll and Hyde.
Bosses
- The Radical Rat is an evil mouse who pelts your party with mouse-faced ordnance while wearing a huge grin and sunglasses- in the splitting image of another rodent boss from Super Mario Bros. 2. Also, the explosions he creates are shaped like a plus sign.
