- The tooltip text for the chainsaw is "Find some meat!", which is the same text that was displayed on screen in the Doom series when the player picks up a chainsaw.
- Many "random" character names:
- The developer, Sarah Northway, and her family members sometimes appear as characters.
- "Ash" Campbell is another such "random" character name.
- Charles Carmichael
- Moe Howard
- Jerry O'Connell
- Nadia or Natasha Kerrigan
- Lance Armstrong
- A survivor that comes from an incident is a tall thin black guy named Bolaji Badejo, which is the name of the actor who played the Alien in Alien.
- The Luddies, and their leader, Ludd, are references to Ned Ludd and the anti-Industrial Revolution "Luddites" that bore his name.
- One of the buildings in 2 and 3, the "office building," sports the name Initech.
- The coffee shop signage resembles the Starbucks logo.
- The fast food buildings are named McNoodles', an imaginary fast food soba/udon chain, with a three-humped golden-arch logo.Mr. Clark: The noodles are supposed to be cold, it's zaru udon for goodness's sake!
- When Daria of the L33TCrew shows up for a meeting, she shouts "Hack The Planet!"
- When the secret of the Pig Farmers is finally discovered conclusively, one character quote-checks Soylent Green. The final stage of the mission name-checks it as well.
- Missions:
- Beware the Beast Man
- The mission to infiltrate the Pig Farmers' farm has stages named after lines of This Little Piggy.
- The mission to create the mc-g1fn part for the power plant completes with the engineer saying "all we need is a little Energon, and a lot of luck."
- Weapons/items:
- Swords:
- Sword of Loathing
- Durandal is the sword of Roland, paladin of Charlemagne
- Gram is the sword of Sigurd with which he killed the dragon Fafnir
- Poking Stick is probably a reference to World of Warcraft: [1]
- A +3 pistol called the Pea Shooter. "Shoots actual peas."
- A hand-attached chainsaw with the flavor text "Groovy" is a premium item.
- KITT is another premium item.
- The regular car has a "surprisingly spacious trunk".
- The hammer has flavor text of "Bang bang went Maxwell’s silver hammer"
- The two versions of the rifle each quote parts of the Rifleman's Creed, possibly as a reference to Full Metal Jacket
- The flavor text for the chainsaw is simply "Find some meat!"
- The flavor text for the regular saw is "Man, those were some bad movies"
- The text for the cowboy hat is "This town ain't big enough for two sheriffs"
- The text for the whip is "Reinact [sic] your favorite scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark"
- The text for the stick is "Everyone knows Donatello has the longest range attack"
- Mierfa's Nunchuks is a reference to Mierfa Durgas of MS Paint Adventures Homestruck series.
- Rufus' Bangarang
- The book "FTB-9000 Guide" is likely a reference to the Fear the Boot RPG podcast
- The book Jarvis' Science 101
- Pets:
- Incidents:
- "They're Coming To Get You, Barbara"
- "Little Hobo""I think I'll call him London if I ever see him again."
- "Cult of the Dead Cow"
- The event name "I Remember You", where one of your survivors has to deal with putting down a family member.
- On one occasion your scavengers will run into a man fighting zombies on his own, shouting things like "Come get some" and "Hail to the king".
- Some characters wear Northway Games or Incredipede T-shirts.
- Locations:
- The office tower has an Incredipede logo on the top. In one mission, the building is referred to as the "Incredicorp" building.
- The description of the Bar opens with "Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name."
- One of the possible alternate city names is "Azure City".
- The police station and the motel both have "El Barto" graffitied on it.
- The motel is "Motel 66", a reference to Motel 6. However, one of the numbers on the sign has come partially unattached, resulting in the amusing name "Motel 69".
- "8-12" convenience stores.
- "XXOR" gas stations, which doubles as a Nerd Joke.
- "All-Mart" superstores.
- "Land O' Drugs" is probably a reference to the Canadian chain London Drugs.
- The drive-in movie theater is (was) playing Dawn Of The Dead.
- The MegaMall has a few shoutouts:
- The movie posters both star Lucas Lee—"Let's Hope There's A Heaven" and "Action Doctor," both titles taken from the Scott Pilgrim universe.
- "Action Doctor" also appears on the regular mall.
- The mall theater chain is "ANC", a reference to AMC chain
- A red bullseye logo sign (Target reference) has fallen to the ground
- The mall sign reads "Monroeville Mall." Dawn Of The Dead was filmed at the Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania.
- Tim's Workshop may be a reference to Home Improvement.
- The karate dojo has a poster sporting the Cobra Kai logo.
- GamePop is a reference to GameStop video game store chain.
- The bar is "Joes," which resembles Moe's Tavern (or perhaps even its alter ego) in its windows, door, and wood patterned facade.
- Achievements:
- "Omegaman" when a character gets to level 10 in everything.
- "Clear" when you get 50% of your faction to become cultists, references Church of Happyology.
- "Cow clicker" when you grow a certain amount of food.
- "Jonestown" when you convert an entire NPC faction to Cultists references 70s doomsday cult leader Jim Jones.
- When selecting the policy on who gets the luxuries, part of the text is "...I know we're all equal, but aren't some of us more equal than others?"
- The Soldier ending in Rebuild 1 had your soldiers literally being sent into hell through a portal in a graveyard to close it up, almost like they were making room in hell...
- Survivors report success with lines like "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.", "Yipee-ka-yay" or "Groovy".
- Fortification missions for Malls and All-Marts mention Dawn of the Dead (1978) by name.
- Land of the Dead is referenced sometimes during 'Kill Zombies' missions as having used fireworks as a distraction.
- One of the melee weapons you can equip is a board with nails in it. The description is a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all.
- The humble stick's description references Donatello.
- The ax is described as a scavenger's best friend.
- The knife's description makes a reference to Rambo.
- The baseball bat's description reads swing away.
- An event in Penticton asks you to choose between one of three games to perform a little espionage. One of them is called SBURB. There is also a more powerful version of the nunchucks which are called 'Mierfa's Nunchucks'. Mierfa was a fan character that won a contest, the prize for which was a cameo in the comic and who was, naturally, equipped with nunchucks.
- There's a gun called the Pea Shooter which is more powerful than a regular pistol and grants the Green Thumb perk.
- Every rifle has a part of the Rifleman's Creed in its description, and is likely a deliberate Shout-Out to Full Metal Jacket, in which the creed was repeatedly featured.
- One of the names for the golden retriever is Mr. Peanutbutter.
- Mirror Earth is an actual book. However Crawford and Yeo are hockey players and have nothing to do with the book in question.
- A pair of binoculars are described as Moore's Binocs, a reference to writer Patrick Moore and his Binocular Astronomy series.
- The Feynman Lectures was a real textbook containing the Richard Feynman lectures on physics.
- The whip's description naturally makes mention of Indiana Jones.
- Andy's whip, described as 'more of a toy than anything' may be a reference to Toy Story.
- The leader of the technology spurning vegetarian farmers is named Ludd
- The hammer item's description references Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
- One of the possible first names is Urist
- One of the science books you can find is a Guide to FTB 9000
- One of the named swords you can find is the Sword of Loathing
- The "Rebellious" trait icon looks like the Rebel Alliance Starbird.
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