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  • In Alice: Madness Returns, one enemy you encounter is called an Eyepot. The reference to a certain portable audio player is right out in the open, but what you might not realize at first is that, as an Eyepot, it must contain Eye Tea.
    • Also, you defeat them by first stunning them with blasts of pepper... making them pepperpots, perhaps?
    • In one area, you pass through a castle made of playing cards. Well, a man's home is his castle, so this one is a house of cardsnote .
    • In addition, it's a Castle in the Sky or Air.
    • This castle has crenellations, obviously having been made by cutting the cards.
    • The Queen is supposed to be Alice's big sister, Lizzie. But what's "Lizzie" short for...?
  • In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, you have a pistol from the start of the game. Early on, you're introduced to Borgia messengers, who you can tackle to steal all of their money, but will always run away from you, making them nearly impossible to kill with a melee weapon. If you do manage to kill one, you instantly become notorious, and the guards will attack you on sight. The game is basically telling you "don't shoot the messenger".
  • Assassin's Creed III has Connor begin his search for Benjamin Church in an abandoned... church.
  • Stealth pun combined with a Shout-Out in Astral Chain. The game, which pays heavy tribute to Neon Genesis Evangelion has the protagonist recruited into a secret police special forces unit called Neuron. A Neuron is a nerve (NERV) cell.
  • Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon: The Rubicon Liberation Force names its leaders after parts of a finger. "Uncle" Middle Flatwell is named for the middle finger, and his emblem is a seagull. In other words, he's "the bird".
  • Baba is You contains a level titled "The Box". Completing it is reliant on first taking the correct action in a different level entirely. That is to say, you have to think outside "The Box".
  • Backyard Sports: Duksana Pond.
  • Banjo-Tooie has one that can spawn two stealth puns: One move Banjo learns, Snooze Pack, has him fall asleep inside his backpack to recover health. Thus literally making his pack a nap sack or a sleeping bag.
  • In The Bard's Tale, you might notice a wolf drop a sheepskin in addition to the usual wolf pet.
  • In the first two side missions of Bayonetta 3, we hear birds tweeting instead of the typical bathroom sounds when Jeanne uses the restroom, which is an audible pun about answering the call to mother nature AKA satisfying the bodily urge to either urinate or defecate. You even get a bonus called "Nature's Call".
  • Best Fiends has the character Temper. He is a mite with a heavy Batman motif. Thus, this makes him Bat-Mite.
  • The Binding of Isaac:
    • Several bosses are modeled after the Seven Deadly Sins. With one exception, they have unique character models. The exception is Sloth, who is a recolored Globin (and his Super Sloth form is a recolored Glazing Globin). He has a lazy character design.
    • Repentance introduces unlockable "tainted" counterparts to the main cast. Tainted ???, whose base form represents Isaac's asphyxiated corpse and whose character gimmick is poop, has puffed-out cheeks and some brown stains around his mouth. Think about it... He ate shit and died!
    • Speaking of shit-related puns, Hallowed Ground is an item that causes the player character to poop a glowing white turd pile when they get hit that gives several buffs when standing close to it. It's also found in the Angel Room item pool. It's literal Holy Shit.
  • In BioShock Infinite, a late-game twist reveals that Booker DeWitt is Elizabeth's father. Furthermore, Booker is listed on a Wanted poster as being over six feet tall, which makes him a big Daddy.
    • Also, the BioShock franchise as a whole is notorious for centering around chronic madness brought on by oppressive extremist ideologies. It's a series of Irrational Games.
  • Brütal Legend features a demon named Fletus who's obsessed with cars and racing. No-one mentions that this makes him a speed demon.
    • Or that if he ever got more than one, he'd have a fleet of cars.
    • Ditto for Glottis from Grim Fandango.
  • Tons of them abound in the platform game Bug. Many of the enemies are based off real-life animals, with the names taken literally.
    • The ants in Reptilia wear soldier hats, drop via parachutes, and fire grenades out of their tails. They're army ants.
    • Splot has flying insects◊ that fire out a stream of electricity from their rear. They're lightning bugs.
    • Quaria has fishes that have the head of a bulldog and a dog collar. They're dogfish.
    • Also in Quaria, there are swimming beetles◊ which sport scuba equipment. Diving beetles.
    • The Burr-ubs had annoying white fleas that jumped out of the snow and threw (or rolled) snowballs at Bug. Snow fleas.
    • Arachnia had ants with flamethrower packs and fire breath. Fire ants. Then again, the manual calls them that.
  • The most powerful axe in most modern Castlevania games is the Golden Axe. In Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Yoko is able to make said weapon even more powerful by combining it with a boss's soul. Specifically, she adds Death.
    • There's also the enemy in Order of Ecclesia known as the "Chosen Une." note 
  • Chibi-Robo! features a beautiful princess doll by the name of Princess Pitts. This seems like a curious name for a princess, but consider that this is a Nintendo-published game. What do you find in a Peach but a Pit?
  • One character in Choro Q HG 4 hangs out in front of the school and brags about his intelligence. What kind of car is he? A Smart (as in the brand).
  • Contra: Hard Corps has a music track peculiarly labeled "Last Springsteen". Fittingly, it plays during the final boss.
  • Copy Kitty revolves around an alien Cat Girl with the ability to copy powers and abilities from defeated enemies. In other words: She's a copycat.
  • No points for guessing which animal is featured on the coat of arms of Aswan in Crusader Kings by Paradox Interactive. A lion.
  • In The Darkside Detective, the occupant of one of the police holding cells is a rat. McQueen explains that he's in protective custody for informing on his criminal colleagues.note 
  • Dawn of the Dragons has the Guru Bear. It is rumored to be smarter than the average bear.
  • In DC Universe Online, while The Joker is being played in Legends PVP you can hear him occasionally say "No one's ever called me the Space Cowboy! Or the Gangster of Love for that matter!" which is a reference to the song "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band.
  • In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Dante acquires the Nevan weapon, a guitar that can (among other things) fire blasts of electricity. In other words, it's an electric guitar.
    • Also, the room in which you fight Cerberus is covered in ice. Cerberus is the guardian of the underworld in Greek mythology, so in other words, hell has frozen over.
  • Donkey Kong Country:
  • It's not much of a stretch to say that Doom (2016) is quite fond of its Ascended Memes. The Doom Slayer is for all intents and purposes the Doomguy of old, AKA the Doom Marine, and he spends most of the game in a state of being royally pissed off, and a Powered Armor-wearing, chainsaw-wielding Blood Knight at that. He's an Angry Marine.
  • In Dragon Quest Builders 2, the third chapter thakes place in Khrumble-Dun, a crumbled-down mining town where you meet a run-down old golem named Goldirox. To restore his strength, he needs the miners to dig up ore, but they have no motivation until you repair their local hangout, the Copper Bar. But to continue work, they ask you to build a resort-like Silver Bar, and then a super-fancy Gold Bar. Yup, it's the tale of Goldirox and the Three Bars.
  • The Elder Scrolls: Clavicus Vile, the Daedric God of Pacts, Wishes, and Bargains, gets his name from the Latin words for "key" and "lowly". In other words, his name literally translates as "Low Key".
  • Elite Beat Agents has the "September" level, where the target uses fans, planes, and an animal-controlled bonfire to make the sun shine. In other words, she's using Earth, Wind and Fire.
  • When Epic Games opened its own digital games marketplace in winter 2018, it began offering free games to its users, such as Subnautica and Super Meat Boy. The catch is, like Microsoft's Games with Gold program, the freebies are only available for two weeks at a time...or, a fortnight.
  • In EV Nova, there is a ship called the Cambrian. Some historically-inclined gamers like to call it the Prince of Wales.
  • The Fable series has monsters called Hobbes. They're nasty, brutish, and short.
  • In Fallout: New Vegas, you can recruit the cyberdog belonging to The King, leader of the gang, The Kings. The dog's name is Rex. Rex's personal quest involves replacing his aging brain. One of the candidates for the transplant? A dog named Rey. Rex is Latin for "king." Rey is Spanish for... you guessed it! "King".
    • Rey is replacing Rex.
    • Many a sly pun to Elvis's music can also be found in your dealings with the Kings. For example, the King is friendly to people he likes, but will turn ruthless on those who lie or disrespect him. If you don't want him to be cold as ice, treat him nice. Another can be found in the Kings' tense relationship with the NCR in Freeside; they can't go on together with suspicious minds.
    • Though possibly unintentional, New Vegas is often abbreviated as "NV." Much of the game takes place in Nevada. What's the US Postal Code for Nevada? NV.
    • A nice Stealth Pun gives the town of Novac its name. The town is built up around a prominent hotel (of which we are unaware of the real name) and a large, partly working neon sign outside the hotel entrance tells us the hotel has "No Vacancy".
    • That was done before in Fallout 3 with careful.
    • In both Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3, you can find an item called Naughty Nightwear, which increases your character's Luck attribute. The implication is that wearing this item makes your character more likely to get lucky.
    • At the start of Fallout 4, the player character's spouse gets shot to death in the cryostasis unit and left there while the killers make off with the couple's infant son. This murder provides pathos and motivation for the player character throughout the game. In other words, the spouse was Stuffed into the Fridge.
  • Far Cry 5 does not hide the fact that the main antagonist is a bad Seed.
  • Fight'N Rage has the character of F. Norris, a Caucasian-looking martial arts expert who looks like he's based on Chuck Norris. His full name is never stated in-game, but could it be Fuck Norris?
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy VI: The people of Figaro live in a fortified city in the middle of the desert. It can be sunk underground by means of a special mechanism. It would not be too much of a stretch to call it a sand castle.
    • In Final Fantasy VII, Cloud is a Rōnin in that he's a mercenary swordsman with no master looking for any job he can find. In Japan, the word ronin is also slang for a young person who failed their college entrance exam — Cloud also incorporates a lot of elements of that archetype that Japanese audiences of the time would have picked up on (surly, punky delinquent with a big ego who doesn't care about his future). The joke gets more serious when we find out that Cloud actually failed to pass his SOLDIER entrance exams.
    • In Final Fantasy XIII:
      • Rarly on, Snow is tasked with looking after Hope and bringing him safely home. Snow is also the most optimistic of the party, believing that Serah will wake up from her crystal stasis, so you could say he has Hope in more than one sense of the term.
      • Hope also has the lowest HP of every party member. Snow's main role is Sentinel, which is a role based around high defense and drawing attacks away from weaker members. In a sense, you could say Snow is keeping Hope alive.
    • The last zone of the Shadowbringers expansion Final Fantasy XIV is an illusionary recreation of Amaurot, the lost home of the people now called the Ascians, created by the last member of the Unsundered to properly remember it, shortly before his death at the hands of the Warrior Of Darkness/Light. In other words, it's a final fantasy.
  • Several of Ramza's abilities allow him to increase his speed and have the same animation as the Orator's skills. Guess that makes him a fast talker.
  • Fire Emblem:
  • Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Scott Cawthon said there would be a demo before release, but he felt that waiting three days before getting approval at a specific game site to release a demo was too long, so he released the game ahead of schedule. In other words, you could say that no one was ready for Freddy.
  • There are a few examples in FTL: Faster Than Light.
    • In one encounter, an Engi captain makes the following request: "Strange bug. Can you assist in debugging?" Refusal involves explaining that you can't do any programming, and only upon closer inspection do you realise it's a confused Mantis. The "debugging" may involve un-confusing the Mantis or removing it.
    • Upon entering the Engi Homeworlds, one sees the following flavour text: "You have arrived in Engi space. The Mantis have been threatening the Engi core worlds, but you should be able to stock up for your journey." You could say that the Engi have a lot bugs in their system.
  • Gal*Gun series:
    • The premise of the game's gameplay is that you shoot girls with pheromones to pacify them (i.e., you're running around the school banging girls).
      • Or, alternately, shooting them down.
    • Sequel Double Peace. As in, "double peace signs". Guess what those are associated with?
      • Also, the initials "DP" known more widely for referencing Double... something else.
  • Ghost Trick ends with the main character as an immortal kitten whose body has been frozen at the moment of his death. In other words, he's a literal Schrödinger's Cat.
  • Granblue Fantasy: Several events (particularly the humor-induced ones) will come up with these in several aspects in the trophy rewards:
    • The event trophy in "Forgiveness and Gratitude" has "E I E I Yuel" referencing a nursery rhyme.
    • A Slice of Summer has the "Melondramatic" trophy.
  • In Grand Theft Auto III, the DJ of Head Radio is named Michael Hunt, who also goes by Mike. Given the nature of jokes in GTA, this is obviously a play on the classic gag name Mike Hunt (say it out loud), but what makes it a stealth pun as opposed to a normal pun is the actual phrase "Mike Hunt" never appears in the game. (Although said DJ does say at one point "This is DJ Michael Hunt. You can call me Mike.")
  • Guilty Gear XX has two characters with connections to each other named Eddie and Venom. Would you believe that one of them is a black shape-changing symbiote who combined with a human and went on to control his body?
    • That Zato-1 is the name shown on the character selection screen for the first two games with Eddie in it, and that he appears to be more a bat-winged demonic figure whereas Venom is a pool cue-wielding British assassin with long white hair over his eyes kind of obfuscates the pun a bit too and makes it more stealthy.
    • Also, the number "1" in Japan is pronounced "Ichi," thus making him Zato-Ichi.
    • As the Author Avatar of Daisuke Ishiwatari, Sol Badguy is an avid Queen fan. His real name, Frederick, is derived from the band's frontman Freddie Mercury, but even his current alias is one of the series' many allusions to Queen (and old-school rock in general), as it comes from Mercury's solo album, Mr. Bad Guy. (In-universe, it's actually a mix of Meaningful Rename and Appropriated Appellation, but players wouldn't learn that until Xrd.)
  • Guilty Party has a level set inside of a train. If you play a co-op game in that level, the all-play mini-game involves you catching a bunch of snakes that were released in the luggage compartment. Snakes on a Train, anyone?
  • In Guitar Hero World Tour, one of the sets is made up entirely of tool songs. So it's a toolset.
  • Gundam Breaker 3 starts the game with a mission called Encounter, which has the player fighting basic AI enemies in standard mobile suits all the way through, until a local ganker named Tiger shows up in a bulky customized Mobile Suit with leopard print decals. He talks a big game about being the 'boss of Gunpla battle around here,' but close observation reveals that his mobile suit is poorly optimized, being a large, slow suit with highly telegraphed attacks. Tiger himself isn't much of a fighter either, serving as the game's Warm-Up Boss. A good player can easily put paid to Tiger's ego inside a minute. It's never explicitly stated that he is a Paper Tiger.
  • In Half-Life 2, Dr. Kleiner's pet headcrab is named Lamarr, and later confirms the pun when he can't find it.
    Alyx: We'll get you a new headcrab.
    Dr. Kleiner: There's only one Heddy!
    • There's another one, too. "It's spawning season for the antlions!" And they do indeed spawn. And spawn, and spawn... They're the only enemies in the game that do, in fact.
    • You first pick up the sniper crossbow on a grassy knoll.
  • In Hotline Miami, the rooster mask is named Richard. Or, in other words, the "cock" is named "Dick".
    • Another one of these occurs during the secret ending; the true antagonists of the game's story are an ultra-nationalist organization which is fighting against a Russo-American conspiracy in a desperate attempt to "make America strong". Their name is "50 Blessings", as in the fifty states of America.
  • In Kerbal Space Program, by default the spacebar key is used to activate the next stage in your spacecraft's staging system. When you're sitting on the launchpad, that means lighting the engines to lift off. In other words, you press space in order to go to space.
  • In Kingdom Hearts II, Naminé tells Kairi at one point to "Believe in yourself," whilst trying to convince her to step through a dark portal. If you don't get it, remember that Naminé is Kairi's Nobody.
    • In Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], there are two Dream Eaters: Necho Cat (which you can get and encounter as an enemy normally) and Frootz Cat (which you get through an AR card), that are fairly strange in the fact that while all the other animal-like Dream Eaters have the normal amount of limbs as to what their actual counterparts have, Necho Cat and Frootz Cat have six legs and a long body to match. So, they're actually caterpillars.
  • In Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby can fling his bird buddy Pitch about by swinging a parasol like a golf club. The parasol is a pitching wedge.
  • In Left 4 Dead 2, Whitaker's gun shop from the first campaign is running a 2-for-1 special for 9mm pistols.
    • In the second campaign, you visit a theme park with a nut theme. The character on the hammer-bell game is named Mustachio. The game never mentions what kind of nut he is. He's a pistachio.
  • Hyrule Historia finally explains why Link is asleep at the beginning of almost every Zelda game: it's "the hero's awakening."
  • In Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work, if you make Larry talk to a bush, he will say:
    Larry: "Hi, is by any chance your name George?"
  • Sackboy's default look in LittleBigPlanet is stated to be made of hessian material. It's also worth mentioning a few of his outfit sets are themed around various types of soldiers.
  • In Little King's Story, Kampbell runs the Soup Church once you have it built. He asks you twice in the game if you believe in God, i.e., a Soup-reme Being.
  • In Lunar Knights, Perrault is an antagonist who keeps confronting Aaron and Lucian with her mobile ship Schrodinger. It is only later that the player finds out that Perrault is a cat.
  • If you buy the Collectors' Edition of Mass Effect 2, you get some extra content: namely a suit of armour and a rifle modelled after those of the Collectors, the chief enemy in the game. Note the apostrophe.
    • In the same series, Quarians bear the name of their home ship in their names preceded by the preposition 'vas', which can be somewhat embarrassing if the ship name is ridiculous, as is the case with Admiral Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib. If you ignore Tali's advice and ask him about the name, he'll mention that he's considered transferring to the Defrahnz or Iktomi.
    • In Mass Effect 3, the Illusive Man's hit man, Kai Leng, ambushes Shepard and squad in a C-Sec Flying Car. Shepard tries to fight him off, which culminates in Shepard hanging out the side of the car trying to shoot Kai with a pistol. Because Shepard is sitting on the left side of the car, they're having to shoot left-handed while holding onto the car with their right hand to keep from falling out. Shepard isn't left-handed, so of course their aim with the pistol is shot.
    • Furthermore, Shepard can't swap to a better weapon or use biotics in this position; the weapons on Shepard's back are positioned for a right-handed draw, and Shepard needs their right hand to perform the mnemonic gestures to activate biotics. Shepard can't use Tech powers despite their Omnitool being on their left hand, because any powers that would work on Kai Leng would also damage the car Shepard's riding in and do Leng's job for him. The Illusive Man keeps telling Shepard throughout the game that they're fighting on the wrong side.
  • In the original Mega Man, Cut Man is weak against Guts Man's Super Arm, which allows you to pick up and throw boulders. That is to say, rock beats scissors.
    • In addition, Cut Man takes more damage from Mega Man's Mega Buster than any of the other original six Robot Masters — or, in fact, any other Robot Master in the entire franchise when played on default difficulty. Again, Rock beats scissors (Rockman being the Japanese title of the Mega Man series and Rock being Mega Man's civilian name in all regions).
    • So why is Cut Man's Rolling Cutter strong against Elec Man? He's literally cutting off Elec Man's power supply. (The in-game explanation being that the Rolling Cutter is made of a nonconductive material.)
    • The end credits of Mega Man 9 feature images that show the Robot Masters reintegrating into society. Plug Man is seen carrying a shopping bag with the Capcom logo on it, "plugging" the publisher.
    • Sheep Man from Mega Man 10. He's an electric-themed robot master.
      • Some fans, not content with this explanation of Sheep Man's name, have noticed that his stage is set inside a computer, and computers of course have RAM.
      • In the same vein, Mareep, Flaaffy, and Ampharos are Electric-type sheep Pokémon.
      • Strike Man in the same game is weak to the Triple Blade, a weapon that shoots three projectiles at once. Three strikes and he's out.
    • One from the fangame Mega Man Unlimited: According to the character info, Nail Man was promoted over his rival Hammer Man because he was the more intelligent of the two. That's right... he's sharper.
  • In Mega Man Zero, Zero can divide enemies if you deal the final blow with a bladed weapon.
    • Omega's true form is Zero's original body. Both the number zero and the Greek letter Omega can be pronounced "oh."
  • The main characters of Mega Man ZX start out delivering packages. Consider the pronunciation of the game's name in British English, and think of a famous company name that rhymes with it.
  • From Metal Gear Solid:
    Meryl: I'm not green!
    Snake: Oh yes you are.
    • The joke is, this conversation takes place over codec. Meryl is, in fact, green. Just like everyone else.
    • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater brings us several stealth puns on the subtitle "Snake Eater". "Operation Snake Eater" is the codename of Snake's mission, and codenames tend, by their natures, to be stealth puns on the mission's objective. In this case, it is either that Snake was going to have to eat the native wildlife to survive or that he was sent to assassinate the leader of the Cobra Unit.
      • Snake was also a Green Beret before joining FOX, and "snake eater" is a military slang term for Green Berets.
      • If Snake eats a snake and then calls Para-Medic, she won't call him a "snake eater" but instead a "cannibal".
      • In a later cutscene, Snake cooks a snake over a fire and then eats it.
      • Then there's the stealthiest use of the pun — Ocelot's favorite animal according to the database is a Markhor, which in Persian means "snake eater."
      • Not to mention the not-so-subtle innuendo derived from the title of the game. (If you believe Kojima and co. to be above this, remember that they actually named the series' main character Solid Snake.)
  • In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, one of your last tasks is to explore the derelict vessel Valhalla to obtain a "pirate code" that will grant access to one of the enemy's leviathans. But the only reason you need it is so that the leviathan can plot a course for you and the Federation fleet to follow to Phaaze, the living Phazon planet. So when you think about it, the pirate code is really more like a guideline...
  • The first Midnight Club has a stealth Shout-Out. Three of the vehicles in the game are the Jones J-series of pickups, which are based on the Ford F-series. So, Ford is playing Jones.
  • In Minecraft, Creepers have an irritating habit of hiding behind corners, under ledges, and outside doorways to ambush the player.
    • Creepers have a mottled green texture that, at a distance, can cause one to mistake them for cacti or the tops of trees. The word "creeper" can also refer to various plants.
  • Mobs are actually a generic term for mobile entities for any MMORPG. Most games also segregate these mobs into smaller groups (which players also refer to as "mobs") to help balance Conservation of Ninjutsu in favor of the players. Sure enough, it's rather easy to get mobbed by mobs of mobs in most of them. Some games also feature an enemy NPC faction based on The Mafia or The Irish Mob.
  • Monkey Island:
    • At one point early in Escape from Monkey Island, you need to bring someone a snack, and the only thing available is a bowl of pretzels that an inebriated seaman is preventing you from obtaining. Though the words are never spoken, both Guybrush and the player likely wonder at this point, what do we do with the drunken sailor?
    • At the beginning of the second episode of Tales of Monkey Island, Morgan tells Guybrush how much she admires him, and says she even learned how to hold her breath for five minutes. Guybrush informs her he can hold it for ten. "You mean that's true? I thought the stories were exaggerated! Impressive!" So in her opinion, reports of his breath...
  • The name of Mortal Kombat II's secret boss Smoke is a pun on Dan Forden's "Toasty!" catchphrase which you have to hear to find him — implying he's the physical manifestation of smoke (which would later be confirmed in the 2011 installment). This seems to have gone over the heads of most people when Smoke was changed into a robot for the next game.
  • In Mortal Kombat 9, Mileena's second Fatality is called "Rip Off." She tosses her sais at the victim's feet then rips their torso off. More dedicated Mortal Kombat fans will recognize it as a rip-off, in the imitation sense, of one of Kira's Fatalities in Mortal Kombat: Deception.
  • Nezumi Man has Milky Nezumi, who doesn't attack with dairy products (that's Butter Nezumi's domain), but stars. He's named after our resident galaxy, the Milky Way.
  • 2B's name in NieR: Automata seems like an obvious pun, and indeed, is later used in the title of ending B, "Or not to [B]e". However, it turns out in the end that 2B is not, in fact, 2B, but actually 2E, both referencing the Shakespeare line and ending B, which separates out the B and the E.
  • Holes are a recurring motif in Night in the Woods, which takes place during autumn, or fall. The climax of the game involves Mae falling into a hole.
  • Probably unintentional, but in old Irem arcade game Ninja Spirit you control a ninja named Moonlight. He can create up to three shadow clones which follow his every move. Moonlight Shadow!
  • No More Heroes: In wrestling, to win a round is to perform a hold, lock, or pin on a downed opponent. In the world of assassination, when Travis finishes an enemy with a wrestling move, the beam katana falls and skewers, or pins a downed enemy.
  • No More Heroes III: In the E3 2019 trailer for the game, Travis sees an alien spaceship and asks if it's the Fourth of July.
  • In No Straight Roads, the members of 1010 are all androids. Any members that fall in combat are replaced with a mechanical substitute, making them literally a manufactured band.
  • In Ogre Battle, the tarot cards you collect from liberating towns have powerful effects when used in battle. The Magician card deals fire damage to enemies, the Hermit deals lightning damage, and the Death card instantly kills weakened enemies. The Justice card's effect? Summons a blizzard. That's right...it's "just ice".
  • Torbjörn from Overwatch uses molten metal in some of his attacks and is somewhat quick to anger. He's a hothead.
  • Persona 5:
    • Ann and Morgana are characters who dress like/actually are cat burglars.
    • Futaba's Palace is Egyptian themed and her Shadow is dressed like an Egyptian princess, half wrapped in bandages. This is because she has ''mummy" issues.
    • In dungeons, you often find dirty clothing in locked chests. It is as though you are finding the target's dirty laundry hidden away.
    • Joker wears bright red gloves that stand out against the black color scheme of the rest of his outfit. Since he is a thief, if he gets caught, he would be caught red-handed.
    • The ATM cognition of the people outside of Kaneshiro's Palace are malfunctioning and lying on the ground. They are (financially) broke.
    • The name of the bar where Ohya the Devil Confident is unlocked, is called "Crossroads". There is an old folk tale in the U.S. about a blues singer making a Deal with the Devil while standing on the crossroads.
  • Pokémon:
    • The head of franchise's mafia-esque Team Rocket is named Giovanni, making him Don Giovanni. He also specializes in Ground-type Pokémon, as he leads "underground" operations.
    • Onix is a serpentine Pokémon made out of rocks. It's either an earthworm or a rock python.
    • Exeggcute is a Grass-type Pokémon made up of six large seeds that resemble eggs. It's an eggplant.
    • Spoink and Grumpig are pig-like creatures adorned with pearls. Pearls Before Swine?
    • Empoleon is a haughty penguin Pokémon, and rather obviously takes its name from "emperor" and "emperor penguin." More subtly, it takes its name from "Napoleon Bonaparte." How can you tell? Both Napoleon and Empoleon are 5'07".
    • Also coming from Sinnoh, we have Shaymin, a Grass-type Mythical Pokémon whose Land Forme resembles a hedgehog. Shaymin's land form is literally a hedgehog.
    • Galactic Admin Jupiter's signature Pokémon is a Skuntank. What type of planet is Jupiter? A gas giant.
    • Giratina, who betrayed the creator god Pokémon Arceus, is often associated with gravity. It's a fallen angel.
    • Pokémon Black and White introduces the ability Big Pecks, found on seven Unova birds and four pre-existing Dream World birds, which makes them immune to defense loss. The "pecks" bird reference is immediately apparent, but you may not know that the original Japanese name for the ability translated to "Pigeon Breast." So it really means they have big pecs. Groan.
    • Speaking of Unova, Zekrom, the Legendary Mascot of White, not only has control over electricity and lightning, but also has large thighs. It has thunder thighs, get it?
    • Shauntal, one of the members of the Unova Elite Four, is a Ghost-type trainer who also is an aspiring writer. Ergo, she's a ghostwriter.
    • Cubchoo is an Ice-type polar bear with snot constantly dripping from its nose. It has a cold.
    • The Unova starter lines are themed after real-world empires: Serperior is either the French or British Empire, Emboar is the Chinese Empire, and Samurott is the Japanese Empire. Unova's based on New York City, and New York is known as the Empire State.
    • Victini, a legendary Pokémon (basically a deity) associated with victory, has ears that look kind of like a famous sportswear brand's iconic "swoosh" logo. Who was the ancient Greek goddess of victory? Nike.
    • Viola, one of the Gym Leaders from Pokémon X and Y, is an amateur photographer who favors Bug Pokémon. In other words, she's a "shutterbug".
    • Lumiose City's name comes from the Latin word for "light" and is the equivalent of Paris, known as the "City of Lights." It's only natural that the city's Gym Leader is Gadgeteer Genius Clemont, the brightest member of the Kalos League.
    • X and Y also introduces us to two Fairy-type Pokémon that look suspiciously like cotton candy, also known as fairy floss.
    • The fact that Kalos's main legendary trio is based on the X, Y, and Z axes is a reference to how X and Y are the first 3D Pokémon games, and on the Nintendo 3DS to boot.
    • Starting in Generation 6, the alien-like Elgyem and Beheeyem can learn Steel Wing despite neither being Steel-type nor having wings. However, what's Steel Wing's TM number in Gens 6 and 7? 51.
    • Pokémon Sun and Moon introduces Marshadow, a Fighting-type Pokémon that commonly hides in shadows, which makes it a literal shadow boxer.
    • Kartana is a Pokémon that looks like a samurai made out of origami with swords for arms, and it's capable of cutting through steel. Paper cuts.
    • Similarly, Celesteela's a bamboo spaceship-like Pokémon based on the legend of Kaguya, who came from the moon. In Gen 7, you can only get it in Moon and Ultra Moon.
    • From Pokémon Sword and Shield come Applin (and Flapple, one of its evolutions), a small dragon-like creature living inside an apple. It's an apple with a wyrm in it.
    • The foxlike Thievul's facial markings resemble a Guy Fawkes mask.
    • Galar's Water-type starter Sobble eventually evolves into Inteleon, who has a strong Tuxedo and Martini motif. Sobble's number in the regional Pokédex is, of course, 007.
    • The map shows the Galarian region to be very straight and narrow. Given that the player's home is on the southern end, the protagonist is both figuratively and literally "working their way up" to become the Champion.
    • Chairman Rose wants to solve an energy crisis in the Galar region and is a well-respected figure. Unfortunately, he intends to do so by summoning an incredibly powerful and dangerous alien Pokémon called Eternatus to do so, making him a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Every rose has its thorns.
    • You and Hop battle Macro Cosmos employees on an elevator ride up Rose Tower, some of whom have dialogue that advertises the technology of the elevator and their company's subsidiaries. In other words, they're giving you their elevator pitch.
    • The game has you catch Eternatus (the largest of all the Pokémon in its hand-like Eternamax form at the climax, not only saving Galar, but also supercharging the region with energy. The game's giving you a big hand for saving the region.
    • The Pokémon Dragapult is a Ghost/Dragon-type partially based on flying wing jets such as the B-2 Spirit.
    • Leon, the champion of the Galar region, has an Aegislash as his first Pokémon. What's Aegislash made of? A Sword and a Shield.
    • Lisia is introduced in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire as a high ranking contest coordinator and something of a pop idol as well. Despite her reputation as the best of the best, she is very supportive of the playable character and helps them out, and makes it clear that she would rather not battle with her Pokémon. While she has yet to make an appearance in the anime, her character would not be out of place there, particularly in Pokémon the Series: XY, where the performances are more similar to the game's contests than the anime's version. And that season, released in the same year as Lisia's game, happens to contain a character that fills a nearly identical role. In all aspects, much like her Signature Mon, Lisia can be considered an alt-Aria.
    • The second-best ranking for making curry in Sword and Shield is Copperajah, a Steel-type Pokémon. You're an Iron Chef.
    • Regidrago is a spherical Dragon-type Pokémon. It's a dragon ball.
    • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduces Fidough and its evolution Dachsbun, who are dog Pokémon made out of bread. They're pure bread. (Wow! A dog made out of bread!).
    • Also from Scarlet and Violet, Cortondo Gym Leader Katy is a sweet-natured baker who specializes in the Bug-type. She's a sugarbug.
    • Iron Valiant is a humanoid, robotic Pokémon that uses an energy sword. Where can you find it? Area Zero.
    • Archaludon is a Pokémon that shoots beams and resembles a bridge, making it a beam bridge.
  • Portal 2:
    • A bit in the second half. "You're good at murder. Could you murder this bird for me?" Judging by the sound it makes as it flies away, the bird is a crow. A group of crows is called a murder.
    • At the very end of the game. Wheatley is stranded in space with another personality core orbiting him. For it to orbit another object of equal volume means that Wheatley must be incredibly dense.
    • Wheatley is a spherical robot who was built to make GLaDOS dumber. Or, in layman's terms, an Idiot Ball.
    • The most obvious one in the game: Throughout the game you get drops that the turrets sing opera and a cappella. Some easter eggs let you see a very fat turret that stays silent until the ending sequence where it leads an entire symphony of 'singing' turrets in a female Italian's voice. It ain't over 'till the fat lady (turret) sings.
    • Cave Johnson's memetic speech is about taking the lemons that life gives you and using them to burn life's house down. The only way to do this while keeping them something resembling lemons is to make them into incendiary grenades. In other words, a lemon-nade.
    • At the very end of the game, you get rid of Wheatley by shooting a portal onto the moon's surface, causing him to get sucked out of GLaDOS's body by the vacuum of space. The achievement you get for this part is called Lunacy note .
  • The twist ending of Prey (2017) reveals that you aren't Yu.
  • Very near the end of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, you discover that the London of the future is actually the London underground. Not phrased like that, so...
  • Puyo Puyo:
    • Feli is a goth girl who specializes in divination and believes that she's destined to be with her crush Lemres. She has a red ribbon tied around her head.
    • O from Puyo Puyo Tetris is shaped like a circle and can only say "pi".
    • In Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, Squares believes strongly in what's "right." He talks about "right choices," "right outcomes," and "being right." He embodies right angles in more ways than one.
  • Ratchet from Ratchet & Clank is a mechanic. Ratchet is also the name of a socket wrench. Furthermore, Ratchet's ears are shaped like the head of a standard wrench.
  • In Red Dead Redemption, a high-stakes poker game in Mexico results in several people pointing their guns at each other. Someone notes that "There must be a name for this."
  • In its Prequel, Red Dead Redemption II there’s a Collection Sidequest where you find rare orchids for a man named Algernon Wasp. In other words, you’re finding Flowers for Algernon.
  • Combined with Black Comedy: In Return of the Obra Dinn, one of the death scenes in Chapter V involves a cook, Thomas Sefton, who taunted a live mermaid with a joke about cooking it for a meal before reaching out to examine its shell, and it retaliated by lashing him to death with its tail. Guess it wasn't amused by his... roast. Get it?
  • Rocket League is about playing sports like soccer using cars. Sports cars, get it?
  • In Rhythm Heaven Megamix, the final remix at the top of Tibby's Mother's tower not only incorporates snippets from a majority of the game's stages, but also the opening themes to each game in the series. And since it's also the longest song in the game, it's the Mother of All Remixes in more ways than one.
  • In Saints Row IV, the simulation in which the Boss is trapped is patrolled by spy-bots called Control Interface Devices. If your notoriety gets high enough, a golden one will spawn, and you can chase it down and destroy it in order to reset your notoriety to zero. In other words, you have to catch the golden "snitch."
  • Scapeghost has you as detective Alan Chance killed during an undercover drugs operation and coming back from the dead to take revenge. You are literally the Ghost of A. Chance.
  • Shantae and the Seven Sirens: A woman says that her large fans have so many admirers that she has started... an admiration horde. Fan club.
  • Shin Megami Tensei:
    • Mara isn't exactly subtle, being a giant penis demon and all, but Persona 3 has a couple of subtle jokes in his stats: All of his physical attacks are pierce-type (including Primal Force, the strongest single-target pierce attack in the game,) and he's weak against ice.
    • Persona 3: Would you consider Akihiko's style of combat to be shadow boxing?
    • Persona 4:
      • Teddie, who has been making un-bear-able puns throughout the entire game. So what Persona do you get when finishing his social link? Helel, the Light-bear-er.
    • After Teddie grows a human body, he says that he's "basically like a newborn at the moment." Given his love of bear puns, it's surprising he didn't make some reference to being "bear naked." (Possibly because he already made that pun earlier in the game, when worrying that Rise's Shadow "might end up getting bear naked".)
    • Persona 5 has Shadow Kaneshiro, whose berserk form resembles a giant fly. He also acts and talks like a stereotypical rapper, dancing and posing and saying "yo" a lot. He's "fly", get it?
  • In The Sims series, a plant you can buy for your landscaping is called a Sim-City Midbiscus. Because it's shorter than a hibiscus.
  • In Skullgirls, Big Band (a.k.a. Ben Birdland) was turned into a music-based cyborg. His previous job? Beat cop.
  • Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves has a chapter set in Blood Bath Bay, inhabited by "throwbacks" who live as pirates. Since the Sly universe is populated by funny animals, all the Mooks in the entire chapter are canines. Meaning the pirates who inhabit this town are... sea dogs.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. "Ivo" is a reversal of "Ovi", the latin term for an egg. And for a Bonus, according to Word of God, the "I" in "Ivo" is pronounced with a soft "e" like in many European languages instead of the usual English "ae", to make "Ivo" (Eevo) sound like "Evil".
    • Perhaps an obvious example, but starting with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic's fox friend's name is Miles Prower. Even though the pun is obvious when it's spoken aloud, it's stealthy because when it's mentioned at all, it usually incorporates his nickname, thus, "Miles 'Tails' Prower," disrupting the pun. Also, when the later games added voice acting, they always use the nickname, so it never is spoken aloud.
    • Jet is a hawk who loves hoverboarding.
    • In Sonic Adventure, Speed Highway has a large bell. Guess what comes out when you hit it. The answer? Rings. note 
  • Splatoon has Spyke (in the first game) and Murch (from Splatoon 2 onward), anthropomorphic sea urchins who hang out in the streets (a literal back alley in Spyke's case) and provide gear and upgrades at a premium. They're Street Urchins.
    • It's implied that after Mr. Grizz's defeat at the end of Splatoon 3, ownership of Grizzco was transferred to Li'l Judd somehow, perhaps through selling it. A bear market is one where prices are falling and selling is encouraged. Given Li'l Judd's corpulent physique, this would also make him a literal corporate fat cat.
    • Big Man is a manta ray and can not only use ink like cephalopods, he's also part of a band with two of them. it's a reference to how "devilfish" is an archaic term for both manta rays and cephalopods.
      • Big Man's also the nicest, most upbeat member of Deep Cut, and his boss fight is based on the Phantamanta boss fight from Super Mario Sunshine. Given that, perhaps one could say he's "a ray of Sunshine."
  • The general of the Cornerian forces in Star Fox is named Pepper. Which means he could have been a sergeant at some point in the past.note 
    • Long before the N64 version, the Nintendo Power comics (which promoted the then-recently released Super NES game) actually incorporated this pun into one chapter.
    • Couldn't he also be a Pepper Cornerian?
    • His name could also be combined with the title of Star Fox: Assault.
    • It's been noticed that the positioning of the two stars in the Lylat System strongly suggest that it may in fact be the real-world Sirius System. Sirius A is the "Dog star". Guess what animals the main population of Corneria, the main habitable planet, resemble?
    • Andross's nephew is Andrew Oikonny, who is a monkey, making Andross a monkey's uncle.
  • In Japan, Street Fighter II: Champion Edition is known as Street Fighter II Dash, while Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting is known as Street Fighter II Dash Turbo. The word "dash" is not written on the logo of either game, but represented by a prime mark (′) used to indicate derivatives in math, which is sometimes called a "dash." Both games were derivatives of the original Street Fighter II.
    • Similarly, this applies to K' (pronounced "Kay Dash") from The King of Fighters, only the derivatives in question are clones (both the normal kind and the Clone by Conversion kind), of which K' was the first subject used for experiments involving the DNA of Kyo Kusanagi.
  • One ending of Sunless Skies involves the player captain allying with a Spider-Senate to overthrow the rule of the Sapphir'd King. The Spider-Senate is a star-sized mass of spiders who move as a Body of Bodies and think as a Hive Mind, deciding on action through collective agreement by its constituent groups of individual spiders... in other words, they're arachno-communists.
  • In Super Street Fighter IV's Arcade Mode, Guile's win quote against Zangief is "The bigger they are, the harder they fall!" This could be referencing Zangief himself, or the USSR.
  • In the Super Mario Bros. series, all of the background scenery has eyes.
  • In addition to the ever-present Bullet Bills, Super Mario World features their underwater counterparts, Torpedo Teds. Making it one of the few Mario adventures with a Bill and Ted.
  • The final level of Mario Zone (where the levels are inside a giant mechanical Mario) in Super Mario Land 2 has a lot of (suspiciously Lego-like) bricks. The level apparently takes place in the Mario-bot's head. So the Mario-bot is a blockhead.
    • Another level has a lot of what seem to be rubber balls — and considering this level is set in Mario-bot's crotch...
  • Paper Mario has a village inhabited by Boos (who are ghosts) at Gusty Gulch. A ghost town.
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has two in the gameplay mechanics. The first is Ms. Mowz's standard attack, a slap that ignores enemy defenses, and the second is the fact that machine-type enemies are easy to freeze with ice attacks (one of the hints old Wonkey tells you).
    • When tattling one of the harder enemies in the X-Naut base, the X-Yux, Goombella informs you that its name is properly pronounced "Cross-Yux". This in itself doesn't reveal a pun, but instead results in two when you combine this logic with the rest of the base's denizens. First, the X-Nauts, who would be properly pronounced "Cross-Nauts." Noughts and Crosses. And second, their computer TEC, which is a shortened form of its proper name TEC-XX. Double Cross.
      • Said computer is found in a base on the moon. Considering what game this is, would make it a paper moon.
  • Paper Mario: The Origami King features a boss battle against a pair of scissors, named Scissors. The personality given to this boss is that of a highly skilled swordsman who pretends to be a noble fighter, but in reality is a whiny, arrogant sadist, not unlike some anime villains (or original characters based on that archetype). This means that Scissors is your typical edge lord.
    • Additionally, Scissors's nickname is "The Dual-Bladed Duelist." In other words, he's a double-edged sword.
  • In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, there is a character named Broque Monsieur who speaks with a heavy French accent and is made out of blocks. If you try saying his name with a fake French accent, it sounds like you're saying "block monster".
    • Or, of course, Mr. Block.
    • That's also a normal Punny Name; it refers to a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. If you add a fried egg to the top, you get a Croque-madame. Hee...
      • Of course there's also a Madame Broque, his ex.
      • Also in that game, the villain Fawful, who is from the Beanbean Kingdom, has a pig henchman named Midbus, making them pork and beans.
      • Midbus also has spikes down his spine so he's also a razorback and when he gets ice powers he can give Bowser a cold. A little coincidence with a recent panic.
      • Midbus... Mid-boss?
  • Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has the useful end-game equipment, the Farmer Boots, which let you get unlimited beans from enemies. Yep, their purpose is, literally and figuratively, Item Farming.
  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl removed several characters from Melee that were (moveset-wise) clones: Dr. Mario, Roy, Pichu, and Young Link (though the last one was replaced with Wind Waker's Toon Link, essentially changing nothing). It also removed Mewtwo...a heavily modified clone of another Pokémon.
  • Zero Suit Samus's side special involves her hitting her opponent with an energy whip that comes out of her gun. She's Pistol-Whipping them.
  • Unlike Melee and Brawl, the cross-platform fourth installment lacks a subtitle. Instead, it is simply named Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U.
  • The Spirit system in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is perfect fodder for Shout Outs and puns, but one especially stands out: How do you summon the spirit of the Warrior pose from Wii Fit? With the spirits of two other great Warriors from Nintendo games: Seliph and Heracles.
    • One of the new music tracks in Ultimate is a remix of Steven's theme from Pokémon Gen 3. What style of music did they remix this Steel-type user's theme into? Metal.
  • In Tales of the Abyss, particles called fonons represent different elements. The Seventh Fonon is the element of Sound. Abyss's plot depends heavily on the Seventh Fonon so there are a lot of references to sound and music - the world's Bible-slash-prophecy is called Score, there are people with names like "Largo," "Sync," and "Din," and there are the giant tuning forks that attack you in Sephiroth dungeons. Then there's the Key of Lorelei, which controls Seventh Fonons. So does the Key of Lorelei control sounds in the Key of Lorelei? Also, when Luke uses the Key of Lorelei in the final scene, he sticks it in the ground and turns it. So is it an unlocking-key or a musical key? Both!
  • In Tales of Symphonia, the light seal and altar of the summon spirits of light are housed in the Tower of Mana, an old library. Why are the seal and altar of light in a library? Because books are enlightening.
  • In Tales of Vesperia, Karol wields hammers. One of the hammers has a "stop right there!" hand printed on it. Stop! Hammer Time!
  • In Team Fortress 2, one of the Demoman's unlockable weapons is the Eyelander, a big Scottish BFS. Since it's a Scottish BFS, that makes it a claymore. However, there's more than one type of weapon called a claymore. The aforementioned type of sword, and a kind of bomb.
    • He's a black Scotsman. Black Angus.
    • Do not forget the line "DON'T RUN! IS JUST HAM!" when eating the Sandvich (a ham and/or baloney sandwich) as the Heavy, a character who is extremely boisterous and over the top.
    • "I WILL KILL YOU WITH BEAR HANDS!"
    • And the Sniper's camper van. A "camper" in FPS terminology is a guy who rarely moves from one particular spot to kill people. Which is something snipers usually do.
      • Not to mention the Sniper's Halloween costume is a vampire slayer known as the "Camper Van Helsing."
    • The bobble head in "Meet the Sniper" that he pretended to headshot was originally of an old man holding a bottle of apricot jelly, a reference to the part of the brain often called "the apricot" by snipers, but they decided against it because it was so obscure.
      • That didn't stop them from giving him apricot air freshener.
    • The Sniper's parents apparently live on "Adelaide St." which is in itself a reasonable name for a street, but Australians joke that the city of Adelaide only has one street anyway.
    • Similarly, the "Meet the Engineer" video has him sitting at a campfire. Guess what one of the main Engineer strategies is.
      • This is actually a double stealth pun. Take a closer look at his 'campfire.' It's the burning corpse of the Sniper. So the camper is using a camper as a campfire.
    • The "Mannconomy" update was announced with a letter from Saxton Hale explaining how he discovered the Internet, in which he also notes that "the perverts at AnagramYourName.com should be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES." ("Saxton Hale" is an anagram of "hot anal sex.")
      • So... is that the reason his products are known to spontaneously combust at random, and his top customers happen to be ill-tempered assholes that really like big guns?
    • In the Mac Update trailer, the Sniper looks at two objects through his scope. First, a window. Second, an apple.
  • Terraria:
  • In Thief: Deadly Shadows, one mission requires you to break into a clock tower operated by the Hammerites (colloquially, the Hammers) and sabotage the mechanism, causing the clock to stop. In other words, you have to Stop Hammer Time.
  • Double Spoiler ~ Touhou Bunkachou is another camera-based Touhou Project Gaiden Game starring the reporter Aya Shameimaru. Given how much fans love Aya, one has to wonder why? Well, it's been joked that Aya is ZUN's girlfriend. And ZUN is apparently aware of this, because he's releasing Double Spoiler on White Day, i.e. the day that boys give gifts back to their girlfriends to thank them for the Valentine's Day chocolate.
    • ZUN also infamously referred to Kazami Yuuka as "youkai moe." One interpretation of this is that youkai find her Ax-Crazy behavior endearing in the same way that humans find shy, clumsy girls endearing. Another is that moe literally means "to sprout/bud", and Yuuka is a flower youkai...
  • Transistor: The order menu for Junction Jan's has Sea Monster as option "C", as is All There in the Script.
  • In Undertale:
    • One of the skeleton brothers, Sans, loves to tell bad jokes at every turn. And like his brother Papyrus, he is named after the typeface that accompanies most of his dialogue: Comic Sans.
    • The other skeleton brother, Papyrus, can be flirted with during his boss fight and it's when you attack him that he decides you're serious - he uses bone shaped bullets that, instead of being dodged in the game's usual Bullet Hell fashion, are dodged in a a Platformer style. So, he wants you to jump his bones...
    • Bratty and Catty are two monster girls that look like a gator and a cat respectively and run their shop out of a literal back alley. So they are an alley-cat and alley-gator. And they talk like V-alley girls.
    • Papyrus and Sans are a font family.
    • Papyrus is also a skeleton who likes to cook, and his favourite dish to make is spaghetti. Would spaghetti made by a skeleton be Creepypasta?
    • Papyrus is tall but very noticeably skinny—He's boney. On the other hand, Sans is short and chubby—He's not fat, he's big boned.
    • Undyne is a fish lady whose main weapon is her magic polearm. Spearfish. She's also clad head to toe in intimidating black plate armor. Knightfish.
    • Befriending Undyne involves attending her cooking lesson, which ends up with her house burning down. After that, she and you get along like a house on fire.
    • Two options a player has in the battle with Temmie are to give her Temmie flakes or to give her a flex.
    • There's a fishing rod fixed to the riverbank at the Ruins end of Snowdin. Reel it in and you'll find it's got a photograph, a phone number, and a note reading "Call me!" attached to the end of the line. It's a "pickup line".
    • Saving your game is always allowed by seeing something that "fills you with determination". Later, the term "determination" is used to describe your ability to come back from the dead by reloading your game, and is abbreviated DT. So it can also be read as "De-Termination."
    • In a similar vein, when the player dies there you see an animation of a heart breaking and vanishing. Near the end of the Good Ending, the player can't die and the heart splits apart and comes back together. In other works, you re-fused.
    • The Royal Guard's Snowdin Canine Unit is a group of five dogs dressed for war who defend Snowdin Town from hostile intruders. They're guard dogs.
  • From Viewtiful Joe 2: The Black Film.
  • In Where's My Water?, if all of the water were to flow off-screen, it will cause Swampy, the alligator you're supposed to have the water go into his bathtub, to start crying.
  • While he was reverse-engineering the Wii's architecture, Segher discovered that the Hollywood processor (officially the graphics processor) contains a tiny ARM core in addition to its normal ATI core. note  Since it wasn't documented anywhere (not even in the developer's guide!) it didn't have a name, so he nicknamed it "Starlet." Because it's a little piece of Hollywood.
  • In the code of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 character genders are assigned via numbers, 0 for males and 1 for females. Juniper is assigned the number 2. Their gender is literally non-binary. This also applies to Roc in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, who is assigned the number 4.
    • Additionally, after you free Colony Mu from its Flame Clock, the sidequests there lead up to the citizens learning how to breed and ranch Armus and Arduns, being the game's versions of bovine cows and bulls. Colony Moo.
    • Moebius D’s real name is actually Dirk. Considering that he kills people for fun and collects their decapitated heads, he really is a Dick.

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