History Trivia / Ingress

* FanNickname
** Players from the in-game factions have nicknames for their opposing numbers: Resistance players refer to the Enlightened as 'Toads', 'Frogs', or 'Kermits', while Enlightened players refer to the Resistance as 'Smurfs'.
** An incident where a significant quantity of item-generating passcodes was discovered after the Niantic Labs team partnered with [=ZipCar=] was referred to as "Zipcarmageddon".
** Resonators placed very close to the portal are known as "Rings of Shame" since they can be destroyed more efficiently than if the resonators were spread out. They are also called "Pineapples" or "Campfires".
** Portals reachable from a player's home are called "couch portals" or just "couch"/"sofa" for short; portals reachable from the workplace are called "desk portals", or "desks".
** BAF - An enormous field made of links kilometers long, worth massive amounts of Mind Units and requiring lots of transport to set up. Known as "Big Augmented Field", but colloquially called "Big-Ass Field".

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: On a smaller scale, and it varies by region. The game is old enough that some portals are located at a landmark that no longer exists or has been radically / completely changed or relocated.

* The anime marks the first time that virtual Youtuber WebAnimation/KizunaAI has appeared as herself in a full fledged anime series, cameoing in Episode 9. This also marks the first time she has been given an official English voice with Creator/CristinaVee voicing her in the dub.

* ColbertBump: Thanks to ''Pokemon Go'', this game's been bumped up enough to get ''an anime adaptation.''

* RoleReprisal: Christopher Corey Smith and Laura Bailey reprise their roles as Hank Johnson ([[https://twitter.com/GetMeSmith/status/1123272781615943680 whose character design is deliberately designed after him]]) and ADA from the game and its various in-story videos.

* RealSongThemeTune: The opening song of the anime is "Tessellate" by Music/AltJ.

* The anime marks the first time that virtual Youtuber WebVideo/KizunaAI has appeared as herself in a full fledged anime series, cameoing in Episode 9. This also marks the first time she has been given an official English voice with Creator/CristinaVee voicing her in the dub.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: On a smaller scale, and it varies by region. The game is old enough that some portals are located at a landmark that no longer exists.

!! For the original TV series:

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Some owners of physical properties, especially museums, cemetaries, and other places where patrons are expected to be on their best behavior, don't like ''Ingress'' players using their property just to play the game, especially if said players are particularly obnoxious. Yes, those owners do contact Niantic about the hassle players cause, and yes Portals from the properties in question can be removed as a result. The problem is generally not as widespread or high in amplitude compared with the playerbase of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'', another Niantic GPS-based game (''Ingress'' particularly encourages players to be on their best behavior due to the in-universe explanation that the player is a covert operative), but it still happens.

* RealWorldThemeTune: The opening song of the anime is "Tessellate" by Music/AltJ.

* FanNickname: BAF - An enormous field made of links kilometers long, worth massive amounts of Mind Units and requiring lots of transport to set up. Known as "Big Augmented Field", but colloquially called "Big-Ass Field".

* NoDubForYou: Although ''Ingress'' is available in multiple languages, the only one that's voiced aside English is Japanese.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Some owners of physical properties, especially museums, cemetaries, and other places where patrons are expected to be on their best behavior, don't like ''Ingress'' players using their property just to play the game, especially if said players are particularly obnoxious. Yes, those owners do contact Niantic about the hassle players cause, and yes Portals from the properties in question can be removed as a result. The problem is generally not as widespread or high in amplitude compared with the playerbase of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' (''Ingress'' particularly encourages players to be on their best behavior due to the in-universe explanation that the player is a covert operative), another Niantic GPS-based game, but it still happens.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Some owners of physical properties, especially museums, cemetaries, and other places where patrons are expected to be on their best behavior, don't like ''Ingress'' players using their property just to play the game, especially if said players are particularly obnoxious. Yes, those owners do contact Niantic about the hassle players cause, and yes Portals from the properties in question can be removed as a result. The problem is generally not as widespread or high in amplitude compared with the playerbase of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'', another Niantic GPS-based game, but it still happens.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Some owners of physical properties, especially museums, cemetaries, and other places where patrons are expected to be on their best behavior, don't like ''Ingress'' players using their property just to play the game, especially if said players are particularly obnoxious. Yes, those owners do contact Niantic about the hassle players cause, and yes Portals from the properties in question can be removed as a result. The problem is generally not as widespread or high in amplitude compared with ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''[='=]s playerbase, but it still happens.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Some owners of physical properties, especially museums, cemetaries, or other places where patrons are expected to be on their best behavior, don't like ''Ingress'' players using their property just to play the game, especially if said players are particularly obnoxious. Yes, those owners do contact Niantic about the hassle players cause, and yes Portals from the properties in question can be removed as a result. The problem is generally not as widespread or high in amplitude compared with ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''[='=]s playerbase, but it still happens.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Some owners of physical properties don't like ''Ingress'' players using their property just to play the game, especially if said players are particularly obnoxious. Yes, those owners do contact Niantic about the hassle players cause, and yes Portals from the properties in question can be removed as a result. The problem is generally not as widespread or high in amplitude compared with ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''[='=]s playerbase, but it still happens.

* FanNickname: BAF - An enormous field made of links kilometers long, worth massive amounts of Mind Units and requiring lots of transport to set up. Known as "Big Augmented Field", but colloquially called "Big-Ass Field".

* {{Defictionalization}}: The game's Power Cubes were sorta-kinda defictionalized with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BPkdQJrwE Power Bank]].