Trivia / Kiwi Blitz

• Battle Theme Music: Despite being a webcomic with no embedded music, Cube at one point commissioned Toby Fox to compose an upbeat battle theme for the comic. The result was the song Kiwi Blast.
• Original Character Tournament: Steffi and her Kiwibot have their humble origins in the Steel Nation OCT. Along with Benzene, they would later go on to feature in the Law Of Talos tournament before finally starring in their own webcomic.
• Referenced by...:
  • Zokusho Comics: On the title page of Zokusho: Noise, one of the thought bubbles reads "I wonder what's gonna happen in the next issue of Kiwi Blitz?"
  • Sleepless Domain: Since both comics were written by Mary Cagle, alternate versions of quite a few Kiwi Blitz characters show up as cameos. Most notably, Steffi, Chandra, and 42 make an appearance as the magical girl group Team Blitz, featuring Ben as their manager. Later on, Reed also appears briefly as Rue's father, and a background character at Future's Promise bears a suspicious resemblance to Francis.
    "'Surely Cube won't just put every Kiwi Blitz character in SD,' you said, like a fool."
• Schedule Slip: The comic suffered a bad one due to personal issues in the author's life, with over a year passing between the releases of strips 646 and 647, and no comic since then.
• Word of God:
  • The comic's creator Mary Cagle has shared several details about the world of the comic on the official Discord server for Sleepless Domain:^note The server is primarily about SD, but is shared between all of Mary's present projects, with dedicated channels for Kiwi Blitz (#blitz-talk) and Anime Slushie (#thinkin-arwbys).
  • The comic takes place in an alternate 2020 where the Cold War got a bit more hot, ultimately leading to World War III.
  • Ben's parents are loosely based on the author's own.

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