History Trivia / ApexLegends

* IKnewIt: Many players immediately caught on that the short-lived "Elite Queue", reserved for players who placed in the top 5 squads during the Legendary Hunt event, was little more than a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for a proper ranked mode. Sure enough, less than a week after Legendary Hunt started, ranked mode was announced to debut in Season 2.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://apexlegendswiki.org/ Apex Legends Wiki]], [[https://apexlegends.gamepedia.com/Apex_Legends_Wiki Gamepedia]] and [[https://liquipedia.net/apexlegends/Main_Page liquipedia]] Wiki.

** For most of the game's lifetime, Bloodhound had AmbiguousGender by a strict text reading because very little about them personally is known; this became clarified in Season 8, where a loading screen lore text -- a poem written from their perspective -- refers to themselves as "they", fully confirming they identify as non-binary. Because of this, Fuse being pansexual {{avert|edTrope}}s this and is fully within the text, since not only does he have ShipTease with Bloodhound, his biography on the website describes him as both a "ladies' man" and a "man's man".

*** Nearly all of the Pilot weapons have returned in ''Apex'' or have obvious successors (like the R-201 becoming the R-301). The only weapons that are yet to be usable as of Season 14 are the Grenadier weapons (the EPG has made a cameo appearance in the "Attention to Detail" Wingman reactive skin preview), and the {{Smart |gun}}Pistol (which cameos in ''Stories from the Outlands: Gridiron'').
*** The Arc Star is a mashup of two existing ordnance, combining the Arc Grenade's stun and slowdown with the Firestar or Gravity Star's aesthetics.

*** Caustic's Nox Gas Traps, and the gas cloud they create, are visually very similar to the Scorch Titan's Incendiary Traps.

** Octane is AmbiguouslyGay as detailed on his character tab, but tweets from Tom Castiello tone much more strongly imply he is gay. Seer is bisexual, but it's not really discussed much in-game outside of the AmbiguouslyGay relationship history he has with Octane.

* FandomNod: Octane's backstory is derived from a ''Titanfall 2'' player making the Gauntlet[[note]]a speedrunning obstacle course found in the Single-Player tutorial[[/note]] run in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ElNQVYDsA twelve seconds]]'' via [[RocketJump Grenade Jumping]]. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome in Octane's case.

** Most of the weapons' basic designs and functionalty are recycled from ''Titanfall 2''.
*** The Arc Star is a mashup of two existing ordnance, combining the Arc Grenade's stun and slowdown with the Firestar or Gravity Star's aesthetics and stickiness.
*** Thermite Grenades are similarly just Firestars that spread horizontally when they land on a floor.

* TheDanza: Fryda Wolff provides the voice for Loba, which is the Spanish female equivalent of wolf.

** The 3rd Anniversary event features a variety of loading screen art and sprays designed by fans from the game's community.

*** The Arc Star is a mashup of two existing ordnance, combining the Arc Grenade's stun, slowdown, and stickiness, and Firestar or Gravity Star's aesthetics.

** Also with ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4'' 's Blackout gamemode, as both emphasize fast-paced realistic combat with more polish than other Battle Royale games. More recently, ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Call of Duty: Warzone]]'' has replaced ''Blackout'' as a direct competitor, mainly due to being free-to-play and borrowing many mechanic from ''Apex Legends''. Incidentally, Respawn Entertainment was formed by members of Infinity Ward, the studio responsible for ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''.

** The devs are aware that the Mozambique is a bad gun. This is evident in their [[https://youtu.be/G9xpYNGRxbE 50 million players celebratory video]], which includes statistics like "1(?) Mozambique kill". Furthermore, the Legendary Hunt patch added a unique animation that sees players hurling it to the ground in disgust when swapping it out for a different weapon.

** In the game itself, the prologue to "The Legacy Antigen" was done by a fan, and loading screens unlocked by watching Apex streamers are fanmade as well.

* RefittedForSequel: Bloodhound's design is based on a previously unused pieces of ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' concept art.
* ViralMarketing: Instead of using a traditional marketing push that publisher Creator/ElectronicArts would've started months before launch, Respawn chose to announce and release the game at the same time in hopes of relying on word-of-mouth to gain interest.

** In turn, many battle royale games like ''[=PUBG=] Mobile'', ''Fortnite'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyMobile'' and ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Call of Duty: Warzone]]'' copied this game's ping system and respawn mechanic.

--> '''Valkyrie:''' I'm in the pipe, five by five.

*** Wraith's Into the Void is mostly the same as Phase Shift (including black-and-white negative vision), except she's still partially visible while using it. It's implied they're connected somehow in-story, as Wraith EscapedFromTheLab run by IMC, whose experiments created the version of the ability used in ''2'''s campaign.

** The Control gamemode has tall rod-like objects to represent points of interest. These are just the objective items used as the flags in ''Titanfall 2''[='s=] Capture the Flag gamemode.

** Respawn [[https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-11-20-what-went-into-apex-legends-surprise-launch experimented]] with having Titans in the early stages of development, but they saw that their presence in a battle royale game was "a huge unbalancing force," and the final game ultimately does not have them. In a similar vein, it also has voicelines for various unused anti-Titan and Grenadier weapons. As we're not getting a Titan anytime soon, there's probably no need for an Archer.

** Most of the weapons and their models are recycled from ''Titanfall 2''.

*** Pathfinder's Grappling Hook is exactly the same as Grapple.

** In turn, many battle royale games like [=PUBG=] Mobile, ''Fortnite'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyMobile'' and ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2019 Call of Duty: Warzone]]'' copied this game's ping system and respawn mechanic.

* MemeAcknowledgement: The devs are aware that the Mozambique is a bad gun. This is evident in their [[https://youtu.be/G9xpYNGRxbE 50 million players celebratory video]], which includes statistics like "1(?) Mozambique kill". Furthermore, the Legendary Hunt patch added a unique animation that sees players hurling it to the ground in disgust when swapping it out for a different weapon.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oshvcDjEKZc Legacy Launch Trailer]] shows off Valkyrie quoting a memetic line said by her father Viper in ''VideoGame/Titanfall2''
--> '''Valkyrie:''' I'm in the pipe, five by five

** Most of the weapons and their models are recycled from ''Titanfall 2''. The Arc Star is even a mashup of two existing ordnance, the Arc Grenade and Firestar or Gravity Star.

*** Bloodhound's Eye of the Allfather is the same as Pulse Blade, except emitted from the player instead of a projectile. Track is a ''vastly'' expanded version of the Kill Report Kit.

*** Gibraltar's Dome of Protection strongly resembles the Dome Shield kit used by Titans when they drop.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Bloodhound is non-binary and is voiced by Creator/AllegraClark who is openly bisexual. Valkyrie is lesbian and is voiced by Creator/ErikaIshii, who is openly pansexual and genderfluid.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Valkyrie is lesbian and is voiced by Creator/ErikaIshii, who is openly pansexual and genderfluid.