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** Clearing the Crucible, which is the hardest of the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s in the game, earns you the Infinite Pollo Shot. This allows you to use Pollo Shot as many times as you want in midair as long as you have the stamina to do it. But by the time you get it, you've just cleared the last and most difficult patforming challenge in the entire game, you're still limited by your stamina meter when you use it, and there's nothing left to do but defeat the FinalBoss now that you've got it.
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** Clearing the Crucible, which is the hardest of the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s in the game, earns you the Infinite Pollo Shot. This Shot, which allows you to use Pollo Shot as many times as you want in midair as long as you have the stamina to do it. midair. But by the time you get it, you've just cleared the last and most difficult patforming platforming challenge in the entire game, you're still limited by your stamina meter when you use it, and there's nothing left to do but defeat the FinalBoss now that you've got it.
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** Clearing the Crucible, which is the hardest of the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s in the game, earns you the Infinite Pollo Shot. This allows you to use Pollo Shot as many times as you want in midair as long as you have the stamina to do it. But by the time you get it, you've just cleared the last and most difficult patforming challenge in the entire game, you're still limited by your stamina meter when you use it, and there's nothing left to do but defeat the FinalBossnow that you've got it.
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** Clearing the Crucible, which is the hardest of the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s in the game, earns you the Infinite Pollo Shot. This allows you to use Pollo Shot as many times as you want in midair as long as you have the stamina to do it. But by the time you get it, you've just cleared the last and most difficult patforming challenge in the entire game, you're still limited by your stamina meter when you use it, and there's nothing left to do but defeat the FinalBossnow FinalBoss now that you've got it.
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* BraggingRightsReward: Downplayed. The Proving Grounds DLC's final reward for getting all Gold medals is the ability to play as Salvador, who is one of the most powerful characters in the game whose only weakness is their weak stamina. The only thing left to use him on at that point, however, is the endgame, which the player will most likely have reached by that point due to the Proving Grounds requiring all skill trees to be completed, and for almost every mobility option that Juan has to be unlocked for most of the challenges to be beatable with a Gold medal.
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* BraggingRightsReward: Downplayed. BraggingRightsReward:
** The Proving Grounds DLC's final reward for getting all Gold medals is the ability to play as Salvador, who is one of the most powerful characters in the game whose only weakness is their weak stamina. The only thing left to use him on at that point, however, is the endgame, which the player will most likely have reached by that point due to the Proving Grounds requiring all skill trees to be completed, and for almost every mobility option that Juan has to be unlocked for most of the challenges to be beatable with a Goldmedal.medal.
** Clearing the Crucible, which is the hardest of the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s in the game, earns you the Infinite Pollo Shot. This allows you to use Pollo Shot as many times as you want in midair as long as you have the stamina to do it. But by the time you get it, you've just cleared the last and most difficult patforming challenge in the entire game, you're still limited by your stamina meter when you use it, and there's nothing left to do but defeat the FinalBossnow that you've got it.
** The Proving Grounds DLC's final reward for getting all Gold medals is the ability to play as Salvador, who is one of the most powerful characters in the game whose only weakness is their weak stamina. The only thing left to use him on at that point, however, is the endgame, which the player will most likely have reached by that point due to the Proving Grounds requiring all skill trees to be completed, and for almost every mobility option that Juan has to be unlocked for most of the challenges to be beatable with a Gold
** Clearing the Crucible, which is the hardest of the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s in the game, earns you the Infinite Pollo Shot. This allows you to use Pollo Shot as many times as you want in midair as long as you have the stamina to do it. But by the time you get it, you've just cleared the last and most difficult patforming challenge in the entire game, you're still limited by your stamina meter when you use it, and there's nothing left to do but defeat the FinalBossnow that you've got it.
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** As in the previous game, certain blocks and shields can only be destroyed with the corresponding move. Red is the Rooster Uppercut, Blue is the Dash Punch, Green is the Frog Slam, and yellow is the KO Headbutt. Unlike the previous game, there's also blocks and shields for the Pollo moves, where purple is the Pollo Shot and orange is the Polla-Bomba.
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** As in the previous game, certain blocks and shields can only be destroyed with the corresponding move. Red is the Rooster Uppercut, Blue is the Dash Punch, Green is the Frog Slam, and yellow is the KO Headbutt. Unlike the previous game, there's also blocks and shields for the Pollo moves, where purple is the Pollo Shot and orange is the Polla-Bomba.Pollo Slide.
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** As in the previous game, certain blocks and shields can only be destroyed with the corresponding move. Red is the Rooster Uppercut, Blue is the Dash Punch, Green is the Frog Slam, and yellow is the KO Headbutt. Unlike the previous game, there's also blocks and shields for the Pollo moves, where purple is the Pollo Shot and orange is the Polla-Bomba.
** Certain attacks are color-coded to indicate that you can't dodge through them; the only way to not take damage from them is to not get hit in the first place. Purple-and-white attacks can't be dodged, while red-and-white attacks can't be dodged and cause a OneHitKill if they land.
** As in the previous game, certain blocks and shields can only be destroyed with the corresponding move. Red is the Rooster Uppercut, Blue is the Dash Punch, Green is the Frog Slam, and yellow is the KO Headbutt. Unlike the previous game, there's also blocks and shields for the Pollo moves, where purple is the Pollo Shot and orange is the Polla-Bomba.
** Certain attacks are color-coded to indicate that you can't dodge through them; the only way to not take damage from them is to not get hit in the first place. Purple-and-white attacks can't be dodged, while red-and-white attacks can't be dodged and cause a OneHitKill if they land.
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* BackFromTheDead: The game taking place across multiple different timelines allows characters who were killed in the first game to be brought back, such as [[spoiler:your training punching bag Poncho]] and [[spoiler:El Trio de la Muerte]]. Of course, [[spoiler:both of those characters were skeletons to begin with]].
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* BackFromTheDead: The game taking place across multiple different timelines allows characters who were killed in the first game to be brought back, such as [[spoiler:your training punching bag Poncho]] Poncho and [[spoiler:El El Trio de la Muerte]]. Muerte. Of course, [[spoiler:both both of those characters were skeletons to begin with]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The normal ending, though unlike the first game it’s more sweet than bitter. [[spoiler: Juan defeats Salvador and saves the Mexiverse, but is left trying to find the portal to his own timeline and return to his family. It takes years, but [[EarnYourHappyEnding he eventually does]]. The GoldenEnding has Juan find it immediately, which removes the “bitter” part.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The normal ending, though unlike the first game it’s more sweet than bitter. [[spoiler: [[spoiler:In both endings, Juan defeats Salvador and saves the Mexiverse, but is left trying to find the portal to his own timeline and return to his family. It takes what's implied to be a few years, but [[EarnYourHappyEnding he eventually does]]. does get back home]]. The GoldenEnding has plays out the same way, except Juan find it finds the portal to get back home almost immediately, which removes the “bitter” part.]]
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* BrutalBonusLevel: Like before, there is a set of collectibles that must be obtained to get the GoldenEnding, this time pieces of a key which unlocks a door in the Chicken Illuminati's HQ. You get one during the main story for defeating Zope and Cactuardo, but the other four pieces are behind grueling challenges. Enjoy your combination of PlatformHell + CheckPointStarvation!
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** Like before, there is a set of collectibles that must be obtained to get the GoldenEnding, this time pieces of a key which unlocks a door in the Chicken Illuminati's HQ. You get one during the main story for defeating Zope and Cactuardo, but the other four pieces are behind grueling challenges. Enjoy your combination of PlatformHell + CheckPointStarvation!
** Like before, there is a set of collectibles that must be obtained to get the GoldenEnding, this time pieces of a key which unlocks a door in the Chicken Illuminati's HQ. You get one during the main story for defeating Zope and Cactuardo, but the other four pieces are behind grueling challenges. Enjoy your combination of PlatformHell + CheckPointStarvation!
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The GoldenEnding of the first game, where Juan collects all of the Chac Mool relics and sacrifices his mask to resurrect Lupita, is the canon one.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: The GoldenEnding of the first game, where Juan collects all of the Chac Mool relics and sacrifices his mask to resurrect Lupita, is the canon one. She's shown alive in this game, and seven years later, she and Juan have two kids.
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* HeelFaceTurn: The Flame Face from the Darkest Timeline has done this... sort of. He still hates you and will insult you at every opportunity, but he's still willing to train you in his gym, fulfilling the role of Combo Chicken from the first game as well as having his own set of skills that you can purchase.
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* HeelFaceTurn: The Flame Face from the Darkest Timeline has done this... sort this. Sort of. He still hates you and will insult you at every opportunity, but he's still willing to train you in his gym, fulfilling the role of Combo Chicken from the first game as well as having his own set of skills that you can purchase.
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* MultipleEndings: Just like last time, there are two endings, and which one you get depends on whether or not you obtained all the secret items from the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s (this time, they're pieces of a giant key, which unlocks ''another'' BrutalBonusLevel that must be beaten to get the good ending). [[spoiler:Unlike last time however, the "bad" ending is not really all that bad, and the only difference between it and the good ending is how long it takes Juan to find the correct portal in El Otromundo that leads to his own timeline. In the good ending, he finds it right away, while in the bad ending it takes him a few years]].
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* MultipleEndings: Just like last time, there are two endings, and which one you get depends on whether or not you obtained all the secret items from the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s (this Level}}s. This time, they're pieces of a giant key, which unlocks ''another'' BrutalBonusLevel that must be beaten to get the good ending).ending. [[spoiler:Unlike last time however, the "bad" ending is not really all that bad, and the only difference between it and the good ending is how long it takes Juan to find the correct portal in El Otromundo that leads to his own timeline. In the good ending, he finds it right away, while in the bad ending it takes him a few years]].years.]]
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: According to Flame Face, this trope is a law in the Mexiverse.
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: According to Flame Face, this trope is a law in the Mexiverse. When your training partner attacks you in his Fightporium, Flame Face says that you can't fight someone while they're talking.
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** In order to obtain a missing powerup, you must retrieve it from the last remaining Choozo Statue in the entire Mexiverse that contains it, and you must find the statue in The Timeline With All The Statues. The Goat Hermit from that timeline is ''very'' proud of his collection, and although you only have to break one of them to get to your goal, there are ''so many'' Choozo Statues in his house and they're all ''so breakable''...
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** In order to obtain a missing powerup, you must retrieve it from the last remaining Choozo Statue in the entire Mexiverse that contains it, and you must find the statue in The Timeline With All The Statues. The Goat Hermit from that timeline is ''very'' proud of his collection, and although collection. Although you only have to break one of them to get to your goal, there are ''so many'' Choozo Statues in his house and they're all ''so breakable''...that the temptation is there to break them all.
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** At first, it looks like the piñata-filled house of the Piñata Lover would be this, but as it turns out, he loves seeing piñatas smashed just as much as he loves collecting them and will reward you for it.
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** At first, it looks like the piñata-filled house of the Piñata Lover would be this, but as it turns out, he loves seeing piñatas smashed just as much as he loves collecting them and will reward you for it.it with a new costume that turns your luchador into someone dressed as a pinata.
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* ATasteOfPower: The game starts off with a flashback to the final boss of the first game, with you controlling Juan with maxed-out health and stamina, while Calaca is much weaker than he was originally.
-->'''Achievement Unlocked:''' I Remember That Being Harder
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* ATasteOfPower: The game starts off with a flashback to the final boss of the first game, with you controlling Juan with maxed-out health and stamina, while Calaca is much weaker than he was originally.
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** The trophy for defeating Salvador, "Nacho Libre", isn't just a ShoutOut (see below). It also comes from ''freeing'' the guac-dipped nacho from Salvador's stomach.
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** The trophy for defeating Salvador, "Nacho Libre", isn't just a ShoutOut (see below).the [[Shoutout/Guacamelee2 Shout Out Page]]). It also comes from ''freeing'' the guac-dipped nacho from Salvador's stomach.
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* ShoutOut: Grab a seat, these will take a while...
** The very first scene of the game is a remake of the original game's final boss, which doesn't seem like much of a reference until the characters start openly quoting [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight the infamous "miserable pile of secrets" exchange]].
** The Goat Hermit gets lost taking Juan to the Darkest Timeline, first they end up in [[VideoGame/{{Limbo}} Pueblimbo]], a gloomy world of mist and silhouettes (complete with a GiantSpider hanging off the wall above the exit, trying to spear you with one of its legs just as you escape), and then to [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Riviera City]], a BeatEmUp kind of town with advertisements for [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Triple Dragon]], and a man asking if you're a [[VideoGame/BadDudes bad enough hombre to rescue El Presidente]].
** Before the boss fight Salvador says [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy if you want to be the Luchador]] [[Wrestling/RicFlair you have to beat the Luchador]].
** The Three Relics, each of them looking like pixelated triangles, combine into an object that looks ''extraordinarily close'' to the 8-bit [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI Triforce]]. The negative space between the triangles forms the golden nacho that serves as the key to El Otromundo.
** The [[Franchise/StreetFighter Fight Streeter]] "bonus timeline", wherein you [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII fight and demolish a car at the dockyard]] (specifically, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_in_Mexico Volkswagen Beetle]]). Completing both stages nets you a "Perfect!" trophy. Also, both times, [[VideoGame/FinalFight the owner of the car will lament his loss]].
*** The second Fight Streeter stage pits you against a lime-green "volchito" with a white roof. These are the colors of the infamous "eco-taxis" seen everywhere in Mexico City during the 80s and 90s, and memetic in their own right.
** When the deadly time rifts start appearing, a villager acknowledges their unique shape and wonders [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} if they would disappear if they could get a whole row of them lined up]]. Meanwhile, another villager laments not getting the chance to complete her [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Luchadex]], especially since they add 150 new luchadores to the roster every time.
** In the town of Isla Bonita, you meet "[[SdrawkcabName Inatawi Urot]]", who gives you free access to his coin collection if you can retrieve them all from [[VideoGame/PacMan his maze]] in under two minutes.
** [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink I Am Error]] returns, but this time he bars your way if you try to advance to an area you're not supposed to go to yet.
** [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot]] show up as a piñata in a piñata afficionado's house, and as golden idol in the Chicken Illuminati temple, respectively. The former also has a piñata of [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Unikitty]].
** The [[ChestMonster Mimic]] in El Infierno [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI asks if someone has rang the Bell of Awakening and refers to you as a Chosen Undead]].
** A chicken named after [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Chris Houlihan]] shows up in a hidden underground room.
** The Temple of the Snake has not only a giant, one-hit kill snake, but also large and spike-filled open sections that you must traverse by [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} climbing onto smaller, but still huge, snakes that twist and turn around obstacles]]. It also has a lava-filled room that must be crossed by riding on [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld a platform made of blocks that twists and turns like a snake as it moves]].
** The room where you collect the Eagle Boost technique (which allows you to latch on to "grapple points" to sling yourself through the air) has statues of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link wielding the Hookshot]], the titular character of VideoGame/{{Flinthook}}, and [[VideoGame/BionicCommando Rad Spencer]].
** Upon completing your first Pollo Challenge dungeon, the chicken form being equivalent to [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} the Morph Ball required to slip into narrow tunnels]], you earn the "[[Website/{{Miiverse}} y cant guacamelee crawl]]" trophy.
** The "Luchonarrative Resonance" trophy, named after a certain critique of ''VideoGame/BioShock'', is awarded to you by "[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Killing 1000 mean, nasty skeletons without families.]]"
** The "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Juan Punch Man]]" trophy comes from defeating an enemy in one hit using a special move.
** The "[[Franchise/TombRaider Temple Raider]]" trophy is earned by obtaining 100% of chests in a temple.
** The trophy obtained for defeating the final boss, "Nacho Libre", should be [[Film/NachoLibre self-explanatory]].
** One of the Goat Hermits has, among others, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Rafiki's staff]] and [[Manga/{{Dragonball}} Master Roshi's cane]] hanging from his wall.
** The Goat Hermit that teaches you Double Jump greets you by orating the first couple of paragraphs of [[https://www.poesi.as/op01041b.htm Octavio Paz's poem, "Viento".]]
** The Pico de Gallo bonus timeline, wherein you fight your enemies [[spoiler:[[UnexpectedGameplayChange in JRPG battles]]]], is called "[[LevelGrinding The Grindiest Timeline]]".
** A chicken captive in the "El Corazón" prison has [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption a poster]] of [[Creator/RitaHayworth Rita Henworth]] in its cell.
** A girl named Daniela is constantly calling out "[[Podcast/MyBrotherMyBrotherAndMe Camarón! Cielo! AHORA!]]" ("Shrimp! Heaven! NOW!") to the frustration of her father.
** The house in Isla Bonita that leads you to the Git Gud Treetops has two {{paintings}} in the World of the Dead: Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", and the self-portrait of Creator/FridaKahlo (the latter, being a closeup, crops out the hummingbird seen in the original painting; the World of the Living version is a painting of a hummingbird).
** Speaking of paintings another house in Villachula has World of the Living paintings of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps Napoleon riding a giant chicken]] and, once again, the chicken version of the Three Wolves Howling At The Moon t-shirt.
** Another house has a World of the Dead painting of a [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Marowak]].
** Yet another house has the Tall Tall Mountain painting from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Another portrait, this time of a [[VideoGame/MediEvil suspiciously familiar jawless skeleton]], can also be found in the world of the Dead.
** ''Another'' house in Villachula, the one that leads to the "service-based" timeline, has both Living and Dead versions of a portrait of [[Film/{{Audition}} a long-haired woman wearing rubber gloves and holding scissors]].
** Still in Villachula a large mansion has a corridor containing statues based on Tostada's design from the previous game, and some portraits including a luchador with [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Reaper]]'s mask and the so-called Rainbow Wizard from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''.
** Wrapping up Villachula, the bottom level of the World of the Dead has a building named "[[Series/StrangerThings Strange Things Odditorium]]" with the appropriate neon red billboard.
** A building in Isla Bonita has a billboard for [[Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds Mystery Luchador's Wrestleground]]. Its World of the Dead counterpart is for [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Fightnight]] [[MorePopularSpinoff Lucha Royale]] instead. Another billboard advertises a mexican counterpart of ''VideoGame/FrogFractions''.
** The Mariachi Club in Villachula has a billboard of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusheen Pusheen the Cat]] sitting in a teacup. Just beneath it, the "Generic Store" becomes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble Bones & Noble]]" in the World of the Dead.
** And speaking of cats, the El Corazón prison has grafitti of everyone's favorite glutton, [[VideoGame/NekoAtsume Tubbs]], eating a huge bowl of guacamole.
** While we're on the subject of El Corazón and grafitti, the Olmec Head at the gates rests beside a wall painting of skeletal versions of the characters of ''VideoGame/LoversInADangerousSpacetime'', and nearby is a painting of a winged strawberry straight out of ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}''.
** When wearing the El Portero costume, the body of your chicken form turns into a soccer ball. When it rolls ahead, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 it becomes a tilted, spinning oval with a blue trail]].
** The music for the Temple of the Chicken Illuminati starts with a few bars from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''; Pollo Challenge dungeons have off-key versions of the [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Deep Norfair theme]].
** Like in the first game, towns display a plethora of background posters for upcoming lucha matches and product advertisements:
*** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 "El Hombre" vs "Esqueleto"]] ("El Hombre" being a deliberately jokey BlindIdiotTranslation of "He" and "Man" that was a memetic joke in Mexico for a brief while in the 80s.)
*** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Evento especial, "El Pantera"!]]
*** [[VideoGame/{{Severed}} The mysterious Sasha]]. ''Severed'' is also referenced by the trophies awarded upon each of Uay Pek's defeats.
*** [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY El Halcón Luchador]].
*** A poster with "Papá" and "Chico" ([[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Dad and Boy]]), tag-team duo.
*** "Mito v Mito: [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Serpiente contra Ocelot]]".
*** [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries El Capitán]] (masked, natch) vs [[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Reptil]].
*** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis El Némesis]] vs [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 Pirámide Roja]]. The World of the Dead version of this poster shows [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight a horned skeleton wielding a shovel]] fighting [[VideoGame/HollowKnight an insect-like skelton wielding a nail]].
*** [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fight]], masked luchador.
*** A "missing" poster for UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat, [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a black-striped orange cat]] that appears "alive" in the World of the Living poster, and as a skeleton in the World of the Dead version.
*** Another tag-team, the Esqueleto Hermanos ([[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Skeleton Brothers]]).
*** A luchador in a blue, spiny outfit advertised with the tagline "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Gotta go fist!]]"
*** "Triple Amenaza: Las Gemas" ([[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Triple Threat: The Gems]].)"
*** [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} La Gran Cabeza de Copa!]]
*** [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimo VS Mega]].
** After you defeat The Crucible, you can find a hidden room which [[spoiler:leads to the message "[[https://www.mariowiki.com/Funky_(level) YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER]]"]] to congratulate you for [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld defeating the game's hardest platforming challenges]].
** And ''finally'', the prison has another instance of ''VideoGame/{{Fez}}'' script; once again, [[spoiler:[[Film/AChristmasStory your translating efforts are rewarded with a useless Ovaltine reference]]]], only, this time, it must have been written by [[spoiler:[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kenny Bania: "Why do they call it Ovaltine the mug is round the jar is round they should call it roundtine"]]]].
** The very first scene of the game is a remake of the original game's final boss, which doesn't seem like much of a reference until the characters start openly quoting [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight the infamous "miserable pile of secrets" exchange]].
** The Goat Hermit gets lost taking Juan to the Darkest Timeline, first they end up in [[VideoGame/{{Limbo}} Pueblimbo]], a gloomy world of mist and silhouettes (complete with a GiantSpider hanging off the wall above the exit, trying to spear you with one of its legs just as you escape), and then to [[VideoGame/RiverCityRansom Riviera City]], a BeatEmUp kind of town with advertisements for [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Triple Dragon]], and a man asking if you're a [[VideoGame/BadDudes bad enough hombre to rescue El Presidente]].
** Before the boss fight Salvador says [[VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy if you want to be the Luchador]] [[Wrestling/RicFlair you have to beat the Luchador]].
** The Three Relics, each of them looking like pixelated triangles, combine into an object that looks ''extraordinarily close'' to the 8-bit [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI Triforce]]. The negative space between the triangles forms the golden nacho that serves as the key to El Otromundo.
** The [[Franchise/StreetFighter Fight Streeter]] "bonus timeline", wherein you [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII fight and demolish a car at the dockyard]] (specifically, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle_in_Mexico Volkswagen Beetle]]). Completing both stages nets you a "Perfect!" trophy. Also, both times, [[VideoGame/FinalFight the owner of the car will lament his loss]].
*** The second Fight Streeter stage pits you against a lime-green "volchito" with a white roof. These are the colors of the infamous "eco-taxis" seen everywhere in Mexico City during the 80s and 90s, and memetic in their own right.
** When the deadly time rifts start appearing, a villager acknowledges their unique shape and wonders [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} if they would disappear if they could get a whole row of them lined up]]. Meanwhile, another villager laments not getting the chance to complete her [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Luchadex]], especially since they add 150 new luchadores to the roster every time.
** In the town of Isla Bonita, you meet "[[SdrawkcabName Inatawi Urot]]", who gives you free access to his coin collection if you can retrieve them all from [[VideoGame/PacMan his maze]] in under two minutes.
** [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink I Am Error]] returns, but this time he bars your way if you try to advance to an area you're not supposed to go to yet.
** [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot]] show up as a piñata in a piñata afficionado's house, and as golden idol in the Chicken Illuminati temple, respectively. The former also has a piñata of [[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Unikitty]].
** The [[ChestMonster Mimic]] in El Infierno [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI asks if someone has rang the Bell of Awakening and refers to you as a Chosen Undead]].
** A chicken named after [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Chris Houlihan]] shows up in a hidden underground room.
** The Temple of the Snake has not only a giant, one-hit kill snake, but also large and spike-filled open sections that you must traverse by [[VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} climbing onto smaller, but still huge, snakes that twist and turn around obstacles]]. It also has a lava-filled room that must be crossed by riding on [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld a platform made of blocks that twists and turns like a snake as it moves]].
** The room where you collect the Eagle Boost technique (which allows you to latch on to "grapple points" to sling yourself through the air) has statues of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast Link wielding the Hookshot]], the titular character of VideoGame/{{Flinthook}}, and [[VideoGame/BionicCommando Rad Spencer]].
** Upon completing your first Pollo Challenge dungeon, the chicken form being equivalent to [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} the Morph Ball required to slip into narrow tunnels]], you earn the "[[Website/{{Miiverse}} y cant guacamelee crawl]]" trophy.
** The "Luchonarrative Resonance" trophy, named after a certain critique of ''VideoGame/BioShock'', is awarded to you by "[[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Killing 1000 mean, nasty skeletons without families.]]"
** The "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Juan Punch Man]]" trophy comes from defeating an enemy in one hit using a special move.
** The "[[Franchise/TombRaider Temple Raider]]" trophy is earned by obtaining 100% of chests in a temple.
** The trophy obtained for defeating the final boss, "Nacho Libre", should be [[Film/NachoLibre self-explanatory]].
** One of the Goat Hermits has, among others, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Rafiki's staff]] and [[Manga/{{Dragonball}} Master Roshi's cane]] hanging from his wall.
** The Goat Hermit that teaches you Double Jump greets you by orating the first couple of paragraphs of [[https://www.poesi.as/op01041b.htm Octavio Paz's poem, "Viento".]]
** The Pico de Gallo bonus timeline, wherein you fight your enemies [[spoiler:[[UnexpectedGameplayChange in JRPG battles]]]], is called "[[LevelGrinding The Grindiest Timeline]]".
** A chicken captive in the "El Corazón" prison has [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption a poster]] of [[Creator/RitaHayworth Rita Henworth]] in its cell.
** A girl named Daniela is constantly calling out "[[Podcast/MyBrotherMyBrotherAndMe Camarón! Cielo! AHORA!]]" ("Shrimp! Heaven! NOW!") to the frustration of her father.
** The house in Isla Bonita that leads you to the Git Gud Treetops has two {{paintings}} in the World of the Dead: Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", and the self-portrait of Creator/FridaKahlo (the latter, being a closeup, crops out the hummingbird seen in the original painting; the World of the Living version is a painting of a hummingbird).
** Speaking of paintings another house in Villachula has World of the Living paintings of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps Napoleon riding a giant chicken]] and, once again, the chicken version of the Three Wolves Howling At The Moon t-shirt.
** Another house has a World of the Dead painting of a [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Marowak]].
** Yet another house has the Tall Tall Mountain painting from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Another portrait, this time of a [[VideoGame/MediEvil suspiciously familiar jawless skeleton]], can also be found in the world of the Dead.
** ''Another'' house in Villachula, the one that leads to the "service-based" timeline, has both Living and Dead versions of a portrait of [[Film/{{Audition}} a long-haired woman wearing rubber gloves and holding scissors]].
** Still in Villachula a large mansion has a corridor containing statues based on Tostada's design from the previous game, and some portraits including a luchador with [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Reaper]]'s mask and the so-called Rainbow Wizard from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''.
** Wrapping up Villachula, the bottom level of the World of the Dead has a building named "[[Series/StrangerThings Strange Things Odditorium]]" with the appropriate neon red billboard.
** A building in Isla Bonita has a billboard for [[Videogame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds Mystery Luchador's Wrestleground]]. Its World of the Dead counterpart is for [[VideoGame/{{Fortnite}} Fightnight]] [[MorePopularSpinoff Lucha Royale]] instead. Another billboard advertises a mexican counterpart of ''VideoGame/FrogFractions''.
** The Mariachi Club in Villachula has a billboard of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusheen Pusheen the Cat]] sitting in a teacup. Just beneath it, the "Generic Store" becomes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble Bones & Noble]]" in the World of the Dead.
** And speaking of cats, the El Corazón prison has grafitti of everyone's favorite glutton, [[VideoGame/NekoAtsume Tubbs]], eating a huge bowl of guacamole.
** While we're on the subject of El Corazón and grafitti, the Olmec Head at the gates rests beside a wall painting of skeletal versions of the characters of ''VideoGame/LoversInADangerousSpacetime'', and nearby is a painting of a winged strawberry straight out of ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}''.
** When wearing the El Portero costume, the body of your chicken form turns into a soccer ball. When it rolls ahead, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 it becomes a tilted, spinning oval with a blue trail]].
** The music for the Temple of the Chicken Illuminati starts with a few bars from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''; Pollo Challenge dungeons have off-key versions of the [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Deep Norfair theme]].
** Like in the first game, towns display a plethora of background posters for upcoming lucha matches and product advertisements:
*** [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 "El Hombre" vs "Esqueleto"]] ("El Hombre" being a deliberately jokey BlindIdiotTranslation of "He" and "Man" that was a memetic joke in Mexico for a brief while in the 80s.)
*** [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Evento especial, "El Pantera"!]]
*** [[VideoGame/{{Severed}} The mysterious Sasha]]. ''Severed'' is also referenced by the trophies awarded upon each of Uay Pek's defeats.
*** [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY El Halcón Luchador]].
*** A poster with "Papá" and "Chico" ([[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Dad and Boy]]), tag-team duo.
*** "Mito v Mito: [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Serpiente contra Ocelot]]".
*** [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries El Capitán]] (masked, natch) vs [[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Reptil]].
*** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis El Némesis]] vs [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 Pirámide Roja]]. The World of the Dead version of this poster shows [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight a horned skeleton wielding a shovel]] fighting [[VideoGame/HollowKnight an insect-like skelton wielding a nail]].
*** [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fight]], masked luchador.
*** A "missing" poster for UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat, [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a black-striped orange cat]] that appears "alive" in the World of the Living poster, and as a skeleton in the World of the Dead version.
*** Another tag-team, the Esqueleto Hermanos ([[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Skeleton Brothers]]).
*** A luchador in a blue, spiny outfit advertised with the tagline "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Gotta go fist!]]"
*** "Triple Amenaza: Las Gemas" ([[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Triple Threat: The Gems]].)"
*** [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} La Gran Cabeza de Copa!]]
*** [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimo VS Mega]].
** After you defeat The Crucible, you can find a hidden room which [[spoiler:leads to the message "[[https://www.mariowiki.com/Funky_(level) YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER]]"]] to congratulate you for [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld defeating the game's hardest platforming challenges]].
** And ''finally'', the prison has another instance of ''VideoGame/{{Fez}}'' script; once again, [[spoiler:[[Film/AChristmasStory your translating efforts are rewarded with a useless Ovaltine reference]]]], only, this time, it must have been written by [[spoiler:[[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kenny Bania: "Why do they call it Ovaltine the mug is round the jar is round they should call it roundtine"]]]].
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* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The playable version of Salvador has great stats all-around except for their stamina, which are some of the weakest in the game, which fits due to Salvador being ill throughout the story.
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* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The playable version of Salvador has great stats all-around except for their his stamina, which are some of the weakest in the game, which fits due to Salvador being ill throughout the story.
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** The house in Isla Bonita that leads you to the Git Gud Treetops has two paintings in the World of the Dead: "[[Creator/VincentVanGogh Starry Night]]", and the self-portrait of Frida Kahlo (the latter, being a closeup, crops out the hummingbird seen in the original painting; the World of the Living version is a painting of a hummingbird).
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** The house in Isla Bonita that leads you to the Git Gud Treetops has two paintings {{paintings}} in the World of the Dead: "[[Creator/VincentVanGogh Starry Night]]", Creator/VincentVanGogh's "Art/TheStarryNight", and the self-portrait of Frida Kahlo Creator/FridaKahlo (the latter, being a closeup, crops out the hummingbird seen in the original painting; the World of the Living version is a painting of a hummingbird).
