Line #37 ShoutOut/Nintendo


1	[[index]]
2	* ''ShoutOut/AnimalCrossing''
3	* ''ShoutOut/EliteBeatAgents''
4	* ''ShoutOut/FireEmblem''
5	** ''ShoutOut/FireEmblemAwakening''
6	* ''ShoutOut/KidIcarusUprising''
7	* ''ShoutOut/{{Pokemon}}''
8	** ''ShoutOut/PokemonXAndY''
9	* ''ShoutOut/SuperMarioBros''
10	** ''ShoutOut/PaperMario''
11	* ''ShoutOut/SuperSmashBros''
12	* ''ShoutOut/WarioWare''
13	[[/index]]
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15	!!Other Games:
16	* The ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' game ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'' introduced tag powers, a few of which were named after songs and musicians. For instance, Jake and Rachel get "[[Music/{{REM}} Orange Crush]]" for theirs, Olaf and Grit get "Music/SnowPatrol", while Lash and Hawke get the decidedly cheeky "[[Music/BillyIdol Rebel Yell]]".
17	* ''Franchise/AnimalCrossing'' is chock full of references to other Nintendo games.
18	** The one for the [=GameCube=] (i.e. the first one released outside of Japan) had a ''Pokémon Pikachu'' villagers would sometimes request from other villagers, as well as items like the previously mentioned Arwing, a [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Master Sword]], and a hidden set of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''-themed furniture. Not to mention that the game borrowed some sound effects from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', like the familiar coin sound representing Bells, the game's currency. The same sound would also play when hitting rocks with money hidden in them, which would change to the 1-Up sound effect as the amount of money increased.
19	** ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld Wild World]]'' for the DS added even more, like a Triforce and more hidden items, like a [[VideoGame/FZero Blue Falcon]], VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}, and a Franchise/{{Metroid}}. Both games also have a blue bench with the Nintendo logo, with it being hidden in the original and being an ordinary item at Tom Nook's store in Wild World.
20	** In a non-Nintendo-related example, a blue eagle townsperson named Pierce has the VerbalTic [[Series/{{MASH}} "hawkeye"]].
21	** All three iterations have a frog villager named Jeremiah, a reference to the Three Dog Night song "Joy to the World".
22	** Lots of characters make specific references to ''Zelda'', for some reason. "Perky" type girls in ''Wild World'' will sometimes tell you how they traveled to a nameless "far-off land" where they met "a [[{{Bishonen}} cute boy]] with green clothes and a Magic Boomerang". In the original, the sailor Gulliver talks about one of his various girlfriends, who allegedly lives in Hyrule. Hyrulian Loach, anyone?
23	** In ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingCityFolk City Folk]]'', you can get Midna's Mask and wear it.
24	* A traditional ShoutOut in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series is Kirby donning [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link's cap]] when copying the Sword ability, even in [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa the anime]]. In addition, his [[KillerYoyo yo-yo]] ability could be a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}''. Not to mention that one item you can find in Great Cave Offensive is a Mr. Saturn. Also, the Great Cave Offensive is chockfull of shout outs, including: [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros A Mario coin and green shell]], [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} a Screwball]], [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} a glass slipper]], [[VideoGame/MarioAndWario a bucket with an M (or W) on it]], [[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon's helmet]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the Master Sword, a shield and the triforce]], and [[Franchise/DonkeyKong Kong's Barrel]]. And his "Fighter" form wears a [[Franchise/StreetFighter red headband]]. Especially true in ''Super Star'', where he actually can do a {{Shoryuken}} and in ''Squeak Squad'' and ''Triple Deluxe'', where he can pull off a Hadouken. (In ''Triple Deluxe'', this can even be done by performing the classic quarter-circle-forward + B motion.)
25	* In ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'', one of the level objectives is to defeat a bunch of ''Metroids''[[note]]with Kirby's ice attack, naturally[[/note]]. Samus herself rewards you with a heart star for doing so. She even takes off her helmet for '[[HundredPercentCompletion 100% completion]]'.
26	* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'':
27	** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'':
28	*** Cat-o'-9-Tails is possibly one: it looks similar to a hedgehog (especially since its tails are easy to mistake for spines unless you really look at it), and has a color palette suspiciously like ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog's''.
29	*** On the "Cranky's Video Game Heroes" screen, you can see that [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario, Yoshi]], and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] ranked in respectively 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. In the original SNES version, you can also notice Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog's shoes and VideoGame/EarthwormJim's gun, laying next to [[TakeThat a trash can labeled as "No Hopers."]]
30	** Occasionally in the SNES version of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'', you can enter Wrinkly's Save Cave and find Wrinkly Kong playing a Platform/Nintendo64. The music in the background when this happens is an arrangement of the music that plays inside Peach's castle in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.
31	** An internal Rareware shout-out: in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', the Ghost Books found in Creepy Castle are all but identical in appearance to Cheato from the ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' series (in fact, this is their Japanese name).
32	** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'', Samus's gunship can be seen parked on a trunk in the background of Busted Bayou as a nod to ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' series. Both games were developed by Creator/RetroStudios.
33	* ''Mario'' characters are drawn on the walls on Wuhu Island in ''VideoGame/WiiFit Plus''. In the Jogging Plus game you have to remember which one you passed. The ocean liner docked off Wuhu Island? As revealed in ''VideoGame/WiiSportsResort'', it's called the Queen Peach. And in ''Sports Resort'''s Island Flyover game, there's the sound of someone in the Hill Village playing ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' on the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]].
34	* The icon for the Links club in the portable ''Mario Golf'' games is a recolored Triforce. This doubles as a StealthPun.
35	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
36	** One rather bizarre reference occurred in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames''. In the linked game, Zelda gets kidnapped and you have to save her...by going through a side-scrolling area with lots of ladders and rolling fireballs. In other words, Link has to play ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''.
37	** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', there are the characters [[Film/ThelmaAndLouise Thelma]] the bartender, and her cat [[Film/ThelmaAndLouise Louise]]. Granted, her in-game name is ''Telma'', but it's because Japanese doesn't really have a "th" sound. The name ''should'' be "Thelma", it was just mistranslated.
38	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime's'' Forest Temple has the 4 Poe sisters who are named [[Literature/LittleWomen Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.]]
39	** Also in ''Ocarina of Time'', the Kokiri race has various allusions to ''Literature/PeterPan'', such as them being accompanied by fairies, their child-like image and playfulness, and the fact that they can't grow up. Also, Miyamoto has stated that Navi has a crush on Link and is jealous of Zelda, an allusion of Tinkerbell being in love with the eponymous main character and being jealous of Wendy (coincidentially, this kind of relationship was also in the Western animated series).
40	** One nearly nobody outside of Japan would know: ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' feature two elderly witches named Koume and Kotake. The extremely influential Japanese mystery novel ''The Village of Eight Graves'' also features twins named Koume and Kotake. Both sets are identical CreepyTwins who are treated like a single character and are responsible for raising a man who isn't their birth child, who they continue to support even after he grows into an evil tyrant.
41	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'', according to Eiji Aonuma, was inspired by Japanese children story ''The Tracks Go On'', a tale he once read to his son.
42	** One of the items Link gets to use in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' is a whip. Upon closer examination, it has a [[SnakeWhip snake motif]], rather like the rope snake of VideoGame/Mother3.
43	** ''Zelda'' games often contain numerous shoutouts to each other, for example, in ''Majora's Mask'', the various members of the Indigo-Gos are playing musical themes from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' in their rooms.
44	** The Bremen Mask in ''Majora's Mask'' is named after a Grimm's Fairy Tale titled Town Musicians of Bremen, in which a group of animals (a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster) decide to leave their masters and become traveling musicians. In the game, the mask can be used to make chicken, dogs, and [[spoiler:the Ikana royal guard]] march behind you.
45	** It's confirmed by the longtime developers of the ''Zelda'' series that the trading sequences present in several games are inspired by ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Millionaire Straw Millionaire]]'', a Japanese Buddhist folk tale.
46	** A shield you can use in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is the [[Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye Shield of the Mind's Eye]].
47	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'':
48	** The Ancient Cistern has a design and concept that has been closely compared to the events of the Japanese story ''The Spider's Thread''.
49	** Koji Kitagawa, one of the developers of ''Skyward Sword'', said in an Iwata Asks interview that the Ancient Robots were modeled after the Dogu clay figurines, a commonplace treasure from the Jomon period of Japan.
50	** The Loftwings were modeled after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wufAdZoxpcg shoebill birds]]. Also, Link's Loftwing shares the colors of the [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Dyna Blade]].
51	** The way that Link swings his sword around the eye in Skyview Temple to make it dizzy is similar to how you defeat Mr. I in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.
52	** In the lead up to the fight with Tentalus, Link has to get to the top of the ship, up a series of ramps, with barrels coming down the other way. It's a nice callback to Nintendo's [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong early history]].
53	** When Link initially meets Thunder Dragon, he thinks his name is boring and due to hanging out with robots too long, half-jokingly wants to call him [[RobotNames LD-Link-16.]] Fittingly enough, if you count [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle Of Ages and Oracle Of Seasons]] as two seperate games, this Link is indeed the 16th.
54	** Skipper's room contains a portrait which [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VifGciaWE recreates an iconic scene from]] Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/{{Titanic\|1997}}''.
55	* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga''
56	** When the brothers are asked to escort Princess Peach through Teehee Valley, she asks, "Won't you take me to...Little Fungitown?", a reference to the 1980 song "Funkytown" by Lipps, Inc.
57	** In Yoshi Theater, you can see a poster with Kirby on it that says, "Kirby Story". Other posters include ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWare''.
58	** Starbeans Cafe is a play on Starbucks, obviously. Olimar (who dubs Mario "Marlio") and his VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}, [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]], Link, Wario (who calls himself a guest star), [[Franchise/StarFox Fox, Peppy and Slippy]], and even an ''VideoGame/{{Excite}}bike'' racer were planned to appear and give the Mario Bros. useful items. The items were still used in-game, but the names were changed. Although the VideoGameRemake didn't revive this concept, it does make the Great Force/Triforce connection even more explicit--it was redesigned slightly to more closely resemble the Triforce's appearance from ''Ocarina of Time'' on, and it even plays the series' "item get" fanfare when you obtain it.
59	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'':
60	** The game features an in-game storybook with an art style noticeably similar to the illustrations from ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''. Many people had commented on how ''Super Mario Galaxy'' was oddly reminiscent of the book before its release.
61	** There's also a small mechanical planetoid in the Buoy Base Galaxy that looks like a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokéball]]. Also, at some point during the Space Junk Galaxy, Mario lands on [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Olimar's ship]].
62	* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'':
63	** The Warp Whistle item plays the same musical notes as the Recorder in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'', and it also summons a tornado that carries the player character elsewhere the same as the Recorder does. A redone version of the tune can be heard on the title screen of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
64	** In the English version only, at the end of the game, Princess Peach says, "Thank you. But our Princess is in another castle!...Just kidding! Ha ha ha! Bye bye." This refers to "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''.
65	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': When you pass by the milk bar in Western Land, you have the option of inviting the other players to a hootenanny (with the potential of setting them back from getting a star before you can). If you refuse, the Wiggler running the bar will say "[[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies Y'all come back now, y'hear?]]"
66	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'': The minigame Aces High is named after a song by Music/IronMaiden.
67	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': The minigame Blame It On The Crane is named after the Milli Vanilli song "Blame It On The Rain".
68	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty8'' has a ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' reference. During Bowser's Warped Orbit, if a player lands on a [[InterfaceScrew Reversal Space]], Bowser mentions doing "the crime warp". On the same board, if the item shop is having a sale they mention that "[[Music/{{ACDC}} We're selling dirty deeds. Dirt cheap!]]"
69	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'': One minigame is titled "Fruit of the Doom", which is a reference to the American clothing company Fruit of the Loom.
70	* ''VideoGame/MarioPartyStarRush'': One of the Coin Chaos minigames is called Steal Diver, and it has the players control a submarine to collect coins. The name is a reference to the ''VideoGame/SteelDiver'' series of 3DS games, which also involved submarines.
71	* ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'':
72	** The game has a shout out towards a lives count glitch that appeared in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. If your lives exceed 999, your lives count reads as a crown and a random symbol. There's also a BrutalBonusLevel in Special World 8, which is dubbed World 8-Crown.
73	** In a level set inside a pyramid, one of the side rooms is empty apart from a torch in each corner. If you light all of these with Fire Mario, the 'Puzzle Solved' jingle from ''Zelda'' plays and a collectable appears.
74	* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' has a few of these:
75	** The opening scene has nods to ''Film/{{Poltergeist\|1982}}'' and ''Film/{{Tron}}''.
76	** Luigi playing with the teleporters brings to mind the TV advertisement for ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
77	** The final story mission shares its name with a Music/DreamTheater song.
78	** One of the nicknames a player can get when you don't help out much in [=ScareScraper=] Mode is [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "Mostly Harmless"]].
79	* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', there's the Bullet Bill's underwater counterpart, Torpedo [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Ted]].
80	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'':
81	** The game has the Pipe Vault area, a one-block-wide underground area reminiscent of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''' underground stages, complete with their music and pipes containing Piranha Plants. And then there's the curtained alcove in Booster Tower, where Mario will transform into his eight-bit self for a few seconds. In addition, there are a couple of easy-to-miss cameos made by [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] and [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]].
82	** The game has references to several ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' elements, considering Squaresoft helped make the game. Culex, a {{Superboss}}, has a battle theme, victory theme, and prelude all in the style of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
83	** The game has a less obvious shout-out to ''Final Fantasy'' in the form of one late-game boss; the Czar Dragon and its undead counterpart Zombone. They take their names from two enemies from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', although the former was DummiedOut.
84	** Culex also has a fire crystal, a water crystal, an earth crystal, and a wind crystal, recalling the crystals from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.
85	** [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Go, go, Axem Rangers]]. And in Japan, it's [[Franchise/SuperSentai Kajio Sentai Onoranger]].
86	** It is traditional in ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' for one area in each game to allow Mario to turn into his eight-bit version. His companions go eight-bit as well.
87	** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' features a character named Fred in Fahr Outpost. When he is Tattled, Goombella remarks that [[WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog he's not very freaky for a Fred.]]
88	** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' takes it a step further- whenever a character grabs a [[InvincibilityPowerup star]], they turn into a giant 8-bit version of themselves that rampages across the screen. Inversely, another powerup gives you a small team of 8-bit versions of yourself that surround you and help defeat enemies, though they rarely last long. Also, the Underchomp battle plays like a ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' battle (but may also be a reference to ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}''), the Pits of 100 Trials resemble a ''Game & Watch'' display, and the Mansion Patrol minigame is a fairly obvious reference to ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. And [[BodyHorror Mimi]] and her {{Transformation Sequence}}s appear to be shout-outs to both ''Film/TheExorcist'' and ''Film/TheThing1982''.
89	** The dojo from ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' contains opponents named [[Creator/JackieChan Chan]] and [[Creator/BruceLee Lee]].
90	** The first boss(es) of ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' are [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles four Koopas with different colored bandannas who speak with a surfer dude-like vocabulary]].
91	* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' has multiple references to the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series of films. Most obviously, the recurring boss Ridley, who shares a name with Creator/RidleyScott, director of the original ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and the Metroid egg seen at the end of ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' and the start of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' uncannily resembles a facehugger egg sac.
92	* The ''Franchise/StarFox'' series seems to have a number of reciprocal Shout Outs in relation to ''VideoGame/FZero''. For starters, Fox [=McCloud=] and Falco Lombardi may have ''originally'' been Shout Outs, being an anthropomorphic ''Golden Fox'' and ''Blue Falcon'' respectively. Then, James [=McCloud=] (outfit and all, but in non-anthropomorphic human form) became a character in the ''F-Zero'' series starting with ''F-Zero X''. Then ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand'' references ''F-Zero'' yet again, [[spoiler:where one of its nine possible MultipleEndings has Fox and Falco becoming racers in a high-speed racing league called G-Zero.]]
93	** Even ''Anime/FZeroGPLegend'' has O'Donnell being referenced as James's deceased friend.
94	** General Pepper not only owes his name, but also his very outfit, to the landmark album by Music/TheBeatles; Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
95	*** {{Lampshaded}} in the [[http://arwinglanding.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=41 Nintendo Power comic]].
96	*** Captain Shears, a character from "Farewell, Beloved Falco", is similar in both physical appearance and attire to Pepper and appears to have a name derived from "Billy Shears", the fictitious leader of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
97	** Falco is wearing [[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon's boots]] in one of the ''Command'' endings.
98	** In ''Farewell, Beloved Falco'', one of the Hot Rodders (Falco and Katt's old gang) is [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 Mouser]] -- Mouser's name is even on the back of his jacket.
99	** In ''Assault'', there are classic Namco arcade references and cameos littered in the game, one being the yellow S flag from Rally X; after all, Namco did develop this game.
100	** In ''VideoGame/StarFox64'', shortly after you enter Meteo's WarpZone, you'll be treated to several waves of bee/butterfly-like enemies that fly in formations very reminiscent of ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}''. You get bonuses if you can nail them all.
101	** ''Star Fox 64'' has Katina, which is the climax scene from ''Film/IndependenceDay'', complete with Bill Gray, a nod to Gen. William Grey, Robert Loggia's character in the movie.
102	** Fox's [[OutrunTheFireball escape from Andross' lair]] is reminiscent of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
103	** The boss of sector X says "where is the creator?", and in its death throes, says "I must be complete." A reference to V'ger from ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''.
104	* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'':
105	** The character Mr. Sandman is a tribute to some RealLife boxers: Joe Frazier in the arcade, NES and SNES games, Muhammad Ali in the Wii version, and Mike Tyson in the Wii game as well, but in Title Defense mode.
106	** During an intermission after a round in the fight against an OptionalBoss of the Wii game, [[spoiler:Donkey Kong]], Doc Louis jokingly tells Mac that he (Louis) can call his plumber if he (Mac) is having problems. This is a reference to Mario, who was a plumber and used to antagonize with [[spoiler:Donkey Kong]] in the past.
107	* ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt'' has a level called "Wreck Train"--the music of this level has a shout to ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
108	* 9-Volt and 18-Volt's stages in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series have many references to old Creator/{{Nintendo}} games, including some obscure ones like ''Mario Clash'' for the Platform/VirtualBoy.
109	* ''VideoGame/WiiSportsResort'' features [[ThatOneBoss Swordplay Champion Matt]]. Between his Creator/SamuelLJackson-esque appearance and the fact he wields a [[PurpleIsPowerful violet sword]] when they usually come in red or blue, the [[Franchise/StarWars Mace Windu]] parallel is pretty obvious.
110	* ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'' has World 14, which is an homage to ''Franchise/SilentHill''. It's shrouded in a thick fog and one NPC even mirrors Harry's famous line "Have you seen a little girl..?" in reference to her own missing daughter.
111	* ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'':
112	** Both promotional material and an EasterEgg hidden in one of the Hero Mode stages compare the Inklings and Octarians to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bloopers]] and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Octoroks]], respectively. A Blooper also appears on a poster in the Urchin Underpass stage, and an 8-bit Octorok poster appears near a chain fence. A more obscure Mario enemy, the Gunion octopus from ''Super Mario Land'', can be spotted in certain areas as well.
113	** The N-ZAP 85 and 89 weapons are [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES Zappers]]; they're colored grey and orange, respectively, referencing how the Zapper was recolored orange in 1989 as an effort to make it less realistic. Sheldon mentions that the latter weapon was changed to orange for "legal reasons".
114	** One of the Sunken Scrolls depicts two Octarians in the style of [[Literature/TheBible Adam and Eve]], said to be "''Literature/ParadiseLost'' by [[Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti Octolangelo]]".
115	** Jelonzo's mangled grammar bears a striking resemblance to [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Fawful's]].
116	** The Super Sea Snails bear a heavy resemblance to Super Mushrooms, particularly in the face.
117	* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'':
118	** The Booyah Bomb is a clear reference to the [[Anime/DragonBallZ Spirit Bomb]], in both visual performance and actual function.
119	** In one of the Octo Expansion stages, which revolves around switches that temporarily stop time, Pearl at one point quips "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Time, I command you to stop!]]"
120	** All of the Shifty Station layout names are puns of popular book series titles ("[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Windmill House on the Pearlie]]", "[[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Goosponge]]", "[[Literature/TheHungerGames The Bunker Games]]", etc.).
121	** Pearl can comment that Humpback Pump Track is "straight up sloppy!", causing Marina to react "[[Film/MeanGirls Are you STILL trying to make 'sloppy' happen? It's not gonna happen.]]"

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