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5	* AscendedFanon: Fans were clamoring for playable Octolings, with many believing that new single-player campaign with them as the protagonists would be a great way into introduce them. The developers would have a friendly Octoling in the form of Off the Hook's Marina at launch, and later deliver on the race as playable characters with the ''Octo Expansion'' DLC campaign.
6	* {{Defictionalization}}:
7	** Off the Hook technically became this, as Rina Itou and Alice (the voice actresses for Pearl and Marina) ended up hitting it off quite well after working on the game, and the two of them would continue to do [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5nBGpYoh8 their own music collaborations]] with Itou's band [=Lighter190E=].
8	** The Milky Eminence gear set was based on a previously-fictional team uniform used by Emperor's gang in the second ''[=CoroCoro=]'' manga.
9	* DemandOverload:
10	** When the game went live on the Nintendo Switch eShop in North America, users were unable to access it, repeatedly receiving error codes.
11	** Once Japan got word that the Milky Eminence outfit could only be obtained through download codes in ''[=CoroCoro=] Comic'', magazines went flying off the shelves.
12	** While the eShop itself survived thanks to preorders, the release of the ''Octo Expansion'' DLC brought Nintendo's distribution servers to their knees, resulting in many people taking ''hours'' to download the content, even on very fast connections.
13	* HeAlsoDid: One of the designers for the base game and ''Octo Expansion'' was Jordan Amaro, who was a planner for both ''VideoGame/MetalGearsolidVThePhantomPain'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard''.
14	* KidsMealToy: In 2021, Burger King sold toys based on ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Splatoon 2'', ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', and the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' remake. The ''Splatoon 2'' toy was a launcher with a figure of an Inkling.
15	* KillerApp: Just like its [[VideoGame/Splatoon1 Wii U predecessor]], ''Splatoon 2'' quickly became this in Japan, [[https://gonintendo.com/stories/286105-japan-splatoon-2-sells-over-670k-copies-in-its-first-3-days selling over a third of the first game's lifetime sales]] during its first weekend. Just a month after release, the game managed to sell [[http://www.japanesenintendo.com/post/164536708654 over a million units in Japan alone]]. It would [[https://nintendosoup.com/splatoon-2-surpasses-splatoon-lifetime-sales-japan-nintendo-games-continues-dominate-charts/ surpass sales of the original game]] by year's end, and just a week later, [[https://www.resetera.com/threads/splatoon-2-is-the-first-console-game-to-sell-over-2m-in-japan-in-8-years.15589/ become the first console game to sell 2 million units in Japan]] ''in eight years.'' It would take until March 2019 for ''Splatoon 2'' to be surpassed as the best-selling Switch game in the region (by ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'') and leave the weekly Top 10 sales charts, and still remains one of the Top 10 best-selling games for the system globally.
16	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: In Japan, a special edition of Splatoon 2 with the Octo Expansion built right in was released on '''Octo'''ber '''8'''.
17	* MilestoneCelebration:
18	** The "Squid vs. Octopus" Splatfest took place on July 21, 2018, the anniversary of the game's international release date. It qualifies both in-universe as well, where it's referred to as the first anniversary of Pearl and Marina hosting the Inkopolis News program.
19	** The game's final ([[SeriesFauxnale storyline, non-bonus]]) Splatfest, "Chaos vs. Order", took place from July 18 to July 21, 2019, the weekend of the game's second anniversary.
20	* NoExportForYou: Strangely enough, this applies not to the game itself but to certain lines of equipment: the Milky Eminence gear (based on the original gear worn by Emperor and his crew in the ''Splatoon'' [[Manga/{{Splatoon}} manga]]) the Spy gear, (based on suits and ties, like stereotypical spies), and the Mecha gear (a cyborg look designed by a fan of the franchise), which were only available through a limited number of download codes in [=CoroCoro Comics=] magazines--which have never been, and likely never will be, available outside of Japan. Obnoxiously, even if you do run into a Japanese player wearing a piece from these sets in the Square, Murch won't let you order them. Even more obnoxiously, the manga is ''also'' available internationally, so remedying this would theoretically be easy as pie, but neither Nintendo nor Viz (who localizes the manga) have expressed any interest in doing so.
21	* PropRecycling: The assets used for holiday themed Splatfests after Splatoween have been reused. More subtle with Frosty Fest, which takes the ectoplasm used for Splatoween and colors it white to represent snow, but more obvious with Spring Fest, which just makes the same prop grass green. The latter also has Easter egg recolored versions of Splatoween's skeletal spider crabs decorating stages.
22	* RefittedForSequel: Or DLC. Many of the stage ideas and concepts used in ''Octo Expansion'' were initially planned for the base game's Hero Mode.
23	* SequelFirst: The original ''VideoGame/Splatoon1'' wasn't released in South Korea because the UsefulNotes/WiiU wasn't, but the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and this game were.
24	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
25	** Had Team Callie won the final Splatfest back in [[VideoGame/Splatoon1 the first game]], Marie would have been the one to go missing instead.
26	** At one point, Off the Hook was going to be an Octoling duo. Even after it was decided to make them mixed-race, Pearl was to be the same height as Marina and similarly wear a midriff-bearing outfit.
27	** The Testfire versions of "Inkoming!", "Rip Entry", "Undertow", "Now or Never" (Wet Floor) and "Turf Master" were slightly different from the final release.
28	** Octolings were briefly planned to be available as playable characters at launch in the base game, but the developers decided against it, feeling that it wouldn't make sense to do so without having some in-universe justification for why the two enemy races were suddenly hanging out with each other. ''Octo Expansion'' was developed as a result.
29	** Also concerning Octolings, the original [[https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/File:OctolingNoVisor.png art]] and [[https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/File:OctolingPlayable.png model]] for the Octolings back in ''Splatoon 1'' featured ''purple'' eye lining, as opposed to the black domino-mask-esque markings of the Inklings; you don't get to see this in the game as published, but the art did show it off. The eye lining also markedly tapered away around their eyelids, eventually vanishing almost entirely. The eye lining also has a very notable "point" which angles toward the cheeks on each eye. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/octoling_agent8.png The final playable Octolings]] in ''OE'', however, had some changes: while the general concept of the eye lining was kept, the color was shifted over to black in order to maintain better visual continuity with the Inkling player characters, and while the ''basic'' idea of the tapering at the eyelids was retained, the eye lining is still very visible on the upper parts of their eyes. The "point" was also retained, but was made significantly wider and more visually distinct, and more importantly, it became a visual feature exclusive to the ''girls''; the octo-boys simply have thicker lining around their lower eyes.
30	** In the early build of ''Octo Expansion'' seen in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeuEcVZx0pc Direct reveal]], the subway lines were delineated by number rather than letter, with CQ welcoming Eight to "the 3 line" in what would be the C Line in the release version.
31	** Similar to the first game, dataminers regularly uncovered the [[https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Splatfest/Quotes/Splatoon_2 alternate Off the Hook dialogue]] that would have been used if the other team had won for every American/European Splatfest from "Mikey vs. Donnie" onwards, and every Japanese Splatfest from "Hello Kitty vs. My Melody" onwards.
32	** The ''[=HaikaraWalker=]'' artbook for this game reveals a number of unused concepts:
33	*** A number of drawings depict Agent 3 chilling out on the subway, suggesting that their debut in this DLC would be before their BigDamnHeroes moment.
34	*** One of the concept art drawings depicts an OutsideRide LocomotiveLevel on the subway train itself.
35	*** There were original drafts of Callie's plotline, including her being NotBrainwashed and morosely living among the Octarians, with her getting her own mech and the final boss fight including backup dancers and a different Octobot King mech.

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