Shout Out / Hamster's Paradise

Many of the page titles and names or designs of the creatures in Hamster's Paradise are clear references to popular culture.

They include:

• The title itself is blatantly a reference to "Gangsta's Paradise".
• The writer's handle is one to Serina (tribbetheres are the guppy-derived analog mammals of that setting), and they openly admit to copying its premise of "humans brought small animals to a terraformed planet and then abandoned it"
• The scabber is a very rat-like small predator that lures prey with its worm-like tail.
• One of the earliest carnivorous hamsters, preying upon other hamster species, is the hammibal, given the scientific name Pardocricetus lecteri. The chapter in which it appears is even titled "Silence of the Hams".
  • The chapter titles themselves also have quite a number of references. The chapter covering the saberleaf savannah is titled Blades of Glory, the chapter discussing the Glaciocene mass extinction is titled Brace Yourselves, Winter is Coming, and the chapter introducing the carnivorous pig-like bumbaas is titled Bad Piggies.
    • One chapter of the calliducyon saga, "What Measure Is A Moouk: An Army Of Almost-People" is a reference to this very wiki. More specifically, to the trope What Measure Is a Mook?, in how the outlanders start using saddled baskervilles (or moouk, in their language) as disposable pawns against the other southhounds.
• The oingos and the boingos, hopping wallaby and kangaroo-like herbivores.
• The bumbaas, warthog-like pig analogues. One species is even in symbiotic relation with a meerkat analogue.
• The mountain ghoat and its main predator, the ghoatbuster.
• The black-and-white rabbaccoon in the Therocene known as the wakkoon.
• One herbivorous ungulate-analogue native to the saberleaf savannah is called the highland mockloud.
• One flightless fox-like ratbat on Borealia is named after Mozilla Firefox.
• The narwhal-like jousting bayver.
• The primate-like lemunkies, likely a reference to the internet meme "Le Monke". One species is known as the moglin.
• An aardvark-like giraard that uses its head to ram down the fortresses of its termite prey is called the battering grond. The name "giraard" in general may be a reference to Gerard Butler, with the first species shown having the species name butleri.
  • Its ancestor, the armored giraard, is described in the lore in a manner that is very likely an Attack on Titan reference.
• One large, predatory shark-like crustacean is called the megaprawn. It also has an evolutionary descendant called the galvaprawn, a nod to the character being a reformat of Megatron. Similarly, the bat-like ratbats are named after another character from Transformers.
  • One species of tigerilla is known as the northern bantor, even resembling a cross between a tiger and an ape.
  • One of the predatory scabbers of Isla Centralis is called the houndwave and in reference to the character it is often followed by the black cat-like ratvage and the airborne razerbeak as well as having the scientific name Rattocyon superius as a nod to Soundwave's catchphrase.
• A group of quasi-reptilian hamster descendants are known as molrocks.
• A bear-like carnoham that is a sterile hybrid of two separate carnoham species is known as the dreadmaus.
• There's also the common striped badgebear (Badja badja badja) and its larger island cousin the insular striped badgebear (Badja badja maslum).. This may also be an homage to Dylan "Sheather" Bajda, creator of the project's inspiration.
• A feces-eating species that feeds on undigested plant matter from the droppings of a panda-analogue is called the crass bandipoo.
  • There's also the carnivorous kangaroo/velociraptor-like podothere called the maniacal ripperoo.
• The trap-jawed grabora and its ancestor the shield-eared tremmer are references to certain underground goddamn monsters.
• A mimicking pig-like carnivorous bumbaa that preys upon the young of herbivorous bumbaas is called the plains sus, which doubles as a reference to the scientific name of the domestic pig and wild boar, Sus scrofa.
• The largest species of mouse-like furbil is known as the Giant Rattigan.
• One large predatory rat-like scabber on Isla Centralis is known as the minskmaus.
• The apex vulweirine, whose scientific name is even Megalogulocricetus loganii.
• The one-ton rabbit-like great bungus.
• The whistlards are rattiles that sing back-and-forth as a territorial display and have names like the beeping skdoo, the fiery krinklown and the monochrome zavodile.
  • The whistlards introduced in the early Temperocene are all named after Michael Jackson songs and have coloration that matches the color of Michael's suit of the song. Such as the red midnight triller, the bluey jean and the white smooth cannibal.
• One species of loupgaroo in the pebblefruit forests is known as the ohami.
• Another pebblefruit forest predator is the crimson bossum, Diavodidelphis reginus, which has bright pink fur with purple speckles.
• One species of buffant has the Latin name Elephasinus eeyorii.
• The plurodon is a reference to Moby-Dick due to them being huge, ferocious sperm whale-like predators with pale skin.
  • The harmster tribe that hunts the plurodon are called the Squeakwegs.
• One species of canid-like marewolf is ''Alchemocyon tuckeri'', which has a long limp mane.
• The genocidal, Social Darwinist harmsters, who practically raised We Have Reserves to an art form, and briefly attained an industrial civilization, bear more than a passing resemblence to the Skaven from Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
  • The Bruteriders, a faction of harmsters that use degraded members of their kind as hounds and mounts are similar to the Kroot from Warhammer 40K.
• The Hamazons are a tribe of harmsters where the females are far larger and more brutal, with a mention that mating is traumatic and lethal to the smaller males.
• The second sapient species on the planet is the bearded, staff-wielding rhinocheirid known as the splintster.
• One predator preying on the Pastoral Herdsters' flocks is the chernadog, even with the scientific name Chernocyon calvitiumontis, or "black dog from bald mountain."
• Pi-pipipupu, a one-eyed harmster warlord with a barb on her tail, is reminescent of Cluny the Scourge from Redwall.
  • The chapter she appears in is also titled "Conqueror's Bad Fur Day".
  • Said warlord also wears a hood that makes her resemble a demented ewok.
• One species of blubbat is called the imperial blubbat and has markings resembling a stormtrooper.
• One of the main grasses in the rainbow savannahs in the Temperocene is called the wild thornbriars.
• A cave-dwelling tentacled molrock with no eyes is known as the daggoth.
• One serpentine desert rattile is called the the grooved jimworm. It coexists with a hole-digging rattile called the sandy yelnat.
• The Temperocene descendant of the tigerillas is the ruffed rath, even bearing the scientific name Pongotigris apoplexus.
• The largest of the lemunkies is the gorilla-like chimpmunk known as the hamrambe.
• The silver soarer may be a reference to the Silver Surfer or Silver Swan^note Its genus name is Cygnomys, "swan mouse".
• A small bipedal deer-like grimhog is called the dwarf chopper.
• One of the basal wingles that can only glide instead of truly flying is called the purple spirer.
  • Another species is called the brightwing.
  • A small insectoid species is called the gallibee, either a reference to the galliwasp or to the Philippine fast food chain Jollibee.
• The Stankykongs and the Hamzilla from the original sketches are clearly based on King Kong and Godzilla, respectively.
• One of the descendants of the daggoths is called the biblarodon.
• One of the Art One-Shots depicts a large browsing walkaby wading through a marsh to feed on aquatic plants. Tribbetherium admitted that this is a reference to the Deinocheirus scene from Prehistoric Planet.
• One carnivorous group the badgebear family are known as the fasbears, with the most dangerous of them being the golden fasbear.
• The large canine-like greater baskerville and its descendents are an obvious reference to The Hound of the Baskervilles.
• Last Bloom and Boulder might be a nod to Primal (2019), a friendship between a Neanderthal-like being that uses a spear and a large intelligent animal who both lost their families to the same group of red theropod-esque creatures. The image depicting their Last Stand looks like it came straight from the show.
• One Middle Temperocene chapter focusing on the cephalopod-like skwoids is titled "Skwoid Game".
• The orangutan-like orange pongongo has the scientific name Zaius pongomus while the large, werewolfesque midnight howler is called the Noctipithecomys lugosi. Its name may also be a reference to the night howlers from Zootopia.
• The vulpins are sometimes plagued by a kind blood sucking moth known as the morbmoth, which posses red wings similar to the titular vampire's cloak.
• The spectacled pinguiphant resembles a cross between an elephant and a penguin, and even has the scientific name Noahrcus paulii.
• This post depicting a midnight howler attacking a large chimpmunk in a snowy environment is an obvious parody of this meme◊ from Man After Man.
  • On a similar note, this one-shot depicting several predatory scabbers hunting a rabbeast is a reference to a scene from After Man where a pair of predator rats attack a rabbuck.
• The pink eldriphant is a reference to the pink elephant scene from Dumbo. Its young are described as following their mothers in a "parade", a nod to the song in which the titular technicolor pachyderms appeared in: "Pink Elephants on Parade".
• The bobtailed cliffheath is a reference to Heathcliff, being an orange cat-like carnoham.
• The fourform fourhorn, an large ox-like creature with curled horns, has the scientific name Quadratus colossaeus.
• The northern snowhound is given the scientific name Phantasmocyon jonii and is an all-white wolf-like creature. It's also said to be less intelligent than most zingos and is said to "know nothing".
• Some of the creatures from the marine biome post have some notable references. Such as the circled seabear and the marked whaleberg. However one animal in particular, the dwarf marsh seaver, is actually a shout-out to one of Tribbetherium's earlier posts about a species of dwarf bottom-feeding baleen whale.
• One art one-shot references Gamera with the geartooth seashingle, a sea turtle-like ratile with blueish grey coloration, large tusks on its lower jaw, and is a doting, protective parent. It scientific name is Odontochelonimys daiei. The art piece also reference one of Gamera's foes with the silver reefshrark, who resembles zigra and even has the scientific name Argentocarcharocaris zigra.

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