Being a Fanfiction of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a series famous for its Musical Theme Naming, Iron Touch obviously has a lot of music references and Shout Outs. Most of the music references are compiled here
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Only characters and references original to Iron Touch will be mentioned here.
Character and Stand names:
- Michelle Polnareff and her Stand, Iron Maiden.
- Sara Smile and her Stand, Out of Touch.
- Cab Cavazo and his Stand, Quiet Riot.
- Quiet Riot's Stand cry is "HI-DEDEDEDE!" This is another reference to Cab Calloway, who would often use the phrase "Hi De Ho" as Scat in his songs.
- Rumor Fleetwood and his Stand, The Chain.
- Cynatra and her Stand, Bad Sneakers.
- Adam and his Stand, Heart-Shaped Box.
- Sting and his Stand, Fall Out Boy.
- Depeche Mode and his sort of Stand, Policy of Truth.
- Fergie and her Stand, Shatter Me.
- Boney M. and his Stand, Bad to the Bone.
- Firework and his Stand, Puttin' on the Ritz.
- Cascada and her Stand, Moon River.
- Mr. Williams and his Stand, Screaming Jay.
- Lucky and her Stand, Random Access Memories
- Polnareff's (deceased) wife and Michelle's mother is named Marylou, after Goodbye Marylou, a Michel Polnareff song.
- Michelle's ex-boyfriend is named Luca. This is notably a different music reference than the one used for a similarly named character in part 5.
- Michelle's old pet dog is named Pop.
- The mayor of Mons is named Dixie.
- Rumor's Hamon mentor is named Tangerine. Fitting, considering he's a Zeppeli.
- Michelle gets her phony passport from Lovestrong.
- The pilot that flies the group to New York is named Simpson, while his brother is named Ashford.
- Fergie has an uncle named Day-O.
- The three police officers in Chapter 27 are named Valensi, Moretti, and Casablancas.
- The entrance to Chicago IX is guarded by a giant spider monster named Meatloaf.
- Mr. Williams mentions a "resident brainwasher" named Brackish.
Other music references:
- Like the characters, most chapters are named after music references, usually borrowing from the music references of the characters (such as the Aces High and All Broken Down Inside arcs). However, there are some outliers with completely unique music references:
- Chapters 12 and 29 are taken from lyrics to Winds Of Change, a song by Scorpions.
- Chapter 17 is titled Let The Bodies Hit The Floor.
- Chapter 22 is titled Behind The Mask.
- Chapter 25 is titled The Highwayman.
- Michelle and the group all get breakfast at Café Bleu, aka Blue Cafe in Chapter 5.
- Depeche's art gallery is called Rest Aria.
- The group flies to America out of the Saxon airpark on a plane called Little Miss Magic.
- There's a hidden beach resort called Chicago IX, which can only be accessed by driving through a rundown Royce car wash.
Non-music references:
- In Chapter 1, Giorno briefly wishes that the arrow's theft was all some kind of twisted joke.
- Michelle mentions watching reruns of Baoh at the start of Chapter 3, continuing the trend of JJBA's anime adaptation using it on comic book covers.
- Right before his car gets stolen, Cab spots a yellow fiat parked right in front of him.
- Cab gently opens the door to check in on his dad. You know how this ends.
- Chapters 8 and 9 are titled The Emperor's New Group, an obvious play on The Emperor's New Groove. Interestingly, the Villain of the Week in said chapters is named after Sting, who provided songs for the movie.
- While being taught Hamon and Sendo under Tangerine, Rumor mentions that he "woke up every morning half expecting to wax Tangerine's car."
- Sara identifies the ZZR 250 as the same motorcycle that Uma Thurman rode in Kill Bill, then as the same motorcycle on the cover of Purple Rain (though she quickly adds that she's not too sure about that last one).
- Yuya mentions being a guest on America's Next Top Model.
- Chapter 30 is titled "Later That Night." While this could be a reference to a Frank Zappa song of the same name, this was not noted to be the case in either of the official playlists or the author's notes for the chapter. It is actually a reference to file names from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, due to what happens in the chapter and that the author has dabbled in FNAF content as well.
- Michelle watches Cab play Pokémon in the car in Chapter 31.note Cascada later compares Stand-offs to Pokémon battles.
- Midler's updated appearance, specifically her giant buck teeth, were based off of Bette Midler's character Winifred in Hocus Pocus. Her Little Black Dress was likely inspired by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, who Kakyoin mentions she sounds like in part 3. Tiffany Amphitheater is also likely named after the film.
- The author's notes for Chapter 33 confirm that Azura from Fire Emblem Fates was an inspiration for Moon River and Cascada's dancing.
- The scene where Hol Horse demonstrates how the Policy of Truth shard works by lying about the color of a pen is a reference to a similar scene from Liar Liar.
- Hol Horse adamantly claims that Dio "wasn't one of them sparkling vampires."
- As detailed in the author's notes, Chapter 37 was heavily based on the minigolf section from Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, after one of the author's friends "lost his mind" trying to get a low score.
