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Skullgirls has a ton of shout-outs as both Mike Z and Alex Ahad are fanboys of a lot of things.

For a full list of palette swap character references, see the Palette Swap section on the Trivia page.

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    Filia 
  • Filia's Hairball move is a shout-out to Felicia's Rolling Buckler, which may in itself be a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Phonetically, the name Filia sounds very similar to Millia, another hair-based fighter.
    • Not to mention some similarities to Zato-1/Eddie from the same game (and the character most connected to Millia).
  • She has palettes based on Hatsune Miku, Saki, Scanty, Rei Miyamoto, Zeruel, Madoka, Finn/Fiona, Ryuko Matoi, and even Millia herself.
  • The super in which Samson turns them into a flying cockroach is called Gregor Samson.
    • Filia also sometimes says "HENSHIIIIN!" when using the attack.
  • Her aerial heavy punch, Salon Treatment, involves tossing her hair forward in an array of sharp instruments like forks, knives and spikes. One of these sharp instruments is the Lance of Longinus.
  • Her Updo special and Fenrir Drive super, in which Samson turns into a giant hair maw, happens to be a shout out to one of the Dustloop forum members, who suggested no game with any hair-fighters would be complete without at least one reference to the Pokémon Mawile.
  • The win pose where Samson stands fierce with arms folded is most likely a reference to Ryu's early-yet-iconic win pose in Street Fighter II. He just has Filia substitute for Ryu's headband blowing in the wind.
  • The combination of her eating habits and Samson's appearance on her head bears a similarity to the futakuchi-onna, who in Japanese Mythology is a woman with a mouth on the back of her head that's driven to eat and eat.
  • The bar in the opening of her story mode is a parody of the famous Nighthawks painting, and is named after Madman's Cafe.
  • Mike Z has described Filia as the game's Ryu-clone. She has Hadoken-motion "projectile" (actually a drill that comes out of the ground some distance away from her, as determined by the strength of the button pressed, similar to Street Fighter EX's Kairi in later games), Tatsumaki Senpukyaku-motion spinning extended attack that works in air, and Shoryuken-motion uppercut.
    • One of her attacks involves Samson turning into a donkey and pushing Filia as if he's bucking the opponent, causing a wall bounce in the corner. This may or may not be a reference to Ryu's Jodan Sokuto Geri, commonly known as the Donkey Kick, which also causes a wall bounce in certain situations.
    • A patch gave Filia the ability to fake her Ringlet Spike (with a faster animation than if the projectile actually came out), which is something that Ryu could do with his Hadoukens back in the Street Fighter Alpha series.
  • Samson's name comes from the story of Samson, who had superhuman strength so long as he kept certain vows, one of which was to neither cut his hair nor shave his beard.
    • One of his previous hosts referred to was called Delilah, which was the name of the Biblical Samson's (villainous) wife.
  • A lot of her attacks are named after various types of hairstyles, such as the Ringlet Spike special move and her Widow's Peak air throw.
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    Cerebella 
  • Cerebella's gameplay is said to be based off of Juggernaut and Potemkin.
  • One of her moves has her shouting "EXCELLENT!" while Vice-Versa throws up the heavy-metal "horns" gesture. During said move, Vice-Versa's eyes briefly turn into Kamina's shades while Cerebella herself does the "Pierce the Heavens" pose.
  • One of her command throws sometimes has her saying "I'M GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE!"
  • There's a running attack in which Vice-Versa sprouts ram's horns on its "head" and attacks face-first. You even get the standard 2000-point bonus if you manage to kill someone with it.
  • The move Tumbling Run followed by pressing medium kick will result in a cross up identical to a type of Japanese prank known as kancho.
  • One move has her shouting "Diamonds are FOREVER!" or "A girl's best friend!" while she punches a giant diamond at the enemy.
  • She has a close range move (that also reflects projectiles!) where Vice-Versa performs a Finger Gun point. While doing this, the poses of the duo are reminiscent of Jotaro Kujo and Star Platinum.
  • Cerebella's second alt color is a reference to R. Mika
  • She also has a Potemkin color palette.
  • She also has an emerald green outfit similar to one of Tager's alternates — the same palette that lead designer Mike Z uses when playing Tager in BlazBlue.
  • Another of her palettes has her referencing NiGHTS from Journey of Dreams.
  • She also has a palette swap with red-and-black clothing that gives her blonde hair, blue eyes, and porcelain-white skin, making her look a lot like Harley Quinn.
  • During one of her moves she will use Vice-Versa as a pommel horse and shout "Gymkata!"

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    Ms. Fortune 

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    Valentine 
  • Valentine's stance is the same as Mai Shiranui's from the later The King of Fighters games. Fittingly, her third palette is one for Mai.
  • Her EKG Flatliner special is similar to Ibuki's Yami Shigure special.
  • She has a color palette resembling Yowane Haku, keeping the Vocaloid theme going. Other palettes include Sheena Fujibayashi, Baiken, Ibuki, Taki, and Nu-13.
  • One of her supers involves throwing scalpels the same way as Dio Brando.
  • One of her special moves is very similar to Chipp Zanuff's Alpha Blade special.
  • She has a command grab patterned after fellow-ninja Guy's Spinning Piledriver.
  • Valentine may or may not be as crazy when in the OP Table as other insane doctors from fighting games, such as Dr. Faustus or Dr. Baldhead.
  • Heck, she's even got a reference to Trauma Center in the name and description of her achievement, "The Medical Board Will Be Notified".
  • When attacked, she might occasionally say "It's just a flesh wound!".
  • Valentine's Level 3 Super features the opponent getting seven different kinds of messed up, but said messing up is concealed behind medical screens and red flashes. Very similar to Akuma's Raging Demon attack.
  • If she loses by timeout, she explodes into a mass of bones as if hit by a Mortal Kombat 3 fatality, down to the multiple skulls and ribcages.
  • Sometimes when Valentine tags out to Double, she says, "Prepare for trouble!" It's the first line of the Team Rocket mantra from the Pokémon anime. (The next line of that mantra is "Make it double.")

    Double 

    Squigly 
  • One of Squigly's special moves is a reference to Millia's "Lust Shaker". Charging it up to level 2 causes a slide similar to Millia's "Longinus".
  • Another one of her special moves is the One Inch Punch. The developers even call it that informally.
  • She also has a move called Draugen Punch, a rather literal version of the Shoryuken. Its level 1 version is a single-hit uppercut that is more similar to Dan's Koryuken than anything else, but its level 2 version is a powerful 3-hit flaming uppercut that is similar to Ken's more powerful Shoryukens.
  • Another one of her moves has her send out Leviathan's tail a long way to bring the opponent to her for a combo setup. Sound familiar? In addition, when using the move, she or Leviathan might say "GET OVER HERE!" or "C'MERE!"
  • Old concept art◊ of her planned Super Mode make Leviathan's head look like Unit-01's.
  • One of the flowers that can bloom over her foe's grave during the Daisy Pusher Blockbuster attack appears to come from the Little Planet.
  • When using Daisy Pusher, Leviathan may say "For I beheld Satan as he fell from Heaven, like lightning!" or "A forest of thorns shall be their tomb!" He can also say "Time's dead flowers bereft in deadly bloom!" which seems to be a reference to "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.
  • When using her standing heavy punch, she and Leviathan can yell "Double!" "Dragon!"
  • One of Squigly's beta palettes (which was replaced just prior to release because Alex didn't like it) was a reference to Earthworm Jim, including making Leviathan pink and Squigly's head transparent to look more like Earthworm Jim's robot suit.
  • During a fight, Squigly might ask Leviathan "Would you kindly?"
  • Sometimes when performing a snapback, Leviathan will shout "I said good day!" Don't blink though; you can catch Leviathan doing the 'Dat Ass' face.
  • Her singing super "Squigly Battle Opera" is based on "Super Battle Opera", a famous fighting game tournament in Japan.
  • Her tag-in attack, which involves her coffin shooting up from the ground and her bursting out of it has some similarities to how Rayne enters stages in BloodRayne: Betrayal (Though there the coffin usually lands from above, not bursting out of the ground). Specifically, the second part where she launches the top half of the coffin at the opponent has similarities to how Rayne can kick the top half of her coffin at opponents at the beginning of a level. The fact that Alex worked as a character designer on that game makes it likely this was intentional.
  • One of Leviathan's quotes during their taunt is "Don't Tread On Us!", a corruption of the motto used on the Gadsden flag◊ during the American Revolution.
  • They have a super that was previously not on the command list, that is a difficult to pull off, but powerful nod to Gouki's Shun Goku Satsu.

    Big Band 
  • Big Band is explicitly stated to play like Q "but good".
    • His jumping HK is a pretty blatant reference's to Q's jumping HK.
    • He has a charge rush punch move.
    • He can use a Practical Taunt to power himself up.
    • He can parry by pressing forward while standing or jumping and pressing down while crouching.
  • His last name, "Birdland", is a reference to a famous jazz club in New York City and a famous jazz song by the band Weather Report.
  • Taunting before using his charge super will give it an extra finisher where he lets loose with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs in a familiar fashion. It's even called "TUBATUBATUBATUBATUBA".
    • Speaking of his taunt, its revised input is Forward, High Punch, Mid Punch, Low Punch, Forward, almost the exact same input as DIO's Space Ripper Stingy Eyes move from the Capcom fighting game.
    • His level 5 super (taking out the trumpet and playing the Skullgirls theme) causes time to stop like Dio's famous ZA WARUDO move. Doing so lets him either do a massively amped up version of his Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs or play his trumpet in peace for as long as his meter holds out.
  • One of his specials is named "Giant Step", a double shout-out to EarthBound and John Coltrane.
  • When using Super Sonic Jam, Big Band may say, "Aww... HORNCRUSH!!"
  • He has a chance of saying "Lazy bird." during his airthrow, in another reference to John Coltrane.
  • His reply of "So what?" to the Skullheart is a reference to a Miles Davis song of the same name.
  • Against Mafia members (i.e. Cerebella), he gets the opening quote "You will be prosecuted to the full extent of the jam" — which takes an infamous bit of Engrish from the DonPachi series and fits it into his jazz theme.
  • Among his added VO clips are "I have to go now, my planet needs me" and "See you, space cowboy" upon victory (the flight animation).
  • One Big Band's losing quotes is "Salt...peanuts". This is a reference to the bebop tune "Salt Peanuts" composed by Dizzy Gillespie.
  • Big Band's "Beat Extend" is likely a pun on "Heat Extend", Potemkin's anti-air grab move.
    • Speaking of Potemkin, the Heavy Kick version of Giant Step is functionally similar to Potemkin's Sliding Head attack.
    • Adding onto the Potemkin connections, his Brass Knuckles and Emergency Stop function basically the same as Potemkin's Hamerfall and Emergency Stop respectively. Brass Knuckles and Hamerfall even share the same charge motion.
    • It's more of a case of Author Appeal at this point. Mike Z really likes Potemkin. Beowulf has a super that functions similarly to Heavenly Potemkin Buster for cripe's sake!
  • While performing a jumping LK, he'll sometimes say "Shake, shake!".
  • Take the A Train, his command grab, is a direct shout out to a Duke Ellington tune.
  • When using Brass Knuckles, he'll occasionally give a James Brown-esque "OWW!" Take the A Train takes it a step further.
    "Hit me! Two/three times!"
  • Occasionally, when performing a snapback, Big Band may yell out "Beat it!"
    • His 4th color palette looks exactly like the iconic "Smooth Criminal" outfit.
  • Some of the other palettes refer to Big Zam, Dick Tracy, General Sturm, The Big O, Nonon's Symphony Regalia, and The Question. More bizarrely, there are a couple for Big the Cat, and Negaduck. Really weird: three's one for King Dedede.
    • The Negaduck and King Dedede ones must be a visual pun about his last name Birdland, and his oxygen mask looking like a bird bill. Big the Cat shares his bigness in size and in moniker.
    • Big Band has a hidden palette, which is unlocked after defeating 25 opponents with the Satchmo Deathblow. Said palette is a very obvious reference to Jotaro Kujo.
  • At the end of his story mode, after listening to his narration, Peacock remarks that they should make his story into a comic book or something, and that they could call it Defective Comics.
  • He pulls a Louis Armstrong impression sometimes, replacing St. James Infirmary with Last Hope Infirmary. Big Band also does a more direct reference when he beats Cerebella in a round.
    "You can't strong-arm this Armstrong!"
  • One of his intro quotes (and, in fact, his backstory) offers a not so subtle nod to another reconstructed police officer. The 16th palette reinforces the reference.
    "Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
  • Early in his story mode when he discusses his past as a police officer, one of his fellow cops who beat him to near death and left him for dead is a Pig Feral.
  • His alternate voice pack is called the Saxploitation pack, and it is stuffed to the gills with references, mostly Blaxploitation ones (naturally):
    "Girl, I'mma sine your pitty on the runny kine."
    "From the clock's chime to the cock's crow is but an instant. I must go."
    (Tagging in) "I can dig it!"/"Dy-no-mite!"
    "Hair is like a woman, you treat it good, and it treats you good. / Show's over, Cleopatra Bones!"
    "I'm gonna git cha, sucka!"
    (when landing a 3-hit A Train) "Take the Soul Train!"
    "I got 99 problems but a lich ain't one."
    "Jive-ass dude ain't got no brains anyhow."

    Fukua 
  • Fukua's Forever A Clone special, where she projects one of her two souls to attack, is said to be inspired by Shadow's cloning gimmick. Its name is a pun on the Forever Alone meme.
  • Her introductory trailer kicks shout outs to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (specifically, Brain Drain asks a dog to leave and says he should come back once he learns to "manipulate sand or something", referencing Iggy, from the manga's third part, Stardust Crusaders.), Street Fighter IVs reveal of Decapre, and Super Mario Bros. 2s ending.
    • The reference to Iggy's sand-controlling Stand, The Fool, is further complemented by Fukua and her trailer being an April Fool's event.
    • The "Filia sleeping" part might also be a reference to the beginning of Ultra Street Fighter 4's Edition Select trailer.
      • It is also highly likely a reference to the ending of Super Mario Bros. 2 with the only difference being Filia replacing Mario.
  • Fukua herself is both a parody of Ermac: (ascended joke, fusion of souls, Palette Swap) and Decapre (the aforementioned introductory trailer). She has an alternate color based off of Ermac.
  • Almost all of Fukua's alternate colors are references to other "clone" characters in fighting games, such as Akuma, Rain, and Mech Zangief.
  • The ending of Fukua's story mode (and the Stinger that follows the credits) references the infamous Cliffhanger ending of Twin Peaks.
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    Eliza 
  • For starters, damn near every one of her animations doubles as a reference to Egyptian Mythology. Even her animations when getting hit reference things like mummification.
  • Eliza's win pose (where she changes into a random alternate costume) is based on a similar win pose of Morrigan's.
  • Speaking of Darkstalkers, she also has an alternate palette based on Jedah's Midnight Bliss form. Other palettes include:
    • Crimson Viper, which is a recurring alternate palette Actor Allusion theme, in which both characters voiced by Michelle Ruff. Also in that palette, Albus' colors resemble Rufus since he is voiced by Christopher Corey Smith and Horace's colors resemble Goku's since he is voiced by Sean Schemmel.
    • Dio Brando as he appears in Stardust Crusaders. Her skeleton's alternate with this is colored like Dio's Stand, The World.
    • A Homestuck character, specifically Porrim Maryam, with her attire and appearance matching the colors and features of said character. Additionally, both have a penchant for blood.
    • Ragyo Kiryuin of Kill la Kill. With this color, Sekhmet, Albus and Horus are given special palettes that match those of other characters and objects associated with Ragyo, including Rei Hououmaru, Life Fibers, and COVERS.
    • The similarly-named Eliza, the vampire character from Tekken Revolution.
    • I-No from Guilty Gear, another sexy, showy woman who fights with her musical implement (a guitar).
    • Her 24th palette swap is Raven from Teen Titans, with Sekhmet as Trigon and Albus and Horace as Beast Boy.
  • When using Osiris Spiral:
    Eliza: What's wrong?
    Sekhmet: Too spooky?
  • Wait a minute...Egyptian Mummy Vampire? Didn't this happen before?
  • When she does her Dive of Horace, her lackey, Horace does a dive kick in a similar pose as Rufus from Street Fighter IV.
  • One of Eliza's story mode portraits has her smiling in a similar manner as Jetstream Sam.
  • Horace loves to engage in jolly cooperation.
  • One of her winning quotes is the famous "Deal with it" meme.
  • One of the quotes for her hard crouching kick is "I'm on a boat".
  • Her microphone stand/scythe/staff weapon is called the Staff of Ra.
  • One of Sekhmet's quotes is "Rip and Tear!".
  • Sekhmet's heart-shaped hole is a reference to Giorno Giovanna's Cleavage Window.
  • Eliza and Sekhmet's relationship mirrors that of Hazama and Yuuki Terumi. Eliza and Hazama are the outer human halves who handle the day-to-day affairs. Sekhmet and Terumi are the hidden villains who mastermind many bad things in the plot of their series. Both pairs seemingly share the same mind as well.
    • It should be noted that the human half seems to be "in charge" with Eliza, because Double hates humans, not parasites. There's nothing indicating that Sekhmet is the mastermind.

    Beowulf 
  • Aside from the obvious, Lab Zero said they went through the archives of a ton of old Professional Wrestling videos when looking for Beowulf inspirations, and it shows.
    • Beowulf's standing light punch has him dramatically holding his hand to his ear, just like Hulk Hogan. Holding it hypes up the crowd as well. Another reference to the Hulkster is in the name of one of Beowulf's level 3 supers, Wulfamania.
    • Occasionally when doing the aforementioned standing light punch, he'll shout "WHAT?!"
    • His standing heavy kick is a superkick. Hitting with it causes a music note to appear, revealing it to be a reference to Sweet Chin Music, the finisher of Shawn Michaels.
    • His crumple state animation is just like Ric Flair's "Flair Flop".
      • He'll also sometimes shout "WOOOOO!" when doing his knife edge chop move (jumping medium punch).
    • The name of his stage is NMO Arena.
    • His mic drop is is a shout out to a wrestler once known as the "Best In The World".
    • One of his main gimmicks is the use of a folding metal chair, one of the staple weapons in professional wrestling. His standing heavy punch with the Hurting equipped (where he brings the Hurting down upon his opponent's head) is one of the ways the steel chair is most commonly used during a match.
    • Almost all of his grab finishers are legitimate pro wrestling moves. Hurting might remind one of This Is Gonna Hurt written on the weapons of ECW's chair swinging freaks (Balls Mahoney and Axel Rotten)
    • His strongest grab finisher is the Vertebreaker, a back-to-back double underhook piledriver which happens to be one of the most powerful and dangerous moves in all of professional wrestling. The official name of it is "Da Grendel Killa", a reference to the name Homicide used for the move in TNA's LAX: "Da Gringo Killa".
    • If Beowulf kills with a Canis Major Press out of a super with the maximum amount of hype built up, a penguin feral will slide into the arena and count a pin before sliding away. This references how wrestling refs sometimes throw themselves onto their sides while sliding in order to count a pin during especially heated matches.
      • The slide itself is a reference to Jack Doan's slide across most of the ring during Stone Cold Steve Austin and Scott Hall's match.
    • Beowulf alternating on either saying "YES!" or "NO!" during his Naegling Knee Lift can be seen as a reference to Bryan Danielson.
  • Although not as much as the wrestling references, there are shout outs to the poem from his moveset as well.
    • Geatish Trepak: Beowulf is from Geatland.
    • Naegling Knee Drop: Naegling refers to the sword Beowulf used in his final battle against the dragon.
    • Heorot Family Roundhouse: Heorot refers to the mead hall that got ambushed by Grendel. They associate "Heorot" with Roundhouse.
  • Another of his grab finishers is a Cossack dance, which is infrequently used in combat by another video game wrestler.
  • One of his alternate colors gives makes him look like Batman, complete with cowl. Another one gives him a beard and makes him look like Number One. His Outtake is named after and based on the latter's way of sitting.
  • His first super is a a shout out to Slayer's Dead On Time overdrive (and also possibly Ralf's Galactica Phantom).
    Mike Z: "For those of you who said "Bionic Arm", you have to play more older fighting games."
  • Beowulf's Airwulf super is similar to Potemkin's Heavenly Potemkin Buster in execution, named after an '80s action show.
  • One of Beowulf's special moves is Jon Talbain's Beast Cannon in all but name.
  • One of Beowulf's level 3 supers is the Three Wulf Moonsault. The three wolves and moon from the shirt even appear if the move hits.
    • He initiates the maneuver by chugging a gallon of Tuscan Milk, another product that went memetic due to amazon.com customer reviews. Sometimes he shouts "Cry for the Moon!" to reference the infamous alternative foreign theme song of the '90s X-men cartoon.
  • Beowulf's voice reel also features a ton more wrestling references. Including:

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  • The stages, too, are packed with cultural in-jokes. One of the main stages, Ms. Fortune's current hangout, is known as Little Innsmouth.
    • It is also populated mostly by Fish People called Dagonians.
  • Two of the achievements for the game are Real Circus Damage and Toil and Trouble, respectively.
    • Another achievement is obtained for KOing two characters in the same combo. Its name, of course, is Happy Birthday.
  • The psychic director of Lab Zero is called Brain Drain.
  • Early on in Parasoul's story mode, Umbrella had apparently expected to see: "Sonic boobs, pool balls, and KFC Combos" when she came along to see her at work. It helps when you know Parasoul plays like a charge character, which is what Guile and Venom are considered to be as well. Parasoul's playstyle is somewhat reminiscent of Venom, as well.
  • One of the background characters is a sleeping man in a familiar outfit leaning against a wall next to a sand bag. Said sandbag looks an awful lot like Bonus-Kun from Waku Waku 7.
  • In the downloadable character movelist, each page says "SHOW ME YOUR MOVES".
  • In Peacock's story mode we meet Hive, a resident of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs, who we can see in the background of the stage as well. Other than her name, her outfit and lavender hair bear a resemblance to Q Bee.
  • In the tutorial screen there is a drawing of Ms. Fortune's head forming the bottom slime in a slime tower from the Dragon Quest series.
  • Killing off 2 characters at the same time or dealing a very large amount of damage in one combo will result in legendary 3rd Strike commentator John Dangerous Rockefeller doing his signature crazy laugh. This itself is also supposedly a shout out to Dan Forden shouting "Toasty!" in Mortal Kombat.
  • The song "Canopy Kingdom News - In Rapid Succession" starts out with a melody similar to the Hyrule Castle theme.
  • One of the members of Cirque des Cartes, Hubrecht "Hertz" Adelhardt, has an appearance similar to Alex Louis Armstrong. His design is heavily influenced by Arcana Heart's Heart Aino, with pink hair in a heart shape, a red ribbon tied in a bow around the wrist, red suspenders (in place of a red tie), orange pants (in place of an orange skirt), and blue boots (in place of blue shoes). He's likely also a reference to Mr. Heart.
    • It's worth noting that as far as his color palette relations to Heart go, an in-game image in Cerebella's story shows him with very different colors (as well as different colors for various other troupe members than what is shown in most character art), so it is currently unclear whether or not this will remain as his color palette if he is added into the game. The hair and ribbon remain key to his design.
  • Visible on the right side of the New Meridian stage is The Kid's hammer, along with a Squirt. They're placed on both sides of a female NPC based on the art director of the very same game, seen here◊. (The three-eyed creature next to them is likely one of Alex "o_8" Ahad's Author Avatars.)
  • Beowulf's vote image◊ brings in mind a certain pose of another chair user Kanji Tatsumi...
    • However, his bio lists "not Kanji" among his inspirations.
  • The Medici Tower stage has a billboard for "Wave Motion Emitters" with a picture of a blue fireball above it. The famous Hadouken is sometimes called "Wave Motion Fist" by fans, after its literal translation from Japanese.
  • One of the characters at the card tables in River King Casino is dressed like Jotaro, as a nod to the encounter with D'Arby during Stardust Crusaders.
  • If one goes off to the right of Maplecrest they'll find a certain pompadoured space traveler as a student.
  • Also present in the Casino are Masaka and Madije from the Kawaiikochan!! Gaming No Korner webcomic and Yuzuriha from Under Night In-Birth.
  • One of the NPCs that can appear in the Glass Canopy stage is a young woman in blue and white carrying a purse with a George plushie in it. This character is actually a personification of Sanshee, one of the two companies who are licensed to make Skullgirls merchandise.
  • Several backers from the Indiegogo campaign can also appear in the background of both the Casino and Glass Canopy, including some popular internet personalities such as Matt and Woolie and Zone-tan. Some of these characters represent prominent people in the competitive Skullgirls community, such as Duckator and Severin; the NPC of the latter in particular later appeared in the Fukua trailer.
  • Cupcake-tan and Deadeye from RPG Shooter: Starwish can also be seen as background characters.
  • The New Meridian Rooftops stage has two billboards for Eighty Sixed, a clothing store whose Twitch channel hosted Lab Zero's weekly SALTY! stream, and Frootsii, a bakery in California that was the original venue for said stream.
  • The Under the Bridge stage contains a food van that specializes in salty items; the first item written on the truck is "Salty Cupcakes," the original name of Lab Zero's weekly Twitch stream.
  • The 2013 holiday patch introduced a new mode called The Typing of the Skullgirls where the player gets a chance to do extra damage with supers by typing in words that appear on the screen during super flashes. Two of the phrases that can pop up are "dogs of the ASG"note  and "Suffer like we did!"note . Several other phrases reference various parts of the game and memes created by the community.
    • The entirety of the list can be found here, and is worth reading.
    • The code to activate the typing mode is gottatypefast!
  • According to patch notes, One Must Fall 2097 inspired the Infinite Prevention System.
  • The Mana Meter in Skullgirls measures Dramatic Tension.
  • The effect that happens during double snaps (the action lines and the Skullgirls main theme in the background) was inspired by Japanese player Poccola, who would always add the effect during a double snap or a Happy Birthday in Skullgirls videos.
  • Finishing a match with a Blockbuster causes the background to change and display a line art portrait of the defeated character with an expression of pain on their face. This is a reference to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, where similar portraits appeared after a character was defeated by a super move.
  • In Robo-Fortune's story mode, Brain Drain says "Never send an organic to do a machine's job" after she succeeds in acquiring the Skull Heart. This plays off of Agent Smith's "Never send a human to do a machine's job" from The Matrix.
  • The phrase on Squigly's poster "Dellamore Dellamorte" is a shout-out to the film Cemetery Man. However, the two words are switched.

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