Scavenged Punk / Splatoon

A great many of the weapons and other equipment in the Splatoon games are cobbled together from various existing objects, adding to the feel of the world's evolved sea life repurposing various odds and ends of the world left behind by humanity.

---

Main Weapons

• Shooters:
  • The Splattershot Jr. is based on a cheap, dollar-store squirt gun, fitting for being the player's starting weapon.
  • The Splash-o-matic resembles a mixture of a fine-pointed felt-tip pen and a tattoo pen, and their handle and trigger resembles that of an early revolver. Its counterpart, the Sploosh-o-matic, swaps the felt-tip muzzle for a large metallic funnel.
  • The Aerosprays are designed after aerograph airbrushes, commonly used for painting miniature model kits.
  • The standard Splattershot is based on an average water gun. In 3, the cap on its end resembles that of a toothpaste tube, and the plastic around its ink tank resembles a bicycle's water bottle holder.
  • N-ZAPs are direct copies of the old Nintendo Zapper accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
  • The Splattershot Pro resembles the CPS 1000 and CPS 2000, two models of Super Soaker from the late 1990s.
  • The .52 Gal and .96 Gal are based on revolver-type grenade launchers, with a water cooler's bottle in place of the chamber. In 3, the .96 Gal's barrel is see-through and stuffed with small stones, mimicking a mineral water filter.
  • Jet Squelchers are based on a pressure washer's hose.
  • The Splattershot Nova resembles a sports water bottle slotted into a ray gun-styled shooter frame, which itself resembles a design of space-themed water gun from Japan.
  • The L-3 Nozzlenose and the H-3 Nozzlenose are both based on garden hoses: the hose itself is coiled in a spool around the body of the weapon, while the hose's nozzle provides the muzzle.
  • The Squeezer is based off of a champagne bottle, and its handle resembles that of a wooden pocket knife. Its powerful single taps represent the cork popping, and the weaker rapid shots emulate the fizz afterwards.
• Rollers:
  • The Carbon Roller's frame is made from part of a polycarbon bicycle frame, with a plastic water bottle for an ink reservoir, which is attached to the frame by an actual water bottle mount.
  • The Splat Roller is based on an oversized paint roller, and in 3, its ink tank holder resembles a bicycle's water bottle holder, like the same game's design for the Splattershot.
  • The Dynamo Roller is made from oversized door-hinge panel parts for the frame and handle, with an oversized typewriter drum instead of a conventional roller head. In 3, its base resembles the base of a dynamo motor.
  • The Flingza Roller's body is based on a Swiss Army Knife, while the roller column retracts while not rolling to show the nib of a fountain pen. Also, the pen's clip appears on the column.
  • The Big Swig Roller has a plastic cup for an ink reservoir, whose long bendable plastic straw feeds ink to the roller's column, which resembles an oversized non-bendable paper straw. Its name references 7-Eleven's Big Gulp beverage line.
• Chargers:
  • Squiffers are based on cleaning-surface spray bottles, and have a bottle of detergent for an ink reservoir.
  • Splat Chargers, aside from being paintball sniper rifles, have an air-pump handle at their ends in 3.
  • E-liters are based on a gasoline pump handle, with a gasoline tanker truck's tank serving as its ink reservoir. In 3, the gas pump's meter screen can be seen on the 4K.
  • The Bamboozler 14 is a traditional bamboo water gun with ironsights clamped on the top.
  • The Goo Tuber is based on a siphon pump used for transporting liquids such as soy sauce, and in Japanese, the weapon is named the "Soy Tuber".
  • The Snipewriter is based on the body of a #2 eraser pencil with the innards of a stacking-point pencil, also known as a rocket pencil in Japan, where they were popular in the early 2000s. Additionally, the front of the pencil is held in a sideways-inserted pocket-sized pencil sharpener.
• Sloshers:
  • The base Sloshers are mere buckets, with the springs in their added frame resembling those found in a car's suspension.
  • The Tri-Slosher is based on a Japanese brush-washer bucket, with three different sections.
  • The Sloshing Machine is a miniature front-loaded washing machine, with the lid removed and two handles attached.
  • The Bloblobber is a miniaturized bathtub.
  • The Explosher is a gas-powered jet heater stuffed into a jerrycan, which Sheldon admits to in his descriptions of the weapon.
  • The Dread Wringer is a janitorial wheeled mop bucket. As the name indicates, one of the two compartments is a wringer, which shoots out an identical slosh of ink when swung.
• Splatlings:
  • Mini Splatlings look like smaller versions of the Heavy Splatling with a toy-like "Vintage Supersoaker" motif similar to the Splattershot and the basic Splat Roller/Splat Charger, and in 3, it has the same bicycle-water-bottle-holder-like ink reservoir holder as the Splattershot.
  • The Heavy Splatling's tank is taken from a water cooler.
  • The body of a Hydra Splatling is based on a fire hydrant, with three pressure nozzles for barrels, and it has a large silver propane tank for an ink reservoir, which is connected to the body by a length of fire engine's hose.
  • The Ballpoint Splatling is formed from an oversized multi-color ballpoint pen.
  • The Nautilus is based on a wickless alcohol Bunsen burner.
  • The Heavy Edit Splatling is another pen splatling, this one formed from a giant retractable pen given its plunger-like interior shape.
• Dualies:
  • Dapple Dualies have a toothbrush's head attached to the back of each gun, referencing how toothbrushes are used to make realistic splatter marks on paintings, called "dapples". They're partially bound to the rest of the gun by a length of dental floss.
  • Splat Dualies borrow elements from spritzer bottles, primarily the bottles below the grip and the nozzle head that they have.
  • Glooga Dualies are weaponized hot glue guns.
  • Dualie Squelchers resemble battery-powered power drills.
  • The Tetra Dualies are based on small derringer pistols attached to the heel section of Nike's Shox sneaker line, as well as having a shoe's pull tab where an ironsight would be.
  • The Douser Dualies are a pair of firefighters' hose guns, with two miniature fire extinguishers attached to the bottom of the handles.
• Brellas:
  • The Splat Brella is a shotgun with an umbrella's canopy affixed to the front — with their multi-pronged interior armature specifically resembling certain broad patio umbrellas.
  • The Tenta Brella's handle is shaped like a walking stick for hiking, while its large canopy resembles that of a dome tent used for camping.
  • The Undercover Brella is a more conventional crook-handle umbrella refashioned into a weapon, as a nod to Kingsman: The Secret Service. In the Japanese translation of the game, the weapon is named the "Spy Gadget".
  • The Recycled Brella 24 is made out of a traditional Eastern oil-paper umbrella. The shaft of the umbrella is made of bamboo; that a SplatoonJP post specifically states that the weapon is manufactured with improved technology from the Great Turf War suggests that it's specifically made from a recycled Bamboozler, which was also prominently used in the Great Turf War.
• Blasters:
  • The Luna Blaster resembles a jet turbine, and in 3 the see-through parts of its shell resemble those of a Macintosh computer from The '90s.
  • The standard Blaster and the Range Blaster both have many parts taken from hot rods. The front of the weapon resembles a muffler with a Hot Paint Job and has a gas pedal below it, the spring and wires of the midsection resemble the innards of a car, and the ink reservoir resembles a spray-paint can, such as one that would paint a custom car. In 3, the Range Blaster has a larger frontpiece, and its thicker side-tubes resemble exhaust pipes.
  • The body of a Clash Blaster is based on a mechanical pencil sharpener, with a ring of crayons surrounding the weapon in mimicry of a gun belt, and its trigger resembles a paper clip.
  • The Rapid Blaster and the Rapid Blaster Pro resemble toy dart guns, which are mandated by United States law to have their tips painted bright orange to distinguish them from real firearms.
  • The S-BLAST is based on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System's Super Scope.
• Brushes:
  • The Inkbrush is a giant Egbert brush with an oil paint tube feeding into its ferrule.
  • The Octobrush is based on the hanga-bake, a traditional Japanese paintbrush from the ukiyo-e period. The octopus-like ink reservoir also resembles a sumitsubo, a line-drawing tool.
  • The Painbrush is a giant fan brush, and the knob on its shaft resembles a metallic palette cup.
• Stringers:
  • The Tri-Stringer has a fishing reel mounted alongside its ink chambers and shooters, themselves based on handheld air pumps, and has a length of fishing line for its string.
  • The REEF-LUX 450 is a combination of a reflex bow and a knot assist, a tool for fishing, and the bottle at its tip resembles a Yakult bottle, a fermented beverage sold in Japan to alleviate acid reflux symptoms. Additionally, the hole-ridden grip on its handle resembles grip tape for baseball bats.
• Splatanas:
  • The Splatana Stamper is based on a rolling stamp, and each character on the blade-track is an actual Inkling letter-glyph.
  • The Splatana Wiper is formed from a windshield wiper with a long sponge as the blade, held by a badminton racket's handle.

Sub Weapons

• The Angle Shooter is the front half of a highlighter with a stamp on its other end.
• The Autobomb is a miniature JAMSTEC Shinkai 6500 submersible on the legs of a wind-up walking toy.
• Burst Bombs are water balloons, but filled with ink.
• Curling Bombs are weaponized curling stones.
• Fizzy Bombs are soda cans with hose clamps wrapped around them.
• Point Sensors resemble small man-made satellites, such as those used for predicting the weather.
• Seekers take the form of a small motorboat.
• The Splash Wall's main shaft is based on a medical syringe, while its side arms vaguely resemble windshield wipers.
• Splat Bombs are pyramid-shaped bags of ink surrounded by a pressure-sensitive frame.
• Sprinklers resemble water sprinklers.
• Squid Beakons resemble a miniature airport surveillance radar mounted on a camera tripod.
• Suction Bombs are made from an upside-down spray paint can with a plunger's head attached to it.
• Torpedoes are based on single-use fish-shaped soy sauce packets popularized by Kikkoman, and their noses have a resealable nozzle.
• Toxic Mist and the Disruptor are bottle-like beakers held in a chemistry clamp.

Special Weapons

• The Baller is an oversized beach ball, crossed with a human-sized hamster ball.
• The Big Bubbler is anchored by a spinning-top launcher with a Squid Beakon at its base, and the player pulls a ripcord to activate it. The barrier generator itself is kept aloft by an aerial screw.
• The Bomb Launcher is designed after Nintendo's Ultra Machine.
• The Bubble Blower is a gigantic bubble wand mixed with a lacrosse stick, with a canister of bubble solution connected to it.
• Judging by the symbols plastered on its parts, the Crab Tank appears to be based on a crash test dummy. Additionally, its outer cannons resemble a style of junctioned exhaust manifolds used in speedboat engines.
• The Inkjet is a water jetpack that's fed using an oversized soda bottle.
• The Ink Vac is a leaf blower attached to a diesel-powered backpack vacuum cleaner.
• The Killer Wail is a giant grey megaphone with four mufflers attached, with a bicycle's handlebars to aim it. Its cousin, the Killer Wail 5.1, consists of six smaller, floating speakers, each with a small spray can attached to it that resembles the one for the Suction Bomb.
• The Reefslider is an inflatable shark pool toy, with soda bottles duct taped on to provide thrust, and a saddle wrapped above its dorsal fin. The rails that guide it are based on a swimming pool's lane dividers.
• The Splattercolor Screen is a small sports drink bottle with a bubble wand made out of bendy straws. When the screen deploys, the bendy straws expand to frame the wall of ink.
• The Sting Ray is based on a gas-powered pressure washer.
• The Super Chump resembles a gumball machine with a bubble machine's wheel attached to its muzzle. The bombs it launches resemble a cross between a bouncy hopper toy and a water balloon, with a ziptie fastened around it and a bunsen burner as its base.
• The Tacticooler resembles a cylindrical food tin when thrown.
• Tenta Missiles resemble soda bottles propelled by a soda-like fizz, while their launchers that the player holds resemble soda-crate-like rocket launchers.
• Triple Inkstrikes are based off of multifunctional pencil cases. The missiles themselves are partially made of wooden pencils, while the guiding beacons that the player throws resemble pencil sharpeners.
• The Trizooka has many PVC and pipe-related parts in its construction, as well as a car's air filter at its back with its ink capsules held by a motorcycle's exhaust pipes. Its three-screwed muzzle also resembles a connector for a faucet or a garden hose.
• The Ultra Stamp is a giant squeaky toy hammer with a flattened plastic jug on its back for an ink reservoir.
• The Wave Breaker is based on a pop-and-catch toy, with the catcher component mimicking a plastic shuttlecock.

Multiplayer Miscellaneous

• The Rainmaker is based on the shachihoko, which are large, golden roof ornaments inspired by a sea monster of Japanese folklore.
• 3's spawn drones are repurposed espresso machines. To go along with that, 3's version of the previous games' "battle lobby room with glowing screens" is built within a giant coffee dispenser near the firing range.
• The Ultra Signal in 3's Tricolor Turf War looks like a Codd-neck bottle, the bottles used for ramune in Japan, with the marble in its neck glowing; this is even more apparent in its banner badge.
• Said mode's Sprinklers of Doom look like giant mops standing on toilet plungers with LED screens attached for team affiliation. The waving of their moplike strings also look similar to matoi, which were Edo-period firefighters' flags used to alert civilians and other firefighters to a burning building. This is also what they're called in the Japanese translation of the game, and today, matoi are relegated to ceremonial use.

Weapon Brands

• Fitting as they're intended for beginners, Splat-brand weapons are based on water toy guns. A plastic aesthetic with signature colors for each game is shared by the Splattershot, Splat Roller, Splat Charger, and Mini Splatling.
• Deco specializes in weapons based on various household items; and the .52 Gal, .96 Gal, and Heavy Splatling share large water coolers.
• The Nouveau brand takes after various art supplies, and they make all Brush-class weapons.
• The heavy-hitting, hard-to-master Custom weapons borrow metal parts and wiring for an industrial aesthetic.
• Neo's weapons are designed after consumer electronics.
• "Dolphin"-brand weapons are water-based items.
• Sorella, being an umbrella manufacturer, makes the first three Brella-class main weapons.

Salmon Run

Grizzco

• The Splatoon 3 version of the Grizzco uniform looks especially barely-put together. While the main piece of the 2 version was (appropriately) a pair of fishing waders, the 3 ensemble is made of random junk, consisting of a high-visibility vest, a hard hat with a lamp duct-taped on, and a firefighter's uniform that is likewise wrapped with duct tape.
• Your ink tank is a life preserver attached to your character's back. If you get splatted, the life preserver deploys and floats around in the ink until someone revives you.
• In this mode, you have a limited number of Special Weapons that you need to conserve between all three waves; each use is represented by a grey MRE package strapped to your Inkling/Octoling's headgear.
• Grizzco has its own illegally-modified versions of existing weapons, and all of them except the Grizzco Slosher have prescription medication containers attached to them.
  • The Grizzco Blaster is a rapid-fire version of the basic Blaster with exposed innards, and no muffler-like covering on its frontal piece.
  • The Grizzco Brella is a canopyless, rapid-fire Splat Brella.
  • The Grizzco Charger, an instant-charge Bamboozler 14, appears to be fashioned out of a manual air pump for bicycle tires.
  • The Grizzco Slosher is based on a Sloshing Machine, with a large tangle of piping and tubing hanging from its bottom.
  • The Grizzco Stringer is a Tri-Stringer with six new pumps haphazardly jammed into the bow.
  • The Grizzco Splatana is a Splatana Stamper, with the covering ripped off and the motor upgraded.
  • The Grizzco Dualies are modified Splat Dualies with hose heads in place of nozzles.

Salmonid Equipment

Even the most advanced Salmonid equipment is cobbled together from cookware-related scraps, tying in with their theme of deliberately appearing delicious to eat.

• Chums and Cohocks wield frying pans, while Smallfry wield little plastic spoons.
• 3 gives an in-universe example for Snatchers' drones, which are made from upside-down Octocopter helmets.
• The Steelhead's armor features a large wok on its head, with tires lining its head and the back strap of its harness, and their bombs are inflatable plastic bags with a tire attached.
• The Flyfish's missile pods are formed from beverage coolers with trash can lids, while their missiles resemble ramune bottles.
• Each segment of a Steel Eel is a jerry-can with an ink sprayer attached, and are connected by ducts.
• The Drizzler carries a metal-plated umbrella as a shield.
• Stingers sit atop a tower of cooking pots and soup cans, with a gas burner at its base.
• A Scrapper's vehicle is based on the one used by a Shielded Octotrooper, its top is shielded with a square garbage can's lid, it has grill pans as side armor, a motorbike's mufflers for propulsion, and a foam pool noodle for a bumper.
• A Maws wears a harness made from a modified fisherman's utility belt, with the metal tackle box in particular seemingly having a propeller inserted in the lid (possibly to help with swimming through ink).
• Fish Sticks' columns are mostly made of scrap metal, but at its very top is a sheet pan, with a spatula hanging from each corner.
• Slammin' Lids are giant pot lids repurposed into flying saucers, and the camera-shutter-like aperture from which Lesser Salmonids are deployed has a hole-ridden design that evokes a vegetable steamer.
• Grillers are motorized barbecue grills, with Salmonids and various other foodstuffs inside.
• Motherships are gigantic plastic storage crates with a vacuum's hose in its bottom, and their Chinooks carry styrofoam fish coolers that Lesser Salmonids pop out of.
• Jammin' Salmon Junction takes place near a decayed suspension bridge that has been transformed into a concert venue, with the stage being built into the last remaining tower of the bridge.

Hero Mode

• The Hero Shot never quite looks the same between the games:
  • In 1, it was a paintball gun-like weapon, which could be seen especially in the large paintball hopper sticking out of the top.
  • Splatoon 2 featured a Hero Shot that looked a lot like the real-world FN-P90. The level 1 version is a severely stripped-back version that ditches most of the frame and the optics.
  • 3's Hero Shot has a printer's ink cartridge at its back, with a spool of a 3D printer's filament slotted in its midsection.
• New Agent 3's unarmored gear includes a two-liter plastic soda bottle for an ink tank. The ink tanks used in multiplayer are only a mite more formal: they're meant to resemble collapsible water bottles instead.
• An Octotrooper's vehicle in 2 appears to be constructed around an upside-down recycling bin.
• Octopods appear to have glowing traffic lamps for eyes.
• The Octo Shower boss is connected to Octocopters by enlarged ball chains.

Side Order

• Palettes are synth boards with light-up buttons.
• The Jelletons resemble the iFish, a fish-shaped toy speaker released by Sega in the mid-2000s.
• The bumpers in Pinging Marcialle's arena are soy sauce containers. Keeping with that theme, the protrusions on its body resemble pudding cups in the first phase, and rice holderd in the second, complete with sushi rice visible inside.
• Asynchronous Rondo is modeled after conveyor belts used in Conveyor Belt Sushi restaurants. The pattern on its rings resemble certain styles of conveyor belt, and the protrusions from which attacks fire from are the sushi plates with the plastic covers. There are even massive stacks of plates visible in the distance to drive the point home.

---