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    References to Heat 
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  • The hockey mask is an allusion to the ones worn in the movie's introductory heist.
  • Done again with the community mask "Hockey Heat", which is a more-accurate-to-the-movie version; wearing it for the first time unlocks the "Heat Around the Corner" achievement, referencing the movie's Title Drop speech (that is even written in full for the mask description).
  • Leveling to Infamy Level 1 unlocks a mask called "The Heat" that is just a pair of sunglasses from the movie. The description even alludes to how only total badasses rob banks with only shades as a disguise, as the characters do during their main bank heist.
  • The "I Do What I Do Best, I Take Scores" achievement requires doing 15 Armored Transport missions on OVERKILL difficulty wearing the Hockey Heat mask, mirroring the movie's introductory heist. The achievement title is also a direct quote from the film.
  • The Armored Transport DLC is full of references to the opening heist in the film. The Park and Underpass heists each use half of the method used to stop the car in the movie; in Park, the transports are rammed with a tow truck, and in Underpass, they're blocked with an ambulance. You can also blow open the trucks with C4 like in the movie, rather than the game's standard slow drilling (though you'll destroy some of the loot this way).
  • The pre-overhaul high-end Mastermind skill Kilmer, which allowed you to reload faster and while running, is a reference to the actor Val Kilmer, who co-starred in the film and whose positioning, cover and reloading in the running bank heist shootout are well-regarded by military professionals.
  • Word of God has said that the Mastermind class, due to its specialization in leading and controlling, is based around Neil McCauley (Robert DeNiro's character).invoked
  • The image for the Expert Driver shows a driver's license owned by none other than "Neil McCauley".
  • The Preplanning Screen added in The Big Bank update displays how player can communicate to purchase specific assets; the players in question are named "Waingro" and "Chris Shiherlis."
  • The FN FNC's handguard is an available mod for the Ak 5 assault rifle, and is referred to as the "Belgian Heat" handguard. It's a reference to the FNC being a prominently featured weapon in the film, as well as its country of origin. A free mod pack also added a shortened barrel for the Ak 5, to match the barrel length of the version shown in the film.
  • The starting primary weapon is also changed from the M4A1 to the shorter-barreled Colt Model 733, another weapon prominently used in both robberies from the film (by Shiherlis for the armored car, then by both him and McCauley for the bank).
  • The port of the First World Bank heist brings back the first game's shout-out of AI controlled characters jumping up on the front desk and reciting the iconic speech from the movie. Sequel Escalation comes into play as well; every player character has a slightly different version of the speech (including Jiro, who says the entire thing in Japanese).
  • The Classic outfit in the Tailor Pack DLC is a recreation of the paramedic disguises at the start of the film.

    References in Achievements 
  • Putting a mask on for the first time unlocks the achievement "No One Cared Who I Was..."
  • Racing through The Ukrainian Job in 35 seconds unlocks "Let's do Th...", a reference to Leeroy Jenkins.invoked
  • Overpass Ridge has a few Lord of the Rings references in it's achievements:
    • Stopping the cops from reaching the bridge unlocks "You Shall Not Pass!" (The famous phrase said by Gandalf)
    • Buying and equipping the Golden AK unlocks "Build Me an Army Worthy of Crime.net" (a play on "Build me an army worthy of Mordor").
  • Getting eight bags on the Garage Escape Heist earns you "They see me Baggin', They Hatin'", referencing the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire.
  • Stealing all the weapons from the hangar in day one of Firestarter gets you "Lord of War".
  • The "Fish A.I." achievement, for tossing a bag in the water in day 2 of Watchdogs. This is referring to the meme when the developer for Call of Duty: Ghosts was showing off the AI that has "fish move out of the way when you get close to them".
  • To James Bond:
  • 10 Bulldozer kills with the Thanatos .50cal unlocks the "Surprise Motherfucker" achievement.
  • Whilst irrelevant to the mask itself, completing 25 Vlad missions on Overkill difficulty while wearing the bear mask earns "From Russia with Love".
  • Transport Harbours' "Very Hard" achievement is called "Heisty McHeistface", a reference to the boat called "Boaty Mcboatface" that Reddit named in 2016.
  • Completing a heist with each player wearing a different Death Wish mask unlocks "Ghost Riders".
  • Smashing all windows in Mallcrasher unlocks "Shoot the Glass!"exp 
  • On Rats Day 1, keeping the law enforcers out of the house while you cook three bags of meth unlocks "I Am the One Who Knocks", whilst cooking seven bags on OVERKILL or harder gets "Full Measure"; both are references to Breaking Bad.exp  The achievements for completing the heist on Mayhem and Deathwish are also references to the show, respectively "Captain Cook"exp  and, naturally, "Breaking Bad."
  • Filling the Train Heist's escape boat with ammo bags unlocks "We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat".
  • Escaping with nine or more bags of gold on any Armored Transport heist earns "If You Liked It You Should Have Put a Ring on It".
  • Each US President mask comes with an achievement referencing their career, specifically:
    • "I am not a crook" references Nixon's "Watergate Scandal" speech, where he denied involvement with illegal activities.
    • "I did not have sexual relations with that Bulldozer" references Clinton's "Lewinski Scandal" speech, where he denied having sex with an intern.
    • "Fool me once, shame on -shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again" references Bush Jr. infamously screwing up a famous saying "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me".
    • "Affordable Healthcare" references Obama's very controversial "Obamacare" health plans.
    • Averted with the Trump and Biden masks, which don’t get achievements.
  • Killing 50 Night Club enemies with your fists gets "The Eighth and Final Rule".
  • Getting 10 LMG kills in a row (without releasing the trigger) unlocks "Killin's As Easy As Breathing".
    • Additionally, getting 220 LMG kills in a single heist gets "They Drew First Blood, Not Me".
    • The achievements "In Town You're the Law, Out Here It's Me" (kill a jump-kicking cloaker with a shotgun) and "Don't Push It" (kill a charging cloaker with the Deagle pistol) are direct quotes from the aforementioned film.
  • Completing Mallcrasher on Death Wish earns "Came in like a wrecking ball", the icon of which copies the controversial music video.
  • Managing 15 knife kills while below 20% health (difficult at best) gets "I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed".
  • The "Watchdogs" achievements for completing it on Mayhem or above have an icon of the Doge meme.
  • The Big Bank map carries achievements titled "12 Angry Minutes" and "Entrapment."
  • Following the shotgun update, new achievements include "Lock, Stock & Eight Smoking Barrels", "Everyday I’m Shovelin'", "No Heist for Old Men", and "Four Monkeys".
  • The Gage Assault update carries a few of its own: "Unusual Suspects", "Hammertime", and "Big Bada Boom".
  • The Venomorph mask achievement "No One Can Hear You Scream" is a reference to Alien's tagline, "In space, no one can hear you scream".
  • The "Gone in 240 Seconds" achievement is a reference to the film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). Like the movie, the heist that the achievement is linked to is about stealing fancy cars.
  • 100 kills with the Eagle Heavy rifle unlocks the "Inception" achievement. The SCAR-H rifle, which the Eagle Heavy is based on, features in the film.
  • "Sounds of Animals Fighting" is named after an achievement in Hotline Miami. You earn it in Payday 2 when you complete the Hotline Miami heist with all four players wearing a different heist mask.
  • Completing GO Bank on Overkill and above without anyone on the team using their primary weapons earns "Eco Round", a reference to a strategy in Counter-Strike wherein a team buys as little as possible and relies on sidearms (usually with the expectation of much less success than the PAYDAY gang can hope for) to try and save money for better weapons in later rounds.
  • The addition of the Mayhem and Death Sentence difficulties added a whole slew of related difficulty achievements, packed with references:
    • Goat Simulator on Mayhem gets "There is no Goat Level", a reference to the infamous "Secret Cow Level" (which Blizzard continues to insist does not exist) of Diablo II.
    • Ukrainian Job on Death Sentence with One Down mechanic gets "Dmitri, Dearest of All My friends!", in reference to Max Payne.
    • Meltdown on Death Sentence with One Down gets "Dr. Strangevlad".
    • Firestarters' Death Sentence achievement is called "Some People Want to See the World Burn".
    • The Train Heist on Mayhem gets "3:10 to the Safehouse".
    • Golden Grin Casino on Death Sentence with One Down gets "Ocean's Four".
    • Transport: Park on Death Sentence with One Down gets "Holding Court on the Street", referencing The Town.
  • The 2016 Xmas heist is called "Stealing Xmas". You go in a shopping mall and gather items in which Vlad's drunken brother-in-law hid cocaine while running from the cops, and then Vlad decides he may as well get not only his coke back, but airlift the mall's Xmas tree via helicopter so he'd have the best tree ever. Fittingly, if you manage to steal all the optional loot (jewelry and cash) on Overkill or above - literally stealing Christmas - you get an achievement called The Grinch.
  • Getting eleven kills without reloading with the Lebensauger .308 sniper rifle from the Gage Ninja Pack, a WA2000, gets "Names Are for Friends, so I Don't Need One", the weapon and the achievement name both associated with Agent 47.
  • Hardcore Henry:
    • "Hardcore Heisters" is named after the film in question.
    • "What Is It Good For?" is a retort towards Jimmy's "This is fuckin' war baby!" line from the film.
    • "Take Out His Beating Heart, and Fucking Eat It!" refers to what he (jokingly) wants Henry to do to Akan to kill him.
    • "EZ" refers to what Henry writes on the wall to Estella at the end of the film.
  • Completing The Continentals' contracts on specific difficulties nets you quotes from the first two John Wick films:
    • "Noise Complaint" is what Charon says when an assassin tries to kill Wick on continental grounds in the first film.
    • "Baba Yaga", the oft-referred to monster Wick is compared to.
    • "I'd Like a Dinner Reservation for Twelve", a line said by Wick when getting rid of Viggo's gang that invaded his home in the first film.
  • Hitting the punching bag in the Safehouse gym and dealing enough damage to it in one attack gives you the achievement Draganborn, a clear reference to the Dragonborn of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fame.
  • The "Press [F] to Pay Respects" achievement is awarded when you pay your respects to a mummified corpse in the Shacklethorn Auction heist. This references Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and the infamous "F to pay respects" meme that blew up in popularity due to being an especially Narm-filled moment.
  • Scanning all four bodies in the heist Boiling Point without the Russians stopping the scan once (either directly or by cutting the power) awards an achievement named "Remember, No Russian".
  • Beating wave 9 of Holdout on the Mallcrasher heist gets the achievement "Halfoffius, God of the Mall." The episode "Married... with Aliens" has its plot kicked off when Al bangs his head against the statue of said God while looking for money in the mall's wishing pond.
  • The 2022 Mountain Master Heist has the achievement No Gnome Left Behind, which is earned by finding a gnome and completing the heist while carrying it - an obvious reference to the Guardin' Gnome achievement with Gnome Chompski in Left 4 Dead 2.

    References in Masks 
  • Two of the DLC weapon packs reference famous actors by their name and description:
  • The "Anonymous" mask copies the Guy Fawkes design in reference to Anonymous.
  • "Cthulhu" is a (somewhat blatant) reference to the Cthulhu Mythos.
  • The "Good ol' Al" design matches the design of anti-hero Spawn note 
  • Patterns "Aperture Science", "Companion Cube", "Portal", and "Piece of Cake" all refer to the Portal series.
  • "The Hog" Mask's description is almost straight out of one of Hotline Miami's phone messages.
  • "The Outlander" Mask's description makes a reference to I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
  • The Dillinger Deathmask is a reference to an infamous robber of the same name during the Great Depression era in the United States.
  • The Armored Transport DLC has unlockable US President masks, referencing Point Break (1991). The masks themselves reference the 37th, 42nd, 43rd and 44th Presidents. A later free update also added one for the then-newly-inaugurated 45th.
  • "Commander Crime" mask is a reference to Cobra Commander from GI Joe. Additionally, Dr. Crime refers to Doctor Doom.
  • The Troubled War Veteran, along with its description, is a pretty ham-fisted reference to Rambo.
  • "Sweettooth" acts as a cameo mask for PS3 players.
  • The "Brazil Baby" masks all reference ones worn in the movie Brazil.
  • The "Alpha Squad" DLC mask also notes it's worn by members of the ridiculed "4th Domestic Operation Group-force Enforcers" Alpha Team: abbreviated, it spells 4th DOGE-A.
  • The "Crossbreed" mask is a Tyranid Genestealer.
  • The "Venomorph" is a blatant Xenomorph/Venom mashup.
  • The Gage Assault masks are all allusions to comic villains: for example, Crow Goblin not only resembles Hobgoblin, but the description notes his true identity was retconned because the reveal was unsatisfactory.
  • The Jaw is in the image of the henchman Trap-Jaw from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, although with a skull underneath the mask instead of a humanoid face.
  • In the Infamy 2.0 update, the Heister Sentry mask was added. Apparently, it was supposed to come with a spandex suit as well. (Doubly funny considering Vlad's actor was a former Power Rangers Big Bad, Master Org.)
  • The "Tids" mask is the helmet of The Stig from Top Gear.
  • The "Mask of the Moon" is clearly designed after Majora's Mask.
  • The description for "Cloaker-san" mentions a Japanese infiltration unit called Anbu.
  • The "Zero 68" is a clear reference to cyborg-ninja Gray Fox, with "Zero" of course being another way of saying his old moniker of Null.
  • The "Optimist" mask is a reference to Optimus Prime.
  • The "War Face" mask is an obvious reference to Full Metal Jacket.
  • The "Killer" mask, which was added as part of the Dead by Daylight Community Pack, is an exact replica of the mask The Trapper wears in-game.
  • The "Mega Kevin" mask's description text about "ripping out the spine and screaming defiantly at the sky" is a reference to the MO of the Predator. It helps that it also bears a striking resemblance to the mask worn by the Yautja when hunting.
  • The "Shirai" mask description starts with "Get over here!"
  • The "Thespian" mask looks exactly like Master Chief's helmet.
  • The "Griefer" mask is modeled off of a Clicker from The Last of Us.
  • The "Satan" mask's description text references The Usual Suspects.
  • The "Electarodent" mask is a very obvious reference to Pikachu.
  • The "Titan" mask is modeled off Quadratus, from Shadow of the Colossus.
  • The "Floating Guy" mask is based on a Cacodemon from Doom.
  • The "Garreth" mask is based on Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect.
  • The 'Nun' mask is modeled off the ones worn in The Town.
  • The description text for the "Black Bird" mask quotes "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

    Misc References 

Skills/Perks/Upgrades:

  • The Mastermind:
    • The enemy conversion upgrade is called Joker.
  • The Enforcer:
    • Increased bag-movement speed and throwing distance is called "Transporter".
    • The ability that allows for higher endurance when interacting with objects is named "Die Hard".
    • The pre-rebalance perk that increased your hip-fire accuracy with shotguns, and later all weapons, is named "Hard Boiled", in reference to the film's main character, who on multiple occasions manages to kill two mooks at once with a single blast from a shotgun.
    • The portable saw belongs to the OVE9000 brand.
  • The Technician:
    • The first mine perk before the overhaul was "Demolition Man".
    • A perk that allows you to carry 2 sentry guns (4 when aced) is called "Tower Defense".
    • Post-overhaul, the entire line of skills focusing on the Sentry Gun is the Technician: Engineer line.
  • The Ghost:
  • The Fugitive:
    • Pre-Update 100 overhaul, an extra bodybag and lower cleaner costs was called "Winston Wolfe".
    • A perk that increases your draw speed and accuracy with pistols is called Equilibrium.
    • The image for "Nine Lives" is in the same pose as the stick figure from the title card of The Saint, complete with the halo.
  • The Sociopath:
  • The Ex-President:
    • The first unique perk is named "Point Break". The next three are named after three of the "Ozaki 8" from the remake - "The Emerging Force", "Life of Ice", and "Awakening Earth" - with the last one named for a phrase in relation to the Ozaki 8, "Perfect Line".
  • The Anarchist:
  • The Kingpin:
    • "Bad Guy Coming Through", "Play Rough", and "Right to the Top" are named after lines from Scarface (1983).

Skins

  • The legendary version of the Bootleg Rifle from the Chains safe is called the Mars Ultor rifle, possibly a reference to ancient Roman mythology, possibly a reference to the Red Faction games.
  • The "Vintage" Crosskill from the second Community Safe matches the color scheme of Naked Snake's custom M1911 from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The "Engravings" Peacemaker .45 from the third community safe likewise resembles the heavily-engraved SAA Ocelot picked up for himself in the very beginning of Operation Snake Eater.
  • A skin for the AMR-16 is named "Charlie Don't Surf".
  • Another skin for the AMR-16 is "The Bear", which gives the weapon a wooden stock and pistol grip - named in reference to the New California Republic from Fallout, with its looks mirroring the Service Rifle from New Vegas.
  • A third skin for the AMR-16, the Legendary "Astatoz", is modified to heavily resemble the AMR-B05 assault rifle from District 9.
  • The "This Rifle" skin for the Galant rifle has "THIS RIFLE KILLS PIGS" scratched into the stock in another New Vegas reference, resembling its "This Machine" rifle.
  • The "Loco" skin for the Locomotive 12G has a color scheme and pattern distinctly reminiscent of Thomas & Friends. Equipping a suppressor will give it Thomas' face as well, giving a maniacal grin on the end of the suppressor.

General

  • The teaser for the sequel has one to The Dark Knight.
  • A supermarket named Twenty Four Seven appears.
  • Answering a pager as Houston may prompt the response "Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now."
  • One of Wolf's pager responses is "Hell if I know. I read a Stephen King book though, started exactly like this..."
  • The crystal meth you cook in the first day of "Rats" is blue. If that was too subtle, Bain may say you should "break bad" and go into full-time meth-cooking if you decide to cook extra meth.
    Bain: Which one of you is Heisenberg? Hector wants to know.
    • In fact, variations on the phrase "break bad" get used a lot by the crew - it's even referenced in the lyrics to "Drifting."
    Wolf: (masking up) It's time to break bad.
  • The prototype turret in Transport: Train and Henry's Rock is a level 1 RED sentry gun. As of Hoxton's Housewarming Party, you can get one to put in the new safehouse, too.
  • One of the lines the Taser has is "Target center, pull the switch." As an added bonus, the VA for the tasers is Spike Spencer.
  • The Ukrainian Job's title may be a nod to The Italian Job.
  • Generic GenSec Personnel on Armoured Transport heists wear red uniforms. Generic security guards are also wearing red undershirts under their white uniforms.
  • When Chains throws a grenade or kills a standard enemy with a trip mine, he will sometimes quip "Surprise, muthafucka!". Some heisters will also say that as well.
  • Sometimes, when a heist enters a new key part (starting the heist, opening a large vault, escape vehicle arrives, wave begins etc.), Bain will paraphrase "Alright ramblers, let's get rambling."
    • Additionally, killing hostages will sometimes prompt Bain to say "Hey, Mr. Blonde! You been watching too many movies?!"exp. 
    • And now we've come full circle, with Update 168 adding a new heist called the "Reservoir Dogs Heist."
  • The Dentist trailer has a few nods:
    • Dr. Andersson is named after Bo and Ulf Andersson, the pair of brothers who founded GRIN and later became Overkill Software.
    • The Golden Grin Casino is a reference to Overkill's former studio, GRIN.
  • In the Golden Grin heist itself, you can be asked to spike "Pinky Demon schnapps".
  • Occasionally, the Bulldozer can enter shouting "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!"
  • The Taser may occasionally call himself Elec Man or Spark Man.
  • The stock ticker in the Big Bank heist shows listing for, among other things, Mann Co. and the various RED and BLU subsidiaries.
  • An update added a barbed wire wrapped bat, which explicitly belongs to Negan from The Walking Dead.
  • On day one of the Hotline Miami crossover heist, Bain may say when you start torching the mobsters' cars, "Some men just want to watch the wheels burn."
  • The melee weapon "Carpenter's Delight" is possibly a shoutout to Carpenter Brut, who did much of the soundtrack for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. The weapon being given to Jacket could also be a reference to Drive (2011), one of the influences to Hotline Miami and Jacket being based on the main character (who also used a carpentry hammer).
  • The Psyho Knife, true to it's name is a reference to Psycho. When fully charged, unique music similar to the leitmotif of Psycho begins to play. Upon closer inspection, an inscription on the blade says "Norman.B & Chucky's", not only referencing Norman Bates but also Chucky from the Child's Play franchise who also used a kitchen knife.
  • The inclusion of the FAMAS and Galil assault rifles as DLC is a reference to the very first gameplay footage released for the first game, which featured the FAMAS and Galil models from Counter-Strike: Source. Moreso considering the third weapon in that same DLC is a G3, with mod options to turn it into a somewhat-close approximation of the G3SG/1 used as the terrorists' automatic sniper.
  • The Gage Assault Pack's marketing is a fairly blatant reference to the Battlefield series, right down to the blue-and-orange cover art.
  • The addition of the John Wick cross-promotion DLC has come with a number of references to leading actor Keanu Reeves's previous roles, most notably his trademark "Woah."
  • One of the excuses Hoxton offers to the Pager Operator references a certain Kaiju film.
    Hoxton: I just saw a spider so big I think it was in Pacific Rim, but, ah, I'm fine now.
  • The Gruber Kurz pistol is named after Hans Gruber, who used a Walther PPK in the script for Die Hard (he used an H&K P7M13 in the final film and Karl used the PPK as his secondary).
  • On the Transport Heist: Harbor map is a billboard advertising the Meat Circus.
  • In Day 2 of the Hotline Miami heist, the Commissar may announce "You can't has Commissar!" as he rides the elevator up.
  • The caller ID on all office phones lists the caller as "idkfa12321", a reference to the Classic Cheat Code "idkfa" from Doom.note 
  • The eponymous treasure in "The" Diamond has changed between greedy hands over several centuries, leaving corpses in its wake due to its immeasurable value. In other words, it's The Maltese Falcon.
    • The fact that "The" Diamond is, well, a diamond, and considered to be a possible Artifact of Doom also makes it an equivalent to the Hope Diamond. One of the nicknames for "The" Diamond that Clover mentions in the teaser for The Diamond Heist is "The Chinese Blue," which is similar to one of the Hope Diamond's nicknames, "The Blue of France," and one of the previous owners seen in the flashbacks of the trailer was Marie-Antoinette, one of the Hope Diamond's first owners (and also a victim of its "curse" because of The French Revolution, in both Real Life and the trailer).
  • It's possible, even with all the intel, to wind up with two engines to choose from in Big Oil. Those engines are #7 and #10.
  • During the GO Bank raid, you may hear your pilot quickly whisper an unsubtitled "talk to me, Goose!"
  • One of Clover's pager responses is her telling the operator that she got scared reading an issue of The Walking Dead comic.
    • An AI-controlled Houston will sometimes comment on reviving a downed ally "I think I've seen you in The Walking Dead."
  • Dragan and Jiro are both Stevie Wonder fans, as one possible pager response for both of them show:
    Dragan: "I just called. To say. I love you. Over."
    • Dragan also appears to be a fan of Lionel Ritchie.
    "Hello? Is it me you're looking for? "
  • Dragan's bio ends with the phrase "Perhaps here, things will be different", a phrase previously found in a trailer for a game involving an Eastern European criminal looking for better opportunities in the United States.
  • The Spring Break header GIF◊ has Dallas, Houston, and Wolf bobbing their heads a la The Roxbury Guys.
  • At least one of the cars has plates reading STNL 427.
  • On the Road to Crimefest 2015 website, the animation of a heister earning a reward is quite clearly taken from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
  • The GenSec vault door on the Crimefest 2015 page opens just like a VaultTec vault door.
  • The MP9 appears in the game as the "CMP", which was the same fake name its predecessor, the TMP, was given in Perfect Dark.
  • Two attachments for the Broomhandle are the "Damper.L 44 Nozzle" barrel extension and the "Barrel Sight 44" scope. Attaching both essentially turns the weapon into a replica of the DL-44 blaster pistol from Star Wars, which was originally a rebuilt Mauser, complete with the gunshots changed to sound more like Star Wars blaster fire; you also get the achievement "So Uncivilized" (Obi-Wan's Bond One-Liner after killing General Grievous with his own blaster in Revenge of the Sith) for doing so.
    • The Patchett L2A1, a Sterling submachine gun, can likewise be made to resemble the Imperial Stormtroopers' blaster rifle with the Heatsinked Suppressed Barrel, Folded Stock and Short Mag. The Buzzsaw 42 (MG 42) also gets a Heatsinked Suppressed Barrel to make it look like the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle (built out of the MG 42's predecessor) carried by some stormtroopers in A New Hope.
  • The Lab Rats Halloween heist has a couple of references to horror films, courtesy of Bain.
    (when starting the heist) "You wanna play a game? A meth-cooking game?"
    (when an assault starts up) "One, two, cops are coming for you..."
    (when an assault starts up) "Here's Johnny!"
    • It even references a quote from Macbeth at certain points.
    (text before starting the heist) "We're working in the lab late tonight. Letting your eyes behold an eerie sight. Get cooking on the table, bubble and boil. And keep the cops from bringing trouble and toil."
    (if someone messes up the cooking) "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Mostly toil and trouble. Especially trouble."
  • The Baby Deagle, a Jericho 941 pistol added with the Point Break (2015) DLC, has a pair of attachments called the "Spike Kit" and "Spike Grip", which give it the appearance of Spike Spiegel's Jericho.
  • In GO Bank and some pager responses, one of the guards may be called Barney.
  • In the remade version of the Undercover job, the crew must make one last jump over a (narrow) gap to reach the escape. Bain might chime and tell the player that "Only a Persian prince could make that jump!".
  • One of two unique attachments for the Mosconi 12G shotgun, which shortens its barrels, is the "Road Warrior Barrel".
  • The "Jungle Ninja Suppressor" for pistols is based on the suppressor attached to the M1911 in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Its description even makes note that it was "wielded by a great warrior during the legendary sneaking mission in the 60's".
  • If doing the Alesso Heist loud and a fire breaks out in the pyro booth, Alesso might ask if you're "cooking pork chop sandwiches," and then whispers "I'm a computer."
    • The weapon added with the Alesso Heist DLC, a Mateba autorevolver, is named the "Matever", after a mistranslation of its name from Ghost in the Shell (1995).
  • The picture for the asset in Ukrainian Job giving you the code for the shutters if the heist goes loud shows that said code is 1138.
    • First World Bank if you go the stealth route has a few more Star Wars references; when you acquire the code to open the way to the vault, Bain may tell you that the code is 1138, and the teller who assists you may note when you enter it on the keypad that "it's an older code, but it checks out".
  • The Medic occasionally sings the chorus to "Painkiller" when he appears.
  • Scarface occasionally quotes his own movie in his pager responses, such as excusing himself by claiming he was saying hello to his little friend.
    Hey, control, I was just thinking about joining the army. You know, see the world, meet interesting people, and kill them. What do you say?
  • At some point in the Stealing Xmas heist, one of the tasks may be to get the coke out of shoes, which can either be in the storage room or the back office. If it's the former, it involves opening storage crates, which may bring out the following from Vlad:
    Vlad: Fucking boxes everywhere... it's like that video game!
  • Occasionally SWAT team members can be hear asking dispatch to "bring me everyone, you heard me everyone."
  • One of the pictures in the art gallery appears to be almost explicitly Cherry from Studio Killers with her look appearing to be from the video "Ode To The Bouncer".note 
  • One of the staff members in the San Martin heist is named B. B. Rodriguez.
  • One of the safe brands is called "Frank Yeager", which is based on the fictional safe-making company "Franz Jäger" from the Olsen-banden film series. The Alesso Heist mission also revolves around timing the detonation of C4 to a concert performed by Swedish DJ Alesso, similar to the scene in Olsen Banden Ser Rødt (and a scene from the Swedish Foreign Remake series' entry Jönssonligan spekar högt) where noisy attempts to break in are masked by orchestral music.
  • The Payday 2 11th anniversary added multiple references to The Godfather. The image that Overkill released onto social media has the text evoke the title card of the film, a join stinger called "Can't Refuse" that is very closely modelled on the chorus of Speak Softly Love (the Godfather theme tune), it added a hat that resembles the ones worn in the film, and a 1920's tailored suit that is also modelled on the ones seen the films.

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