Shout Out / Rebuild

• The tooltip text for the chainsaw is "Find some meat!", which is the same text that was displayed on screen in the Doom series when the player picks up a chainsaw.
• Many "random" character names:
  • The developer, Sarah Northway, and her family members sometimes appear as characters.
  • "Ash" Campbell is another such "random" character name.
  • Charles Carmichael
  • Moe Howard
  • Jerry O'Connell
  • Nadia or Natasha Kerrigan
  • Lance Armstrong
• A survivor that comes from an incident is a tall thin black guy named Bolaji Badejo, which is the name of the actor who played the Alien in Alien.
• The Luddies, and their leader, Ludd, are references to Ned Ludd and the anti-Industrial Revolution "Luddites" that bore his name.
• One of the buildings in 2 and 3, the "office building," sports the name Initech.
• The coffee shop signage resembles the Starbucks logo.
• The fast food buildings are named McNoodles', an imaginary fast food soba/udon chain, with a three-humped golden-arch logo.
  Mr. Clark: The noodles are supposed to be cold, it's zaru udon for goodness's sake!
• When Daria of the L33TCrew shows up for a meeting, she shouts "Hack The Planet!"
• When the secret of the Pig Farmers is finally discovered conclusively, one character quote-checks Soylent Green. The final stage of the mission name-checks it as well.
• Missions:
  • Beware the Beast Man
  • The mission to infiltrate the Pig Farmers' farm has stages named after lines of This Little Piggy.
  • The mission to create the mc-g1fn part for the power plant completes with the engineer saying "all we need is a little Energon, and a lot of luck."
• Weapons/items:
  • Swords:
  • Sword of Loathing
  • Durandal is the sword of Roland, paladin of Charlemagne
  • Gram is the sword of Sigurd with which he killed the dragon Fafnir
  • Poking Stick is probably a reference to World of Warcraft: [1]
  • A +3 pistol called the Pea Shooter. "Shoots actual peas."
  • A hand-attached chainsaw with the flavor text "Groovy" is a premium item.
  • KITT is another premium item.
  • The regular car has a "surprisingly spacious trunk".
  • The hammer has flavor text of "Bang bang went Maxwell’s silver hammer"
  • The two versions of the rifle each quote parts of the Rifleman's Creed, possibly as a reference to Full Metal Jacket
  • The flavor text for the chainsaw is simply "Find some meat!"
  • The flavor text for the regular saw is "Man, those were some bad movies"
  • The text for the cowboy hat is "This town ain't big enough for two sheriffs"
  • The text for the whip is "Reinact [sic] your favorite scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark"
  • The text for the stick is "Everyone knows Donatello has the longest range attack"
  • Mierfa's Nunchuks is a reference to Mierfa Durgas of MS Paint Adventures Homestruck series.
  • Rufus' Bangarang
  • The book "FTB-9000 Guide" is likely a reference to the Fear the Boot RPG podcast
  • The book Jarvis' Science 101
• Pets:
  • Mr. Peanutbutter
  • Barfolomew
  • Mr. Mittens
• Incidents:
  • "They're Coming To Get You, Barbara"
  • "Little Hobo"
    "I think I'll call him London if I ever see him again."
  • "Cult of the Dead Cow"
  • The event name "I Remember You", where one of your survivors has to deal with putting down a family member.
  • On one occasion your scavengers will run into a man fighting zombies on his own, shouting things like "Come get some" and "Hail to the king".
• Some characters wear Northway Games or Incredipede T-shirts.
• Locations:
  • The office tower has an Incredipede logo on the top. In one mission, the building is referred to as the "Incredicorp" building.
  • The description of the Bar opens with "Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name."
  • One of the possible alternate city names is "Azure City".
  • The police station and the motel both have "El Barto" graffitied on it.
  • The motel is "Motel 66", a reference to Motel 6. However, one of the numbers on the sign has come partially unattached, resulting in the amusing name "Motel 69".
  • "8-12" convenience stores.
  • "XXOR" gas stations, which doubles as a Nerd Joke.
  • "All-Mart" superstores.
  • "Land O' Drugs" is probably a reference to the Canadian chain London Drugs.
  • The drive-in movie theater is (was) playing Dawn Of The Dead.
  • The MegaMall has a few shoutouts:
  • The movie posters both star Lucas Lee—"Let's Hope There's A Heaven" and "Action Doctor," both titles taken from the Scott Pilgrim universe.
  • "Action Doctor" also appears on the regular mall.
  • The mall theater chain is "ANC", a reference to AMC chain
  • A red bullseye logo sign (Target reference) has fallen to the ground
  • The mall sign reads "Monroeville Mall." Dawn Of The Dead was filmed at the Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania.
  • Tim's Workshop may be a reference to Home Improvement.
  • The karate dojo has a poster sporting the Cobra Kai logo.
  • GamePop is a reference to GameStop video game store chain.
  • The bar is "Joes," which resembles Moe's Tavern (or perhaps even its alter ego) in its windows, door, and wood patterned facade.
• Achievements:
  • "Omegaman" when a character gets to level 10 in everything.
  • "Clear" when you get 50% of your faction to become cultists, references Church of Happyology.
  • "Cow clicker" when you grow a certain amount of food.
  • "Jonestown" when you convert an entire NPC faction to Cultists references 70s doomsday cult leader Jim Jones.
• When selecting the policy on who gets the luxuries, part of the text is "...I know we're all equal, but aren't some of us more equal than others?"

• The Soldier ending in Rebuild 1 had your soldiers literally being sent into hell through a portal in a graveyard to close it up, almost like they were making room in hell...
• Survivors report success with lines like "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.", "Yipee-ka-yay" or "Groovy".
• Fortification missions for Malls and All-Marts mention Dawn of the Dead (1978) by name.
• Land of the Dead is referenced sometimes during 'Kill Zombies' missions as having used fireworks as a distraction.

• One of the melee weapons you can equip is a board with nails in it. The description is a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all.
• The humble stick's description references Donatello.
• The ax is described as a scavenger's best friend.
• The knife's description makes a reference to Rambo.
• The baseball bat's description reads swing away.
• An event in Penticton asks you to choose between one of three games to perform a little espionage. One of them is called SBURB. There is also a more powerful version of the nunchucks which are called 'Mierfa's Nunchucks'. Mierfa was a fan character that won a contest, the prize for which was a cameo in the comic and who was, naturally, equipped with nunchucks.
• There's a gun called the Pea Shooter which is more powerful than a regular pistol and grants the Green Thumb perk.
• Every rifle has a part of the Rifleman's Creed in its description, and is likely a deliberate Shout-Out to Full Metal Jacket, in which the creed was repeatedly featured.
• One of the names for the golden retriever is Mr. Peanutbutter.
• Mirror Earth is an actual book. However Crawford and Yeo are hockey players and have nothing to do with the book in question.
• A pair of binoculars are described as Moore's Binocs, a reference to writer Patrick Moore and his Binocular Astronomy series.
• The Feynman Lectures was a real textbook containing the Richard Feynman lectures on physics.
• The whip's description naturally makes mention of Indiana Jones.
• Andy's whip, described as 'more of a toy than anything' may be a reference to Toy Story.
• The leader of the technology spurning vegetarian farmers is named Ludd
• The hammer item's description references Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
• One of the possible first names is Urist
• One of the science books you can find is a Guide to FTB 9000
• One of the named swords you can find is the Sword of Loathing
• The "Rebellious" trait icon looks like the Rebel Alliance Starbird.