Trivia / The Stupendium

• Actor Allusion: "The Fright Before Christmas" includes the line "Frank Whittle sounds familiar, but I’m sure it’s just coincidence". That character is voiced by Stupendium themself.
• Ascended Fanboy: They admit in this Q&A video that listening to Dan Bull inspired them to become a musician; the two are now frequent collaborators.
• Approval of God:
  • 11 Bit Studio loved "Shelter from the Storm", the Board (Remedy Entertainment) noted "Slide Into the Void" was fire/satisfactory and the Death and Taxes Youtube channel called their song an "absolute certifiable banger".
  • Innersloth themselves commented under "An Impostor Calls", calling the song great.
  • Glowstick Entertainment gave their praise to "Don't Let The Bellhops Bite".
  • A possible one from Stupes themself may be found in "Toybox" from "Fiend Like Me". A Commenter on Fiend Like Me actually made an attempt at a lore post calling the Villain Character "Stewart Pendium".
    R3QV13m: Behold Stewart Pendium. A reclusive multi-trillionare that made waves in the financial world by managing a complete buyout of TF Industies and now uses the combined services of Builders League United and Reliable Excavation Demolition to further his numerous new holdings and operations. the man is known to employ the services of multiple mercenaries, a sadistic former school mathematics teacher, a casino owner who also is known to dabble in automated defense systems, and a master of infiltration and espionage known simply as "The Goose".
    • Then comes Toybox and the "Stuart Pendium" ID card and a Comment from that OP.
      R3QV13m: i remember calling your character in fiend like me stuart pendium in my comment/ lore attempt. even if i wasn't the direct inspiration for that id card i'm tickled pink to see that actually in a stupendium vid. gg.
    • The fact that Stupes Hearted this comment, while not being a full approval, does lend some credit to this...
  • Steel Wool Studios replied to the tweet announcing "A Pizza The Action", calling the song "absolute perfection".
• Creator Breakdown: A 'mild' example, but the especially sombre and bleak "Open The Sky" was created out of Stupes' own sadness and longing after they were unable to attend a U.S. Nerdcore convention that had already been (repeatedly) delayed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, as they had contracted the virus. The song is, appropriately, a claustrophobic, despairing lament edged with bitter hope.
• Fake American: Stupes as Robert Edwin House in "The House Always Wins," Joey Drew in the intro to "Art of Darkness," J. Jonah Jameson in "Pictures of Spider-Man," Arthur Morgan in "The West Was One," Zachariah Trench and Casper Darling in "Slide Into The Void", Crazy Redd in "Rogue's Gallery", Elliot Ludwig in "The Toybox" and Alan Wake in "The Ribbon".
• Homage: In a breakdown video for The Fine Print, Stupes explained that the lyrics "Work work hurry hurry. Work work worry worry" is a direct reference to the Monty Python song "Silly Walk", and was reincorporated as a background element of The Fine Print as it fit the corporate work theme.
• Milestone Celebration: Upon reaching 1 million subscribers, Stupendium remade their first song, "Amateur Wordsmith", updating and improving the lyrics.
• Outdated by Canon: As Stupendium themself admits, "Don't Let the Bellhops Bite" was written when only the first couple chapters of Dark Deception were released. As such, the beginning of the song alludes to "the fourth and fifth circle of Hell" despite it later being revealed that the Dark Dimension is not the Christian Hell.
• Production Lead Time: A variant in that because of the ambitious production, the Stupendium has to work on these well in advance to the game's release date and have to spend a lot of resources on them, which means that they have to stick with songs even if the games they're based off of receive a negative reception or at least are mired in controversy, which was admitted to be the case for:
  • "Vault Number 76" (Fallout 76)
  • "The Data Stream" (Cyberpunk 2077)
  • "The Toybox" (Poppy Playtime)
• Word of Gay: Cassie Haversham from "Neath" is confirmed as a pansexual gender-fluid transwoman by Stupendium on Twitter, and her pronouns are "she/they".

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