Both Superman and Batman's "Super Moves" are a reference to their own Hollywood films.
When Superman performs his "Super Move" he'll beat his opponent in the sky, the same way he did with General Zod in their final battle from "The Man of Steel". And when Batman performs his "Super Move", he'll summon the Batwing to drag his opponent up to the sky, pausing in front of the moon to make the Batman symbol, the same way it did in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie, when Batman fought against the Joker.
When Superman performs his "Super Move" he'll beat his opponent in the sky, the same way he did with General Zod in their final battle from "The Man of Steel". And when Batman performs his "Super Move", he'll summon the Batwing to drag his opponent up to the sky, pausing in front of the moon to make the Batman symbol, the same way it did in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie, when Batman fought against the Joker.
Contributed by ProtoSnake
Demitri's Midnight Bliss attack turns Ryu into a young girl with a siver jar. This girl is the same one that appeared in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.
Contributed by ZpaceJ0ck0
In the US release of the Game Boy Advance port, a hidden developer message can be found in the game's files. The message is of a copypasta that circulated via emails and groups during the mid-90s. The message reads:
I LIKE MONKEYS. I like monkeys. The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys. I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing. I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys...I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys. I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad...I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed...I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad...I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving. I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better. I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones. I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals. I like monkeys.
This same message can also be found in the Game Boy Advance release of Hot Wheels: Velocity X which was also developed by Saffire Corporation.
I LIKE MONKEYS. I like monkeys. The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys. I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing. I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys...I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys. I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad...I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed...I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad...I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving. I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better. I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones. I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals. I like monkeys.
This same message can also be found in the Game Boy Advance release of Hot Wheels: Velocity X which was also developed by Saffire Corporation.
Contributed by KnowledgeBase
Throughout the game, there are several NPC Revenants that are references to Team Ninja's works:
Shibasawa Kou - The game's producer
Samurai_Gaiden - Ninja Gaiden
Shadow Warrior - The European name of Ninja Gaiden
RebootRygar - Rygar
GITAROO-MAN - Gitaroo Man
theJaquio - The main villain from Ninja Gaiden
Holy_San - Holy Vigoor Emperor from Ninja Gaiden
Genshin07 - Genshin from Ninja Gaiden II
LOA.test.subject.1 - Lords of Alchemy from Ninja Gaiden 3
IreneIsMyHero - Irene Lew from the original Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
Dr. Smith - Dr. Walter Smith from Ninja Gaiden (NES)
oinin_AYANE - Ayane from Dead or Alive
nukenin_KASUMI - Kasumi from Dead or Alive
ZACK - Zack from Dead or Alive
GARI - Dr. Gari from Tecmo Secret of the Stars
KarmicPunishment - The curse from Ninja Gaiden 3
Hajinmon4Life - Ayane's fighting style, Hajin Mon
dropped_by_izuna - The Izuna Drop move from Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive
Shibasawa Kou - The game's producer
Samurai_Gaiden - Ninja Gaiden
Shadow Warrior - The European name of Ninja Gaiden
RebootRygar - Rygar
GITAROO-MAN - Gitaroo Man
theJaquio - The main villain from Ninja Gaiden
Holy_San - Holy Vigoor Emperor from Ninja Gaiden
Genshin07 - Genshin from Ninja Gaiden II
LOA.test.subject.1 - Lords of Alchemy from Ninja Gaiden 3
IreneIsMyHero - Irene Lew from the original Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
Dr. Smith - Dr. Walter Smith from Ninja Gaiden (NES)
oinin_AYANE - Ayane from Dead or Alive
nukenin_KASUMI - Kasumi from Dead or Alive
ZACK - Zack from Dead or Alive
GARI - Dr. Gari from Tecmo Secret of the Stars
KarmicPunishment - The curse from Ninja Gaiden 3
Hajinmon4Life - Ayane's fighting style, Hajin Mon
dropped_by_izuna - The Izuna Drop move from Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive
Contributed by DrakeVagabond
One of the random peasants you can encounter in the game is Vitas Varnas, a reference to the actor, Did You Know Gaming? writer and Game Grumps contributor of the same name. Vitas is also credited in the game's credits under "The Noble Nobles".
Contributed by KnowledgeBase
The background of Green Hill Zone Act 2 was inspired by an early prototype version of Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog.
Contributed by SkyminHAZBOZ
Segata Sanshiro, a character that was created as part of an advertising campaign for the Sega Saturn, appears as an assist character in this game. He makes multiple references to the console, as well as a reference to one of his advertisements when partnered with Sakura and Gemini. He even references the different difficulty levels of the Fire Emblem series when partnered with Chrom and Lucina.
Contributed by Dreadedpotato
The Ninja Hurk poster in Lilac's Treehouse was put in as nod to the Marvel character The Incredible Hulk, who Lilac's voice actress Dawn M. Bennet is a huge fan of.
Contributed by SkyminHAZBOZ
When Orbot installs a new voice chip for Cubot, he says "The think bone's connected to the talk bone, the talk bone's connected to the mouth bone...". This is a reference to Dem Bones, a traditional song written by James Weldon Johnson.
Contributed by SonicNicholas1995
When the player meets an Eskimo in an empty room, he will say "I’m Eskimo. There’s nothing here" in the English version, while on the original Japanese release he will say "I am an Eskimo. You didn’t call for me? Oops. My mistake". This is a reference to a comedy gag created by Japanese comedian Hitoshi Ueki during a broadcast of the comedy show Shabondama Holiday.
Contributed by ZpaceJ0ck0
During a scene in which the group is talking in Futaba's room, Yusuke will rearrange the poses of Futaba's sentai action figures into the poses of the Ginyu Force from Dragon Ball Z.
Contributed by Zap Rotech
As a tribute to the game's community member Iniquity and his dog, Onyx, who had passed away on June 25th, 2017, Respawn Entertainment included in an update a callsign banner featuring Onyx.
Contributed by KnowledgeBase
In a Clash dialogue with Solomon Grundy and Hawkgirl, Solomon will call her "Bird-Nose" and reference their friendship in an episode of the Justice League animated series; "The Terror Beyond".
Contributed by SonicNicholas1995
A hidden debug room remained hidden and undiscovered in the game until an interview with the developers surfaced 20 years later in Retro Gamer magazine. Interacting with a matchbox near a flickering street light outside the Morgue in a specific way would warp the player into a room containing various items (including one thought to be unused in the final game) and warps to every level in the game.
Contributed by KidDivinegon
During one of the cutscenes after Cubot has his body destroyed, Orbot says "Alas, poor Cubot. I knew him well". This is a reference to the often misquoted line from Shakespeare's Hamlet; "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio".
Contributed by CuriousUserX90
When a new game is started in Persona 5, the player is prompted to accept that the game is a work of fiction. Refusing to accept this prompt will have the player told they're not allowed to play the game and being asked to leave, then returning to the title screen.
Contributed by KidDivinegon
Hitting the opponent into the movie sign in the Gotham City stage enough times will have the letters spell out "FINISH HIM" and darken the background. A reference to Mortal Kombat, another title from NetherRealm Studios
Contributed by SonicNicholas1995
At the end of Spoiler:Catwoman/Cyborg's Chapter, Spoiler:Catwoman will say the Brother Eye override authorization code, "LK-4D4", a reference to Mortal Kombat's Cyrax.
Contributed by SonicNicholas1995
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