EVERY Reference in Enter the Gungeon

Enter the Gungeon features a maelstrom of media references as you descend into the Gungeon to kill your past. Join me as I explain every single one I could find!

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00:00 Intro
0:49 Buyee (Sponsored)
1:24 Gungeoneers/Pasts
8:15 Guns
1:10:38 Items
1:43:45 Enemies
1:50:49 Bosses
1:59:26 NPCs
2:08:56 Shrines
2:10:41 Achievements
2:13:03 The End

[jennietsai]

In the video you mention Ty Cobb having the highest batting average in history. He does have the highest career batting average in history, but the highest single season batting average belongs to Hugh Duffy, who hit .440 in 1894

(There’s some reports of players having a higher batting average before that, but those came from leagues who’s stats aren’t as trustworthy because they weren’t recorded as reliably)

Love your work and the video ❤

[rumncoke]

I knew that Gungeon had a lot of references in it, but didn't know that, like, 90% of anything present in the game is actually a direct homage to something else

[constantdemonics]

The Hunter’s past is *also* a reference to Frankstein and Frankenstein’s monster

[pixelcatmagic]

57:16 "The Kiln" might be an anagram of link but a kiln is also an appliance used for pottery which bakes the pottery so it's hard. Kilns literally fire pots.

[Gakulon]

It probably should also be mentioned that the Triple Gun's quote "Bullet the Stampede" is a play on the main character of Trigun's full name, Vash the Stampede

[HumanoidDerpling]

1:04:21 The tagline "What Army?" is probably a dual reference to "you and what army?" and real life Army Ants.

[strawwpurry]

21:13 love kirby and love the kirby reference

[lukii]

I thought the gundromeda strain could also be a reference to nuclear throne's "scarier face" mutation, which has the effect of reducing the enemy's health, but also having crystal's face in the sprite

[bigsammichthoughts]

I'd like to mention that the R&G Department floor has a couple of references in its name. There's the reference to R&D, Research and Development, a department of game studios, as well as RNG, which stands for random number generation, something that Gungeon features very heavily, being a rougelike game. It is also possible that R&G stands for "run and gun, " referring to the gameplay of Gungeon, even though Gungeon is not actually a run and gun game in the genre sense.

[WaldoWheresReal]

The Ammonomicon description of the Blobulon mentions a disastrous winter campaign through a particularly cold region of space, which is in reference to Napoleon's failed campaign of Rusaia

[cowboytuba]

I always knew someone would eventually cover all the references and I gotta say you did a great job. Nice presentation and kept a good pace while still giving each reference their due time.

[CritikalJari]

I also think the pinkness of the pink elephants that the elephant gun shoots in the synergy is highely likely a reference to the Pink Elephant sequence in Dumbo

[Evanz]

This feels like the content I knew I wanted from ETG YouTubers, but didn’t know I wanted. Thank you so much, ToastyToes! <3

[KingDannyBoy]

For the Siren’s “Brave New World” synergy, I believe the name may partially be a reference to the famous line given by the character of Miranda in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the line being “Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!”
It’s worth commenting that Miranda is meeting other humans for the first time, hence the line. There is also a character in the play named Ariel, and the line is used for the title of Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World.”

I looked it up and saw this info wasn’t on the wiki, so I wanted to share here! Great work on the video!

[SingingGir]

1:04:51 - Alien Engine is a reference to Super Mutant Alien Assault. The engine's color scheme and attack method are strong indications of it's obscure origin.

[BlueCoreBard]

I'm not 100% sure of this, but the Casey could also be an homage to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character Casey Jones, someone who uses sport equipment as armor and weaponry. While he prefers a hockey stick he is also seen with a baseball bat on multiple occasions

[matthewgamer]

2:01 in half life you play as gordon freeman (a scientist at black mesa) and push a crystal into a big laser thing and directly cause the resonance cascade. The combine aren't relevant until half life 2

[SpathiCaptainFwiffo]

i watched all of this, and I am completely sure that this absolute mad lad,
managed to find AT MOST 80% of the references in this game

[Hammerheadcomedy]

i always thought the link-a-like character wanted a map because (at least in my experience watching my mom and dad play ocarina of time) you actually had to get a notebook and keep track of the dungeon you were in for fear of being lost, you literally had to craft your own map

[a_random_lizard]

a little addition to Gunther: the way Gunther looks to the left and right is a reference from DOOM where Doomslayer's icon on the bottom centre of the screen sometimes does that when he's idling