List of cultural references: Difference between revisions

*Girls' Frontline

**In the third part of {{doll name|Type 64|SMG|4|costume=costume3}}'s Neural Upgrade story, {{doll name|M99|RF|5}} quotes Lü Meng from the Book of Wu in the ''Records of the Three Kingdoms'': "A scholar's absence of three days thereafter must be viewed under new light" (士别三日当刮目相待). She uses the quote to praise Type 64's growth.

**In 8-3N, {{doll name|AUG|AR|5}} and {{doll name|IWS 2000|RF|5}} quote Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'', from Plutarch, on a conversation between Julius Caesar and the seer Spurinna, who had foreseen his assassination that day: “The Ides of March are come, Spurinna,” “Aye, Caesar; but not gone.” AUG uses the quote to invite IWS not to claim victory too soon, and IWS immediately notes that the quote is probably apocryphal anyway.

**[[Singularity]] opens with an extract of John Rawls' ''A Theory of Justice'': “The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. Being first virtues of human activities, truth and justice are uncompromising”. The quote could be a commentary on {{doll name|M4A1|AR|4}}'s increasingly violent actions during this chapter.

**The [[Longitudinal Strain]] chapter “3-α2 Wind, Sand and Stars” is titled after a novel from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is relevant to Longitudinal Strain because it is the novel on which Saint-Exupéry's later book ''Le Petit Prince'' was based, and this novel is tied to [[Minor Characters#Pavel|Pavel]]. Pavel also mentions ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' in the same story.

**The title of [[The Summer Garden of Forking Paths]] references the book ''The Garden of Forking Paths'' by Jorge Luis Borges. The “Summer Garden” part is related to the [[Arthur Hume|Hume Dolls]].

*Project Neural Cloud

**[[Magrasea]] is named in reference to Magrathea in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (H2G2). It is no coincidence that Magrasea was created by [[42LAB]] given the importance of the number 42 in H2G2.

**In ''Engrammatic Eclipse'' Part 6, [[Sangoma]] warns the Professor not to insist on uncovering her secrets by invoking the story of the Crane Repaying a Favor. This is a Japanese folk tale (Tsuru no Ongaeshi) where a magical crane bird turns into a human woman and marries the man who saved her before making him rich. When the man discovers his wife's secret, she disappears.

**''Photoluminescence'' opens with a quote from book XXII of the Ancient Greek epic ''The Illiad'', in Samuel Butler's translation: “Die; for my part I will accept my fate whensoever Jove and the other gods see fit to send it.”

**The Professor's adventures during the [Snowy Encounters] seasonal event in the closet land of Arnina facing the Great Winter, are in reference to ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', specifically its first book ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''.

*Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium

***Two chapters are titled after classical French books: ''Artificial Paradises'' by Charles Baudelaire and ''La Fontaine’s Fables''.

**In [[The Summer Garden of Forking Paths]], {{doll name|Stevens M520|SG|5}} becomes nicknamed Reinette and {{doll name|Stevens M620|SG|5}} Mirabelle after French film ''Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle'' ("Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle"), which tells the misadventures of rural artist Reinette, helped by her more worldly friend Mirabelle. M620 mocks M520 by assigning her Reinette's name, especially since she explicitly names the movie in E5.

*Project Neural Cloud

**{{hero name|Croque|guard|3}} makes general references to mecha anime, but a specific parody of the theatre poster for the first ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' movie can be seen in one of her costumes.

**April Fools event Projections are references to ACG or movies, like ''Ashita no Joe'' ({{hero name|Magnhilda|warrior|3}}), ''Kung-Fu Hustle'' ({{hero name|Daiyan|sniper|3}}) and ''Bocchi the Rock'' ({{hero name|Undine|specialist|3}}).

**[[Mysterious Warrior Omega]]'s color scheme is inspired by Rider Build - Genius Form from the Heisei-era ''Kamen Rider Build'' tokusatsu series. His pose is also similar to the main promo shot for an action figure of the same character by S.H.Figuarts.

==Music==

**“3-γ2 Courante”, “5-α6 Chaconne”, “23 Con Espressione”, “35-N3 Minuet” and farming maps “Quartet Rondo” and “Quintet Rondo”, labeled Largo, Andante and Presto in Normal, Hard and Nightmare difficulties, use vocabulary from Renaissance and Baroque music. “5-α8 Stradivarius’ Magic” is named after the famous instruments of the Stradivari family. “35-W3 Tour di Mantova” references the Italian town of Mantua, important in the musical history of Renaissance.

**Other opera references include “3-γ1 Méditation from Thaïs”, titled after the piece “Méditation” from Jules Massenet's ''Thaïs'', and “5-β7 Cavalleria Rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni.

*''Children of Bodom'' and their single ''In Your Face'' are mentioned in [[Suomi (GFL2)|Suomi]]'s [[Dusty Memories#Deputy Leader|Dusty Memory]]. The reference is original to the CN script.

**Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is also mentioned in Slow Shock by aspiring poet Pan, who criticizes his work as too obscure.

*On {{doll name|M21|RF|3}}'s memento for [[Notebook/Mystery of the Bewitching Figure]], the quote “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one” is from the play ''Der Sohn der Wildnis'' by Friedrich Halm.

*[[Odile]] and [[Odette]] are respectively the names of the Black and White Swan in Tchaikovsky's ballet ''Swan Lake''.

**Jiutian Sector (九天) means "Ninth Heaven" and its administrator is named [[Xuannu]] (玄女, Xuannü) after the Daoist goddess of the Ninth Heaven.

*In [[Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium]], [[Poludnitsa]] is named after a Slavic demon, the “Noonwraith”, who causes heatstrokes and madness.

*Enemy mechs in [[Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery]] are named after slavic deities (most of them of dubious attribution due to lack of primary sources): Svarog, Khors, Simargl, Porevit, Marzanna, Filins, Devana and Jarilo.

**[[Svarog Heavy Industries]] is also named after a slavic deity.

Unsre Heimat ist heute vor G&K. (Today, our home is in front of G&K)

**The title of [[Cartesian Theater]] references the absurd concept of consciousness being the result of observation by another internal consciousness, which is a circular logic.

*Project Neural Cloud

**{{hero name|Vee|warrior|3}}'s ''Sweet Alluring Pink'' costume depicts a Dendy Junior II video game console, a Nintendo Family Computer clone mainly sold in post-Soviet countries.

*An interesting case of cultural overlap occurs in [[Dusty_Memories#Discordant Pitch|Discordant Pitch]] in [[Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium]], when [[Jiangyu (GFL2)|Jiangyu]] makes a three-fingers gesture to swear an oath. Given Jiangyu's Chinese cultural theming, this most probably refers to the gesture where the index, middle and ring fingers are extended up, which can be seen in many examples of Chinese stories across time periods (though the number of extended fingers can vary). In the Western world, the same gesture, usually known as the “Boy Scout salute”, appeared and took the same meaning independently, and so Jiangyu's gesture can be easily understood across cultures (another three-fingers oath gesture using the thumb instead of the ring finger is also used in Germanic cultures).

*The [[Reverse Collapse Collection]] contain more references.

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