Cultural References

NGU-Idle is rife with references to popular culture and various works of fiction. This page will attempt to list them all. [work in progress]
== Bosses ==
Subject 	Description 	Number
Skeleton 	A popular meme of a CGI skeleton playing the trumpet. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skull-trumpet-doot-doot 	8
Fast Zombie 	An enemy NPC introduced in Half Life 2. https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Zombie 	12
Rat Of Unusual Size (R.O.U.S)	Creatures featured in The Princess Bride (1987). https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/R.O.U.S. 	15
Fairy 	The magical creatures featured in various Legend of Zelda games. https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Fairy 	16
T-800 	A reference to the T-800 Terminator from the Terminator series. https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-800 	30
Giant Moles 	An homage to the Guardian Digger bosses found in Earthbound, a 1994 JRPG for the SNES. https://earthbound.fandom.com/wiki/Guardian_Digger 	33-37
Kid On A Cloud 	Reference to Son Goku from the original Dragon Ball anime. https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Goku 	38
Oriental Dragon 	Reference to the wish-granting dragon, Shenron, from the original Dragon Ball anime. https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Shenron 	40
Lester 	Reference to the Lakitu enemy type in the Mario series. https://www.mariowiki.com/Lakitu 	41
A Weird Two-Headed Guy 	This is the character Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox 	46
A Bird Person 	A Bird Person is a reference to Big Bird from Sesame Streethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bird. 	47
The Rat God 	This is a reference to Eminem and his song titled "Rap God" 	51
Security Guards 	These bosses are a reference to a species of aliens called Gromflomites featured in Rick and Morty. https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Gromflomites 	53,54,56,57
Spiky Haired Guy 	This character is just Rick from Rick and Morty. https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Rick_Sanchez 	58
Friday 	There are two references here. The first that the calendar shows Friday the 13th, which is a superstitious unlucky day as well as a popular horror film franchise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(disambiguation). The story text "Getting down on Friday.." is a reference to the song Friday by Rebecca Black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0	63
A Super Hexagon 	This is a reference to the video game "Super Hexagon". https://superhexagon.com/ 	71
Crasper, the Pissed Off Ghost	This is another double reference, this time to Casper the Friendly Ghost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost and the Scumbag Steve meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-steve 	76
A Metal Slime 	A Metal Slime is an enemy that appears in the Dragon Quest video game series. https://dragonquest.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_slime 	85
Kenny and Vic 	These bosses are references to the hosts of the show Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Extreme_Elimination_Challenge 	87,88
743 pissed off Cuckoos 	This is a reference to the Chicken-like species, the cucco, in the Legend of Zelda video game series, where if you attack one, your character will be swarmed and attacked by a large number of cuccos. https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Cucco 	
A Cyberdemon 	The Cyberdemon is a enemy in the Doom video game series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdemon 	96
Butter-Passing Robot 	A reference to a character in Rick and Morty. https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Butter_Robot 	98
An Orange Toupee With Fists 	Seems to be a reference to the hairpiece rumored to have been worn by President Donald Trump. 	106
Gossamer 	Gossamer is a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons. https://warnerbroscartoons.fandom.com/wiki/Gossamer 	107
Badly Drawn Schoolgirl 	This character is a reference to "Little Tiffany" in the firing range scene of the Men in Black movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3hAVT2sDqQ 	111
The Beast 	This titan is a reference to Eric Carle's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar 	312-315
== Items ==
Subject 	Description
Looty McLootface	Boaty McBoatface, the name of a polar submarine that was decided on in an internet poll in 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/world/europe/boaty-mcboatface-what-you-get-when-you-let-the-internet-decide.html
 	
 	
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