So I’ve looked around a bit when the server is down and such and I can’t really find anything that really fills this but I think this would be fun. I wanna try to name every (or most) references made in space station. This is probably gonna be a long list and I know some people have knowledge others don’t do this is why I’m doing it here. If this has been done before I’m sorry I’m stupid.
Anyways I’ll start the list with some obvious things and some not obvious things:
Xenomorphs - From the Alien franchise
Gateway - From the Stargate Franchise
Changings - From the film The thing
Blob - From the film The blob
Pan Galactic gargle Blaster - From Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Guardian Spirits (From Dusty shard) - From Jojo
My knowledge is limited so I probably missed some obvious things. The drinks page list most references so I’m kinda skipping those. I don’t know the other references made in the game. So I guess let’s have some fun.
If you think something is wrong i don’t mind some debate just remember to provide proof like for Gateway the quote on the wiki is “ Warning! Unscheduled off-world activation!” A classic thing said in the Show Stargate SG-1 when the Stargate is activated. Or the dusty shard guardian spirit is the classic “ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!”
If you use a teleporter while it isn’t optimized, you have the chance to be turned into a fly person with the message “you hear a buzzing in your ears”. This is a reference to the 1986 movie “The Fly”, by David Cronenberg, in which a scientist invents a teleporter and accidentally uses it while a house fly is in the pod with him, the flies cells gradually taking over his own.
a pretty fuckin obvious reference is the naming scheme of lizard people when you randomise your name taking from the Skyrim franchise. (im fairly certain)
Eswords - Star Wars
Gloves of the north star - Fist Of The North Star
Romerol - George Romero
Reverse bear trap - Saw
Crab 17 - Bogdanoff twins
Meat hook - Mortal Kombat (item description)
Viscerators - Half Life
Time stop - JoJo
Hierophant - Hyperlight Drifer
Blood drunk miner - Bloodborne
Bubblegum - Doom
Stun baton - Half Life
Disposable turret - TF2
Profane scholar - Bloodborne
Stone sentinel - Dark souls
Felinids - Dog shit on the sidewalk
Default AI names like AM and Hal 9000
Ninja used to have anime quotes
Heretics are heavily drawn from cultist simulator
In the TGstation wiki guide to chemistry, the wiki mentions a craftable chemical called “meth”. This is most likely a reference to breaking bad, in which a man named Walter White makes meth.
The first Lawyer to join gets blue clothing like Phoenix Wright and the second, and any other if job slot is higher, will get purple ones to be Edgeworth.
also the attorney badge gives you cool speech bubbles when you have runechat off, and when you slam your fist on a table it makes you yell “Objection!!”
Ones I can think of of the top of my head that haven’t been mentioned are the Thin Mint referencing Monty Python and the Swedish language just being the Swedish Chef from The Muppets. I also think the Strange Reagent is a reference to HP Lovecraft