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🕑 Added 2024-03-08 15:00:03 +0000 UTCWelcome to the two-hundreth episode of the Hidden Details blog!
Have you found some obscure reference or detail in this comic? A JoJo reference? A sneaky little Loss? A callback to a previous comic? Let us know what you've found in the comments! Every detail that has been found will be added to the list below. Once everything has been found, this comic will officially be marked with "all details found".
Link to the comic for your convenience
Please only comment with ONE hidden detail or reference!
There's one Loss, one Balthazar, one Miep and one crewmate. Bonus comics don't count.
FIRST PANEL
1: Miep is enjoying her relaxed evening on the roof behind Tabuu. I hope she's careful not to fall down, Calvin Barbanell.
2: It's nearly impossible to make out, but Hestu apparently traveled back from Hyrule with the gang. He's standing on one of the rooftops on the right side of this panel.
SECOND PANEL
3: One of the beer taps at the bar is Cerveza Royale, which is a beer brand from Team Fortress 2!
4: The other beer brand (partly visible in this panel, better visible in the sixth) is Pißwasser from Grand Theft Auto!
5: Sharla is talking about chatting about walking up to a monkey, thinking they can beat it. This is a reference to the Xenoblade Chronicles tradition of having a high-level monkey enemy in an early game area. She's talking about Territorial Rotbart on Bionis' Leg in this case. Absolutely right, Pokedude14!
THIRD PANEL
6: Speaking of beverages: Vault Boy is enjoying a Nuka-Cola!
7: Globox notices something odd about the gentleman in the trench coat: he's levitating.
8: Also, while we're on the Globox-subject: loss is visible in his darker spots! Wow, can't believe no one spotted it this week.
FOURTH PANEL
9: Ichiban speaks Japanese. I thought that'd be funny, since his games are so agressively Japanese in every way possible. In the fourth panel, he says できるわけねぇ (roughly: "no, you couldn't") and in the fifth panel he says じゃ、パルテナは？神様だし ("what about Palutena? She's a goddess").
10: The top of Balthazar's head is visible under Lightning's arm! He just pops up randomly, Brandon Digwood!
FIFTH PANEL
11: This week's crewmate is visible Sharla's goggles in this particular panel. The right side of her goggles suddenly spawned legs, as pointed out by Spirit of Gotham.
12: Nathan Drake references that one animated short in which Palutena gets attacked by carrots. Good catch, fictionfan0!
EIGHTH PANEL
13: Galeem has been patched up after getting sliced in half by Sephiroth in his reveal trailer. Or maybe someone else did it in this canon, I don't know. I just thought it was funny to patch him back together with band-aids. Found by Cameron Devera.
14: And finally: the 末 kanji is visible on the back of Tabuu's head, as spotted by A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends!
Details that have not been found are marked italic.
Comments
Generic Hero
..wait, I spotted the loss. Look at the third comment.
fictionfan0
When Ichiban brings up Palutena (in Japanese), Nathan points out that she once lost to a bunch of carrots, a reference to the animated short, "Palutena's Revolting DInner."
Pokedude14
Sharla's story was likely about Territorial Rotbart
Lord Circe
I like how you can see Tabuu's silhouette on the wall when he walks in, and it looks like a stereotypical cowboy outline. Fitting for the "guy walks into a saloon" Trope.
Jon Brouse
Nathan brings up prep time, a common talking point when discussing who wins in a fight, most often regarding characters like Batman
Generic Hero
Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza/Like a Dragon)
edmg7
Kasuga correctly pointing out (in Japanese) that there’s no way he’s the strongest.
Ethan Cross
Someone already mentioned Sharla and Globox, but the bar participants include Celica (Fire Emblem), Lightning (Final Fantasy 13), Arthur (Ghosts n Goblins), Nathan Drake (Uncharted), and Vault Boy (Fallout). Idk who the Japanese speaking guy is tho
Brandon Digwood
Balthazar on the bottom of panel four, behind Lightning, I think?
Percylegallois
In the fourth panel, the beer is called Cereza instead of cerveza
A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends
Tabuu has that one Kanji on the back of his head on the last panel
Calvin Barbanell
miep on the left of panel 1
Generic Hero
Globox's spots have loss in panel 3
Spirit of Gotham
Sharla's goggles are sus in the fifth panel
Cameron Devera
Galeem has bandages on his eye because Sephiroth sliced him in half in the final panel.
