Self-Referential Humor

CONCEPT

In-game jokes or Easter eggs involving references to characters or events from earlier in a game or the game's series.

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• A Story About My Uncle (Game)
• AI: The Somnium Files (Game)
• Action Henk (Game)
• Alice: Madness Returns (Game)
• Ancipital (Game)
• Anodyne (Game)
• Antichamber (Game)
• Astérix & Obélix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum (Game)
• BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game (Game)
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Game)
• Battle Stadium D.O.N (Game)
• Battlefield 4 (Game)
• BioShock 2 (Game)
• BioShock Infinite (Game)
• Black Mesa (Game)
• Bone: The Great Cow Race (Game)
• Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 (Game)
• Borderlands 3 (Game)
• Closure (Game)
• Conker: Live & Reloaded (Game)
• Costume Quest (Game)
• Deadfall Adventures (Game)
• DeathSpank (Game)
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Game)
• Die Hard: Vendetta (Game)
• Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Game)
• DmC Devil May Cry (Game)
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Game)
• Doom (Game)
• Doom 3 (Game)
• Doom 64 (Game)
• Doom Eternal (Game)
• Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (Game)
• Duke Nukem (Game)
• Duke Nukem 3D (Game)
• Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (Game)
• EarthBound (Game)
• Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes (Game)
• Electronic Popple (Game)
• Escape from Monkey Island (Game)
• Everything (Game)
• Fallout 2 (Game)
• Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (Game)
• Far Cry 6 (Game)
• Fish Fillets (Game)
• Goodbye Deponia (Game)
• Half-Life 2: Episode One (Game)
• Half-Minute Hero (Game)
• High Hell (Game)
• Horse Around, Find Out (Game)
• In Pursuit of Greed (Game)
• Ion Fury (Game)
• Jak II (Game)
• Jetpack (Game)
• LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Game)
• Lair of the Clockwork God (Game)
• Last Armageddon (Game)
• Legend of Grimrock 2 (Game)
• Little Inferno (Game)
• Lone Survivor (Game)
• MadWorld (Game)
• Make Me Laugh (Game)
• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (Game)
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Game)
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions (Game)
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Game)
• Massive Chalice (Game)
• Maths Quest (Game)
• Matt Hazard: Blood Bath And Beyond (Game)
• McPixel (Game)
• Mega Man Universe (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Game)
• Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater (Game)
• Metroid Fusion (Game)
• Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen (Game)
• Motörhead (Game)
• Ms. Splosion Man (Game)
• Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (Game)
• NBA Jam: On Fire Edition (Game)
• No More Heroes (Game)
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Game)
• Not a Hero (Game)
• OlliOlli (Game)
• Outlaws (Game)
• Pac-Man World (Game)
• Paper Mario (Game)
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Game)
• Pink Hour (Game)
• Plan 9 From Outer Space (Game)
• Pony Island (Game)
• Portal: The Flash Version (Game)
• Quake II (Game)
• Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire (Game)
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Game)
• Retro City Rampage (Game)
• Rise of the Triad (Game)
• SQUIDS Odyssey (Game)
• Sanitarium (Game)

Concept details

Name

Self-Referential Humor

Aliases

Self-referential humour,Callback

Games

• A Story About My Uncle (Game)
• AI: The Somnium Files (Game)
• Action Henk (Game)
• Alice: Madness Returns (Game)
• Ancipital (Game)
• Anodyne (Game)
• Antichamber (Game)
• Astérix & Obélix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum (Game)
• BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (Game)
• Back to the Future: The Game (Game)
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Game)
• Battle Stadium D.O.N (Game)
• Battlefield 4 (Game)
• BioShock 2 (Game)
• BioShock Infinite (Game)
• Black Mesa (Game)
• Bone: The Great Cow Race (Game)
• Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 (Game)
• Borderlands 3 (Game)
• Closure (Game)
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Franchises

• Has franchises: NBA (Franchise), NBA Jam (Franchise), Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise), Scribblenauts (Franchise), Grand Theft Auto (Franchise), Wario (Franchise), WarioWare (Franchise), Half-Life (Franchise), Portal (Franchise), Mario (Franchise), Mario & Luigi (Franchise), Mario RPG (Franchise), Mega Man (Franchise), Indiana Jones (Franchise), Banjo-Kazooie (Franchise), Conker (Franchise), The Simpsons (Franchise), Metal Gear (Franchise), Metal Gear Solid (Franchise), Goemon (Franchise), Metroid (Franchise), Splinter Cell (Franchise), Tom Clancy (Franchise), The Chronicles of Riddick (Franchise), Jak and Daxter (Franchise), Ratchet & Clank (Franchise), Ratchet & Clank Future (Franchise), Duke Nukem (Franchise), Paper Mario (Franchise), Viscera Cleanup Detail (Franchise), Final Fantasy (Franchise), Alan Wake (Franchise), Dragon Ball (Franchise), Dragon Ball Z (Franchise), Shonen Jump (Franchise), Naruto (Franchise), Fabula Nova Crystallis (Franchise), Fallout (Franchise), Ace Attorney (Franchise), Disgaea (Franchise), Half-Minute Hero (Franchise), Monkey Island (Franchise), Die Hard (Franchise), Asterix (Franchise), Tales of Monkey Island (Franchise), SpongeBob SquarePants (Franchise), LEGO (Franchise), EarthBound (Franchise), Fable (Franchise), American McGee's Alice (Franchise), LEGO Indiana Jones (Franchise), Darksiders (Franchise), One Piece (Franchise), No More Heroes (Franchise), DeathSpank (Franchise), Matt Hazard (Franchise), Might and Magic (Franchise), Dead Space (Franchise), 'Splosion Man (Franchise), Borderlands (Franchise), Edna & Harvey (Franchise), X-COM (Franchise)

Characters

• Has characters: Tommy Vercetti (Character), 9-Volt (Character), Tooty (Character), Solid Snake (Character), Psycho Mantis (Character), Tubba Blubba (Character), Cranky Kong (Character), Francis (Character), Guybrush Threepwood (Character), Crow (Character), Woody Woodpecker (Character), Nester (Character), Big Man (Character)

Locations

Objects

• Has objects: Fallout 2 Hintbook (Object)

People

Related Concepts

• Has related concepts: Breaking the Fourth Wall (Concept), Dark Humor (Concept), Fan Service (Concept), Parody (Concept), Easter Egg (Concept), Game Reference (Concept), Episodic Content (Concept), Fake Game Over Screen (Concept), Running Gag (Concept), Fictional Franchise Backstory (Concept), Peon (Concept)