The Battle Cats contains a massive amount of pop culture references. This article and its subpages aim to compile them all.
Subpages[]
Due to the sheer amount of references, the list is split into 16 subpages, each focused on a different category.
The acronym "JP" used in these pages stand for "Japanese", as most units and stages are named differently in the Japanese Version. Collab content is not listed unless it references something unrelated to the collab in question, like Catorpedo and Because I'm Human.
- Advertising
- Amusement Parks
- Anime and Manga
- Art
- Comic Books
- Food
- Literature
- Memes
- Miscellaneous
- Movies
- Music
- Mythology, Folklore and Religion
- Real People and Animals
- Television
- Theatre
- Video Games
- References in Spin-offs and Related Games
Vice Versa[]
- Characters from The Battle Cats have made cameos or temporary appearances in many of PONOS' other games. An example is Heads Off, in which The Face is one of the larger playable characters and makes a lower-pitched screaming sound compared to the other characters.
- A more subtle example was Kagami-Jijii's attack animation in Yuru-i GeGeGe no Kitarou: Youkai Dotabata Daisensou, which looked strikingly similar to Dark Emperor Nyandam's.
- The "Neko DJ" in the Roblox game Tower Defense Simulator is a clear homage to Moneko, even wearing a badge with the basic Cat's face on it.
- One of the loadouts in the Juggernaut mode of the Roblox game Item Asylum is the Filibuster, which has a "fili-orb" attack resembling Filibuster Obstructa's attack animation and plays a remix of his theme.
- One of the Artifacts in the games Just Kill Me. and Just Kill Me 3 is a "Cat Can" with the description, "If you collect cat cans, you can summon in some kind of world. Demon God doesn't really like it," referring to Rare Cat Capsules.
- SiIvaGunner has produced several "high quality rips" of music tracks from the game, a list of which can be found here.
- In one page of the Kirby manga Kirby Manga Mania, Kirby himself copied the form of a Cat.
Unknown/Missing[]
- Kid Tappa's English name
- Uranus's Treasure (Purple Clock)
- Cave Maidens
- Ash from The Burgle Cats
Trivia[]
- The Bears Be Back have the most references of all characters, with six total.
- J.K Bun Bun holds the record for second-most references, with five across the English, Japanese and Korean versions of the game.
- Excluding mythologies and religions, the most referenced work or franchise in the game is Monster Hunter with 27 known references, most of them being related to the Behemoth type as seen here.