The Houndmaster can buff his hound by giving him a Dog Treat.

The hordes of swine monsters may be a reference to The House on the Borderland.

The bodies of swine are perennially popular candidates for Demonic Possession, as in The Four Gospels.

It's a Body Horrific, constantly shapeshifting mass of flesh.

The Formless Flesh boss takes heavy inspiration from The Thing (1982), particularly its One-Winged Angel form at the end of the movie.One of the Bounty Hunter's color schemes is the same as Boba Fett's.One of the Hellion's abilities is called If It Bleeds.The Jester has the camp skills Tiger's Eye, Turn Back Time, and Every Rose Has Its Thorns, all of which are references to real songs with similar titles.Two of the Bounty Hunter's techniques are called Finish Him!, which does more damage to stunned targets, and Come Hither - effectively an old-fashioned way to say 'Get over here!'.In fact, many of the Occultist's lines are in Rlyehian, the fictional language used by the Cthulhu cult. Sometimes he will even shout ' TEKELI-LI!'.

The Occultist will sometimes namedrop Nyarlothotep himself when he is Masochistic.

note There are no records or medieval depictions that ever state he wore a mask.

The mask the leper wears is a reference to Kingdom of Heaven, especially since the Leper's default name is 'Baldwin', and he used to be The Good King.

The pregenerate names for the heroes include an Occultist named Alhazred, a Hellion named Boudica, a Plague Doctor named Paracelsus or Vaughan, or a Leper named Baldwin.

There's also an achievement for losing a hero to him called 'That'll do, Pig'.

The name of Swine King's spotter, Wilbur, is a reference to The Dunwich Horror and Charlotte's Web.In earlier builds, characters with high stress would occasionally go ' Game Over, man, Game Over!'.

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