References in Megami Tensei

	This page is a stub. You can help Megami Tensei Wiki by expanding it.
	No reason provided.

This is a list of references in Megami Tensei franchise to other media.

Shin Megami Tensei series

Shin Megami Tensei IV

• In Club Milton, near the end of the game, there is an NPC sprite based on The Dark Knight's depiction of the supervillain Joker.

Persona series

Persona 3 Portable

• In Persona 3 Portable, a man resembling Vincent Brooks from Atlus's puzzle game Catherine appears at Club Escapade and hints at the events that happen in his game. As Atlus revealed on a web show in 2011, that's not actually Vincent, but rather a lookalike with a mole.

Persona 4

• When Kinshiro Morooka meets the protagonist on the first day of school, he says he will put him in his "rotten orange book". This is a reference to the Japanese drama Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B. During the camping trip, Morooka goes around asking if any rotten oranges who are out of their tents.
• Before the game begins, Chie Satonaka lends Yosuke Hanamura a DVD called Trial of the Dragon. In Japanese, this is named Seiryū Densetsu (Japanese: 成龍伝説, Hepburn Seiryū densetsu). This is a reference to both Jackie Chan, whose name is written 成龍, and a Japanese TV drama about a female martial artist called Legend of St. Dragon (Japanese: 聖龍伝説, Hepburn Seiryū densetsu) which is also pronounced seiryū.
• Tomoe's yellow jumpsuit is a reference to martial artist Bruce Lee. One of Chie's victory lines is also a reference to Bruce Lee quote, "Don't think. Feel."
• Shadow Mitsuo has skills called Whisper (Japanese: ささやき, Hepburn Sasayaki), Prayer (Japanese: いのり,, Hepburn Inori), and Chant (Japanese: えいしょう, Hepburn Eishō). These are references to a message that appears in Wizardry when you revive dead characters or cure paralysis at the Temple of Cant.
• When Shadow Mitsuo transforms into Mitsuo the Hero, his third command is Spell which casts Gigadyne. Gigadyne (Japanese: ギガダイン, Hepburn Gigadain) is a reference to Kazap (Japanese: ギガデイン, Hepburn Gigadein) from Dragon Quest.
• In order to fight Shadow Mitsuo, the Investigation Team must find the Orb of Darkness (Japanese: くらやみのたま, Hepburn Kurayami no tama). This is a reference to the Sphere of Light (Japanese: ひかりのたま, Hepburn Hikari no tama) from Dragon Quest.
• When the protagonist interacts with the pile of bones to get the Gaia Sword, a message appears that says, "No response. It must be a tile, not an object." (Japanese: 返事がない。ただの飾りのようだ…) This is a reference to how in Dragon Quest, when the hero interacts with a pile of bones or a dead person, a message appears that says, "There's no response. It's just a corpse." (Japanese: 返事がない。ただのしかばねのようだ。)
• The description for the Heavy-Armor Agni mentions that it is red and moves three times faster. This is a reference to Char Aznable from Mobile Suit Gundam who pilots a red Zaku and is said to be three times faster.
• As discussed in episode 12 of the Persona Stalker Club, parts of Tohru Adachi's character were inspired by the main character of the Japanese detective drama, Bayside Shakedown. The main character, Aoshima, is a detective in a green mods coat and red tie who works on Odaiba and has a model gun collection. Adachi is a detective in a red tie and yellow mods coat who used to work in Iwatodai (which is partially based on Odaiba) and also collects model guns.

Persona 4 Golden

• The movie theater in Okina shows new movies every month that are parodies of real movies, such as Loan of the Rings (Lord of the Rings) and Dumminator 2 (Terminator 2), Return of the Dragon (see the note about Trial of the Dragon under the Persona 4 section; both the DVD and the movie have the same title in Japanese but not in English), One Missed Text (One Missed Call), Dachiko (Hachiko), Roman Paid Holiday (Roman Holiday), Obatar (Avatar), and Orso Rosso (Porco Rosso). In Japanese, Orso Rosso is named Kurenai no Kuma after Porco Rosso's Japanese title, Kurenai no Buta.
• The Midnight Trivia Miracle Quiz is named after the Japanese TV show, Trans America Ultra Quiz. The hat that Teddie wears while hosting is also a hat worn on the TV show by contestants and his nickname for himself is taken from the catchphrase of one of the Ultra Quiz hosts, Akira Fukuzawa.