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Hidden Details: Power Rankings

Welcome 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.
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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.

Hidden Details: Power Rankings

Comments

..wait, I spotted the loss. Look at the third comment.

Generic Hero

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."

fictionfan0

Sharla's story was likely about Territorial Rotbart

Pokedude14

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.

Lord Circe

Nathan brings up prep time, a common talking point when discussing who wins in a fight, most often regarding characters like Batman

Jon Brouse

Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza/Like a Dragon)

Generic Hero

Kasuga correctly pointing out (in Japanese) that there’s no way he’s the strongest.

edmg7

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

Ethan Cross

Balthazar on the bottom of panel four, behind Lightning, I think?

Brandon Digwood

In the fourth panel, the beer is called Cereza instead of cerveza

Percylegallois

Tabuu has that one Kanji on the back of his head on the last panel

A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends

miep on the left of panel 1

Calvin Barbanell

Globox's spots have loss in panel 3

Generic Hero

Sharla's goggles are sus in the fifth panel

Spirit of Gotham

Galeem has bandages on his eye because Sephiroth sliced him in half in the final panel.

Cameron Devera


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