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Hidden Details: Grindbound

Welcome to the one-hundredth-and-twentieth 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 is ONE Loss, ONE Balthazar, ONE crewmate and NO JoJo reference. Bonus panels don't count.

1: Yep, the one making the signs for the dead fighters (guess that wasn't Isabelle) labeled Lucas as "other Ness", as we can see in the first panel. Good catch, Michael Ederer.
2:
Peach and Daisy are using a laptop and a phone with a peach and a daisy logo on them. Might be decals, or they own tech companies as well. And they answer your question in that very panel, edmg7: they don't need more, they want more.
3:
Hey that's very mean, A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends! Ridley's little Pikmin flower (from when he was revived) is beautiful and you shouldn't shame him.
4:
In the background of the second panel, we can see a toilet with a little crewmate on the door. Good eye, iampresennt!
5:
Daisy is calling Timmy and Tommy in the second panel. No idea why they'd be interested in lingerie, but they're both entrepreneurs so maybe they're just exchanging useful tips, Trigger?
6:
I think the ghost form doesn't appear in Mother 3 (if my research is correct), Jon Brouse! Apparently defeated party members in Mother 3 just hang their head and appear exhausted. But yes, those ghostly forms appear in Earthbound when a party member is defeated!
7:
There's a little Balthazar plushie on top of the closet in the background of the third panel, as mentioned by Cameron Devera.
8:
That's very nicely worded, Tejayes. Ridley indeed has a loss in his shoulder in the fourth panel.
9:
That scruffy looking guy in front of the hospital is actually there in Earthbound as well.
10:
Yes! I had to ask the Discord for the actual dialogue that appears when you interact with that sign right outside the hospital in Earthbound, but I made sure to make it align with the canon, Zach!
11:
Good eye, Generic Hero. The Sharks (a gang that appears in Earthbound) left their tag on the hospital, as we can see in the fifth panel.
12:
There's also a Runaways van visible in the same panel. That thing also appears on the Onett stage in Smash (I've been hit by it plenty of times). But you probably already knew that, Daniel Myhre.
13:
I couldn't make an Earthbound comic without an Undertale reference, so I indeed put up a little medical poster featuring Sans in the fifth panel, Carlos Mendez!
14:
The "Press in case of alien invansion" had a double meaning, Griffin Seeley! You're absolutely right that there's an actual alien invasion going on in that very panel, but it's also a reference to Earthbound's story.
15:
The Pikmin in the final panel are all excited to see their "brother" return home/revive the Earthbound boys.
16:
Haha it's barely in the picture, but I'm proud of you for noticing Bold and Brash in the final panel, Chj92!

Next week, I'll reveal all the details that haven't been found. These ones are written in italic.

Hidden Details: Grindbound

Comments

Guys what is a loss?

Giwrgos Gyftopoulos

3rd panel has a Balthazar plushie

Aidan Macdonald

I mean when I saw their business being seen repeatedly over the arc, I thought “it’s definitely going to become a plot device in connection to at least one of the characters revival”

Shelby Kinkead

an among us character is on the bathroom sign

Matthew Gallelli

Ridley has a flower on his head from being regrown

VisionPlayer22

The 3 pikmin have been revived since last comic death

THEx

There's a loss on Ridley's shoulder

Ness Main

The front desk has a "Press in case of Alien Invasion" Button.

pjb1234

The Mother Boy’s ghostly forms are the same ones they have in EarthBound and Mother 3.

Jon Brouse

The sign in front of the Hospital has the same dialogue you get for reading that same sign within Earthbound.

Zach

The Runaway 5 Van is outside the hospital too.

Pokedude14

I remember a Sans Skeleton xray or skeleton chart in the background.

Mark Nasuti

In the fourth panel Ness is trying to hold his hat onto his head as he flies (despite being a ghost)

happy pasta

Don't know if it counts but the way Ridley lands on Onett Hospital is similar to his Up+B move when it's aimed downward.

Jeffrey Solis

Walking Squidward (don’t remember the exact name of the piece) picture behind Ridley in the last panel.

Phloxiana

Sans os the xray

hambo

Just like I said before, I somehow knew that Peach’s and Daisy’s lingerie business would eventually become a plot device somewhere in the “Kazuya and Incineroar revives everyone after Sephiroth has killed them (before Sora became the final fighter)” arc

Shelby Kinkead

Sans on the X-ray sheet in the hospital

Eevee Shadow Bacon

Lol, I see "Bold and Brash" behind Ridley's head in the last panel.

Chj92

There's some "Sharks rule!" graffiti on the hospital.

Zach

The Sharks left their tag on the outside of the hospital.

Generic Hero

It’s nice that the receptionist is refraining from pressing the “Press in Case of Alien Invasion” button with a very displeased Ridley in front of her

Griffin Seeley

Not sure if it is a sticker in the first panel, or if Peach has put out her own line of Peach-brand laptops in competition with Apple.

Lord Circe

Peach and Daisy have their own brands of laptop and smartphone. Makes sense they'd be the suppliers of tech in the Mushroom Kingdom, but I do wonder why they need the money from furs.

edmg7

Lucas is labeled Other Ness

Michael Ederer

Crewmate on the door in second panel

iampresennt

Balthazar on the 3rd panel

Cameron Devera

Timmy and Tommy in Daisy's phone screen in the second panel. Why would they be interested in their lingerie in the first place?

Trigger

Sans skeleton in the hospital

GhostElmo

Ridley still has his stupid little Flower from when they yanked him from the ground along with the pikmin

A Sad Fat Dragon with No Friends

Ridley is "shouldering" his friends' "Loss" in Panel 4.

Tejayes


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