List of references

Magicka, because of its humor and satire, is filled with references to other games, movies and internet phenomenon. Very few are subtle.

Locations
"Midgard" - - The name of the capital city of Final fantasy VII's world. "Midgård" is also part of scandinavian mythos (Asa tro), the place where humans reside, in the middle of it you find Asgård. Freely translated it means "middle yard".

"Castle Aldrheim" - - The name of the castle, Aldrheim sounds very similar to Prinsess Leia's home planet, Alderaan, destroyed by the Empire's mighty Death Star. Aldrheim also sounds much like the swedish word for nursing home: "äldrehem."

"Dunderhead" - - Dunderhead has close resemblances to the city Anchorhead on the planet Tatooine. While the planet itself has been featured in most Star Wars movies, The city of Anchorhead is the space port Luke, Obi Wan and Han visit to escape Tatooine in A New Hope.

"Vlad's Village" - - The music playing upon entering the dreary, rainy village is a callback to the original acoustics played in Tristram of Diablo and Diablo 2, and the atmosphere itself resembles Diablo 2's with the rain and bridge into a sad town.

"The Lonely Island" -

"Nunshul Pass" - - one of the Black Knight's quotes is "None shall pass". Could also be a reference to a rock album, or the quote from The Lord of the Rings.

"The Island of R'lyeh" - - R'lyeh is the resting place of Cthulhu, a Great Old One.

"Castle Aaaaargh" -  - a name of Castle mentioned in the prophecy.

"Outsmouth" - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - Innsmouth is a fictional town featured in one of H.P. Lovecraft's horror novellas.

Box Art
One of the box arts of the game bares strong resemblance to the box art for "The Legend of Zelda : Four swords Adventures" Which can be seen by comparing these two pictures

Dialogue
See Dialogue references

Characters
See Character references

Items
See Item references