Purple slime girls are not to be trifled with
Popular Cartoon Network showAdventure Timeis no stranger to videogame references, though these references aren’t always intentional.The shout outtoSuper Hexegondefinitely wasn’t an accident, but the inclusion of a tiny ant namedLieutenant Gamergateapparently had no intended relationship to the infamous hashtag.
I figured that last week’s episode about a legendary brand of purple soda called Super Porp was a similar coincidence, but as the the episode unfolded, the connections added up. [SPOILERS: It turns out that Super Porp is a cult-like soda company that employs various slime humanoids who endlessly toil to produce a purple slime soda that may or may not be born from the same slime they’re made of.END SPOILERS.]
The similarities between this Porp-story andPorpentine‘s slimegirl epicArmadawere hard to deny, but it still seemed impossible that this was a direct tribute. Other thana recent story in the New York Timesand IGF winnerRichard Hofmeier‘s reverse-Kanye declaration thather game should have won the award insteadof his,Porpentineis relatively unknown to the mainstream and game culture alike. As it turns out, I should have never doubted the far reaching power or Porp. Thedeveloper confirmed with me over TwitterthatSuper Porpis in fact a direct reference to her namesake.
