this trivia section is awful
it's just a prism, and the usage of a prism is common knowledge
the tooltip MIGHT be a league reference but it's not confirmed
touhou would be more likely due to the huge graphical similarities with Master Spark
neither one has overwhelming proof though, so stop adding this stuff in unless Red confirms it himself
holy shit why is there so many league fanboys and touhou kids, leave this game alone
Trivia
- The item itself, being a drop from the Moon Lord, is most likely a reference to Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side of the Moon", which features a prism on its cover.
- The tooltip is likely a reference to the popular MOBA game League of Legends character Vel'Koz, whose ultimate ability is named "Lifeform Disintegration Ray".
- The item could also be a reference to the Touhou Franchise's Marisa Kirisame, who fires a rainbow-colored beam of light called the "Master Spark." League of Legends has a spinoff character of her named Lux with an ultimate skill called "Final Spark" which does much the same thing. The fact that the Master Spark drains all of the magical power from its caster could also be a joke at the Last Prism's high mana cost.
in the meantime, here's the old trivia section
--Ancientpowerer (talk) 23:12, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Trivia policy
The wiki's Style Guide has clearly delineated rules to determine what is or isn't valid for a trivia section. Basically, if you're contending that something is a pop culture reference, you need a clear and obvious source directly from the developers that can be referenced and linked to, or it isn't valid. If all you have to go on is a "may" then it's not a reference, as far as this wiki is concerned.
As an additional warning, it is not acceptable to incite others in edit summaries to continue acting against wiki policy without discussion. Policy is influenced by discussion, not by raw acts of defiance. This is essentially vandalism and will be treated as such in the future. Gearzein (talk) 06:14, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- The Vel'Koz reference could certainly be considered undeniable, as it is extremely obvious and worded almost identically to the flavor text, only differing in that the Prism mentions it's rainbow colors. There's a lot of interesting trivia about the game which is not directly confirmed by the developers, and a considerable amount of it appears on this wiki, I don't see why this should be any different at least in the case of the one definitive reference mentioned.Yakri (talk) 06:42, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- Most of that information is left over from a time when we were much shorter on hands, and is ultimately either sourced or removed when it's found. There are a lot of interesting discoveries in the game and a lot of connections that can be made through player observation, but if every half-boiled piece of player speculation were added to a page then the trivia section would grow larger than the main page text- this only isn't the case here because the page's single paragraph is already inflated by dubiously useful mathematical extrapolation and personal suggestion. Eventually this page will have to be rewritten regardless, but for the moment the trivia section is cluttered and obtrusive, and quite frankly, the insistence on continually adding and expanding these points in spite of stated policy is frustrating, not just to myself but to other editors and readers.
- That said, if an inspiration is really that obvious in this case, it shouldn't be difficult to have the developers confirm it. And, if it's confirmed to have been inspired by a certain source, there's no point to encouraging others to continue adding their own personal interpretations. A single, clean point at the end of the section would serve everyone's ends. Gearzein (talk) 06:55, 6 July 2015 (UTC)