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• Actor Allusion:
  • Adachi (Johnny Yong Bosch) quoting the catchphrase of Alpha 5.
  • There's also an in-game allusion. Bosch voices both Adachi and The Protagonist, and is revealed towards the end to have a persona himself... The same one that the Protagonist begins with, Izanagi. His choice for the role becomes much more obvious thereafter.
• Adored by the Network: Even moreso than Persona 3, it's quite obvious that Atlus adores Persona 4, with the two games receiving a plethora of spinoff media.
• Defictionalization: There is a fanmade recipe for the Aiya Rainy Day Special Mega Beef Bowl. Comes with a vegetarian option.
• Development Gag: When mentioning that the police are looking for witnesses to the serial murders, Yosuke jokes about the killer wearing 'bright yellow clothes' at the crime scene. One of the original designs for the killer, as shown in concept artwork, had them wearing a bright yellow raincoat.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Souji Seta for the protagonist, taken from the Manga Adaptation, as well as Brotag (frequently used on a... certain unscrupulous imageboard) due to his many friendships, especially his close one with Yosuke, and Banchou ("gang leader") in Japan, because of his persona Izanagi's uncanny resemblance to a stereotypical Banchou due to its Badass Longcoat (see here). The Giant Bomb community and other related websites refer to him as Charlie Tunoku, due to the Persona 4 Endurance Run.
  • Captain Pistol, referring to Naoto.
  • Mr. Pringles, referring to the King sub-type of shadow.
  • Yosuke is also affectionately nicknamed as Brosuke, due to his Bros Before Hoes Level 10 S. Link event. His name seems to lend itself especially well to this: Moesuke (for being Adorkable) and Failsuke (for being a Butt Monkey). He also has a new nickname thanks to so many of his Ho Yay scenes: Yosgay. Also doesn't help that he has the Yaoi submissive term in his name.
  • Adachi: "Cabbage Adachi", mainly due to his dialogue if you talk to him at Junes at certain points. He speaks passionately about having a cabbage-centric dinner because he can't afford much else.
  • People refer to Yukiko as Amagidyne or 'Drunkiko', due to the Kings Game scene.
  • Ryotaro Dojima: Brojima. Mostly because you are the most likely to be the murderer, but are above suspicion. And Ace Detective, because of a certain webcomic.
  • The Inaba Scoobies for the Investigation Team, if the WMG and IJBM pages for this game are anything to go by.
  • T. Bearson: Teddie, circa his appearance in The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena, which is what you get when you 'bear'-ize M. Bison's name.
• Life Imitates Art: This report about a man who was found dead, with no signs of trauma, hanging upside down from a telephone pole. Shouldn't that be death imitates art?
• No Budget: Atlus was going through severe financial trouble during development, and this shows quite a bit if one digs through the data, as the game was essentially built on top of Persona 3 in a way that is more or less akin to a fanmade hack, with much of the data assets remaining buried in the code in a way that was most likely not test data. This is testament that despite the lack of money, the game was still financially and critically successful, though this did not prevent Atlus from going bankrupt a few months after release and subsequently bought out.
• The Pete Best: Erin Fitzgerald wasn't the first English voice for Chie, but she's become the most iconic.
• Playing Against Type: Johnny Yong Bosch, used to playing the role of The Hero (which he does in this game, seeing as how he's pulling double duty), playing the lovably incompetent detective, Tohru Adachi. Later, it turns out he's playing even further against type when it's revealed that Adachi is in fact the killer, complete with an evil laugh when summoning his persona.
• Relationship Voice Actor: Yuri Lowenthal, the idealist, is Yosuke while Johnny Yong Bosch, the cyinicist, is Adatchi. (and the Protagonist)
• Rule 34: Obviously, but an infamous adult video company (TMA) is working on a live-action porno of it!
• Igor's assistant is Margaret in the Velvet Room.
• Chie compared Naoto to the Kuzonoha family. In the Japanese version, she was actually comparing Naoto to the Kindaichi family, a well known detective series that has another well known spinoff.
• Talking to Himself:
  • All the shadows are, naturally, voiced by the voice actors of the people they belong to, so the Hannibal Lectures end up becoming a version of this trope.
  • Also, the protagonist and Adachi share a voice actor. Unlike the shared actors for the protagonist, Pharos, and Ryoji in 3, this one is only the case for the English version's voice acting. A bit of Fridge Brilliance in that not only do they have ostensibly the same Persona, attained in the same manner, their reasons for getting them and why they use them are at total opposites. It's basically showing what the Protagonist would have been like had he used his Persona to do the murders rather than prevent them.