Hey just letting you all know I've got the sequel video out now! Covers the corrections in this pinned comment and an entire new iceberg image! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/brFhqdGDs9etd2w.html (Original comment) Alright, gonna make a pinned comment of corrections you have all found so far. I appreciate the kind comments and support! Plague Knight’s cheat code walk cycle references Alucard, not Richter. There’s a fish head reference in Rivals of Aether. Accountant Knight is likely referring to a scrapped character named “Donator Knight”. “Super Skeleton is the Worst” does refer to placeholder text, specifically from the Shovel Knight beta before fighting Specter Knight. Shield Knight dies could also be referring to an old story concept where Shovel Knight was going to bury his dead wife by the end of the game. King Knight is the first knight has opened up the can of worms that is the Shovel Knight timeline. Needless to say it gets complicated when you look at things such as Specter’s curio usage in King of Cards, Teethalon, the Joustus Cards and the Dark Acolyte.

"Shield Knight dies" is probably a reference to an ending of the game that was scrapped early in development, where Shield Knight was going to die, and then the player would have to bury her with the shovel. I believe it's mentioned in the interview at the end of the art book.

The dialogue in the King knight fight in specter of torment shows that specter is not there to recruit him but to “get him back on schedule” meaning he’d actually been recruited a bit before you see him, meaning he could actually be anywhere on the timeline of knights recruited

HELLO !!!! THIS SHOVEL KNIGHT ICEBERG IS AWESOME!!! I believe that "Accountant Knight: at 17:25 could actually be referring to Donator Knight, a scrapped shopkeeper npc with a similar visor to Treasure Knight that can be found on page 142 in the Shovel Knight artbook or somewhere on SK's kickstarter page!

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Poor mole knight never got his bread

I think Mole knight just upgraded to a Blorb esq armor after the events of dig, given he was still called mole knight even with an aquatic armor

Shovel Knight is pretty much the Ryu of indie games with how much they both make crossover appearances.

Great video! I thought I knew a lot about these games because of how many times I’ve gone through them over the years, but there was a lot of content in this iceberg I never knew about, so good job!

21:10 This is actually super apparent on the 3DS version, and it made the game look super cool when the 3D slider was on.

You totally deserve more subs! I love this video! It's so nice to see shovel knight get analyzed! Wonderful job!

Finally. A Shovel Knight Iceberg video. This is what I've been waiting for.

hey this is a really awesome video! Some small things that you could maybe mention in your addendum video in rivals of aether shovel knights helmet falls off for one of his taunts, revealing that he is also a fishhead Plague knights walk cycle cheat is actually an homage to Alucard from symphony of the night And french is real! the country may not be there but propeller says french words like; petite, magnifique and his signature en garde in the pre boss dialogue(researching this I also found that propeller denies having any kind of rivals in his dialoge with specter) if you do make a new video could you also clarify the time between dig and specter of torment? I am not sure what you mean about the timeline in the 2 week segment. one final note is that specter knights boss fight curios in king of cards is conducive of the theorized boss order if king knight is already part of the order before his specter of torment boss fight. as the plains boss in king of cards his curios show that he’s beaten black knight, plague, propeller, and polar. in his second boss fight he is shown to have beaten phantom striker.

24:31 The scrapped moon level could have also been a reference to Final Fantasy IV, as a plot point is the party traveling to one of the Earth’s two moons at the end of the game. This is potentially relevant since Giga Cardia is a pretty obvious Final Fantasy homage and is listed as being a compromise for the moon level in the same excerpt. She has a dynamic yet static boss sprite resembling the bosses seen in the 16 bit FFs, alongside her utilizing elemental crystals, which were used as macguffins in many Final Fantasy games (heck, part of the Moon portion in FFIV is that the moon has its *own set* of elemental crystals.) If the original moon plan involved Cardia, she could have been originally trying to recruit King Knight to save her people on the moon rather than another planet.

Just realized ive been looking at chesters sprite the wrong way for YEARS

really well edited, good content

Percy probably just does what the deer from adventure time does. Wear little false hopes over his creepy fingers

Shield knight dying next to SK also makes no sense since 2 things: 1. Canonicaly she is alive in Pocket Dungeon. 2. Thematicaly it makes zero sense. Like SK can get dark but that would be just plain out cruel and morbid

Thanking my KZfaq recommendations for leading me to this. How you only had 48 subs is a mystery.

Finally someone made a shovel knight iceberg video. Thank god.

FINALLY AN ICEBERG FOR ME!!!! ✨ (As you can probably tell…) In all seriousness by far the greatest indie game I’ve ever played, so I was waiting very patiently for this… (I’m already learning!! That’s so neat about the fairy glade!! That’s so cool I never knew this existed!!)

Cant wait for the updated version now that the announcements came out

23:10 Specter Knight with the Gun Scythe would have been so cool tho. Literally a Bloodborne trick weapon

28:21 Actually, when you think about it, Plague Knight was more rigged than King Knight. Because Plague Knight campaign was said to basically be a backstory to Plague Knight, but of course that didn't happen, and given many like Plague Knight and possibly voted for him to know more about him (similar to Specter Knight, who won the poll), it's possible that Plague Knight wouldn't have got as many vote if the story was the same as what we got. But that's just a theory (plus Polar Knight got 7th place in the vote, so it wouldn't have matter as much)

Shovel Knight best knight. Now if only prospector was cannon....

7:28 GYATTT!

PEAK

17:57 specter of torment ending the treasure knight part = payday which is done by treasure knight.

17:25 Treasure Knight was recruited as the Order of No Quarter’s secretary/accountant. So maybe he’s Accountant Knight as you previously said. 18:19 Also, here’s some extra evidence for Plague Knight being a bird. His staff/cane thingie has a bird head on it. Also, the two Arcana’s connected to the staff, the Staff of Surging and the Staff of Striking, have a bird feather as their icon. Theory: Maybe Mole Knight has diffrent gloves/gauntlets for doing different tasks? Maybe he uses his 3-fingered gloves for combat and work, and his 5-fingered gloves for more complex tasks? They ARE detachable. 20:43 I think King Pridemoor refers to King Knight as son/my boy because he’s dating King Knight’s mom.

Shovel Knight moment let's gooooo! ALL HAIL BEFORE MONA! RIGHT NOW! Or else...

Firstly, it's Alucard's walk cycle not Richter's. But also comparing Mr hat to Kirby is way off when he's really more on the same power level as Taskmaster.

Great iceberg mate Here's some extra stuff if you ever do a part 2 Terrorpin was going to be in Shovel of Hope with Black Knight, but he was scrapped. This could because Pig Hog was scrapped. The Shovel Trio has more questions, as in Black Knight's bio, it says that Shovel Knight has no idea who Black Knight is and why he is he is fighting him. Art of many characters gender swap versions that weren't swap exist, such as the wandering travelers and even Donovan (renamed Donnavan) Tinker Knight and Plague Knight are friends, or at least are well allies Plague Knight name change from Dyna Knight was due to the more medieval setting of the game. Polar Knight is based on a Yacht Club Game developer, Nick Wozniak

I love shovel knight hell yeah

BRO WHAT I've 100%ed King of Cards and have never seen the fairy glade

So in regards to the “Accountant Knight” and “Princess McGuffin” entries, there’s a bit more to both. For the Accountant Knight entry it might actually be referring to a character that only appeared on the Kickstarter page, a sort of… well, ACCOUNTANT looking Knight who appears on the “why Kickstarter” section. The character’s actual name seems to be ‘Donator Knight’ as his only two existing sprites (to our knowledge anyways) seem to refer to him by that name. The first sprite is found on the Kickstarter page, but a second can be found in the Treasure Trove: All Art Dump the devs released relatively recently. I forget which file specifically, but it’s in a lineup with the other characters for scale. And on the topic of that Art Dump, Princess McGuffin has a more finalized version of her sprite in there too that featured a lot more detail (highlights, better shading, two large ribbons, the whole shebang). It leads to the idea that she made it a little further into development than we initially thought (if only a little bit further). There’s actually a fair amount of revelatory stuff in the art dump too, plenty of older sprites for Knights, environments, and other characters. A simpler Beta Black Knight that has more spikes, multiple Trouple Acolytes that represent different apples, a handful of cut enemies, ect. If anyone wants to you can check em out too so long as you’ve got a program that can open FLC files. I also posted some of the better finds in the ‘DiscOrder of No Quarter’ community in their ‘sprites-and-assets’ section if you wanna check them out there.

7:07 that's not Richter's walk cycle, that's Alucard's walk cycle.

We all know its never happening, but hear me out: Shovel Knoght: Tinker Time

18:03 Yacht club games said that shield knight didn't die

My thoughts on two of these entries. 7:39 I always thought that was garlic. Huh. 18:50 This whole situation reminds me of something that was prevalent in early Mega Man games. The devs were a Japanese group, and 4 in Japanese is associated with death due to sounding similar in the language, so they made the characters have four fingers and glued the middle two together so that they have three. Maybe something similar happens with Mole Knight as an homage?

Welp. I'm sticking around

20:31 he kinda looks like an adventure time character doesn't he ?

About Super Skeleton is the worst: Yacht Club Games made a stream for one of the game's anniversaries (like 2-3 years ago) and showed bits from an early build of the game. "Super Skeleton is the worst" is actually what Shovel Knight says to Specter to taunt him or something. It was a great laugh really. Due to that stream and that specific situation now the Shovel Knight speedrun Discord has a Super Skeleton HAHAHA emoji. EDIT: Actually it is right here. Shovel Knight's 5th anniversary, clip 6: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNB3hbdzv7nYYGw.htmlsi=wPB6L_-RP-zAIjIl&t=1132

This is epic you should have way more subscribers

i AM THE 29TH subscribler

25:05 for me later

Already 2 minutes in and you missed an important detail, in rivals of aether if you press special and parry during the start up of your taunt his helmet will fall off revealing fish head