Ready Player One: Every Pop Culture Reference In The Trailer
8. Gears Of War?
Sticking with that scene where Freddy is obliterated, it looks like there's a Locust from the Gears of War series at the vanguard of the charge.
He makes short work of Elm Street's most evil, but will have to think fast to avoid a missile in the face from Duke Nukem. The Duke probably won't think twice about wasting him since he's never been the biggest fan of aliens.
The video game references don't stop there - the Locust is picking his foes off with an assault rife from the Halo series, mixing and matching our Xbox franchises.
And in the previous scene, a character is riding into battle atop of a robot scorpion while ostriches from the arcade favourite Joust assault them from every angle.
As for the robo scorpion itself, could it be from the 1993 cyberpunk film Robot Wars?