Talk:The Axe/@comment-31331371-20170325165459/@comment-26440657-20170326072405

Really? You think this whole thing started from Animal Crossing? Real life didn't occur to you at all?

Guitars (of any type) are commonly called an "axe" and several manufacturers ended up designing their guitars to look like actual axes. But the term "Axe" didn't even originate from guitars though, they've been used for saxophones too. It's just easier to relate guitars to axes so it's more popularly used for guitars nowadays, Terraria probably made fun of the guitars being called an "axe". As for color, red is a very common color for guitars.

Aside from that fact, The Axe guitar in Terraria drops from Plantera which is a reference to the band Pantera, and their guitarist "Dimebag Darell" often used Flying V Gibson Guitars. Cenx, a developer of Terraria, wanted to give a further tribute to Pantera, and to Dimebag since he had died... So Terraria devs had referenced Pantera twice. Pantera is Cenx's favorite band.

Anyway, I'll add all the missing trivia info to this page, thanks for pointing it out.