The Air Juggle is a reference to various anime, many of which have characters use maneuvers either similar or identical to it, especially in ones where the combatants involved can fly. However, it is more specifically a sendup to games in the "hyper fighter" sub-genre of fighting games, such as Marvel vs. Capcom, where characters will use a special launcher attack to send their opponent high into the air, where they are able to followup with an aerial combo, famously dubbed an "Aerial Rave." Interestingly, an actual "juggle" is a similar but different technique featured typically in more conventional fighters, where a character only launches their opponent some distance above head-level and uses one or more ground-based attacks to bounce them back up and continue the combo string.