diff --git a/.rubocop_todo.yml b/.rubocop_todo.yml
index 2dc699257107f3a71ac66006f6acd24174f7607b..c27291f8f5381fdcde718c74be42820bcc201d65 100644
--- a/.rubocop_todo.yml
+++ b/.rubocop_todo.yml
@@ -603,13 +603,6 @@ Style/SingleArgumentDig:
 Style/SoleNestedConditional:
   Enabled: false
 
-# Offense count: 120
-# Cop supports --auto-correct.
-# Configuration parameters: .
-# SupportedStyles: use_perl_names, use_english_names
-Style/SpecialGlobalVars:
-  EnforcedStyle: use_perl_names
-
 # Offense count: 562
 # Cop supports --auto-correct.
 Style/StringConcatenation:
diff --git a/.rubocop_todo/style/special_global_vars.yml b/.rubocop_todo/style/special_global_vars.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..559d8169f9fba7a04d491581b3bc998812ad0fee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.rubocop_todo/style/special_global_vars.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+---
+# Cop supports --auto-correct.
+Style/SpecialGlobalVars:
+  Exclude:
+    - 'app/controllers/help_controller.rb'
+    - 'app/models/application_setting_implementation.rb'
+    - 'app/services/prometheus/proxy_variable_substitution_service.rb'
+    - 'ee/bin/geo_log_cursor'
+    - 'ee/lib/ee/banzai/filter/references/epic_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'ee/lib/ee/banzai/filter/references/iteration_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'ee/lib/ee/banzai/filter/references/vulnerability_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/backup/database.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/blockquote_fence_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/commit_trailers_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/front_matter_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/inline_metrics_redactor_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/abstract_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/commit_range_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/commit_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/external_issue_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/label_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/milestone_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/project_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/reference_cache.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/references/user_reference_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter.rb'
+    - 'lib/extracts_ref.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/dependency_linker/godeps_json_linker.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/gfm/uploads_rewriter.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/git/gitmodules_parser.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/graphql/queries.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/hook_data/base_builder.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/log_timestamp_formatter.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/puma_logging/json_formatter.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/quick_actions/extractor.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/runtime.rb'
+    - 'lib/gitlab/string_placeholder_replacer.rb'
+    - 'lib/prometheus/pid_provider.rb'
+    - 'lib/tasks/lint.rake'
+    - 'qa/chemlab-library-gitlab.gemspec'
+    - 'qa/qa/git/repository.rb'
+    - 'qa/qa/service/cluster_provider/gcloud.rb'
+    - 'qa/qa/support/wait_for_requests.rb'
+    - 'scripts/api/cancel_pipeline.rb'
+    - 'scripts/api/download_job_artifact.rb'
+    - 'scripts/api/get_job_id.rb'
+    - 'scripts/changed-feature-flags'
+    - 'scripts/failed_tests.rb'
+    - 'scripts/perf/query_limiting_report.rb'
+    - 'scripts/pipeline_test_report_builder.rb'
+    - 'scripts/rubocop-max-files-in-cache-check'
+    - 'scripts/setup/find-jh-branch.rb'
+    - 'scripts/static-analysis'
+    - 'scripts/trigger-build.rb'
+    - 'spec/fast_spec_helper.rb'
+    - 'spec/rack_servers/puma_spec.rb'
+    - 'spec/spec_helper.rb'
+    - 'spec/support/generate-seed-repo-rb'
+    - 'spec/support/helpers/test_env.rb'
+    - 'spec/support/prepare-gitlab-git-test-for-commit'
diff --git a/spec/fast_spec_helper.rb b/spec/fast_spec_helper.rb
index ce3c9af22f1718cb76c8e11438c7822d806d06c8..6cbe97fb3f3ad4e4376188af90708f6b9bfe159c 100644
--- a/spec/fast_spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/fast_spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-#  $" is $LOADED_FEATURES, but RuboCop didn't like it
 if $".include?(File.expand_path('spec_helper.rb', __dir__))
   # There's no need to load anything here if spec_helper is already loaded
   # because spec_helper is more extensive than fast_spec_helper
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
index 86a7c079ea9cd09d5e44b06904bf94562028a800..e9f2da930168c8922731c0713533d8ccdceb1f19 100644
--- a/spec/spec_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-#  $" is $LOADED_FEATURES, but RuboCop didn't like it
 if $".include?(File.expand_path('fast_spec_helper.rb', __dir__))
   warn 'Detected fast_spec_helper is loaded first than spec_helper.'
   warn 'If running test files using both spec_helper and fast_spec_helper,'