History ShoutOut / Cyberpunk2077

* A deranged AI named [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Clarice]] insists you help her silence... the flamingos.

* A deranged AI named [[Flm/SilenceOfTheLambs Clarice]] insists you help her silence... the flamingos.

* One sidemission involves saving a [[Series/TheOfficeUS Japanese surgeon who secretly killed a crime boss he was operating on while trying to pass it off as an accident]].

* In the Biotechnica farms, you can find a wrecked tanker truck that, going by the document left behind, was driven by a "Creator/{{Charlize|Theron}} [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury]]" who was breaking a group of pregnant, artificially inseminated women out from Biotechnica's labs, and who were chased down by their corporate enforcers.

* To ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' Creator/CDProjektRED's other big game:

''2077'''s setting borrows heavily from a number of other {{cyberpunk}} sci-fi works.

* The MAX-TAC {{flying car}} designs borrow from similar vehicles in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* MAX-TAC officers themselves borrow elements from the Judges of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''.

* Doctor Victor's appearance is clearly inspired by [[Music/HenryRollins Spider]] from ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''.
** There's also a TV commercial advertising a courier service with "the first 80GB discounted" and showing the cranium implant their couriers use.
* Doctor Victor's receptionist Misty has almost the same hairstyle and general getup as the replicant Pris sports in the early parts of ''Film/BladeRunner''. In a similar vein Evelyn Parker is strikingly similar to Joi from ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' in both appearance and color pallette.

* Several to ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'':

* One of the vehicles you can buy is mentioned as being previously owned by "a guy from Memphis named Nicholas". This is a reference to ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' in which Creator/NicolasCage played a car thief with the nickname "Memphis".
* There are multiple shoutouts to ''Film/BladeRunner'''s main antagonist Roy Batty. In Pacifica you can find an abandoned hotel named "Batty's Hotel" featuring a folded Origami figure in the logo. In the Westbrook Columbarium you can find a memorial featuring a piece of his famous Tears in Rain soliluquy. Finally in northeast Heywood you can find on the top of the Advocet Hotel a dead man slumped over with a dove sitting in his lap. Rain will even start to fall as you enter the rooftop. To his right are the highlighted words "Like Tears" on a nearby wall once again referencing the Soliloquy.

* In one of Regina's gigs, "The Heisenberg Principle", you're tasked with destroying a drug lab, with tons of allusions to ''Series/BreakingBad'', such as yellow hazmat suits and one of the cooks being named Shiro (Japanese for "white").

* [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo3At70W4AAD7P8?format=jpg&name=900x900 One piece of lore]] is a video game review for the third installment in the "[[VideoGame/HalfLife No-Life]]" series [[MemeticMutation which is finally coming out in 2077 after years of]] DevelopmentHell.

* One of the car models, featured in the Street Kid prologue, is named "Aerondight", after the InfinityPlusOneSword from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' (itself a reference to Arthurian mythology).
* In the "2077 in Style", you can catch several FreezeFrameBonus easter eggs, like the [[VideoGame/TheWitcher "Milfgaard"]] magazine or a pizza box from [[Music/SuzanneVega "Tom's Diner"]].

* In the beginning of the Corpo origin story you can open V's desk drawer and see a copy of Retro Gaming Monthly with a ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' cover featuring Ciri.

* A rather easy one to miss for anyone not familiar with the ''Witcher III: Blood and Wine'' soundtrack, but during the first part of the Beat on the Brat questline, the guy with a guitar can be heard playing ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AA883-ajdWY The Beast of Beauclair]]'', the music from the final boss battle of the DLC.
* One of the arcade games is titled "Roach Race", where you play as a horse that has to avoid roofs, griffons, fireballs and houses. If you get close, you can hear a musical motive reminiscent of VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt.

* Archer Hella, the first car V owns has a sticker of a horse with "Roach" written underneath, referencing Geralt's steed in VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt.
* During a discussion at a stake out, Johnny will jokingly ask V which they expect to show up, Reptilian Aliens or Techno-Necromancers. V can reply "[[Creator/MontyPython The Spanish Inquisition]]". Johnny replies that he "didn't expect that".

* Archer Hella, the first car V owns has a sticker of a horse with "Roach" written underneath, referencing Geralt's steed in VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt.

** In the side-mission "Epistrophy," one of the rogue Delamain cabs you have to find has been hijacked by none other than SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}} [[Creator/EllenMcLain herself]], complete with repurposed dialog from both ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
** The Braindances are a lot like the SQUID devices in ''Film/StrangeDays''.
** The MAX-TAC {{flying car}} designs borrow from similar vehicles in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
** MAX-TAC officers themselves borrow elements from the Judges of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''.
** There's a reflex booster drug ingested via inhaler that causes time to slow down, a concept from one of the original ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' pen-and-paper's game major influences, Creator/WalterJonWilliams's novel ''Hardwired'', and more recently seen in films like ''Film/{{Dredd}}''.
** The ripperdoc who does modifications on your body goes by Doctor Victor, as a reference to Creator/MaryShelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Dr. Victor Frankenstein]]. V can even point this out by referring to themselves as his "creature".
** Doctor Victor's appearance is clearly inspired by [[Music/HenryRollins Spider]] from ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''.
*** There's also a TV commercial advertising a courier service with "the first 80GB discounted" and showing the cranium implant their couriers use.
** Doctor Victor's receptionist Misty has almost the same hairstyle and general getup as the replicant Pris sports in the early parts of ''Film/BladeRunner''. In a similar vein Evelyn Parker is strikingly similar to Joi from ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' in both appearance and color pallette.
** One hostile psycho NPC shouts "Du blir løyst fra banda som bind deg", Norwegian for "You will be freed from the ties that bind you", a lyric from a song by the band Wardruna.
** One of the car models, featured in the Street Kid prologue, is named "Aerondight", after the InfinityPlusOneSword from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' (itself a reference to Arthurian mythology).
** In the "2077 in Style", you can catch several FreezeFrameBonus easter eggs, like the [[VideoGame/TheWitcher "Milfgaard"]] magazine or a pizza box from [[Music/SuzanneVega "Tom's Diner"]].
** The custom version of the Quadra Type 66 muscle car has a distinctive [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard orange paintjob with a flag design on the roof.]]
** Your starting vehicle, an '80s-style American sedan called the Archer Hella, looks a lot like the 6000 SUX from ''Film/RoboCop1987''.
** The Voodoo Boyz may be a shout out to ''Literature/CountZero'', which also prominently featured a group of Afro-Caribbean hackers who were Voudon believers and equated interacting with AI to being ridden by the loa.
** Right beside the toilet in V's apartment is a shelf stocked with [[Film/DemolitionMan three sea shells]].
** You can find the aftermath of a motorbike accident on some train tracks, with the corpses of two African-American males, one fat and one skinny, both toting [=SMGs=]. The fat one also has a trillby on his body you can loot. Reading [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/kaywof/gta_easter_egg_in_cyberpunk_2077/ the shard]] reveals an exchange from the late duo, nicknamed [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas "Little Smoke" and "JC"]] respectively, with [[MemeticMutation the former berating the latter for failing to follow the "damn train"]].
** One television commercial asks "What do you need?" "[[Film/TheMatrix Clothes... Lots of clothes]]." The next shot is an exact replica of the gun racks scene from the film.
** One of the vehicles you can buy is mentioned as being previously owned by "a guy from Memphis named Nicholas". This is a reference to ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' in which Creator/NicolasCage played a car thief with the nickname "Memphis".
** In the beginning of the Corpo origin story you can open V's desk drawer and see a copy of Retro Gaming Monthly with a ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' cover featuring Ciri.
** There are multiple shoutouts to ''Film/BladeRunner'''s main antagonist Roy Batty. In Pacifica you can find an abandoned hotel named "Batty's Hotel" featuring a folded Origami figure in the logo. In the Westbrook Columbarium you can find a memorial featuring a piece of his famous Tears in Rain soliluquy. Finally in northeast Heywood you can find on the top of the Advocet Hotel a dead man slumped over with a dove sitting in his lap. Rain will even start to fall as you enter the rooftop. To his right are the highlighted words "Like Tears" on a nearby wall once again referencing the Soliloquy.
** In one of the side missions, "The Hunt", you can see a [=BB=] pod from ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''.
** In one of Regina's gigs, "The Heisenberg Principle", you're tasked with destroying a drug lab, with tons of allusions to ''Series/BreakingBad'', such as yellow hazmat suits and one of the cooks being named Shiro (Japanese for "white").
** One of the sidejobs, called "Beat on the Brat", is a reference to a song by Music/TheRamones of the same name.
** The graphic for the Massacre perk is a reference to one of the ''[[Franchise/EvilDead Evil Dead]]'' franchise's signature shots, Ash Williams holding up his shotgun. The game uses a combination of the ''Evil Dead 2'' and ''Army of Darkness'' versions of the scene.
** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo3At70W4AAD7P8?format=jpg&name=900x900 One piece of lore]] is a video game review for the third installment in the "[[VideoGame/HalfLife No-Life]]" series [[MemeticMutation which is finally coming out in 2077 after years of]] DevelopmentHell.
** One of the story missions is called "Life during wartime", like the song by Music/TalkingHeads.
** A rather easy one to miss for anyone not familiar with the ''Witcher III: Blood and Wine'' soundtrack, but during the first part of the Beat on the Brat questline, the guy with a guitar can be heard playing ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AA883-ajdWY The Beast of Beauclair]]'', the music from the final boss battle of the DLC.
** One of the arcade games is titled "Roach Race", where you play as a horse that has to avoid roofs, griffons, fireballs and houses. If you get close, you can hear a musical motive reminiscent of VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt.
** There's a street called Pondsmith in Japantown, that references Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the tabletop cyberpunk game.
** Archer Hella, the first car V owns has a sticker of a horse with "Roach" written underneath, referencing Geralt's steed in VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt.

** A rather easy one to miss for anyone not familiar with the ''Witcher III: Blood and Wine'' soundtrack, but during the first part of the Beat on the Brat questline, the guy with a guitar can be heard playing ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AA883-ajdWY The Beast of Beauclair]]'', the music from the final boss battle of the DLC.

** You can find [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/kaywof/gta_easter_egg_in_cyberpunk_2077/ a shard]] referencing the "all you had to do was follow the damn train" meme from ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''.

** In one of the side missions, "The Hunt", you can see a [=BB=] pod from VideoGame/DeathStranding.

** A rather easy one to miss for anyone not familiar with the ''Witcher III: Blood and Wine'' soundtrack, but during the first part of the Beat on the Brat questline, the guy with a guitar can be heard playing [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AA883-ajdWY the Beast of Beauclair]], the music from the final boss battle of the DLC.

** One of the story missions is called "Life during wartime", like the song by Music/TalkingHeads.

** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo3At70W4AAD7P8?format=jpg&name=900x900 One piece of lore]] is a video game review for the third installment in the "[[VideoGame/HalfLife No-Life]]" series [[MemeticMutation which is finally coming out in 2077 after years of]] DevelopmentHell.

** The graphic for the Massacre perk is a reference to one of the ''[[Franchise/EvilDead Evil Dead]]'' franchise's signature shots, Ash Williams holding up his shotgun. The game uses a combination of the ''Evil Dead 2'' and ''Army of Darkness'' versions of the scene.

** One of the most blatant is in the side-mission "Epistrophy," where one of the self-driving cars you have to find is pretty much just a line-for-line {{Expy}} of SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}} from the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' series, complete with being voiced by Creator/EllenMcLain.

** The graphic for the Massacre perk is a reference to one of [[Franchise/EvilDead Evil Dead]]'s signature shots, Ash Williams holding up his shotgun. The game uses a combination of the ''Evil Dead 2'' and ''Army of Darkness'' versions of the scene.

** The graphic for the Massacre perk is a reference to [[Franchise/EvilDead one of Evil Dead]]'s signature shots, Ash Williams holding up his shotgun. The game uses a combination of the ''Evil Dead 2'' and ''Army of Darkness'' versions of the scene.

** One of the sidejobs, called "Beat on the Brat", is a reference to a song by Music/TheRamones of the same name.

** In one of Regina's gigs, "The Heisenberg Principle", you're tasked with destroying a drug lab, with tons of allusions to ''Series/BreakingBad'', such as yellow hazmat suits and one of the cooks being named Shiro (Japanese for "white").

** The ripperdoc who does modifications on your body goes by Doctor Victor, as a reference to Creator/MaryShelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Dr. Victor Frankenstein]].

** One of the car models, featured in the Street Kid prologue, is named "Aerondight", after the InfinityPlusOneSword from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher''.