History ShoutOut / Cyberpunk2077

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Another toy is named the Conquerer, with the tagline, "Punish and Enslave"; in the first ''Transformers'' live-action movie, one of the Decepticons, Barricade, is disguised as a police ca, with the aforementioned phrase in place of where "To Protect and Serve" would normally be printed on his livery.

* The engram of Alt Cunningham plays a similar role to the construct of Dixie Flatline, a digitally preserved dead computer hacker in 'Literature/{{Neuromancer}}

* In the sidequest ''Space Odyssey'', you find a locked laptop with info that leads you to the rest of the sidequest. The laptop also contains an email revealing that the owner was banned from a dating website for sending unsolicited dick pics and doxing other users. The owner's banned username is "GoldenGod215". Other banned accounts linked to this one include "Hugh_Money", "Anteater_Tongue", and "6_star_man". These are all various references to Dennis, one of the main characters from [[Television/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia]] (with 215 from the first screenname being an area code in Philadelphia).

* The plot of ''Johnny Mnemonic'' involves Keanu Reeves playing a character who uploads computer data into his own head that will kill him if he keeps it there. In ''Cyberpunk 2077'' the player character uploads Keanu Reeves into his/her own head, and it will kill him/her if he/she keeps him there.

** What makes this even better is Female V [[ActorAllusion shares]] [[Creator/CheramiLeigh a voice actress]] with Sailor Venus/Minako Aino.

* Much of the cyberpunk langauge, including "cyberspace," ICE (referring to intrusion countermeasure electronics, and "flatelined" originated in either Burning Chrome or the Sprawl Trilogy.

* In the 2023 sequence, there is a movie poster with several soldiers shooting at zombies from a helicopter, appropriately titled ''[[Film/BlackHawkDown Black Hawk]]'' ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead Dawn of the Dead]]''.

* [[Film/Terminator3 Talk To The Hand]]: The T-800's pose from the titular quote.

* Adam Smasher's design is basically "Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}, but ObviouslyEvil". His role in-story (an unhinged cyborg employed by a megacorp fought during the story's climax) is closer to [[spoiler:Cain from ''Film/RoboCop2'']], however.

* Adam Smasher's design is basically "Film/{{RoboCop|1987}} but ObviouslyEvil".

* "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Fool On The Hill", and "Tomorrow Never Knows"[[note]]Exclusive to ''Phantom Liberty'[[/note']] are all by Music/TheBeatles.

* "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Fool On The Hill", and "Tomorrow Never Knows"[[note]]Exclusive to ''Phantom Liberty'']] are all by Music/TheBeatles.

* "Following The River" is a song by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.

* Your starting vehicle, an '80s-style American sedan called the Archer Hella, looks a lot like the 6000 SUX from ''Film/RoboCop1987''.

* Shout-outs to ''Film/BladeRunner'':
** The MAX-TAC {{flying car}} designs borrow from similar vehicles in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
** Doctor Viktor Vector's receptionist Misty has almost the same hairstyle and general getup as the replicant Pris sports in the early parts of ''Blade Runner''. In a similar vein, Evelyn Parker is strikingly similar to Joi from ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' in both appearance and color palette.
** The graphic for the Assassin perk is an iconic image of Deckard holding his gun at the ready.
** There are multiple shoutouts to ''Blade Runner''[='=]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 and using the same font as the movie's poster. In the Westbrook Columbarium, you can find a memorial to him featuring a piece of his famous Tears in Rain soliloquy. 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.
** During the [[spoiler: Arasaka ending]] the psychological test the doctor runs on V is very similar to the Voight-Kampff Test in the tone of the questions asked and the reactions observed. One of the questions has obvious parallels too.
* To Creator/WilliamGibson's Literature/SprawlTrilogy:
** The dollhouses bear a strong resemblance to the work ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'s'' Molly Millions did to afford her implants (and also the House of Blue Lights from Gibson's earlier short story "Burning Chrome"). And just like them, there's an ugly side that gets revealed throughout Evelyn's story.
** 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.
* To ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'', which was originally set in the Sprawl universe:
** The plot of ''Johnny Mnemonic'' involves Keanu Reeves playing a character who uploads computer data into his own head that will kill him if he keeps it there. In ''Cyberpunk 2077'' the player character uploads Keanu Reeves into his/her own head, and it will kill him/her if he/she keeps him there.
** Doctor Viktor Vector's appearance is clearly inspired by [[Music/HenryRollins Spider]].
** There's also a TV commercial advertising a courier service with "the first 80GB discounted" and showing the cranium implant the couriers use.
** The look, placement on the body and functionality of the [[SharpenedToASingleAtom monowire]] cyberwear arm upgrade is nearly identical to the monomolecular wire used by Yakuza hitman Shinji.
** The card art for the "Hanged Man" tarot card (connected to Keanu's character Silverhand and found above his grave) depicts a man wearing the same suit and pencil-thin black tie worn by Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic.
* To ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** In "Love Like Fire", you break into a heavily guarded building, plant a bomb on the elevator and shoot the cable to send it plummeting to the basement. And this is all one of [[Creator/KeanuReeves Johnny Silverhand's]] relived memories.
** Misty gives V two pill bottles following the heist, one blue (which stalls the relic's progress) and one red (which speeds its progress). Ironically the pills in the blue bottle are red and the pills in the red bottle are blue.
** One television commercial asks "What do you need?" "Clothes... Lots of clothes." The next shot is an exact replica of the gun rack scene from the film.
** If V allows Johnny to take over their body for a bit, Johnny will go on a bender. That bender will include buying drugs from a bald man, who offers him a blue pill in one hand, and a red pill in the other.
** In one of the cyberspace dives you can [[AGlitchInTheMatrix encounter the same cat twice]] while going up a set of stairs.
** The first moments of the [[spoiler: hidden ending quest, (Don't Fear) The Reaper]] resemble the lobby shootout scene.
** At the corner of Palms View Way is a corpse on top of a ground level airconditioner. The shard next to it contains a transcript of a conversation between a man named Orpheus and the deceased, John Anderson, recreating word for word the office escape scene from the movie.

* To ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
** MAX-TAC officers borrow elements from the Judges of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''.
** The achievement for taking care of all the Cyberpsychos is "I Am The Law" complete with a MAX-TAC officer as the achievement image.
** The Megabuilding arcologies resemble the City Blocks as depicted in ''Film/{{Dredd}}''.
* To ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'':
** The HJSH-18 Masamune assault rifle is named after Creator/MasamuneShirow, the manga's author.
** The parade in Japantown is inspired by the one seen in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence''.
** The outlook of Night City from the bay has more than a passing resemblance to the skyline of New Port City in the live action ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' film. The spot with the chairs on the terrace where V [[spoiler: decides how to face the final mission]] is almost identical to the spot (same chair and very similar terrace with a very similar view) on which Batou is seated near the end of the movie when called by Aramaki via mind link.
** One of the tattoos Judy has on her left shoulder is a cartoon ghost floating out of a scallop shell. It is also seen as her holophone icon.
** To ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'': The cyberpsycho fight against Lt. Mower references one of the early scenes in the film, where Kusanagi fights a cyborg among skyscrapers in shallow water, just like the place you encounter Lt. Mower. Mower uses stealth, just like Kusanagi, has a similar haircut and even her surname is a pun on "Kusanagi"[[labelnote:TL]]Grasscutter[[/labelnote]].
** To ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': A transcript of a conversation found on a corpse in Downtown from where a piece of legendary armor is looted references Marco Amoretti, a war veteran turned serial killer who tortures people to death and disseminates brain dances of his victims. His corpse is even made out to look like Batou, down to his huge frame, white hair and metal button eyes.
* To ''Film/StrangeDays'':
** Braindances are a lot like the SQUID devices in the movie. (The invention of this type of technology was depicted in ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}''.)
** In the side mission "Dirty Biz", which involves snuff braindances like the one that was a plot device in the film, you can find a message from a man called Lenny Nero, like the ''Strange Days'' protagonist.
* To ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', Creator/CDProjektRED's other big game:
** One of the car models, featured in the Street Kid prologue, is named "Aerondight", after the InfinityPlusOneSword from ''The Witcher'' (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.
** The Archer Hella, the first car V owns, has a sticker of a horse with "Roach" written underneath, referencing Geralt's steed in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''.
** Another one to Roach: 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 motif reminiscent of ''Wild Hunt''.
** You can hear two police [=NPCs=] by a bar near V's apartment complex, a man and a woman, where the policeman is mad at the woman about her going into a fight with a heavily armed combatant instead of calling for Max-tac. The policewoman says that civillians were in danger and that she couldn't just leave them and not try to do anything. This parellels the conversation between Ves and Roche in the third game, from the sidequest "eye for an eye". Driven home more in the Polish dub, since the policewoman and Ves are voiced by the same actress, Barbara Kałużna.
** The shop clerk you meet in the side mission called "Bullets" is named Dennis Cranmer, like one of the dwarves from Sapkowski's books, who appeared in the "Last Wish" short story. He doesn't appear in the mainline game, but he does appear in ''VideoGame/GwentTheWitcherCardGame''.
** If you look closely at Dexter [=DeShawn=]'s boots, you can see that the gold plates on their tongues have the symbol of the wolf school on them.
** Some of the graffiti around the town says "Cirilla" and "Cintra Rulez".
** Near one of the bridges in the western part of Night City, you can find some floating barrels with chests attached to them. It's a reference to "Skellige Contraband" discoverable spots from the third game.
** In the Vista Del Rey neighborhood you can find a locale called "Dandelion's cocktails", referencing Geralt's bard friend.
** One of the cyberpsychos you're tasked with taking down, Dao Hyunh, has a shard that references Itlina's Prophecy.
** An advert for Fuyutsuki Electronics features a man with a medallion that's stylized to look like Geralt's wolf school medallion.
** On one of the balconies of the Batty hotel in Pacifica, you can find a datashard with conversation between a man named Clint and a drunk named Odrin. It's a reference to a sidequest in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', where Geralt helped a group of drunk Kaedweni soldiers with finding their lost companion, Odrin.
** Some of the elite Arasaka guards have armor which closely resembles that of Nilfgaardian officers, including antennas on their helmets which resemble wings.
** The PC version of the game contains two pieces of DLC equipment [[note]]Obtained by linking the game to the developer's storefront Website/GOGDotCom[[/note]] that directly reference the series: the Wolf School Jacket and the Wolf School T-shirt.
* Phantom Liberty is a big one to Literature/JamesBond.
** The DLC trailer featuring the British Idris Elba featured a 007 sign in the back.
** Elba plays a sleeper agent who was [[Film/{{Skyfall}} burned by his government]] and is also sick and tired of his job (similar to Timothy Dalton's version of the character).
** You become a government secret agent yourself, in service to an IronLady. The longest-running M was a woman.
** The mission ''You know my name'' involves you infiltrating a [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 casino]], while [[BadassInANiceSuit dressing up]] off course. [[spoiler:You also end up bonding with a woman who deceives you for sympathetic reasons.]]
** For the mission, Alex gives you a gun called [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService Her Majesty]].
** You get the option to [[Film/TheLivingDaylights smuggle a powerful individual away from their government]].
* After the personality of rockerboy Johnny Silverhand is slotted into your brain, all further missions have titles [[MusicalThemeNaming named after songs]]. The use of song titles may itself be a ShoutOut to ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis Tokyo 2040'', whose episodes were all named after songs or albums.
** One of the sidejobs, called "Beat on the Brat", is a reference to a song by Music/TheRamones of the same name.
** The missons "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer", and "Burning Down The House" are all songs by Music/TalkingHeads.
** The missions "Riders on the Storm" and "Queen of the Highway" are a shout out to the songs by Music/TheDoors.
** The missions "With a Little Help From My Friends", "Fool On The Hill", and the Phantom Liberty-exclusive "Tomorrow Never Knows" are shout outs to songs by Music/TheBeatles.
** The mission "Imagine" is a shout out to a song by Music/JohnLennon.
** The mission "I Walk the Line" is a shout out to the song by Music/JohnnyCash.
** The mission "Killing In The Name" takes its name from a song by Music/RageAgainstTheMachine.
** The mission "I Fought The Law" shares a name with songs by, among others, Sonny Curtis and the Crickets, Bobby Fuller, Music/TheClash, Music/GreenDay, Music/DeadKennedys and Music/HankWilliamsJr.
** The missions "Gimme Danger", "Search and Destroy", "Down On The Street", and "Play It Safe" are references to Music/IggyPop and Music/{{the Stooges}}.
** A side mission called "Love Rollercoaster" is a reference to a song by Ohio Players (also covered by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers).
** The mission "Totalimmortal" is a shout out to the song by Music/{{AFI}}.
** The missions "Rebel, Rebel", "Changes", "Heroes", and "Space Oddity" are a shout out to Music/DavidBowie.
** The mission "Disasterpiece" is a shout-out to a {{Music/Slipknot}} song of the same name.
** The mission "The Highwayman" is a taken from a song of the same name written by Jimmy Webb but made famous by country supergroup The Highwaymen. There is also a song by Stevie Nicks of the same name.
** The side mission “Pyramid Song” is a reference to a song by the same name by Music/{{Radiohead}}, with the gameplay of the mission itself being reminiscent of the music video for the song.
** "Bullets" is named after the song by Music/{{Archive}} featured in the 2013 announcement trailer. This is also the mission where you meet the woman with mantis blades from the announcement trailer, who has now become a MAX-TAC officer.
** The side mission called "Boat Drinks" is named after a Jimmy Buffet song.
** The side mission involving Lizzy Wizzy is titled "Violence" after the name of the song by Music/{{Grimes}}, who happens to play Lizzy Wizzy.
** The mission "Big In Japan" is named after a song by {{Music/Alphaville}}.
** The missions "Shoot To Thrill" and the Phantom Liberty-exclusive "Dog Eat Dog" are named after songs by {{Music/ACDC}}.
** The mission "Ezekiel Take The Wheel" is named after an African-American spiritual recorded by, among others, Woody Guthrie and John Lee Hooker.
** The mission "Where the Bodies Hit the Floor" is a shout-out to the Music/DrowningPool song "Bodies".
** The missions "War Pigs" and the Phantom Liberty-exclusive "Hole in the Sky" are named after songs by Music/BlackSabbath.
** The mission "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution" is named after a song by Music/TracyChapman.
** The mission "The Hunt" is named after a song by New Model Army, [[CoveredUp made famous]] by Music/{{Sepultura}}. The lyrics are pretty appropriate.
** The mission "Send In The Clowns" is named after a song by Music/JudyCollins.
** The mission "Stairway To Heaven" is named after a song by Music/LedZeppelin.
** The mission "Sweet Dreams" is named after a song by Music/{{Eurythmics}}.
** The mission "Gun Music" is named after a song by Music/TalibKweli.
** The mission "Following The River" is named after a song by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.
** The mission "Coin-operated Boy" is named after a song by Music/TheDresdenDolls.
** The mission "Dream On" is named after a song by Music/{{Aerosmith}}.
** The mission "I'll Fly Away" is named after a song by Music/AlanJackson.
** The mission "Epistrophy" is named after a song by Music/TheloniousMonk.
** The mission "M'ap Tann Pelen" is named after a song used by the Bizango, a sect of Haitian Voudou worshippers.
** The mission "Spray Paint" is named after a song by Music/{{Eminem}}.
** The mission "Don't Lose Your Mind" is named after a song by Music/PromiseOfTheReal.
** The mission "They Won't Go When I Go" is named after songs by Music/GeorgeMichael and Music/StevieWonder.
** The main story mission "Nocturne [=Op55N1=]" is named after a composition by Music/FryderykChopin, which is played by Hanako Arasaka when you meet her.
** The mission "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is named after the Music/BlueOysterCult song.
** The mission "The Space In Between" is named after the opening track on Music/NineInchNails side project, How To Destroy Angels' first EP.
** The mission "Lightning Breaks" is named after the song by Plasmatics.
** The missions "We Gotta Live Together" and "Burning Desire" are named after songs by Music/JimiHendrix. While the mission "All Along the Watchtower" is named after a Music/BobDylan song, Hendrix recorded what is arguably the most famous version of it.
** The mission "Where Is My Mind" is named after a song by Music/ThePixies.
** The mission "Who Wants to Live Forever" is named after the Music/{{Queen}} song.
** The mission "You Know My Name" is named after the theme song for ''[[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Casino Royale]]'', by Music/ChrisCornell, and also doubles as a shout-out to that film.
** In ''Phantom Liberty'', the mission “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” is named after the Music/TameImpala song.
** In a bit of self-referential humor, the missions "Chippin' In", "Never Fade Away", "The Ballad of Buck Ravers" and "A Like Supreme" are named after songs by Johnny Silverhand's FakeBand Samurai. These missions also involve members of the band in some way. In the same vein, the mission "Off The Leash" from Kerry's questline references an in-universe collab song by Kerry and Us Cracks.
** Not a mission title, but during “Off the Leash," Kerry introduces you to a guy he met “[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_Memphis walking in Memphis]], off Beale.”
** The Polish dub doesn't bother with this convention for the most part, but one of the missions from Judy is named "Tysiące twarzy, setki miraży"[[labelnote:TL]]"Thousands of faces, hundreds of mirages"[[/labelnote]], after a line from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsVR8Zq_LQ "Szare Miraże" by a Polish rock band Maanam]].
* Vehicles:
** One of the two player-ownable versions of the Quadra Type 66 muscle car has a distinctive [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard orange paintjob with a flag design on the roof.]] The other has the same silver/blue-stripe paintjob as the Eleanor Mustang from the original ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974''. A third skin, not available to the player without mods, is the same highland green color as the titular character's Ford Mustang from ''Film/{{Bullitt}}''. The Type 66 body design in general is a broad pastiche to a number of classic American muscle car designs.
** Your starting vehicle, an '80s-style American sedan called the Archer Hella, looks a lot like the 6000 SUX from ''Film/RoboCop1987''.
** 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".
** One of the cars in the Badlands race is painted [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros bright red and green, and driven by Margot and Luigi.]]
** The Yaiba Kusanagi motorcycle is named after Major Motoko Kusanagi from ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' (or the ancient sword that forms part of the Imperial Regalia of Japan, which Motoko named herself after, since Yaiba literally means [[BilingualBonus "blade"]]). The Kusanagi's design somewhat resembles Kaneda's bike from ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
** The Rayfield Excalibur AV is based on concept cars designed by Syd Mead.
** The Makigai [=MaiMai=] P126 is a reference to the Fiat 126p, also known as "maluch" (pronounced "malooh") - a licensed version of the Fiat 126 produced by Polish company FSO between 1973 and 2000. It even has the engine in the same place (in the rear).
** The entire line of Thornton Motors vehicles is a nod to the antagonist's fictional car company in the first ''Film/TheLoveBug''.
** Chevillon Thrax and Villefort Alvarado are based on mid-'70s American luxury cars, especially Cadillacs.
** To sum it up: Kitsch-styled vehicles are clearly inspired by opulent, yet affordable 1970-'80s American cars. Neokitsch-themed vehicles draw inspiration from 2010s ultraluxury hypercars that are anything but affordable. Entropism style encompasses mostly cheap and poorly-made city cars from all eras, and Neomilitarism, true to its name, thrives on armored [=SUVs=].
* Several of the poses V can take in Photo mode are references, either by name only, or the pose itself references something.
** [[Manga/SailorMoon In the Name of the Moon, I’ll Punish You!]]: Sailor Moon's pose when she says the titular quote. Five other "Warrior" poses match with those of the other Sailor Senshi.
** [[Film/Titanic1997 Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls]]: Laid down on their side like Jack's drawing of Rose in ''Titanic''.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure V's Bizarre Pose]]: Jonathan Joestar and Caesar Zeppeli's signature hand over the face pose.
** [[Film/{{Joker}} Joker Stairs]]: Joker's stair dance.
** [[Videogame/DarkSouls V For Victory]]: The "Praise the Sun!" pose.
** [[Film/ANewHope V Shot First]]: Han Solo's famous shooting pose.
** [[Music/{{Drake}} Hard Pass and Now You're Talking]]: The memetic shots from Hotline Bling.
** [[Film/JamesBond My name is V, Just V]]: Bond PistolPose, particularly mimicking some of the Pierce Brosnan publicity stills.
** [[Film/TheMatrix I Know Kung Fu]]: V with their guard up.
** [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Oh My God! They Killed V!]]: V lying on the ground dead.
** Music/RunTheJewels: The duo's hand display.
** [[Film/Terminator3 Talk To The Hand]]: The T-800's pose from the titular quote.
** [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Waiting For Godot]]: V miming leaning against a wall.
** [[AscendedMeme You're Breathtaking]]: V pointing like Keanu Reeves did during the E3 conference.
** [[Film/PulpFiction Be Cool, This Is A Robbery!]]: V aiming a pistol at the camera.
* Several of the Perk names are references, and sometimes the reference is made even more clear by the Perk's effect:
** [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars A Fistful of Eurodollars]]
** Series/{{Westworld}}
** Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly
** [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge, Jury and Executioner]]
** [[Film/TheTransporter Transporter]]: (Allows you to wield pistols and carry a body).
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: Health Regeneration
** [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Total Recall and Totaler Recaller]]
** [[Film/JohnnyMnemonic Mnemonic]]: Reduced quick hack cost against targets already hacked - who are much like the titular character who is suffering from an overly charged implant.
** [[Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon]]

** The missions "War Pigs" and the Phantom Liberty-exclusive "Hole in the Sky" are named after songs by {{Music/BlackSabbath}}.

** The mission "Stairway To Heaven" is named after a song by Music/LedZeppelin.

** The mission "Send In The Clowns" is named after a song by Music/JudyCollins.

** The mission "The Space In Between" is named after the song by the Music/DaveMatthewsBand.

** The missions "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "Fool On The Hill" are a shout out to songs by Music/TheBeatles.

** The mission "Shoot To Thrill" is named after a song by {{Music/ACDC}}.

** The mission "War Pigs" is named after a song by {{Music/BlackSabbath}}.

** The missions "We Gotta Live Together" and "Burning Desire" are named after songs by Music/JimiHendrix.

* At the main questline, Takemura is said to be looking like Hideshi Hino, an in-universe comedian. You can meet the person himself at Dogtown, noted that he'll be looking out for doubles. The in-universe Hideshi Hino may or may not be named after the [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385842/ infamous real-life manga artist and director]] whose gore/horror based filmography won't look out of place in Cyberpunk universe, especially for the back alley braindance markets.

* There's an unmarked cave entrance near the melee weapons vendor in Jackson's Plains where you can find a bunch of dead Wraiths and a note from an engineer they kidnapped. They wanted him to convert artillery missiles built by his employer into smaller, more portable weapons, but he knew they would kill him once he succeeded, so he fashioned himself an exoskeleton suit instead, wrapped it in iron armor, put some flamethrowers on it and went ham on his captors. [[Film/IronMan Sound familiar?]]