History ShoutOut / Cyberpunk2077

** Elba plays a sleeper agent who was [[Film/{{Skyfall}} burned by his government]].
** You become a government secret agent yourself for an IronLady. The longest-running M was a woman.

** You become a government secret agent yourself.

** Elba plays a sleeper agent who was [[film/{{Skyfall}} burned by his government]].

** 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.]]

** The mission ''You know my name'' involves you infiltrating a [[film/CasinoRoyale 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]].

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife''
** [[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 "No-Life series, [[MemeticMutation which is finally coming out in 2077 after years of]] DevelopmentHell.

* Several of the Perk names are refences, other times the reference is made even more clear by the Perk's effect:

** 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.

* In one of the side missions, "The Hunt", a lab you break into has on display a [=BB=] pod from ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''. Scanning it tells you its purpose is to detect BTs.

* ''Film/PointBreak1991'': during the first Silverhand flashback, Johnny bids farewell to Kerry, wishing for him to do his own thing and hoping to see him in the next life.

** 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 question has obvious parallels too.

** 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.

** The shop clerk you meet in the sidemission 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''.

** In the Vista Del Rey neighbourhood you can find a locale called "Dandelion's cocktails", referencing Geralt's bard friend.

** An advert for Fuyutsuki Electronics features a man with a medalion that's stylised to look like Geralt's wolf school medalion.

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

* 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.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' : One of the toys that can be found in various sex shops throughout the city is a red and black phallic device, named "Captain Pickhard". It even features the tagline, "BeamMeUpScotty"

* One of the clothing items V can find is a black "[[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} tactical turtleneck]]"
* V is 27 years old and can, in most of the endings, "die" a legend at that age - making them a member of the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club 27 Club]]

** To ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'': The cyberpsycho figt 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]].

* ''Film/PointBreak'': during the first Silverhand flashback, Johnny bids farewell to Kerry, wishing for him to do his own thing and hoping to see him in the next life.

** 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.

''2077'''s setting borrows heavily from a number of other {{cyberpunk}} sci-fi works, many of those being circular references to the original TabletopGame, while various other details of the setting reference various other movies, shows, books, and games.

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

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

** The mission "The Hunt" is named after a song by Music/{{Sepultura}}. The lyrics are pretty appropriate.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' : One of the toys that can be found in various sex shops throughout the city is a red and black phallic device, named " Captain Pickhard". It even features the tagline, "BeamMeUpScotty"

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** One of the toys that can be found in various sex shops throughout the city is a red and black phallic device, named " Captain Pickhard". It even features the tagline, "BeamMeUpScotty"
** Another toy is named the Conquerer, with the tagline, "[[Film/{{Transformers}} Punish and Enslave]]"