Line #256 ShoutOut/Cyberpunk2077


1	''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'''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.
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5	[[folder:To ''Blade Runner'']]
6	* The MAX-TAC {{flying car}} designs borrow from similar vehicles in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
7	* Whiskey glasses seen throughout the game make no attempt to hide their resemblance to the iconic Cibi tumbler from the film.
8	* Doctor Viktor Vector's receptionist Misty sports almost the same hairstyle and general getup as the replicant Pris 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.
9	* There are multiple shoutouts to ''Blade Runner''[='=]s main antagonist Roy Batty:
10	** A run-down building named Batty's Hotel can be found in Pacifica. The [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/cyberpunk/images/3/36/Batty%27s_Hotel_logo_and_stand.jpg logo]] features an origami bird and a font strongly reminiscent of the movie poster.
11	** In the North Oak Columbarium in Westbrook, there is a plaque to Roy Batty inscribed with a line from his famous Tears in Rain soliloquy ("All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.") along with the image of a dove.
12	** Stepping out onto the rooftop of the Advocet Hotel in Heywood, the time of day will change to night as rain begins to fall. At the edge of the roof is a white-haired [=NPC=] slumped over with a bird sitting in his lap. The music, the lighting and even particular details of the set are all meant to evoke the climatic scene of the film. To really hammer the point home, the words "Like Tears..." appear as a brightly lit sign on a nearby wall.
13	* The North Oak Columbarium also contains a memorial to "Syd Mead, Creator of worlds", a visionary designer and concept artist famed for his work on ''Blade Runner'' and other sci-fi films.
14	* The shard "Corporate Wanted List" can be found on a body in the Biotechnica protein farms. The shard identifies the man as Samuel Morton, an ex-army medic gone into hiding as a protein farmer, details that match Sapper Morton from ''Blade Runner 2049''. The character's birthdate and ID number closely resemble those of Sapper's as shown in the ''[[Film/BladeRunnerShorts Black Out 2022]]'' short film. The shack next to him has a large chunk ripped out of one wall, as happened during Sapper's fight with K.
15	* During the side job "The Hunt", one of the scannable cabinets in the [=NCPD=] Lab contains a dossier on "Symbols in Dreams: Electric Sheep and Unicorns", alluding to both ''Blade Runner'' and [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep the novel it's inspired by]].
16	* 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.
17	* Prior to the 2.0 update, the icon for the "Assassin" perk referenced the classic image of [[PistolPose Deckard holding his gun at the ready]], while the one for "Edgerunner Artisan" was the iconic origami unicorn. When these were removed as part of 2.0's skill tree overhaul, a new perk for bladed weapons was added with the name "Finisher: Bladerunner".
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20	[[folder:To William Gibson's ''Sprawl Trilogy'']]
21	* Much of the cyberpunk language, including "cyberspace", "ICE" (intrusion countermeasure electronics), "jack in" and "flatlined" originated in or was popularized by the ''Literature/SprawlTrilogy'' and Gibson's earlier short story "Burning Chrome".
22	* Night City shares its name and atmosphere with the Night City district of Chiba in ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}''.
23	* The "braindance" technology as a way to record and play back a person's sensory experiences is a near-exact equivalent of "simstim" in the Sprawl universe.
24	* The dollhouses bear a strong resemblance to the work ''Neuromancer'''s Molly Millions did to afford her implants, as well as to the House of Blue Lights from "Burning Chrome". Just like them, there's an ugly side that gets revealed over the course of Evelyn's story.
25	* 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.
26	* The engram of Alt Cunningham has some parallels to the construct of Dixie Flatline in ''Neuromancer'', another master hacker preserved after death as a digital personality.
27	* In "The Tower" ending to "''Phantom Liberty''," [[spoiler: V's fate echoes how Case himself began in ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}''. Following their operations, both are left physically incompatible with the cyberware they need to become urban legends, and must struggle with becoming anonymous faces in the crowd of Night City. If V was a netrunner, the parallels become even more apparent.]]
28	* See below for shoutouts to ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'', which was based on a short story set in the Sprawl universe.
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31	[[folder:To ''Johnny Mnemonic'']]
32	* The plot of ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' 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 their own head, and it will kill them if they keep him there.
33	* Doctor Viktor Vector's appearance is clearly inspired by [[Music/HenryRollins Spider]].
34	* There's also a TV commercial advertising a courier service with "the first 80GB discounted" and showing the cranium implant the couriers use.
35	* 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.
36	* 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.
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39	[[folder:To ''The Matrix'']]
40	* 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.
41	* 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.
42	* 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.
43	* 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.
44	* In one of the cyberspace dives you can [[AGlitchInTheMatrix encounter the same cat twice]] while going up a set of stairs.
45	* The first moments of the [[spoiler: hidden ending quest, (Don't Fear) The Reaper]] resemble the lobby shootout scene.
46	* 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.
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49	[[folder:To ''Judge Dredd'']]
50	* MAX-TAC officers borrow elements from the Judges of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''.
51	* The achievement for taking care of all the Cyberpsychos is "I Am The Law" complete with a MAX-TAC officer as the achievement image.
52	* The Megabuilding arcologies resemble the City Blocks as depicted in ''Film/{{Dredd}}''.
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55	[[folder:To ''Ghost in the Shell'']]
56	* The HJSH-18 Masamune assault rifle is named after Creator/MasamuneShirow, the manga's author.
57	* The parade in Japantown is inspired by the one seen in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence''.
58	* 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.
59	* 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.
60	* 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]].
61	* 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.
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64	[[folder:To ''AKIRA'']]
65	* The staircase leading to the Afterlife bar is strongly inspired by the entrance to the Harukiya bar from ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', as confirmed by [[https://twitter.com/jakubwu/status/1316048259933188098 a level artist on social media]].
66	* One of the final stretches of Phantom Liberty has you pursue Songbird into a Militech facility; there's a diagonal cargo elevator that naturally resembles that of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' taking you down into the area where the Cynosure core resides. The core itself also somewhat resembles the containment for Akira's remains.
67	* Prior to the 2.0 rework, the icon for the "Revamp" perk was based directly on the ''AKIRA Original Soundtrack'' album art.
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70	[[folder:To ''Strange Days'']]
71	* Braindances are a lot like the SQUID devices in the movie. (The invention of this type of technology was depicted in ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}''.)
72	* 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.
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75	[[folder:To ''The Witcher'']]
76	As Creator/CDProjektRED's other big game, there are many shout-outs to ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', :
77	* 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).
78	* 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"]].
79	* 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.
80	* 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.
81	* 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''.
82	* 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''.
83	* 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.
84	* 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''.
85	* 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.
86	* Some of the graffiti around the town says "Cirilla" and "Cintra Rulez".
87	* 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.
88	* In the Vista Del Rey neighborhood you can find a locale called "Dandelion's cocktails", referencing Geralt's bard friend.
89	* One of the cyberpsychos you're tasked with taking down, Dao Hyunh, has a shard that references Itlina's Prophecy.
90	* An advert for Fuyutsuki Electronics features a man with a medallion that's stylized to look like Geralt's wolf school medallion.
91	* 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.
92	* Some of the elite Arasaka guards have armor which closely resembles that of Nilfgaardian officers, including antennas on their helmets which resemble wings.
93	* The PC version of the game contains two pieces of DLC equipment [[note]]Obtained by linking the game to the developer's storefront Platform/GOGDotCom[[/note]] that directly reference the series: the Wolf School Jacket and the Wolf School T-shirt.
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96	[[folder:To ''James Bond'']]
97	Given [[SpyFiction its theme]], the ''Phantom Liberty'' DLC contains numerous nods to Literature/JamesBond:
98	* The DLC trailer featuring the British Idris Elba featured a 007 sign in the back.
99	* 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).
100	* You become a government secret agent yourself, in service to an IronLady. The longest-running M was a woman.
101	* The mission "[[Music/ChrisCornell You Know My Name]]" involves you infiltrating a [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 casino]], while [[BadassInANiceSuit dressing up]] of course. [[spoiler:You also end up bonding with a woman who deceives you for sympathetic reasons.]]
102	** In the same mission, you [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} infiltrate in a wetsuit before changing into formal dress for a party.]]
103	* For the mission, Alex gives you a gun called [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService Her Majesty]].
104	* You get the option to [[Film/TheLivingDaylights smuggle a powerful individual away from their government]].
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107	[[folder:To ''RoboCop'']]
108	* Adam Smasher's design is basically "Film/{{RoboCop\|1987}}, but ObviouslyEvil". His role in-story (an unhinged cyborg employed by a megacorp, and fought during the story's climax) is closer to [[spoiler:Cain from ''Film/RoboCop2'']], however.
109	* Your starting vehicle, an '80s-style American sedan called the Archer Hella, looks a lot like the 6000 SUX.
110	* The Delamain logo looks like OCP's, but with a D instead of the O.
111	* Idle computers have a screen showing several menus, one of them having the title "OCP -- Omni Products".
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114	[[folder:Mission Titles]]
115	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.
116	* "All Along the Watchtower" is a song by Music/BobDylan famously CoveredUp by Music/JimiHendrix.
117	* "Beat on the Brat", is by Music/TheRamones of the same name.
118	* "Life During Wartime", "Psycho Killer", and "Burning Down The House" are all by Music/TalkingHeads.
119	* "Riders on the Storm" and "Queen of the Highway" are songs by Music/TheDoors.
120	* "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.
121	* "Imagine" is by Music/JohnLennon.
122	* "I Walk the Line" is by Music/JohnnyCash.
123	* "Killing In The Name" takes its name from a song by Music/RageAgainstTheMachine.
124	* "I Fought The Law" was originally written and recorded by Sonny Curtis and the Crickets, and later widely covered, most famously by Music/TheClash.
125	* "Gimme Danger", "Search and Destroy", "Down On The Street", and "Play It Safe" are references to Music/IggyPop and Music/{{the Stooges}}.
126	* "Love Rollercoaster" is a reference to a song by Ohio Players (also covered by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers).
127	* "Totalimmortal" is by Music/{{AFI}}.
128	* "Rebel, Rebel", "Changes", "Heroes", and "Space Oddity" are all by Music/DavidBowie.
129	* "Disasterpiece" is a shout-out to a {{Music/Slipknot}} song of the same name.
130	* "The Highwayman" is a taken from a song of the same name written by Jimmy Webb [[CoveredUp but made famous by country supergroup]] The Highwaymen.
131	* “Pyramid Song” is a song by Music/{{Radiohead}}, with the gameplay of the mission itself [[WholePlotReference being reminiscent of the music video for the song.]]
132	* "Bullets" is named after the song featured in the 2013 announcement trailer by Music/{{Archive}}.
133	* "Boat Drinks" is a song by Jimmy Buffet.
134	* "Violence" is named for the song by Music/{{Grimes}}, who happens to play Lizzy Wizzy.
135	* "Big In Japan" is named after a song by {{Music/Alphaville}}.
136	* "Shoot To Thrill" and "Dog Eat Dog"[[note]]Exclusive to ''Phantom Liberty''[[/note]] are named after songs by {{Music/ACDC}}.
137	* "Ezekiel Take The Wheel" is an African-American spiritual recorded by, among others, Woody Guthrie and John Lee Hooker.
138	* "Where the Bodies Hit the Floor" takes its name from the chorus of the song "Bodies" by Music/DrowningPool.
139	* "War Pigs" and "Hole in the Sky"[[note]]Exclusive to Phantom Liberty[[/note]] are named after songs by Music/BlackSabbath.
140	* "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution" is a song by Music/TracyChapman.
141	* "The Hunt" is a song by New Model Army, [[CoveredUp made famous]] by Music/{{Sepultura}}.
142	* "Send In The Clowns" is a song by Music/JudyCollins.
143	* "Stairway To Heaven," and "Dazed and Confused," are named for Music/LedZeppelin songs.
144	* "Sweet Dreams" is a song by Music/{{Eurythmics}}.
145	* "Gun Music" is a song by Music/TalibKweli.
146	* "Following The River" and "Spider and the Fly"[[note]]Exclusive to Phantom Liberty[[/note]] are songs by Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}.
147	* "Coin-operated Boy" is a song by Music/TheDresdenDolls.
148	* "Dream On" is a song by Music/{{Aerosmith}}.
149	* "I'll Fly Away" is a Christian hymn written by Allan E. Brumley.
150	* "Epistrophy" is a song by Music/TheloniousMonk.
151	* "M'ap Tann Pelen" isa song used by the Bizango, a sect of Haitian Voudou worshippers.
152	* "Spray Paint" is a song by Music/{{Eminem}}.
153	* "Don't Lose Your Mind" is a song by Music/PromiseOfTheReal.
154	* "They Won't Go When I Go" is named after songs by Music/GeorgeMichael and Music/StevieWonder.
155	* "Nocturne [=Op55N1=]" is named after a composition by Music/FryderykChopin, which is played by Hanako Arasaka when you meet her.
156	* "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is named after the Music/BlueOysterCult song.
157	* "The Space In Between" is a track by Music/NineInchNails side project, How To Destroy Angels.
158	* "Lightning Breaks" is a song by Plasmatics.
159	* "We Gotta Live Together" and "Burning Desire" are named after songs by Music/JimiHendrix.
160	* "Where Is My Mind" is a song by Music/ThePixies.
161	* "Who Wants to Live Forever" is a Music/{{Queen}} song.
162	* "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, [[WholePlotReference which contains similar events]]
163	* “New Person, Same Old Mistakes”[[note]]Exclusive to ''Phantom Liberty''[[/note]] is a song by Music/TameImpala.
164	* "Lucretia My Reflection"[[note]]Exclusive to Phantom Liberty[[/note]] is named for a track by Music/TheSistersOfMercy.
165	* "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"[[note]]Exclusive to Phantom Liberty[[/note]] is a song by Music/PublicEnemy.
166	* "Firestarter"[[note]]Exclusive to Phantom Liberty[[/note]] is named for the song by Prodigy.
167	* "Things Done Changed"[[note]]Exclusive to Phantom Liberty[[/note]] is a song by Music/TheNotoriousBIG.
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170	[[folder:Other Musical References]]
171	* 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.
172	* 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.”
173	* 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]].
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175
176	[[folder:Vehicles]]
177	* 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]] -- it's even called the "Jen Rowley". 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[[note]]until the 2.0 update made it the reward for completing all of Dino Dinovic's gigs[[/note]], 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.
178	* 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".
179	* One of the cars in the Badlands race is painted [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros bright red and green, and driven by Margot and Luigi.]]
180	* 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}}''.
181	* The Rayfield Excalibur AV is based on concept cars designed by Syd Mead.
182	* 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).
183	* The entire line of Thornton Motors vehicles is a nod to the antagonist's fictional car company in the first ''Film/TheLoveBug''.
184	* Chevillon Thrax and Villefort Alvarado are based on mid-'70s American luxury cars, especially Cadillacs.
185	* 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=].
186	[[/folder]]
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188	[[folder:Photo Mode]]
189	Several of the poses V can take in Photo mode are references, either by name only, or the pose itself references something.
190	* [[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.
191	** What makes this even better is the fact that Female V [[ActorAllusion shares]] [[Creator/CheramiLeigh a voice actress]] with Sailor Venus/Minako Aino.
192	* [[Film/Titanic1997 Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls]]: Laid down on their side like Jack's drawing of Rose in ''Titanic''.
193	* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure V's Bizarre Pose]]: Jonathan Joestar and Caesar Zeppeli's signature hand over the face pose.
194	* [[Film/{{Joker}} Joker Stairs]]: Joker's stair dance.
195	* [[Videogame/DarkSouls V For Victory]]: The "Praise the Sun!" pose.
196	* [[Film/ANewHope V Shot First]]: Han Solo's famous shooting pose.
197	* [[Music/{{Drake}} Hard Pass and Now You're Talking]]: The memetic shots from Hotline Bling.
198	* [[Film/JamesBond My name is V, Just V]]: Bond PistolPose, particularly mimicking some of the Pierce Brosnan publicity stills.
199	* [[Film/TheMatrix I Know Kung Fu]]: V with their guard up.
200	* [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Oh My God! They Killed V!]]: V lying on the ground dead.
201	* Music/RunTheJewels: The duo's hand display.
202	* [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines Talk To The Hand]]: The T-800's pose from the titular quote.
203	* [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Waiting For Godot]]: V miming leaning against a wall.
204	* [[AscendedMeme You're Breathtaking]]: V pointing like Keanu Reeves did during the E3 conference.
205	* [[Film/PulpFiction Be Cool, This Is A Robbery!]]: V aiming a pistol at the camera.
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208	[[folder:Perks]]
209	Several of the Perk names are references, and sometimes the reference is made even more clear by the Perk's effect:
210	* [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars A Fistful of Eurodollars]]
211	* Series/{{Westworld}}
212	* Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly
213	* [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge, Jury and Executioner]]
214	* [[Film/TheTransporter Transporter]]: (Allows you to wield pistols and carry a body).
215	* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: Health Regeneration
216	* [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Total Recall and Totaler Recaller]]
217	* [[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.
218	* [[Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon]]
219	[[/folder]]
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221	[[folder:Other/Unsorted]]
222	* The side job "Epistrophy" has you hunt down rogue Delamain cabs across the city. Some of the rogue [=AIs=] may sound familiar:
223	** In Coastview, you find a cab hijacked by none other than SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}} [[Creator/EllenMcLain herself]], complete with repurposed dialog from both ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
224	** The one in Rancho Coronado calls itself [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Clarice]] and insists you help her silence... the flamingos.
225	** In the Badlands junkyard, one declares "[[IceCreamKoan Comprehension is a triple-edged sword]]", lifted near-verbatim from the Vorlons of ''Series/BabylonFive''.
226	* 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}}''. Also a nod to how Jet works in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''.
227	* The ripperdoc who does modifications on your body goes by Doctor Viktor Vector, as a reference to Creator/MaryShelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Dr. Victor Frankenstein]]. V can even point this out by referring to themselves as his "monster".
228	* One of Judy's tattoos heavily resembles [[{{Music/Megadeth}} Vic Rattlehead]].
229	* Remember the three seashells from ''Film/DemolitionMan''? Well, you can spot them on the shelf next to V's toilet.
230	* 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.
231	* 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"]].
232	* 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=].
233	* 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, one of the cooks being named Shiro (Japanese for "white"), and the name of the mission itself.
234	* The graphic for the Massacre perk (replaced with the Like a Feather perk in update 2.0) 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.
235	* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
236	** [[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.
237	** Less snarkily, the description for weaponised crowbars references MIT physicists.
238	* There's a street called Pondsmith in Japantown that references Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the tabletop ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' game.
239	* 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".
240	* In the Biotechnica farms, you can find a wrecked tanker truck that, going by the document left behind, was driven by one "Creator/{{Charlize\|Theron}} [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Fury]]", a woman with a shaved head and cybernetic arms who was breaking a group of pregnant, artificially inseminated women out from Biotechnica's labs, and who were chased down by their corporate enforcers, all while accompanied by a man in a black leather jacket named [[Film/MadMax Max]].
241	* In a storm drain, you can find the wreckage of a semitruck and a motorcycle and two bodies, one of them heavily cyborg'd up. Recovering the log, you learn that the Edgerunner was contracted by [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Jimmy O'Connor's mother to rescue him from the pursuer in the semitruck, a cyborg]].
242	* One sidemission involves saving a [[Series/TheOfficeUS Japanese surgeon who secretly killed a crime boss he was operating on by intentionally botching his operation]].
243	* One of the Iconic Katanas is called "[[Film/KillBill Cottonmouth]]", the code name of O-Ren Ishii, who takes part in the first volume's climactic Katana fight.
244	* The mission "Fixer, Merc, Soldier, Spy" takes its name from the Creator/JohnLeCarre novel and film ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''.
245	* The achievement for completing all NCPD and fixer jobs in Watson is called [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes It's Elementary!]]
246	* One of the quests, "Sacrum Profanum/Losing My Religion", has Maelstrom members kidnapping a monk and forcibly cyberneticize him. And a Valentino also suffered the similar procedure in one of the Cyberpsycho Sightings events. These kinds of procedures used by Maelstrom is familiar to those who knew about ''Manga/Cyborg009'', in which Black Ghost does the same to their victims for kicks.
247	* The Handgun Skill Tree under the Reflex perk is a shout out to popular westerns.
248	* The gay strip club known as Dicky Twister is a clear nod to the "Titty Twister" from ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''.
249	* Panam's name, with the implication that it stands for "Pan-American", may be a reference to Amy Shaftoe from ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'': her real name is America because [[ReallyGetsAround any man in America]] [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe could be her father]].
250	* Cyborg boxing, as seen in the "Beat on the Brat" missions, may be an homage to ''Anime/MegaloBox''.
251	* One spot heard on the radios mentions a scientist by the name of [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Richard Sanchez]].
252	* The Gold-Plated Baseball Bat is probably a reference to the signature weapon of Shonen Bat from ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent''.
253	* Doctor Viktor's last name is [[Manga/BattleAngelAlita Vector]].
254	* When playing AR "Cops and Robbers" with River's niece and nephew, the kids choose the aliases [[Film/DieHard Joan [=McClane=]]] and [[Film/DirtyHarry Henry Callahan.]]
255	** Henry Callahan is, of course, [[Film/LethalWeapon gettin' too old for this shit]].
256	* Skippy, the smart gun with a talking A.I., sings to the tune of Music/{{Rihanna}}'s Disturbia. His name and talking bullet avatar are a parody of Microsoft's [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftOfficeAssistant Clippy]].
257	* In the Many Ways to Skin a Cat gig, one of the workers in the warehouse makes a reference to a [[Series/TheWire Polish stevedore named Sobotka who is involved in helping their smuggling operation.]]
258	* In the Glen neighbourhood in Heywood, you can find a young man who has died and crashed his bike after attempting to jump from a great height. Nearby, you can find a datashard that says that the man's name is Pablo, and that he was offered a chance to recreate a braindance version of a "cult classic" video from Eastern Europe that was created 71 years ago. It's a reference to a Polish viral video titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cX17CeYKt0 "Pawel Jumper"]], which shows a young man jumping from some stairs on his bike and faceplanting onto concrete. If you plug the coordinates from the datashard into Google Earth, you can see the parking lot where the original video was recorded. In the Polish dub, if you wound an enemy they might scream out "Ala, kurwa, rzeczywiscie!" ("Ouch, fuck, you were right!"), which is what Pawel says after his fall.
259	* If you scan one of the guitars on display in Kerry's house, you can see that the model is called "Astral Rock" and it was made by a company called "Delif" in the year 2023. It's a reference to a Polish company called Defil that builds guitars, violins, piano mechanisms and mandolins. Their most recognised guitar model is called "Aster Rock".
260	* In the Badlands, you can find corpses of a few members of a LARP session, with a model of [[VideoGame/Fallout3 vault doors with the number 101 on them.]]
261	* A hidden vehicle V can obtain is one of the most expensive, top-of-the-line models and painted totally black. It's tucked away in a cave underground near a datashard written by a clearly rather unstable man who witnessed his parents' deaths and the evil of Night City. In order to take revenge, he has chosen to combat the darkness by becoming it, naming himself "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Murkman]]".
262	* ''Film/BrokebackMountain'': Two men named Jack and Dennis tried to meet up in the Badlands and didn't make it very far. The tone of their correspondence is affectionate.
263	* You can go to the north-east corner of Rancho Coronado sub-district of Santo Domingo to find a pile of trash just off the road to the east. Look in the pile and you will find a broken refrigerator with a dead man partly inside it with an Akubra hat and sandals with socks. Further inspection reveals this to be a man named Steven Hurt and he was trying to see if he could "Crack the Myth" that you could survive an explosion in a refrigerator. This is a shoutout both to [[Series/MythBusters MythBusters]] and Adam Savage, who often wears that type of hat when in the field, and in particular the Indiana Jones special where they tackled that particular myth.
264	* North of the oil fields, there is a large tank with the Hanged Man tarot graffiti on it. On top of that tank one can find an abandoned hangout place with an old guitar and a graffiti that says "Цой жив" ("Tsoi lives"). Apparently, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi Victor Tsoi]] was a famous rockerboy in the Cyberpunk universe too...
265	* One side of the same tank features graffiti that says "Здесь были Киса и Ося" ("Kisa and Osya were here"), referencing ''Literature/TheTwelveChairs''.
266	* During the Fixer, Merc, Soldier, Spy mission V can meet Russian merc quoting (non-verbatim) famous "power is in truth" speech from ''Film/Brother2''.
267	* The Emperor tarot card features a skeletal cybernetic man sitting on a mechanical throne: a pretty obvious reference to [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Emperor of Man]].
268	* Santo Domingo features, in one tucked-away location, [[https://i.redd.it/2xgykqtwzf561.jpg a recreation]] of [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Grove Street]].
269	* In the beginning of the Belly of the Beast mission, at the top of the drilling rig in the tunnel, one can find the machine named "Cyberencabulator". This machine, and its description is a reference to long-running "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator Turboencabulator]]" TechnoBabble joke.
270	* One of the radio segments features a bit about a dolphin learning vowels from a braindance, to which the radio host expresses interest in dolphins "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E1TreehouseOfHorrorXI taking a crack at world domination!]]".
271	* [[https://i.gyazo.com/fc53337e9342777e8934c357b8942e19.png A tattoo on Viktor's bicep]] bears a rather uncanny resemblance to a [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/865/810/c61.png variation of Wojak]].
272	* In the mission "Down The Street", when V and Takemura talk after Oda's departure, you can see a boat passing by in the background with a neon saying "OKAMI" that's transporting a giant statue of a wolf's head. It ''may'' be a reference to the 2006 Capcom game ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', where the main protagonist, the goddess Amaterasu, comes down to Earth and takes the form of a wolf.
273	* Music/DeathGrips gets a reference in the form of a street vendor named Stefan (the real name of Death Grips frontman MC Ride) who offers to sell some kind of exploitative video -- alluding to the infectious track "I've Seen Footage".
274	* Several firearms designs bears more than passing resemblance to real life ones:
275	** Arasaka Shigure and Militech [=M221=] Saratoga submachine guns looks very much like [=MP5=] and [=UMP45=], respectively.
276	** [=DS1=] Pulsar submachine gun is based on experimental Soviet TKB-022 assault rifle, complete with bakelite stock.
277	** The Darra Polytechnic DR-5 Nova is a futuristic take on the Mateba MTR-8.
278	* The NCPD Organized Crime Activity location in Rancho Coronado has a terminal which mentions a group consisting of [[Anime/CowboyBebop Faye Spiegel, Spike Valentine, Jet White,]] [[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor Vicious Volaju, and Elektra Ovirova]]. The group later appears in a hostage situation in Rancho Coronado, however they sadly don't look anything like the characters.
279	* 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/DawnOfTheDead2004 Dawn of the Dead]]''.
280	* In the Polish version, the mission called "Human Nature", where you're tasked with recovering the Archer Hella V used before the heist, is titled "Gdzie Moja Bryka?", which is the name that the 2000 comedy movie ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'' was released under in Poland.
281	* In a cave out in the Badlands, due east of the Tango Tors Hotel, you can discover a bunch of dead Wraiths and a journal belonging to a Militech engineer named "[[Characters/MCUTonyStark Thomas Star]]". The journal details the Engineer's time as a captive of the Wraiths, who want him to reverse-engineer some heavy weapons. Aware that the Wraiths will [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill him as soon as the job is done]], the engineer instead opts to [[Film/IronMan1 build himself an armored exoskeleton and fight his way to freedom]], even going so far as to count out the exact amount of steps he would need to exit the cave. Judging by the carnage and lack of a trashed exoskeleton, it seems the engineer's plan was successful.
282	* 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 ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' (with 215 from the first screenname being an area code in Philadelphia).
283	* One message you can find from illegal braindance makers has them brainstorming ideas for future products, including one based on [[Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom a movie featuring kids forced into sex, domination, and playing with shit.]]
284	* One video game review you can find describes a four player vampire co-op game featuring {{Literature/Dracula}}, {{Literature/Carmilla}}, [[Literature/VarneyTheVampire Varney]], and [[Film/TheFearlessVampireKillers Herbert]], with [[Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows Viago]] mentioned for good measure.
285	* To ''Film/OldBoy'': A dead end alley in Heywood is strewn with corpses and melee weapons. Next to a hammer is a data shard detailing a conversation between a man who has been imprisoned for fifteen years and his mysterious captor.
286	* ''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".
287	* ''Film/Transformers2007'': Another toy is named the Conquerer, with the tagline, "To Punish and Enslave"; in the first ''Transformers'' live-action movie, one of the Decepticons, Barricade, is disguised as a police car, with the aforementioned phrase in place of where "To Protect and to Serve" would normally be printed on his livery.
288	* In front of the weapon vendor on Halsey & MLK, a girl is trying to entice her friend to avail of the services of a [[Film/HardTarget clandestine group that facilitates hunts of homeless people]].
289	* To ''Film/DieHard'': You can find an ill-fated "John [=McBane=]" inside a ventilation shaft along with a couple of corpses behind a tall office building.
290	* One of the posters that can be found is for a movie called ''Crime and Punishment and Zombies'', reference to the book and film ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''.
291	* An NCPD dispatch in the badlands leads to some Militech soldiers that have recently secured a trailer park. Clear them out, and in the park you can find an archived conversation between [[Film/FirstBlood John Obmar and Samuel Teasle]]. These two men are veterans of the Corp wars, and Obmar talks of having piloted AV's, driven tanks, and carried million-eddie equipment, like Rambo's breakdown speech from the movie.
292	* One of the clothing items V can find is a black "[[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} tactical turtleneck]]".
293	* Before the 2.0 update retconned V's age down to 23, they were 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.]] However, V's new age also carries a reference: "[[Music/{{Coolio}} I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is going, I don't know.]]"
294	* The Peter Pan killer questline is a pretty clear homage to ''Film/TheCell''. Both feature detectives entering the mind of a comatose serial killer to rescue his victim stuck in an automated trap.
295	* The sparring bots, most prominently the one in V's megablock that introduces players to the boxing mechanics, look very similar to Atom, the obsolete sparring bot from the movie ''Film/RealSteel''.
296	* During a radio segment, Maximum Mike is talking about the idea that all the art in museums is all forgeries and the originals are being stored off-world. For emphasis, he mentions a bunch of artists, one of which is named [[Literature/PickmansModel Pickman]].
297	* In-game street name signs closely resemble those found not in the US - but in the developers' own Polish capital of Warsaw.
298	* ''Film/TheDeparted'': In Downtown, you can pass by an alcove in a building where a body is lying in a pool of blood, a reference to the scene where Captain Queenan is thrown off a building. Climbing up the nearby scaffolding will bring you to three bodies, all killed in a shootout in a reference to the film's penultimate scene. You can even find an archived conversation on one of the bodies between two NCPD officers named Costigan and Dignam, with references to a crime boss named Costello, and his mole, Sullivan.
299	* When V is referred to by their real name by the doll at Clouds, they reply that "[[Music/LadyGaga only people who know me real well can use my real name.]]"
300	* A shard found by a wrecked boat on the Pacifica beach holds instructions for [[Film/ChildrenOfMen Theo to get a mother and daughter to the Human Project]].
301	* In the epilogue if you chose to [[spoiler: let Johnny Silverhand keep your body]], you'll meet a young aspiring rocker who'll ask you if you've heard the new [[Series/PeepShow Curse These Metal Hands]] album.
302	* ''Film/TheCrow1994'': Later in the game, Johnny Silverhand drops the line "It can't rain all the time", a reference to Eric Draven's pre-revenant life as a rocker guitarist/singer in a dystopian urban setting.
303	* One of the NCPD hustles in Arroyo has you taking out a group of 6th Street gangers who just executed an old-time member of the gang who just got out of prison and isn't happy with how things have changed. A shard you can find at the scene indicates that one of the hitmen for the job was a fellow named [[Series/TheSopranos Christopher Gualtieri]]. Bonus points for the old-timer being named Tony.
304	* ''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.
305	* The words '[[Music/FiftyCent Get Rich or Die Trying]]' are written on the in-game textures for eurodollars.
306	* The plot of ''Phantom Liberty'' involves V being tasked with rescuing the President of the (N)USA after their plane crashes into a dangerous place in America in order to save their life. Sounds awfully familiar to [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork another film with the same premise...]]
307	* The compendium description for the HJKE-11 Yukimura smart pistol notes that you could "shoot as [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy poorly]] as the robots in [[Franchise/StarWars a certain late 20th century space opera]]" with it and still hit your target with 100% accuracy.
308	* 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://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideshi_Hino 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.
309	* One potential response V can give to Judy in "Pyramid Song" [[spoiler:after learning about what happened to Clouds, whether they followed Maiko's plan or not]], is "[[Film/{{Chinatown}} Forget it, Jude. It's Japantown.]]"
310	* Who else goes by [[OneLetterName just the letter V,]] was involved in a top-secret experiment GoneHorriblyWrong, and ends up [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge waging war against the ones at the top?]] [[Film/VForVendetta A certain man in a mask.]] It helps that there's also [[spoiler:a character in ''V for Vendetta'' named Valerie, too.]]
311	* This isn't the first video game where the assassination of an [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Emperor]] that the player character witnessed helped kickstart the main plot.
312	* In the backstory for the Bloodsport gig, a boxer takes money from the Tyger Claws to take a dive in his next fight; Instead, he uses that money to bet on the fight he was supposed to take a dive in, wins, then skips town. This is essentially Butch Coolidge's story arc in ''Film/PulpFiction'', and the boxer in the game even has the same last name as Butch.
313	* In the Olive Branch gig, V helps out a Russian man, Sergei, who ran afoul of the Tyger Claws via a "misunderstanding" involving a hitman that had a beard, brown shoes, and his little dog. When asked, Sergei states that what actually happened was "much worse" than if Sergei had killed the man. This is a shout out to ''Film/JohnWick'', in which the titular hitman had his house broken into and dog killed because he wouldn't sell his car to a Russian man.
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