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[[folder: Atlus and Franchise/Shin Megami Tensei megafranchise ]]

* In chapter 31, [[spoiler:Aleph]] expresses surprise that Adam hasn't learned to use Zio or Tarukaja. In chapter 41, we see what Tarukaja does in this universe.
* At Freeport [=S9=], Bryce Lawson was accompanied by a pair of siblings called [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Elizabeth]] and [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Theodore]].
* [[VideoGame/SoulHackers Alpha, Beta and EL-115]] show up on Noveria.
** Margaret and Theodore belong to the Phantom Society.
* Hein gives Edward a [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney Demonica]] suit, which even looks the part.
** The Warrior looks like [[spoiler:Awake Jimenez.]]
* Living alongside the Fiera in Xytegenia are [[VideoGame/OdinSphere Pookah]], also known as [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Moogles]], but the characteristics of the one introduced (one Alistair Montblanc) is more in line with the former.
* During the geth attack in Chapter 41, the Deep Eyes hole up in [[{{VideoGame/Persona3}} Paulownia Mall]].

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[[folder: Bioware franchises other than Mass Effect ]]


* When fighting the Black Queen/Benezia, her response to Bau's order to surrender is to shout '''[[Videogame/BaldursGate I cannot be caged! I cannot be controlled! Understand this as you die, fool!]]''' [[note]]This is a near-exact repetition of Irenicus' taunt as he destroys the mages guarding his prison[[/note]]
* There's a Volus named [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Sandal.]]
** The area of Caleston where the aliens reside is the...Alienage.
* Hein would name his crossbow Maria because [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Bianca]] was already taken.
** In chapter 24 a reasonable Templar named Vael appears.

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[[folder: Series/Firefly ]]


* Chapter 3: "Look, You want to run this job?" "Actually, yes, I do want to run this job!" "Well guess what? You CAN'T. Now get behind cover and keep your mouth SHUT. Your constant yapping is harming my calm."
* Chapter 4: "You were dead, Mister [[spoiler:Vakarian]]..." said the human as he unhooked the cardio-stimulators from [[spoiler:Garrus']] flesh. "Too soon, too soon! Fist wants you to suffer at least two days, minimum!"
** The salarian in that scene is also wearing Jayne's "cunning hat."
** If you didn't pick up on it, the human is Niska.
* Chapter 7: "Someone tries to kill you, you kill them right back!"
** "They'll beat us, hang us, then burn our corpses, and if we're lucky, they'll do it InThatOrder."
* Chapter 9: There was a Sergeant Reynolds involved in the defence of Elysium.
* Chapter 15: Garrus rolled his eyes. "A shapeshi- oh come on, Jensen! Sounds like something out of a bad sci-phi!"\\
"...You live on a ''space station''."\\
"...Yeah, so?"
* Chapter 22: The 23-G Bellum Compound turns people into [[spoiler:Reavers with shorter life-spans]].
* A salarian named Mister Weltall(German for ''Universe'') took footage of Jensen's skycar chase.
* Jules Leng's father was a psychotic WarriorPoet named [[http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Shan_Yu Shan Yu.]]
* Elysium was declared a "Black Rock" (an uninhabitable world) after Haliat's fleets bombed it with the Bellum gas.
* Tali goes by the callsign "Kaylee" while on Noveria.
* The entirety of "Interludes of Madness" is riddled with subtle references to River and the Academy.
* Chapter 30 has a passing reference to the "Griswalds," otherwise known as the "apple grenades."
* In chapter 40 Ramsus is described as "leaping like a leaf on the wind".
* In Interlude 3 Subject Zero is asked "Do you know what your sin is?" by a swordsman in a dark blue coat.
* Chapter 48: "Forgive Coronis, Ms. Brooks," said the Asari in the red dress, beckoning Brooks to approach. "She likes to stand near doors and say ''boo''."

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[[folder: Video Game/First Encounter Assault Recon ]]

* Hein has a book titled Project Paragon.
* Toomb's first name is Paxton.
* "They all deserved to die."
* Peak 15 had a Director Fettel.
* 'For years to come the Triumvirate would try to explain to themselves — through science or faith — exactly what had happened, but suffice to say that a monster had been loosed, and that it wanted its maker dead.'
* The director of the Subject Zero project was surnamed Aristide.

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[[folder: Video Game/Metal Gear and other Kojima Productions works ]]

* The 108 was built by Shinkawa Heavy Industries. [[note]]Yoji Shinkawa is the main mechanical designer for the games.[[/note]]
* Bioroids were hypothesised by a Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar.
** [[spoiler: Alenko's]] [[http://yannick.fleurit.free.fr/Culture/Screenshots/Snatcher/Snatcher%20(1).jpg death pose]][[note]]Caution! A bit gory.[[/note]] and mention of Neo Kobe with Julian Seed[[note]]Gillian Seed in game[[/note]] makes it also a shout-out to ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}''.
* Bren is a giant whose weapon is a 20mm rotary machinegun, like Vulcan Raven.
** Red Raven's real name is Mey Leng.[[note]]Which sounds similar to Mei Ling.[[/note]]
** In chapter 39 there's an ElevatorActionSequence involving invisible enemies.
* Adam's daughter was named Sunny.
* The slavers in chapter 20 took an Omar called Drebin.
** Stabbing a guy with a blade embedded into your foot.
* Adam pulls "a cord with glowing blue power cells plugged into it like bulbs of garlic on a string" out of a Geth.[[note]]The stuff you get for doing Zandatsus in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.[[/note]] He does a similar thing to [[spoiler: finish off Benezia.]]
** "I heard he was as strong as a titan and lifted that damned Red Wanzer and threw it into the sun!"
** "Nanomachines, son. ... How did this guy survive a gunshot wound to the head? Nanomachines. How come those missiles exploded spontaneously? Nanomachines. How did that crazy fucker regrow his head and arm? Nanomachines, nanomachines, nanomachines."
** One of the PrivateMilitaryContractors under the WTO is World Marshall (sic).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-kUAcPvUzA "It's... It's a box."]]
** "Jack the Ripper", superhuman MasterSwordsman, and his robot dog, out on a bloody quest to fight the GovernmentConspiracy.
** The robot dog surprises a bored guard at his checkpoint.
** "Greetings, android. ... I am here to kill you."
** Ramsus recreates Jetstream Sam's grand entrance on a Geth APC.
* One of FRN-00's many names is [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Huey.]]
* Also, [[VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}} the premise itself]]; A CowboyCop is turned into a HumanPopsicle, and [[RipVanWinkle awakes in a world that has no place for him]]. After years of soul-searching, he travels to a giant SpaceStation where he discovers an evil conspiracy...
* FRN-00's new body was codenamed [[VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders Anubis]].
** [[spoiler:Aleph]] calls Charge "Zero Shift".
** One of the other terms Element Zero is known by is "Metatron".

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[[folder: Square Enix properties ]]


* [[VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} Manah is being hunted by a Templar Commander named Caim who rides a red Wyvern-type wanzer. He's called the Red Dragon.]] With him are Leonard and Arioch.
** Not just that but his two swords are named [[VideoGame/{{NieR}} Popola and Devola]].
** The Alliance Marines and USMC fight what are basically Grotesqueries in chapter 42.
* The Shadow Broker has an asset named [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Edgar]] [[Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin Hein, who is supported by Deep Eyes and is trying to recommend Edward Grey]] for Spectrehood. The Serpent Rifle is from there too.
** When Manah [[spoiler: escapes from the ''Normandy'']], Hein uses [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_Eyes High Density Gas]] to break her fall.
* Two of the unfortunate women kidnapped by the Red Tribals were surnamed [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Lockheart (sic) and Gainsborough.]]
** Element Zero was once called Materia.
* One of Johann's kills was a [[VideoGame/CrisisCore Gene, son of a Dr. Holland, who was too fond of quoting bad poetry.]]
* Brea spent some time at "Tarsus' [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Balamb Garden.]]"
* When infiltrating Noveria, Brea disguises Adam as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Basch.]]
** The Fiera are one letter away from the Viera.
** Element Zero was once called Nethicite.
* When Hein describes the 108 PoweredArmor, he gives us this bit:
---> "It doesn't matter if you're a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Commando, a Ravager, a Medic, a Saboteur, a Synergist, a Sentinel]] or any combination thereof: This suit has everything you need to succeed in any of those roles."
** Bau hires a Katzroy and child to ferry him around.
* There's a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Roegadyn]] bouncer on Ilium.
* "[[IAmTheNoun I am the]] [[VideoGame/VagrantStory reinforcements]]."
** The Templar have a division called the Crimson Blades.
* A Codex entry mentions [[VideoGame/FrontMission Wanzers]], [[VideoGame/FrontMission1 Black Hounds and Carrion Crows]].
** Chapter 39 mentions Imaginary Numbers.
* Adam gets bad vibes from a pair of Peak 15 projects labelled [[VideoGame/NieR "Gestalt" and "Replicant".]]
* There's a planet called [[VideoGame/OgreBattleTheMarchOfTheBlackQueen Xytegenia]].
** Alistair mentions events such as the March of the Black Queen and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics the War of the Lions]].
** On the planet there is [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Stillsea, a 200 km wide mass of frozen water reputed to be the site of an ancient civilization. ]]
* Hein names his crossbow Maria. He later gives a similar crossbow named [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Draco]] to Proudfoot.
* Gria are mentioned as one of the Gaian unit types.

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[[folder: ''Tabletop Game/Shadowrun'' ]]


* Conrad Verner isn't a creepy fan of Shepard in this milieu. He's a creepy fan of ''Jensen'' that wears a [[http://www.shadowrun.com/shadowrun-returns/about/ green leather coat, round sunglasses]] and goes by the pseudonym "[[VideoGame/{{Shadowrun}} Jake Armitage]]". He also uses the terminology. It turns out to have InUniverse reasons - he found a pre-Collapse Shadowrun core {{Sourcebook}}, [[CannotTellFictionFromReality mistook it for a history text]], and decided to [[HeroicWannabe become a Shadowrunner]].
* Also, Chad Dumier is a fan of the TabletopGame, and has named the WTO's global exchange currency the Nuyen... which makes Conrad mistaking that sourcebook for a textbook somewhat more understandable.
* 'This was what mercenary life was like in WTO Arcologies: A ten minute briefing. Three days of investigations, resource gathering, and planning. All culminating in an hour of pure mayhem...'
* The Jester coins Omega a "flux state".
* "Maybe some kind of anti-ghost insecticide gun?" suggested Conrad out of nowhere.
* Glory, Eiger and Blitz get mentioned in chapter 42 as raiding a Europa Genomics facility.
* Hacking, for Lunchbox, Spooky and Tali, at least. The interface you get largely depends on you... Seems familiar...

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[[folder: Video Game/Warframe ]]

* Manticore uses four-legged "Jackal" heavy mechs. [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/mass-effect-human-revolution-thread-iii.268323/page-21#post-12117322 A reader asked about it and had it confirmed by Word of God.]]
* Krogans used the "[=HeK=]" quad-barrel shotgun.
* Five of the bullets Sandal gives Adam in chapter 38 correspond to some of the elements from Damage 2.0: Blast, Electric, Corrosive/Toxin, Cryo, Magnetic.
* Ramsus uses a "Nyx" hardsuit and pulls off Absorb at the end of chapter 40.
* In chapter 41 Adam sees Promethean tablets containing Oxium.
* A monster called Lephantis appears.
* The Gaians were {{Precursors}} who could turn technology against their users.
* Corrupted enemies controlled by devices on their heads appear in Interlude 3.
* In that same interlude, when Subject Zero goes berserk, she is surrounded by red energy and is using "biotic claws" to tear apart everything in her path... which is pretty much exactly what Valkyr's "Hysteria" power looks like.
* In chapter 47 a quarian named Darvo appears.

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[[folder: Video Game/Borderlands ]]

* The "Rats" in Noveria's lower levels are long-limbed mutants with a taste for human flesh.
* In Chapter 46, Manah is, for some reason, wearing an outfit similar to Moxxi's.

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[[folder: Others ]]


* InUniverse, [[spoiler: Jenkins]] tries to use the fake name of [[Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]]. Adam plays along for a short while before pulling the rug from under him by telling Jenkins he's seen the Riddick Movies.
* Shepard's first and middle names are [[{{VideoGame/Freelancer}} Junko Zayne]] - ''[[ActorAllusion another character]] voiced by Creator/JenniferHale.''
** A Freeport S9 gets attacked by Geth.
** There are CTE 750AE shuttles.[[note]]As pointed out by the author himself, it's the model number of the first ship you get in Freelancer.[[/note]]
** The primary players in Earth's SpaceColdWar are the Alliance and the Coalition.
* One of Adam's friends on the Citadel is an Omar named Amnon Kerensky, who greets him by saying, "[[VideoGame/MaxPayne Dearest of all my friends!]]"
** Adam had Amnon build a custom [[RockBeatsLaser low-tech]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] for him, in case his primary weapon gets hit by an Omnitool attack. Amnon [[ICallItVera dubbed it]] "[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Sasha]]," regularly providing Adam with DepletedPhlebotinumShells to "show Sasha (his) love."
* 2050s university student [[VideoGame/Fallout2 Myron]] [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Boone]] invented Zyme.
** There is a reference to "ghost-heads", psychotics addicted to being wrapped in a personal cloaking field, which points to both Fallout Nightkin and Homeworld Stealth Fighter pilots.
* An operative [[Series/{{Chuck}} Sarah Walker]] is assigned to the ''Normandy''. For added fun, her namesake was played by Yvonne Strahovski, [[ActorAllusion who's Miranda's VA.]]
** Also, Wrex's contact with the Shadow Broker is "Agent [[VideoGame/The3rdBirthday Brea]]", another Strahovski role.
** A third alias and Strahovski role: [[Series/{{Dexter}} Hannah McKay.]]
* "Whoa there, Film/DirtyHarry."
* The list of Spectre candidates humanity is putting forth include Nathan Frost, [[VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} Fei Fong Wong]], [[Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes Yang Wenli, von Lohengramm]], [[VideoGame/VagrantStory Ashley Riot]], [[PublicDomainCharacter Edward "Ned" Kelly]] and [[{{Anime/Monster}} Johan Liebert]] [[{{VideoGame/Xenogears}} Rasmus]].
* Admiral Yan Lo[[note]] from Project Snowblind[[/note]] and the Snowblind jamming particles.
* Cyberpunk? Film/BladeRunner is a must.
** The gold standard of {{Lie Detector}}s are the VK series of scanners.
** Jensen tools around the Citadel in a Spinner.
* Shepard has a [[VideoGame/HostileWatersAntaeusRising Soulcatcher]] chip.
** Majestic-12 had Antaeus Cruisers.
* Tali's not familiar with human idiom.
--->'''Aki Ross''': ''Penny for your thoughts.''\\
'''Tali'Zorah''': ''[[Series/{{Bones}} ...I don't know what that means.]]''
* [[Series/FullHouse "It's never just the wind!"]]
* [[spoiler: Sarah's]] HealingFactor doesn't work if there's [[Series/{{Heroes}} glass in the way.]]
* Manah's analysis of the Protheans is [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy based on their artwork.]]
* [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine "None of this would have happened if you'd just STOPPED."]]
** In chapter 40 Adam and co. have to walk through a bunch of badly burned enemies.
* [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown Seraph flying Power Armor]]
** "Right. Psionic device. Next Bau will be telling us the Greys are real."
** Aleph calls nanomachine control "Molecular Control".
** The Noverian club Elerium-115.
* [[spoiler: Shepard's Killer]] is a non-human who made herself look like a statue, and only moved when no one was looking at her. [[Series/DoctorWho The Weeping Angels should sue...]]
** The Demonica is called "a bloody pimped-out cyberman". Given that the one who said so immediately said it was before Edward's time, this one is also InUniverse.
* The AIA uses VideoGame/{{Blacklight| Retribution}} death squads. The Hardsuit shows up in chapter 38.
* Jane is TheSneakyGuy [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII of Native American descent who favors a tomahawk and knife.]] Only way it could have been more obvious was if her outfit was hooded and she used an Omniblade. In chapter 26 we learn that the Native American was her father and the Briton was her mother, who left her on the father's porch, as well as the father having been killed by a Kenway.
** A hooded guy sitting on a bench trying to stay inconspicuous.
** In chapter 41 Adam's melee fighting styles is compared to ancient assassins wielding dual arm blades.
** An actual Hidden Blade shows up in Interlude Three, and is equipped by a Templar named Kenway. There's also multiple other references to the Assassins, and one of the Templars thanks the "Father of Understanding".
* "Gentlemen! [[Film/Scarface1983 Say hello to my little friend!]] Her name is Maria! Why Maria? BECAUSE [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII BIANCA]] WAS TAKEN, OF COURSE! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
* When wounded, Brea bleeds a white, milky substance like the human-imposter androids from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''.
* One of Caim's weapons is [[Manga/{{Bleach}} a man-sized black cleaver.]]
* [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "Thank you for standing still, idiot!"]]
** Also, USMC Marines [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 have a plan to kill everyone they meet.]]
* Adam's takedown of Caim's Wanzer is similar to that of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jImnR_FCBSE#t=369s the Forgotten One]] from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow''.
* "Those repeating pop-up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 vids of that... rainbow... pop tart...cat thing]] was driving the crew ''loco''."
* [[spoiler: Saren's]] sponsors appear as a trio of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion featureless monoliths]].
* The Armax Arena on Ilium implemented a system to [[VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}} reward players for flashy kills, complete with names.]]
* In chapter 28, Spooky mentions [[VideoGame/{{Syndicate}} Breaching]] of enemies.
** Noveria's arcologies are divided into an area for the haves with implanted Chips and another area for the un-Chipped have-nots.
** The CQC-11 shotgun shows up in SSC use.
** Scholar has a Leonardo Machine.
* Manah mentions a girl who was an Ardat [[Literature/KushielsLegacy Kushiel]], which meant she couldn't feel pain, only pleasure, which made her useful for a very...specific kind of prostitution.
* The list of scientists who experimented on Toombs includes [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} Mer]][[VideoGame/DeadSpace cer]], [[VideoGame/BioShock1 Fontaine, Tenenbaum]], [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown Shen]], [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Wilson]], [[Series/{{Heroes}} Suresh]] and [[VideoGame/AlphaProtocol Leland]].
* "They spoke to a [[Franchise/{{Halo}} tiny blue woman made of light!]]"
* Lawson mentions an [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Ozymandias]] Project.
* FRN-00 was nicknamed [[VideoGame/HauntingGround Hewey by the scientist who developed him, Fiona.]]
** Riccardo... uh, "Richard", as well as characters implied to be but never explicitly named as Debilitas and Daniella, also show up in that same interlude chapter.
* Our first sight of Noveria is set in the [[Literature/TheDosadiExperiment Dosadi]] arcology, Film/District13.
** One of the SSC troops hunting Kasumi is Damien Raffaelli.[[note]]"Damien" is the character's name, while "Raffaelli" is the actor's surname.[[/note]]
** Taha gets an offhand mention.
* When Kasumi [[spoiler:gets sick at the end of Chapter 30, some of her WordSalad is "[[VideoGame/{{Marathon}} Frog blast the vent core!]]"]]
* A Kaleb R. Wester delivers [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Bio-hazard]] canisters to Noveria.[[note]]It's an anagram of Albert Wesker.[[/note]]
* "A word of warning: [[VideoGame/FarCry3 You ever hear the definition of insanity?]]" Said from a character voiced by Creator/MichaelMando [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ3cisZyb98 while Adam was buried up to his neck in a beach, said character having previously talked about flossing.]]
* Kasumi's code is [[Film/TronLegacy isomorphic in nature.]]
* The [[Film/TheFifthElement Baptiste Corporation and its ZORG]] mechs, which are actually based on the Zor''n''s from ''VideoGame/RememberMe''.
** Speaking of Remember Me, the whole dream infiltration and editing thing.
* In the late 21st century, there was a Lunar War, with the Lunarians' charge led by the GlassCannon Endymion fighter known as VideoGame/{{Einhander}}.
* Mentions of [[Literature/{{Neuromancer}} mycotoxins]] here and there.
** The Matrix III cyberdeck made by Ono-Sendai.
** Molly Millions shows up as a bouncer.
* [[Film/{{Elysium}} An antique gun, souped up with airbursting explosive rounds for anti-robot work.]]
** Copley[[note]]As in Sharlto Copley, the actor who played Kruger[[/note]] mechs made by Armadyne. A bunch of crooks attack an Armadyne VIP and his Copley bodyguards... and fare much worse than Max and co.
** Cousar Crowe heavy weapons exist.
* The [="MagRoad"=] {{Futuristic Superhighway}}s inside Dosadi are the same as in ''Film/TotalRecall2012'' - specifically, they're maglev roads which transport cars both above and ''below'' them.
* "For you? It's five-thousand Nuyen to get in, [[Film/SpaceMutiny Fridge Largemeat.]]"
* In Elerium-115, Tali gets accosted by a bunch calling themselves [[Creator/StanleyKubrick Kubricks]] who model their attire after [[Film/AClockworkOrange Alex and the Droogs.]]
* "What's the password?"\\
"[[Series/{{Californication}} Muthafucka?]]"
* Kasumi has a [[VideoGame/FZero Falcon Punch]] App.
* Runners in Dosadi use [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Urban Maneuvering Gear]].
* The real name of the Manticore Bomber was [[Film/TheCrow1994 Draven]].
* A Manticore guard called [[Literature/TakeshiKovacs T. Kovacs.]]
* "Err, me? I'm just the ah... popup, yeah. It looks like you're trying to hack into a highly secure EG machine, do you need help with that?"
* The Dayak red flying cyborg shark comes from ''Film/{{Immortal}}''.
* While on Caleston, Adam's callsign is "Shadow". Manah specifically calls him [[Film/TheFifthElement "Mister Shadow"]] repeatedly.
* The Prothean "Macca" coins have gems mounted in them. The glowing gems [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive contain energies which were used as their currency]].
* A Roegadyn (a giant green humanoid) picks up an uppity krogan and beats him into the ground, before muttering [[Film/TheAvengers2012 "Puny krogan...."]]
** After his stunt with the Normandy's core in chapter 41, Adam's 108 is at 475% charge[[labelnote:explanation]]Which is how much the Iron Man suit was after absorbing Thor's lightning.[[/labelnote]]
** A monster [[spoiler:pretending to be Adam]] asks Garrus what he is without his PoweredArmor.
* A little boy named [[spoiler: [[Film/TheThing1982 Kurt Macready]] is actually a monster made of pure nightmare fuel]].
** He also first referred to himself as [[VideoGame/Fallout3 Sheriff MacReady]].
* In chapter 39 Adam takes down an attacker with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VBIEJQPhdY&feature=youtu.be&t=9s a high kick out of]] ''Film/TomYumGoong''.
* In chapter 37, it's revealed that the Omar were founded by [[VideoGame/AlphaCentauri Prokhor Zakharov]].
** The Coalition practices Human Hive philosophies by Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang.
* In chapter 31 Adam asked [[Series/BabylonFive "who are you"]], to which the Warrior rebutted that the question should have been "what do you want"? In chapter 41 the Geth ask "who are you?" and "why are you here?"
* In chapter 41 Adam does a slide move like in ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}''.
** The whole DARPA and (successor to) US Marines working together thing Hein and the Deep Eyes have going on.
* In chapter 41 Adam recreates ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'''s Vortex Shield. He also does a wallrun on a video-playing billboard, which showed up a few times in the trailers.
* As aforementioned, cloak psychosis is one part to [[VideoGame/{{Homeworld}} Stealth Fighters.]]
** Vagyr tribes and Turanic Kingdoms exist.
** The ship graveyard/garbage dump near the Citadel has corvette-sized "Junkyard Dogs".
* One of the corvettes evacuating Omega in Interludes 2 is named [[Film/BatmanBegins Molossus.]]
* In ''Interlude of Madness and Fury'', Jack mentioned Lawson having [[Series/{{Sherlock}} dilated pupils when he talked about Lawson's fellow female clones.]]
* There was an AncientConspiracy called [[ComicBook/{{Preacher}} the Grail that was obsessed with maintaining a bloodline that supposedly descended from Christ.]]
** Aya tells Johann to be still or else he might end up with an arse for a face.
** In chapter 46 [[spoiler:Tela Vasir]] gets interrogated by an agent of the asari equivalent to the Illuminati. To ensure her compliance, there is an operative eating her left hand.
* Conrad mentions [[Franchise/StarTrek Cochrane equations]] involved in Warp Fields.
* Johann's cover on the Citadel is a man surnamed [[Manga/{{Monster}} Tenma]].
* Neill, the Deep Eyes pilot, mentions having started his career flying [[VideoGame/GPolice Havoc]] gunships for a Sol-system colonial security force.
* When Manah is wandering the ship in a telepathic fog, Neill asks her, "[[Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond Who monitors the birds?]]"
* From Caleston - a CorruptCorporateExecutive named Atkins who is infamous for brutalizing miners outside of the Sol government's area of control? [[VideoGame/TachyonTheFringe Hmm...]]
* The Citadel here has [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Mass Shadow Generators.]]
* The Citadel used to be called [[VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment Sigil]], and it had the Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts.
* [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland "What a coincidence!" you hear him shout, "you fight like a dairy farmer!"]]
* In chapter 46 Adam has [[VideoGame/{{Catherine}} a nightmare where he had to climb up a giant tower made of cubes.]]
* In chapter 46 we learn that seven years ago, Adam engaged in a BarBrawl to "Staying Alive". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6eeeq_2TE In other words...]]
* "Let me present to you... '''The Jensen.'''" Garrus proceeded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y414Q7vVgYU to sway from side to side, turning his head left and right repeatedly]]
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is apparently still a thing in the 22nd century, because Marcus's battle cry is ORAORAORAORAORA
* One of the books in Pallin's office is [[VideoGame/{{Myst}} Atreus' Puzzles in the Isle of Mist]], "[[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike a classic that was worth easily half a million credits]]."
* In chapter 47, some of the C-Sec cops on site are [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Dana Bier, Sam Anders and Galen Tyrell]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, they're ''not'' the Snatchers... but Bailey is.]]
* "[[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged Oh, fuck all kinds of ducks.]]" One would think this just an unintentional reference in Chapter 28... if it weren't done in almost the exact same context, shit going south fast, by an AmbiguouslyBrown female character.
* The Silver Drakes' previous marksman that Zoller replaces? [[UsefulNotes/SimoHayha Häyhä]]
* [[Film/MasterAndCommander Captain Robin Aubrey ('played' by Russell Crowe) is in command of VSE Surprise.]]
* [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14437344/ Young Brutus']] wounds are treated with [[VideoGame/DeadSpace3 Somatic Gel]].
* In his conversation with Steve Cortez in chapter 27, Vega mentions the Alliance possibly dropping [[VideoGame/MentalOmega a MIDAS bomb]] on a suspected nanite swell.
* In chapter 47, an old Krogan engineer mentions "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Basilisk_war_droid/Legends Basilisk war mechs]]" that were loyal to their riders.