Many of Evan's attack Devil Fruit-based attack names are references to video games, movies, or other pop culture.
King Kong's name is a reference to the infamous monster movie whose huge ape has the same name.
Main Chapters
Chapter 1:
Evan and the All-Seeing Author's first conversation is over a PM on FFN.
When Evan's about to pass out after accepting ASA's offer, he thinks, "Whoever this All-Seeing Author is... I'm going to find him... and I'm going to..." This is a reference to Taken.
One of the other names previously used by the All-Seeing Author includes BROB.
A shoutout to the author's other long-running One PieceFan Fic is left when the ASA makes a note to fans of it, saying that it will be on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time.
Narration describes the wreckage of the ship which Luffy and co. enter the Conomi Islands on as looking like a building in a Michael Bay film.
Chapter 3:
The chapter title is "I Have a Dream," a reference to the famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
Using a pen given to him by one of the other Straw Hats, Evan draws a Hulk Hogan 'stache on a sleeping Luffy.
The other Straw Hats apparently even know about Hulk Hogan, too, Word of God rectifying this as being a universal constant.
When Zoro makes a logical case for letting Johnny and Yosaku simply leave, Evan says, "...Withdrawn," in reference to a Running Gag in This Bites!
Chapter 4:
More references to the author's old stories are used when Evan is thinking about his old oc's powers, and how he could apply them to himself.
Evan forms water into a pistol that he can then fire, in reference to the 4Kidz dub of One Piece editing all the guns into pistols. The chapter title is even "Definitely Not a 4kidz Sell-Out".
Evan references Abbott and Costello when Luffy's confusion turns a conversation on a route that could potentially lead to one such comedy routine.
Marine Captain Nezumi is called a rat-bastard in the narration, a reference to both his appearances and Soundbite's favorite insult.
The mooks of Marine Captain Nezumi's ranks have apparently attended Stormtrooper Shooting 101, at least according to Evan.
A quote from Shanks is referenced by Evan while he fights Nezumi.
Chapter 5:
This Will Be the Day, the first OP of RWBY, is playing in Evan's head as he and Evan wait for Nami to make her decision.
It is stated that Evan is apparently a fan of Minecraft.
Fonti uses an attack with a name similar to one of Jinbei's.
Two giant and watery hands that Evan creates using his Tempest-Tempest Fruit are called Master Hand and Crazy Hand.
As if that wasn't obvious enough, the attack he uses with them is called Super Hand Brothers Smash.
Chapter 6:
Evan states that after his fight with Fonti, every step hurt like the 2016 American Presidential election.
Evan references Gru's "Lightbulb!" upon getting an idea to escape Arlong.
The move he uses to free Luffy from the cement block is called Crazy Hand Ground Pound, a reference to Super Smash Bros. as well as Super Mario Bros., where the Ground Pound is a common technique utilized by Mario.
As Evan walks to the three-day party, he's whistling Some Nights by the band "fun.".
One of the events in the party is a "strangely Professor Layton style puzzle-solving mystery."
Evan quotes "10/10, IGN," which confuses Zoro.
Evan notes that it would be horrible if the writing in this world was a different written language like in Re:Zero.
The All-Seeing Author references President Trump's quote about settling for a fence in some places.
