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  • Referenced by...: SSSS.GRIDMAN has an extensive homage, as noted below. Every human character is modeled after a Shattered Glass character, along with some of the monsters.
    • Yuta takes design cues from Classics Cliffjumper, the universe hopping POV character from the first comic — His hair is styled into horns, his shoes are inspired after his toy's front bumper and his backpack is designed after the toy's jetski addon.
    • Utsumi takes design cues from Shattered Glass Sideswipe — His shirt has the same color scheme as the toy. The '8' on his shirt has the same slash as the toy's Autobot brand, and his backpack has TURBO on it, just like the toy. He also carries a pair of yellow binoculars that look just like Longview's transformed state.
    • Akane takes design cues from Shattered Glass Optimus Prime — Her color scheme is just like the toy's, the right lens on her glasses are shattered in the same way as the toy's right windshield and her headphones are closely modeled after the toy's head antennae. Even her chest is a reference, mirroring Optimus' own top-heaviness in the truck portions that make up his chest. Her real self wears white, much like Shattered Glass Optimus Prime once he was revived as Nova Prime.
    • Rikka takes her cues from Shattered Glass Megatron — her colour scheme and clothes markings corresponding with the toys layout and her backpack resembles the toy's rumbler tank accessory.
    • Anti takes his cues from Shattered Glass Rodimus — color scheme and clothes designs corresponding to the toy's layout. He also uses a buzzsaw, which Rodimus had in place of a hand as a punishment. Anti also has a mutilated body part, though it is his eye, as opposed to Rodimus's hand.
    • Rikka's friends take their cues from Shattered Glass Starscream and Soundwave — color schemes and designs, like Namiko's hairclip (a Cyber Planet Key) and tie are based on the toy and its accessories, and Hass has a white facemask and "Ravage" printed on the blanket she always carries around.
    • Appearing more prominently later on, Rikka's other two friends, Ramo Marusa and Ako Furuma, take their cues from Shattered Glass Astrotrain and Thundercracker
    • Rikka's mom's apron has G1 Megatron's torso printed on it and has a colour scheme matching a specific toy reissue. Additionally, the eye-like single earring she wears implies she's based on Rewind, given her business of collecting and passing on old junk or, given they are in cyberspace, old data.
    • Yuta's classmates include call outs to Shattered Glass Straxus, Octopunch, and Treadshot as well as Go-Bot leader Cy-Kill.
    • Samurai Calibur and the other three Assist Weapons are inspired by the Dinobots from Transformers: Age of Extinction, particularly Slug, Grimlock, Scorn, and Strafe — with the patterns on their collars matching molded details from their toys.
    • The series' first victim, Sakiru Tonkawa, meanwhile, is a homage to Cy-Kill from Challenge of the GoBots, right down to her name referencing both Cy-Kill's and Tonka, the company that created the Go-Bots. Her role in the story, meanwhile, is an allusion to Cy-Kill's recurring role as an "easter egg" who gets killed off in various Transformers stories.
    • The four-man college group Arcadia in Episode 4 is comprised of various versions of Jetfire: Shattered Glass, Generation 1, Generation 2, and Animated.
    • Though primarily based on her predecessor, Anosillus, the young girl from Episode 6 has a green-and-brown color scheme not dissimilar to Shattered Glass Primus himself.
    • Two of the Monsters of the Week are partially based on Japanese exclusive characters Powerhug and Sensuimaru.
    • At the very end, the pass holder given to Akane from Rikka uses the G1 Autobot Matrix of Leadership as the snap.
  • Running the Asylum: The series seems to be treading a very thin line between canon and fanfic.
  • Word of Gay: According to one of David Willis's tweets, Ravage has feelings for Steeljaw but doesn't understand them yet.

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