While being a new continuity, Transformers: Cyberverse features tons of homages to prior Transformers incarnations.
- Grimlock previously had a mouthplate-less appearance in the Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) cartoon.note
- Grimlock being of normal intelligence in robot mode but savage and dim-witted in dinosaur mode calls back to a few different comic storylines, and partially to Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
- This is not the first time Wheeljack has a mustache. He previously possessed one in Transformers: Animated and his Masterpiece "MP-20" toy (via a hidden faceplate).
- Slipstream is the leader of the seekers this time, being co-leaders with Starscream. Back in Animated, she managed to convince the other Starscream clones to turn against him.
- Optimus and Megatron used to be friends, just like in the Aligned continuity.
- The iconic "Til All Are One" line is recited, but this time by Megatron in his New Era Speech.
- Windblade is a Cityspeaker, just like her IDW incarnation.
- As has become a staple of the character, Megatron is a gladiator turned political revolutionary turned conqueror.
- While searching his memory for information about the "King of Dinosaurs," Bumblebee stumbles across a memory of Starscream wearing a crown before brushing it aside.
- As seen across various Transformers media, Grimlock was stranded on prehistoric Earth, took on the form of a dinosaur, and was frozen in stasis lock until the present day.
- Grimlock wearing a crown, as well as the crown's appearance, is much like how Grimlock wore a crown while he was in command of the Autobots for a while in the 1980's Marvel Comics.
- Grimlock again - he often manages to imitate his G1 animated speech pattern by, as part of an otherwise normal sentence, somehow incorporating "...me, Grimlock ..." in it, though he sometimes replaces it with "I, Grimlock", which itself is a reference to how he spoke when he gained super-intelligence in the G1 episode "Grimlock's New Brain", where he created the Technobots.
- Similarly, the Allspark was sent away from Cybertron during the Great War to protect it from the Decepticons.
- The Ark crashed into and was buried under Mt. St Hilary with the Autobots in stasis, just like in the original cartoon.
- The dinosaurs that Grimlock is seen hanging out with in his video log are based on the typical collection of Dinobots, but also newcomer Titans Return Slash and Beast Wars Dinobot.
- Initially, Shockwave remains behind on Cybertron while Megatron leads the primary Decepticon Forces in pursuit of the Autobots.
- Alpha Trion selects a young Optimus to become the next Prime and lead the Autobots against Megatron's Decepticons.
- Bumblebee loses his voice and two points, first becoming mute like his Aligned counterpart and then having to rely on media samples to communicate like his live-action movie counterpart.
- The cortical psychic patch from Transformers: Prime returns as a way to explore memories.
- Cybertron's colonies, specifically Velocitron and Caminus, have appeared or been mentioned.
- Maccadam's general design is very similar to Alchemist Prime, one of the original Thirteen Primes. His kill-you-dead alternate mode has the same silhouette as Amalgamous Prime, another of the Thirteen. In some continuities both exist together, and in others only one or the other does.
- Starscream claims to have come Back from the Dead after his beating at the hands of Megatron, something that has happened to other incarnations of the character across the franchise.
- Season Two, having a short off-screen Time Skip of a few years, takes place in 2007. This is the year and the setting for the first live-action film.
- Starscream gains phenomenal cosmic power from the Allspark, and it makes him come across as slightly insane. This is basically what happened in the Marvel Comics continuity after he downloaded the Underbase and became all-powerful and completely nuts.
- Hot Rod is an avid fan of space boarding referencing his 2005 IDW counterpart's love of meteor surfing.
- The ship that abducts Croaton's citizens bares a striking resemblance to the corkscrew-like starships flown by the Quintessons in the original series.
- The Soundwaves in The Scientist's collection share the same design as Cyberverse Soundwave, but their color schemes reference a number of alternate versions of the character including the Shattered Glass Soundwave and Soundwave's purple coloration in the Marvel comics.
- The Perfect Decepticons that appear at the end of the series are modeled after Tarn from Transformers: More than Meets the Eye. Similarly, Megatron X's black color scheme references several toys of G1 Megatron that gave him a black color scheme.
- The first part of the season 3 opener "Battle For Cybertron" ends with the Decepticons destroying the Ark, and seemingly killing the Autobots until the second part reveals they abandoned the Ark before its destruction. This is a plot that has appeared in the Transformers franchise 3 times before, occurring originally in "Megatron's Master Plan" from the original cartoon, being reused in Transformers: Twilight's Last Gleaming, the comic story from the UK Magazine released after Transformers and then being reused again in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, although none of the prior examples have the Autobots travelling in the Ark and they feature the Autobots being exiled from Earth, whereas here they are returning to Cybertron.
- "The Immobilizers" special has a few:
- Swoop consults an online database called WitWiki. This is a play on the Witwicky family, who were the most notable human allies of the Autobots in the Sunbow cartoon and the Marvel Comics continuity.
- Soundblaster being able to fit both Buzzsaw and Laserbeak into his chest is a nod to his original toy.
- In "The Perfect Decepticon", Thunderhowl reveals that the Prime he had served was Onyx Prime. This makes sense as previous stories established Onyx as the progenitor of the Beast Transformers.
- Thunderhowl's previous master was Onyx Prime. Said Prime was famous in most continuities for being the first Transformer with a beast mode, thematically tying in with Thunderhowl's wolf form.
