References made by Empathy. WARNING: Unmarked spoilers follow!
- Fred gives Riley the nickname "Fargo", in reference to her origins in Minnesota.
- When Fred mentions the existence of people with superpowers and the moon being stolen, though both come across as tabloid garbage.
- Riley uses martial arts (tai chi specifically) to control the microbots in a manner similar to waterbending from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- When preparing to upgrade Baymax, Hiro claims he's going to make him a better hero than Metro Man.
- The night chase scene features Tip putting on Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive".
- This gains a level of meta since Rihanna is Tip's voice actor.
- The "Battle of the Bay" seems to refer to the fight against Gallaxhar's robot probe.
- The General involved in Project Silent Sparrow is identified as W.R. Monger.
- During chapter 23's Lock-and-Load Montage, Hiro and Oh's shield experiment has the same end result as Winston's.
- Chapter 31 ends with a large pyramid coming out of a tear in the sky. Weirdmageddon, anyone?
- In Chapter 32, Tip provides "beats to kick some alien ass to" in the form of "Centuries" by Fall Out Boy, whose song "Immortals" was used as the closing theme for Big Hero 6.
- In Chapter 33, when they find the captive Abagail, she snarks "Aren't you guys a little short for stormtroopers?"
- Even earlier in Chapter 32, Wasabi gets surrounded by drones and uses his plasma blades to deflect their attacks into each other. In the middle of it, he says,"Do or do not. There is no try."
- Once that was done, Go Go called him Obi-wan.
- The first words out of the Gorg's mouth? Klaatu barada nikto.
