Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) says he was "literally a different person" when he last fought Emil Blonsky. That fight occurred in The Incredible Hulk (2008), where Banner really was a different person (being played by Edward Norton, whom Ruffalo later succeeded).
A news website Jennifer visits has two headlines:
- "Why there is a giant statue of a man sticking out of the ocean." This refers to the events of Eternals (2021), where the Celestial being Tiamut emerged from the ocean.
- "Man fights with metal claws in bar brawl." This refers to the metal-clawed mutant Wolverine, who debuted in the Hulk comics in 1974 as an adversary (he later appeared in the X-Men comics in 1975).
Jennifer is hired by the GLK&H firm. The letters stands for Goodman, Leiber, Kurtzberg and Holloway. The first three names are to the Marvel Comics founders: publisher Martin Goodman, writer and artist Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby (who were born Lieber and Kurtzberg).
Jennifer's phone lock screen is a picture of the backside of Captain America, continuing a running gag from the previous episode.
The ship that Bruce is on, the same ship that caused the car wreck in the pilot, is a Sakaaran ship from the alien world where Bruce lived for a time as the Hulk and participated in gladiator-style fights in Thor: Ragnarok (2017).