History ShoutOut / Voltron

* Meanwhile, "Arus" might be a spelling variant of "Eris", the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMinorDeities Greek goddess of strife and discord]], or "Aries", the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Greek god of war]], to showcase how imperiled the planet is against [[PlanetLooters Planet Doom and its forces]].

[[caption-width-right:720:The Lion and Vehicle Voltrons during ''[[SharedUniverse Fleet of Doom]]''.]]

* Coincidentally, Prince Sincline's blue complexion matches that of the Galveston aliens, so ''Vehicle Voltron'', the third season of ''Lion Voltron'', and ''Fleet of Doom'' had Prince Lotor become the [[SuddenlyEthnicity same race]] as the Drules of the Drule Empire. Therefore, in the ''Voltron'' continuity, Drules are known to have eye colors that are either red or yellow.

** The Galaxy Alliance in ''Dairugger XV'' refers to the planetary union of Earth, Sala, and Mira. The Galaxy Alliance in ''Voltron'' is eventually revealed to be the union of [[Memes/DragonBall over 900 planets]] instead, making it more like "Star Trek" in sheer scope.

* Rocky might be named after ''that'' [[Film/{{Rocky}} Rocky (Balboa)]] or at least [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Marciano Rocky Marciano]].
* Commander Hazar has a unisex [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazar_(name) Turkish given name]] originating from a Turkic tribe's name who lived around the Caspian Sea between the 7[[superscript:th]] and 11[[superscript:th]] centuries.
* Dorma, sister of Hazar, [[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous shares her name]] with the tragic first love of Marvel Comics' ''ComicBook/SubMariner'', whose skin was also a shade of blue.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GL4-x0wao Twyla]] from ''Vehicle Team Voltron'' has her [[CompanyCrossReferences name recycled]] from a [[OneEpisodeWonder one-shot Arusian character]] of the same name in ''Lion Force Voltron''.
* Captain Mongo might be named after the fictional planet of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_(fictional_planet) Mongo]] from ''Flash Gordon'' (the planet under the dominion of Ming the Merciless).
* Emperor Zeppo might be named after Zeppo Marx of Creator/MarxBrothers fame.

* Captain Mongo might be named after the fictional planet of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_(fictional_planet) Mongo]] from ''Flash Gordon'' (the planet under the domination of Ming the Merciless).

* Captain Mongo might be named after the fictional planet of Mongo from ''Flash Gordon'' (the planet under the domination of Ming the Merciless).

* Commander Hazar has a unisex [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazar_(name) Turkish given name]] and it is a Turkic tribe's name who lived around the Caspian Sea between the 7[[superscript:th]] and 11[[superscript:th]] centuries.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GL4-x0wao Twyla]] from ''Vehicle Team Voltron'' has her [[CompanyCrossReferences name recycled]] from a [[OneEpisodeWonder one-shot Arusian character]] of the same name in ''Lion Force Voltron''.
* Dorma, sister of Hazar, [[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous shares her name]] with the tragic first love of Marvel Comics' ''ComicBook/SubMariner'', whose skin was also a shade of blue.

* The ''Voltron''-original character of [[GoodPrincessEvilQueen Queen]] [[CanonForeigner Merla]] looks a lot like a PerkyGoth version of [[EvilCounterpart Princess Allura]] mixed with the lipsticked looks of [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Land Team's Cinda]] or [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Twyla Drule Captain Twyla]] (sounds like "Twilight") from ''Vehicle Voltron''.[[note]]Not to be confused with the character of the [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Twyla same name]] in ''Lion Voltron''[[/note]]

* The ''Voltron''-original character of [[GoodPrincessEvilQueen Queen]] [[CanonForeigner Merla]] looks a lot like a PerkyGoth version of [[EvilCounterpart Princess Allura]] mixed with the lipsticked looks of the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Land Team's Cinda]] or [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Twyla Drule Captain Twyla]] (sounds like "Twilight") from ''Vehicle Voltron''.[[note]]Not to be confused with the character of the [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Twyla same name]] in ''Lion Voltron''[[/note]]

** The Galaxy Alliance in ''Dairugger XV'' refers to the planetary union of Earth, Sala, and Mira. The Galaxy Alliance in ''Voltron'' is eventually revealed to be the union of [[Memes/DragonBall over 900 planets]] instead, making it more like "Trek-like" in scope.

** Princess Allura of Planet Arus is named after her [[ShapedLikeItself alluring]] [[BeautyEqualsGoodness nature]]. Allura also sounds a lot like Aurora, as in Princess Aurora from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' (Princess Fala's original design inspiration).

* The ''Voltron''-original character of [[GoodPrincessEvilQueen Queen]] [[CanonForeigner Merla]] looks a lot like a PerkyGoth version of [[EvilCounterpart Princess Allura]] mixed with the [[MakeupIsEvil lipsticked looks]] of the Land Team's [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Cinda]] or [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Twyla Drule Captain Twyla]] (sounds like "Twilight") from ''Vehicle Voltron''.[[note]]Not to be confused with the character of the [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Twyla same name]] in ''Lion Voltron''[[/note]]

* The ''Voltron''-original character of [[GoodPrincessEvilQueen Queen]] [[CanonForeigner Merla]] looks a lot like a PerkyGoth and [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Drule]] version of [[EvilCounterpart Princess Allura]] mixed with the [[MakeupIsEvil lipsticked looks]] of [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Twyla Captain Twyla]] (sounds like "Twilight") from ''Vehicle Voltron''.[[note]]Not to be confused with the character of the [[https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Twyla same name]] in ''Lion Voltron''[[/note]]

* Commander Hawkins is probably named after Jim Hawkins of ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GL4-x0wao Twyla]] from ''Vehicle Team Voltron'' has her [[CompanyCrossReferences name recycled]] from a one-shot Arusian character of the same name in ''Lion Force Voltron''.