Shout Out / RPG Metanoia

• One of Nico's toys is a plane with black-and-yellow tailfins with skull and crossbones, just like Roy Focker/Fokker's Valkyrie.
• Aside from the Helm of Destiny being based on the Moriones, it has powers similar to the Helm of Domination.^note WC3 is more familiar to a lot of Filipinos by the way of Defense of the Ancients.
• Nico name-drops Big Brother when Cel claims that he's watching their every move. It's more likely a reference to the series than the book because ABS-CBN, which co-produced this movie as Star Cinema, also produced several seasons of a local version of the show.
  • It could also be an Actor Allusion to Zaijian Jaranilla, Nico's voice actor, who played a boy who meets with Jesus Christ, whom he calls as "Bro," in the flesh in the 2009-2010 TV Series May Bukas Pa from the same network.
• There's a place called Jotunheim in the Scandinavian server and there's a Scandinavian character using a lightning hammer. Freezing at the right moment also shows that the hammer has an embossed design similar to the icon for "Magic Sentry"^note "True Sight" to DotA fans. from Warcraft 3 (an eye with lightning coming out of it). It's safe to say that it's based on the Mjölnir, which is coincidentally also an item in Defense of the Ancients.
• One of the Korean avatars is using a bow (though he used a BFS in most of his appearances in the movie). Jumong is quite popular in the Philippines. That scene in the Korean server is an Homage to Korean Drama in general.
• There's a Kikuchiyo forest in the Japanese server. The film might be too obscure to be in Filipino pop culture but Samurai 7 did air locally.
• Watchtower 88 from the tournament is a reference to an anecdote about a young Jose Rizal listening to his mother's story about a moth that flew too close a flame. After the tournament concluded, the insectoid warriors they fought are shown flying toward the laser beams that appeared.
• There are replica models of the Enterprise and what seems to be the RB-79 Ball in Cel's room.
• C4SS4NDR4's pet Jolens is a reference to the marbles that Filipino kids play with, perhaps used to, and to Jolina Magdangal's nickname.
• Several Bland Name Products:
  • There's a box of adhesive bandages called Medeeplast.
  • A store named Jollibuns^note from Jollibee in the real world of the movie.
  • An orange soft drink can with the name Rival resembling Royal (Philippine counterpart to Fanta).
  • In a Freeze-Frame Bonus when the origin of Metanoia was being explained, a magazine has the cover line "PLUS! new updates on the highly anticipated STAR CRAP 2!" It might be a Take That! or perhaps it's affectionate, given StarCraft's generally positive reception in the Philippines.
  • There's also a news article from GNN, which is a reference to CNN.