Robin
- Tim wears a Green Day shirt on at least one occasion.
- Issue #38 is titled "Watchin' the Detectives" after the Elvis Costello song.
- Issue #42 is titled "Crock Around the Clock" after the Bill Haley & His Comets song "Rock Around the Clock"
- The cover of issue 109 depicts Tim and Steph fighting side by side and has the subtitle "That's Amore" from the Dean Martin song.
- Tim listens to Molly Hatchet, and the band gets mentioned by name in #112 "The Wrong Town".
- Issue #122 is named after the George Thorogood & The Destroyers song and album "Bad to the Bone". Coincidentally Molly Hatchet would release a cover of the song several years after the issue was published.
- The Doors get a nod to their song "Riders On The Storm" with the title of #136 "A Rider On the Storm".
- Tim wears an orange Oasis shirt to school.
- The title of #141 ("Good Girls Don't Die") is a play on the title of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons's song "Big Girls Don't Cry"
- Part two of "The Virtual Cell" is titled "Rocket Man" after the Elton John song.
- Part five of "Robin Boy Wanted" is titled "It All Comes Back Around" for the then contemporary Trey Lorenz song.
- Part six of "Robin Boy Wanted" is titled "Run Through the Jungle" after the Creedence Clearwater Revival song.
- Kevin Hudman owns a Wizards and Warriors tabletop game, which Tim, Ives, Hudman, Hudson and Callie play.
- Star Wars:
- Issue 20 is titled "The Empire Strikes Out" after The Empire Strikes Back.
- Ives and Hudson have a long argument on the validity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
- Issue #22 is titled "I Was a Teenage Ninja!", after the film I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
- As literature turns out to be Tim's worst class, because he hates reading plays which means he never quite gives enough of his very limited time to doing the homework, he ends up having to go to a "Shakespeare in the Park" production for extra credit. Later on he helps a classmate understand homework by quoting a bit of the Bard's poetry, which he appreciates far more than reading plays.
- Ives snarks about the failures and weaknesses of the Windows operating system family.
- Issue #36 is titled "War Toy Story" after Toy Story which came out the year prior.
- Issue #47 is titled "Warchild, Part One: The Prepubescent and the Dead" after The Quick and the Dead, either the one by Joy Williams or the one by Louis L'Amour.
- When Bruce's idea of a 16th birthday present to Tim is to put him through a test where he tries to make Tim mistrust everyone in his life and believe he killed a friend Alfred's angry response references The Wizard of Oz"My god, man. I can only hope that Master Tim wished for you to journey to the Wizard and procure yourself a heart."
- When Tim needs to distance himself from Gotham he introduces himself in an incomplete Robin costume as the Spectacular Sunbird, named for the Robin expy Sunbird from Astro City.
- Issue #121 is titled "Johnny Got His Gun" after the famous novel.
- The subtitle of issue #137 is Death Rides a Black Horse.
- The subtitle of issue #145 is "When sixty metas are running loose in Bludhaven, Who You Gonna Call?"
- At one point while dealing with a mass of escaped villains in Bludhaven one who claims to be "The Wicker Man" appears, he's defeated upon being informed his opponent has a working lighter and never appears again.
- When Tim deactivates the bomb in issue #153 the timer reads 52, in a sly reference to the then ongoing limited series 52.
- #158 is titled "Strange Brew" after the 1983 comedy.
- Issue #163 is titled "Twelve Very Angry Men" after the film 12 Angry Men.
