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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** Just before he's launched into the Zone, Richards promises that [[The Terminator|"I'll be back."]] To say nothing of [[Richard Dawson]]'s role as a game show host.
** Sub Zero is inexplicably introduced as a professor, just like his actor.
** Killian refers to Fireball as the "number one rusher"; Jim Brown, who played Fireball, was the running back for the Cleveland Browns, and once held the record for the most career rushing yards. Fireball also yells "Win one for the Zero", a play on the famous ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'' [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|not-quote]], "Win one for the Gipper."
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: When Dynamo (Erland van Lidth) sings the aria from Act III of ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', he's actually singing in that scene. Presumably after he got cast, someone found out he could sing opera and decided they ''had'' to throw that in somewhere.
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* [[Defictionalization]]: The technology used to frame Richards by digitally swapping his face with that of the real killer is now completely real.
** Likewise, while the computer graphics technology to simulate all the other fake footage entirely from scratch is still rather expensive, the software and technical skill necessary to do so are all available to Hollywood and anyone else who can afford them.
*** Also a case of [[Technology Marches On]]: Many of Richards' "escape" methods wouldn't happen today, in a world of cell phone cameras and GPS. And much of the technology in the movie seems to consist of [[Blinkenlights|blinking lights]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Pee-wee's Big Adventure|Frances]]' butler, [[Stir Crazy|Grossberger]], and [[American Football|Jim Brown]] all play Stalkers.
** [[Live and Let Die (film)|Mister Big]] plays Laughlin.
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** [[The Fugitive|Andrew Davis]] was originally going to direct the film (after three previous directors pulled out) but was fired a week into production due to going over-budget and being four days behind schedule. Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky from ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'') finished the film.
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