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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Scattered here and there throughout the story:
** The brunette pixie cut that Alex adopts to distance her appearance from that of Terawatt just happens to be the look that Alex Mack's actress [[Larisa Oleynik]] was sporting as of her appearances in ''[[Hawaii Five-0]]'', ''[[Mad Men]]'' and other works in the early 2010s.
** A twofer: When discussing with Willow how different she appears from her adoptive parents, Jack O'Neill tells her:
{{quote|You, on the other hand, look like your last name ought to be [[American Pie|Flaherty]] or [[Alyson Hannigan|Hannigan]] or O’Clancy.}}
** Alex thinks Jack could cosplay as [[MacGyver]] because he resembles the actor.
** Buffy Summers is a former ice skater, and her boyfriend is named [[Freddie Prinze, Jr.|Freddie]].
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Yuki gives Gojira its name because, she says, "It swims like a whale and it walks like an ape." "Gojira" (which was Americanized into "Godzilla") is a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "gorilla" and "whale", and was originally the derisive nickname of a worker at the studio where the Godzilla films were made.
** For reasons nobody, least of all Alex, can figure out, Jack insists on calling Bruce Paine's home "Stately Paine Manor".
** According to the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]], [[Stargate SG-1|Samantha Carter]] ultimately goes to work in Deep Space Radar Telemetry, the official cover for Stargate Command in its universe.
** At the end of the India operation, while spaced out from hunger and exhaustion, Alex comments on Willow's current code name (taken from ''[[The Herculoids]]''):
{{quote|Alex tried not to move, but the sky seemed to be spinning around. "Tara’s a pretty name. I bet you’d like someone if her name was Tara."}}
::Unlike many other things about Buffyverse!Willow she learned during ''The League of Extraordinary Women'', Alex apparently doesn't know about her relationship with Tara Maclay.
* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: ''The Secret Return'' has inspired nearly a dozen other writers to add their own contributions to its [[The Teraerse|'verse]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many, many, given it's a [[Mega Crossover]] with more than a few [[Pop-Cultured Badass]]es in the cast. What isn't a direct source is often the subject of an off-the-cuff quip or quotation.
** In addition to {{spoiler|Jack O'Neill and Maggie Walsh}}, the other members of the Collective's "beta" generation of enhanced humans are [[Wall Street|Gordon Gekko]], [[The Fugitive|Dr. Richard Kimble]], [[The Donna Reed Show|Donna Stone]] and [[To Catch a Thief|Frances Stevens]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Castle has made a point of doing enough research (or perhaps using her own knowledge) to make the jargon and exposition of experts in various fields -- including IT, physics, biochemistry, genetics, even the economics of being a freelance photojournalist -- accurate and plausible.
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