Sym-Bionic Titan/Trivia


 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Tara Strong is Princess Ilana.
 * Brian Posehn is Octus.
 * Tom Kenny is doing the news as anchor Brick Jackson.
 * The King of Galaluna sounds a lot like a certain King of the Sea.
 * Once again Kevin Michael Richardson can be heard all over the place.
 * Bill Fagerbakke who's known for Patrick, Bulkhead, and Broadway is Meat, the jock in episodes 7 and 12.
 * Will Friedle (of Boy Meets World, Batman Beyond, and Kim Possible fame) was the school mascot. He also voices Jason in episode 12 and presumably onwards.
 * Kari Wahlgren is Kimmy.
 * Screwed by the Network: Getting moved from Friday nights to Wednesday nights then finally moved practically unannounced to an early Saturday morning slot all in the first season alone is never a good sign.
 * Shout-Out:
 * The series is set in Sherman, Illinois.
 * The Galatic Guardians are one big one to 70's anime superheroes and tokusatsu like Science Ninja Team Gatchaman and Kamen Rider (albeit more as the bad guy organizations than anything).
 * The opening of the Rift Gate looks strangely like one of the later openings for Toonami.
 * Rift Gate, you say?
 * There's a shop in the mall called Jerk Store
 * And another one called Floor Mart.
 * And ANOTHER called Ugly Baby.
 * Confrontation, a political debate show in the vein of Crossfire and Hardball.
 * Ilana's clothes at the end of Episode 4 look a lot like Velma Dinkley's usual outfit.
 * When Xishi mindrapes someone, their bodies become more vascular, much like what happened to Ayanami Rei.
 * Lance fights Hans Gruber in a bank in episode 4.
 * Probably unintentional but Xishi's design is reminiscent of a Tyranid Zoanthrope.
 * Or a tiny brown Cthulhu, which makes more sense, all things considered...
 * In the parody of standard highschool drama on the WC, the student who can't read looks suspiciously like a wall reaper...
 * The White Dragon bears an uncanny resemblance to one Travis Touchdown.
 * That episode seems to have been one huge reference to The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
 * Was anyone else reminded of the way Asuka went out on End of Eva when they defeated the shaman?
 * Might be a coincidence, but the Galactic Guardian Group?
 * Yes, the Galactic Guardian Group.
 * The Alpha Bitch of the cheerleading squad is named Kimmy and some of her fellow cheerleaders look like Dee Dee and her friends.
 * And Ron Stoppable being their mascot only helps this so much (granted it's in voice only so it doubles as Hey, It's That Voice!).
 * Episode 8 bares a number of similarities to Harry Potter. Orphaned youth with chip on his shoulders; check. Blonde haired perfectionist with two hench-friends who antagonize the boy; check.
 * It seemed more Ender's Game (anti-gravity combat training).
 * Baron's aristocratic name, long nose, and hairstyle marks him as a younger counterpart to Osamu Tezuka's character Duke Red.
 * Episode 8 also had short plump young boy with red hair and big eyeglasses. Hmmm...
 * The farm in Tashy 497 is the exact same one from Courage the Cowardly Dog. All that was missing was an old lady yelling at her grumpy husband because of the house blowing up and the man blaming it on a pink poodle.
 * The Titan resembles a semitransparent version of Gigantor.
 * Galaluna and the Mutraddi beasts recalls similar concepts from Voltron.
 * As does Lance and the Princess.
 * Overall, there's some overlap with UFO Robo Grendizer.
 * General Steel recalls General Ross from The Incredible Hulk.
 * A popular death-metal band, Alien Death Hammer, in the tenth episode, looks very familiar.
 * Hell, the lead singer sounds like Nathan, and looked like Eddie.
 * Solomon shares the exact same fashion sense as Alucard.
 * There's one background character that I've noticed in at least two episodes who is shown to be wearing what resembles an Iron Maiden shirt/patch.
 * Solomon's full name is
 * The organization designed to protect Earth from alien invasion is called GGG.
 * G3's standard soldiers' outfits look a lot like those worn by Red Impulse, although the helmets are reminiscent of Bioman's.
 * Right before he stretches out his nose, Octus' shifting disguise in episode 11 looks suspiciously like Nick Cave.
 * Those G3 bipedal mechs that appeared near the end of episode 11 bear a striking resemblance to Zentraedi battlepods.
 * The guy who beats the crap out of Lance looks oddly like the blue Guardian dude from that one episode of Samurai Jack. Even as far as also being voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
 * A boy named Jason who looks and acts a lot like Cody flirts with Illana in "The Ballad Of Scary Mary".
 * Scary Mary's last name is Cavanaugh, a reference to Christine Cavanaugh, the original voice of Dexter, who retired from voice-acting in the early 2000s and became very reclusive ever since. Scary Mary's appearance seems a visual shout out to Velma Dinkley.
 * The Ballad of Scary Mary ended by showing Mary being picked up by a dude with stylish hair in a leather jacket riding a motorcycle
 * The Spirit appears on a subway train in I am Octus
 * The sequence with a town of mysteriously paralyzed people in "I Am Octus" resembles one from Village of the Damned.
 * Also in "I Am Octus", you can see the (original) Robot from Lost in Space in a store window.
 * And if you look closer, there's a jet with legs as well.
 * The soldier General Steel sends in to spy on the trio looks like an older Archie Andrews - albeit after spending a few years trapped in a gym.
 * In Disenfranchised, anyone else notice how Lance looks a bit like Jiro carrying that guitar case on his back?
 * "WHAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!?"
 * Hobbes from Escape from Galaluna looks quite a bit like Race Bannon, don'tcha think?
 * The Mutradi invasion fleet seems to be made out of Planet Crackers
 * Kristin, the goth girl, looks like an older version of The Big-Eyed Girl.
 * Newton holding the boombox over his head (albeit playing ads) is a shout out to the romantic gesture from Say Anything.
 * In the episode "A Family Crisis" the G3 space station looks like it was built to reactivate a dying sun
 * In the episode "A New Beginning" General Steel in in what he calls "THE HAMMER!" and proceeds to beat up a monster while saying "Can't touch this." Not to mention the re-purposed Star Wars lines mentioned around G3's airborne base. Then there was the launch sequence of G3's Colonial Viper-like fighters, which resembled the Viper launch sequences from the new Galactica series.
 * In "The Demon Within," Ilana mentions that the only one of her arranged dates on Galaluna she was actually interested in was "Prince Simon of Duran," a reference to Simon LeBon.
 * During the series finale, Steel blasts away at the enemy with an assault rifle in a manner very reminiscent of Dozle Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam.
 * Talking to Himself: Kari Wahlgren voices Kimmy and her two friends Monica and Amber.