The Cape (2010 TV series)/Trivia

• Actor Allusion:
  • Ken Davitan plays a convenience store clerk who gets robbed at the end of the pilot. One of the robbers disparagingly refers to him as "Borat".
  • In "Razer," Max convinces Ruvi to stay by telling him "Despero." On an episode of Justice League, that was the name of the character Keith David voiced.
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Paul Raines is the Big Bad.
  • Richard Schiff also has a pretty big part.
    • Interestingly enough, he played Charles Fischer on The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which also starred Summer Glau.
  • Marty from Pirates of the Caribbean, or if you prefer Randall from Scrubs is Rollo, Max's right hand man.
  • Keith David is Max Malini
  • Summer Glau plays Orwell.
  • Don't you know who Scales is? He's the Juggernaut, bitch!
    • And a soccer hooligan.
    • And a another one on Foreign Remake Mean Machine
    • And a silent car thief.
    • And Bullet-Tooth Tony.
  • Fegelein want his cape back! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
  • Rueben is Fleming's doctor.
  • Natalie Morales as one of Dana's colleagues in "The Lich Part 1"
  • Cross is Gregor Molotov.
• Shout-Out:
  • Three last names from Lost, LeFleur, Linus, and Faraday have appeared.
  • Orwell is named after George Orwell, who is most famous for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Her slogan, "Orwell is Watching," is a reference to the Arc Words "Big Brother is Watching You." Ironically, her secretly fighting against the evil authority is actually more reminiscent of the protagonist's love interest from that novel.
  • The Cape's first fight with Scales is takes place at a shipyard, where his Mooks are grabbed out of the shadows.
  • And towards the end of the second episode, the Cape looks down on the city from a tall building.
  • Gregor Molotov spent twenty years in prison obsessing over the cape, which Max denied him because of the darkness in his heart. While this sort of situation is common with his character type, the exact circumstances are eerily similar to Tai Lung's motivations in Kung Fu Panda.
  • In "Tarot", Orwell uses a fake name: Diane Simone.
  • "Scales on a Train" is a not-so-subtle nod to Snakes on a Plane.
  • During the robbery montage in the pilot, one of the costume sets the gang wears strongly resembles a cross between the nun costumes worn in The Town, mixed with clown attire.
  • In a bit of an Actor Allusion, Orwell pulls the Stealth Hi component of a Stealth Hi Bye on Vince, not unlike River.
  • Vince tells Max to give the wisdom of Solomon thing a rest.
• Throw It In: According to Vinnie Jones, the dialogue in the pilot between Scales and Rollo was made up on the day of the shoot.