* The restaurant where Ranka Lee worked as a waiter is called Nyan-Nyan. Coincidentally, the restaurant where Lynn Minmay worked before she became an idol goes by the same name in the original Super Dimensional Fortress Macross.
* On the roof of the Macross School which all of the main characters attend, there is a preserved VF-1 Valkyrie Fighter - and as we see in Episode 9, it is not just any VF-1 - it is in fact Hikaru Ichijo's first mount (in red and black lines, which Alto Saotome now flies in with Skull 2).
* The scene where the flight school students (or stunt pilots, as their role in the concerts appears to be) raise their hands to the sky in imitation of a fighter jet flying, is a clear reference to a similar scene in Macross Plus where Isamu Alva Dyson is practicing, in his head, the test maneuvers he is going to use in his first flight of the VF-19.
* The setting of the pilot episode's space battle (an asteroid belt near a Gas Giant) is very similar to the classic battle at the Saturn rings from the original Super Dimensional Fortress Macross series.
* Sheryl Nome's intro phrase "Listen to my song!!" or "Watashi no uta wo kike!!" in Japanese (私の唄を聴け!!) during her concerts, is very similar to Basara Nekki's (Macross 7 protagonist) catch phrase "Ore no uta wo kike!!" (俺の唄を聴け!!) before he sings.
* The N.U.N.S. VF-171 is based on the U.N. Spacy's VF-17 Nightmare from Macross 7.
* The scene where Alto saves Ranka for the first time is a nod to when Hikaru Ichijyo rescues Lynn Minmay in the original Macross.
* While controlling his VF-25 in slave mode, Alto uses the same flying hand motion as Isamu Alva Dyson from Macross Plus.
* Alto's VF-25 (in battroid mode) saluting Sheryl Nome in the final episode is a nod to a similar scene in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?
* The relationship of Ozma Lee and Cathy Glass is strikingly similar to the doomed relationship of Roy Focker and Claudia LaSalle from the original Macross.
* 2nd Lt. Cathy Glass resembles officer Misa Hayase from the original Macross and occupies the same position as part of the Macross Quarter bridge crew.
* The events of "Goodbye Sister" mimics many elements of episode 18 ("Pineapple Salad") of Macross. The name of the episode is similar to the American version adaptation TV episode "Farewell, Big Brother".
* Characters Michael Blanc and Klan Klan share some similar characteristics to characters Maximilian Jenius and Milia Fallyna Jenius from the original Macross TV show.
* The VF-25 Messiah variable fighter (in fighter mode) strongly remembles the VF-1 Valkyrie variable fighter.
* Captain Jeffrey Wilder strongly resembles SDF-1 Macross Captain/Colonel Bruno J. Global from the original Macross, including the habit of smoking with a pipe as well as wearing a similar military uniform.
* The scenes with Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome singing on the bridges of both Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier during the final battle of the series is similar to the scene of Lynn Minmay singing on the bridge of the SDF-1 Macross during the final battle of Space War I in both the original Macross TV series and The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? animated movie.
* When Grace O'Connor was assimilated within the main Vajra queen's head it occurred in a similar way as it happened to Priestess Sara Nome while entering a Protoculture bio-mechanical mecha in the Macross Zero OVA series.
* Grace O' Connor was destroyed the same way Boddole Zer was destroyed in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? animated movie.
* In the very beginning of episode 25, a Vajra Battleship moves in front of Battle Frontier with its main cannon about to blast the Frontier ship while Sheryl Nome is singing on its bridge, but is rescued by the arrival of Macross Quarter blasting the Vajra ship with its Heavy Quantum Cannon. This scene is a re-creation of a moment from Space War I shown in the Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie where Vrlitwhai Kridanik rescued the SDF-1 Macross from a rogue Zentradi Standard Battleship that was about to fire its main cannon while Minmay was singing on its bridge.
* The "Bird Human" Protoculture biomecha that appeared at the end of the Macross Zero OVA was very similar to the main Vajra queen from Macross Frontier. It was explained in-universe that the Protoculture came to fear, adore and defy the power of the Vajra to the extent of imitating their form while creating the "Bird Human".
* Captain Ozma Lee is quite a fan of Fire Bomber music as he often plays songs in his car and at home. He even goes as far as naming battle formations after the songs such as "Planet Dance" and "Totsugeki Love Heart" which he yells out during battle.