Both Zachary Levi (Chuck Bartowski) and Brandon Routh (Daniel Shaw) have played comic book characters in movies. Stan Lee, who appears in this episode, was a comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics. Zac played Fandral in Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). However, he also played Shazam in Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), which is part of the DC Universe. Brandon only has ties to DC characters, though he is said to be a MCU fan. He played Clark Kent/Superman in Superman Returns (2006), Todd Ingram in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis (2020), then played Ray Palmer/The Atom/Neron/Superman/Superman (Earth-96)/Clark Kent (Earth-96) in Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014), Supergirl (2015), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016) and Batwoman (2019).