Tracy mentions she is similar to Sarah Connor from The Terminator movie. Sarah Connor is the mother of John Connor, the leader of the resistance who is destined to win the war against Skynet.
However, H.R. and Cisco quip that she is more like Miles Dyson, that was for Miles Bennett Dyson from the same movie, played by Joe Morton, who was the original inventor of the neural-net processor which would lead to the development of Skynet, a computer A.I. that later on takes control of the Earth, the character about whom Sarah narrates 'It's not everyday you find out that you're responsible for three billion deaths.'
Killer Frost's line "more fun to reign in hell" is a variation on the line "Better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost".
Tracy's favourite drink is named after Hunter Zolomon.
The building used to represent the exterior of the college where Team Flash finds Tracy Brand (Anne Dudek) is Thompson Hall, at the University of New Hampshire, which mostly houses administrative offices.
Tracy Brand nicknames Caitlin aka Killer Frost as 'Jack Frost's sister'. Jack Frost is a mythical personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold, dating from much earlier than movies and comics.