The exo-skeleton is similar in style of The Terminator (1984), including the way the artificial skin wraps around the head. The term duplicant is similar to replicant, from Blade Runner (1982).
Among the toys that are in Dr. Rossum's apartment are "Batmite", from the Batman comics of the 1960s, and "Mr. Mxyzptlk", Superman's extra-dimensional foe from the same era.
William Sanderson, who is the voice actor of Karl Rossum, the creator of the Duplicants, plays a similar character in Blade Runner (1982) as the creator of the Replicants.
The plot of robots or duplicants taking over humanity is alike in The Terminator (1984) and Blade Runner (1982) films.
The name Rossum is an allusion to the 1921 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti, Rossum's Universal Robots.