When Hercules suggests that the scribe write a book, she replies "A book? What a novel idea."
In Greek mythology Daedalus was a brilliant inventor but was not associated with war machines. Aside from the famous wings he made a fake cow to help a queen seduce a bull and a maze to hold the resulting human/bull hybrid. Now, Archimedes of Syracuse was famous mostly as the greatest mathematician of his age. But, he was the inventor of a devastating solar heat ray and a ship sinking grappling claw.
Katrina appears to be modeled on Lois Lane, the true love and unrelenting gadfly of Superman.
Hércules twice refers to the Silly Putty-like substance as a "silly nutty thing".