Playin' the mind guerrilla: Zor's reactivation by the Robotech Masters is similar to the plot of the brainwashed soldier in The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
Blink and you'll miss it: It unfolds so quickly it would be easy to overlook Eddie's destruction by a Bioroid at the 15:30 mark. Eddie was the soldier who punched Zor, blaming him for his brother's death in A New Recruit (1985).