This is the third episode that shares a title with a Bruce Springsteen song; "This is Your Sword" the album High Hopes. The previous two are also the 22nd episode of the season: Darkness on the Edge of Town (2013), and Streets of Fire (2014). Both are from the album Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Malcolm tells the group to be at Ferris Air at dawn. Ferris Air was the employer of Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern.
Roy uses the fake name Jason which could be a reference to the Red Hood who's real name is Jason Todd and stars along Roy Harper in his own comic series
Tatsu draws a katana from its sheath and Malcom asks if it is a Masamune blade. Masamune was the greatest Japanese sword maker of the late 13th or early 14th centuries, possibly the greatest ever. Masamune used a a folding and forge welding technique to make stronger blades. He also used a differential quenching method that created a hamon, or a visible line separating the softer body on the blade from the harder edge. The blade shown is monosteel (lacking any fold pattern or martensite crystals) with a machined pseudo-hamon.