His disguise name may be a parody of Optimus Prime from Transformers.
His snow globe collection included every city he was shipped to.
He unintentionally makes Celebrity puns when he orders his minions around.
Dave owns a purple Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
Dave's introduction provides a heavy retcon. This makes him one of the earliest characters to have technically existed in the franchise
Dave's faction has an octopus as it's insignia.
Dave's medusa serum has a similar function to Dr. Blowhole's Diabologizer.
Interestingly in spite of being an animal, Dave appears to be understood by the humans given how he was able to disguise himself as a human and blend in rather easily, whereas the first film and PoM Series establishes a fact that humans cannot understand the animals.
Dave is also shown to not pay attention to his surroundings, proven when he contacted North Wind and the penguins, but did not realize his microphone was turned off.
