User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 667 - BIGGER, LOUDER, STRONGER/@comment-5398287-20160324133928

Oh, by the way, someone on Reddit found that there lived a man named Gerard Hoffnung who escaped from the Nazis and stuff. We can't cite it as a connection on the article unless Kubo confirms it somewhere, but I'll be damned if that doesn't feel like a name inspiration a la the Espada and those architects.