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* Bright Man has an attack similar to Protectos the Goreroid from ''[[Mega Man ZX]]'', where he launches a powerful explosive towards the wall. To avoid the resulting attack, you have to stand in Bright Man's shadow, similar to the way you had to avoid Protectos' nuke.
** This attack also bears similarity to the attack used by Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright from ''[[Kirby]]'s Dream Land 2''.
** Spark. Manbow ''is'' Kine's Spark ability from the same game.
* There is an [[Homage]] to the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Labyrinth Zone]] in Toad Man's level. 
** If Toad Man hits Mega Man with Toad Spell, he turns into a frog from ''[[For the Frog The Bell Tolls]]''.
*** To further cement in the reference, Toad Man's stage theme is the overworld theme from that game.
** When Mega Man uses Toad Spell, the stars from the casting animation from the NES version of ''[[Final Fantasy III]]'' surround him.
** The Wish Star Adapter is based on [[Final Fantasy VIII|Rinoa]]'s Wishing Star [[Limit Break]].
* The Trio of Ring-Rings in Ring Man's stage have the same AI patterns as [[Kirby|Lalala and Lololo]].
* The way to unlock the secret path to Wave Man in Dive Man's stage looks a lot like Samus using the Power Bomb to unlock [[Metroid|Maridia]].
* The [[Gradius|Cube Rush]] shows up as the last challenge before the [[Boss Battle]] in Dust Man's stage.
** Using Recycle Inhaler on the purple Up'N'Down enemies causes them to give chase to Mega Man for a while before exploding, in a similar fashion to the Scarfy enemy from the [[Kirby]] series.
* Mothraya, Square Machine and Bubble Devil use the same attack patterns as the [[Mega Man X|X-Hunters]].
* In the second half of Wily Stage 1, Mega Man can hijack a Sniper Armor, an Apache Joe Chopper, Gunner Joe spacecraft, and a Cannon Joe cannon. All of this is based on the Ride Chaser and Ride Armor sequences from [[Mega Man X]].
* The [[Auto Scrolling]] second half of Wily Stage 2 is based on the high speed zones from the ''[[Gradius]]'' series.
* Shadow Man as the [[Bonus Boss]] of Wily Stage 4 pulls his moves et from {{spoiler|1=the Ninja ability from ''[[Kirby Super Star]]''}} and Phantom from the first [[Mega Man Zero]] game.
* The [[Auto Scrolling]] section of {{spoiler|1=Wily's last stage is based off of the Halberd destruction sequence from ''[[Kirby Super Star|Revenge of Meta Knight]]''}}. It even uses the same music. 
** To complete the reference, Mega Man uses Hell Wheel (a decidedly Wheel-esque power) for this section.
* The section after Wily Capsule Boss Fight is based on the {{spoiler|1=organic}} final level of ''[[Gradius]] 2''.
* The Wily Buster is basically {{spoiler|1=Samus's Hyper Beam}} from ''[[Super Metroid]]''.
* The credits have the theme of [[Fire Emblem]]. Like in that game's credits, it counts the combined amount of times the unit (or in this case, boss) won and lost a fight.
** When you do a critical hit with any weapon, the damage is triple the usual amount. In the [[Fire Emblem]] series, any attack with a critical hit gets a multiplier of 3. 
* One type of Up'N'Down, according to the credits, is named [[Dig Dug|Dig'N'Dugn]].
* The Mechanical Arena is basically The Arena from ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'', with four health pickups in the hub area.
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