Tilesets/References

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==''[[Mega Man 1|Mega Man]]'' / ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]''==
* Cut Man's tileset description is a reference to the fact that most levels by the community uses Cut Man's tiles, due to the fact that it is the default tileset.
* Cut Man's ''PU'' tileset is a reference to yule logs, usually eaten during Christmas time.
* Guts Tile's ''PU'' tileset description references the fact that the protagonist of the original ''Mega Man'' series is called "Rockman" in Japan and is localized as "Mega Man" overseas.
* Ice Man's tileset description is a reference to the ''Lazy Town'' song "We Are Number One", which became a meme in 2016. In a part of the song, Robbie Rotten, the villain and singer throws a banana with the intention of making Sportacus, the good guy, slip.
* Ice Man's ''PU'' tileset's second half is a reference to Rihanna's song "Diamonds".
* Time Tile 1 & 3 tileset description references his level being Clock Tower-themed.
* Time Tile (Alt) references the green color of tiles in Time Man's stage in the New Style mode of ''Mega Man Powered Up'' being mostly green.
* Challenge Tile (Alt) alludes to CWU-01P's dialog where he announces that it detected intruders.

==''[[Mega Man 2]]''==
* Quick Tile's description references Sonic The Hedgehog, a fast blue hedgehog starring in the same-named series.
* The animated Flash Tiles reference the song "Flash In The Dark" from ''[[Mega Man 9]]''.
* Heat Tile 2 is a reference to that scratching nails on a chalkboard makes a very bad noise.
* Wily 3 Tile (Alt)'s flavor text is a modified version of the "The Truck's Coming" meme.
* Wily 6 Tile makes reference to Wily Stage 6 from ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' having no music.
* Many of the Wily tileset descriptions reference the levels they are used in:
* Wily 1 Tile references the part with [[Pipi]]s and Scworms.
* Wily 1 Tile 2 references the parts with [[Sniper Joe]]s in tight spaces.
* Wily 1 Tile 4 references the hard [[Ladders|ladder]] parts with [[Item-1]].
* Wily 2 Tile references the fact that the [[player]] has to use [[Item-2]] to get through a large gap with spikes.
* Wily 3 Tile (Alt) references the part with the pit enemy [[Big Fish]].
* Wily 4 Tile references the fact that in-game some of these tiles were fake.
* Wily 6 Tile references the lack of [[music]] in the stage.
* Wily 5 Tile references the level Dragon Lab Lair by Natnatgaming101 from ''Make a Good Mega Man Level 2'' which only uses this tile.

==''[[Mega Man 3]]''==
* Spark Tile jokes on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
* Snake Tile references the Tunnel Snakes gang from the ''Fallout'' series.
* Needle Tile 2 references Needle Man's Doc Robot stage.
* Magnet Tile 2 reference multiple instances in the ''Mega Man'' series where Dr. Light and Dr. Wily used to collaborate together, including, but not limited to the events of ''[[Mega Man 3]]''.
* Wily 1 Tile and Tile 2 reference the rock and metal found in the tilesets respectively and the similarly named music genres.
* Wily 1 Tile 4 makes a pun on the fact that sleeping on the pipes found in the tileset would induce a "pipe dream", which is also used to refer to a goal that is nearly unattainable.
* Wily 6 Tile mentions that the final boss of ''Mega Man 3'', Gamma, is an unsatisfactory conclusion to the game.

==''[[Mega Man 4]]''==
* Skull Man's tileset jokes on the commercial failure of the Atari Jaguar video game console.
* Dust Tile (Alt) references the level Space Junk Galaxy from ''Super Mario Galaxy'' in which there is space junk.
* Toad Tile's description is a pun on the words "damn", an exclamation often used to portray astonishment, and "dam", a barrier that stops the flow of water, and where Toad Man's stage is located.
* Toad Tile 2 makes reference to the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' and their love of pizza.
* Wily 1 Tile makes reference to the various Mets in Wily Stage 1 in ''[[Mega Man 4]]''.
* Wily 3 Tile makes reference to the [[boss]] rematch stage from ''Mega Man 4'', and how slow boss health bars fill in the game compared to others in the series.
* Wily 3 Tile 2 implies that the drill-based Robot Masters in the ''Mega Man'' series, Drill Man from ''Mega Man 4'' and Ground Man from ''Mega Man & Bass'', are annoying.
* Cossack 3 Tile 2 references the "Hmm, yes, the floor here is made out of floor" meme, which features Buzz Lightyear from the ''Toy Story'' franchise with an extended neck looking at a quilted blanket.
* Cossack 4 Tile 4 references the popular video game ''Among Us'' and its venting system.

==''[[Mega Man 5]]''==
*Crystal Tile makes reference to the jellyfish boss Gigabolt Man-o-War from ''Mega Man X8''.
*Napalm Tile 2 makes reference to the pain of stepping on Lego blocks, which has become a common joke associated with the product.
*Star Tile 4 (Alt) references the song ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t365MuktYQs Starman]'' by David Bowie.
*Dark Man 3 Tile 2 is an alliteration with the letter "T".
*Dark Man 3 Tile 5 references strip mining at specific coordinates in ''Minecraft''.

==''[[Mega Man 6]]''==
* Tomahawk's tileset description also references the fact the original ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' Wily 1 rock tiles had not been added until [[1.5.0]].
* The descriptions of [[Wind Man]]'s and [[Yamato Man]]'s tilesets reference that both of them are the same, expect for a small change.
* Knight Man's tileset description references the fact his level in ''[[Mega Man 6]]'' is based on England.
* Blizzard Tile 2 quotes the meme song "Spooky Scary Skeletons" in its second sentence.
* Wind Tile 2 description references the fact that Wind Man's level in ''Mega Man 6'' is based on China.
* Yamato Tile 3 & Yamato Tile 3 (Alt) make reference to the fact Yamato Man's stage in ''Mega Man 6'' is based on Japan.
* Plant Tile references the song "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses.
* Plant Tile 2 references Amazon Prime, a subscription service for Amazon.
* Plant Tile 3 states the iconic tongue-twister "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood".
* Most alternate, recolored versions of Robot Master tilesets bear references to the "Encore Mode" in ''Sonic Mania Plus''.

==''[[Mega Man 7]]''==
* Spring Tile jokes on the level "Bouncy Castle" from ''Make a Good Mega Man Level 2''.
* The latter half of Freeze Man's tileset description references the flavor text that appears during Freeze Man's boss introduction screen, "Don't slip!", in the Japanese version of ''[[Mega Man 7]]''.
* Junk Tile references the similarity between the [[Telly|Telly spawner]] tiles in [[Crash Man]]'s stage.
* Shade Tile 1 references the tendency of builders in ''[[Mega Man Maker]]'' to use Top Tile to simulate grass.
* Shade Tile 2 references the video game ''Ghosts 'n Goblins''. Shade Man's stage in ''Mega Man 7'' pays homage to the former game and the alternate theme of Shade Man's stage is a remix of the first stage theme in ''Ghosts 'n Goblins''.
* Burst Tile 3 and its alt reference Mario and Luigi respectively from the ''Super Mario'' franchise.
* Turbo Tile references the lack of bounciness in the tires of the tileset, unlike the moving tires level object from Turbo Man's stage in ''Mega Man 7''.
* Turbo Tile 3 references a knight chess piece moving and performing a check.
* Cloud Tile references the limitations of ''Mega Man Maker'''s autotiler; thus, the lack of fans in the tileset.
* Wily 2 Tile references the "I Like Turtles" meme. Additionally, the second Wily stage is filled with figures of turtles while the final boss of the stage, Gamerizer, is a turtle as well.
* Wily 4 Tile quotes Dr. Light in ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' during which he says, "Get your weapons ready!" after obtaining either [[Item-1]], [[Item-2]], or [[Item-3]].

==''[[Mega Man 8]]''==
*Frost Tile 3 and Frost Tile 3 (Alt) reference the "Jump! Jump!" and "Slide! Slide!" voice lines during the snowboarding sections in ''Mega Man 8''.
*Frost Tile 4 references a voice line by Frost Man: "I'll make a popsicle of you!"
*Grenade Tile 4 may reference the "Road work ahead? I sure hope it does!" joke.
* Astro Tile makes reference to the fairy tale "Rapunzel".
* Astro Tile 2 (alt)'s description uses the tile's "lemon and lime" coloration to reference the tendency of fans to call 8-bit [[Mega Man]]'s buster shots "lemons" and 16-bit ''Mega Man X'''s half-charged buster shots "limes".
* Search Tile again references the pain of stepping on Lego blocks, which has become a common joke associated to the product in recent years.
* Wily 3 Tile 2 mentions the venting mechanic in the game ''Among Us'' that grew in popularity in mid-2020 and is mentioned prior in the description for Cossack 4 Tile 4.

==''[[Mega Man 9]]''==
* Jewel Tile makes reference to the YouTuber RoahmMythril, who regularly plays ''Mega Man games'', and gets excited when seeing shiny objects.
* Galaxy Tile references the opening text crawls from various ''Star Wars'' movies.
* Tornado Tile alludes to having been accidentally available in [[1.4.2]] in debug mode.
* All the tiles from Wily 1 again reference the song "Flash in the Dark" from ''Mega Man 9''.
* Wily 2 Tile, Wily 3 Tile and Wily 4 Tile also all reference the names of their respective stage themes.
* Endless Tile 5's description is a direct quote of one of ''Antichamber'''s many signs.

==''[[Mega Man 10]]''==
* Blade Tile makes reference to the character'' Shovel Knight'' in the eponymous game who was nicknamed "The Cerulean Coward" by Black Knight.
* Solar Tile 3 references ''Pokémon'' #533 in the National Pokédex, Gurdurr, which is known for lifting heavy girders.
* Sheep Tile makes reference to the movie ''The Matrix''.
* Pump Tile makes reference to an early design concept of ''[[Mega Man 11]]'' that showed a version of [[Pump Man]]'s stage in a new artstyle.
* Wily 2 Tile 2 contains a modified quote by ''Mega Man X7'''s "Splash Warfly".
* Wily 2 Tile 3 references the popular "Crab Rave" meme and at the same time references the Crab Puncher boss in ''[[Mega Man 10]]''. While Crab Puncher did not make those tilesets disappear, it destroyed air tilesets on its pass.
* The first, second, and fourth Wily 5 Tiles reference the fact that the stage that the tiles appear in is upside-down—the fourth tileset description jokes how the W in "Dr. Wily" can be read upside-down as an M, thus resulting in "Dr. Mily".
* Punk Tile 3 references the many Xs in the tileset and the "X Marks the Spot" quest from ''RuneScape''.
* The first two Endless tilesets take jabs at both ''Tetris'' and ''Super Smash Bros.'' as the tiles resemble ''Tetris'' pieces.
* Endless Tile 9 may be a reference to Swiper's catchphrase "Oh, Man!" after being caught in the ''Dora The Explorer'' franchise.
* Endless Tile 13 contains a subtle reference to the achievement "Pretty (Devastating) in Pink" in the ''Mega Man X Legacy Collection'', which in turn is a reference to the film ''Pretty in Pink''.
* Endless Tile 15 references the catchphrase "More than meets the eye" from the series ''Transformers''.
* Endless Tile 20 references Dracula's iconic quote "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets." from ''Castlevania: Symphony of the Night''.
* Endless Tile 22 references the base rate of 1/4096 chance of encountering a Shiny Pokémon in ''Pokémon'' games from generation 6 and onward.
* Challenge Tile 2 (Alt) may reference the game ''Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine''.

==''[[Mega Man 11]]''==
* Block Tile alludes to the shredding blades that appear in sections of Block Man's stage in ''[[Mega Man 11]]''.
* Tundra Tile references ''Pokémon'' #886 in the National Pokédex, Drakloak, which can only be encountered in foggy weather and whose German name, Phandra, rhymes with Tundra.
* Torch Tile indirectly references the Fire Wall in Torch Man's stage in Mega Man 11.
* Wily 1 Tile 2 may reference the "Technology is incredible!" and "Science is amazing!" NPCs from various games in the ''Pokémon'' series by combining both quotes into one: "Technology is amazing!".

== [[Mega Man & Bass|''Mega Man & Bass'']] ==

*Intro Tile 4 alludes to Green Devil, who makes an appearance at the end of the intro stage in ''[[Mega Man & Bass]]''.
* Astro Tile 8 (Alt) references a knight chess piece moving and performing a check.
* Magic Tile 6 jokes about how it was intended to be added to [[1.8.0]] of ''[[Mega Man Maker]]'', but was forgotten until version [[1.8.4]].
* King 3 Tile 2, King 3 Tile 3, and King 3 Tile 4 all reference their similarities to various tiles in Wily Stage 4 from ''[[Mega Man 7]]''.

== [[:Category:Game Boy Games|''Mega Man'' Game Boy]] ==
* Pharaoh Tile 2 references King Ramses' line from ''Courage the Cowardly Dog''.
* Ring Tile 2 references Gollum's catchphrase from the ''Lord of the Rings''.
* Crystal Tile 2 references the various droppers found in Crystal Man's stage from ''[[Mega Man 5]]''.
* Mercury Tile mentions mercury, a toxic metal.
* Mars Tile 3 and Mars Tile 4 reference the "You Can't Just Shoot A Hole Into The Surface Of Mars" quote from ''Doom Eternal.''
* Saturn Tile references the Sega Saturn, a 32-bit console.
* Saturn Tile 3 references the gravity fields found in Saturn's from ''[[Mega Man V]]''.
* Pluto Tile 4 references the pistons and sticky pistons in ''Minecraft''.
* Dark Moon Tile (Alt) references the [[Yellow Devil]] from [[Mega Man 1|the first ''Mega Man'' game]] and a lack of pause glitch in ''[[Mega Man Maker]]''.
* Dark Moon Tile (Alt 2) references the Green Devil from ''[[Mega Man 8]]'' and one of the Twin Devils from ''[[Mega Man 9]]''.
* Dark Moon Tile (Alt 3) references the Block Devil from ''[[Mega Man 10]]''.
* Dark Moon Tile (Alt 4) references the Grey Devil from ''Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future''.

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