Kerblomboさんのイラストまとめ

Until they learn to process each other's information, people communicating with it are likewise trapped in an unmoving haze.

The Compac Drives plugged into the robots are not a reference to Compaq products, but a pun on "konpaku," or "soul" in Japanese. A lot of refs make more sense in romaji.

The word's probably more known here for that half-ghost in 2hu.

And the Nirvash Type Zero has the Satori Program to unlock its full potential. If it were just these two refs, it would basically be window dressing for unlocking any vanilla magical power-up.

@Richmond_Lee I think it qualifies as an actual religious text at this point.

@HokutoAndy Arma died for our Bahamut SINs.

So the good guys all combine to bring back the god that defeated it, Argama.

...No, not that one, either.

Towards the end, Ryu's blue-haired sister gets kidnapped and brainwashed to help resurrect the evil god Drago.

Aside from having one of the most Go Nagai faces ever, Ryu's fleshbot could transform into a dragon. I always thought the original Kaiser/Rudra looked similar to it, with the spines and overly defined dragon pecs.

The protagonist was named Ken, and his blonde rival was named Ryu, because not all Capcom comparisons have to be intentional. They had the mark of a liger and a dragon, repsectively.

This by itself isn't much, but there is that dragon mark on the first BOF Ryu's forehead.

In '89, Go Nagai and Sunrise put together Jushin Liger, a biomechanical giant robot show. A certain wrestler's identity was themed around it, going through the same power-ups into Fire and Thunder Liger.