Easter Eggs To Future Actors Who Worked With Mel Gibson Shown In '88 Ninja Gaiden Arcade Game?

Part 2 - Some of the future actors who worked with Mel Gibson may be hinted throughout the 1988 TECMO arcade video game Ninja Gaiden. Your anchor to Gibson possibly being the presence of an enemy tag team duo of fighters modeled on the former pro wrestlers The Road Warriors (that was also the title to Mad Max 2 ('81) which starred the actor).

- The theme music for the fighting duo based on The Road Warriors wrestlers is apparently inspired by rock group Black Sabbath's 1970 song Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr. appeared alongside Gibson in the 1990 action comedy Air America. He later played the Marvel comic book superhero Tony Stark / Iron Man in several movies.
- After clearing each level the ninja Ryu transforms into a tornado, I thought this may be a hint to the year 2000's romantic comedy What Women Want which co-stars Gibson and actress Helen Hunt. She earlier appeared in the 1996 environmental disaster movie Twister (about a group of storm chasers).
- Stage 3 of Ninja Gaiden is set in the Las Vegas casino area of the USA.
- An enemy character appears midway through this that pilots a gyrocopter. Bruce Spence played a gyro pilot character in Mad Max 2.
- Stage 1 of the game may contain a reference to a future Gibson film: the 1994 western Maverick. Posters can be seen on the brick wall reading: "TOP GUN". This was also the name of a 1986 fighter pilot action film starring Tom Cruise. The clue to Gibson being Cruise's character's callsign.