defeated!/very cool!

the trash can man in new junk city strikes me as a mash up of a couple of bosses from treasure's first game, gunstar heroes. this is the only time you get "warning" onscreen and the only time you are applauded for killing a midboss ("very cool!" as opposed to gunstar's "defeated!"). the tcm is also the only multisprite boss in the game, which fit the design of treasure's bosses. the starting form bears some resemblance to gunstar's bravoo man, but the tcm's patterns, and the simple fact that he does change forms, are clearly based on the seven force from gunstar's second stage. compare the tcm's cannon form to the seven force's gun form.