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Platonic Power is the power of kindness.
Diol and Poini, according to various sources, have the highest Platonic Power ratings in the squadron. They also happen to be without-a-doubt the nicest, most selfless girls on the team. Incidentally, after Anoa defeats Dark Force/Death Bringer and comments that she's sorry, her Platonic Power surges and she goes Hyper.
  • This would also explain why the Bacterians don't seem to be able to harness Platonic power. They're all evil or twisted in some fashion, and thus can't use a power rooted in kindness.

Yuina brainwashed Shiori to pilot Heaven's Gate.
For all the people questioning why a normal high school student suddenly dyed her uniform and allied with an invading alien army, how many of them have forgotten that there was a mad scientist who wanted to Take Over the World in Shiori's own home canon as a rival haremette?

Kokoro and her family are from the Lords of Shadow continuity.
The main timeline reaches past 2011 (the setting of Excellent) and still no aliens, but no Alternate Continuity has gone past the Middle Ages — so why not? The other represented canons all take place in space and/or in the distant past (save for Busou Shinki, which doesn't have much of a continuity except for the anime, which we know for a fact isn't canon to Otomedius). And Kokoro's comments about her family aren't specific enough to pinpoint a timeline.

The Tripod Core is a Metal Gear.
The Tripod Core looks similar to some Metal Gears, so it could be assumed that it's a modified version from them.

The Busou Shinki Moon Angel OVA is a prequel to the Otomedius series
The human-sized Shinki-based combat gynoid chassis Kaguya and her sister Strarf MK2 were meant to serve as twinned processor nodes for is a predecessor to the human-sized Arnval and Strarf MK1 seen in the series proper - the design team was never able to perfect their creation(s) until captured Bacterian technology was offered to them, replacing the tiny Shinkis being used as their cores with Bacterian processor nodes.

T.B. Rika's Bacterian form is a lung or a pair of lungs.
Yes, her Parodius equivalent was legs, so that's still possible, but her name suggests tuberculosis, much like the Gofer sisters' names showing that they're two halves of a Bacterian whose alien form was a brain (L.B. and R.B. suggest Left Brain and Right Brain).

Alternatively, T.B. Rika's Bacterian forms are the Shadow Dancers
Even though she's explicitly based off of a Parodius boss, that boss was based off of the Shadow Dancers from Gradius II onward, so it would stand to reason that her Bacterian form would be derived from those bosses, in particular Crab from Gradius II, since that's where her Leitmotif ("The Final Enemy") originated from.

Erul has a human name and an alien name.
Due to being a Child of Two Worlds, she'd go by "Erul Tron" on Gradius and presumably "Ellie Burton" elsewhere, explaining her relation to David Burton. Since St. Gradius School is in Japan, she just uses Erul because her Earth name would be just as foreign to the others there anyway.

Dark Force rides a Ride Viper called Black Viper, which is a reference to Gava's sister. Of course, She could be Black Viper all along, and the Red Falcon has planned to invade the Otomedius verse after failing to conquer the Contra verse.

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