diff --git a/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component.dart b/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component.dart
index 9959550c1fe..c8198d496d5 100644
--- a/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component.dart
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ class Component {
     } else if (child._parent != null) {
       if (child.isRemoving) {
         game.dequeueRemove(child);
-        _clearRemovingBit();
+        child._clearRemovingBit();
       }
       game.enqueueMove(child, this);
     } else if (isMounted && !child.isMounted) {
diff --git a/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component_tree_root.dart b/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component_tree_root.dart
index 6af18495705..f5b0b44e913 100644
--- a/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component_tree_root.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/lib/src/components/core/component_tree_root.dart
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@ class ComponentTreeRoot extends Component {
     super.children,
     super.key,
   }) : queue = RecycledQueue(LifecycleEvent.new),
-       _blocked = <int>{};
+       _blocked = <Component>{};
 
   @internal
   final RecycledQueue<LifecycleEvent> queue;
-  final Set<int> _blocked;
+
+  /// Components whose events are blocked during the current
+  /// [processLifecycleEvents] pass. Compared by identity, since [Component]
+  /// does not override equality.
+  final Set<Component> _blocked;
   late final Map<ComponentKey, Component> _index = {};
   Completer<void>? _lifecycleEventsCompleter;
 
@@ -147,8 +151,7 @@ class ComponentTreeRoot extends Component {
       for (final event in queue) {
         final child = event.child!;
         final parent = event.parent!;
-        if (_blocked.contains(identityHashCode(child)) ||
-            _blocked.contains(identityHashCode(parent))) {
+        if (_blocked.contains(child) || _blocked.contains(parent)) {
           continue;
         }
 
@@ -165,8 +168,8 @@ class ComponentTreeRoot extends Component {
             queue.removeCurrent();
             repeatLoop = true;
           case LifecycleEventStatus.block:
-            _blocked.add(identityHashCode(child));
-            _blocked.add(identityHashCode(parent));
+            _blocked.add(child);
+            _blocked.add(parent);
           default:
         }
       }
diff --git a/packages/flame/test/components/component_test.dart b/packages/flame/test/components/component_test.dart
index 561242c8d9e..619aeee3ea2 100644
--- a/packages/flame/test/components/component_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/test/components/component_test.dart
@@ -1171,6 +1171,55 @@ void main() {
         expect(game.world.children.toList(), [parent, child]);
         expect(parent.children.toList(), isEmpty);
       });
+
+      testWithFlameGame(
+        'moving a component that is scheduled for removal cancels the removal',
+        (game) async {
+          final parentA = Component()..addToParent(game.world);
+          final parentB = Component()..addToParent(game.world);
+          final child = _LifecycleComponent('child')..addToParent(parentA);
+          await game.ready();
+
+          child.removeFromParent();
+          expect(child.isRemoving, true);
+          parentB.add(child);
+          expect(child.isRemoving, false);
+          await game.ready();
+
+          expect(child.isMounted, true);
+          expect(child.parent, parentB);
+          expect(parentA.hasChildren, false);
+          expect(child.countEvents('onRemove'), 1);
+          expect(child.countEvents('onMount'), 2);
+        },
+      );
+
+      testWithFlameGame(
+        'moving a removing child does not clear the removing state of the '
+        'new parent',
+        (game) async {
+          final parentA = Component()..addToParent(game.world);
+          final parentB = Component()..addToParent(game.world);
+          final child = Component()..addToParent(parentA);
+          await game.ready();
+
+          parentB.removeFromParent();
+          child.removeFromParent();
+          expect(parentB.isRemoving, true);
+          expect(child.isRemoving, true);
+
+          // Re-parenting the removing child must clear the child's removing
+          // state, not the new parent's.
+          parentB.add(child);
+          expect(child.isRemoving, false);
+          expect(parentB.isRemoving, true);
+          await game.ready();
+
+          expect(parentB.isRemoved, true);
+          expect(parentB.isMounted, false);
+          expect(child.parent, parentB);
+        },
+      );
     });
 
     group('Rebalancing components', () {
@@ -1553,6 +1602,38 @@ void main() {
           _Pair(world, [Vector2(664, 216)]),
         ]);
       });
+
+      testWithFlameGame(
+        'later siblings are hit first and can be removed during iteration',
+        (game) async {
+          final world = game.world;
+          final componentA = PositionComponent(size: Vector2.all(100))
+            ..addToParent(world);
+          final componentB = PositionComponent(size: Vector2.all(100))
+            ..addToParent(world);
+          final componentC = PositionComponent(size: Vector2.all(100))
+            ..addToParent(world);
+          await game.ready();
+
+          // Mimics an event handler that mutates the tree while the hit-test
+          // iterable is being consumed, like a tap handler removing the
+          // tapped component and one of its siblings.
+          final visited = <Component>[];
+          for (final component in world.componentsAtPoint(Vector2(50, 50))) {
+            if (component == componentC) {
+              componentC.removeFromParent();
+              componentB.removeFromParent();
+            }
+            visited.add(component);
+          }
+
+          // The removals are deferred, so the iteration still sees the tree
+          // as it was when the event was fired, in top-most-first order.
+          expect(visited, [componentC, componentB, componentA, world]);
+          await game.ready();
+          expect(world.children.toList(), [componentA]);
+        },
+      );
     });
 
     group('findRootGame()', () {
diff --git a/packages/flame/test/components/priority_test.dart b/packages/flame/test/components/priority_test.dart
index bf2c50db898..0828eb16f9c 100644
--- a/packages/flame/test/components/priority_test.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/test/components/priority_test.dart
@@ -25,6 +25,32 @@ void main() {
       },
     );
 
+    testWithFlameGame(
+      'components with equal priority keep insertion order',
+      (game) async {
+        final components = List.generate(5, (_) => _PriorityComponent(0));
+        await game.world.ensureAddAll(components);
+        expect(game.world.children.toList(), components);
+      },
+    );
+
+    testWithFlameGame(
+      'equal-priority components keep their relative order after a sibling '
+      'changes priority',
+      (game) async {
+        final a = _PriorityComponent(0);
+        final b = _PriorityComponent(0);
+        final c = _PriorityComponent(0);
+        final d = _PriorityComponent(1);
+        await game.world.ensureAddAll([a, b, c, d]);
+        expect(game.world.children.toList(), [a, b, c, d]);
+
+        d.priority = -1;
+        game.update(0);
+        expect(game.world.children.toList(), [d, a, b, c]);
+      },
+    );
+
     testWithFlameGame(
       'changing priority with the priority setter should reorder the list',
       (game) async {