Combining Mecha: Difference between revisions

[[File:voltron 8444.png|link=Voltron|frame|"Form, feet and legs!" "Form, arms and body!" "[[Leader Forms the Head|...and I'll form ... the head!]]"]]

 

 

When two or more independent [[Mecha]] can combine to make another, larger mecha. It can be a decent way to hide a [[Humongous Mecha|really big robot]] in plain sight, by breaking it up into pieces.

** [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]? More and more recent series have "auxiliary Zords" that can replace limbs to add new powers. Every year starting around 2000, [[Super Sentai|both]] [[Power Rangers|shows]] tend to feature a wide range of individual animals or vehicles who would start doing this with the base combined mecha. At times like this, instead of "'''''GATTAI!'''''" (combination), get used to "'''''BUSOU!'''''" (armament.) Once they acquire enough of these, they usually end up combining together to form a second complete mecha (such as DaiTenkuu in ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'') or the Dual Drive Megazord of ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' (presented as a 'quick and dirty' emergency combination of the spare vehicles once too many of the usual vehicles had been damaged.) Sometimes they ''all'' pile onto the main mecha at once. Also, some [[Sixth Ranger]] mecha do this with the combined robot of the other Rangers.

*** Parodied in ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' when the Origami, in their emblem forms, attempt to "combine" by stacking one on top of the other. The formation isn't very effective.

 

 

* Devastator from ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]''.

* The MOGUERA unit in ''[[Godzilla]] vs. Space Godzilla''.

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* One episode of ''Mighty Man'' featured a [[Humongous Mecha]] whose pieces were disguised as Chinese Ships (called Junk).

* The [[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]! Super Robot has this one. [[Troperiffic|As well as about every other Super Robot trope...]] [[Inverted]] in that the Super Robot is usually seen as one big robot, and only rarely separates.

 

== Group of humanoid robots to giant robot ==

* ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' has the El Dorado V. Despite being crewed by senior citizens, it easily surpasses all other examples on this list when it comes to being fueled by [[Hot-Blooded|hot blood]].

* ''[[Dancougar]]'' probably has the most extreme version of this. Each of the robots can transform between animal, vehicle AND humanoid forms, and they can all combine into a giant robot.

* The central premise of the anime ''Zoids: Fuzors''.

 

* The non-canon [http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/2/2e/THE_BEAST.jpg Beast] of the Transformers comics, formed by the Dinobots. TFwiki put it best when they said "This is a monument to all your sins."

 

 

=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===

* The ''[[Mekton]] Mecha Manual'' has the God-Griffon VX, formed from the God-Fang V and the God-Wing X.

 

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* A small handful of ''[[Transformers]]'' combine into larger alt modes instead of larger robot modes. Dreadwing is probably the best example. Of course, they all had their own robot modes anyhow... save for Tidal Wave, who was a big robot, a big ship, or three small ships.

 

== Mix and Match ==

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

* Parodied again in [http://nedroid.com/2010/06/battle-ready-extra-ready/ this] ''[[Nedroid]]'' comic, along with [[Hot-Blooded]] mecha animé in general.

* When ''[[Wonderella]]'' gets lazy, [http://nonadventures.com/2006/12/16/fae-to-black/ "Faerie Force is GO!"]

* Both parodied and played straight in ''[[Operator]]'': After forcibly combining his opponents' mech with his own [unusually, an irreversible process that forced the other guy to abandon ship], Griff later has a dream about 'combining' that is a direct [[Shout-Out]] to [[Gurren Lagann]]

 

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