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** It means a Giant Robot that embodies the lost mother in the Children who are also the Pilots. Its basically the Giant Robot Replacement for a ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' God. Literally.
*** Also it's stated that the Angels possess the Body of God, while humans possess the Mind of God. EVAs can potentially {{spoiler|possess both, if they have a human pilot and an S2 engine}}.
* While we're on the subject of Gainax, there's a village in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' run by a [[Corrupt Church]] that worships an old [[A Mech
** Making it even better, Chouginga Gurren Lagann, the penultimate mecha of the series, was ''explicitly'' described as "one who matches the Gods," as having power tantamount to a sub-Universe all its own, and is capable of near-divine manipulation of space-time. It also looks like a ''drill angel''.
** There are people who list their religious views as "Gurren Lagann" (Or Kaminalogy).
* ''[[
* Not sure of the other versions, but at least one of the ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'' manga versions called the Escaflowne a god.
* ''[[Go Lion]]'' is thought of as one, even if not so in western equivalent ''[[Voltron]]''.
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* In ''[[Gravion]]'', Sandman calls his [[Humongous Mecha]] "a new deity for the modern age". As if that wasn't enough, its name is ''God'' Gravion. However, it's ''replaced'' by Sol Gravion, and Sandman's God Sigma Gravion becomes a sort of [[Sixth Ranger]].
* The Ma-Shin, aka "Rune Gods" of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''.
* Setsuna F. Seiei of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' views Gundams with almost religious reverence because when he was very young, his life was saved by a Gundam. Naturally, the Gundam he eventually pilots is so powerful, it's not even a Gundam anymore but essentially a ''Super Robot''.
* ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' gives an example: The common people worship [[Les Collaborateurs|a woman who sided with humanity's enemies]] 5000 years ago as God, and believe the [[Humongous Mecha|Peacemakers]] (AI-controlled [[Humongous Mecha]] that can brainwash you by looking at you) are angels. They also believe the [[Humongous Mecha|Dragoons]] are demons. So the [[Humongous Mecha]] are on either side of the religion.
* Played with in ''[[Gasaraki]]''. The TA/Fake mechas are ugly, purely mechanical looking and sounding, and while they're excellent weapons they're also get clogged by sand and are useless in certain situations, so they're as far from the Awesome Humongous Mecha as you can get. The Kugai on the other hand are referred to as Gods (or Demons, depending on who you ask), and compared to the TAs they're incredibly smooth, much more powerful, and ''scary''.
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' (Episode 24+ spoilers): {{spoiler|The [[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual|Zinv-lookalike]] "Idol" mecha Seina gets thrown into was worshipped as the guardian diety of a small village -- and Seina was the [[Chosen One]] to awaken it.}}
* [[
* In ''K.O Century Beast'' each village that has a guardian statue which in fact houses a robot dubbed Jinns.
* In [[Kannazuki no Miko]], the [[Humongous Mecha]] are actually gods of Japanese Mythology. One of them is piloted by a nun.
* ''[[
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', when it was first introduced, was claimed by Professor Kabuto to be a machine that could be God or Devil. When ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'' appeared, at least in the anime, the same man proclaimed that Kaiser ''surpassed'' God and Devil. Heck, even its [[Super Robot Wars]] theme song proudly proclaims "Is it a God? Or a Devil?" (''Kami ka? Akuma ka?'')
** And the ''[[Shin Mazinger Zero]]'' manga implies Mazinger Z {{spoiler|can become a [[Cosmic Horror]]}} if its power is not harnessed for the good.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* More than one [[Super Sentai]] series has portrayed their mecha as gods. [[Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger]] has the literal Gao God, while the [[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]] mecha combine into God and face off against the Devil. Naturally, [[Power Rangers]] plays this down to the point of non-existence.
** Save for [[Power Rangers Wild Force]], whose version of Gao God (named Animus), according to [[Atop the Fourth Wall
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Primus and Unicron of ''[[Transformers]]'' are the Gods of Creation and Destruction respectively, with Primus being the progenitor of the Cybertron race (as well as [[Genius Loci|Cybertron itself]] in some continuities). [[Rule of Cool|They are also both huge transforming robots themselves.]]
** There's also the episode "The God Gambit" from ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Generation 1]]'' - the people of Titan worship a massive statue as a god, but this turns out to be a scam run by the priesthood. When the Autobots and Decepticons arrive on the moon, Astrotrain sets himself up as a more powerful deity.
** At the end of ''[[
** Also, Brian Clevinger once related in an ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' newspost that he didn't really "get" why religious people got so hung up about that Jesus guy, until he asked himself "What if Jesus is their Optimus Prime?"
== Other ==
* The [[The Bible
* When religious conflict on a planet of anthropomorphic foxes breaks out into open war in the '[[Furry Fandom|furry]]' story "The Last Aspect", the 'orthodox' side decides to build a gigantic, intelligent war machine in vulpine form to both act as a symbol of their faith and directly oppose the 'heretics' in combat. The project takes years to complete and its AI spends quite some of that time communicating with its designer and learning about the world...and when the machine finally goes live, it proceeds to [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomp]] ''both'' sides, force them to put an end to the fighting, and declare ''itself'' the new supreme deity by virtue of being the obvious physical embodiment of the one concept both sides were equally dedicated to despite their notional religious differences -- ''War''.
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