Giant Robot Hands Save Lives: Difference between revisions

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In general, the hand of a [[Humongous Mecha]] would not really be safe for a human being to fall on, what with them being made of metal and all.

That doesn't stop heroic souls from striving to save innocent people who get caught in the crossfire and end up falling off a building. What's more, it doesn't stop that heroic act from working in the first place!

 

 

 

 

A subtrope of [[Not the Fall That Kills You]].

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Suzaku in ''[[Code Geass]]'', as seen [[media:vlcsnap-561040.jpg|here]].

* The protagonist of ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'' attempts this, but the person he catches gets incinerated by the blast that shortly follows the catch, so when the hand opens up again all there is is a smear of soot... and a [[Heroic BSOD]].

* Averted in ''[[Eureka Seven]]''. Renton catches Eureka by matching her descent speed and pulling her into the cockpit. In another instance, Anemone's mech catches both her and Dominic ({{spoiler|it flew itself, in case you were wondering}}) by moving under them and slowly leveling off to cushion their landing.

* Done by Shiro Amada in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team|Gundam 08th MS Team]]'' when catching a falling Aina {{spoiler|after she had been shot}}.

* ''[[MAR]]'': In an example that crosses over between this and [[Soft Water]], Snow saves herself from a fall which the watching characters clearly expect her to go ''splat'' from, she saves herself by calling on her giant snowman and landing safely in it's hand.

* ''[[RahXephon]]'' also plays with the trope: rather than touch a person directly, the Xephon is capable of encasing them in a spherical energy field that hovers slightly above the mech's hand. Thus it is able to safely grab and carry people without causing them harm.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The third issue of the ''[[Bionicle]]'' comics had Onua save Tahu from a fall this way. Possibly justified by the fact that ''both'' participants are [[Mechanical Lifeforms]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Inverted and played with at the beginning of the [[BattleTech]] novel ''The Highlander Gambit''. A team of Death Commandos (Elite soldiers of the Capellan Confederation) are going through an exercise that was, in essence, a hostage rescue. The protagonist was carrying the dummy that represented the hostage, and to evacuate it while being pursued by enemy 'Mechs, threw it across a lake, landing near the rescue team that was to take the 'hostage' away. During the debriefing, the CO commented that a real human would have been severely injured, but the protagonist stated that there were medics in the Evac team and better severely injured than dead or in enemy hands and able to give up sensitive information.

 

* Happened at least twice during ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', the first time to a girl, the second time to Bulk and Skull who were in a bus. Interestingly, there are actually two "Megazord hands" used in the series. Normally it's metal, but it was a black glove in the scenes when someone needed to not smack into solid steel after falling a few hundred feet. Apparently, the viewer [[Viewers are Morons|was expected to not notice]]. Even as kids, everyone did.

** An interesting variant is in the [[Power Rangers Turbo|movie]], where the characters are already on the ground. The Turbo Megazord lowers its hand to allow the civilian Ranger assistants [[And Zoidberg|plus Bulk and Skull]] to climb up...and then promptly locks its hand into a tight fist, presumably crushing the occupants to death. Obviously, they were fine later, but it was a bit jarring. "Oh, yeah, come on up guys, let me give you a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hand]]...CRUNCH."

* An interesting variation happens in ''[[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five]]'' / ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'', where Red's Zord is a fire engine whose ladders are the Megazord's arms, and naturally, end in giant hands. These are used to enter burning buildings so that the people inside can step into the hands and be pulled to safety.

* Averted in ''[[Ultraman Neos]]'' episode 1, a HEART member's car carrying a young boy and his dog is levitated to safety by Ultraman Neos.

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Parodied in ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''. The Dee-Dee bot evacuates island natives when a volcano erupts but she dumps them in shark infested waters.

* Not a robot hand, but in an episode of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', John Jameson turned Colonel Jupiter rescues a mother and her son from a burning building by catching them in his arms after they fall for ''several'' stories.

* In ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'', Jenny saves a man falling from the peak of a mountain by catching him a few feet from the ground.

* In ''[[Rugrats in Paris]]'', Chuckie, controlling a giant Reptar robot, catches Angelica after she falls from a spot just above the Eiffel Tower.

 

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