Giant Robot Hands Save Lives: Difference between revisions

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** There actually is an instance. Yoko falls out of the Gurren's cockpit while it's flying, and Simon pilots the thing to catch her. Then it gets knocked into the [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]...but it's still averted in that he flies down to catch her and matches speeds. She's also shown to be injured slightly from the impact afterwards.

** Also, Nia in Episode 15.

* The first story arc of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]!'' ends with Sousuke carrying both Kaname and Kurz in the hands of his [[Humongous Mecha]], and at one point [[Juggle Fu|tossing Kaname into the air]] to free up the Arbalest's hand long enough to shoot down a pursuing enemy, then catching her more or less safely on her way down, all while the Arbalest is running full-tilt. Kaname is knocked out by the impact, but not otherwise appreciably injured.

* The first story arc of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'' ends with Sousuke carrying both Kaname and Kurz in the hands of his [[Humongous Mecha]], and at one point [[Juggle Fu|tossing Kaname into the air]] to free up the Arbalest's hand long enough to shoot down a pursuing enemy, then catching her more or less safely on her way down, all while the Arbalest is running full-tilt. Kaname is knocked out by the impact, but not otherwise appreciably injured.

* Not a giant robot hand catching a person, but saving them nonetheless in ''[[Gundam Wing]]''. When a building collapses on Relena, Heero shields her with the Wing gundam's Shield, justified in which it actually makes a lot more sense than using the hand.

** A subversion occurred in the original Gundam anime. Ramba Ral jumped out of White Base and Amuro tried to catch him with the Gundam. However, Ramba had pulled the pin on a grenade and was killed before he reached the hand, preferring to die in battle than live as a prisoner.

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* 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.

* In the second episode of ''[[Transformers Robots in Disguise]]'', Sideburn manages to save Kelly from a deadly fall - only to be disappointed, because he was trying to save her sexy sports car.

* 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}}.

* 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}}.

* Wonderfully averted in [[Crossbone Gundam]] (Steel Seven). Bernadette has the chance to save a falling Tobia and Europa with the X1 like this, but thinks better of it. She then uses the X1's cape and mouth exhaust to save them with an impromptu hot air balloon.

* ''[[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.