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[[File:giantrobottango.jpg|link=Full Metal Panic!|frame|This trope is brought to you by two giant robots doing the tango.]]
[[Humongous Mecha]] are a curious thing. By all logic, they can't work in the real world due to issues with [[Square-Cube Law|weight distribution and speed]]. Even if such a machine existed, it would probably move something like Honda's Asimo -- [[Mighty Glacier|slow, clunky, and stuttering]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'', the ganmen are piloted with nothing but a pair of handles. That's no big deal. However, when [[Meta Mecha|that mech pilots another mech using similar handles, which then pilots another mech using handles, which then pilots ANOTHER mech using handles]], it gets ridiculous. Of course, in this series the [[Rule of Cool]] is a law of physics, so [[MST3K Mantra|you should really just relax]].
* Pictured above is from a silly little bit from [[Full Metal Panic!]] it's subverted in that to do that it took weeks if not months to code all the movements to make it look fluid and it's further subverted when one of the [[A Mech by Any Other Name|Arm Slaves ]] slips off at the end and crashes into some stuff.
* The [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Heavyarms]], despite being the heaviest Gundam in its series, can do circus acrobatics just because its pilot can. Later taken to ridiculous heights when it does a spinning flip carrying four in-scale gatling guns.
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