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[[File:doctor_who_mechadoctor who mecha.jpg|link=Doctor Who|frame|Well for once [[London Town|it's not]] [[Tokyo Is the Center of Thethe Universe|Tokyo]] [[The Tokyo Fireball|getting rampaged]].]]

{{quote| Console RPG Cliché [[Console RPG Cliches 49 to 72|#54]]: "There are always giant robots. Always."}}

{{quote|'''Relena:''' Why was the Romefeller Foundation so set on using [[A Mech Byby Any Other Name|mobile suits]] anyway?<br />

'''Noin:''' Because people have a [[The Dreaded|tendency to fear]] large machinery but at the same time they have a strong [[Rule of Cool|admiration]] for it.|''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'', itself '''not''' an example of this trope}}

* Another "mechanized" classic: ''[[Samurai Seven7]]'', based off of, obviously, ''[[The Seven Samurai]]''.

* ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' might fit this, if, repeat ''if'', you think the other elements could stand on their own. Even if you don't, there are some episodes in which it feels like they shoe-horned a giant robot fight in even if the episode didn't call for it.

* ''Laputa: [[Laputa: Castle in Thethe Sky]]'' has not a trace of [[Humongous Mecha]] until about halfway through the movie.

** Also done in the writers's new anime, ''[[Guilty Crown]]''. It's a story that takes place after a major [[The Virus|viral]] [[Cataclysm Backstory|outbreak deemed Lost Christmas.]] Japan sacrificed its independence in exchange for stability and an eventual vaccine. Now, ten years later, things are under control. [[The Government|GHQ]], the international organization charged with maintaining Jpan's stability has diverged form their original goal ad has developed a new [[Phlebotinum]] known as the Void Genome, that grants its user the power to draw weapons from people that reflect their personalities. After [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|terrorist group bent on liberating Japan]] steals this weapon, it winds up [[Phlebotinum Rebel|being accidentally bonded to]] [[Ordinary High School Student]] Ouma Shu. And in this story of friendship, strife, and action filled with these fantastically animated weapons... Are [[Conspicuous CG]] robots that have no real purpose in the main story.

* The finale of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s first season had Precia summoning an army of [[Mecha-Mooks]], including a [[Humongous Mecha]] or ten. Though considering [[Gundam|all the]] [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar|mecha]] [[Super Robot Wars|references]] in ''Nanoha'', it's more surprising that there aren't ''more''.

** A few years prior, the same director had Kyosuke Date go a few rounds with giant machines in [[Soul Taker (Animeanime)|SoulTaker]].

* ''[[Now and Then, Here Andand There]]'', an anime about cruelty and child exploitation in an apocalyptic world where the majority of civilization has hit a technological regression, adds in mechas when they're entirely unnecessary. Doesn't stop the show from being terribly tragic, but sort of contradicts the Dark Age atmosphere.

* In the High School comedy [[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs]] old lady Lulu has a motorbike that [[Transforming Mecha|transforms]] into a humanoid firefighting [[Mini-Mecha|mecha]]. There is no valid reason for this other than [[Rule of Cool]].

* This is pretty much the entire shift for [[Idolmaster: Xenoglossia]] where it was just a talent show sim in its original form.

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. Time: present. Location: Siberia. Scene: a jeep fleeing with two passengers, one of them a victim of illegal Soviet experimentation. As they are nearly safe, a Hind appears and blows away the jeep. The survivor is about to get shot by the Hind's chaingun when suddenly a HUGE knife flies out of the forest and impales the heli. Enter the protagonist in an [[M 9 E]] mecha using equipment that shouldn't exist for about 50 years. Seconds later we are treated to a scene of mechas jumping around like ninjas. Note again: this is the present, not the future.

* Even though [[Ghost in Thethe Shell]] has Spider Tanks, actual mechas are very rare and rather on the small side. The lobby fight in the first season of [[Stand Alone Complex]] is already awesome, but when the mecha appears on the scene, the awesomeness instantly [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|goes critical]].

* ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'' has had a couple of these lately, starting with Caesar and Nina's AT Armors. Hell, soon enough even [[Badass Normal|Kaito]] gets to pilot one

* In ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'', one of the characters [[ES PerESPer]] powers involves making toys real and fighting with them. Guess what he tends to fight with? (hint: it's a toy model, starts with the letter 'M' and ends with 'echa'). Aside from pure awesomeness factor, there is no justification for this.

* The [[X -Men|Sentinels]].

* The giant [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] / [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] composite mecha created by one of the many people that go by Toyman. This particular Toyman is a Japanese teenager, so it's at least understandable.

* When [[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceball 1]] became ([[Drum Roll]]) Mega Maid.

{{quote| "Its a [[Transformers|Transformer]]!}}

* Even though ''[[Starship Troopers (Filmfilm)|Starship Troopers]]'' is [[The Film of the Book|based on the back cover of the novel]] that originally introduced the whole concept of [[Powered Armor]], it and it's sequels have little to do with the original, and thus don't have the armor. Then the third movie "introduces" mechs just for the cool of it.

* The new ''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]]'' movie has a giant mech. {{spoiler|Except it's used by the Liliputians, and as such is only human-sized.}}

* ''[[Wild Wild West (Filmfilm)|Wild Wild West]]''. Dr. Loveless' giant steam-powered [[Spider Tank]].

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E14 The Next Doctor|The Next Doctor]]" has a giant [[Steampunk]] Cyberman trampling through 19th century London. Later on, a reason is given why it wasn't in the history books.

*** The first two Sentai series, ''[[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'' and ''[[JAKQ Dengekitai]],'' had no super robots, just [[Thunderbolts|Gerry Anderson]]-esque vehicles, and the latter was not very successful <ref>Mostly due to the kids not being as fond of [[Darker and Edgier]] as adult fans, the biggest example of why [[Pandering to Thethe Base]] ''doesn't'' work.</ref> - it was the introduction of super robots into the show with ''[[Battle Fever J]]'' that distinguished the show from the dozens of other [[Henshin Hero]] shows at the time and made it a [[Cash Cow Franchise]].

* The titular [[Metal Gear|Metal Gears]]s could be anything, really, considering the themes of the games otherwise are unrelated to giant mecha. They do make for ''awesome'' boss battles, tho'.

*** Of course, [[Meaningful Name|Otacon]] is a [[Hollywood Nerd|Hollywood]] [[Otaku]] who got into robot engineering for the sole reason that he wanted to build [[Humongous Mecha]] like in [[Anime]]. Of course he is going to want to [[Rule of Cool|snazz it up]]. His commentary in MGS4 suggests he and the rest of the engineering team sneaked in a lot of little features like that, [[Throw It In|just because they had the oppertunity]].

* The Knights of the Holy Lance in [[Persona 2]] are what happens when you throw this on a pot with [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]. They were supposed to have actual personalities and be ''feminine''.

* [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Warmech]] from ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]''.

* [[StarcraftStarCraft]]: The Goliath (and to a lesser extent the Dragoon) could've been a more normal tank-type vehicle, but that wouldn't have been [[Rule of Cool|nearly cool enough]]. [[StarcraftStarCraft II (Video Game)|The sequel]] [[Up to Eleven|adds even more]].

* The first ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' game's second to final boss. Behold! {{spoiler|The Roboprez!}}

{{quote| '''Crypto:''' That is seriously messed up.}}

* ''[[Command and& Conquer]]'' suddenly introduced the Titan and Mammoth Mk II in ''Tiberian Sun''.

* [[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]] had the Giant of Babil.

* ''[[Final Fantasy V (Video Game)|Final Fantasy V]]'' had the Omega Weapon as a [[Bonus Boss]]. And it had an upgrade for the [[Bonus Dungeon]].

* ''[[Dark Cloud (Video Game)|Dark Cloud]] 2'' has Steve the Ridepod, Maximilian's upgradeable fighting robot.

* In ''[[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]]'', one of the bosses is an all-American football player backed by a squad of cheerleader assassins. He pilots a mech shaped like a football. Luckily, the player character (an [[Otaku]]) just happens to have a full-size working replica of the mech from his favorite [[Super Robot]] show lying around. That's the kind of game this is.

* When [[Otaku Surrogate]] Sanae saw the titular Hisou Tensoku of ''[[Touhou]] 12.3: Hisou Tensoku'', she immediately assumed this trope. Oh sure, a [[Humongous Mecha]] would look out of place in a [[Magical Land]] with a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]], but as Sanae says, it's a ''[[Magical Land]] with a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]'', [[If Jesus, Then Aliens|so why wouldn't there be giant robots]]? Naturally, the fandom [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP-nJxJjL1Y ran away] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS6IT9UMC8U with this]. {{spoiler|Alas, this gets subverted in the end, as Hisou Tensoku is revealed to be a giant, steam-operated advertisement doll rather than an actual [[Humongous Mecha]]}}.

* Welcome to [[Wild ArmsARMs]], an RPG based on the wild west complete with horses and steam-powered locomotives. Your Chocobo for the game is a 30-foot tall, ancient, walking death-machine. Enjoy!

* In ''[[Henry Hatsworth in The Puzzling Adventure|Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure]]'', the titular hero summons a steam-powered robot through the ancient, mystical ritual... of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJzpLAOXMfY Tea Time].

* The ''[[Civilization]]'' series has always been relatively realistic, so some fans were incensed when the most recent iteration allowed players to build ''[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Giant Death Robots]]''. This became much less of an objection once it was clear that by the time players had sufficient technology and resources to build them, [[Awesome but Impractical|the game was pretty much over already.]]

* ''[[Adventurers (Webcomic)|Adventurers!]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20081016064858/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0194.html "Since when did we have giant robots?"]

* The [[Whateley Universe]] is arguably one of the settings where despite the best efforts of human and mutant engineers, giant mecha canonically just plain don't ''work''. (Power armor exists, but is much more to human scale.) And yet, during the big Halloween 2006 battle, perpetual school project Tiny Tim gets a personal [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] once it's been brought to the surface -- notsurface—not under its own power, mind -- bymind—by demonstrating that while it may not be able to walk worth a damn, at least some of its ''guns'' are quite operational...

* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'', but was justified, as it was in an episode parodying ''[[Power Rangers]]''.

* Parodied in ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' with [[Cloudcuckoolander|Norm, the Giant Robot Man,]] [[Affably Evil|a killer robot with the personality of a mild-mannered white-collar suburbanite.]]

* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'': Timmy's Dad made a mecha out of his car to battle his next door neighbor.

* The titular character of ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' builds plenty of them.

* In a ''[[Power Rangers]]'' parody, the water tower in ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' becomes a [[Humongous Mecha]].

* In ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]],'' the Batmobile can transform into a robot!

* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]:'' In the ''[[Teen Titans Go (Comic Book)!|Teen Titans Go]]'' [[Recursive Adaptation|comic adaptation]], the various vehicles used at different times by the cast can combine into a robot. We do ''not'' see this every day, and of course their cartoon and mainstream comic counterparts get along just fine without it.

** While M.A.R.S. Industries in ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' would like to introduce you to their ''new'' line mech-suits, complete with [[Unstoppable Rage]] feature.

* [[wikipedia:Sumqayit|Sumqayit, Azerbaijan]]. Polluted almost to the point of unihabitability, post-Soviet city-factory. Not cool at all? [https://web.archive.org/web/20080903223708/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/1872684977_a00bcbc1eb_o.jpg Think twice].

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