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Compare [[Rent-A-Zilla]], [[Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* 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.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', one of Pain's bodies is [[Schizo Tech|inexplicably]] some sort of [[Hollywood Cyborg]], with rocket boots, a [[Rocket Punch]], [[Macross Missile Massacre]] deployed from his other arm, and a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser beam]] from his head.
* [[Red Garden]]: Dead Girls (OVA), Because being hundreds of years in the future isn't interesting enough, Gonzo decided it was time to add some mecha. Looking back on the TV series beginning episodes, one could never imagine this is how it would all end.
* ''[[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.
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* 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.
** A version of this character from the future later appeared in Teen Titans piloting [[Grendizer]].
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Season 8 comics, Dawn ([[Rent a -A-Zilla|by now a giant]]) goes on a rampage through Tokyo, stomping on vampires and generally causing mayhem. The vampires counterattack with a [[Humongous Mecha]] version of Dawn [[Beware My Stinger Tail|with a Godzilla-esque tail]] and the two of them battle it out in the middle of the city, with [[Hollywood Nerd|Andrew]] [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|giving tactics advice from a helicopter overhead]].
 
 
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== Tabletop Games ==
* "[[Exalted|Yeah, Bob, I like the sound of this game where you play the solar-powered demigod, but do you think there's any way we could get, I don't know, giant magic suits of power armour into this? Except we can't really call them that, so...warstriders, yeah that's a good name. Warstriders.]]"
* "People [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|beating the crap out of Cthulhu Mythos creatures]] is becoming a bit too common... What do you guys say we do it ''with mecha'', and make [[Cthulhu Tech|a tabletop RPG]] out of it?"
* [[Dungeons and Dragons|"Hey, guys, I just had this awesome idea. Let's make a huuge golem out of flesh and bones, stat it up, and let nercromancers possesses it with Magic Jar!"]]
* [[Gear Krieg|"All the action and adventure of World War II -- with mecha!"]]
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