Mecha-Mooks: Difference between revisions

[[Anime]], has a second, more [[Humongous Mecha|literal]] type: [[Real Robot]] series' will usually have at least one class of [[Mecha]] that basically acts as [[Redshirt Army|the "Grunt" unit]] for the bad guy's army. This mech is usually simply constructed, probably with a basic ranged weapon ([[Gatling Good|machinegun]] or [[Frickin' Laser Beams|energy weapon]] or two, a close-combat weapon, and may have the option of carrying a [[Big Freaking Gun|bigger gun]], depending on how much tougher the hero's armor is. These will act just like regular Mooks ''or'' Mecha-Mooks, depending on how much the writers want you to empathize with the enemy. There's usually a very good chance that the Hero's Rival will at least start out by riding in an [[Ace Custom]] version of this mecha.

 

 

If one wants something a bit more up the ladder in terms of "kill-tasticness" and "[[Elite Mook|non-suckitude]]", look at [[Mechanical Monster]]. If you want the guy ''building'' the mooks, that's the [[Robot Master]].

* One of Lex Luthor's plans to take over the United States relied upon him unleashing a horde of GI Robots that were technically property of the US army. Since [[Superman]] was apparently dealing with Brainiac that week, [[Batman]] ended up taking out all except one—that Bats had reprogrammed with the Geneva Convention. Really.

* Codified in an issue of ''[[Exiles]]'', when Mimic reflects that superheroes really, really love fighting robots for the sheer pleasure of unfettered destruction.

* [[Doctor Doom]]'s Doombots—both the [[Robot Me]] Doombots, and the more straightforward purple-and-gray Mecha-Mook Doombots. Oddly, the two designs rarely appear together in a story.

* [[Superman]] is one of the few ''good guys'' to keep a contingent of Mecha-Mooks, the Superman Robots in the Fortress of Solitude. In the Silver Age, he mainly used them as [[Robot Me|decoys]] to preserve his secret identity, and occasionally to pinch hit for him when he'd been incapacitated by Kryptonite or some such. A [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|bridge got dropped]] on the bunch of them in the [[Bronze Age]], but they were reintroduced in the [[Post-Crisis|modern era]] and occasionally appear in the present day.

 

 

* Both ''[[Star Wars]]: The Phantom Menace'' and ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' blew up ''acres'' of battle droids, though they didn't hesitate to "kill" the good-guy troopers either. Of course, they were [[Cloning Blues|clones]], and thus almost as safe to kill.

** The kid-friendliness goes away a little when you reflect they still scream as they die.

* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold]]'': Degaton's robotic army in "The Golden Age of Justice!"

* ''[[The Owl House]]''; the [[Our Homunculi Are Different|Abomatons]] are ''[[Magitech]]'' Mecha-Mooks!

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