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Compare with [[Combining Mecha]] and the [[Mecha Expansion Pack]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The [[Ur Example]] is the Gordian, from the show of the same name, a dude inside a [[Motion Capture Mecha]] inside a [[Motion Capture Mecha]] inside ''another'' [[Motion Capture Mecha]]. The design was later reused with some modifications as Vi-Kungfu from ''[[Machine Robo]]: Revenge of Chronos'', but with one less mecha.
* ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'', as well. Initially, when Lowe makes the 150 Gabera Straight (which, by the way, ''re''-redefines the [[BFS]] - it's an orbital [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]] ''150 meters long''), he has to put his Astray Red Frame into a Junk Guild Power Loader (pictured above) just to swing it.
* ''[[Gundam 00]]'' has a surprise somewhere in the middle season: the [[Mighty Glacier]] Gundam Virtue is revealed to be just a [[Powered Armor]] of a smaller [[Fragile Speedster]], Gundam Nadleeh. Dropping Virtue's armor off enables Nadleeh's pilot to play [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]] on his teammates if he's dissatisfied with them.
** Season 2 has the same in the form of the Seravee Gundam carrying the smaller Seraphim Gundam folded up on it's back. Or to be more exact, the two have the same cockpit but Seraphim is facing backwards (though it doesn't need the cockpit to operate; Seravee can launch and remote-control it). Unlike Nadleeh, Seraphim doesn't need to drop Seravee off piece by piece; it can simply eject and unfold. The Mobile Suit Variations line introduces an alternate version of Seravee that carries ''three'' weaker versions of Seraphim.
*** And ''[[Gundam 00 a Wakening of The Trailblazer (Film)|Gundam 00 a Wakening of The Trailblazer]]'' introduces the Raphael Gundam, whose backpack is the Seravee II.
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* ''[[Getter Robo]]'' has the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]]-slash-[[Nightmare Fuel]] ability to crash into any material, including organic masses and then reform them around itself into a larger Getter with the original buried in the center.
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' has the Black Selena, a mecha inside a mecha inside a ship.
* [[Code Geass|So, your]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|resident Orange]] has just [[Heel Face Turn|pledged his allegiance to your cause]] out of [[Failure Knight|LOYALTY to your family]]? Now, we just need to give him a good [[Ace Custom|custom mech]], hmm... Hey, I've got it! Let's take the [[Red Shirt|original]] [http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Sutherland Sutherland] frame he piloted in the early series, and make it into the central core unit of the [[Mid
* ''[[Guyver]]'' has the Guyver Gigantic, which is this trope applied to [[Organic Technology]] [[Powered Armour]].
* ''[[Heroman]]'' gets powered armor near the end of the series.
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** Headmasters in general are this, being small robots that [[Transforming Mecha|transform]] into the heads for bigger ones. Some of them appear in later toylines.
*** That varies according to the storyline used. For example, the Western ''[[Transformers]]'' canon, the Headmasters were organic aliens who wore exo-suits allowing them to transform into the robots' heads. The Japanese ''Headmasters'' series (taking place after [[Transformers the Movie|the movie]]) had them as a separate race of (human-sized) robots who built Transformers-sized exo-suits to better interact with the Autobots.
* ''[[Transformers Victory]]'' features the Brainmasters, which are small robots that turn into the faces of larger robots. [[The Hero|Saber]] then gets extra stuff on him to become Star Saber, and [[Mid
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', the Autobots' ship transforms in to a huge mecha called Omega Supreme. He has a mind of his own and an interior control console, so it's hard to say how much control the pilot has.
** It's given more detail in the third season: {{spoiler|Omega Supreme's programming was rather simplistic so he needed a second Autobot to pilot and guide him}}.
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