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*** 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.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] '' has the Space Ganmen, which are essentially up-scaled Ganmen capable of fighting and moving in space and piloted by regular Ganmen, which are then piloted by humans.
** The show practically runs on this trope (In addition to the standard [[Hot
** And then they [[Serial Escalation|proceeded to break the barrier AGAIN]] {{spoiler|in the expanded final battle in the compilation movie, by giving every member of the Dai-Gurren a Tengen Toppa mecha of their own, which combine into '''Super''' Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which is the ''size of the universe'' and ''looks a lot like Kamina.''}}
*** [[Memetic Mutation|Yo dawg, I heard you like Mechs, so I put a mech in your mech in your mech in your mech, so you can pilot a mech while you pilot a mech while you pilot a mech while you pilot a mech]].
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* The ''[[Mekton]] Plus'' expansion from ''Mekton Zeta'' has this as one of many, many options for its mecha. Of course, that expansion is basically rules for every giant robot trope in history, from [[Transforming Mecha|transforming]], to [[Combining Mecha|gattai-ing]], to [[Organic Technology|organic ones]], so this should hardly be seen as a surprise.
* the new grey knight Nemesis Dreadknight from [[Warhammer 40000]] uses this, a power armoured super soldier in a even bigger suit of power armour.
* [[Exalted]] has Warstriders, [[Magitek]] superweapons which vary between [[Mini
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* The Huckebein Mk III from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' is able to equip a suit of [[Powered Armor]] called the Boxer Frame. The frame can also detach and transform into a ''flying surfboard'', just [[Rule of Cool|for the hell of it]].
** Surf''sword'', actually. It was constructed from an incomplete mech intended to become a sword for the [[Combining Mecha|SRX]].
* The final battle in [[Metal Wolf Chaos]] has Richard Hawk's [[Mini
* The [[Final Boss|EXTREME Gundam]] in ''[[Gundam vs. Series|Gundam Extreme Vs.]]'' uses this: the main mobile suit pilots a larger frame that carries most of its weaponry. It has three of these frames: Carnage ([[Stuff Blowing Up|Lots Of Explosions]]), Ignis ([[Beam Spam]]), and Tachyon ([[BFS]]).
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** This seems to be series tradition for Omega Supreme, the toy of the ''[[Transformers Energon|Energon]]'' has a head that can turn into a small robot itself. (The plug for it doubles as a spare, comically tiny head.)
* The ''[[Men in Black (Animation)|Men in Black]]'' [[Animated Adaptation]] had some aliens which used [[Mobile Suit Human|Mobile Suit Humans]] and one race so small they piloted mechs of the first species to pilot the human suits.
* The first episode of ''[[Megas XLR]]'' presents the ultimate weapon of the Glorft: the UMD, a [[Combining Mecha]] made up of [[Combining Mecha]] that were already made up of full-sized [[Humongous Mecha]]. In short, [[Finger
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