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The standard [[Monster of the Week]] for [[Super Robot|Super Robots]]s and [[Super Sentai]]/[[Power Rangers]].

A '''Robeast''' [[Portmanteau|(a robot beast)]] is a [[Kaiju]]-sized monster, more often than not the same size as the Super Robot that battles it, though Robeasts in Sentai and [[Toku]] may also start in human size, so as to be a threat on a personal scale, then [[Make My Monster Grow|grows]] through some form of [[Applied Phlebotinum]].

Robeasts are usually built with both biological and mechanical construction (though some are also completely mechanical, magical constructs, giant demons, and the like). They come in a dizzying variety of shapes, abilities, and weapons, and very rarely will any two robeasts look alike, even between robeasts deployed by the same villain(s). Many of them avoid humanoid designs and mook status, becoming a [[Mechanical Monster]].

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** And the Battle Beasts from ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' already diferred from the ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' [[Robeast|Robeasts]], bordering on a [[Deconstruction]] from the trope. They were capable of speech and independant thought, and they were [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] thank to it. This resulted in a [[Near Villain VictoryEucatastrophe]] in the THIRD chapter.

* ''[[Voltron]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], after the monsters in ''[[Go LionGoLion]]'' and ''[[Dairugger XV]]''.

** ''[[Go LionGoLion]]'' calls them Deathblack Beastmen, and then later Mechablack Beastmen, While ''[[Dairugger XV]]'' used Combat Machines.

* Zonders and later Primevals from ''[[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]]'' (EI-13 pictured above).

** Averted with four Angels, though: Leliel (infinitely thin), Bardiel, Iruel (microscopic; the former is [[The Corruption]], while [[Our Monsters Are Weird|the latter is a colony of sentient nano-viruses]]), and Tabris (human-sized {{spoiler|or just a [[Half -Human Hybrid]], it's not really clear.}})

** The bio-mechanical Slave Monsters and Magma Beasts from ''[[Combattler V]]''

** The Battle Robots and Mecha Warriors from ''[[Daimos]]''

* The Mimetic Beasts from ''[[Shinkon Gattai Godannar]]''

* Renegade Units in ''[[Saber Rider and The Star Sheriffs (Anime)|Saber Rider and Thethe Star Sheriffs]].''

* Various mechs and creatures from ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]''

* The original form of [[Godzilla|Mechagodzilla]]. The second version was a human piloted mecha. The third version was a human piloted mecha built on the bones of the original Godzilla, dubbed Kiryu. Kiryu went berserk in its first confrontaion with (a second) Godzilla, playing with the trope.

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' and the rest of the [[Toku]] genre revolve around this, with a different [[People in Rubber Suits|rubber suit]] [[Monster of the Week]] to challenge the heroes (and, in ''[[Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Super Sentai]],'' their machines) as the driving force behind the villain's scheme. Every [[Big Bad]] has his or her own way of making monsters, and [[Make My Monster Grow|making them bigger]]. They're sometimes the source of [[Nightmare Fuel]], and sometimes [[Narm Charm]]. Sentience and whether or not they're [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]] varies from series to series.

* Most of the Rahi fought by the Toa in the first year of ''[[Bionicle]]'' qualify, such as [[Giant Enemy Crab|Manas]], [[Mega Neko|Muaka]] and [[Big Creepy -Crawlies|Nui Rama]].

** Except for the [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Original Generation]] series, which still manages a less [[Monster of the Week|"of the week"]] variant with the [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2|Einst]]. The [[Super Robot Wars Compact 3|Shura]] attempt a more direct homage with their animal-themed mecha, but they have soldiers as pilots. They also get [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|giant space flounder monsters living amidst the asteroid belt]].

** Don't forget Ausf A Gestell, the [[Ax Crazy|mad]] [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Monkeys|ape]] [[Motion Capture Mecha|mecha]] which roars in its intro, every time it's knocked down, and upon death.

* ''[[South Park]]'' -- In—In the [[Sentai]] parody episode, Barbara Streisand turned into a Mechagodzilla.

* Parodied in one episode of [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]] where Grim takes Billy (who has been transformed into a 50-foot superhero) to Tokyo to meet a spoof of Gidora. An angry Mandy pilotes a giant gorilla robot called Mega-gorillasaur to bring them back.