Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|'''Relena:''' Why was the Romefeller Foundation so set on using [[A Mech by Any Other Name|mobile suits]] anyway?

 

Simply put, this is when a work is not about [[Humongous Mecha]], but throws one or more in at some point(s) anyway. Why? [[Rule of Cool|Because giant robots are cool]], duh!

 

Compare [[Rent-A-Zilla]], [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Sealand asks Japan to making him like a power ranger and Sealand randomly becomes a Super Robot Mecha with a rocket punch. He has to call Iceland to get the fist back because The Rocket punch just kept going straight to Iceland and Iceland's head was in the way so it couldn't come back.

* ''[[Air Gear]]'' has had a couple of these lately, starting with Caesar and Nina's AT Armors. Hell, soon enough even [[Badass Normal|Kaito]] gets to pilot one

* In ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'', one of the characters [[ESPer]] powers involves making toys real and fighting with them. Guess what he tends to fight with? (hint: it's a toy model, starts with the letter 'M' and ends with 'echa'). Aside from pure awesomeness factor, there is no justification for this.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Season 8 comics, Dawn ([[Rent-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 It's Not Awesome?|giving tactics advice from a helicopter overhead]].

 

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6771443/1/Warriors_Of_Iron This] ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' fanfic declares that the only way ''Warriors'' could possibly be more awesome would be if the cats piloted giant mechs. And so they do.

 

== Film ==

* The new ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' movie has a giant mech. {{spoiler|Except it's used by the Liliputians, and as such is only human-sized.}}

* ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]''. Dr. Loveless' giant steam-powered [[Spider Tank]].

 

== Live Action TV ==

** The entire practice of including [[Humongous Mecha]] in Sentai series began with the Japanese ''[[Japanese Spider-Man|Spider-Man]]''. I probably don't need to tell you that the original did just fine without a giant robot.

*** The first two Sentai series, ''[[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'' and ''[[JAKQ Dengekitai]],'' had no super robots, just [[Thunderbolts|Gerry Anderson]]-esque vehicles, and the latter was not very successful <ref>Mostly due to the kids not being as fond of [[Darker and Edgier]] as adult fans, the biggest example of why [[Pandering to the Base]] ''doesn't'' work.</ref> - it was the introduction of super robots into the show with ''[[Battle Fever J]]'' that distinguished the show from the dozens of other [[Henshin Hero]] shows at the time and made it a [[Cash Cow Franchise]].

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* [[Dungeons & 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!"]]

* Warhammer40k - because what's a massive, apocalyptic battle with without skyscraper-sized mechs that can level cities with a single shot?

 

== Video Games ==

* The ''[[Civilization]]'' series has always been relatively realistic, so some fans were incensed when the most recent iteration allowed players to build ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Giant Death Robots]]''. This became much less of an objection once it was clear that by the time players had sufficient technology and resources to build them, [[Awesome but Impractical|the game was pretty much over already.]]

 

* ''Operator'': Take World War One. Add mecha. Add a bionic Sharingan. Then forget the [[WW 1]] part.

* ''[[Adventurers!]]'': [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0194.html "Since when did we have giant robots?"]

* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]--''Bob fights a [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090811.html giant robot lion] for no apparent reason.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The [[Whateley Universe]] is arguably one of the settings where despite the best efforts of human and mutant engineers, giant mecha canonically just plain don't ''work''. (Power armor exists, but is much more to human scale.) And yet, during the big Halloween 2006 battle, perpetual school project Tiny Tim gets a personal [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] once it's been brought to the surface—not under its own power, mind—by demonstrating that while it may not be able to walk worth a damn, at least some of its ''guns'' are quite operational...

 

== Western Animation ==

* The Mecha-Streisand episode of ''[[South Park]]''.

* ''[[Family Guy]]''. When Peter bans cripples from his restaurant, they come together to form "Cripple-Tron" (which, ironically, can walk).

** When Peter becomes the producer of Lois' directorial debut of ''[[The King and I]]'', Peter drives Lois so insane that she just gives him the director's seat out of frustration, and he eventually writes the role of Anna into ''a (male) sword-welding mecha'' when the previous actress drops out.

* The original ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoon managed to have giant robots ''made of water''.

** While M.A.R.S. Industries in ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' would like to introduce you to their ''new'' line mech-suits, complete with [[Unstoppable Rage]] feature.

 

== Real Life ==