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* Marceline from ''[[
* [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Transformers]]'' has, in fact, had [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannonball pirate robots], [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightbird_(G1) ninja robots], and [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Zombie zombie robots]. We lied a little on the main page: [[Mechanical Lifeforms]] ''can'' in fact become undead enough to qualify as zombies. Almost all of them are aliens, they're all robots, and all of them are [[Transforming Mecha]]. This trope is [[Merchandise-Driven|almost]] Transformers' ''raison d'etre''. It's filled with [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous]] [[Transforming Mecha]], and each one of them has its own specialties, including:
** The ''Dinobots'' - [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|Fire-breathing]] [[Transforming Mecha]] robot dinosaurs. You'd think they'd have been the first thing on the page.
** Not only do we have robot zombies, we also have G1 Starscream, who was temporarily a robot ''ghost''.
*** So who you gonna call? Ectomus Prime![http://www.cubeecraft.com/TEMP/SA/ectos/ectomas-prime.png\]
** ''[[Transformers:
*** You got the touch. You got the POWER! YEAH!!!
*** To better describe Unicron: [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Planet Eater]] robot.
** Primus, Unicron's Good Counterpart and the Transformers' creator in-fiction. [[Transforming Mecha]] [[Physical God]] Planet-sized [[Reality Warper]] robot loaded with [[More Dakka]] that's all [[BFG|BFGs]] and [[Hand Cannon|Hand Cannons]] and ''also'' turns into a planet, [[Transformers Cybertron|once seen]] [[Dual-Wielding]] ''moons'' as [[Epic Flail|Epic Flails]] and also [[Transformers
** Bludgeon, from G1 and the ''[[Transformers (
*** His [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart, however, is a ''cowboy tank''.
*** A design for an ''Animated'' incarnation of the character (intended for the unproduced 4th season) made him a ''pirate'' robot tank with an undead motif.
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*** Jazz - another Robot-Ninja who is a [[Soul Brotha]] [[Jive Turkey|beatnik]] with [[Dual-Wielding]] ''nunchucks''. He can [[Spin to Deflect Stuff|deflect lasers]].
*** Soundwave starts a robot uprising and wields a guitar and a keytar that double as sonic weaponry and mind control devices, all while wearing [[Cool Shades]]. And his sonic weapons can transform into robots as well. Robot ''animals'', no less.
* Predictably, the show ''[[
** An undead cyborg gargoyle with three souls in one body! Souls which, incidentally, have a [[Sibling Triangle]].
** Also the Mutates, who are human-cat-bat-eel hybrid mutants designed to look like gargoyles.
* ''[[Speed Racer:
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' features ''another'' example of zombie robots in the episode "Junk in the Trunk." Guess no combination is truly ''[[Beyond the Impossible|impossible.]]''
* ''[[Codename
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Dino Riders]]'': Two races of aliens fighting with high-tech weapons while riding dinosaurs!
* ''The Bots Master'' had cookbots, sports bots, and yes, a ninja bot.
* In one episode of ''[[Re Boot]]'', one game crashed, and the User loaded another game on top of it, resulting in a mishmash of a dinosaur adventure and a military game, notably including Pterodactyl jets and a Tankasaurus Rex.
* ''[[
** And in one of the video games, ''robot monkey ninjas.''
*** One episode went out of its way to invoke this with "Monkey Ninjas [[In Space]]". (The best thing about it was the title.) In a later episode, a director independently tries to use it as a movie idea, only to be shut down with a "been there, done that" reaction.
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** ''Kim Possible''; Sumo Ninja.
* More scary than cool, but ''[[The Batman vs. Dracula]]'' has {{spoiler|[http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3923/batmanthevampirejoker1dg5.png Vampire Joker]}}, which is ''[[Nightmare Fuel|at least as disturbing as you would think]]''. The fact that the character in question is voiced by [[Scary Black Man|Kevin Michael Richardson]] adds some awesome, however.
* ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Mr. Burns''': I suggest you leave immediately.<br />
'''Homer''': Or what? You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|Or the dogs with bees in their mouths]], and when they bark they shoot bees at you? }}
** In a deleted scene, Burns goes on to sic a ''robotic Richard Simmons'' on Homer.
** It is actually possible for characters to create the-dogs-with-bees-in-their-mouths-and-when-they-bark-they-shoot-bees-at-you in ''[[
** Also: the future has several [[Forbidden Zone|Forbidden Zones]]. One has, flying, man-eating [[Mix-and-Match Critters|uni-clams]].
** Poochie from Itchy and Scratchy is intended to be this, as he introduces himself as being "half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli, I'm a kung-fu hippie, from gangsta city, I'm a rappin' surfer." However, he's actually a very unpopular character because of this, and annoys the viewers, the former [[Trope Namer]] for The Poochie (now [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]).
*** You forgot [[Mr. T]]. ("You the fool I pity.")
* Most of the combat in ''[[Storm Hawks]]'' is swordfighting done on flying motorcycle-biplane hybrids.
* ''[[
* The ''[[
* In the ''[[The Venture Brothers
** In the episode "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny", the Monarch narrates one of his early attacks on the Venture compound, attributing his failure to Venture's "army of ex-navy seal cyborg ninja witches". The simultaneous flashback shows, however, that he was defeated by Venture's lone bodyguard Myra. Helper helped too...
{{quote| "These guys like their system. It's what they do. You take that away and you are looking at a bunch of pissed off nutbags with ray-guns and giant... I dunno, a giant octopus/tank with laser-eyes"}}
** Fakeout: "Hey, it's that ghost pirate! Who's not a ghost. Or even a pirate, really."
** Then there's the time Brock had to fight those Vatican karate gorillas...
* Hilariously parodied on ''[[
* ''[[Batman:
{{quote| '''Plastic Man''': Are you seeing what I'm seeing? Because I'm seeing gorillas, riding pterodactyls... with harpoon guns... stealing a boat.}}
** The show also has a scene where Batman teams up with Vampire Batman, Cowboy Batman, Psychic Batman, Robot Batman, Gorilla Batman, and Space Batman. Words cannot describe how awesome it was.
** Later, we got Batman being chased by skiing ninjas with lasers.
* [[
** REAL HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATED EVIL LINCOLN IS BAAAAAAAAAAACCKKK!!!!!
** And then there's also General Major Webelo Zapp Brannigan.
* At some point in the '90s, there was a CG show called ''[[Vanpires]]''. In this show, the protagonists would fuse with various vehicles to combat other vehicles who turned into giant robots who woke up after dark drained normal vehicles of fuel (the Vanpires in question). They did every Saturday morning cliche in the book, but... man, mid-'90s CG cyborg car robot vampire hunters!
* ''[[
* ''[[
** In one of the episode commentaries, an idea for an episode was mentioned involving a zombie werpechaun, or a leprechaun that was bit by a vampire and a werewolf who then died and came back as a zombie.
** One news report was given by a midget in a bikini. (I mean, come on: Midgets are cool. Bikinis are cool. Put them together and you've got, [[Like Is, Like, a Comma|like]], a nuclear explosion of coolness.) Another was given by a Japanese man who looked kind of like Ricardo Montalban.
** Manbearpig. Half man. Half bear.... Half pig.
*** No, it's actually half man, half bear-pig. (Or is that half pig, half bear-man?)
** But all this pales in comparison to "Imaginationland", a mythical realm where ''every'' fictional character ever created in history lives together in some sort of Toontown on steroids. Their "Council of Nine" alone includes [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]], Morpheus from ''[[
* There's an episode in ''[[Star Wars:
* [[Adult Swim]] once spent a week talking about a hypothetical battle between a flying shark and a flying crocodile.
** ''[[
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', among Heloise's inventions are giant robot clowns and a cyborg [[Giant Spider]].
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''
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* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'': Zartan's henchman, Scorpio, in "The Monolith Man", who was a fat [[Cyborg]] [[Mummy]].
* The ''[[Dinosaur Train]]''
* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'': They start with [[Blob Monster|Bio-Vipers]], then we get [[Powered Armor|mech-suits]], so it was inevitable they would create ''Mech-Vipers''.
* The ''[[Mega Man (
* Parodied in ''[[
* In ''[[
* One reviewer for ''[[
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