Giant Robot Hands Save Lives: Difference between revisions

* Roger and Schwarzwald fall into their giant robots' hands in ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]''.

* Done by Shiro Amada in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team|Gundam 08th MS Team]]'' when catching a falling Aina {{spoiler|after she had been shot}}.

* ''[[Rah XephonRahXephon]]'' also plays with the trope: rather than touch a person directly, the Xephon is capable of encasing them in a spherical energy field that hovers slightly above the mech's hand. Thus it is able to safely grab and carry people without causing them harm.

* A similar example happens in ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]''. One hand of the goofy giant robot piloted by Dr. Kabapu and Gojo Shiouji (and built with taxpayer money) detaches from the body and shields the Daitenzin squad from the missiles fired by ACROSS' flying fortress. Given [[Reference Overdosed|the kind]] [[Affectionate Parody|of anime]] ''Excel Saga'' is, this is probably a [[Shout -Out]] of some sort.

* In ''[[Monster Rancher (Animeanime)|Monster Rancher]]'', the protagonists have a surveying technique in which [[Golem]] hurls [[Oculothorax|Suezo]] high into the air. Occasionally Golem will get distracted and forget to catch Suezo, who then crashes into the ground. However, even when Golem succeeds in the catch, Suezo is still falling onto hands of stone that are maybe six feet above the ground. In one instance Golem ''pretends'' to forget and then [[Not the Fall That Kills You|grabs Suezo's tail just before impact]].

* Inverted and played with at the beginning of the [[Battle TechBattleTech]] novel ''The Highlander Gambit''. A team of Death Commandos (Elite soldiers of the Capellan Confederation) are going through an exercise that was, in essence, a hostage rescue. The protagonist was carrying the dummy that represented the hostage, and to evacuate it while being pursued by enemy 'Mechs, threw it across a lake, landing near the rescue team that was to take the 'hostage' away. During the debriefing, the CO commented that a real human would have been severely injured, but the protagonist stated that there were medics in the Evac team and better severely injured than dead or in enemy hands and able to give up sensitive information.

* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'', Vimes is in the burning Klatchian Embassy and saves a woman's life by throwing her out the window and into the arms of Detritus, a troll. Discworld trolls are [[Our Trolls Are Different|literally made of rock]].

* Parodied in ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]''. The Dee-Dee bot evacuates island natives when a volcano erupts but she dumps them in shark infested waters.

* Not a robot hand, but in an episode of ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]'', John Jameson turned Colonel Jupiter rescues a mother and her son from a burning building by catching them in his arms after they fall for ''several'' stories.

* In ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'', Jenny saves a man falling from the peak of a mountain by catching him a few feet from the ground.