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* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': Guymelefs. Smaller ones were simply known as Melefs but these never played much of a role in the series.

* ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' gives us Kataphrakts, named after the heavy cavalrymen of the UsefulNotesByzantineEmpire and AncientPersia.

* ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' gives us Kataphrakts, named after the heavy cavalrymen of the Byzantine Empire and AncientPersia.

* The UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar game ''Iron Soldier'' is named after the Iron Fist Corporation's Iron Soldiers (abbreviated IS), 42-foot tall humanoid robots with a single pilot and a modular weapons system. The player is a member of LaResistance who has stolen a prototype IS and is out to fight through the IFC's armies of tanks, helicopters, and Soldiers.

** Then, Ouroboros develops and slowly fields Aions, larger Archaisms, that work on spiritual energy and still capable of unmanned operation.

** The most common kind of them are Archaisms, unmanned MechaMooks from 1200 years ago. The name turns into an ArtifactTitle after they are reverse-engineered by [[AncientConspiracy Ouroboros]].

** Panzer Soldats are {{Real Robot}}s, reverse-engineered from Divine Knights. During their introduction they manage to wreck an entire Armored Division, but after TheHero gets his Divine Knight, they're quickly reduced to MechaMooks. After the Civil War Panzer Soldats are adopted by Imperial Army, and protagonists of New Class VII in [=CSIII=] and [=CSIV=] are trained to pilot them.
** Magic Knights are autonomous {{Golem}}-like mechanisms, used during the Dark Ages as means to oppose Divine Knights. Their AchillesHeel is that they can work only when there [[LeyLine septium veins]] are stimulated, meaning that they can't be used against anything other than Divine Knights (which stimulate septium veins by their mere presence).
** Zauber Soldats combine elements from two of the above, essentially being Magic Knights updraded with modern technology. Their pilots can use magic (not MagicFromTechnology, usual for the setting, but the real deal) by harnessing {{Mana}}, but doing so is a DangerousForbiddenTechnique, since it strains user's mind.

* The mechas in ''VideoGame/ArmoredWarriors'' are called Variant Armors (also misromanized "Valiant Armors").

** ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' adds Mobile Fighters, which mostly differ in their MotionCaptureMecha controls (and the fact that they're [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot]]s). Regular Mobile Suits still exist, but they're far less present in the series. They're actually more ''numerous'' than the Mobile Fighters (being mass produced for military and police duty), it's just that Mobile Suits are incidental to the story, and absolutely no match for a Mobile Fighter.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has [[MagiTek Magitek Armor]] as the most recognizable, but others exist as well.

** The novel ''Literature/GaiaGear' adds Man Machines, which look like mobile suits, but with advanced technology that's on completely another level.

* The mechas in ''VideoGame/ArmoredWarriors'' are called Variant Armors (also [[SpellMyNameWithAnS misromanized]] "Valiant Armors").

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has the [[SuperRobot Gunmen]], while the mass-production Gurren Lagann replicas are called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Grappal/Gurapural/Grapearl]]. However, the word "mecha" ''is'' actually used in-show at least once.
* ''Anime/{{Utawarerumono}}'' has the (Eva-like) Avu Kamuu or [[SpellMyNameWithAnS whatever it's spelled]].

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesKuroNoKiseki'' introduces [[spoiler:Assault Frames, the Republic of Calvard’s answer to Erebonia’s Panzer Soldats.]]

* ''Ironclads'' is a novella by Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky. Interestingly while there are military units called mechs, these are actually A.I. combat robots under remote supervision by a human commander. The type of "mechs" used in the Nordland theatre were basically styled like [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898 Martian tripods but with miniguns]]. In this novella, what Western pop culture thinks of as a mech are the Scions (though once in the book, they did get called Ironclads as well). Scions is both the name of the machines and the class that uses them. For in this setting, wealthy scions of [[MegaCorp powerful megacorporations]] have taken corporate warfare to a new level and go to war personally. So they developed [[NighInvulnerable armour technology to a new high]] as well as miniaturized luxuries so fine that Scions prefer [[24HourArmor living in their machines]] unless coming out for sex, while similarly defunded programs to improve [[ArmorPiercingAttack anti-armour weapons]] so Scions can withstand most conventional weapons including heavy artillery. Most Scions use Scions that are MiniMecha of 7' or 8' in height though Scions of Russian ex-oligarchs pilot [[{{Mecha}} Scions that are the size of multi-storey buildings]].

* ''Ironclads'' is a novella by Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky. Interestingly while there are military units called mechs, these are actually A.I. combat robots under remote supervision by a human commander. The type of "mechs" used in the Nordland theatre were basically styled like [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898 Martian tripods but with miniguns]]. In this novella, what Western pop culture thinks of as a mech are the Scions (though once in the book, they did get called Ironclads as well). Scions is both the name of the machines and the class that uses them. For in this setting, wealthy scions of [[MegaCorp powerful megacorporations]] have taken corporate warfare to a new level and go to war personally. So they developed [[NighInvulnerable armour technology to a new high]] as well as miniaturized luxuries so fine that Scions prefer living in their machines unless coming out for sex, while similarly defunded programs to improve [[ArmorPiercingAttack anti-armour weapons]] so Scions can withstand most conventional weapons including heavy artillery. Most Scions use Scions that are MiniMecha of 7' or 8' in height though Scions of Russian ex-oligarchs pilot [[{{Mecha}} Scions that are the size of multi-storey buildings]].

* ''Ironclads'' is a novella by Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky. Interestingly while there are military units called mechs, these are actually A.I. combat robots under remote supervision by a human commander. The type of "mechs" used in the Nordland theatre were basically styled like [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898 Martian tripods but with miniguns]]. In this novella, what Western pop culture thinks of as a mech are the Scions (though once in the book, they did get called Ironclads as well). Scions is both the name of the machine and the class that uses them. For in this setting, wealthy scions of [[MegaCorp powerful megacorporations]] have taken corporate warfare to a new level and go to war personally. So they developed [[NighInvulnerable armour technology to a new high]] as well as miniaturized luxuries so fine that Scions prefer living in their machines unless coming out for sex, while similarly defunded programs to improve [[ArmorPiercingAttack anti-armour weapons]] so Scions can withstand most conventional weapons including heavy artillery. Most Scions use Scions that are MiniMecha of 7' or 8' in height though Scions of Russian ex-oligarchs pilot [[{{Mecha}} Scions that are the size of multi-storey buildings]].