History Main / HUMONGOUSMecha

* * ''ComicBook/PrimalWarriorDracoAzul'': Draco Azul--originally called Ya'axkan--is a sixty-meter-tall alien mecha brought to Earth during the Maya civilization, where it was worshipped as a guardian deity. Its AI, Ekchuah, takes the form of a Mayan warrior as a result. Buried under a pyramid for 800 years, it was awakened when Eric Martinez entered it and became its new pilot.

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' [=AT-STs=] and the [=AT-ATs=] are among the most visually distinctive mecha in popular culture. The prequels establish that you need ground contact to push through shields, while their height gives them a longer horizon (and thus a range advantage) in a universe without ballistic artillery.

** The AT-TE seen in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', despite being "older" technology, has a much more sensible beetle-like design, with six legs and a low profile for stability.
*** The explanation is that the AT-TE was far too vulnerable to mines, being only a few feet off the ground.

* Simon D Hunter pilots one in the ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' episode "Battle of the Century."

** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForceColonMovieFilmForTheaters Aqua Teen's Movie]]'', Frylock has Meatwad shapeshift into a giant meat-robot to fight The Insanoflex. Just like above, [[TheDitz Meatwad]] immediately screws up the plan once the machine runs by.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' episode "Front Page News" featured a giant robot.
* Creator/HannaBarbera got in on the SuperRobot style early, with ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr'' back in 1966, in TheKidWithTheRemoteControl mode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Artifacts]]" features a future version of Mr. Freeze using one.
** And in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' the Batmobile ''[[TransformingMecha transforms]]'' into a Bat-Mecha.
* Just as in the ComicBook entry above, the eponymous Big Guy from ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' is one of these, though the public are under the impression that it's fully automated. Maintaining this secret complicates several episodes, but Lt. Hunter always finds a way to maintain this secret.
* Jungle Fiver from ''WesternAnimation/TheBOTSMaster'' is easily the largest of all ZZ's robotic creations, five individual machines that {{combin|ingmecha}}e into a single giant robot.

* As another American example, ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' had too many mecha count, probably because its creator is an anime fan. These are normally possessed by their enemies, especially the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, who have a seemingly inexhaustible supply. However, Numbuh Three (who is, incidentally, of Japanese descent) has her own mecha, Hippy Hop ([[KillerRabbit A robot bunny]]). Then again, Hippy Hop [[RunningGag never seems to get the chance to do anything each time it's deployed]].
* In the short cartoon ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends'', The Joker gets one.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter, being a boy genius, has several of this, with his personal favorite usually being comedically shorter than the others that have popped up on the show, likely because Dexter himself is short in stature. His rival Mandark has his own as well, and he once made one for Deedee, which [[DestructiveSavior went about as well as expected]]. When Dexter went to Japan, it [[AffectionateParody poked fun at Japan's love for this trope]] by having Dexter try to impress some of the kids at the school he went to with his own, only to reveal they ''also'' had their own mechas as well... As well as their ''school teacher'' having one too, which she uses to scold them with.

** It has been speculated that the on-and-off popularity of ''Transformers'' in Japan is because it lacks pilots or other very important human characters... usually. When annoying kids are put in, the American fanbase, which is much larger and more consistent, shudders.
** The Japanese versions of ''Transformers'' appear to support the theory that giant transforming robots without pilots are alien concepts in Japan. While the Western series give reasons for their alternate modes (disguise, protection from radiation, etc.), the Japanese series, such as ''Anime/TransformersArmada'', generally disregard them-although, as the series exist to advertise toys, they transform anyway. This reached ridiculous heights in ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', where the Transformers, capable of flying around in space in robot mode, transform and ''drive in space''. The Japan-only G1 sequels were better about it.
*** Speaking of those, it's an interesting inversion: Headmasters, Targetmasters, and Powermasters are, in America, humans or humanoid aliens in PoweredArmor that transform into the heads, weapons, or engines (respectively) of larger Transformers, coming as close to making the [=TFs=] piloted mecha as possible (do we have to tell you how that went over? Of course, ''now,'' those eras are sacred for being part of G1 instead of [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks those sacrilegious later series]].) In Japan, though, the armored forms of Headmasters were now small robots and the larger partners were unliving "Transtectors," built by the small robots to combine with for greater power. Not a squishy "organic" in sight.

Who needs an Artillery, Armored, Engineer, Mechanized, or Motorized Brigade when you can have a 100-metre humanoid {{robot}} with a [[LaserBlade glowing sword]] and [[RocketPunch a fist that fires off like a missile?]] There's no argument -- {{Mecha}} are just infinitely cooler than ordinary vehicles. And when they're really huge, they're even cooler than that! [[RuleOfCool Which is what really matters in the end, right?]]

* ''Webcomic/TuesdayTitans'': The number one opponent the [[{{Kaiju Titans]] face is the giant robots built by a hostile country. Horrifically large, heavily armed, borderline unstoppable by conventional means, and ready to destroy anything in their path, they're quite capable of giving the Titans a hard fight.

* ''Webcomic/TuesdayTitans'': The number one opponent the [[{{Kaiju Titans]] face is the giant robots built by a hostile country. Horrifically large, heavily armed, borderline unstoppable by conventional means, and ready to destroy anything in their path, they're quite capable of giving the Titans a hard fight.

* These are what the Titans of ''Webcomic/TuesdayTitans'' were made to fight.

*** [[spoiler:It took thirty years, but Daijinryu/Serpentera's record has officially been obliterated by the final form of [[Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger King-Ohger's]] titular mecha, [[OverlyLongName Transcendental Raging Ultimate Final Form King-Ohger]], which debuts in the final episode. Ultimate King-Ohger, formed to fight an EldritchAbomination on his own turf, is canonically ''universe-sized''. Not only is it handily the largest Sentai mecha in history, it's one of the largest mecha in fiction ''period'', up there with [[VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} Elder God Demonbane]] and the [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]].]]

*** [[spoiler:It took thirty years, but Daijinryu/Serpentera's record has officially been obliterated by the final form of [[Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger King-Ohger's]] titular mecha, ''[[OverlyLongName Transcendental Raging Ultimate Final Form King-Ohger]]'', which debuts in the final episode. Ultimate King-Ohger, formed to fight an EldritchAbomination on his own turf, is canonically ''universe-sized''. Not only is it handily the largest Sentai mecha in history, it's one of the largest mecha in fiction ''period'', up there with [[VisualNovel/Demonbane Elder God Demonbane]] and the [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]].]]

*** [[spoiler:It took thirty years, but Daijinryu/Serpentera's record has officially been obliterated by the final form of [[Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger King-Ohger's]] titular mecha, ''[[OverlyLongName Transcendental Raging Ultimate Final Form King-Ohger]]'', which debuts in the final episode. Ultimate King-Ohger, formed to fight an EldritchAbomination on his own turf, is canonically ''universe-sized''. Not only is it handily the largest Sentai mecha in history, it's one of the largest mecha in fiction ''period'', up there with the final form of ''VisualNovel/Demonbane'' and [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]].]]

* Parodied in the Music/BeastieBoys' "Intergalactic" video, a {{tokusatsu}} pastiche where the Boys (awkwardly) fight a {{kaiju}} in a giant robot.