History Main / Humongousmecha

* [[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon AbraxasVerse Timeline]]: Starting in 2021, Monarch and [[spoiler:Apex Cybernetics]] begin collaborating on Project Talos to build [[spoiler:Kiryu]], whilst [[spoiler:Apex]] secretly begin building [[spoiler:their own Mechagodzilla]] in Hong Kong.

* ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has Gamma, which was built to stop Wily for good. It also has Project G-2, AKA The Mad Grinder. Dr. Wily built it as a war machine, and it lives up to his expectations by [[spoiler:almost killing Mega Man]].

* ''FanFic/HotspringSouls'', a ''Soulsborne'' (''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', and ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'') crossover comedy fic, starts out as a standard HotSpringsEpisode, then [[GenreShift turns into a giant robot anime]] halfway through. It features two humongous mecha, Soulsborneon (heroes' side) and [[BigBad Manushandradorah, robot demon of the Abyss!]]
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic "Hold My Beer... And Watch This!" utilizes the Siberian's invulnerability to overcome the structural difficulties of a Kilometer tall Robot after TheSingularity.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2988820/1/Hunted-Species Hunted Species]]'', the Stalkers are Cybertronian-sized mecha piloted by members of the alien Empire of Salonia.

* Izuku has the power to manifest one around himself in ''Fanfic/MyIronGiant''. A major conflict in the story is his inability to leave it.
* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'':
** The Dibship is converted into a mecha for the [[FinalBattle confrontation]] with [[BigBad the Employer's]] forces on Irk.
** [[MadScientist Crax]] also builds another mecha for himself to use, arriving a bit later into the fighting on Irk.
* ''Fanfic/KaijuRevolution'': [[spoiler:The Moguera, which are more on the MechanicalMonster side, as well as the more humanoid Robomusume]].

** In the Season 1 finale, Lil Gideon pilots a giant robot version of himself to try and finally destroy the Pines with.

* Music/KodaKumi has a race with mechas in PV of [[http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDU3Mzg4NjU2.html "Go to the top"]] theme of ''Anime/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse''.

* While most Drag-Rides in ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' are MiniMecha, a few are large enough to qualify for this trope. Jormungandr is essentially a portable fortress: once set up in a specific location, it can't move from there, but its offense and defense are in the highest class among Drag-Rides. Gorynych can temporarily transform into a mobile version by assimilating the wreckage of other Drag-Rides. In this state, known as Devil Machia Mode, it can wrestle [[{{Kaiju}} Ragnarok]] and win.

* Music/KodaKumi has a race with mechas in PV of [[http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDU3Mzg4NjU2.html "Go to the top"]] theme of anime ''LightNovel/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse''.

* Namie Amuro recreates the infamous [[spoiler:[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Lalah Death]]]] in "Defend Love".

** Count Wolkerstorfer combines this with an expertise in MagnetismManipulation.

* In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', Max originally intended it to be a robot, but he coudl not get it to move right. [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-35/ solution: Mecha.]] (And he calls it a golem.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': [[BigBad Syndrome]] makes giant robots, named Omnidroids, to destroy all Supers, improving his design each time a super manages to destroy one. The are several times taller and wider than a big man like Mr. Incredible. The final version unleashed upon the city is easily seven stories tall.

* A rare, non-humanoid example: in the 2005 version of ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'', it's revealed that the aliens piloting the giant tripods look like human-sized versions of their death machines, making them the extraterrestrial equivalent of humanoid mecha.

* The Martian machines from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' are almost certainly one of the key TropeMakers.

** And in "It's Awesome Baby!", [[spoiler:the villain turns his copy of ''Dick Vitale's "Awesome Baby" College Hoops'' into a giant Sega Genesis mecha. He almost defeats Scott until the latter's copy of ''Madden 08'' was subject to the same treatment that turned the villain's game into a mecha, giving him a giant green ''Madden 08'' robot to fight with.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' short "The Solid Tin Coyote", Wile E. resorts to building a giant remote-controlled robot from scrap metal in his latest attempt to catch the Road Runner.

* Neutro from WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall.
* WebAnimation/{{The Champions|2018}}: When the [[UsefulNotes/EuroFooty Champions League goaltenders]] are asked to save the world from a meteor strike, Shaktar Donetsk's Andriy Pyatov leads them to Goaltron, a mecha built by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. Stored under a football pitch in Pripyat for over 30 years, the robot requires five pilots.

* The [[HomemadeInventions prototype]] in ''Literature/TheFirstRun''.

* The superhero guide ''Blog/HowToHero'' discusses the phenomenon [[https://howtohero.tumblr.com/post/163740850408/giants here]]

* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2406 SCP-2046,]] a giant mechanical robot built by followers of an ancient religion that would eventually become the Church of the Broken God. The included excerpts from one of the Church's holy books reveal that [[spoiler:it was designed to fight {{Kaiju}} created by a sorcerer king's dark magic and prevent a cataclysmic event known as the "Sarkic Dawn." So, in other words, it's a [[Film/PacificRim Jaeger.]]]]
* 'Tiny Tim' in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', which the inventors are still working on, since -- in keeping with real physics -- it is so big it can't take a real step.
** At least some of its ''weapons'' are working just fine if you can actually somehow contrive to get it out in the open, though.

* D&D's sister product, ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' goes for the direct route. The magazine supplement ''Mecha Crusade'' puts forth options for mecha that go from large PoweredArmor all the way to true Humongous Mecha (or, in game parlance, "Colossal Mecha"). These rules were later touched up slightly (the highlight being conversion to D20 Modern's built-in economy instead of the clumsy level-based PointBuySystem used by ''Mecha Crusade'') and included as a chapter of ''D20 Future.''
* Possibly the ''weirdest'' Humongous Mecha RPG is the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-based {{Steampunk}} / {{Magitek}} crossover ''TabletopGame/DragonMech''.
* Even ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' gets in on the act:

** From the ''TabletopGame/BasicDungeonsAndDragons'' era we have "Earthshaker", a Companion-level module for higher-level characters set in and around a gigantic gnome-crewed robot.
** The TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} campaign setting. The warforged are a playable race. Their "ancestors" (or more accurately, prototypes) called warforged titans, are not.

** The Mystara setting has Meks, which are unapologetically giant mecha, built by some long-vanished insectoid race.
** Dating back to the first edition Dungeon Master's Guide is the Mighty Servant of Leuk-o, something of a giant mecha which is controlled from a cockpit containing something like [[BillionsOfButtons one hundred unlabelled levers]], each with a different function.
* TabletopGame/{{Dust}} combines this with StupidJetpackHitler and {{Ghostapo}}. Nazis find a CoolShip while drilling for oil and adapt the tech into mechs, flying wing planes, bio-engineered cyborg gorillas, and zombies.
* Before the Fall in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' several national militaries built anthroform war machines, both piloted and remote-operated. During the Fall the [=TITANs=] hacked most of them as well as fabricating their own improved Warbots, leaving a lot of people post-Fall rather twitchy around mechs.

* {{TabletopGame/Lancer}} is entirely about playing as professional mech pilots in a far-future interstellar setting. The core of the gameplay is about constructing and modifying one's own mech, with an extremely wide variety of options for customization.

** Occasionally, also the Money Bin is converted in a humongous mecha: in the second part of "Zio Paperone e la rivolta delle macchine" (''Uncle Scrooge and the uprising of the machines''), by Cimino[[note]]who seems to like this trope, among others. And treasure hunts. And special vehicles. And... [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness autochthonous]]. [[/note]] and Capitanio (1969) not only the money bin is converted in a starship, but it is also equipped with mechanical arms, gigantic spiked maces and clubs. In "Under Siege!" (it: ''Zio Paperone e il deposito sotto A.S.S.E.D.I.O.''), by Zemelo, Stabile and Franzò (2017), the third and fourth episode see a similar trasformation, with mechanical legs, arms and a big round energy emitter on the front.

* Deconstructed by a simulated Humongous Mecha battle that takes place between two diplomats in ''Literature/TheBarsoomProject''. Their battle is staged in the middle of a simulated city, complete with tiny terrified civilians who die in droves every time the robots make a move, as a psychological ploy to get the bickering diplomats back to the negotiating table.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2406 SCP-2046,]] a giant mechanical robot built by followers of an ancient religion that would eventually become the Church of the Broken God. The included excerpts from one of the Church's holy books reveal that [[spoiler:it was designed to fight {{Kaiju}} created by a sorcerer king's dark magic and prevent a cataclysmic event known as the "Sarkic Dawn." So, in other words, it's a [[Film/PacificRim Jaeger.]]]]

* Jack Hawksmoor of ComicBook/TheAuthority can actually turn ''cities'' into Humongous Mecha. As in, walk into the middle of Tokyo, ask it very nicely, and come out wearing battle armour made of concrete and skyscrapers.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'''s Warstriders.
** Also, high-Essence Alchemical Exalts... until they turn into ''cities''.
*** Also also Hellstriders. They're made of demons.
* [[TabletopGame/{{Fudge}} FATE Core]] offers the setting Camelot Trigger, which features Arthurian knights piloting [[AMechByAnyOtherName Armour]] as they battle evil robots across the solar system.

[[caption-width-right:350:Mata Nui, [[DeusEstMachina robot who is god]].]]

** Something close to this was actually developed by the US Air Force, in the form of the General Electric ''Beetle''. It was designed not for combat, but as a maintenance platform for proposed [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear-powered bombers]]. Because the operator would have to be shielded from the radiation, he would need to somehow work on the plane's reactors without touching them. Form therefore followed function, and the end result was [[https://www.pinterest.com/pin/642466703072869855/ bizarrely humanoid]].

* Though rare, giant robots do show up on occasion in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. The majority are from Hondo City, appropriately enough.