History Main / Humongousmecha

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': MadScientist foe Byrna Brilyant's snowstorm creating "Blue Snowman" PoweredArmor of prior incarnations is leveled up to a giant cyclops MotionCaptureMecha with a head taller than Dina in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': The JL use a Voltron style combining mech to escape Mongul's prison in the opening to ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal''. Toyman had slipped in the protocol into the machines that Mongul had made him built to kill them, and Batman figured it out. The resulting mecha had Flash as a foot, to his irritation.
%%* Whether S.T.Ri.P.E. from the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica is a Humongous Mecha or a suit of PoweredArmor depends on the writer and the situation, although it started out as a Humongous Mecha in the ''ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE'' series.
%%* In ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', an aged Batman fielding an army of computerized mecha is the reason why Gotham City, along with ComicBook/TheFlash's Keystone City (constantly patrolled by the Flash at ultraspeed), is one of the only safe places for a normal human to live.

** Pre-Crisis Lex Luthor often built giant robots to try to kill Superman and/or ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', The City has numerous humongous disabled mechas called Gladiators that stand their ground scattered all about, towering over the landscape. They are at least 200 years old and there was no record of these being ever used. Spider Jerusalem remarks that their steel penises fell off thirty years before, killing numerous civilians.
* Franchise/WonderWoman's MadScientist foe Byrna Brilyant's snowstorm creating "Blue Snowman" PoweredArmor of prior incarnations is leveled up to a giant cyclops MotionCaptureMecha with a head taller than Dina in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.

%%* Doctor Doom briefly had one, [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Doomsman_II_(Earth-616) The Doomsman.]]
* In ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'', Marvel's short-lived license of [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} the Toho character,]] a {{Samurai}}-themed robot named Red Ronin is constructed by [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] and ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} to fight the title character. Originally intended to be piloted by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, in true genre fashion the robot's controls are [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl accidentally mapped to the brain patterns of a young boy]] who refuses to use it for its original monster-slaying purpose. Though Godzilla has since faded away from the Marvel Universe, the Red Ronin still shows up occasionally -- perhaps most notably in ''ComicBook/EarthX'' and ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' where it has a short bout with Fin Fang Foom. In the aforementioned ''ComicBook/EarthX'' appearance, Tony Stark has secretly redesigned the Red Ronin into a TransformingMecha that spends most of its time as his "Iron Avenger" factory. We don't know this till the end of the story (making Tony appear to be a useless recluse), when he pilots it into battle against the even larger Celestials, who are [[EnergyBeings energy being]] versions of the same -- their energy bodies need Humongous Mecha to give them shape.
%%* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'''s enemy the Leader once built a tripod-shaped mech called the Murder Module.

%%** ComicBook/IronMan also built one to fight Megatron in a crossover between the Avengers and Transformers. He also has his various designs of the Hulkbuster armor which approach this trope and Comicbook/WarMachine's satellite turns into this trope.
%%** Marvel also, for a short time, ran a Shogun Warriors comic, featuring the Super Robots Anime/CombattlerV, Anime/BraveRaideen, and [[Anime/PlanetRoboDanguardAce Dangard Ace]].
%%* In ''ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Infinity'', the [[WeaponisedLandmark Colossus of Rhodes]] was a Humongous Mecha, piloted by Archimedes to battle a Kree Sentry.
* Franchise/XMen:

* God of the Ground in ''Comicbook/{{Mosely}}'' is a giant AI God that is also a temple and has a giant head that could fly around.

* 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.

** ''TabletopGame/DragonMech'': The world is bombard by nightly meteor showers that have wiped out most civilizations, forcing their survivors to seek shelter within enormous {{Magitek}} mecha, with armor capable of withstanding the meteors and mobility to avoid the worst of the rains and the monsters that come with them. These robots are large enough [[MobileCity to carry entire cities on their backs]], and often host unique ecologies in their interiors in the bargain.

** During their siege on the Membrane house in Chapter 2, Zim and his minions resort at one point to attacking with a mech the size of the house, built from the remains of the Megadoomer and with the three of them jointly piloting it. The Membranes counter by sending out a similarly-sized mech of their own remotely piloted by Gaz, which [[CurbStombBattle easily trounces]] the Irkens as they try to operate all four of their mech’s limbs despite there only being three of them.

** DoubleSubverted by the {{Animesque}} T'au Empire, who widely use [[MiniMecha battlesuits]] but for a long time didn't have anything of a scale to Imperial Titans, as they largely considered reports of such huge machines to be ''gue'la'' propaganda. When they realized that such mecha were very real and ''very'' dangerous, they responded first by creating the [=XV104=] Riptide battlesuit, which stands taller than an Imperial Dreadnought and mounts enough firepower to destroy entire units on its own. They then moved on to the [=KX139=] Ta'unar Supremacy Armour, which is the size of an Imperial Titan, packs comparable firepower, and is specifically designed to counter Titan-sized threats[[note]]While it fills all the trope criteria, the T'au themselves ''don't'' consider the Ta'unar the same type of machine as their battlesuits. Being a large, ponderous, and crew-served pile of armour designed around its weapons, it's internally considered a Self-Propelled Weapons Platform, not a Battlesuit.[[/note]]. Interestingly, the fluff indicates that T'au had dabbled in larger battlesuit frames before, but quickly ruled out anything larger than the [=XV88=] Broadside suits as [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome resource and maintenance hogs with a bunch of obvious weaknesses]] that stem from being on the losing side of the SquareCubeLaw, and R&D concluded the equivalent materiel in smaller, more reliable battlesuits would always be more efficient. The development of such uneconomincal machines is pushed solely by needing to counter a force that can afford to maintain regular units of such behemoths. Their original counter was to mount Titan-killing weapons on Tiger Shark fighter-bombers and snipe them from above; it's never really been explained why they abandoned the strategy, since it worked perfectly. (The [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] reason is that standard flyer being able to take out a Lord of War titan would be absurdly unbalanced; though as of the 2022 Codex, anti-superheavy railguns are now a vehicle equipment option.)

* The pinball conversion kit ''Pinball/{{Gamatron}}'' depictes one of these attacking a lunar base.

* ''Series/StarFleet'' features the Dai-X, which is a giant combining mecha. (unsurprising since Go Nagai was also behind this series.) [[/folder]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Season 1's "The Trial of the Monarch" features Hank & Dean's fanciful retelling of a battle with the Monarch in which they become "Mecha-Shiva". Season 3's "The Lepidopterists", Jonas Jr.'s team form a Voltron like mecha to take on the Monarch.

* The Death Egg Robot in the ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'' movie, which is on par with the size of the Titanic Monarch from ''VideoGame/SonicMania'', if not bigger.

* In live-action, giant transforming and combining mecha have been a staple of the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' franchise since its third installment, ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', having borrowed the concept from [[Series/SpiderManJapan a live-action Japanese adaptation]] of ''Franchise/SpiderMan''. Yes, ''that'' Spider-Man. It should be noted however, that Super Sentai's mecha are only actual ''mechanical'' about half the time, otherwise being spirits, gods, spiritual projections, etc, that just ''look'' like robots. Sometimes this carries over to Power Rangers, sometimes not.

* Jungle Fiver from ''WesternAnimation/TheBOTSMaster'' is easily the largest of all ZZ's robotic creations, five indiviual machines that [[CombiningMecha combine]] into a single giant robot.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'': [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4bda2f143339f Mecha]] is a general term used for very large, pilot, and human- or animal-like vehicles, usually intended for combat purposes. They have issues due to poor balance compared to wheeled vehicles or ones propelled by slug-like, crawling foundations, but their appearance can serve as a psychological weapon. They very largest are called [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5306447303bcd mega-mecha]] and can be big enough [[MobileCity to hold entire cities inside of them]]. Due to the expense and difficult of keeping them going, they're usually either elaborate art projects or created to inhabit areas with hostile conditions -- for instance, the planet Hardy is populated by large number of city-mechs that move around constantly to avoid their world's dramatic earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': One made of chewing gum is the villain of the short story ''Chiclón ataca'' (Chiclón is a pun derived from the spanish words for chewing gum (chicle) and cyclone (ciclón)).

* ''ComicBook/HomeSickPilots'' is about a {{haunted house}} that makes a deal with the lead singer of the band, Home Sick Pilots, to find all of the items from inside it that were sold off or stolen. This ends up meaning that the house possesses her and she, in turn, can ''possess the house''. Which means turning the house itself into a HumongousMecha.
** The second arc concerns the lead singer of the rival band, Nuclear Bastards, who was the only survivor when the rest of her bandmates were killed by the house. She was covered in their blood and it won't come off, because it's ''ghost'' blood. But using this ghost blood, she can then use it to power other haunted pieces of technology, making them into humongous mecha itself. A group ends up making a vehicle for her to use and she calls it the Nuclear Bastard.

* ''Brick Bradford'' faced a remote-controlled robot about ten stories high in ''Brick Bradford and the Metal Monster'' (02/13/1939–03/16/1940).

* ''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.

* 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/KaijuRevolution'': [[spoiler:The Moguera, which are more on the MechanicalMonster side, as well as the more humanoid Robomusume]].
* ''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/RiseOfEmpressMidnight'' has Mecha Spike, a small dragon minion of the titular villain that pilots a massive dragon that's larger than most dragons that spews molten metal.



* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' has the “Lord Equus” form of Theecat's equibots.
* A SteamPunk version of one built by [[spoiler: Johnathan and Andrew]] shows up in ''Fanfic/ASparkOfGenius''.
* As ''Fanfic/HowToDrillYourWayThroughYourProblems'' is a ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' crossover, this was sort of inevitable.
** Will has the ability to "sacrifice" Tinkertech with Spiral Power to make Gunmen.
*** The first one he makes is the Dayakkaiser out of a Squealer Tank[=/=]Truck hybrid. [[spoiler: It later gets turned into the Bakuda Bomber.]]
*** Second was the Twinboekun, made from Leet's robots in the battle between the gamer duo, Mouse Protector, and Lagann.
*** [[spoiler: The Lung fight allowed Lagann to summon a Gunmen out of pure Spiral Energy, no sacrifice required. It's none other than Gurren itself.]]
** Uber and Leet create Titans from ''VideoGame/TitanFall'' specifically to fight Lagann.

* Several [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ckJFNkra8 advertisements for the Citroën C4]] feature the car transforming into a Humongous Mecha.

* In the same spirit as the Singaporean ad, this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs88ebSAP5k commercial]] for the Republic of China's army promises recruits that they'll get to ride mechas to combat.
* One Vonage ad showed a man using his laptop to pilot the walking machine he was riding, which consisted of an armchair and two stilt-like legs.

* Whether S.T.Ri.P.E. from the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica is a Humongous Mecha or a suit of PoweredArmor depends on the writer and the situation, although it started out as a Humongous Mecha in the ''ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE'' series.
* In ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', an aged Batman fielding an army of computerized mecha is the reason why Gotham City, along with ComicBook/TheFlash's Keystone City (constantly patrolled by the Flash at ultraspeed), is one of the only safe places for a normal human to live.

** Villain Toyman usually has at least two Mecha around of various sizes, some of which can be piloted remotely and some of which have to be driven by someone in the cockpit.

* Doctor Doom briefly had one, [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Doomsman_II_(Earth-616) The Doomsman.]]
* In ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'', Marvel's short-lived license of [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} the Toho character,]] a {{Samurai}}-themed robot named Red Ronin is constructed by [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] and ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} to fight the title character. Originally intended to be piloted by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, in true genre fashion the robot's controls are [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl accidentally mapped to the brain patterns of a young boy]] who refuses to use it for its original monster-slaying purpose. Though Godzilla has since faded away from the Marvel Universe, the Red Ronin still shows up occasionally -- perhaps most notably in ''ComicBook/EarthX'' (see below) and ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' where it has a short bout with Fin Fang Foom.
** In the aforementioned ''ComicBook/EarthX'' appearance, Tony Stark has secretly redesigned the Red Ronin into a TransformingMecha that spends most of its time as his "Iron Avenger" factory. We don't know this till the end of the story (making Tony appear to be a useless recluse), when he pilots it into battle against the even larger Celestials, who are [[EnergyBeings energy being]] versions of the same -- their energy bodies need Humongous Mecha to give them shape.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'''s enemy the Leader once built a tripod-shaped mech called the Murder Module.
* ComicBook/IronMan also built one to fight Megatron in a crossover between the Avengers and Transformers. He also has his various designs of the Hulkbuster armor which approach this trope and Comicbook/WarMachine's satellite turns into this trope.
** Marvel also, for a short time, ran a Shogun Warriors comic, featuring the Super Robots Anime/CombattlerV, Anime/BraveRaideen, and [[Anime/PlanetRoboDanguardAce Dangard Ace]].
** The Godkiller, a mecha designed by a race called the Aspirants to fight the Celestials, is almost ''five miles tall''.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsKree The Kree]] employ an army of smallish but insanely tough Humongous Mecha called Sentries [[ComicBook/TheSentry (no relation).]]
** In ''ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Infinity'', the [[WeaponisedLandmark Colossus of Rhodes]] was a Humongous Mecha, piloted by Archimedes to battle a Kree Sentry.

** "Detonator X" was a ten-issue miniseries which featured giant Mecha.

** A more recent strip titled ''Mechastopheles'' involves a mile-tall mech powered by a demon's soul serving as humanity's last refuge after the apocalypse.
** An early ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story arc pitted the titular hero against a gigantic robot gorilla which had originally been built as a movie prop, but was hijacked by the villain.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': This is a popular staple of villainous {{Robot Master}}s.
** The original Assemblyman would create rampaging robots for anyone.

** Dr. Saturday is a MadScientist who builds giant robots resembling cartoon characters.

* First Comics' ''Dynamo Joe''? (Sometimes scripted by Creator/PhilFoglio.)
* This is a common wish in ''ComicBook/EightBillionGenies''. One in the first issue has two {{Arm Cannon}}s (one of which is used to vaporize a poor sap) while another from the first issue is a sendup to ''Anime/CombattlerV''.
* The Guardians in ''ComicBook/{{Gear}}''. Nothing quite like mecha being piloted by anthropomorphic cats who look like they could have easily been extras on ''Steamboat Willie''
* Creator/DougTennapel seems to like this trope, because he used it again in ''{{ComicBook/Ghostopolis}}'', where [[spoiler:KidHero Garth transforms into one.]]

** "Gigabeagle: King of the Robot Robbers" (''Zio Paperone e il tetrabassotto''), by Cimino, Scarpa and Cavazzano (1966), translated in the first issue of the IDW [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge]] comic (2015).

* While ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has straight examples as well, the trope is PlayedWith with the Anime/{{Voltron}}-{{Expy}} Vaultron Force. Although it's a humongous mecha by the standards of its pilots, since the pilots are ''leprechauns''[[note]]which in the GD universe are only about 4-5 inches tall[[/note]], the robot is actually human-sized.
* Though rare, giant robots do show up on occasion in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''. The majority are from Hondo City, appropriately enough. The climax of the "Mandroid" story features Nate Slaughterhouse, an ex-Space Corps mech pilot, use a refitted military surplus mech to [[StormingTheCastle assault]] the BigBad's mansion.

* ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'': Joe manages to build a couple for SEMME. They're all modeled after their drivers.

* '''Mechateuthis''' in Episode 2 of ''Webcomic/{{Space Kid}}''.

** The scaling system in ''Mekton Plus'' is used to build five main scales of vehicle (of any kind): 1/10 (human), 1/5 (roadstriker -- motorbikes and cars), 1/1 (Imperial Guard tanks, Gurren Lagann, most {{Transformers}}), 10/1 (really big combiners, mecha that turn into buildings for concealment, Dai-Gurren, Imperial Titans, the Millennium Falcon), and 100/1 (the Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato, the Transformer Metroplex, Arc Gurren-Lagann). There are rules to expand this scaling system to take care of "mecha bloat", so you might use a 1000/1 or [[OverNineThousand 10000/1]] scale to build a moon-sized structure like the Cathedral Terra or Unicron, or a 1/100 scale to build Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. Excessive Scale is reserved for the really, really unbelievably big things...as written, it would be used for Unicron and up, but for a TTGL-style game, it's probably best to reserve it for light-year scaling. You can invest in huge amounts of [[TelescopingRobot Expanding Plasma]] to turn your Optimus Prime figure into a galaxy-sized war engine.

* The live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie series, also played straight with TransformingMecha.

* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' ran a strip called "Detonator X" which featured giant Mecha.
* ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' has several examples, the most memorable being George the Gargantek.

* The title character in ''[[Manga/GiantRobo Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot]]''. Notable for being the UrExample of this trope in Tokusatsu.

* This is a common wish in ''ComicBook/EightBillionGenies''. One in the first issue has two ArmCannons (one of which is used to vaporize a poor sap) while another from the first issue is a sendup to ''Anime/CombattlerV''.

** ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'': Kaixa's bike, the Side Basshar, can transform into a giant robot mode with a variety of weapons repurposed from its motorcycle components.

* The BGY-11 of ''ComicBook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' is secretly a humongous mecha piloted by the man who claims to be his crew chief, Lt. Hunter. Although Big Guy is a mech from where Lt. Hunter, his subordinates, and his superiors are concerned, the world at large and Rusty assume that it is a sentient robot, and maintaining this secret complicates several episodes, but Lt. Hunter always finds a way to maintain this secret.

* 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.
* Jungle Fiver from ''WesternAnimation/TheBOTSMaster'' is easily the largest of all ZZ's robotic creations.

** In the Season 1 finale, Lil Gideon pilots a giant robot version of himself as part of his plan to finally get the deed to the Mystery Shack and ruin the Pines family's lives.
** In the GrandFinale, the plan to [[spoiler:save Ford and the rest of the town from Bill]] is to turn the Mystery Shack into one of these, using various materials both man made and fantastical. The result is ''glorious.''

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' starts with the League battling a giant machine in the city that's controlled by Lex Luthor from a distance.

** Pre-Crisis ComicBook/LexLuthor often built giant robots to try to kill Superman and/or ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.

* In an homage to Lex Luthor's PoweredArmor, resident RichBitch Alexis apparently built her own (relatively small) mecha-suit on ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.