History Main / SuperRobotGenre

* The robot is [[EmpathicWeapon sentient.]] (Example: ''Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine'', ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'')

* The robot is [[EmpathicWeapon sentient.]] (Example: Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine, Franchise/{{Transformers}})

** ''[=GaoGaiGar=]'' is notable in that there's absolutely ''no'' weirdness in any of the transformations for the main characters - every single part and motion is accounted for, so all toys made for the franchise would be perfect (the toys and character models were made together). The villains (who didn't have many toy) on the other hand, routinely distort, shapeshift, dissolve and reform, etc. [=GaoGaiGar=] itself seems to obey at least SOME of the laws of physics, [[spoiler: when during the fight with Spine Primeval, [=GaoGaiGar=] attempts to fly into space, but can't due to the fact that [=StealthGao=]'s jet engines have run out of air at such a high altitude. This limitation is, of course, fixed in the next episode.]] And despite [[BraggingThemeTune the theme song billing the titular mecha as invincible]], it gets pretty badly beat up on a regular basis, even sustaining damage from combination or using its own weaponry. In [=GaoGaiGar=] FINAL, [[spoiler: a copy of the original [=GaoGaiGar=] is destroyed by [=GaoFighGar=], which is later in the series destroyed by Palparepa]].

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', although arguments over whether they should be counted as Super or {{Real Robot}}s [[http://www.dra-mata.com/manga/4koma/old/alpha30.jpg is debated even by characters themselves]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''. Eva units fit the Super Robot description almost point-for-point - [[spoiler:sentient]], check; each unit is one of a kind, check; Earth's only defense, check; production overseen by main character's bastard dad, check; each unit usually accepts only one pilot, check. Note that the series is infamously a GenreDeconstruction, and that the titular mecha [[spoiler: are actually a dark and twisted parody of the Super Robot concept: they're actually giant cloned {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that [[SoulJar contain the souls of the pilots' mothers]]]].

* In one of ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness's'' OnTheNext segments, Etna claims that the Prinnies are capable of combining into the Super Robot "Pringer X", which actually appears in the AnimatedAdaptation. Also, when [[spoiler: Jennifer is kidnapped]], a vague hint causes several characters to imagine her being transformed into a [[HumongousMecha Humongous Mecha]].

* Asura of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' fame becomes this in his [[spoiler: Asura the Destructor form]].

* L.E.G.E.N.D. from ''Webcomic/{{Energize}}'' and ''[[Webcomic/HeroesUnite Heroes Alliance]]'' is a super robot built by the Heroes Unite Initiative to help take down Energize when he went rogue in the Energize: Hunted arc. [[spoiler: L.E.G.E.N.D. barely slowed Energize down for a moment.]]

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''/''Franchise/SuperSentai'': The various Zords cover most of these aspects all of the time, and a few specific ones depending on the exact season.

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* ComicBook/MechCadetYu

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnlimitedMechsVsMutants'' has Batman and Green Arrow use the Bat/Green Arrow mechs in response to kaiju versions of Bane, Clayface, Killer Croc, and Chemo after they were turned by Mr. Freeze and Penguin. They were made by Kirk Langstrom on behalf on a Wayne Enterprises and Queen Industries-backed contracts.

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%%* Beast 9.
* The ''Animation/{{Robot Taekwon V}}'' film series, one of the first Korean science fiction franchises that featured an "indigenous" super robot.
* The various ''Animation/{{Tobot}}'' animated shows feature super robots that are meant to be marketed to young children. They were marketed as response to surveys in South Korea, where older children tend to purchase Transformers or Power Rangers-based merchandise/shows.
%%* Gold Wing 123.
%%* Lazenca: Revival of a Myth.
%%* The New Machine Wooroemae series.
%%* Elysium.
%%* There's Super Gundam V, which is presented as a Super Robot-type show instead of a Real Robot show.
%%* Super Mazinger 7 aka Protectors of the Universe in North America.
%%* [Un]hero.
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*** Worth noting is that FanWank(endorsed officially in Gundam Officials) has explanation of the special powers of Newtypes is only the ability to attract MinovskyParticle and sense the disturbance in the particles. The psycommu(Psycho communication) systems amplifies the wave for long range communication for remote control of weapons, sensing other Newtypes, and create almost magical abilities when enough of Minovsky particles are attracted, like forming an I-Field barrier to block attacks and maybe even bounce off falling asteroids(just like the Minovsky craft effect), so Newtypes are more of reproducing feats machines are already performing, instead of pulling out tricks only Psychics can do.

** Tomorrow Woman, a one shot character who invokes the EvolutionaryLevels trope by having SuperIntelligence and psychic powers.

** ComicBook/GreenLantern Stel comes from a race of sentient robots. Though he isn't all that super without his GreenLanternRing.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', the mechs used by Mithril and Gauron are Super Robots, in that their technology and power is far beyond that of mechs that others use, including superpower nations. Also, the special equipment created from BlackTechnology that's on Sousuke's and Gauron's Arm Slaves relies greatly on the pilot's creativity and emotional state.

** Pringer ''Z'' actually shows up in other games by the same team, most notably in Phantom Brave as the ultimate secret {{BonusBoss}}. He's normal Prinny sized, but uses Super Robot weapons (including a towering column of flame that reaches [[AC:SPACE]]). However, in this series, a towering column of flame that reaches [[AC: SPACE]] isn't all that impressive.
** Another Creator/NipponIchi game, ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', has the Prinnies making a Robosuit in the bonus content, which is a [[ShoutOut shout out]] to the best armor in Disgaea and a stereotypical Super Robot. Arguably on the same page, there's also the [[AC:Space Battleship ''Yoshitsuna'']], which is another shoutout to Disgaea -- being the ultimate sword in that series, and the ultimate vehicle and hardest boss in this one. [[spoiler:For extra BonusBoss points, it's piloted by one Prinny Baal.]]

* The ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'' -''Anime/CombattlerV'', ''Anime/VoltesV'' and ''Anime/{{Daimos}}''- developed the SuperRobotGenre further, incorporating new tropes -like the FiveManBand or the MotionCaptureMecha- and themes, and showing more "realistic" combinations and transformations than ''Getter Robo''.

* ''Anime/RumbleGaranndoll'' has the Garrandoll, except they're a [[SuperRobotGenre super robot]] since they're powered by battery girls. But the pilot's power is based on own geekiness in popular culture. The Shinkoku Nippon military has stated that the Garrandolls were based on their Garrans.

* The Near Future chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Most-definately-not]] Anime/{{Gigantor}} Buriki Daioh (Great Tin King, or Steel Titan in the remake), which is powered by Psychic energy.

*** In Season 2 of [[WesternAnimation/IronMan the 90s cartoon]] he could sprout a drill from his arm!

* The Near Future chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Most-definately-not]] Anime/{{Gigantor}} Buriki Daioh (Great Tin King), which is powered by Psychic energy.

** Reideen, Combattler, and ''Danguard Ace'' had a brief existence in the MarvelUniverse, thanks to the ''Shogun Warriors'' comic; one adventure actually had the [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Fantastic 4]] filling in as Combattler pilots.

* The ''Literature/RickyRicottasMightyRobot'' consists of an unnamed super robot who Ricky befriends after Dr. Stinky McNasty orders him to lay waste to Earth.

** The Gundam Build anime in general lean far more into the Super Robot genre than other Gundam shows with the biggest offenders being Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry and Anime/BuildDiversReRise. As the series contains numerous homages to G Gundam, it's no surprise it's got Super Robot DNA. This is most exemplified by three gunpla: The Try Buring Gundam, the Denial Gundam and the Tryon 3. The Try Burning and Denial are both strong references to the God Gundam in their aesthetics and abilities. The Try Burning is also an empathic weapon whose pilot suffers its wounds and that has several Super Robot finishers from clones to a burining phoenix to a version of the God Gundam's finisher. The most well know though is the [[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/%E6%9C%80%E5%BC%B7%E6%A9%9F%E5%8B%95_Gundam_Tryon_3 Gundam Tryon 3]], an unambiguous Super Robot existing in a Real Robot universe... albeit said robots are actually model kits animated by special particles. Its core design is the Double Zeta Gundam, which is the closest the overall Gundam meta-series got to a Super Robot while keeping the Real Robot trappings. It's Super Robot In A Real Robot World is hilariously lampshaded in its introduction where people are bemused by the idea of it, and not that physics demands the combination and general ludicrousness of it means there's no point to forming it as it must ultimately be quite structurally weak. It proceeds to annihilate an opposing team single handedly.

* ''VisualNovel/HeavenWillBeMine'' centers on three women fighting in three different factions in an interstellar conflict using "ship-selves." Saturn pilots the (stolen) ship-self Interloper Prototype String of Pearls, Pluto pilots the ark-self Creation Star Type Krun Macula, and Luna-Terra pilots the ship-self Original Archetype Mare Crisium. Battles in such machines are thrilling spectacles in which the pilots themselves never get hurt, their ship-selves serving as vehicles for ideological arguments and extensions of their own personalities more than weapons. [[spoiler:The "toy warfare" of ship-selves is contrasted against the AttackDrones favored by Earth, which ''are'' weapons: [[BoringButPractical boring, practical]] and ''lethal''.]]

* ''VisualNovel/HeavenWillBeMine'' centers on three women fighting in three different factions in an interstellar conflict using "ship-selves." Saturn pilots the (stolen) ship-self Interloper Prototype String of Pearls, Pluto pilots the ark-self Creation Star Type Krun Macula, and Luna-Terra pilots the ship-self Original Archetype Mare Crisium.

* The Ideon from, well, ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'' fits the bill pretty well, at least when it feels like it. Since the mech is inhabited by the God-like energy known as the Ide, when the Ide doesn't feel like helping all it can do is punch and kick.

** The various Transformers anime tend to bring them much closer to a typical Super Robot show, with Transformers [[HumansAreSpecial gaining incredible powers by merging with humans]], using ''[[FunctionalMagic magic]]''(!), or just gaining a lot more {{Wave Motion Gun}}s, depending on the continuity. Though the first instance of humans as powerups were in the three-part GrandFinale of the American series. (The Marvel comic book ''really'' ran with it, and explored what it would mean to be thusly dependant on a partner, for the human/Nebulan and the Transformer.)

In contrast to Real Robots, Super Robots are often (but not always) the creations of eccentric {{Mad Scientist}}s who work alone in their secluded laboratories; exactly where they get the parts, funding, and equipment, manage to even ''build'' the thing without help,[[note]]For comparison, the closest thing in size and complexity to a GiantMecha in real life is probably a modern aircraft carrier -- which, very roughly, takes 150,000 people and 7 years to build. Even allowing for a lot of these people not working on the carrier for the entire course of its construction, you're still looking at a build time many times greater than the average human lifespan if only one person was doing everything.[[/note]] or how they manage to keep anyone else (except the select few needed to drive the plot) from finding out about their activities is usually left as an exercise for the viewer. The pilot tends to be an average-across-the-board AudienceSurrogate, sometimes even an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, who [[FallingIntoTheCockpit falls into the cockpit]] and discovers they have a natural aptitude for piloting a giant robot. Instead of using an elaborate system of controls like those found in an airplane cockpit, the pilot controls a Super Robot using a mere handful of buttons (and maybe a joystick), [[MotionCaptureMecha motion capture]] or even a mind-reading system, and the motion of the mecha itself is often [[ImpossiblyGracefulGiant implausibly humanlike]]. Overall, the science behind a Super Robot is usually [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness on the soft side of the scale]], with the RuleOfCool and the [[HotBlooded burning passion]] of TheHero and [[ThePowerOfFriendship his friends]] [[ThePowerOfLove and lovers]] having more effect on the machine's capabilities than [[SchematizedProp a list of well-defined specifications]]. In contrast to a Real Robot, where the mecha is just one more piece of equipment in the overall arsenal (even if it is the cornerstone), a Super Robot is an enabling device for its pilot to pull off badass heroics.

** The original ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 was a very humanlike android (complete with artificial, but working body parts) who fought criminals and later, the Axis as part of ''ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvel'' during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* The Deus Machina from the ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' franchise, which are notable in particular for being ''{{Magitek}}'' super robots. The strongest form of the titular mech is also the largest super robot in the genre, dwarfing even the much more famous ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' ''by an order of magnitude.'' It gets so big it pops the universe it's in.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnlimitedMechsVsMutants'' has Batman and Green Arrow use the Bat/Green Arrow mechs in response to kaiju versions of Bane, Clayface, Killer Croc, and Chemo after they were turned by Mr. Freeze and Penguin.