History Quotes / HumongousMecha

->"Look, I gave it a try, I found it dreary and inscrutable, alright? Maybe I'm just not smart enough to get it like you. Why don't you sod off back to your little intellectual enclave and discuss the merits of Cartesian dualism...while I drive my neolithic brow over to the Epic Store and play [[VideoGame/MechWarrior a game about smashing toy robots together]]. '''I am NOT getting defensive, do you wanna fight?!'''"
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''Videogame/Pathologic2''

->''"Please flee or be stepped on at your own expense."''
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''

-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

->''"Military traditionalists have repeatedly pointed out that the Assault Mechs are very poorly designed weapons - farcically bad, some have even said. [[AwesomeButImpractical They're extremely tall and are almost impossible to camouflage, making them easy targets. Their two-legged gait is more complicated, more expensive, more vulnerable and less efficient than are treaded wheels. And if one of the blasted things fall over, it can't get up again without the assistance of massive cranes or helicopters]]. Yank off the legs and [[TankGoodness mount the chassis on treads]], the experts say, and you'll get a better weapon at lower cost.''

->''"All this is true. However, the units have one thing going for them that more than compensates for all of their weaknesses: [[RuleOfCool they're massively, enormously cool]]. Military planners have long noted that national governments often confuse coolness with effectiveness and are willing to pay a lot more for flashy armaments than they are for [[BoringButPractical effective but dull]] systems. In other words, a military with Mech Assault units has an easier time getting its bloated budget approved than does one without them. As long as this continues, the Mech's future is assured.''

-->-- '''"Assault Mech" [[AllThereInTheManual Civilopedia]] entry''', ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV "Nextwar" mod''

->''"When the Protoss charge\\
And the Zerg start to swarm\\
I don't want no Zeus\\
I want my [[MetalScream THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!]]"''
-->-- '''Level 80 Elite Tauren Cheif''', ''[[VideoGame/StarCraft Terran Up the Night]]''

->"Some things you can't fight. Acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win."
-->--'''Raleigh''', ''Film/PacificRim''

->''Baka felt his weapons and frontal armor melting under the terrific heat before his impact with the ground demonstrated why a flying multi-ton robot is a very bad idea.''
-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''

->''"Anyway," [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Hiccup]] thought. "We've got basically three options for this. Option one is that we just use our [[AlternateUniverse Looping]] experience and powers to hit [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} Essence 10]] straight off and punch problems until they no longer exist, and option two is basically that I get started building giant robots and never stop."''
-->-- [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7305602/3/HTTYD-Loops HTTYD Loops]] fic

->''These giant robots were once the pinnacle of military high-tech, and ruled the battlefields of Earth until someone realized what a dumb idea they were. After that, people tried to forget they ever used the things, and most were scrapped, the remainder finding employment as walking billboards.''
-->--'''Crazed Creatures For Your Abusement''', ''TabletopGame/MachoWomenWithGuns''

->"Gotta wonder, if God made us in his image... who made ''him?''"
-->--'''Sergeant Epps''', ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

->"Giant humanoid mechs aid in tasks civil, commercial, and military. And sometimes you look up to them and think 'We could have made them look like anything, but we made them look like ''us.'''"
-->--'''Austin Walker''', ''[[Podcast/FriendsAtTheTable Counter/Weight]]''

->"Numidium was [[TheEmperor Tiber Septim's]] secret weapon in his bid for supreme power: a thousand foot tall automaton, a golem or an atronach of sorts powered by a gem called the Mantella. The Mantella was infused with the life force of Tiber Septim's Imperial Battlemage, and with it, Septim crushed all who stood in his way."
-->--''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall''

->"The size of those monster-robots staggers even my mind! They're carrying the Earth... As if it were a basketball!"
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman''

-->--Creator/ChrisBucholz on ''Film/RobotJox'', ''Website/1900HotDog''

->''[After a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Kaijin]] grows to the size of a building and takes off toward the city center]''\\
'''Rapid Rabbit:''' You wouldn't happen to have a giant robot with you, would you?\\
'''Honey Trap:''' What's this about all of a sudden?\\
'''Rapid Rabbit:''' [[DiscussedTrope A hero's gotta have a giant robot for enemies like these...]]\\
'''Honey Trap:''' ''Well, I don't have one of those!''
-->-- ''Manga/SuperwomenInLove''

->''"All this is true. However, the units have one thing going for them that more than compensates for all of their weaknesses: [[RuleOfCool they're massively, enormously cool]]. Military planners have long noted that national governments often confuse coolness with effectiveness and are willing to pay a lot more for flashy armaments than they are for effective but dull systems. In other words, a military with Mech Assault units has an easier time getting its bloated budget approved than does one without them. As long as this continues, the Mech's future is assured.''

-->--Creator/ChrisBucholz on ''Film/RobotJox'', ''{{Website/1900HotDog}}''

->[[https://1900hotdog.com/2021/10/punching-day-robot-jox-%f0%9f%8c%ad/ There are reasons giant robots show up again and again in our fables and legends.]] One, they’re big enough that they don’t have to listen to what their mom tells them to do. Two, they let someone engage in physical combat even if that someone has incredibly soft hands and is sitting in a comfortable chair. End of list. That’s all they need, and don’t let anyone ever try to justify these things more to you – they make no sense physically, mechanically, or tactically. They are completely and solely a power fantasy treasured by children and underdeveloped men, and I love them so much.

->"I mean, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn anyone who'd seriously consider making a thing like that has got to be a wacko.]] Come to think of it, there was a guy in the States who wrote a paper on that subject. What was his name... Emerson? Heinrich? Something like that; I don't really remember. 'Course, no one took ''that'' seriously."

->''"Military traditionalists have repeatedly pointed out that the Assault Mechs are very poorly designed weapons - farcically bad, some have even said. [[AwesomeButImpractical They're extremely tall and are almost impossible to camouflage, making them easy targets. Their two-legged gait is more complicated, more expensive, more vulnerable and less efficient than are treaded wheels. And if one of the blasted things fall over, it can't get up again without the assistance of massive cranes or helicopters]]. Yank off the legs and [[TankGoodness mount the chassis on treads]], the experts say, and you'll get a better weapon at lower cost.

->''"Military traditionalists have repeatedly pointed out that the Assault Mechs are very poorly designed weapons - farcically bad, some have even said. [[AwesomeButImpractical They're extremely tall and are almost impossible to camouflage, making them easy targets. Their two-legged gait is more complicated, more expensive, more vulnerable and less efficient than are treaded wheels. And if one of the blasted things fall over, it can't get up again without the assistance of massive cranes or helicopters]]. Yank off the legs and [[TankGoodness mount the chassis on treads]], the experts say, and you'll get a better weapon at lower cost.\\
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''All this is true. However, the units have one thing going for them that more than compensates for all of their weaknesses: [[RuleOfCool they're massively, enormously cool]]. Military planners have long noted that national governments often confuse coolness with effectiveness and are willing to pay a lot more for flashy armaments than they are for effective but dull systems. In other words, a military with Mech Assault units has an easier time getting its bloated budget approved than does one without them. As long as this continues, the Mech's future is assured.''

->''Yank off the legs and mount the chassis on treads, the experts say, and you'll get a better weapon at lower cost. All this is true. However, the units have one thing going for them that more than compensates for all of their weaknesses: [[RuleOfCool they're massively, enormously cool]]. Military planners have long noted that national governments often confuse coolness with effectiveness and are willing to pay a lot more for flashy armaments than they are for effective but dull systems. In other words, a military with Mech Assault units has an easier time getting its bloated budget approved than does one without them. As long as this continues, the Mech's future is assured.''

-->-- '''"Assault Mech" [[AllThereInTheManual Civlopedia]] entry''', ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV "Nextwar" mod''

-->--Creator/ChrisBucholz on ''Film/RobotJox'', ''Website/1900HotDog''

'''Gundam:''' Come on! You never run out of ammo or power! You pull out swords from all over your body and you shoot massive disintegrator beams! You are unable to use a normal rifle! You shoot your fists! YOUR. FISTS! And then all those impossible transformations and your approximate design! It is hard to understand even how you can bend your joints! Giant monsters and horrible aliens! Endless fanservice}! Incredible plot twists and collective laughter at sunset! Come on...! Hahahahahaha!\\

'''Gundam:''' Come on! You never run out of ammo or power! You pull out swords from all over your body]] and you shoot massive disintegrator beams! You are unable to use a normal rifle! You shoot your fists! YOUR. FISTS! And then all those impossible transformations and your approximate design! It is hard to understand even how you can bend your joints! Giant monsters and horrible aliens! Endless fanservice}! Incredible plot twists and collective laughter at sunset! Come on...! Hahahahahaha!\\

-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- '''Level 80 Elite Tauren Cheif''', "[[VideoGame/StarCraft Terran Up the Night]]"

-->-- '''Italian Webcomic''' ''NoiRobot'' [[http://www.thesparker.com/noirobot/]]", "Episode 16: [[http://www.thesparker.com/noirobot/pagina.php?id=16&img=noirobot16_normal.jpg&next=noirobot16_normal.jpg How Irrealistic!]]"

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

->"Look, I gave it a try, I found it dreary and inscrutable, alright? Maybe I'm just smart enough to get it like you. Why don't you sod off back to your little intellectual enclave and discuss the merits of Cartesian dualism...while I drive my neolithic brow over to the Epic Store and play [[VideoGame/MechWarrior a game about smashing toy robots together]]. '''I am NOT getting defensive, do you wanna fight?!'''"

->"Look, I gave it a try, I found it dreary and insrutable, alright? Maybe I'm just smart enough to get it like you. Why don't you sod off back to your little intellectual enclave and discuss the merits of Cartesian dualism...while I drive my neolithic brow over to the Epic Store and play [[VideoGame/MechWarrior a game about smashing toy robots together]]. '''I am NOT getting defensive, do you wanna fight?!'''"

->'' Yank off the legs and mount the chassis on treads, the experts say, and you'll get a better weapon at lower cost. All this is true. However, the units have one thing going for them that more than compensates for all of their weaknesses: [[RuleOfCool they're massively, enormously cool]]. Military planners have long noted that national governments often confuse coolness with effectiveness and are willing to pay a lot more for flashy armaments than they are for effective but dull systems. In other words, a military with Mech Assault units has an easier time getting its bloated budget approved than does one without them. As long as this continues, the Mech's future is assured.''

->"I mean, anyone who'd seriously consider making a thing like that has got to be a wacko. Come to think of it, there was a guy in the States who wrote a paper on that subject. What was his name... Emerson? Heinrich? Something like that; I don't really remember. 'Course, no one took ''that'' seriously."

->''The Ground tremble every other heart beat... the sound echoed louder with each beat, and haunted your soul as if doom was approaching... and then I saw it towering in the sky, still miles away. The fear and awe one felt was indescribable. I can only imagine the sheer terror our enemy felt when they beheld the sight of the Emperor Titan.''

->''How like a God He is, that ancient Machine, primal of all His Kind, the Imperator! His mighty Fists, massive like two Towers of Destruction, laden with the Doom of Mankind's bitter Foes. He watches over us now as Battle joins, and in his Shadow we shall advance upon our Enemies and defeat them, utterly. ''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"The Orders of the Adeptus Titanicus are the iron fist of the Emperor's rule. A velvet glove would serve no purpose."''
-->-- '''Lord Priceps of Legio Tempestus''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"Military traditionalists have repeatedly pointed out that the Assault Mechs are very poorly designed weapons - farcically bad, some have even said. [[AwesomeButImpractical They're extremely tall and are almost impossible to camouflage, making them easy targets. Their two-legged gait is more complicated, more expensive, more vulnerable and less efficient than are treaded wheels. And if one of the blasted things fall over, it can't get up again without the assistance of massive cranes or helicopters]]. Yank off the legs and [[TankGoodness mount the chassis on treads]], the experts say, and you'll get a better weapon at lower cost.\\
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All this is true. However, the units have one thing going for them that more than compensates for all of their weaknesses: [[RuleOfCool they're massively, enormously cool]]. Military planners have long noted that national governments [[TruthInTelevision often confuse coolness with effectiveness and are willing to pay a lot more for flashy armaments than they are for effective but dull systems]]. In other words, a military with Mech Assault units has an easier time getting its bloated budget approved than does one without them. As long as this continues, the Mech's future is assured."''

->''"When the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Protoss]] charge\\
And the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Zerg]] start to swarm\\
I don't want no [[MadScientist Zeus]]\\
I want my [[LargeHam THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR]][[ChewingTheScenery !!!!!!!!!!!!]]"''
-->-- '''Level 80 Elite Tauren Cheif''', ''[[VideoGame/StarCraft Terran Up the Night]]''

->''If you ask me, it's got to be a joke. Not only is making a tank walk on two legs a technical nightmare, but there's no point in making a walking tank to begin with. Putting legs on a tank would raise its clearance, increasing its frontal projection area. It'd also be less stable. Suppose the legs help the tank travel bad roads... I don't see the logic in that. Isn't that what treads are for? I mean, anyone who'd seriously consider making a thing like that has got to be a wacko. ...Come to think of it, there was a guy in the States who wrote a paper on that subject. What was his name... Emerson? Heinrich? ...Something like that; I don't really remember. 'Course, no one took that seriously.''
-->-- '''Sigint''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''

->''Behold! Today is the day weapons learn to walk'' '''''upright!'''''
-->-- '''Skull Face''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''

'''Gundam:''' Come on! You never run out of ammo or power! [[HeroesPreferSwords You pull out swords]] [[TelescopingRobot from all over your body]] and you shoot [[ChestBlaster massive]] [[EyeBeams disintegrator]] [[FrickinLaserBeams beams]]! [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter You are unable to use a normal rifle]]! [[RocketPunch You shoot your fists! YOUR. FISTS]]!\\
And then [[TransformingMEcha all those impossible transformations]] and [[CombiningMecha your approximate design]]! It is hard to understand even how you can bend your joints!\\
'''Grendizer:''' (''bending its forearm'') Hey! It's right!\\
'''Gundam:''' [[{{Robeast}} Giant monsters]] and [[AlienInvasion horrible aliens]]! Endless {{Fanservice}}! [[WhamEpisode Incredible plot twists]] and collective laughter at sunset! Come on...!\\
'''Grendizer''' and '''Gundam:''' Hahahahahaha!\\
{{Beat}}\\

-->-- '''Italian Webcomic''' ''NoiRobot'' [[http://www.thesparker.com/noirobot/]]", "Episode 16: [[http://www.thesparker.com/noirobot/pagina.php?id=16&img=noirobot16_normal.jpg&next=noirobot16_normal.jpg How Irrealistic!]]", arguing the differences between a SuperRobot and a RealRobot (and lampshading StopHavingFunGuys)

->''Some things you can't fight. Acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a [[AMechByAnyOtherName Jaeger]], suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win.''

->''Gotta wonder, if God made us [[Literature/TheBible in his image]]... who made him?

->''Giant humanoid mechs aid in tasks civil, commercial, and military. And sometimes you look up to them and think "We could have made them look like anything, but we made them look like '''us.'''"''

->''Numidium was [[TheEmperor Tiber Septim's]] secret weapon in his bid for supreme power: a thousand foot tall automaton, a golem or an atronach of sorts powered by a gem called the Mantella. The Mantella was infused with the life force of Tiber Septim's Imperial Battlemage, and with it, Septim crushed all who stood in his way.''

-->--'''Sergeant Epps''', '''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'''

-->-- '''Sigint''' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''

->''The Ground tremble every other heart beat... the sound echoed louder with each beat, and haunted your soul as if doom was approaching... and then I saw it towering in the sky, still miles away. The fear and awe one felt was indescribable. I can only image the sheer terror our enemy felt when they beheld the sight of the Emperor Titan.''

->''Gotta wonder, if God made us [[literature/TheBible in his image]]... who made him?

->''If God made us, then you've gotta wonder...who made him?"

-->-- '''Level 80 Elite Tauren Cheif''', ''[[Franchise/StarCraft Terran Up the Night]]''

->''Numidium was Tiber Septim's secret weapon in his bid for supreme power: a thousand foot tall automaton, a golem or an atronach of sorts powered by a gem called the Mantella. The Mantella was infused with the life force of Tiber Septim's Imperial Battlemage, and with it, Septim crushed all who stood in his way.''

-->--'''Austin Walker''', ''[[PodCast/FriendsAtTheTable Counter/Weight]]''

-->--'''Austin Walker''', ''Counter/Weight''