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12->''"You dig giant robots!\
13I dig giant robots!\
14We dig giant robots!\
15Chicks dig giant robots!\
16Nice!"''
17-->-- '''Chicks Dig Giant Robots''', Opening Theme of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''
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19''[[TropeCo/HumongousMecha This item]] is available from the TropeCo/TropeCo catalog''
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21Who needs an Artillery, Armored, Engineer, Mechanized, or Motorized Brigade when you can have a 100-metre tall humanoid {{robot}} with a [[LaserBlade glowing sword]] and [[RocketPunch a fist that fires off like a missile?]] There's no argument -- ordinary vehicles have nothing on the cool factor of {{Mecha}}. And when they're really huge, they just get even cooler! [[RuleOfCool Which is what really matters in the end, right?]]
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23Mecha themselves are usually divided between the "SuperRobotGenre" and the "RealRobotGenre", depending on the kind of sci-fi, though there are as many different kinds of ''settings'' for mecha as there are genres of fiction. It should be noted that, while often referred to as robots, many mecha are functionally more like vehicles, controlled either remotely or from within by a pilot instead of being pre-programmed or autonomous.
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25[[OlderThanTheyThink Mythology as a whole is also replete with artificial humans and similar automatons]] (eg. [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Talos]], the great bronze automaton built by Hephaestus. Dr. Hell from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' finding an army of Humongous Mecha on a Greek island is actually based on that legend), but special mention goes to Myth/HinduMythology. One of the three barriers the gods set to protect their elixir, the Amrita, was a robot with ''[[ChainsawGood rotary saws for hands]]''.
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27For those of you wanting to create your own Humongous Mecha story, [[SoYouWantTo/WriteAHumongousMechaAnime we've got you covered]]. While not a reality yet or likely to be... [[https://www.engadget.com/2012/07/30/kuratas-the-13-foot-mech/ Japan is working on it.]] [[https://www.megabots.com/ And so is the US.]] And these two [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ouLX8Q9UM/ have had the first real-world giant robot fight]].
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29It's worth noting that the amount of FriendlyFandoms in the genre is ''huge''; in fact, most hardcore fans describe themselves as "mecha fans" rather than belonging to any certain franchise fandom.
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31See {{Mecha}} for the more generic, not-necessarily-humongous supertrope. When you want to park your mecha, see IdiosyncraticMechaStorage for compact storage options.
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36* HumongousMecha/AnimeAndManga
37* HumongousMecha/VideoGames
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40!!Other examples:
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43[[folder:Advertising]]
44%%* Several [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ckJFNkra8 advertisements for the Citroën C4]] feature the car transforming into a Humongous Mecha.
45* There's also a Singapore Army ad featuring ''a Navy Cruiser TransformingMecha''. Now that's firepower!
46%%* 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.
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51* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': Jack Hawksmoor 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.
52* ''ComicBook/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.
53%%* ''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.
54%%* ''ComicBook/StarsAndSTRIPE'': 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 series.
55* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
56** Pre-Crisis ComicBook/LexLuthor often built giant robots to try to kill Superman and/or ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.
57** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', Superman fights a skyscraper-sized Lex's robot at the beginning of the story, and later a submarine spider-mecha.
58** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', Luthor builds a giant robot able to nullify Superman's strength (which gets smashed by Supergirl's rocket).
59%%** 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.
60** ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman'' presents two robots large enough to move ''Earth'' around.
61--->'''Superman:''' The size of those monster-robots staggers even my mind! They're carrying the Earth... As if it were a basketball!
62** In ''ComicBook/TheDominatorWar'', the Dominators build a giant robot under Megatokyo. It is so big that its head knocks several skyscrapers down when the massive monster bursts out of the ground.
63* ''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.
64* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': MadScientist 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''.
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67%%* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom briefly had one, [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Doomsman_II_(Earth-616) The Doomsman.]]
68* ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'': In 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.
69%%* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Leader once built a tripod-shaped mech called the Murder Module.
70* ComicBook/IronMan: The Godkiller, a mecha designed by a race called the Aspirants to fight the Celestials, is almost ''five miles tall''.
71%%** Iron Man 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.
72%%* ''ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'': In ''S.H.I.E.L.D. Infinity'', the [[WeaponisedLandmark Colossus of Rhodes]] was a Humongous Mecha, piloted by Archimedes to battle a Kree Sentry.
73%%* ''ComicBook/ShogunWarriors'': The comic featured the Super Robots Anime/CombattlerV, Anime/BraveRaideen, and [[Anime/PlanetRoboDanguardAce Dangard Ace]].
74* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
75** The Sentinels, mutant-hunting Humongous Mecha. They started out small (when compared to Evangelion, Franchise/SuperSentai, etc.) but worked their way up to standard mecha size. Much worse (in terms of design impracticality) is that they were created in a "Master Mold," which is actually a much larger Sentinel who makes other Sentinels. There is ''no'' good reason for a factory to take this shape. Since AIIsACrapshoot, Sentinels are known for getting out of their creators' hands in short order (Especially Master Molds, Sentinel-shaped factories which wouldn't ''need'' any decision-making ability.) The LiteralMinded AIs in fact point out their creators' fallacies -- "Hunt mutants? You do know that there are some mutations in every life form? Humans are mutants."
76** In ''[[ComicBook/XMen2019 House of X]]'', we see the giant head of "Mother Mold," a Master Mold Sentinel who makes more Master Mold Sentinels. It's in orbit around the Sun and the X-Men basically have to go on a suicide mission to destroy it.
77** It seems the government types finally learned their lesson, because lately, Sentinels tend to be standard Humongous Mecha -- Sentinel-shaped vehicles piloted by humans. One character [[LampshadeHanging points out the irony]] when some of those human-piloted Sentinels are assigned to ''protect'' mutants; "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It's like a black man being protected by a burning cross]]."
78** In ''ComicBook/XMen2021'', in order to fight an alien mech creature called the Mind Reaver, the X-Men at the time (which includes Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Polaris, Sunfire, Rogue, Wolverine, and Synch) combine their powers into a mutant circuit and create the ''X-Mecha''. It is an awesome sight to behold.
79** ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'': In the year +1000, [[spoiler:the Sinisterized Emma Frost deploys her Mistress Mold, an enormous diamond Sentinel made in her likeness]].
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82* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' has quite a few examples:
83** ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' has several examples, the most memorable being George the Gargantek, who is so big he has five "brains" to control the different parts of his body.
84** A strip titled ''Mechastopheles'' involves a mile-tall mech powered by a demon's soul serving as humanity's last refuge after the apocalypse.
85%%** 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.
86%%** "Detonator X" was a ten-issue miniseries which featured giant Mecha.
87* Kazu Kibuishi's ''ComicBook/{{Amulet}}'' [[spoiler:features a house which sprouts arms and legs and starts walking.]]
88* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': This is a popular staple of villainous {{Robot Master}}s:
89** Vivi Vector has spent decades using giant robots to attack her enemies.
90** Doc Robotnik builds humongous mecha with a team of human operators inside.
91%%** The original Assemblyman would create rampaging robots for anyone.
92%%** Dr. Saturday is a MadScientist who builds giant robots resembling cartoon characters.
93* Back during the war years, ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' ran a two-part "Wild Boy of the Woods" story which revolved around the creation of a giant mechanical bullet-proof statue of Hitler being built in order for Derek, the titular wild boy, and his friends to rescue British RAF prisoners of war. The statue is destroyed at the end of the story, as it's no longer useful as a secret weapon.
94* 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.
95* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In Season 8, Dawn fights a Mecha-Dawn -- complete with a tail -- in Tokyo while still a giant.
96* ''ComicBook/DeathsHead'' started out as this until he fell into a time portal and crashed into [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]]'s TARDIS. In defense, the Doctor (then in [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy his seventh incarnation]]) shrank him to human size and sent him off through time.
97%%* First Comics' ''Dynamo Joe''? (Sometimes scripted by Creator/PhilFoglio.)
98%%* 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''.
99%%* 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''
100%%* Creator/DougTennapel seems to like this trope, because he used it again in ''{{ComicBook/Ghostopolis}}'', where [[spoiler:KidHero Garth transforms into one.]]
101* It is possible to write a history of humongous mechas in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse:
102** The Man-Robots from the Disney Comics story "The Giant Robot Robbers" by Creator/CarlBarks (1965).
103** A giant robot (albeit anchored to the roof of the money bin, but able to hurl lightning bolts) is the final weapon against Magica De Spell at the beginning of "Zio Paperone e le streghe in azione" (''Uncle Scrooge and the witches in action'') by Cimino and Cavazzano (1971).
104** 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.
105** In "Le Giovani Marmotte e il ritorno del Giocattolaio" (The Junior Woodchucks and the return of the Toymaker) by [[Laconic/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster Siegel]] and Scala (1974), the Terrible Toymaker attacks Duckburg with giant toys. In the same story, Gyro's airship, with the form of a ginormous eagle and equipped with working claws, can be also qualified as a humongous mecha.
106** ''Zio Paperone e la statua gigante'' (Uncle Scrooge and the giant statue) by Siegel and Gatto (1973): the giant statues of Scrooge and Donald are effectively giant robots, controlled by technicians before, and then by an evil inventor and by Gyro.
107%%** "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).
108* ''ComicBook/GiantRobotWarriorMaintenanceCrew'' is about the people who work on Herotron, the comic's resident giant robot. While the pilots use Herotron to fight evil and protect The Republic Of Worlds, the maintenance crew works hard to keep Herotron running and make sure that it doesn't fall apart.
109* In the CrapsackWorld of ''ComicBook/GiveMeLiberty'', the "Fat Boy" fast-food chain uses a humongous mecha ''mascot'' in their war to raze the Amazon rainforest into farmland.
110%%* 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.
111* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' affectionately parodies mecha anime when Léonard and Albert both build giant mechas and get into a fight.
112* In one story of ''ComicBook/MollyDanger'', a villain named Medula attacks Coopersville, New York with a giant robot with shoulder-mounted missile launchers.
113%%* ''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)).
114* Issue 22 of ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Transformers: Lost Light]]'' sees [[spoiler:Functionalist! 'Cybertron' modified to transform into a giant robot controlled by the Functionalist Council]]! You read that right, [[spoiler:A mech the size of a 'planet'.]]
115* Warren Ellis' ''Tokyo Storm Warning''.
116* ''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 humongous mecha. 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.
117* 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.
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121%%* ''Brick Bradford'' faced a remote-controlled robot about ten stories high in ''Brick Bradford and the Metal Monster'' (02/13/1939–03/16/1940).
122* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' had TRAZE-R, a 9 meter high robot Dick Tracy that fought an enemy robot to the death. Like everything else about Locher-period ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', TRAZE-R was [[CloudCuckoolander absolutely bugnuts insane]].
123* ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'' had "Pedrobot" (Pedro after an UnwillingRoboticisation) fight another giant robot, Kolossus, on the Ruby Moon of Doom, in order to thwart alien plans to use Kolossus to conquer 31st century Earth.
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127* [[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon AbraxasVerse Timeline]]: As of 2021, Monarch [[spoiler:in collaboration with Apex Cybernetics]] are building the giant, human-controlled mecha Kiryu in Godzilla's image for extra defence against hostile Titans, [[spoiler:with the bones of the dead ''Titanus Gojira'' from the beginning of ''Film/Godzilla2014'' being used as an organic endoskeleton for the mecha. Apex Cybernetics meanwhile are secretly constructing their own counterpart of Kiryu, Mechagodzilla, in Hong Kong behind Monarch's backs]].
128%%* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'':
129%%** The Dibship is converted into a mecha for the [[FinalBattle confrontation]] with [[BigBad the Employer's]] forces on Irk.
130%%** [[MadScientist Crax]] also builds another mecha for himself to use, arriving a bit later into the fighting on Irk.
131* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': Plankton and Karen use a Humongous Mecha called Fighto-Plankton to battle [[{{Kaiju}} the Tortured One]].
132* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': The Evangelions of the original series, and the Avalon Empire's giant robots such like Asuka's Red Whirlwind (an eighty-meter-tall humanoid red TransformingMecha) and the Black Knights.
133* ''Fanfic/FallenKingdom'': The Neo Koopa War Armors, sleek mechs designed by Ludwig himself with titanium hulls and magical reactors. They are equipped with massive laser cannons that are powerful enough to destroy a fleet of ships that would have taken days for a conventional army within 30 minutes.
134* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hold-my-beer-and-watch-this-worm-shardswap.22862/ Hold My Beer... And Watch This!]]'' utilizes the Siberian's invulnerability to overcome the structural difficulties of a Kilometer tall Robot after TheSingularity.
135* ''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!]]
136%%* 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.
137%%* Izuku has the power to manifest one around himself in ''Fanfic/MyIronGiant''. A major conflict in the story is his inability to leave it.
138%%* ''Fanfic/KaijuRevolution'': [[spoiler:The Moguera, which are more on the MechanicalMonster side, as well as the more humanoid Robomusume]].
139%%* ''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]].
140%%* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' has the “Lord Equus” form of Theecat's equibots.
141%%* A SteamPunk version of one built by [[spoiler: Johnathan and Andrew]] shows up in ''Fanfic/ASparkOfGenius''.
142* As ''Fanfic/HowToDrillYourWayThroughYourProblems'': 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.]]
143%%** Second was the Twinboekun, made from Leet's robots in the battle between the gamer duo, Mouse Protector, and Lagann.
144%%** [[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.]]
145%%** Uber and Leet create Titans from ''VideoGame/TitanFall'' specifically to fight Lagann.
146* ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'' has ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'s old enemy Mister Atom: an atomic-powered, rocket-shaped, ten-foot robot.
147* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'':
148** 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 [[CurbStompBattle easily trounces]] the Irkens as they try to operate all four of their mech’s limbs despite there only being three of them.
149** In Chapter 17, the above two mechs are brought out again (with the Announcer now providing the Irkens with a much-needed fourth pilot) for a makeshift tournament against each other and also other similarly-sized mechs created by Tak and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Aldrich Coathanger]] (the latter being remote piloted by the indentured Iggins before Aldrich [[VillainOverride takes over himself]]).
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153* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': The mechanical bird that the ants and circus bugs build is one of these (from an insect perspective).
154* In ''WesternAnimation/FernGully'', we have the Leveler. It's a bulldozer, a tank, a tractor, and an automated factory all in one. It has two huge arms with giant claws for hands, chainsaws on its "elbows", and a "mouth" with backwards-facing "teeth" that pull unfortunate trees inside it, all topped off with a control room that looks like a single wide cyclopes-like eye. Basically, it's a monster of a machine.
155* The short film ''WesternAnimation/AGentlemensDuel'' has two gentlemen vying for the attention of a beautiful noblewoman with a duel. Their weapon of choice? Giant {{steampunk}} robots, of course!
156* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': [[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.
157* ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- a giant alien robot. He's also a GentleGiant...who happens [[BewareTheNiceOnes to have been created for war]], and is armed and dangerous.
158* ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndTheMockingbird'' has one of the earliest known examples in WesternAnimation; King Charles tries to chase the Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep with an enormous robot, [[spoiler: which the Mockingbird hijacks and sends on a rampage that destroys the king's palace.]]
159* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''; Once he unlocks his Master Builder powers, [[IdiotHero Emmet]] builds one from scratch using some nearby wrecking balls and other construction equipment.
160* The monstrous heroes of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' face villain Gallaxhar's enormous Robot Probe. The Probe withstands a military strike and destroys half of San Francisco in its conflict with the monsters before being destroyed by Ginormica. It's later revealed that Gallaxhar has an army of Robot Probes at his command, but when he orders them to destroy Ginormica, they end up [[VillainDecay smashing into each other like dominoes]].
161* ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis: The Movie'' features a Humongous Mecha Reptar.
162* Most of ''WesternAnimation/WallE'''s robots are smaller than the average human (let alone the obese humans of the future), but at one point we meet two ''giant'' versions of the eponymous trash compactor robot.
163* The climax in ''WesternAnimation/WeAreTheStrange'' has a giant mecha fighting a giant monster.
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167* Even Creator/TheAsylum gets in on the mecha action.
168** ''Film/AtlanticRim'', their mockbuster of ''Pacific Rim''.
169** ''Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark'', the third in the series of ''Mega Shark'' films, pitting the titular shark against a robotic shark.
170** ''Mega Shark Versus Kolossus'', which has the shark fight against a robot that bears a suspicious resemblance to the [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Colossal Titan]].
171** ''Transmorphers'' and ''Transmorphers: Fall of Man'', mockbusters of the Bayverse Transformers movies.
172* Mechagodzilla and Kiryu from the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} series. There are also [[Film/KingKongEscapes Mechani Kong]], [[Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla M.O.G.U.E.R.A.]] and [[Film/GodzillaVsMegalon Jet Jaguar]] (though Jet Jaguar [[{{Sizeshifter}} doesn't start out humongous]]).
173** Special mention should go to Mog(u)era, alien terror weapon of the eponymous villains in the 1957 film ''Film/TheMysterians'' (''Chikyū Bōeigun''). It [[UrExample appeared on the big screen]] a mere year after Tetsujin-28 was first published and a full six years before the anime, and showed up again 37 years later in ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla''.
174* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' has a giant robot called Humongous that guards the gates to Goblin City. Given that it's piloted by goblins, it's a lot smaller than most examples.
175* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': Humanity fights off a flood of enemy machines with 20' tall humanoid mecha. The pilots are almost completely exposed in the suits, making them pretty worthless once the machines get close. WordOfGod explains that the machines tore through armor like butter, meaning there was no point it keeping it there if it was just going to be useless anyway.
176* ''Film/{{Hercules|1983}}'' (the 1983 film from Creator/TheCannonGroup) has its hero battle three such creatures. They are toy-sized when created by one of the villains, but become this on Earth once they enter its atmosphere (by design). There's an unidentified insect, a three-headed dragon that spits "cosmic rays of deadly fire", and a centaur.
177* In ''Film/OurFriendPower5'', both the turtles and the Shark Gang create giant robots to use in battle against each other. The turtle's mecha is made of five combining parts, each for one of the characters to pilot. The robots also [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} transform into vehicles...]]
178* The 20 story-tall Jaegers from ''Film/PacificRim'', which are tasked with fighting powerful {{Kaiju}}.
179-->'''Raleigh:''' 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.
180* ''Film/RobotJox'' was a low budget western attempt to exploit this genre. In a dystopic future, wars are resolved by [[DuelToTheDeath duels]] between two giant mecha, much like a sporting event.
181** ''Film/RobotWars1993'' is a SpiritualSuccessor (marketed as a direct sequel), involving the last remaining HumongousMecha (a SpiderTank with a laser-firing scorpion tail) being used to ferry tourists through what's left of the Midwest. When YellowPeril agents hijack the mech and use it to threaten the good guys, the pilot of the mech finds a previously-thought-destroyed humanoid mech under a pyramid. Naturally, the climax involves a battle between the two mechs.
182* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' has Spaceball One/Mega Maid, which is apparently so big it can take the entire atmosphere of a planet. It is also a TransformingMecha.
183* 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.
184** And then there's the Transformers: Crossovers toy line which features an AT-AT which transforms into a giant robot.
185** In Canon: [=AT-ATs=] move close to 60 kph. They look slow, but the 12 tons of mecha doesn't slow or stop easily. When Luke latched onto one, he got jerked off his feet.
186** 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.
187*** The explanation is that the AT-TE was far too vulnerable to mines, being only a few feet off the ground.
188** [[Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG And remember,]] AT-ST soccer games [[http://theglen.livejournal.com/89715.html are strictly against Imperial Army proctocols (668).]]
189* A giant TransformingMecha appeared in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' to snatch some people.
190* The live-action Film/TransformersFilmSeries, also played straight with TransformingMecha.
191* A rare, non-humanoid example: in ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', 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.
192* The Death Egg Robot in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'', which is on par with the size of the Titanic Monarch from ''VideoGame/SonicMania'', if not bigger.
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196* The Evil Librarians of the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'' have giant robots as part of their army, as well as flying robotic bats known as ro''bats''.
197* ''Literature/AsuraCryin'' has the Asura Machina, which is at least mecha-like.
198* A few of these guys have appeared in the ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' books, mostly PlayedForLaughs.
199* ''Literature/DangerousFugitives'' have giant animal robots instead of giant human ones.
200* ''Literature/DreamPark'': {{Deconstructed|Trope}} by a simulated Humongous Mecha battle that takes place between two diplomats in ''The Barsoom Project''. 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.
201* Strangely for a HighFantasy series, ''Literature/DragonlanceTheNewAdventures'' has one. The Warrior's Heart, Blood, and Bones in the titles of the Goodlund Trilogy refer to components of a giant robot that the villains try to reactivate. It's shown on the cover of ''Warrior's Bones''.
202* ''Literature/TheElementalTrilogy'': The Bane has a giant mechanical serpent that he uses to guard his fortress.
203* ''[[Literature/OrsonScottCardsEmpire Empire]]'', by Orson Scott Card.
204** Built in secret by [[StrawmanPolitical evil liberal ''pacifists'']] to slaughter U.S Service personnel out of naked hatred for American men-in-uniform, no less.
205* ''Literature/TheFourHorsemenUniverse'': The Raknars that Jim Cartwright accepts as partial payment on a contract in ''Cartwright's Cavaliers'' are thirty meter tall piloted robots designed by {{Precursors}} to kill canavars, genetically engineered monsters that devastated TheFederation in a war ending in its collapse millennia before.
206* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', like ''Anime/{{Gasaraki}}'', attempts to show "realistic" robots in a "modern" setting, but is considerably more relaxed about what constitutes "realistic", and much lighter-hearted. It also acknowledges that man-shaped robotic fighting machines are at the very least unlikely, but promptly [[HandWave handwaves]] the objection away with a mysterious source of ultra-advanced technology.\
207If we forget about the question how they actually work, their combat efficiency is not shown as overwhelming (unless using even more ultra-high tech), unlike most examples. In the first episode of the anime adaptation, taking out Hind helicopter is seen as a show of great mastery, and later, a single tank is designated by AS on-board AI as a serious threat.
208* ''Literature/{{Gearbreakers}}'': The Windups are huge mecha that [[EvilEmpire Godolia]] uses to enforce their rule.
209* The eponymous Objects from ''Literature/HeavyObject'' are armored fighting machines which possess vastly superior offensive and defensive capabilities, and outclass normal armies and weapons with their ability to decimate an entire base in a short period. Unlike most examples, they do not have a humanoid form.
210* ''Literature/KaijuRisingAgeOfMonsters'' makes it clear that regular military forces are, with one exception, useless against monsters. The only which can beat a giant monster is a giant robot (or another giant monster). Even then, it's often in doubt, as this is a horror anthology.
211* Perhaps, collectively, the [[spoiler:army of giant golems]] in ''Literature/MakingMoney''.
212** Moist also introduces the idea of 9 meter killer golems, since "If you don't invent thirty-foot killer golems first, someone else will".
213* "Mark Elf" by Creator/CordwainerSmith. The titular mecha is a manshonyagger -- a German killing robot continuing its mission long after the fall of civilization.
214* Hyperion the ancient alien/Atlantean mech from the ''Literature/NemesisSaga'' series.
215* In Literature/TheParasolProtectorate, a [[SteamPunk steam powered]] octopus version called an octomaton is used to raid the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Westminster Hive]] [[spoiler: after [[GadgeteerGenius Madame Lefaux]] goes MamaBear]].
216* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' novel ''[[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresPrimeTime Prime Time]]'', sudden decline of Blinni Gaar's farming industry sees, in the planet's cornfields, Guldarian farming drones - tower-sized, self-automated combine harvesters.
217* Also by Dav Pilkey, author of the ''Captain Underpants'' books, we have the Mighty Robot of the ''Literature/RickyRicottasMightyRobot'' series.
218* OlderThanDirt: Parts of the Sanskrit ''RigVeda'' appear to describe air-to-air missiles traded between flying mecha and floating cities.
219%%* Most of the books by John Ringo have these.
220* In ''Literature/Leviathan'' by Scott Westerfield, mecha called Walkers are used in World War I by Germans and Austrians against the British and French [[BioweaponBeast Fabricated Animals]].
221* In ''Series/ProtectorOfTheSmall'' the Scanran army has these. Kel manages to destroy one after others have it immobilized. [[spoiler:She later ends up killing the creator of the machines when he tries to take the children of the refugee camp she's in charge of. His process in making the machines involves killing children.]]
222* The main villains in ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'' are capable of transforming into Humongous Mecha. They are forced to use {{power limiter}}s to maintain a normal human guise until they are authorized to carry out their mission.
223* The ''Literature/SholanAlliance'' series has a unique version featured on the cover of the eighth book. Apparently, it is also given some page time.
224* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, again, features lots of big walking war machines aside from the AT-AT and AT-ST models.
225** Specifically, the AT-PT, a smaller, one-person forerunner to the AT-ST from before the Clone Wars, and the MT-AT, a spider-like Imperial walker designed for mountainous terrain, capable of scaling a cliff.
226* ''Literature/TheSunEater'' have the colossi. These are heavily armoured and shielded WalkingTank / SpiderTank giant mecha that house a massive PlasmaCannon artillery piece. They come in various shapes such as bipedal or multilegged but one thing they have in common is massive size. In fact, they were considered AwesomeButImpractical because of their enormous cost especially for human vs. human limited warfare. But against the genocidal alien Cielcin, each colossi is money well-spent.
227* While most Drag-Rides in ''Literature/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.
228* ''Literature/WarGirls'': Both the Biafrans and the Nigerians use huge mecha suits in the war.
229* The Martian machines from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898'' are almost certainly one of the key TropeMakers.
230%%* William Keith's ''Warstrider'' series.
231* The Guardian robot in ''Literature/AWindNamedAmnesia''. Originally created to enforce law and order in Los Angeles, it continued to function long after the pilot died and now hunts down and kills any humans it finds. It becomes a SuperPersistentPredator to Wataru after he shoots it the first time.
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235* The ''Series/ChouseishinSeries'' revolves around a {{Sentai}} team hopping into a humongous mecha and piloting it to fight {{kaiju}}.
236** ''Series/ChouseishinGransazer'': The Chouseishin ("Ultra Star Gods") are mecha built by the [[AdvancedAncientHumans ancient Gransazers]] to defend the Earth against the Warp Monarch's AlienInvasion. Each of the four Gransazer Tribes has their own Chouseishin, which [[TransformingMecha shifts]] from a vehicle form to a humanoid form for combat. The four Chouseishin are also capable of {{combining|Mecha}} together with a base mecha called Guntras to form an even bigger mecha called Dai Sazer. [[EvilCounterpart Logia]] also has his own mecha in [=DaiLogian=].
237** ''Series/GenseishinJustiriser'': Riseross is a Mechagodzilla-esque base giant robot piloted by the Justirisers, which is capable of combining with one of the Genseishin ("Mythical Star Gods") mecha themed after TheFourGods to assume stronger and more specialized fighting forms.
238** ''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'': The Ryuuseishin ("Meteor Gods") are combat mecha formed from one of the ships in Sazer-X's fleet combining with a base body called a Core Caliber (later [[MidSeasonUpgrade upgraded]] into Core Bravers).
239* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
240** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]]: The K-1 robot eventually grows into one of these.
241** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]] has a [[spoiler:30-metre-tall {{steampunk}} Cyberman]]. It was also an actual mecha, because it didn't have a human brain in it.
242* The title character in ''[[Series/GiantRobo Giant Robo/Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot]]''. Notable for being the UrExample of this trope in Tokusatsu.
243* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
244** ''Series/KamenRider555'': Kaixa's bike, the Side Basshar, can transform into a giant robot mode with a variety of weapons repurposed from its motorcycle components.
245** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Most of the cars on the title character's CoolTrain can unfurl into a variety of different robot parts. In crossovers with ''Super Sentai'', it can also be used as a component of their own giant robots.
246** ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'': Kamen Rider Ixa has the Powered Ixer, a giant robot resembling a mix of a dragon and a backhoe, as a counterpart to Kiva's dragon castle.
247** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'': The Power Dizer skirts the line between this and PoweredArmor: the details of how it's driven are never shown, but it seems to require the operator to physically move their limbs to move the Dizer's, meaning only the football quarterback is strong enough to use it for long periods.
248** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': Both Zi-O and Geiz have Time Mazines, time machines that can also transform into giant robots and channel the PowerCopying abilities of their pilots.
249** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'': Breaking Mammoth is a giant robot normally stored on the back of Zero-One's home satellite, which can also transform into a jet. Zero-One normally pilots the robot, but anyone can use it if they can get up to the satellite, which proves extremely useful in defeating the BigBad.
250** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'': The ''King of Arthur'' Wonder Ride Book comes with a cool sword which can transform into a giant robot, which then uses ''Saber'' as a sword via swinging him around by the legs. Unsurprisingly, he only uses it once.
251* ''Series/MechX4'' has the titular MECH-X4, controlled through the lead characters's motions through technopathy with the aid of a harness to facilitate jumping. In practice, control of the robot is similar to virtual reality controls in real life. The cockpit is more spacious than your typical mecha cockpit to accommodate for this, with the consoles that other characters use to man the weapons being more like computer desks. The mech itself is not only large, but it actually has multiple rooms on the inside, including an entertainment room and a maintenance room.
252* ''Series/PaperGirls'': Both time traveler factions use giant combat robots with a pilot inside, with blasts fired from their hands that also send out scanning rays. Erin even fights Prioress as both are piloting different ones.
253* ''Script/{{Powerpuff}}'': Mojo pilots a gigantic robot that resembles a squid.
254* The Swiss-army knife that is Drago from ''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'', which manages to fit every category (excpet 'mini...' but then again, they're [[{{Cyberspace}} inside computer systems]], so maybe it counts, too!) It can [[TransformingMecha transform from plane to dragon and back]], [[CombiningMecha combine with Servo]] to make Phormo, [[DetachmentCombat split to make Tor and Jam,]] and Jam alone can transform into the Dragon Cannon to be used by Servo. The toy probably had to be a freakin' jigsaw puzzle.
255** If anything, its counterpart, Xenon, was the jigsaw. Vitor folded about 8 billion different ways depending on whether you wanted it in jet form, Xenon form, or Synchro (Servo combination) form. Borr, the DrillTank, split into 4 different parts to make Synchro's shoulders/fists, and to change Tracto from Xenon's legs to Synchro's you had to turn it inside-out. Adding insult to injury was the fact that not only that did its Xenon form hate staying together, but that it looked like a really lousy [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] knock-off.
256* 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 ''ComicBook/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.
257** Later installments of the franchise (from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' onwards) would be adapted into ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', which terms all its mechas as "Zords" and the combined forms "Megazords", with "Ultrazord" occasionally used when their entire arsenal combines.
258** While on the subject of Zyuranger, an entry with a lot of notable firsts for the franchise, Zyuranger was also notable for being the first Sentai that had mecha that were not ''mechanical'' in nature, as well as the first that were "living beings" rather than robots based on living beings (Liveman had an animal motif, but the mecha were explicitly stated to have been built).
259** The absolute biggest would have to be [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Daijinryu]]/[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Serpentera]]. To make it clear: Dairenoh/Thunder Megazord is 54 meters tall, Daimugen/Tor the Shuttlezord is 95 meters, and the [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Brachiosaurus]]/[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Brachiozord]] (the tallest in the franchise to be controlled by a Ranger) is 112 meters. Daijinryu/Serpentera is ''500 meters'' long and ''345 meters'' tall when standing.
260*** [[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}} War God Demonbane]] and the [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]].]]
261** To make it clearer, we once got a distant shot of Serpentera standing in the city, and buildings were about the size of one claw. In its shadow, day becomes night. If it were to lie down, its head could be downtown and its tail could be ''in a suburb''. In franchise history, its size has yet to be topped. (That's probably bigger than 500 meters, but when it's AllThereInTheManual stats versus the RuleOfCool, cool wins out.) This led to an infamous case of YourSizeMayVary in "Forever Red".
262** The 2014 Sentai parody ''Series/KanpaiSenshiAfterV'' have their own giant robot, with a design reminiscent of early 80s robos, particularly [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman DaiDenzin]] and [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Sun Vulcan Robo]].
263* A good chunk of ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' {{kaiju}} are giant robots. Notable ones include:
264** King Joe from ''Series/UltraSeven'' is the most iconic of the bunch and [[TheJuggernaut one tough customer]], able to split into several spaceships and recombine at will. In some series,, he receives an ArmCannon capable of killing weaker kaiju in a single shot.
265*** Windam from the same series is a ''friendly'' example whom Ultraseven calls forth a few times to help battle the MonsterOfTheWeek. Oh yeah, and in ''Series/UltramanMebius'', he gets equipped with a flamethrower.
266*** Another foe of Ultraseven is Narse, a robot ''[[NinJaZombiePirateRobot dragon]]'' [[TransformingMecha that can transform into a spaceship]].
267** Sevengar from ''Series/UltramanLeo'' is another heroic example, being a giant robot constructed by the Ultras to assist them in fighting kaiju... albeit for [[AwesomeButImpractical only a single minute and with a 50 hour recharge time]].
268** The 1984 compilation movie ''Film/UltramanStory'' introduced Grand King, a dinosaur-like robot created by GalacticConqueror Juda and powered by the souls of several defeated monsters. Taking TheJuggernaut to whole new levels of unstoppable, it could not be defeated by the Ultra Brothers until they channeled their combined power into Series/UltramanTaro.
269** ''Series/UltramanMebius''' Imperisers were [[BigBad Alien Empera]]'s MechaMooks. That didn't mean they were easy to kill though. A single one overwhelmed the main characters for two episodes, thanks to its gatling laser cannons, self-repair system, and teleportation abilities
270** Mecha Gomora from the Franchise/UltramanZero special ''Ultraman Zero vs Darklops Zero'' can be pretty much summed up as the ''Ultra Series''' answer to the Live-Action Film folder's Mechagodzilla . Its creators, the Salome aliens, also specialize in building legions upon legions of {{Robot Me}}s of Ultra heroes.
271** The drill-armed Legionoids and RobotMe Darklopses formed Ultraman Belial's MechaMooks in ''Film/UltramanZeroTheRevengeOfBelial''.
272** Jean-Bot from the same movie as the aforementioned MechaMooks was one of Ultraman Zero's allies, being an {{expy}} of an old Tsuburaya superhero called Jumborg Ace.
273** Galactron from ''Series/UltramanOrb'' was constructed to bring world peace, but believed the best way to do so was to ''annihilate all life in the universe''. And it did a pretty good job at that do as it ravaged its creators' world with its plethora of laser cannons and melee weaponry and even gave Ultraman Orb a serious challenge.
274** Featured very prominently in ''Series/UltramanZ'', with the installment's defense organization using them as their primary weapon against {{kaiju}} attacks. Sevengar and Windam return in this series as the team's mecha, and later a modified version of King Joe is added to the arsenal. This is actually lampshaded in one episode, which explains that Japan's long history with the trope in their media was what influenced the nation to use giant robots whereas everywhere else prefers enhanced vehicles as a kaiju weapon.
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278* In Pete Townshend's video "A Friend Is A Friend," based on book ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''.
279* Parodied in Music/BeastieBoys' "Intergalactic" video, a {{tokusatsu}} pastiche where the Boys (awkwardly) fight a {{kaiju}} in a giant robot.
280* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFXayH1bpY video for Jason Forrest's 'War Photographer']] features a pair of humongous mecha. That transform out of giant robots. Crewed by vikings. Who battle it out with the power of rock and roll. No, seriously. And you know what? It's ''awesome''.
281* Music/PatoFu have an robot fight in "Made in Japan".
282* Music/Deltron3030 in "Positive Contact" have an Jet TransformingMecha in an dystopian world.
283* Music/{{Aerosmith}} has their own fight with giant robots and fanservice in videoclip of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PULE1T1KTM0 Fly Away From Here.]]
284* Music/TMRevolution in music video "Zips" have a live-action version from [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED GINN]].
285* {{Music/Prozzak}} "Get a Clue" has a giant robot version from LoveHurts.
286* Music/ShaniaTwain is hunted by a giant robot in "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!".
287* Parodied again by Music/Polysics in the cover of "Mr.Roboto"
288* Nina Girado is helped by a giant toy robot in "Loving You"
289* Music/LinkinPark's video for "Pts.[=OF=].Ahrty" features CGI Humongous Mecha, each of which is based on the band members. So if the trope wasn't AwesomeButImpractical enough already, you have one that's as skinny as the lead singer.
290** There are also the videos for [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam "Somewhere I Belong"]] and [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries "New Divide"]].
291* Four giant robots destroy the Earth in "Nu Steppa" by Salmonella Dub.
292* In some moment appears a giant toy-like robot in Music/JossStone music video "Super Duper Love".
293* Music/{{Eminem}} has an [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] parody in videoclip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSdKmX2BH7o We Made You.]]
294* Whore Moans and MC Frontalot have a song, "Mecha Mechanic", that is an ode to a giant robot.
295* An army of giant robots is Music/DoctorSteel's backup plan for world domination, if the whole "domination through entertainment" idea doesn't pan out.
296* {{Music/COLDPLAY}} in Music-Video talk the group helps a Giant Robot.
297* Music/{{Gackt}} in music video "Metamorphoze" has various parts from a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Gundam]].
298* A giant monkey-like robot appears in the music video "Yume no Kakera" by Nobuchika Eri.
299* Music/BlocParty shows an LoveTriangle with giant robots in "Flux"
300* Music/TokioHotel in "Automatisch" has two lovers as Giant Robots.
301* Music/NamieAmuro recreates the infamous [[spoiler:[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Lalah Death]]]] in "Defend Love".
302* Music/TheBlackEyedPeas has black and white dance robots in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUFsQ5lTo6g Imma Be | Rocking that Body]].
303* We have an Giant Boombox Robot in Ralph Watson music video Londinium.
304* An Giant Robot smash an buld in an indie music video "Measure of a Man" by Comrade Robot.
305* {{Music/Soundgarden}} pilots a horned Giant Robot in Black Rain.
306* Music/NinjaSexParty in animated music video we have sharks, dinosaurs and giant robots in "Dinosaur Laser Fight".
307* Music/MCFrontalot parodies Anime/Voltron in [[LeaderFormsTheHead "I'll Form The Head"]].
308* Handsome Kenya's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygECmAslHCI Sing in my own way]]" tells the story of shop clerk/musician Kenya in multiple versions, by having colored versions of Kenya splitting off (include an giant robot of him) him and having different experiences from then on. The video also contains {{ShoutOut}}s to movies such as ''Film/SlidingDoors''.
309* 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 ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse''.
310* The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI "Rock It For Me"]] by Music/CaravanPalace features a giant swinging robot fighting off flying saucers [[DanceBattler by]] ''[[DanceBattler dancing]]'' thanks to [[ItMakesSenseInContext a trombone in its head]].
311* Music/TheAquabats have at least two songs about giant robots:
312** "Giant Robot Bird-Head!" is about the eponymous robot and its fight against the Floating Eye of Death.
313** "Mechanical Ape!" is about a man breaking out of an underground prison complex with a gorilla-shaped giant robot.
314* Music/SigueSigueSputnik featured one on the cover of ''Flaunt It''.
315* Music/{{Mechina}} has the Titans, which are the size of ''cities''.
316* Italian comedy/parody rock band Gem Boy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMOwX1jYdQ Giambel V]]" is based on the question "what if Italy made a giant robot instead of Japan?" The answer: an useless (if cool and stylish) piece of junk that hasn't killed any invaders in a year thanks to bureaucracy and carelessness. The animated music video is an AffectionateParody of several old mecha anime as well.
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320* ''Pinball/FooFighters2023'': The Foobot is a massive robot formed from six distinct parts, able to stand up to the Overlord's own giant robots with an array of attacks.
321* The pinball conversion kit ''Pinball/{{Gamatron}}'' depictes one of these attacking a lunar base.
322* Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''[[Pinball/PinBot Pin*Bot]]'' trilogy (''[[Pinball/PinBot Pin*Bot,]] Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot,'' and ''[[Pinball/JackBot Jack*Bot]]'') stars giant humanoid robots.
323* ''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' has a mode where you fight a giant Martian by controlling a gigantic UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln robot.
324* Creator/{{Zaccaria}}'s ''Pinball/{{Robot}}'' features a KillerRobot large enough to hold a woman in one hand.
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328* ''Series/StarFleet'' features the Dai-X, which is a giant combining mecha. (unsurprising since Go Nagai was also behind this series.)
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332%%* ''TabletopGame/AdeptusEvangelion'', [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion obviously]].
333* The classic western Humongous Mecha tabletop game is ''TabletopGame/{{BattleTech}}'', and its RPG spinoff, ''[=MechWarrior=]''. Both series feature everything from [[PoweredArmor 3-meter tall battle frames]] to hulking 15-meter tall fusion-powered [=BattleMechs=] ranging from 20 to 100 metric tons, and even a few rare TransformingMecha. While ''Battletech'' is now more known for its RealRobotGenre designs, its first editions largely featured very much Eastern mecha designs that were licensed from ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' (among others) that led to a [[ScrewedByTheLawyers messy lawsuit due to licensing confusion]], resulting in those designs becoming "[[{{Unperson}} unseen]]" for 20 some years til they received a redesign. Incidentally, it's also the reason this trope is called Humongous ''Mecha'' [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope and not Humongous Mechs]].
334* Combining Franchise/CthulhuMythos, ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' and ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', you get ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. The irony is that while it's even more weird than ''Dragon Mech'', it has too much CaptainErsatz and thus is not as unique.
335* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' goes for the direct route.
336** 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.''
337* ''Doom Striders'' is a d20 game and almost completely adheres to rules from 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. In this game, dragons wreaked havok in the world so mages and sorcerers built {{Magitek}} mecha called Doom Striders based on golem creation magic. While they don't reach the size of the largest mechs from ''TabletopGame/DragonMech'', the Doom Striders do match the largest dragons.
338* ''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.
339* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
340** The 1st Edition module "Queen of the Demonweb Pits" has Lolth's Spider-Ship, a mobile fortress that operates very like a huge machine. (The control room is even called a "bridge" in-game", with {{Magitek}}-style control panels.)
341** ''TabletopGame/BasicDungeonsAndDragons'' has "Earthshaker", a Companion-level module for higher-level characters set in and around a gigantic gnome-crewed robot.
342** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'': The warforged are a playable race. Their "ancestors" (or more accurately, prototypes) called warforged titans, are not.
343** Some golems can get pretty humongous, as well, in particular the iron, mithral, and adamantine golems. However, the biggest autonomous constructs are undoubtedly the colossi, 9 meter tall humanoids of stitched flesh, hewn stone, or cast iron, only ever created by the mightiest wizards.
344** ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'': Meks are unapologetically giant mecha, built by some long-vanished insectoid race.
345** 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.
346* ''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.
347* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'': Before the Fall, 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.
348* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'''s Warstriders. Also, high-Essence Alchemical Exalts... until they turn into ''cities''. Also also Hellstriders. They're made of demons.
349* UsefulNotes/{{Fate}} Core offers the setting Camelot Trigger, which features Arthurian knights piloting [[AMechByAnyOtherName Armour]] as they battle evil robots across the solar system.
350** Princess Drive, a third party setting, features [[MagicalGirl magical girls]] who wield magical [[TransformationTrinket Drivers]] that allow them to summon giant mecha called [[TitleDrop Princess Drives]]
351* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Mecha'' gives players the wherewithal to design and build every example on this page and then some. Some find that doing this results in quite a startling mix of Tech Levels for all but the simplest battlesuit (GURPS Mecha defines a "battlesuit" as powered armour where the pilot's arms and legs extend into the suit's arms and legs. A "mecha" is piloted from a cockpit, so the Iron Man armour is a battlesuit, while an AT-AT is a mecha).
352** The ''Pyramid Magazine'' adventure for ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame'' "A Little Job For The Patrician" features a ''Discworld'' Mecha. Based on a design by Leonard of Quirm, adapted by a brilliant Agatean nobleman whose [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality narrative causality]] tends towards anime tropes, and powered by five trolls. The trolls even go through an {{Invocation}} as the thing assembles ("Other leg troll, put it together!"), although since they're trolls in a warm climate, it's possible they'd forget which one went where otherwise.
353** The mix of [[TechnologyLevels Tech Levels]] makes sense. Steel (TL 3) is still quite common as a building material today (TL 8).
354** ''GURPS Magic Items 3'' includes rules for "mechagolems", and a brief sketch of a setting where TheFairFolk use these in ritual battle with one another.
355* ''TabletopGame/HeavyGear'', which features smaller robots than TabletopGame/BattleTech's average, but which are definitely more than just body armor.
356* The ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'' game ''WARMACHINE'' is overflowing with (artifically-intelligent, rather than piloted) mecha, though most only qualify as MiniMecha. The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Colossals]], however, fit this trope quite well; the models are mounted on bases the size of a CD, in game where a human is 30mm tall. Unusually, the setting actually brings up the issue of the inefficiency of HumongousMecha: The Colossals were the first [[AMechByAnyOtherName warjacks]] to be created, but were abandoned for more efficient designs after the [[AbusivePrecursors Org]][[EvilOverlord oth]] were overthrown. The current Colossals are a recent development, with a whole book dedicated to their release.
357* ''{{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.
358* The satirical game ''TabletopGame/MachoWomenWithGuns'' had an enemy called [=BattleWarMechBots=]. It is giant smiley face with arms and legs. The fluff mentions that they "dominated the battlefields until people realized what a dumb idea they were", after which people pretended they had never used them and most were scrapped.
359* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', during the Invasion block storyline, Urza created mecha to fight the Phyrexian invasion. They can be seen on such cards as [[http://magiccards.info/in/en/178.html Urza's Rage]] and [[http://magiccards.info/in/en/24.html Pledge of Loyalty]] and despite the name are represented on the card [[http://magiccards.info/pvc/en/62.html Power Armor]].
360** Un related are [[http://magiccards.info/som/en/150.html Darksteel Juggernaut]], and [[http://magiccards.info/m10/en/208.html Darksteel Colossus]].
361*** Not to be outdone, the plane of [[{{Tomorrowland}} Kaladesh]] brings us [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=peacewalker&v=card&s=cname Peacewalker Colossus]], [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=metalwork+colossus&v=card&s=cname Metalwork Colossus]] and [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=gearhulk&v=card&s=cname The Gearhulks]].
362* ''TabletopGame/{{Mekton}}'' is a tabletop RPG that is meant to run any humongous mecha. "Excessive Scale" even allows one to create mecha on par with the eponymous ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
363** 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 Franchise/{{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.
364* The [[FunWithAcronyms G.U.A.R.D.]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' use these to fight Kaiju.
365** The Ubercorp faction uses robotic versions of kaiju to fight kaiju, and their services are for sale.
366* The TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds supplement ''Mecha & Manga'' has a chapter devoted to creating your own Humongous Mecha.
367* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' features a wide variety, from the Triax Devastator which can ''step on'' things up to the size of a two-story house, to designs such as the Ultimax and Terror Trooper which stand about twice the height of a man and blur the line between powered armor and mecha.
368** And the famous Glitterboy, which is fairly small for a mecha but has to use built-in drills to secure itself to bedrock in order to not fall over from firing its "Boom Gun" railgun.
369* The Nazis have these in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''.
370* TabletopGame/TheSingularitySystem features HumongousMecha as part of its vehicle combat system. Due to their unique designs, they are treated more like large-scale human combatants than vehicles.
371* ''TabletopGame/Space1889'' has a steampunk version of this. There are two prototype giant steam robots in the adventure Tom Fleet and his Steam Colossus in Challenge 61.
372* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
373** The Imperium of Man is best known in this particular case for its Titans, giant humanoid mecha that range in height from around 15 meters in the case of the Warhound Scout Titan to ''at least'' 50 meters in the case of the Emperor-class Titans[[note]]The fluff has never given an exact height; some have been reported as tall as 2km. Use [[https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7169/6725151529_13135ed3cd_b.jpg this]] as a decent approximation.[[/note]]. What is known is that the Emperor-class Titans are essentially walking cathedrals that can house entire companies of troops in their legs and pack firepower sufficient to do ground-to-orbit duty against enemy spaceships and devastate entire cities in one shot. There are also reports of mecha large and powerful enough to metaphorically mop the floor with even Emperor-class Titans, such as the Apocalypse-class. In game terms, an official model for an Emperor-class Titan has never been produced, but it's said that if one was built to scale with the Space Marine models, it would be the size of a 10-year-old. Similarly, anything large enough to take down an Emperor-class is probably large enough that if a model was ever made, with a bit of work with power tools you could ''wear it'' to a tournament.[[note]] Though maybe this is for the best - considering the usual [[CrackIsCheaper prices]] of the models, an Emperor-class Titan model would most likely be in the multi-10,000$-range ''at least''.[[/note]]
374** Ork mechas that fall into this class range from the Stompa and its variants to the Gargants, huge effigies of Gork (or maybe Mork) that plod across the battlefield, hauling ludicrous numbers of Orks in their hulls and carrying an equally ludicrous amount of firepower. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/e/e0/Ork_Gargants.gif/revision/latest?cb=20101101072721 Here's a size chart for the most popular huge Ork vehicles.]]
375*** The Orks during the [[Literature/TheBeastArises War of the Beast]], where the Imperium encountered the eponymous Beast's personal "temple" Gargant, a vast, Hive City-sized Gargant larger than any other mecha in the setting! It had [[MoreDakka enough firepower]] to [[CurbstompBattle effortlessly destroy an Imperial Titan battlegroup in one shot]], [[DeflectorShields nigh unbreachable shielding]], and could carry even more Gargants within. It proved to be nearly indestructible, and was only destroyed due to [[spoiler: a HeroicSacrifice made by the Primarch Vulkan]].
376*** To further emphasize how large this particular Gargant was, an accurately scaled "miniature" of it would apparently be the size of a ''small office building''.
377** The Aeldari of the Craftworlds have the Revenant Scout Titan, the Phantom Battle Titan, and the Warlock Titan, which are comparable to the Imperial Warhound and Reaver Titans in terms of size but, as is the case with anything constructed by the Aeldari, move and fight with astonishing speed and grace for as large as they are.
378** 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 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.)
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382* ''Theatre/GoldenBat'': The UrExample. The {{superhero}} Anime/GoldenBat fights a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever gigantic]] SuperRobot as one of his first enemies. It began as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai Kamishibai]] paper theatre show in 1930, before becoming a film and anime in the 1960's.
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386* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': Mata Nui is a planet-sized robot containing the entire [[HollowWorld "Matoran Universe" within himself]]. It was inhabited and piloted by a "Great Spirit", also named Mata Nui, who was exiled by [[BigBad Makuta]] when he committed GrandTheftMe. Makuta apparently had plans to use this new body to conquer the universe, but they... [[KilledOffForReal kinda fell through]].
387** During his exile on Bara Magna, [[spoiler: Mata Nui has found an older giant robot of nearly the same type, an early prototype for his former body, which the inhabitants had used as a shelter without knowing what it was. Mata Nui retrieved its power source, reassembled it, and activated and inhabited it to confront the approaching Makuta. [[CurbStompBattle It kinda didn't work]].]]
388** The Great Spirit robot actually carried two about human-sized pilots in its control center, placed there in case the robot malfunctioned or if Mata Nui lost control over his own body. Unfortunately, they died during the Great Cataclysm, which was caused by Mata Nui falling into a coma and crash-landing on a planet. Beyond this tidbit, though, the fact that he had manual controls never came up in the story.
389* Kotobukiya's [[http://fa.kotobukiya.co.jp/ Frame Arms.]] The background story provide that the Frame Architect was originally suppose to be labor machine in grand scheme known as Project Re Sphere. After 10 years of trial and error, they finally get Frame Architect 001 which can mimic human movement perfectly and can use in all environment by swapping parts. Unfortunely, Project Re Sphere doesn't get launch and Frame Architect instead got turn into weapon known as Frame Arms by various nations.
390** The ''Toys/FrameArmsGirls'', in the form of MoeAnthropomorphism. Not only they retained the part swapping elements, all the parts between Frame Arms, M.S.G. weapon kits and Frame Arms Girls are in fact, all compatible.
391* ''Toys/HeroFactory'' went this way for the 2014 sets. Instead of re-releasing the heroes with new armor and weapons, they were released as minifigures and put inside mechas to battle huge subterranean monsters.
392* ''Toys/LEGOExoForce'' is Franchise/{{LEGO}}'s incredibly {{animesque}} foray into the genre, a take on the standard tropes and themes of a Humongous Mecha series.
393* ''Toys/ThirtyMinutesMissions'' has the EXAMACS (Extended Armament & Module Assemble & Combine System), a type of [[MookMobile mass-produced mecha unit]] with modular and interchangeable parts, allowing them to adapt to various environments and situations easily.
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397* ''WebAnimation/TheMightyGrandPiton'': The titular Grand Piton is a giant mecha inspired by similar robots from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and ''Anime/GiantRobo''. The last shot of the short shows him facing an even ''bigger'' robot.
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401* Sarah Bryant's alien robot Webcomic/{{Adrastus}}.
402* Xuan, R2, and Sanna discover that their guardian is a mecha in this [[http://www.between-two-worlds.net/story/comic.php?id=214 page]] of ''WebComic/BetweenTwoWorlds.'' Xuan then becomes the mecha's pilot.
403* ''Webcomic/{{Chicanery}}'' has the might of The 2000" TV's Frank.
404* The [=VanGuard=] in ''Webcomic/DeviantUniverse'' stands at 250ft.
405* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has plenty of them, given that Sparks ''love'' to build stuff like that.
406** The first time that Agatha is without her RestrainingBolt, she builds a relatively small one out of a tractor and various spare parts ''in her sleep''. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030307 It leads Baron Wulfenbach straight to her door.]]
407** The Duke D'Omas' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031201 Walking Gunboats]] are, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The Duke D'Omas was "mad as a bag of clams,"[[note]]a compliment in [[MadScientist the GG universe]][[/note]] though the gunboats do look most impressive.
408** Tweedle first appears in the comic piloting one, though it almost immediately gets obliterated by a [[EldritchAbomination Dreen]] that he attempts to squash.
409** Count Wolkerstorfer combines this with expertise in MagnetismManipulation.
410* Molly's [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/377 robot lion]] from ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.''
411* ''Jayden and Crusader'' has a [[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2010/05/28/page-155/ steam powered mecha]] flying a giant Union Jack.
412* ''Kangtawoo'' is about a self-centered high school student who pilots a humongous mecha in order to battle the ''Spelta Empire''.
413* In the Minzuki issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'', a giant bat-mecha called "Battalion" is deployed to fight giant sea monsters (the issue ''does'' take place in Japan, after all).
414* {{Webcomic}} subversion: In ''Webcomic/MechagicalGirlLisaANT'', the A.N.T is a Humongous Mecha... [[MobileSuitHuman for ants.]] To a human, it looks more like a PoweredArmor.
415* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', the police cataclysm division (which ''facilitates'' cataclysms like 'zilla, zombie, and alien attacks, as long as they are done in an orderly fashion) employs mecha. They turn out to be less effective than robot-girl Ping.
416* The Gyeoknoho in ''Webcomic/{{Panthera}}''.
417* ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'': In one ImagineSpot, Pixie appears as "Captain Pixie", saving the city from rampaging robots with her giant robot friend Brutotron. In reality, Brutus knocks over "robots" made from cups.
418* ''Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'': Joe manages to build a couple for SEMME. They're all modeled after their drivers.
419* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' parodies this a few times, most notably in the [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 GOFOTRON arc.]]
420* '''Mechateuthis''' in Episode 2 of ''Webcomic/SpaceKid''.
421* In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', Max originally intended it to be a robot, but he could not get it to move right. [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-35/ solution: Mecha.]] (And he calls it a golem.)
422* Webcomic/StubbleTrouble once showed a giant robot tearing up the city while fighting several superheroes. Guests from another webcomic (in a crossover appearance) wondered why nothing this cool ever happened in their town.
423* ''Webcomic/{{Titanzer}}'', the main character's robot and title of the webcomic.
424* ''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.
425* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Uaid is already a construct five stories tall and the Crescian fire-lopers tower over him, and are designed for war while Uaid is designed to protect those he carries from pymary.
426* Huge, beetle-like giant mecha are featured in ''Webcomic/WeAreTheWyrecats''.
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430%%* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Neutro.
431* ''WebAnimation/TheChampions2018'': 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.
432* ''Script/C0DA'', written by former ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series writer/designer Creator/MichaelKirkbride, takes place in the far distant future of ''TES'' universe. Numidium, the [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]], 1000-foot-tall brass golem of [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]] construction, presumed destroyed following the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', returns after having been caught in a time warp. It continues its war on the [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri Dominion]], led by the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName fascistic Thalmor]], leading to an apocalyptic event known as "Landfall", which has forced the remaining inhabitants of Nirn to take refuge on the moon Masser. The story centers around the Dunmer noble Jubal-lun-Sul, who must defeat [[BigBad Numidium]] as part of an EngagementChallenge.
433* ''WebAnimation/FallenKingdom'': The Piglins' ultimate weapon is a giant Nether Star-powered mech which boasts great strength, though it's no match for [[spoiler:the Ender Dragon]].
434%%* ''Literature/TheFirstRun'': The [[HomemadeInventions prototype]].
435* ''Podcast/FriendsAtTheTable'' even seasons take place in science-fiction world where powerful mecha gods called Divines exists. Science-fiction seasons are full of love for mecha and GM Austin Walker is devoted fan of genre.
436%%* ''Blog/HowToHero'' discusses the phenomenon [[https://howtohero.tumblr.com/post/163740850408/giants here]]
437* ''Literature/IlivaisX'' is a mecha anime in WebSerialNovel format, using both RealRobot and SuperRobot influences. The eponymous mech (and the others like it) are more streamlined and shiny and just futuristic in general than other examples present.
438* ''Literature/TheImpossibleMan'' dedicated a chapter to a giant robot called, The Clipperstein Mark 100 Version Beta II X Turbo.
439* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries:''
440** The annual Celebration of Techonology features a giant robot battle royale between different companies' giant robots on an undisclosed moon or planet, and have occasionally been fierce enough to ''destroy'' said undisclosed moon or planet. The first one described, in the episode "Kawaii", features a lengthy battle between the descriptively named [=OctoBot=] Plus Two and the Giant-Ass Schoolgirl That's Kawaii as Fuck, Yo.
441** "Intimacy" features a giant-ass robot created by the same company that made the Giant-Ass Schoolgirl That's Kawaii as Fuck, Yo humping the Kakos Industries building throughout the episode. Corin gets on the case of company's CEO, Dirk Cornelius Sexplosion, to get rid of the robot before it reaches... completion.
442* ''WebVideo/MetaBallStudios'' produces 3D animations comparing the sizes of various real and fictional objects and characters, giant robots among them. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y6kW-m2JSA April 30, 2022 video]] focuses most directly on mecha, with the title specifiying that it compares ''piloted'' robots.
443* ''Website/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.
444* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Atlas has a massive humanoid robot called a colossus to defend the port city of Argus from the rare but extremely dangerous [[{{Kaiju}} leviathan Grimm]]. Despite its power, it's immediately pointed out that the mech is [[CripplingOverspecialization basically useless outside of fighting leviathans]]; it needs support from ordinary army units to handle the smaller Grimm that will inevitably follow any leviathans. When the heroes have to fight the colossus, everyone realizes that the fact that the commander deliberately sent it out alone into a situation she ''knew'' it wasn't designed for is a sign of her rising insanity. [[spoiler:This nearly gets Argus destroyed, as the heroes disabled the colossus and then a leviathan showed up]].
445* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' features two instances of giant mechas fighting each other.
446** The last third of "Anime Games" has Scott being pulled into an anime fight, with Scott and the opponent fighting inside giant mechs they conjured up.
447** 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 with a vat of goop he created that turns any game you submerge in it into a cyborg. He almost defeats Scott until the latter's copy of ''Madden 08'' falls into the same vat of goop, giving him a giant green ''Madden 08'' robot to fight with.]]
448* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The Foundation 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.]]]]
449** There's also the Foundation's own [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5514 SCP-5514]], a mecha they created together with the Global Occult Coalition to fight giant monsters. And thanks to [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic the use of anomalies in its design]], it's highly effective at said task.
450* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': "Tiny Tim", which the inventors are still working on, since -- in keeping with real physics -- it is so big that 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.
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454* Simon D Hunter pilots one in the ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' episode "Battle of the Century."
455* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': ClockPunk inventor Mechanikles must have read this entry, because most of his giant mecha are based on arthropods. One exception was a Humongous Mecha shaped like himself, but he soon lost it to a boy who [[FallingIntoTheCockpit fell into the cockpit]].
456* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' did a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' parody, the water tower was the main trio's Megazord.
457* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'':
458** Parodied in the episode "Fightan Titan" when Paul the Monster goes on a rampage in Seattle, Frylock recruits Shake, Meatwad, and Carl to assist him in piloting the titular robot to stop Paul. Unfortunately, the plan goes awry when Meatwad and Shake takes the arms and legs for a joyride, with Shake losing the legs after [[EpicFail getting beaten up by one guy]] while Carl makes [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere a break for it]] after seeing what they're getting into.
459** 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.
460* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' episode "Front Page News" featured a giant robot.
461* Creator/HannaBarbera got in on the SuperRobot style early, with ''WesternAnimation/FrankensteinJr'' back in 1966, in TheKidWithTheRemoteControl mode.
462* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Artifacts]]" features a future version of Mr. Freeze using one.
463** And in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' the Batmobile ''[[TransformingMecha transforms]]'' into a Bat-Mecha.
464* 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.
465* 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.
466* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'':
467** Both the [=GoBots=] themselves, and the Guardians' command center spaceships which can transform into gigantic [[Franchise/StarWars AT-AT]]-like piloted mecha.
468** The Renegades also have [[CombiningMecha Puzzler]] and [[{{Robeast}} Zod]].
469* 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]].
470* In the short cartoon ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperFriends'', The Joker gets one.
471* 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.
472* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' episode "The Monster", the titular monster is a giant robot that was scrapped by Urpgor, and accidentally reactivated by Blob, Frizz and Nug.
473* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': Both Dodgers and Cadet Porky utilize their own mechs to fight a renegade monster; Porky's machine turns into a giant gun, while Dodgers's transforms into a hand, which he uses to operate Porky's gun.
474* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''
475** An ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short had two. First, the short opened with [[ShowWithinAShow the Crimson Chin]] fighting [[TheCameo the Frederator Robot]]. Then, at the end, Cosmo and Wanda poof up a giant robot so [[CreateYourOwnVillain Timmy has a villain to fight.]]
476** In Mr. Dinkleberg's first appearance, he and Mr. Turner turn their cars into giant robots and do battle with them.
477* In ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatJoeOriolo'', the Master Cylinder was this in his debut episode, but he quickly abandoned this form for a smaller, more compact and mobile body.
478* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' got in the act after Nixon got re-elected.
479** The Mobile Oppression Palace.
480** Giant Bender in the first "What if" episode.
481** The anime-style segment in "Reincarnation" of course features one of these, albeit briefly: Zagtar, a Voltron pastiche.
482* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'':
483** Episode 19 reveals that [[spoiler:Rex can turn into one.]]
484** In "End Game", [[spoiler:The Meta enhanced Consortium can merge into one.]]
485*** In "End Game part 2" [[spoiler:Rex gets an Omega build version of his one]]
486* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'' had The Colossus of Atlantis, a giant robot in charge of awakening the Atlanteans when they went into suspended animation to escape the great earthquake that sank the city.
487* The Lizard Slayers in ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries''.
488* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
489** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E20GideonRises Gideon Rises]]", 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.
490** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E20WeirdmageddonPart3TakeBackTheFalls Weirdmageddon Part 3: Take Back the Falls]]", 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 manmade and fantastical. The result is ''glorious.''
491* ''WesternAnimation/{{Insektors}}'' had Koa the Frog/Operation Frogbucket, which resulted in an army of giant mechanical frogs.
492* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' had one in the first episode, which Zim used to accidentally [[EpicFail destroy most of his own planet's army and city]]. A later episode had the titular [=MegaDoomer=], which was smaller but had the ability to become invisible (although the pilot and the power cord it had to be plugged into remained visible).
493* ''WesternAnimation/JellyJamm'' has an episode where Mina builds a giant robot to help Bello change the lightbulb on his Jammboman helmet, Jammboman being Bello's pretend superhero persona. Bello later tinkers up the robot, turning it into a mech called Jammbobot for Jammboman to use to aid in his crime-fighting pursuits -- it even has a theme song ("Jammbobot! Jammbobot! Jammbobot! Jammbobot!").
494* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', [[MadScientist Heloise]] has several, including a spider-shaped one [[FluffyTheTerrible named Angela]].
495* Quite a few are built in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBunch''. They're all made of [[BambooTechnology logs and twigs]].
496* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E18And19Legends Legends]]" starts with the League battling a giant machine in the city that's controlled by Lex Luthor from a distance.
497* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has plenty of giant mechas. Examples the robot from the pilot, the robots from TheMovie, the robots from the GrandFinale and a big flamingo.
498* The mecha tanks in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' were created by Hiroshi Sato for [[spoiler:the Equalists]]. Team Avatar and even Tenzin have to try and fight them throughout the latter half of Book 1. And in the end, Asami Sato gets into a final showdown with [[spoiler:her father]] with this machine, which she said works like a "Future Industries forklift".
499** They get an overhaul in Book 4, with actual legs and flamethrowers, coming closer to PoweredArmor. Later, there's also a two-man "hummingbird" variant capable of flying. [[spoiler:Near the end, Kuvira unveils the Colossus, a proper Humongous Mecha roughly 25 stories high made of platnium (so it's immune to metalbending) armed with a WaveMotionGun fueled by spirit energy.]]
500* In an homage to Lex Luthor's PoweredArmor, resident RichBitch Alexis apparently built her own (relatively small) mecha-suit in ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006''.
501* Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' is possibly the best Western parody, with an alien robot from the future crash-landing in a [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] junkyard, where the main character, Coop, buys it for two bucks... which he never actually pays.
502* ''WesternAnimation/OurCartoonPresident'': In the 2018 Election Special, Hillary Clinton drives a robot version of herself to deliver a speech to the crowd and take down Donald Trump.
503* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': Brain and his archnemesis Snowball the hamster are battling in their robotic human disguises when suddenly Snowball's suit transforms into a Humongous Mecha, complete with rockets blasting out of its shoulders.
504* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' After seeing how dangerous their missions can get, the Professer invents the Dynamo ([[FunWithAcronyms DYnamic NAnotechtonic MOnobot]]). The girls, being {{Flying Brick}}s already, spent most of the episode ignoring it, much to the Professor's dismay... Until they eventually encountered a {{Kaiju}} they couldn't beat on their own, and thus had to break it out to fight it. Unfortunately, being {{Destructive Savior}}s already, the fight ends up demolishing near all the city in the process and, as a result, the townsfolk demand the girls never touch the thing again.
505** Their [[Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ Japanese counterparts]] also have their own version of Dynamo, except this one consists of three Dynamos, one for each girl. They’re much more reasonable while they handle them in fights.
506* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' had one that was a parody of Franchise/PowerRangers which was used to battle a Godzilla parody.
507* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotix}}'', who (like the Go-Bots) were originally an organic race before transferring their minds into robotic bodies.
508* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': In "Robo-Samurai vs Mondo Bot", Jack takes on a rogue attack robot destroying a city while using his own stone giant to fight it.
509* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
510** In the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E5TheNewTerranceAndPhillipMovieTrailer The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer]]", Chef's giant plasma TV transforms into a humongous mecha and goes on the rampage. By the end of the episode, Chef is still on the phone with customer service, trying to shut down the TV.
511** ''Barbra Streisand'' transforms into a humongous mecha and goes on the rampage. However, it's not a not humanoid but a godzilla-like machine. The word 'mecha' is used in the episode to describe Ike, who's merely giant and not mechanical in any way. She returns in episodes 200 and 201, upgraded and deadlier and ''very'' angry at the town.
512** Brian Boitano traveled through time to the year 3010, fought the evil robot king and saved the human race again.
513* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Challenge". Zorak creates a giant robot that has powerful beam weapons and a force field and challenges Space Ghost to fight it.
514* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': There's a couple giant, piloted mechas in the series. First, there's the Storkasaurus that Stork builds out of pieces of the Storkmobile amidst his breakdown, then there's the Suit of Untold Vengeance which the Dark Ace steals for himself in another episode.
515* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' is about a kid and a bunch of robot monkeys who ''live'' in a Mecha.
516* ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'': Kani built one out of [[BambooTechnology bamboo]], but since the Pack are bite-sized themselves, it's only as big as a normal human.
517* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'': The titular robot is formed by the combined armors of Lance and Ilana along with Octus to battle the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Mutraddi MegaBeasts]].
518* Cyborg builds one for the team to use in emergencies on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. Robin is very excited to use it until he learns he's the left leg.
519* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'', where Duncan, while trying to catch a raccoon, faces a horde of raccoons forming a huge machine-like army by standing on top of one another. Duncan comments that it's [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} "more than meets the eye!"]]
520** Parodied again during ''Action''. Harold and Beth have to fight in ones during the Kung Fu challenge, but they turn out to be very simple, giant versions of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots with Duncan and Courtney controlling them.
521* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' and the various series showcase a Western version of the archetypical transforming mecha. It's especially notable because unlike the usual mecha show, there are no pilots or crew to be the stars -- the mecha themselves ''are'' the stars, being sentient robots.
522** Even in a show of humongous mechas, some of them were EXTREMELY humongous. There was Sky Lynx and Omega Supreme, who were overshadowed by the fortress-bots Metroplex and Trypticon, who were in turn dinky compared to the city-bots Fortress Maximus and Scorponok. To say nothing of the Chaos Bringer, Unicron, or the Transformers' creator god, Primus, who are ''freaking planet-sized Transformers''.
523** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated,'' the aforementioned Omega Supreme (and apparently, ''every other Greek letter'' Supreme) are HumongousMecha driven ''by Transformers''. Giant robots driving giant robots, yes.
524* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'' had an episode called "Dog Daze" where Snaptrap owned one he used with his D.O.O.M. organization to wreak havoc on Petropolis. It humorously was acknowledged by him and Dudley to get horrible fuel mileage.
525* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''. 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.
526* Nox's Giant Spider Clock Fortress in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''.
527* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' had the Robomechabotatron; which Wander, Sylvia, Lord Hater and Commander Peepers had to work together to operate to try to take down Lord Dominator (whose spaceship could also transform into one). It went about as well as you expect...
528* In the ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' short "WesternAnimation/TheSolidTinCoyote", Wile E. resorts to building a giant remote-controlled robot from scrap metal in his latest attempt to catch the Road Runner.
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532* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBKSO4DvWk&feature=PlayList&p=94EFCEE0E015C827&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=51 Code Guardian,]] set during [=WW2=], has a giant German mecha duke it out with a giant American mecha as the former tries to destroy a naval ship yard only to have [[spoiler:a giant Japanese samurai mecha show up at the end]].
533* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' 2 uses these as the basis for the godmodder's armies fairly often, usually in the shape of Minecraft mobs.
534** There are lots of others, Optimus Prime and Redeemer Hitler being two examples.
535* ''Roleplay/UNMDFirstContact'' is based around using these to fight {{Kaiju}}.
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539* Some kind of weaponized excavator would come pretty close to a more feasible version of the same concept, as demonstrated on one double-length ''Series/ScrapheapChallenge'' special (albeit with smaller excavators then you'd need to really be this trope).
540** 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 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]].
541* Though by no means humanoid, the largest dragline excavators could be considered to loosely fit this trope, at least in the sense of being giant vehicles that move by walking. Examples [[https://americanmineservices.com/largest-dragline-in-the-world/]].
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