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Who needs an Abrams tank when you can have a 100-foot man-shaped robot with a [[LaserBlade glowing sword]] and [[RocketPunch a fist that fires off like a missile?]] There's no argument - [[RuleOfCool fighting robots are just infinitely cooler than ordinary vehicles]]. Whatever their shape, though, they are all known as "mecha".

The "mecha", or "giant robot", concept is ubiquitous in Japanese pop culture, and is more than adequately represented in {{anime}}. Despite the name, the robots need not actually be "giant" - [[MiniMecha some are merely human-sized, and some even smaller.]] Mecha themselves usually divided between "{{Super Robot}}s" and "{{Real Robot}}s", the distinction typically being where they belong on the MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness, though there are as many different kinds of ''settings'' for mecha as there are genres.

The giant robot genre is considered to be the creation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, creator of ''Tetsujin #28'' (''{{Gigantor}}'') and ''GiantRobo'' (''Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot''). Both of these featured the early trope of TheKidWithTheRemoteControl. The genre was further defined and refined by Go Nagai. His ''MazingerZ'' (''Tranzor Z'' in the United States) holds the distinction of being the very first piloted giant robot. In that series and others (''GetterRobo, UFORoboGrendizer,'' etc.), Nagai singlehandedly invented nearly every classic trope of the SuperRobot genre: the rocket-fist, the blazing sword, the amazing entrance from a secret launch bay, and the first transforming and combining robots.

YoshiyukiTomino (''BraveRaideen, {{Zambot 3}}, CombattlerV'') started out emulating Nagai. Wanting to write a serious war story but under contract to crank out robot anime, he finally said "let's watch both!" and created ''MobileSuitGundam'', the first step toward the RealRobot subgenre. In its wake, such series as ''{{Dougram}}'' and ''[[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS VOTOMS]]'' refined the concept with robots that looked as though actual military people had designed and built them. ''{{Macross}},'' in this context, was merely the first anime to come up with transforming robots that still looked like reasonable examples of military hardware.

[[OlderThanTheyThink Mythology as a whole is also replete with artificial humans and similar automatons]] [[GreekMythology (eg. Talos, the great bronze automaton built by Hephaestus)]], but special mention goes to [[OlderThanDirt Hindu mythology]]. One of the three tasks the gods set to protect their elixir, the Amrita, was a robot with ''[[ChainsawGood rotary saws for hands]]''.

See also CombiningMecha, where the mecha is comprised in turn of smaller mecha or vehicles, and TransformingMecha, where the mecha transforms to and from another form. If a mecha is small but still piloted as opposed to "worn", it's a MiniMecha; otherwise, see PoweredArmor. SpiderTank is a variant which replaces humanoid and animal configurations with an [[BigCreepyCrawlies insectile design]].

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* ''Tetsujin #28'', or ''{{Gigantor}}'' as it was originally known in North America, was probably the first "giant robot" anime imported to the United States. This black-and-white series was aired during the 1960s in many markets.
* GoNagai's ''MazingerZ'' was the first series to feature giant robots piloted by humans, the convention which came to define the entire genre. It also created the SuperRobot as we know it, featuring, if not originating, many of the tropes that have come to be associated with the genre. The series, along with sequels ''GreatMazinger'' and ''UFORoboGrendizer'', have been aired worldwide.
* The ''{{Gundam}}'' metaseries more or less launched the RealRobot subgenre, and its dozen or so sequels, prequels, and {{Alternate Universe}}s refined it perhaps more than any other series. The [[MobileSuitGundam original series]] had Transforming and Combining Mecha, due to its SuperRobot roots, but these were {{retcon}}ned out in the [[AlternateContinuity movies]]. Recently, ''GundamSEED'' brought back TransformingMecha, and its immediate sequel, ''GundamSEEDDestiny'', features a new CombiningMecha, the modular-design Impulse Gundam.
** In ''GundamWing'', a bit of {{Lampshade Hanging}} goes on for the humongous mechas in the series where Lt. Noin explains that the advent of the mechas came about when the Alliance wanted a physically intimidating weapon.
* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' features some of the earliest transforming mecha, with the Valkyrie jet/space fighters that could turn into humanoid robots and a hybrid semihumanoid/semijet ("gerwalk") form. The Macross itself was a huge spaceship that could rearrange itself into a pointlessly humanoid configuration.
** When SDF-1 performed Hypespace Fold at the beginning of the show, it's fold drive misteriously disappeared along with a chunk of other machinery and major powerlines. So, the whole point of Modular Transformation was to reconnect [[WaveMotionGun Macross Canon]] to the power supply.
**This, however, was completely ignored in the following series on the same universe, and "Macross" type spaceships always have to transform into some pointless humanoid form to fire their main gun. ''{{Rule of cool}}'' all the way.
***MacrossFrontier doesn't always follow this, however. Both the ''Macross Quarter'' and ''Battle Frontier'' are seen firing their primary weapons while in "ship" mode.
***The humanoid configuration also allows the capital ships to use the ''[[RammingAlwaysWorks Macross]] [[MegatonPunch Attack]]'' without compromising the firepower, safety, or maneuverability of the entire ship.
** It was intercut and dubbed with with ''{{Mospeada}}'' and ''SouthernCross'' by Carl Macek to [[{{Macekre}} create the frankenseries]] that is ''{{Robotech}}''.
** Another mech that's particularly iconic to the series is the Destroid Monster, which has an appearence and speed that wouldn't look out of place in BattleTech.
* ''GetterRobo'', the first transforming and CombiningMecha, which also features some of the most humongous mecha in the medium. The mecha progressively increase in size and ridiculousness over the series, ending with the Getter Emperor which [[spoiler: stands over a freakin' ''galaxy'']].
** On the other hand ''Freeder Bug'', also created by the late Ken Ishikawa has some of the ''least'' humongous HumongousMecha in anime or manga, not counting power suits. They're essentially just heads with stumpy limbs and a chair fixed to the back, and are smaller than an adult man.
* ''GiantRobo'' is a descendant of a 1960s live-action series brought to the U.S. as ''Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot''.
* Subverted in ''20th Century Boys''. The BigBad, Friend, holds a robotics engineer hostage so that he can construct a fifty-foot giant mecha to use on the Bloody New Year's Eve. However, throughout the brainstorming process, the aformentioned engineer is on the verge of snapping because he can't get them to understand that a robot construted in such a way probably couldn't even ''stand'', much less cause massive havoc and destruction.
* ''{{Gasaraki}}'' is a recent release which attempts (amidst an incomprehensible mass of mysticism) to show a "realistic" view of giant war robots in a contemporary setting. The "Tactical Armors" of ''Gasaraki'' are not much larger than a main battle tank, require extensive support squads, and can have their joints fouled by blowing sand.
* ''InfiniteRyvius'' subverted this by having the characters burst into laughter when they first saw a giant humanoid robot because it seemed so impractical. Needless to say, they were proven wrong.
* ''FullMetalPanic'', like ''Gasaraki'', attempts to show "realistic" robots in a "modern" setting, but is considerably more relaxed about what constitutes "realistic", not to mention 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.
* The Eva's of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fame are pretty much this, except for them being organic, and pretty much capable of acting on their own, and even going berserk. They still require external power feed to stay active, though.
** Not precisely. It is implied that the external power supplies are a consequence of NERV's attempts to keep the Eva series under human control. Unit 01 in particular has moved without power during periods of high synchronisation. The consequences were... [[NightmareFuelUnleaded unsettling]].
***Then again, if the external power limitation was only about controlling the Eva, then why would they want to implant an Artificial S2 Engine in Unit-04?
* ''ParallelTroubleAdventureDual'' gently parodies ''Evangelion'' and giant robots in general while still having an upbeat and entertaining plot. It features an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who gains TheUnwantedHarem when he turns out to be the only male capable of operating a "Core Robot", an apparent RealRobot, but later updates to a SuperRobot similar in appearance to the mecha of Escaflowne.
* ''EurekaSeven'' also uses mecha similiar to ''Evangelion'', where the mecha are more than simple robots. The LFO and KLF units, as they are called, have a form of sky surfing applied to their operation. Additionally, the units are TransformingMecha, as most can change into land vehicles.
* The immensely popular ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' not only features a battle mecha class called the "Aestivalis", but also incorporates a 1970s-style SuperRobot anime called ''Gekiganger 3'' as a ShowWithinAShow. "G3" is a clear homage to the early classic ''Getter Robo'', and manages to hit all the classic melodramatic cliches of the genre.
* The popular Japanese franchise ''SakuraTaisen'' employs not-so-Humongous mecha (only about 10-12 feet tall), powered entirely by steam (and empowered by the pilots' psychospiritual ability, or "reiryoku"). The mecha fight demons and evil spirits who, in turn, pilot their own appropriately evil steam-powered robots. The franchise's mecha are entirely super, though, with a whole list of [[CallingYourAttacks named super-moves]] and various highly improbable weapons, including a revolver, gun-barrel sword, and giant psychically animated teddy bears.
* ''{{Patlabor}}'' is likely the most feasible HumongousMecha anime, featuring short, non-combat robots used for civilian purposes such as construction. The only combat robots belong to the protagonists, the police, who prevent mecha-related crimes and the military, like the Japanese Self-Defense Force.
* A recent example is ''SoukouNoStrain'', which, though it may not be what it seems, is certainly about mecha pilots.
* ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' has a nation composed of a religious minority who have giant mecha given to them by their god to defend themselves. Considering the rest of the world hasn't even invented gunpowder, this is probably overkill. [[spoiler:Then again, their god ''is'' a psychotic nihilist.]]
* ''TenchiMuyo! GXP'': [[spoiler: the main character Seina, already the captain of his own ship, finds a giant mecha in a late episode, and after using it to trash a few pirate landcruisers, decides, "Ships are great and all, but real men need giant robots!" His giant robot also looks suspiciously similar to one from [[ParallelTroubleAdventureDual another anime from the same creator]].]]
* The leaders of the Nobuseri bandits in ''[[SamuraiSeven Samurai 7]]'' are massive cyborgs, with swords the size of houses.
* ''SkyGirls'' contains about every cliche in this trope, including {{Lolicon}}-like female pilots wearing [[LatexSpaceSuit extremely skin-tight and revealing g-suits]].
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' pushes the "humongous" part to ridiculous degrees. Each Gunman can synch to its pilot to the degree that it can power-up directly from the pilot's sheer emotional determination! The last few episodes of the series feature increasingly giant power-ups to the titular robot, each one surpassing the last, culminating in [[spoiler:Chouginga Gurren-Lagann, which is larger than the Moon, and finally Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, which uses entire galaxies as stepping stones]]!
** Stepping stones? You forget ''throwing stars.''
*** [[http://i29.tinypic.com/2w56b8h.gif *ahem*]]
**** And that image is too small. It's 100 times the size of the MILKY WAY. DAMN.
** [[spoiler:And then the series [[http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7553/ohgodepic.jpg broke the size record]] '''again''' in the second movie. It almost wouldn't feel right to call it a mecha anymore...]]
* Forget everything that is said about [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann TTGL]] breaking size records, [[DidNotDoTheResearch because the people who say this have never played or watched]] ''{{Demonbane}}''. The titular mech (which is powered by [[{{Magitek}} magic]], incidentally) isn't much larger than an average robot, but its [[CthulhuMythos Elder God form]] is big enough to ''pop'' the universe it was summoned in and destroys nearby universes ''by brushing up against them.''
* ''Gunbuster'' and its sequel ''Diebuster'' have Mecha even more Humongous than most- Gunbuster is hundreds of meters tall, and Diebuster is approximately the same height as the Earth itself.
** Probably worth noting that {{Gunbuster}} and {{Diebuster}} were made by the same [[StudioGainax studio]] as [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]]. In fact the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann was probably partly to upstage the Diebuster, which in turn upstaged every other {{Humongous Mecha}} that came before, except maybe [[TransformersGeneration1 Unicron]]).
* The Xephon from ''RahXephon'', although obviously and definitely not mechanical, follows many of the genre's tropes to a T.
* The Rune Gods in ''MagicKnightRayearth'' take form of not just beastly creatures, but also HumongousMecha based on those said creatures.
** This funnily creates a fan-wishing to include MagicKnightRayearth in SuperRobotWars, despite the difference in theme of story. Well, who wouldn't want to see Rayearth teaming up with, say, GaoGaiGar? This troper is actually one of them.
* Let's not forget all the HumongousMecha that Team Rocket wields in the ''{{Pokemon}}'' anime. One has to wonder where they get the money for all those giant robots, considering that they're both deep in debt and far out of favor with their boss...
** In one episode (In the recent Diamond/Pearl series), it was noted that Team Rocket stole various parts from a factory, which they used to build that episode's mecha. That seems to help keep their expenses down.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]]'' in which the wolves accidentally reawaken an ancient defensive mecha while making their way through a ruined city.
* The main villains in ''ScrappedPrincess'' are capable of transforming into HumongousMecha. They are forced to use {{power limiter}}s to maintain a normal human guise until they are authorized to carry out their mission.
* Mecha are part of the central conflict in ''CodeGeass''. A one-sided war was won with them, and now they're being used to reclaim the country from TheEmpire.
* In ''GadGuard'', the mecha aren't ''piloted'', per se. Rather, the person they "belong to" rides around on their shoulder, or some such. While some of them occasionally give their mechs orders (especially the villain), they tend to act on their own. In battle at least...
* The Armor Troopers from ''[[ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS VOTOMS]]'' (Verticle One Man Tank for Offense and Maneuvers) are perhaps among the most perceivable (combat based) humongous mecha in real life. They are no taller than 4 meters, do not transform, don't fly, and generally don't have any unique powers. They are more like bipedal tanks than anything else.
** See also many of the other series created by Ryosuke Takahashi, such as Dougram and SPT Layzner. While they're not as realistic as VOTOMS, they are compared to the majority of mecha shows and have a similar gritty atmosphere.
* ''{{Geneshaft}}'' has a very weird mecha, which looks more like a set of cranes welded together to vaguely resemble a human outline. It is also totally unclear ''why'' it should look remotely human anyway, given its function in the story.
* Funnily enough, ''Saber Marionette J'' parodies this when the Imperial Palace eventually transforms into a Giant Robot, who is then used to attack and stop a Giant Bomb.
* The ''Brave'' franchise is a series of mecha shows each starring a different Super Robot and their respective crews. They will often feature a pair of main characters, rather than a single one (usually a young boy and a grown man, who often serves as a big brother feature). By far the most famous of these is ''The King of Braves GaoGaiGar'', a series which managed to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Reconstruction recapture the feel of fun and Hot bloodedness of mecha from the 70]]'s amidst a wave of DarkerAndEdgier mecha series in the wake of Evangelion. Also had a sequel OVA a few years later which managed to be of better quality (especially the fight scenes!) than most series of its kind. And even that proved so popular it got a special edition just five years later, linking it to {{Betterman}}, a much different kind of mecha show from the same company.
* ''TheBigO'' puts Victorian-looking giant robots in a creepy retro-future ''film noir'' setting reminiscent of recent Batman cartoons.
* Ramrod from ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs''
* ''Dai-Guard'' turns its focus on the giant robot's pilots and all of the red tape they have to cut through to save the world.
* The robots from ''{{Bokurano}}'' are freaking enormous. Zearth is ''half a kilometer tall'', and is estimated to be able to destroy the entire military forces of the U.S. in two days.
* Each of the different nationality random girls in ''{{Rizelmine}}'' has one, each almost more ridiculous than the last.
* The mecha in ''{{Irresponsible Captain Tylor}}'' seem to be specifically designed to subvert the "Humongous" part of this trope, in fact most of their pilots are huge and shown to be very cramped inside their mecha. The big butch leader is in a pink one. The general design of the mecha is similar to the squat egg-shaped ones found in ''{{Sakura Wars}}''.
* Even a series like ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has them (maybe [[FantasyKitchenSink the series is just like that]]). They were created using the [[SuperProtoType Proto Type]] data from a [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] [[{{Obake}} demon]] god.
** (Much) Later on, Haruna uses her artifact to create a life-size robot body for [[CuteGhostGirl Sayo]]. Of course, Sayo can only use the robot body by possessing a small voodoo doll and climbing inside the robot body and piloting it HumongousMecha style.
* ''{{Zoids}}'' manages to buck the trend in giant robots by having its titular robots patterned after nearly every animal imaginable ''except'' humans. This ranges from tractors shaped like beatles to flying battleships that look like ''whales''. A recurring theme through the various editions of the franchise is that the hero tends to pilot a Zoid based on a large feline (usually called a "Liger"), while his [[TheDragon rival]] pilots a robotic dinosaur.
* In "Project A-Ko" B-Ko creates these although she is perhaps better known for her Bikini Battlesuit.
* ''{{Busou Renkin}}'' has an example in the form of Great Warrior Chief Shosei Sakaguchi's Busou Renkin, Buster Baron, which resembles a 57m knight armed with a pair of knuckle dusters and a jet pack and is capable of using giant forms of the Busou Renkin of alchemy warriors who are riding in it.
* The titular {{Escaflowne}} is a 20-something-foot-tall MagiTek mecha that can transform into a dragon-mech.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''{{X-Men}}'' has the Sentinels, mutant-hunting HumongousMecha. They started out small (when compared to Evangelion, 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. 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.) It seems the government types [[GenreSavvy finally learned their lesson]], because lately, Sentinels tend to be standard HumongousMecha - 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]] [[DontExplainTheJoke being protected by a burning cross]]."
* Does anyone remember First Comics' ''Dynamo Joe''? (Sometimes scripted by PhilFoglio.)
* The BGY-11 of ''Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot'' is secretly a humongous mecha; the world at large and Rusty in particular assume that it is a sentient robot, and maintaining this secret complicates several episodes.
* Back when Marvel had licenced Godzilla as a character, they also created the Red Ronin giant robot to fight him. Godzilla has faded away from the Marvel Universe, but the Red Ronin still shows up. Occasionally.
**In ''EarthX'', 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 HumongousMecha to give them shape.
** Marvel also, for a short time, ran a Shogun Warriors comic, featuring the Super Robots ''CombattlerV'', ''BraveRaideen'', and ''DangardAce''
* Kazu Kibuishi's {{Amulet}} [[spoiler:features a house which sprouts arms and legs and starts walking.]]
* Warren Ellis' ''Tokyo Storm Warning''.
*No love for the Vaultraun Force from ''{{Series/GoldDigger}}''? Seriously, a bunch of [[{{Combining Mecha}} shoes that merge together]] and make a large (for tiny Leprechauns) mecha?
** Ahem. This would be a MobileSuitHuman.
* The Man-Robots from the Disney Comics story "The Giant Robot Robbers" by CarlBarks.
* Jack Hawksmoor of TheAuthority can actually turn ''cities'' into HumongousMecha. As in, walk into the middle of Tokyo, ask it very nicely, and come out wearing battle armour made of concrete and skyscrapers.
* ''{{Amulet}}'' features one. It's a ''house'' that sprouts arms and legs.
* The Guardians in Doug Tennapel's ''Gear''.
**Nothing quite like mecha being piloted by anthropmorphic cats who look like they could have easily been extras on ''Steamboat Willie''
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[[folder:Commercials]]
* Several advertisements for the Citroën C4 feature the car transforming into a Humongous Mecha.
* There's also a Singapore Army ad featuring ''a Navy Cruiser TransformingMecha''. Now that's what I call firepower!
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[[folder: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.
* The ''StarWars'' AT-ST's (chickenwalkers) and the AT-AT's are among the most visually distinctive mecha in popular culture. The ease with which the various Imperial Walkers are defeated demonstrates the impracticality of the whole concept. Rebel fighters literally ''trip up'' the AT-AT's, and a band of teddy-bear like people set up BambooTechnology traps in a forest to obliterate a group of AT-ST's. Darth Vader should remote-strangle the whole R&D team. There's a ''reason'' why real-life tanks are built with as low a profile and as low a center of gravity as possible.
**And then there's the Transformers: Crossovers toy line which features an AT-AT which transforms into a giant robot.
***The same line also features a Transforming DEATH STAR.
** [[FridgeLogic To be fair,]] modern tanks also rely on close infantry support when working in close environments to stop enemy infantry doing unpleasant things to them up close, and lets be honest the effectiveness of the {{Bambootechnology}} against even the Stormtroopers was fairly surprising and perhaps slightly over-stated, never mind the Scout Walkers. We saw heavily armed elite troops with [[{{Armourisuseless}} full armour and helmets]] being knocked unconscious with a single hit from a small hand held rock by a ''teddy bear'', so reality is already in the backseat. The situation should have been closer to {{Zulu}}, but that might have given the film a higher certificate. As for Empire, if you think about the amount of power it would take to move that thing, is it really likely that a little bit of steel cable (that is only secured at one end), could cause it to topple? Given that the Snow Speeders seem to be custom designed to do this (what else are you going to use that magentic harpoon and cable for?) it must have been tried before. But even if the empire didn't fit it with cable cutters on the legs (e.g. as many modern helicopters have), it moves so slowly that it shouldn't have over-balanced anyway, its not like it has much momentum built up. The driver should have just put the leg forward, realised the problem and brought it back again, while the weight was taken with the other three legs. Or maybe even take a wild guess as to why the speeder is madly circling him so close and just stop? They could then send out some infantry to cut the cable while the walker provides covering fire. Think about if you tried this trick on a walking elephant, do you think it would fall over on its face or just stop? Of course, as with all things in {{Star Wars}}, large dollops of the {{Rule of Cool}} may have influenced the outcomes.
*** This troper thinks that since the concepts of mecha are impractical anyway, it's perfectly acceptable to have the methods used to disable them as well as their design and intended use further towards the soft end of MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness
* [[{{Godzilla}} Mecha-Godzilla.]]
** Also MOGUERA and Jet Jaguar, but Jet Jaguar [[LittleBigMan doesn't start out humongous]].
* Most of {{WALL-E}}'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 titular trash compactor robot.
* ''TheIronGiant'' The title says it all.
* ''Matrix: Revolutions'': Humanity fights off a flood of enemy machines with 20' tall humanoid mecha. Hilariously, the pilots are almost completely exposed in the suits, making them pretty worthless once the machines get close.
** Word of God said that even with the armor, the machines tore through it like butter, meaning there was no point it keeping it there if it was just going to be useless anyway
* Speaking of arthropoda, ''Wild Wild West'' features steampunk, spider-shaped giant mecha.
* ''Robot Jox'' 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.
** It possibly inspired GGundam.
* ''Aliens'': Ripley in the Power Loader, leading to a CrowningMomentofAwesome.
* The climax of ''{{District 9}}'' features a rampage by a highly mobile, heavily armored and DEVASTATINGLY well armed mecha in the main character's CrowningMomentofAwesome.
* A rare, non-humanoid example: in the 2005 version of War of the Worlds, 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 humongous mecha.
* A giant TransformingMecha appeared in the latest ''{{Terminator}}'' movie.
* The climax in ''We Are The Strange'' has a giant mecha fighting a giant monster.
* There is a giant robot that guards the gates to the Goblin City in ''{{Labyrinth}}''
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Empire'', by Orson Scott Card.
** 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.
*** [[FlatWhat What.]]
**** The mecha part wasn't actually his idea--it was made for some RTS. The rest of it, though...
* The ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, again, features lots of big walking war machines aside from the AT-AT and AT-ST models.
* Perhaps, collectively, the [[spoiler:army of giant golems]] in ''Discworld/MakingMoney''.
** Moist also introduces the idea of thirty foot killer golems, since "If you don't invent thirty-foot killer golems first, someone else will".
* William Keith's ''Warstrider'' series.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In live-action, giant transforming and combining mecha have been a staple of the ''SuperSentai'' franchise since its third installment, ''Battle Fever J'', having borrowed the concept from a live-action Japanese adaptation of ''{{Spider-Man}}''. Yes, ''that'' Spider-Man.
** Later installments of the franchise (from ''Dinosaur Task Force Zyuranger'' onwards) would be adapted into PowerRangers.
* ''DoctorWho'' had a [[spoiler: 100-foot tall {{Steampunk}} Cyberman]] in the latest Christmas special
*A [[NeedsMoreLove largely forgotten]] but MostTriumphantExample is the Swiss-army knife that is Drago from {{Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad}}, 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.
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[[folder:NewspaperComics]]
* ''DickTracy'' had TRAZE-R, a thirty-foot high robot Dick Tracy that fought an enemy robot to the death. Like everything else about ''DickTracy'', TRAZE-R was [[CloudCuckoolander absolutely bugnuts insane]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* Parodied in the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" video.
* The [[http://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''.
* LinkinPark's video for ''Points Of Authority'' features CGI HumongousMecha, 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.
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* The classic western HumongousMecha RPG is ''MechWarrior'', the role-playing side of the ''BattleTech'' tactical miniature games. They feature everything from 3-meter tall battle frames to hulking 25-meter tall HumongousMecha, and even had TransformingMecha before their uncanny similarity of those models to {{Robotech}}'s more famous mecha was noticed. Originally created by FASA Corporation in 1984, it was sold to WizKids in 2000, and has been owned since 2003 by Topps.
* Possibly the ''weirdest'' HumongousMecha RPG is the DungeonsAndDragons-based {{Steampunk}}/{{Magitek}} crossover ''DragonMech''.
** The {{H P Lovecraft}}/{{Macross}}/{{Guyver}}/NeonGenesisEvangelion crossover ''CthulhuTech'' would like to dispute that.
* ''{{Exalted}}'''s Warstriders.
* Every race in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has at least one type of giant mech, though the [[HordeofAlienLocusts Tyranids']] uses OrganicTechnology; the sizes grow from Space Marine Dreadnoughts and Tau Battlesuits about thrice as tall as a man to at least 150 foot tall (the accounts contradict each other; some claim the heights go all the way up to 2km) Emperor-class Titans mounting cathedrals, housing a full company of troops in their legs and able to pull ground-to-orbit duty against enemy spaceships. It is said there are mechs large and powerful enough to metaphorically mop the floor with even Emperor-class Titans...
** It's been said that an Emperor Titan, built to scale with the actual Space Marine figures, would be the size of a 10-year-old. Anything large enough to take down an Emperor 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.
** I don't think the necrons have any HumongousMecha. They don't NEED them.
*** Tomb Stalker. An enormous, spider-like walker, which DID mop the floor with multiple Imperators. Also, the humongous mecha that is powered by a contained star.
* Even ''DungeonsAndDragons'' gets in on the act with the {{Eberron}} campaign setting. The warforged are a playable race. Their "ancestors"--or more accurately, prototypes--called warforged titans, are not.
** 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, 100-foot tall humanoids of stitched flesh, hewn stone, or cast iron, only ever created by the mightiest wizards.
** Dating back the 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 one hundred unlabelled levers, each with a different function.
*** Also in old D&D, an obscure module called "Earthshaker", which was set in and around a gigantic dwarf-crewed robot.
* ''HeavyGear'', which features smaller robots than BattleTech's average, but which are definitely more than just body armor.
* {{Rifts}} features a wide variety, from the Triax Devistator 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.
* ''{{GURPS}} Mecha'' gives players the wherewithal to design and build just about any of the above concepts. Of course, this troper (having tried just that) finds that doing this results in a quite startling mix of Tech Levels for any but the simplest battlesuit (quick note: 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).
** The ''Pyramid Magazine'' adventure for ''GURPS {{Discworld}}'' "A Little Job For The Patrician" features a ''Discworld'' Mecha. Based (of course) 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.
* {{Mekton}} is a tabletop RPG that is meant to run just about any humongous mecha. Admittedly, there is ''no'' size scale for something on par with the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, bust still...
** Ahem. Excessive scale. Page 113.
* The MutantsAndMasterminds supplement ''Mecha & Manga'' has a chapter devoted to creating your own HumongousMecha.
* The satircal game Macho Women With Guns had an enemy called BattleWarMechBots.
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*The MechWarrior video game francise is based on the Battletech/Mechwarrior pen&paper/miniatures universe.
** The orginal MechWarrior game takes place at the end of the Third Succession War.
** MechWarrior 2, MechWarrior 2 Ghost Bear's Legacy, and MechWarior 2 Mercenaries deal with the events immediately before, during and immediately after the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere.
** MechWarrior 3, MechWarrior 3 Pirate's Moon, and Mech Commander are concerned with different parts of "Operation Bulldog", the combined Inner Sphere counterattack against the Clans, targeted at the Smoke Jaguars.
** MechWarrior 4 Vengence, MechWarrior 4 Black Knight, MechWarrior 4 Merrcenaries, and Mech Commander 2 all deal with the Federated Commonwealth Civil War.

*The Heavy Gear video games are based on a Pen & paper game universe published by Dream Pod 9. Heavy Gear and Heavy Geqar 2, published by Activision in 1997 and 1999, were developed after Activision lost the rights to the Battletech/MechWarrior series. Heavy Gear primaraly features powered armor, which called "Gears" in-universe, but it also features larger mechs, called "Striders."

* The entire premise of the ArtixEntertainment game Mechquest is to fight aliens while in a giant bipedal mecha. OrSoIHeard.
* A Humongous Mecha in the form of a [[spoiler: giant monkey]] is used in an epic battle ([[ThatOneBoss Unfortunately in one of the]] [[ScrappyMechanic worst puzzles]] in a Monkey Island game) at the end of the fourth ''MonkeyIsland'' game. No, really.
** But [[GuideDangit if you know what to do]], you can win really easily by [[spoiler: repeating LeChuck's lines three times]].
* ''{{Xenogears}}'' and ''{{Xenosaga}}''? HumongousMecha for ''days''. In some cases, there are battles against giant foes where the characters have to enter said mecha, or get stepped on.
** In {{Xenosaga}}, the Erde Keiser sidequest is a send-up of the more light-hearted Mecha shows (in a game that's more dark and serious).
* The Steel Kossack from early PSX videogame ''Krazy Ivan''. As the trope description says, it approaches the line between Power Armor and this trope; the titular Ivan controls it by doing the actual movements himself. This one falls straight into this trope, however, as the Mecha is far larger than a human.
* ''LiveALive'' gives us Buriki Daioh, a giant ancient Babylonian giant robot. It appears in the Near Future chapter expressly for the purpose of stomping tanks, shooting lasers at airplanes, shooting missiles at larger airplane aircraft carriers, and punching [[spoiler:an animated bird statue that is threatening to devour the world in a wave of liquefied human hate.]] (video game edition!)
* ''SuperRobotWars''/Taisen and AnotherCenturysEpisode. For the most part, the series consists of crossovers from an astoundingly large number of Humongous Mecha anime, though not all in the same game, or even timeline. Most games have also included [[OriginalGeneration original creations]], both Real and Super, such as the Elemental Lord Cybuster. The original creations then got their own crossover with each other in the Original Generation subseries.
** These also feature in SpinOff ''OG Saga: EndlessFrontier'', but there, they tend to be less "as big as a building" and more [[MiniMecha "quite a bit larger than a person."]]
* ''MetalGear'' in all its stomping, nuke-launching incarnations. There's always a rationale (a missile platform which isn't limited to normal terrain) but the series makes light of the implausability anyway. Implicitly, as REX from ''MGS'' was designed by a brilliant but eccentric otaku, and the rest of the world has been caught in a REX-pirating arms race ever since. Explicitly in the prequel ''[=MGS3=]'' when the idea of a walking tank is openly derided.
** The fourth game [[spoiler:even features a fight between Metal Gears, with Snake piloting REX from ''[=MGS1=]'' against Liquid Ocelot in RAY from ''[=MGS2=]'' This is the only time the Metal Gear series has actually allowed you to ''pilot'' a Metal Gear.]]
** In ''[[{{Dune}} Emperor: Battle for Dune]]'', one of House Atreides' mechs bears a suspicious resemblance to [=REX=].
* Also of note is Hideo Kojima's ''ZoneOfTheEnders'' series, which plays it straighter.
* ''SengokuBasara'' portrays mighty Sengoku general Honda Tadakatsu into a HumongousMecha, so much he got nicknamed [[FanNickname Hondam]].
* The Giant of Babil (spelled as Babel in ''FinalFantasyIV Advance'') of ''FinalFantasyIV''. The entire plot of the game, wherein the BigBad's forces steal the elemental Crystals, was all performed so they could use the Crystals' power to send the Giant from the Moon, through the Tower of Babil, and to the surface of the Earth, whereupon it would raze the entire planet. Although scale is difficult to convey with super-deformed characters, it is implied that the Giant is several thousand feet tall.
** Easier to determine in the 3D DS remake. One of the Dwarves' ''tanks'' barely reaches to what would be the Giant's ''toe''.
* The various incarnations of Alexander in the ''FinalFantasy'' series seem to be built out of enormous castles which were then modified into mobile robots. The first iteration, in ''FinalFantasyVI'', even has towers and smaller castles built on top.
** And, also in ''FinalFantasyVI'' was the MagiTek Armor
* FinalFantasyIX has the summon Ark. It's not just a summon; it's a Transformer!
* Not to be outdone, ''DarkCloud 2'' (also known as ''Dark Chronicle'') also has a gigantic flying fortress, Paznos. Although it was only supposed to be a mobile battle station, Max and Monica's tampering with the timestream further allowed its creators to transform it into a humanoid mecha strong enough to catch, stop, and toss an equally huge flying castle which was about to fall on top of a city.
* Goemon Impact of GanbareGoemon. People tend to remember him by his ImageSong, which begins with a shout of '''"DA-DA-DASH!"''' (He's actually an alien that just happens to look like a robot. ''All righty, then...'')
** Don't forget, of course, that Impact is also an international movie star that wears roller sandals and shoots bullets out his nose. No, really. [[RuleOfCool And why, you ask?]]
* The ''OneMustFall'' video game series was designed as a fighting game where hundred-meter tall robots remote-controlled by people smacked the [...] out of each other for profit.
* ''StarCraft'' has several HumongousMecha:
** The Terrans have the odd but effective Goliath battle frame, about twice the height of a man and armed with autocannons (for ground attack) and missile launchers (for attacking air).
*** ''StarCraft II'' replaces the Goliath with the Viking, which is a TransformingMecha that can switch between a fighter craft for attacking air and a humanoid mecha for attacking ground. The Terrans also gain use of the hulking Thor, so big it can't be built in a factory but has to be assembled piece by piece by several SCVs.
** The Protoss, meanwhile, had the extremely useful Reavers, giant worm-like mecha that spat powerful homing bombs called scarabs, and Dragoons, a cyborg created from the body of a critically wounded Protoss warrior and a robotic shell.
*** In ''StarCraft II'', the Dragoons have been replaced by Immortals, very similar to Dragoons but with shields that can shrug off the most powerful attacks (but let much weaker attacks through), and further supplemented with the Stalker, the Dark Templar version of the Dragoon, which has a teleportation ability. Finally, the Protoss also gain the Colossus, a towering war machine so tall it can just step up and over terrain like cliffs. This is, in fact, a realistic downside: they can be attacked by units that can normally only attack air.
**** They are all trumped by the April Fools unit known as the Terratron, a unit that consists of a bunch of Terran buildings combined into a Super Robot sized killing machine that makes the Thor look tiny.
* The ''WarCraft'' series gained HumongousMecha with the third installment, which introduced large golems. ''The Frozen Throne'', the expansion pack for ''WarCraft III'', introduced ''very large'' golems.
** The Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft also introduced the Fel Reaver, which is essentially a giant steampunk robot powered by demonic energy. And they are ''terrifying''.
*** Not to mention the goblin-made shredders, giant robots primarily used for chopping down trees, but are also more than capable of chopping down people.
*** In Ulduar, one mech stands out... obviously I'm talking about XT-002 Deconstructor! This is an ENOURMOUS mecha, able to tear a warrior apart in a matter of seconds. Oh, and did I mention that it has the mentality and even the voice of a little child? And that it considers you, the raiders as his toys? And when he kills someone, he says, "I guess it doesn't bend that way..."? Funny, yet somewhat creepy at the same time. This troper has heard of guilds raiding XT for the first time... seeing the towering mecha and preparing for an epic battle... and wiping because as soon as the boss was aggroed, everyone started rolling on the floor laughing over his voice. "New toys? For me? Oh, I promise I won't break them this time!"
*** Also, Mimiron's final form.
*** Also, Mechano-Strider mounts
* Not to spoil anything but the BigBad in ''[[FallOut Fallout: Tactics]]'' uses robots, including ones that qualify as HumongousMecha.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQn7ImLSook Quadraxis]] from ''{{Metroid}} Prime 2: Echoes''. That is all.
* The mechs in the ''Crusader'' series of video games aren't ''humongous'', per se, but they can get bigger than any human and pack some serious firepower. Also, the end boss of ''No Regret'' wears a battle suit that appears to be about ten feet tall.
* The ExpandedUniverse of ''StarWars'' got its first original HumongousMecha with the Dark Troopers in the first ''Dark Forces'' game. ''Jedi Outcast'' also introduced a new walking mech, not much bigger than a Wookiee, and one boss wears a lightsaber-resistant battle frame (as opposed to the high-level Reborn warriors wearing plain old lightsaber-resistant armor).
* Golems in the Infinity Engine games--''BaldursGate II'' and so on--are pretty darn big, given the engine limitations.
* After creating two [=RPGs=] set in fantasy universes, ArtixEntertainment started MechQuest. Guess what it features, [[LampshadeHanging though the developers already tell you that.]]
* In ''CommandAndConquer'', GDI had plenty of mecha in Tiberian Sun, from the chaingun-toting Wolverine scout walkers, to the Titan walking tanks, to the [[MemeticMutation Juggernaut]] walking artillery platforms, to the Mammoth Mk II, which sports [[{{BFG}} railguns]]. C&C Tiberium Wars, on the other hand, was mostly a subversion: the Juggernaut was carried over, Nod got an Avatar walker, and the alien Scrin got a tripod straight out of TheWarOfTheWorlds, but in-game fluff material mentioned how the factions were discontinuing walker production, because ''commandos kept running up and disabling the things with a well-placed explosive on a leg joint''. Indeed, the factions' commando units can do just that in-game, taking down an enemy walker instantly. Meanwhile, ''Red Alert 3'' introduces the "King Oni" mecha on the Japanese side and the [[http://www.ea.com/redalert/factions-empire.jsp?id=King_Oni official website data]] does some LampshadeHanging on the concept, noting that it "flies in the face of decades of conventional mechanized warfare".
** And let's not forget of the [[spoiler: Shogun Executioner, which has three legs, three torsos, 6 arms, three heads, 3 lightning katanas, and heals itself when attacked with Tesla weaponry]]!
** Or the Nod Redeemer, an Avatar on steroids with the added ability to cause a HatePlague.
* MetalFatigue is an RTS built on this trope. There are non-mecha units, but even the one designed specifically against mecha is pretty much useless against decently armored models.
* In {{Supreme Commander}}, three of the four factions get in on the act-the Aeon use the Galactic Colossus as the sci-fi equivalent of a battering ram and the Seraphim Ythotha is a relatively inexpensive multipurpose superheavy assault unit. The Cybran Monkeylord diverges from the standard Humongous Mecha type a bit, being a vaguely insectoid six-legged weapons platform, aptly nicknamed the spiderbot. They also have a crab-shaped amphibious mecha called the Megalith.
** '''Every''' walker unit in SupremeCommander is a HumongousMecha! Even the smallest of them, such as the UEF Mech Marine, is at least two to three stories tall. Them ACUs (Armored Command Units) of each faction are themselves huge, taller then trees.
** To elaborate this: Any unit is a Humongous Mecha to humans, with the rather standard-sized and human-proportioned ACU's head alone being bigger than its pilot. However, experimental superunits like the Sacred Assault Bot are so huge they actually serve as Humongous Mecha ''to the other Humongous Mecha''.
* ''TechRomancer'', an obscure Dreamcast fighting game featuring humongous mecha inspired by super robot and real robot anime series. Did I mention that this game is in english? [[RuleOfCool It doesn't get any better than this, folks]]!
** To clarify- The game's in English, but all the vocal sounds are in Japanese. Even better!
* ''TheElderScrolls III: Morrowind'' has SteamPunk Pint-Sized Mechas scattered across the game's Dwemer ruins.
** 'TheElderScrolls II'' also had Numidium, [[spoiler:which was so massive that the God of Time threw the space-time-continuum off-balance by accident]] from the shock of it being turned on. According to BackStory, Tiber Septim could never have built an empire without it to fight. ''TheElderScrolls III'' followed this up with Akhulakhan, which [[spoiler: Dagoth Ur was trying to construct using ancient Dwarven schematics and the severed heart of a dead god.]]
* Most of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] in the RatchetAndClank series use mechs for their final showdown with Ratchet. (About the only one who doesn't is the [[spoiler:Mutant Protopet]] in "Going Commando") Semi-[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Gleeman Vox in "Deadlocked"
-->'''Vox''': And now, an audience favorite-the giant mech climactic battle!
* Surprising no one's mentioned the Xbox game ''SteelBattalion'', which required a massive controller with tons of buttons costing [[strike:at least $100]] $200 which was supposed to resemble the cockpit controls of the Humongous Mecha
** This Troper owns Steel Battalion and its pretty much a {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} for video games. It's also pretty [[NintendoHard hard core]]. One of the controls is a red ejector button that flashes when you take critical damage and is covered with a lift up cover. If you don't eject in time ''your saved games are wiped and you have to start the game again''.
* [[SonicTheHedgehog Dr Eggman]] really loves these, and will usually be riding one during the non-Super final boss portion of each game.
** And then there's the Gaia Colossus (do golems count?), which is made from ''temples''! I couldn't [...] this one if I tried.
* ViewtifulJoe, as an affectionate parody of {{sentai}}, loves this trope. In particular, the escalating size of Joe's "Six Machine" mecha starts to look like TengenToppaGurrenLagann after a while.
** First there's Captain Blue's mecha, ''Six Majin''. It's about as big as {{Voltron}}, and towers over city buildings.
** At the end of the first game, Joe upgrades it to ''Great Six Majin'', who is big enough to circle the earth in a few strides.
** Things get truly ridiculous in the second game, where Six Majin and Great Six Majin combine to form ''6x6 Majin'', who is bigger than the ''planets'' (its fist is only a few times smaller than the Earth). This is itself a counter to the final boss' ''Black Kaiser'', which is ''bigger''.
* What? MetalWolfChaos isn't on this list?
* You never actually fight Dist himself in ''{{Tales of the Abyss}}'', but you do fight a series of mechs he constructs using fontech.
** Likewise in ''{{Tales of Innocence}}'', where MadScientist Osbald is working on powering HumongousMecha using PeopleJars filled with Reincarnated. First you free a party member being used as the fuel cell, then you find the mass-production model on a battlefield, and finally Osbald pilots one against you himself, using as the power source [[spoiler:Ricardo's "brother", Gardle]].
** Don't forget the recurring enemy Murder and his ilk, who range from dog-sized SpiderTanks to full-blown mecha that reach to the top of the screen.
* In the final battle of {{Fallout}} 3, [[spoiler:there is nothing quite as awesome as watching Liberty Prime stride purposefully towards the Jefferson Monument, crushing Enclave power armor troopers underfoot, vaporizing others with eye lasers, and tossing miniature nuclear bombs like footballs, all the while loudly proclaiming that death is better than communism]].
** There's a few that show up as enemies in ''Fallout Tactics'', too.
* The first part of the final boss in ''Disaster: Day of Crisis'' turns out to be [[spoiler:an experimental mechanised war machine, complete with arms and a missile launcher. This troper swore that Evans had stolen a Metal Gear. Though, the designers were actually sensible enough to protect the cockpit... Doesn't stop Ray from taking it out, though.]]
* {{Armored Core}}: High-speed (in the later games) combat using mecha that you build yourself from the ground up. The biggest appeal of the game is that whatever mech you use, you built it yourself. Which of course requires the mention of it's younger brother;
** Chrome Hounds. Just as much, if not more customizable, with the major difference between it and the Armored Core series being about 300 MPH. Loved/hated because of it's speed, it places mecha combat in a more realistic (all things being relative) setting, keeping the focus on blowing stuff up while changing the game from "fly fast and shoot everything that moves" to a more tactical game. Squads that fail to utilize the different role types and don't have an effective commander quickly find themselves scrap metal.
* ''CityOfHeroes'' has the Titans used by the [[GovernmentConspiracy Malta Group]]- the Kronos Class Titan is the size of a building. But, that's nothing compared to [[spoiler: the giant robot at the end of the Ernesto Hess Task Force, though it's sadly inactive.]]
** There are [[spoiler: two equally-large giant robots in the third mission of the Imperious Task Force, although they are likewise there as window-dressing.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: in the Mender Silos Task Force (Strike Force for villains), the Jade Spider is a Humongous Mecha, powered by a strongly-psionic operator, sent by Lord Recluse into Siren's Call to destroy Paragon City. This one does fight, either against the heroes in the Task Force, or as an ally of the villains in the Strike Force.]]
* In ''PowerDolls'' colonists modified a line of powered loaders to defend themselves.
* This goes to boss number 12 in ShadowOfTheColossus. After you climb up to his head [[spoiler: You find there isn't a weakpoint, but you can hit the glowing sections of his crown to direct him.]] It took me forever to figure that out.
* In ''Road Runner's Death Valley Rally'', the FinalBoss is the "Solid Tin Coyote" from the episode of the same name. Real NightmareFuel.
* The RaySeries has Humongous Mecha...in ''ship-based'' ShootEmUps.
*In UniverseAtWar:EarthAssault, the Novus heroes Mirabel (a HumanAlien with a tatoo on her head) and Victor (Her powered armor with an AI package) tower over the human sized [[MechaMooks Ohm Robots]] and [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Masari]], and let her go toe-to-toe with Heirarchy hero Orlok and Grunt troopers.
*In Civilization mod ''Next War'', you are able to build Juggernauts, the most powerful unit in terms of raw Strength, which are basically walking tanks. The Civilopedia points out that the legs are far impractical and would be much more efficient to replace it with treads, but the reason people don't do that is because [[RuleOfCool it's just too cool.]]
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* 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 [[http://www.between-two-worlds.net Between Two Worlds]]. Xuan then becomes the mecha's pilot.
* {{Webcomic}} subversion: In ''MechagicalGirlLisaANT'', the A.N.T is a HumongousMecha... for ants. To a human, it looks more like a PoweredArmor.
* In ''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.
* In [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=297 this]] ''{{Loserz}}'' strip. [[RuleOfFun Just for fun]], in this case.
** You do realize that you didn't link the actual strip, right?
* ''SluggyFreelance'' parodies this a few times, most notably in the [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 GOFOTRON arc]]
* ''GirlGenius'' has plenty of them, given that Sparks ''love'' to build stuff like that. In fact, the first time that Agatha is without her RestrainingBolt, she builds one out of spare engines and parts ''in her sleep''. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030307 It leads Baron Wulfenbach straight to her door.]]
* [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090811.html This critter]] from ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.''
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* ''{{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.
** It has been speculated that the on-and-off popularity of ''Transformers'' in Japan is because it lacks pilots or other very important human characters... usually. When annoying kids are put in, the American fanbase, which is much larger and more consistent, shudders.
** The Japanese versions of ''Transformers'' appear to support the theory that giant transforming robots without pilots are alien concepts in Japan. While the Western series give reasons for their alternate modes (disguise, protection from radiation, etc.), the Japanese series, such as ''TransformersArmada'', generally disregard them-although, as the series exist to advertise toys, they transform anyway. This reached ridiculous heights in ''Transformers Energon'', where the Transformers, capable of flying around in space in robot mode, transform and ''drive in space''.
* ''{{Voltron}}'' was, for a time, the best-known example in America. It was a {{Macekre}} of two fairly obscure shows, ''GoLion'' (Lion Voltron) and ''DairuggerXV'' (Vehicle Voltron), along with some Lion Voltron episodes produced by Toei especially for the American market.
* CartoonNetwork's ''MegasXLR'' is possibly the best Western parody, with an alien robot from the future crash-landing in a New Jersey junkyard, where the main character, Coop, buys it for two bucks...which he never actually pays.
* Parodied occasionally in ''{{Dexters Laboratory}}'' and ''{{The Powerpuff Girls}}''.
* Parodied in ''{{Total Drama Island}}'', where Duncan, while trying to catch a raccoon, faces a hoard of raccoons forming a huge machine-like army by standing on top of one another. Duncan comments that it's [[{{Transformers}} "more than meets the eye!"]]
* As another American example, ''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 [[TheWorfEffect never seems to get the chance to do anything]] [[RunningGag each time it's deployed]].
* In one episode of ''SouthPark'' Chef's giant plasma TV transforms into a humongous mecha at the end and goes on the rampage.
** In another episode of ''SouthPark'', ''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.
** And who could forget when Brian Boitano traveled through time to the year 3010, fought the evil robot king and saved the human race again?
* ''ChallengeOfTheGoBots''
* {{Futurama}} got in the act after Nixon got re-elected.
* TheBatman builds a mecha suit in order to fight a Venom'd up Bane, and keeps it around just in case.
** ''BatmanBeyond'' also had Bruce Wayne designing powerful cybernetic suits to offset his advancing age; the strain of working the largest of these damaged his heart and contributed to his retirement.
***And in the CrapsackWorld of the ''KingdomCome'' series, an aged Batman fielding an entire army of computerized mecha is the reason why Gotham City, along with the {{Flash}}'s Keystone City (constantly patrolled by the Flash at ultraspeed), are the only two really safe places for a normal human to live.
* ''{{Insektors}}'' had Koa the Frog/Operation Frogbucket, which resulted in an army of giant mechanical frogs.
* ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}: the Series'': [[PunkPunk Clock Punk]] inventor Mechanikles must have read this entry, because most of his giant mecha are based on arthropods. One exception was a HumongousMecha shaped like himself, but he soon lost it to a boy who [[FallingIntoTheCockpit fell into the cockpit]].
* ''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.
* Parodied in ''PinkyAndTheBrain'': Brain and his archnemesis Snowball the hamster are battling in their robotic human disguises when suddenly Snowball's suit transforms into a HumongousMecha, complete with rockets blasting out of its shoulders...
* In an homage to Lex Luthor's PoweredArmor, resident RichBitch Alexis apparently built her own (relatively small) mecha-suit on ''Series/LegionOfSuperHeroes''.
* The Lizard Slayers in ''GodzillaTheSeries''.
* ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo!'' is about a kid and a bunch of robot monkeys who ''live'' in a Mecha.
* Parodied in ''{{The Venture Brothers}}''. 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.
* ''Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' features a Humongous Mecha Reptar.
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* {{Bionicle}}'s Mata Nui is [[spoiler: a [[GurrenLagann Chouginga Gurren Lagann]] sized robot containing the entire Matoran World. And the Great Spirit inhabiting this body was exiled by Makuta when he committed GrandTheftMe. Makuta apparently has plans to use this new body to conquer the universe.]]
*[[http://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]].
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* Some kind of weaponized excavator would come pretty colse to a more feasible version of the same concept, as demonstrated on one double-length ScrapheapChallenge special (albeit with smaller excavators then you'd need to really be this trope). Summary [[http://www.qwizx.com/jyw/specials/aliens/artillery.html here]]
* Although the concept of a Mecha is difficult to implement/sell from a military standpoint since tanks provide a very stable and easy to armor weapons platform, A Company called Boston Dynamics developed a four legged Mecha capable of carrying 88 pounds and withstanding significant force without falling over [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2YldU1f09I]]
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