History Awesome / SuperRobotWars

* It's amazing that the Internet didn't break down by sheer awesomeness from the news that '''''2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation'' would release in August, featuring the cast of ''Destiny'', for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3.'''

** Hell, every time Rom Stoll interrupts with '''"WAIT!"''', it instantly counts as awesome, as well as when he responds with ''[[CatchPhrase "You don't deserve to know my name!"]]'' after any of the stunned villains demand they tell them his name.

*** Another awesome moment for Shinn and his Destiny albeit Meta sense: Strike Freedom has one of the best mobility among all ''Destiny'' Mobile Suits, yet an Imperial Valley is technically '''much more mobile''' than any unit in the game, allowing the pilot to beat up Kira. Shinn is able to keep up with that machine and smacks it? Think about it for a moment.
*** While the Strike Freedom is highly vaunted for its mobility, the Destiny is actually superior in that if not speed at least as it doesn't need to deploy dragoons to use its wings of light and Shinn's own style is better suited for rushing in.

* You think the FixFic for ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' in the aforementioned ''SRW Z'' is epic enough? Well, Banpresto [[UpToEleven takes that one step further]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsL'' by almost ''rewriting the second half of the story''. Major cases in point:

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* During the 30th anniversary live-stream on July 11, 2021, it was revealed that the franchise had obtained a Literature/{{Guinness World Record|s}} for having "the most intellectual property licenses used in a role-playing video game series" at a whopping '''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 274]]'''! To put this into perspective, ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' is often seen as the most renowned {{Crossover}} for the medium, while ''Super Robot Wars'' tends to be overshadowed despite having existed longer, yet suffered from a combination of NoExportForYou and being parts of [[MechaShow two]] [[TurnBasedStrategy genres]] that became more niche as time passed on. Then-Banpresto and current-B.B. Studio soldiered on, beating ''Smash Bros.'' to a punch when it comes to attaining such recognition.
* It took 30 years, but with the worldwide launch of ''Super Robot Wars 30'' on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, the franchise can finally be brought to all audiences across the globe with barely any restrictions, something not even the "VTX Trilogy" could do!

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* During the 30th anniversary live-stream on July 11, 2021, it was revealed that the franchise has obtained a Literature/{{Guinness World Record|s}} for having "the most intellectual property licenses used in a role-playing video game series" at a whopping '''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 274]]'''! To put this into perspective, ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' is often seen as the most renowned {{Crossover}} for the medium, while ''Super Robot Wars'' tends to be overshadowed despite having existed longer, yet suffered from a combination of NoExportForYou and being parts of [[MechaShow two]] [[TurnBasedStrategy genre]] that became more niche as time passed on. Then-Banpresto and current-B.B. Studios soldiered on, beating ''Smash Bros.'' to a punch when it comes to attaining such recognition.
* It took 30 years, but with the upcoming worldwide launch of ''Super Robot Wars 30'' on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, the franchise can finally be brought to all audiences across the globe with barely any restrictions, something not even the "VTX Trilogy" could do!

** Just about everything about ''Saisei-hen''[='s=] second PV. [[spoiler:Rand and Setsuko are back]], most of the old units' strongest moves are back (some gaining new moves even), and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis USABLE. SHIN. DRAGON.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsMX MX]]'' gives Rom Stoll of ''Machine Robo'' the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bpx66Ld-TI spotlight during the End of Evangelion event]]. There, the scene only gets as far as [[spoiler:the instant before Asuka dies at the hands of the MP Evas]]. Right before the moment of agony anybody who's seen the movie has come to expect, we hear Rom yell '''"WAIT!"''' He goes on to explain to the gibbering monsters that sometimes, when everything seems darkest, the tide of battle can turn in an instant, and that's what's known as "divine intervention". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HojH-aCk4r4 Then he and 15 other fighters appear on the battlefield at maximum Will and proceed to rip the [=EVAs=] apart. ]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldrp-2TApGY&list=PL4CDA068ACAB63267&index=24&feature=plpp_video Stage 15 (Berlin route)]], Stellar is rampaging in Destroy Gundam as of original. Shinn tries to stop her just as ''Archangel'' arrives, and just when what the anime showed is about to repeat, [[spoiler:Kira instead ''helps'' Shinn to bring Stellar away for safety]]. [[spoiler:Dereka's words to Shinn about Kira's moral of saving lives]] before this stage helped.
** As such in Stage 16, realizing the Archangel crew helped to beat up Anime/{{Iczer}} enemies, [[spoiler:Talia helps Murrue to escape by faking the sink of ''Archangel'']]. After that Arthun officially leaves Minerva for Archangel, leaving the rest to Shinn for he is another FAITH on board.
** Stage 27, after LOTUS and ''Archangel'' crew retun to Orb to beat up Orb-Earth Federation forces, [[OriginalGeneration Original forces led by an Imperial Valley]] appear [[spoiler:and beat up ''Kira in his Strike Freedom'' pretty bad]]. Just as the Imperial Valley is about to land a fatal blow, [[spoiler:''Shinn'' steps in and smacks the enemy away, and [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan yells at Kira to recall his will of protecting everyone in the world]]]]. Cue CombinationAttack to destroy Imperial Valley. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuwIH1CsIjY It's just as awesome as it seems.]]
*** Another awesome moment for [[spoiler:Shinn and his Destiny]] albeit Meta sense: [[spoiler:Strike Freedom has one of the best mobility among all ''Destiny'' Mobile Suits, yet an Imperial Valley is technically '''much more mobile''' than any unit in the game, allowing the pilot to beat up Kira]]. [[spoiler:Shinn is able to keep up with that machine and smacks it]]? Think about it for a moment.

** Even Durandal gets his moment. After defeating the last ZAFT forces in stage 33, LOTUS turn to [[Anime/{{Iczer}} Big Gold]]'s moon fortress, but [[Anime/{{Iczer}} Neos Gold]] refuses to give way. [[spoiler:Cue half-dead Durandal commands the battered ''Messiah'' to ram at it, paving way for LOTUS to fight for the future by sacrificing his life]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhzMLhRNVPs Stage 37]], the last of ''Manga/LinebarrelsOfIron''. If you take appropriate steps you can convince [[spoiler:Soubi]] to join you in this stage, but it grows awesome when you realize that you can use '''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Chang Wufei]]''' to convince him [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a completely logical sense and doesn't look out of place]]. This also creates a meme calling Wufei "Nataku's Factor".

** Give Yukimura some more credit. He, as a [[BadassNormal normal]] MadScientist, is the only OriginalGeneration BigBad among all of the SRW titles to-date [[spoiler:who manages to '''''destroy all of the [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]] at once''''', including the player's if not for Shinsei Rahxephon's efforts]]. He also holds the "honor" of being the only BigBad who [[spoiler:forces the main character to pull a literal HeroicSacrifice just to be stopped]].

* During the 30th anniversary live-stream on July 11, 2021, it was revealed that the franchise has obtained a Literature/{{Guinness World Record|s}} for having "the most intellectual property licenses used in a role-playing video game series" at a whopping '''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 274]]'''! To put this into perspective, ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' is often seen as the most renowned {{Crossover}} for the medium, while ''Super Robot Wars'' tends to be overshadowed despite having existed longer, yet suffered from a combination of NoExportForYou and being part of a [[TurnBasedStrategy genre]] that became more niche as time passed on. Then-Banpresto and current-B.B. Studios soldiered on, beating ''Smash Bros.'' to a punch when it comes to attaining such recognition.

** Banpresto is probably one of the few companies to have an awesome tribute to a then-recent RealLife marriage between Creator/KenichiSuzumura and Creator/MaayaSakamoto as [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Shinn and Lunamaria]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da52WBRtxm4 have a combination attack]] as of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX''

* A behind-the-scenes one: during negotiations to license ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' for ''SRW'', some Gainax executives were reluctant to give permission because they were worried having Eva SuperDeformed would be bad for its image. When Hideaki Anno, Eva's director, learned of this, he got pissed and delivered a verbal bitchslap to the execs along the lines of "No one is going to prevent ''my'' Eva from fighting alongside the likes of ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Mazinger]]'' and ''[[Manga/GetterRobo Getter]]''!"
** Another one for Anno: As soon as the license for ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' became available, he called up ''SRW'' director Takanobu Terada--at roughly 2 in the morning--and asked "So, do you still have any room left for ''Gurren Lagann'' in your games?" Seriously.

* '''''Franchise/{{GODZILLA}}''''' is officially part of ''SRW'' as of ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsXOmega X-Ω]]''. Repeat; ''Super Robot Wars'' has not only reached the GodzillaThreshold, they went in whole hog, and it is GLORIOUS!!!
* Usually when it comes ''Super Robot Wars'' games, the developers prefer to do the announcements for new games on their own, and so with the "Super Robot Wars Hagane no Chou Kanshasai 2021" online event set to [[MilestoneCelebration celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the franchise]], they would announce their new game ''Super Robot Wars 30'' there, right? Actually no, not this time. ''30'' was first announced a month prior to the event in, of all things, a Japan-only WebVideo/NintendoDirect for [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3]] of 2021! That's right, even if it was relegated to only appearing in the Japanese version of a Direct, a ''Super Robot Wars'' game got to be first announced simultaneously in two of the biggest events in Video Game media coverage. Talk about a signal boost!
* During the 30th anniversary livestream on July 11, 2021, it was revealed that the franchise has obtained a Guinness World Record for having the most [=IP=] licenses in an [=RPG=] series at a whopping '''''[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 274!]]''''' To put it in perspective: When it comes to renowned crossover series, SRW tends to be overshadowed by ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series internationally despite having existed for longer due to NoExportForYou and dealing with a genre that eventually became more niche as time passed on. They carried on anyway, and they end up beating ''Smash Bros'' to a punch when it comes to attaining such recognition.

* ''Super Robot Wars'' ''got into the Guinness World of Records'' for "The Most [=IPs=] Used In a RPG series"!