Names starting with Mega, Giga, Tera, Micro, Nano, or any other
SI Prefix
. Often, characters using this prefix
won't actually be a power of ten greater than what the prefix is applied to.
Often used to imply "techno"-ness, due to their ubiquitous use in computational measurement (applied to space bytes, processor hertz, processor fabrication meters).
Examples:
Powers Greater Than Zero:
- Denji Sentai Megaranger
- Megabyte, from Re Boot, of course.
- And his Super Mode, Gigabyte.
- And his predecessor, Kilobyte.
- Mega Man.
- New Super Mario Bros's Mega Mushroom.
- Chrono Trigger's Giga Gaia, Mega Mutant, Giga Mutant, and Terra(sic) Mutant.
- Giga Bowser, from Super Smash Bros. Melee.
- Transformers villain Megatron.
- Mega Shadow and Giga Shadow, from Lexx.
- The spells Mega Brando and Giga Slave from The Slayers.
- The Villains And Vigilantes adventure Devil's Domain had the NPC hero Meganaut, a Brain In A Jar with a robotic body.
- Sega's Mega Drive (known as the Genesis in America).
- Darkwing Duck villain Megavolt. Oddly enough, this was not his first choice of villain name, but Megawatt was already taken by the school band.
- Sin's One Hit Kill Giga Graviton attack in Final Fantasy X.
Powers Less Than Zero:
