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 One:
- Denji Sentai Megaranger
- Megazords.
- Megabyte, from ReBoot, of course.
- And his Super Mode, Gigabyte.
- And his predecessor, KiloKillabyte.
- Mega Man
- New Super Mario Bros's Mega Mushroom.
- Chrono Trigger's Giga Gaia, Mega Mutant, Giga Mutant, and Terra(sic) Mutant.
- The Terra Mutant's name is corrected in the DS remake, where he's called Tera 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.
- Megadeth
- "Finishing move! Giga... Drill... BREAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!"
- The Megalodon.
- Pokémon games. Absorb is a basic grass type attack that does damage and restores some health to the user. Mega Drain is simply a stronger variant, while Giga Drain is the strongest.
- Digimon has "mega" and "giga" all over the place, but the two that stand out the most are Megadramon and Gigadramon... whose power levels are exactly the same.
- Giga Pudding (Puddi puddi! Puddi puddi!)
- Anyone named Hector.
Powers Less Than One:
Tropes:
