I feel that the current Real Life section of this page clashes with the rest of the page. The trope is for Humongous Mecha treated as realistic military hardware, while the entire content of the Real Life folder is examples of remote-controlled and smart weapons. Certainly real, certainly robots, certainly military hardware, but not the same thing as the rest of the page is talking about.
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The expression originally came from "Real Robot Line", a term used by Sunrise in the 80s to promote their Gundam and Gundam-like animes during the decade. It became popularized in the West thanks to Super Robot Wars using Real Robot and Super Robot as a gameplay mechanic.
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I don't think there's any reason to add that back. It's a massive oversimplification of the definition of "real robot genre," and the tone is not quite what I like to see in the main text of a page.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: It's not it's own genre.
, started by Deboss on Aug 5th 2011 at 10:21:24 AM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman