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Author: marcoasalazarm

Jan 27th 2013 at 7:34:29 AM

Well.... the definition of the Trope could swing both ways. It could be (and most typically is) a Super Robot in a Real Robot setting (or a Super Robot with some Real Robot tropes used on it, at least at first) like the Evangelions, or it could be a Real Robot on a Super Robot setting (and for some reason, technically speaking, Rock Beats Laser).

The definition as is sounds good, any case. And yeah, the examples need some additional explanation as to why they are 'Hybrid Robot' series, if the Trope is to lift off.

Gundam Wing could also fit here, possibly, as well. The whole setting starts off as a standard Gundam 'War Of Earthly Aggression' setting, and then the Gundams appear and no effort is made to conceal that, by the setting's standards, they ARE Super Robots (the 'Gundanium' alloy they are made of may as well be Adamantium by the way they speak of it, and the robots just get more Super-y with each Mid-Season Upgrade).

Also we could possibly add 'Martian Successor Nadesico' to this thing. The whole setting plays with (to the point it occasionally shanks) Super Robot tropes just to lampshade the fact that thinking 'Super Robot' in 'Real Robot' settings makes you Wrong Genre Savvy to the point of being Too Dumb To Live.

The final aesop of the series even is (and they break the fourth wall to do this) 'don't take Anime too damn seriously'-this after a freaking ATTEMPTED INVASION by... shall we say.... Space Trolls (can't really think of a proper Internet term, but you get the idea).