History Main / GiantScrapRobot

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* The goofy Martian robot in ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' certainly looks like it's made of scrap materials.

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* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfDeathVII'', a giant robot made of junk, named Junk Monster, is fought as one of the bosses in the game. [[spoiler:It was built to recover the eight crystals to use them to power the time machine so the apocalypse would be prevented, but it was reprogrammed by evil forces to destroy the heroes instead.]]

* As a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' character, Boss Borot also appears in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise. He's certainly a low-tiered mecha compared to everything else, and to reflect his material cost, it only takes ''10'' credits to repair compared to the usual ''few thousand'' credits needed for everyone else's mechas. That said, with the right parts to slot in (up to four), having three pilots (Boss, Nuke, and Mucha) and a great set of Spirit Commands between them, [[LethalJokeCharacter he's a surprisingly good unit to field]]. [[GlassCannon Just make sure to keep him away from too much enemy fire]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E23BackToTheBarn "Back to the Barn"]], Peridot and Pearl prove their engineering skills with MiniMecha [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/back_to_the_barn.png they rapidly built out of scrap in the barn]]. Pearl's has a cockpit made from airplane parts left behind by Greg's aunt and uncle plus a traffic cone nose. Part of the arms of Peridot's mech are made of tires and hazard signs.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' had a mechanical monster that started off as a small machine that assimilated more and more machine parts.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' had a mechanical monster that started off as a small machine that assimilated more and more machine parts.

* ''Anime/MazingerZ'' has Boss making his own mecha named Boss Borot out of parts from the scrap heap. Predictably, as a PluckyComicRelief character, Boss Borot was broken more easily than even Sayaka's Aphrodite/Diana A. And being made of scrap metal, he obviously could not have any of the special weapons Mazinger Z has. That said, it still had enough strength to pull the two aforementioned mechas out of a pit hole, squash Iron Cross tanks, and even toss a few Robobeasts around. As for going out in space, given its open air "cockpit", this only means the pilots have to wear space suits.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sending it to the junkyard just means it [[CameBackStrong comes back stronger]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Little Darla meets big robot.]]

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': As with most of the vehicles that they make themselves, the [[HumongousMecha large walkers]] used by the [[SpaceOrcs Orks]], such as Stompas and Gargants, are constructed from a mishmash of scrap, stolen technology and guns. Constructed as idols to their barbaric gods as much as weapons these enormous, vaguely ork-shaped monstrosities often look like walking junkyards with weapons fitted almost at random across its superstructure. Despite their incredibly crude look, these ramshackle war machines are incredibly durable sporting thick armour plates and a rugged design that allows them to continue attacking even if large chunks of it have been blown off. Due to their lower level of technology, the Steam Gargants built by the Feral Orks tend to look even more ramshackle and typically [[TankTreadMecha have tracks rather than legs]] as they lack the skills to make a true walker.

* As a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' character, Boss Borot also appears in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise. He's certainly a low-tiered mecha compared to everything else, and to reflect his material cost, it only takes ''10'' credits to repair compared to the usual ''several hundred'' credits needed for everyone else's mechas. That said, with the right parts to slot in (up to four), having three pilots (Boss, Nuke, and Mucha) and a great set of Spirit Commands between them, [[LethalJokeCharacter he's a surprisingly good unit to field]]. [[GlassCannon Just make sure to keep him away from too much enemy fire]].

* ''Franchise/MegaMan'': [[VideoGame/MegaMan7 Junk Man]] and his VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork counterpart, [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork4RedSunAndBlueMoon Junkman.exe]] are both this, though Junkman.exe is actually a program, not a robot. Plenty of Fortress bosses also have this aesthetic, such as the [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Guts Dozer]].
* ''VideoGame/TechRomancer'': MagicalGirl Pollin pilots the "Magical Patched Robot Bolon," possibly a reference to ''Mazinger'''s Boss Borat. It's cobbled together from a bunch of random items, with a bus and a boat for feet, a water tank for a body, a house for a head, and a wrecking ball and power shovel for arms.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E23BackToTheBarn "Back to the Barn"]], Peridot and Pearl prove their engineering skills with MiniMecha [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/back_to_the_barn.png they rapidly built out of scrap in the barn]]. Pearl's has a cockpit made from airplane parts left behind by Greg's aunt and uncle plus a traffic cone nose. Part of the arms of Peridot's mech are made of tires and hazard signs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E23BackToTheBarn "Back to the Barn"]], Peridot and Pearl prove their engineering skills with MiniMecha they rapidly built out of scrap in the barn. Pearl's has a cockpit made from airplane parts left behind by Greg's aunt and uncle plus a traffic cone nose. Part of the arms of Peridot's mech are made of tires and hazard signs.

GoodOldRobot and HomemadeInventions are closely related to this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheSolidTinCoyote'', Wile E. Coyote builds a giant robot coyote out of spare parts from a junkyard.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'': In "Science Fair and Foul", Buckwheat builds one from an old TV set, some tin cans and other found components.

** The eponymous mecha is a {{downplayed|trope}} example. While most of it was technically [[GrailInTheGarbage found in a scrap yard]], it's tech from the future, and the modern scrap parts are the cockpit and various other things Coop used to get it running again.
** However, played straight when the junk dealer Goat eventually decides to get his own giant robot (whom he names Darlene) cobbled together from junk--which promptly falls apart.

%% It's not italicized because I'm talking about the mech, not the show, even though it leads to the show.

* Despite its looks and its operator, this is subverted with WesternAnimation/MegasXLR. Only the ''cockpit'' is made of scrap parts; the rest of it is tech from the future.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Ork Stompas and Gargants are enormous, vaguely ork-shaped monstrosities that look like walking junkyards with weaponized arms and guns sticking out of every surface that isn't armor (as is the case with all ork technology). Feral Orks can build them too, but these are even more primitive and steam-powered.

Naturally, this means they'll be more fragile than conventional HumongousMecha, and depending on the setting, they either {{Joke Character}}s or simply low-tiered, yet there can be events that lead to them being [[LethalJokeCharacter surprisingly more valuable]] than one would assume a robot of their make to be.

* ''Film/PacificRimUprising'': Being built from literal scrap metal, some car parts, rusty construction equipment, etc., the MiniMecha counts as this. Well, it's two stories high, but it barely reaches the shin of any other standard Jaeger. [[PintSizedPowerhouse But it's no less a badass than its bigger kin]], [[TookALevelInBadass and even contributes greatly in the finale]].

** However, played straight when the junk dealer Goat eventually decides to get his own giant robot (whom he names Darlene) cobbled together from junk… which promptly falls apart.