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1'''Basic Trope:''' A [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] is viewed as a god or deity.
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3* '''Straight:''' In ''[[AdjectiveNounFred Solar Trope-Breaker]] [[MechaShow Troperion]] [[TeenDrama Z]]'', the [[BigBad two main antagonists]], stuckup [[AlphaBitch Larisse]] and [[SadistTeacher Mrs.]] [[HiddenVillain Angel]] [[TheReveal are revealed]] to have formerly worshipped the [[SuperRobot titular]] [[WeaponOfMassDestruction mecha]] as a god-like entity. However, when [[TheDeterminator Alice]] discovers and pilots Troperion Z, the two joined forces to create a new "god", [[EvilCounterpart Troperia]] [[PhysicalGod Queen]], and intend to use it to [[MightMakesRight "punish"]] anyone [[SocialDarwinists they view as "inferior"]].
4* '''Exaggerated:''' Larisse and Mrs. Angel use Troperia Queen to turn ''the entire school'' into a Super Robot, ''all because they see it as a divine entity''. [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner They're also found of trapping punishing students by putting them in a]] [[MechaGame mech-based]] [[CyberSpace VR game]] to [[LotusEaterMachine isolate them from human society]].
5* '''Downplayed:''' Larisse and Mrs. Angel used to worship a polytheist religion, and a shrine they happened to visit frequently had worshiped Troperion Z.
6* '''Justified:'''
7** Troperion Z was humanity a long ago when there was no technology to make a similar mech, leading some people to believe that Troperion Z is a divine being.
8** ''STBTZ'' is has Magical Girl elements to it, or is meant to be [[MindScrew heavily symbolic]], as Troperion's existence represents freedom, and the bad guys' attempt to recreate it represents oppression and/or restriction.
9** Saint Troperion Z was an [[MechanicalLifeforms Autobot]].
10* '''Subverted:''' Larisse and Mrs. Angel seemingly worships the Troperion Z. However, it is later revealed that they worship the MacGuffin trapped inside Troperion.
11* '''Double Subverted:''' It turns out that the MacGuffin seemingly trapped inside Troperion Z is just a part of what it actually is, the Troperion Z itself.

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