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* The WhateleyUniverse is arguably one of the settings where despite the best efforts of human and mutant engineers, giant mecha canonically just plain don't ''work''. (Power armor exists, but is much more to human scale.) And yet, during the big Halloween 2006 battle, perpetual school project Tiny Tim gets a personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome once it's been brought to the surface -- not under its own power, mind -- by demonstrating that while it may not be able to walk worth a damn, at least some of its ''guns'' are quite operational...

* {{Starcraft}}: The Goliath (and to a lesser extent the Dragoon) could've been a more normal tank-type vehicle, but that wouldn't have been [[RuleOfCool nearly cool enough]]. [[VideoGame/StarcraftII The sequel]] [[UpToEleven adds even more]].

* Welcome to ''WildARMs'', an RPG based on the wild west complete with horses and steam-powered locomotives. Your Chocobo for the game is a 30-foot tall, ancient, walking death-machine. Enjoy!
* In ''HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'', the titular hero summons a steam-powered robot through the ancient, mystical ritual... of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJzpLAOXMfY Tea Time]].

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. Let's face it, they don't ''need'' to include the MakeMyMonsterGrow part every episode, but nobody's really complaining about the giant robots the Rangers pull out in response. The first two Sentai series, ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''Series/JAKQDengekitai,'' had no super robots, just GerryAnderson-esque vehicles, and the latter was not very successful -- it was the introduction of super robots into the show with ''Series/BattleFeverJ'' that distinguished the show from the dozens of other HenshinHero shows at the time and made it a CashCowFranchise.

* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'' invokes this trope repeatedly. The AGs will be going along, trampling the shreds of the godmodder's forces, then suddenly a horde of giant mechs attacks them. Again.

** ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' adds the Mantis, the UNSC's first mass-produced mecha.

* The Mantis of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}''

** Some quests place the player in control of A.I.S. for their entire duration to combat a gigantic boss of some sort. The first pits the mechs against the towering [[EldritchAbomination Magatsu]]. The second has them facing off against a replica of the battleship Yamato. Yes, ''that'' [[WorldWarII Yamato]]. Though for the sake of fairness, they've taken some [[BeamSpam creative liberties]] regarding its arsenal...

* ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' decided that Kirby wasn't enough of a MemeticBadass and gives him a MiniMecha to lay waste to his enemies with from time to time.

* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' is about a bunch of {{Kaiju}} [CaptainErsatz knock-offs]] duking it out in a FightingGame... except for Ultra-V and Robo-47, who are Japanese and American-styled GiantMechas respectively.

* The {{Pokemon}} Golett and Golurk are very largely based upon golems, though they incorporate HumongousMecha into their design as well. In particular, they're capable of using Fly without any sort of wings.

* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', one of the game's Emergency Quests, "Mining Base: Despair", is, as the name suggests, [[NintendoHard quite the challenge]]. Evening the playing field for the players, thankfully, is the A.I.S. (ARKS Interception Silhouette), a PurposefullyOverpowered MiniMecha outfitted with a [[{{BFS}} giant sword]], [[MoreDakka chaingun]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre rocket launcher]], and [[WaveMotionGun beam cannon]]. The main downside to these mechs is that they only operate for about a couple minutes at a time, but you can take out bosses and whole volumes of baddies in such a short time with this baby!

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' - because what's a massive, apocalyptic battle with without skyscraper-sized mechs that can level cities with a single shot?

* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', Sealand asks Japan to making him like a power ranger and Sealand randomly becomes a Super Robot Mecha with a rocket punch. He has to call Iceland to get the fist back because The Rocket punch just kept going straight to Iceland and Iceland's head was in the way so it couldn't come back.

* Quite literal in ''HanamaruKindergarten'': Tsuchida's puppet show is a fantasy fairytale...up until the handsome prince summons his giant robot, which the children think is awesome.

* In ''ZettaiKarenChildren'', one of the characters ESPer powers involves making toys real and fighting with them. Guess what he tends to fight with? (hint: it's a toy model, starts with the letter 'M' and ends with 'echa'). Aside from pure awesomeness factor, there is no justification for this.

* "[[{{Exalted}} Yeah, Bob, I like the sound of this game where you play the solar-powered demigod, but do you think there's any way we could get, I don't know, giant magic suits of power armour into this? Except we can't really call them that, so...warstriders, yeah that's a good name. Warstriders.]]"
* "People [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beating the crap out of Cthulhu Mythos creatures]] is becoming a bit too common... What do you guys say we do it ''with mecha'', and make [[TabletopGame/CthulhuTech a tabletop RPG]] out of it?"
* [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons "Hey, guys, I just had this awesome idea. Let's make a huuge golem out of flesh and bones, stat it up, and let necromancers possess it with Magic Jar!"]]
* [[GearKrieg "All the action and adventure of World War II -- with mecha!"]]

** The mecha powerup is pretty useless in the SegaGenesis version, though, since you can't save little girls with it in effect.

* ''RedGarden: Dead Girls'' (OVA), Because being hundreds of years in the future isn't interesting enough, Gonzo decided it was time to add some mecha. Looking back on the TV series beginning episodes, one could never imagine this is how it would all end.

->'''[[ConsoleRPGCliches49To72 Cliché #54]]''': "There are always giant robots. Always."

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' with [[CloudCuckoolander Norm, the Giant Robot Man,]] [[AffablyEvil a killer robot with the personality of a mild-mannered white-collar suburbanite.]]
** Played relatively straight with the tree houses that turn into giant fighting robots in "Tree to Get Ready".

* The eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' builds plenty of them.
** Then the one time Dexter is in Japan, everybody has a Mecha from the school bullies to the teacher of the class.
* In a ''PowerRangers'' parody, the water tower in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' becomes a HumongousMecha.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold,'' the Batmobile can transform into a robot!

* The original ''GIJoe'' cartoon managed to have giant robots ''made of water''.
** While M.A.R.S. Industries in ''GIJoeRenegades'' would like to introduce you to their ''new'' line mech-suits, complete with UnstoppableRage feature.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': there are Steampunk mecha owned by Hiroshi Sato, in a series about ElementalPowers. They even play a key role in [[spoiler: attacks on Republic City]].
** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in the GrandFinale, the plot of which centers around [[BigBad Kuvira]] invading Republic City using a giant robot with an arm-mounted laser cannon. And it is ''awesome''.]]

Other popular [[GarnishingTheStory condiments]] for when authors feel a science fiction or adventure plot is in need of fresh flavor are [[RentAZilla giant monsters]], [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragons]], [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]] and [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninja]].