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* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the enemy was fine using the YMIR Mech as an all-purpose [[GiantMook Giant]] MechaMook. But in the third game, that wasn't cool enough... so they were replaced with the Atlas, seemingly ''just'' so that Shepard can [[GrandTheftPrototype shoot out the cockpit and steal one]].

* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', Sealand asks Japan to making him like a power ranger and Sealand randomly becomes a Super Robot Mecha with a RocketPunch. 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.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''

** Not exactly a mecha, it was just a fairly large suit of PoweredArmor

* In ''Manga/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.

* ''{{Webcomic/Hoofstuck}}'': [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=484&p=522 LoRaF-tan has one.]]

* ''{{Anime/SailorMoon}}'' could be more awesome if Sarina was, instead of (or as well as) a [[MagicalGirl Magical Girl]], she was a mechwarrior. [[http://foxi-5.deviantart.com/art/Sarina-s-Mech-504073430?q=sort%3Atime%20gallery%3AFoxi-5&qo=3 So thought Foxi-5 at Deviantart]].
* ''{{WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony}}'', on a related note, could also be more awesome. [[http://foxi-5.deviantart.com/art/Rarity-s-Mech-467665191 Now]] [[http://foxi-5.deviantart.com/art/Luna-s-Mech-306019742?q=sort%3Atime%20gallery%3AFoxi-5&qo=39 it]] [[http://foxi-5.deviantart.com/art/Pinkie-Pie-s-Mech-329746746 is.]]
* ''FanFic/HotspringSouls'' is a ''Soulsborne'' (''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', and ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'') crossover comedy fic that plays with the idea of the games' protagonists having a weekend vacation at an inn/hotspring in the countryside. The story starts out like a straightforward HotSpringsEpisode, then [[GenreShift turns into this halfway through.]]

* When OtakuSurrogate Sanae saw the titular Hisou Tensoku of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 12.3: Hisou Tensoku'', she immediately assumed this trope. Oh sure, a HumongousMecha would look out of place in a MagicalLand with a FantasyKitchenSink, but as Sanae says, it's a ''MagicalLand with a FantasyKitchenSink'', [[IfJesusThenAliens so why wouldn't there be giant robots]]? Naturally, the fandom [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP-nJxJjL1Y ran away]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS6IT9UMC8U with this]]. [[spoiler:Alas, this gets subverted in the end, as Hisou Tensoku is revealed to be a giant, steam-operated advertisement doll rather than an actual HumongousMecha]].

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* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', one of Pain's bodies is [[SchizoTech inexplicably]] some sort of HollywoodCyborg, with rocket boots, a RocketPunch, MacrossMissileMassacre deployed from his other arm, and a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beam]] from his head. This just seems to be part of his bloodline ability rather than actual technology. [[spoiler:He pulls off the same moves using his own body after being resurrected by Kabuto.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the enemy was fine using the YMIR Mech as an all-purpose [[GiantMook Giant]] MechaMook. But in the third game, that wasn't cool enough... so they were replaced with the Atlas, seemingly ''just'' so that Shepard can [[{{Gundamjack}} shoot out the cockpit and steal one]].

* ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' is a story that takes place after a major [[TheVirus viral]] [[CataclysmBackstory outbreak deemed Lost Christmas]] has ravaged Japan and left it under martial law and foreign occupation. Ten years later, a new {{Phlebotinum}} known as the Void Genome has been developed, which allows its user to draw powerful items from people that reflect their personalities. After [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters a terrorist group bent on liberating Japan]] steals this weapon, it winds up [[PhlebotinumRebel being accidentally bonded to]] OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ouma Shu. It's a story that tries to show normal teenagers living under constant threat of strife and death. It also features some ConspicuousCG robots that serve mostly to give Shu some enemies to chop up with his weapon without having to kill anyone. Although prominent in the first episode, for most of the show they are mostly absent or in the background.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'' is best described as a supernatural-themed FightingSeries. Towards the end, however, there's one fight scene where it manages to pull off this trope in the most absurdly [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] way possible. And yes, it was indeed awesome.

* Even though ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' has Spider Tanks, actual mechas are very rare and rather on the small side. The lobby fight in the first season of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' is already awesome, but when the mecha appears on the scene, the awesomeness instantly [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome goes critical]].

* The Literature/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 SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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...

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* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfTheMagicPotion'', Getafix builds [[spoiler:a giant CombiningMecha out of Roman legionaries and their shields to fight the BigBad who has grown to giant size. Obelix eventually takes control of one arm to deliver an epic MegatonPunch]].

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* The Goliaths from ''[[Literature/{{HIVE}} H.I.V.E]]''
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* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]] has a giant SteamPunk Cyberman trampling through 19th century London. Later on, a reason is given why it wasn't in the history books.

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* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': At the height of the insanity during Locher's run, he introduced a HumongousMecha called TRAZE-R to the strip.
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* Mecha-Streisand, Barbra Streisand's [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mecha-Godzilla]]-[[CaptainErsatz esque]] form, in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. She shows up in episode 12 "Mecha-Streisand" before vanishing for years... until episodes "200" and "201" a full 12 years later (1998 to 2010).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'', but was justified, as it was in an episode parodying Power Rangers.

** Parodied with [[CloudCuckoolander Norm, the Giant Robot Man,]] [[AffablyEvil a killer robot with the personality of a mild-mannered white-collar suburbanite.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Timmy's Dad made a mecha out of his car to battle his next door neighbor.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
** The eponymous character builds plenty of them.
** When Dexter went to Japan, everybody had a Mecha from the school bullies to the teacher of the class.
* In a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' parody, the water tower in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' becomes a HumongousMecha.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''
** The Batmobile can transform into a robot!
** A [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] ComicBook/LexLuthor pastiche (on an alien world where Bats had {{Superman}}-esque powers due to the environment) voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown had RaygunGothic evil robots. It was even more awesome than it sounds.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans:'' In the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' [[RecursiveAdaptation comic adaptation]], the various vehicles used at different times by the cast can combine into a robot. We do ''not'' see this every day, and of course their cartoon and mainstream comic counterparts get along just fine without it.
* ''Franchise/GIJoe'':
** The original ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' cartoon managed to have giant robots ''made of water''.
** While M.A.R.S. Industries in ''WesternAnimation/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]].
** Taken UpToEleven [[spoiler: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''.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'', a monster truck appears for one episode, Humunga Truck, and at the end it turns out to also be a TransformingMecha.

* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Back to the Barn." has two characters, Pearl and Peridot, settle who is the best engineer by building, competing in, and finally fighting in two mecha.

* The finale of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'''s first season had Precia summoning an army of MechaMooks, including a HumongousMecha or ten. Though considering [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} all the]] [[Anime/GaoGaiGar mecha]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars references]] in ''Nanoha'', it's more surprising that there aren't ''more''.

* ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', and the [[VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker two video games modeled after it]], have Creator/MichaelJackson [[OneManArmy single-handedly]] curb-stomping TheAggressiveDrugDealer Frankie Liddeo's private army by becoming a heavily-armed transforming robot ([[AWizardDidIt a magical comet did it]]).

%%* ''Film/SuckerPunch''. That is all.

* ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', and the [[VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker two video games modeled after it]].

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. Although the mecha are cool to look at, they don't particularly do anything that the PowerTrio couldn't do on their own aside from scaling up the fights.

* The eponymous ''Franchise/MetalGear'' mechs could be anything, really, considering the themes of the games otherwise are unrelated to giant mecha. They do make for ''awesome'' boss battles, tho'.

* The ''Franchise/JakAndDaxter'' series has a line of mass-produced (in the distant past) Precursor Robots, used by the minuscule [[MixAndMatchCritters ottsel]] Precursors for much larger-scale tasks.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'' is best described as a supernatural-themed FightingSeries. Towards the end, however, there's one fight scene where it manages to pull off this trope in the most absurdly [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] way possible. And yes, it was indeed awesome.

* Even though ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' has Spider Tanks, actual mechas are very rare and rather on the small side. The lobby fight in the first season of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' is already awesome, but when the mecha appears on the scene, the awesomeness instantly [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome goes critical]].

* The Literature/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...

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

* In ''VideoGame/{{Lunarosse}'', we have Yliandra's ultimate weapon, the Bijelined Dreadnought. Big enough that its innards comprise a dungeon.

-->"Its a [[{{Transformers}} Transformer]]!

** In a nice bit of lamp-shade hanging in the book of the first game, Snake reflects that Otacon even gave the thing sound effects to sound like a dragon. It doesn't get much cooler than that.
*** Of course, [[MeaningfulName Otacon]] is a [[HollywoodNerd Hollywood]] {{Otaku}} who got into robot engineering for the sole reason that he wanted to build HumongousMecha like in {{anime}}. Of course he is going to want to [[RuleOfCool snazz it up]]. His commentary in [=MGS4=] suggests he and the rest of the engineering team sneaked in a lot of little features like that, [[ThrowItIn just because they had the oppertunity]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' features Liberty Prime, a giant robot who memorably spouts anti-communist propaganda in battle (making him a literal PropagandaMachine.) A particularly egrarious example, as ''Fallout 3'' takes place in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] ScavengerWorld where the realistic odds of anybody getting a functioning giant robot are astronomical. The guy is just so damn cool though, that's he's become a MemeticMutation.

* ''Operator'': Take World War One. Add mecha. Add a bionic Sharingan. Then forget the UsefulNotes/WW1 part.

* In ''Literature/BabeRuthManTankGladiator'' the narrator does this to the story of BabeRuth.

* According to [[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/mega-bots-kuratas-battle-august/ Ars Technica]], a real life showdown between the American MegaBots Mk.III, and a Japanese Kuratas, is scheduled for August 2017.

* The JakAndDaxter series has a line of mass-produced (in the distant past) Precursor Robots, used by the minuscule [[MixAndMatchCritters ottsel]] Precursors for much larger-scale tasks.

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

[[caption-width-right:300:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor Well, for once]] [[LondonTown it's not]] [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]] [[TheTokyoFireball getting rampaged]].]]

* The ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' have the Sentinels, which are towering robots meant to hunt mutants.

* Another Bethesda example: Numidium from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''. A giant robot powered by the heart of a dead god (or the soul of one of the dead god's mortal avatars) that is so powerful that it [[RealityBreakingParadox breaks linear time whenever it activates]], and was able to change the orbit of the moons and planets around Nirn.

* The Mecha-Streisand episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.

** When Peter becomes the producer of Lois' directorial debut of ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', Peter drives Lois so insane that she just gives him the director's seat out of frustration, and he eventually writes the role of Anna into ''a (male) sword-welding mecha'' when the previous actress drops out.