| 1 | A Tactical Superweapon Unit (or "über unit" in gaming parlance; the term "Super Unit" is used throughout the article for clarity's sake) is a very expensive, slow to produce, hard-to-kill unit built to solo ("fight all by itself," also used throughout) enemy armies and bases. Usually bristling with weaponry, massive, and sporting defense stats usually reserved for structures. Unlike a HeroUnit (which is usually an AceCustom version of a standard unit anyhow), these don't have much in the way of a personality. However, they may have their own ArbitraryHeadcountLimit to avoid being spammed. Even if they ''can'' (ostensibly) be built in bulk, they're often prohibitively expensive, slow to build, and fiddly to use, requiring micromanagement of their abilities to use them effectively. In any other game, they'd be boss monsters (and story mode may even treat them as such). |
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| 3 | The purpose of such an Absolute Unit is to break stalemates. The armies of the various factions are, ideally, evenly matched, just [[CompetitiveBalance stronger and weaker in different areas]]. So, when two evenly-matched players meet, there needs to be a sort of "[[PurposefullyOverpowered wrecking ball]]" that allows the match to continue, in a similar fashion to {{Super Weapon}}s. In some cases, they may require another unit of the same calibre to fight effectively. %%(AN: I'll be potholing that to [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=d8wrgd2g8nud8yykbkzcdqrm Superweapon Duel]] once it launches.) |
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| 5 | FactionCalculus may decree that only the Powerhouse faction can deploy these, or that one faction can field squads of lesser super units to counter another factions single big'un. Ideally, a Super Unit isn't outclassed until [[SerialEscalation the sequel]], and lies at the pinnacle of a faction's TechTree. |
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| 7 | While mostly applicable to strategic video games, the concept of a single vehicle able to steamroll whole armies is an attractive one. The trope pops up in other game genres, and even media as well; even in real life, (e.g. the Wunderwaffen projects done by Nazi Germany in World War II), but what constitutes a super unit in real life is very subjective and difficult to prove, thanks to factors such as advancing technology. |
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| 9 | Compare BossBattle (which the story sometimes treats these as), TheDreadedDreadnought (a huge, overpowered battleship; especially if it's the villain's Flagship), and OneManArmy (basically, where a single person is treated this way in-story). Compare HeroUnit (a mildly overpowered, singleton named character the player is supposed to feel attached to; often in an AceCustom or SuperPrototype version of a regular unit. You can only have ''one'' because there only ''is'' one, not because it'd bankrupt the country to field two of them). See also BaseOnWheels and MilitaryMashupMachine, which these have a tendency to be. Their tactical flexibility is often augmented by the inclusion of a MobileFactory. They may or may not themselves be an {{Awesome But Impractical}}ity-laden SuperPrototype of some sort, with a lot of the cool features DummiedOut for the mass-production model. |
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| 19 | !!!'''Game examples:''' |
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| 22 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' introduces the [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan]] unit in ''The Titans'' ExpansionPack. The Titan is a [[{{Kaiju}} massive mythological monster]] with [[MightyGlacier enormous health, damage resistance, and damage output against buildings, at the expense of slow speed]] and an expensive, time-consuming SummoningRitual. When backed up by a proper army, a Titan can level virtually anything in its path. The only foolproof defense against a Titan is [[ChaseStopsAtWater water]], as Titans can't swim and are too big to fit in transport ships. |
| 23 | * ''VideoGame/BattalionWars'' has the Battlestation (a superheavy tank) and Aerostation (a Flying Fortress-style bomber) units, which form boss fights in certain missions. The third-to-last campaign mission has the player utilizing their own Battlestation to nearly solo an entire enemy army. If the Battlestation is lost, so goes the mission, as your support cadre cannot fight the rampaging horde of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead]] SuperSoldiers effectively. |
| 24 | * ''VideoGame/TheBattleForMiddleEarth II'' has the "Ring Heroes," a cross between this and a HeroUnit. They require that the player have [[MacGuffin the One Ring]], about 10,000 Supplies, and a good five minutes. Evil factions get [[EvilOverlord Dark Lord]] Sauron (a fallen angel) in all his two-ton-mace-swinging, lava-bomb-summoning glory, while Good factions get Storm Queen Galadriel (an elven queen and powerful enchantress), who can conjure tornadoes. It also allows certain Evil races to summon a demon (the Balrog, a BigRedDevil who is constantly on fire and wields a whip and a [[OneHandedZweihander gigantic]] [[{{BFS}} sword]]) or a dragon (a wyrm) through {{Support Power}}s. The ''Rise of the Witch-King'' expansion pack allows players to field a single squad of EliteMooks. |
| 25 | * ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' (a hybrid of RhythmGame and ActionRTS): |
| 26 | ** The Tainted Coil has the Bleeding Death, which needs to be purchased as normal, then deployed by being fired out of a cannon towards the enemy by a "Solo" (the game world runs entirely on ThePowerOfRock, and [[MagicMusic a guitar solo is the equivalent of a magic spell]]). It has the highest health and attack speed in the game, but its status as a constantly bleeding FrankensteinsMonster means that it'll die on its own eventually. |
| 27 | ** Ironheade has the Rock Crusher, a tank-like idol to Örmagoden (the setting's god) with several mortars and a grinder, as well as being covered in radio handsets to give all nearby units the benefits of an InUniverse ThemeMusicPowerup. Its "Double-Team" attack creates an inescapable ring, then drops the FlamingSword of a Titan into it from orbit. |
| 28 | ** The Drowning Doom's super units are split between one that relies more on the cheeseball tactic of being able to fly in a setting where everything happens at ground level to make it immune to most attacks, rather than sheer durability or an InstantDeathRadius (a Dirigible that drops jars full of concentrated despair on people while smothering them with the weapons-grade stink of its undead pilot), and a GiantMook called the "Treeback" (a very tough zombie ogre with a tree growing out of its back that harbours a murder of hungry crows). |
| 29 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' (including {{Game Mod}}s): |
| 30 | ** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'': The ''Counterstrike'' and ''Aftermath'' expansions feature the {{cyborg}} {{supersoldier}} Volkov. Serving as an overpowered boss-like enemy in the campaign, he has at minimum over 3-4 times the hit points[[note]]2500[[/note]] of Mammoth Tanks and Cruisers[[note]]600 and 700 respectively[[/note]] (the toughest producible[[note]]One ''Aftermath'' mission features a number of enemy Soviet Super Tanks that boast a whopping 10,000 HP, but they're just mission-exclusive palette swaps of the Mammoth Tank[[/note]] units in the Soviet and Allied arsenals, respectively) [[note]]in ''Deus Ex Machina'' Volkov's HP is boost further to a monstrous 6000[[/note]], is armed with a HandCannon that mows down infantry with ease and can make short work of tanks and even the aforementioned Cruisers in just a handful of shots, and can blow up structures with C4 charges, making him far more of a threat than even the nukes that serve as the game's superweapon of choice. He's so overpowered, in fact, that he only makes a single appearance in ''Counterstrike'', and all but one of his ''Aftermath'' appearances nerf him severely into just a slightly more durable version of the Allied HeroUnit Tanya. |
| 31 | ** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'': |
| 32 | *** GDI has the Mammoth mk.II, which is a CaptainErsatz of an AT-AT with a powerful railgun cannon. Nod doesn't have an equivalent vehicle but they do have the [[SuperPrototype unique Cyborg Commando]] who can regenerate in Tiberium fields and has a powerful plasma gun. |
| 33 | *** In the ''Firestorm'' expansion pack, [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] C.A.B.A.L. has the Core Defender, a heavily armed giant robot with a laser capable of piercing the eponymous Firestorm's DeflectorShields. While powerful against armies, it can't look up, leaving it vulnerable to airstrikes. Like the aforementioned Volkov, it serves as a 'boss' in the campaign. |
| 34 | ** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars: Kane's Wrath'' is the only game with one formally defined epic unit per faction--a powerful vehicle that requires its own factory and is capped at one per player, but is armed with a devastating weapon out-of-the-box and the option to garrison a number of infantry squads in their hardpoints for various effects, as well as a unique gimmick (usually some method of generating income). |
| 35 | *** GDI gets the [[FunWithAcronyms M.A.R.V.]] superheavy tank/miner, which sports a tri-barrelled cannon and four hardpoints. It can run over Tiberium deposits to stripmine them - and those Tiberium fields [[BanditMook doesn't need to be yours]]. |
| 36 | *** Nod gets the Redeemer, a gigantic quad-walker with a laser cannon, a HatePlague beacon, and two hardpoints. |
| 37 | *** The Scrin get the Eradicator Hexapod, a gigantic [[OrganicTechnology organitek]] SpiderTank with a plasma disc launcher similar to the ones mounted on their Destroyer airships, and three hardpoints. If a unit is killed within a certain radius of it, it automatically recycles them into resources. |
| 38 | ** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The ''Uprising'' expansion adds three such powerful and expensive units, albeit ones that can still be mass-produced ([[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard especially by the AI]]): |
| 39 | *** The Future Tank X-1 is a combat robot for the Allies that lifted directly from ''Film/TheTerminator's'' [[https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/HK-Tank Hunter-Killer Tanks]] that fires area-of-effect spheres of destruction. It can also use a Riot Beam, a pair of crossing lasers that will torch anything in front of them. |
| 40 | *** The Harbinger is a self-repairing gunship for the Allies (think AC-130 on steroids) that can switch between a chaingun and a collider cannon and circles around its target without needing to reload but has no AntiAir capability. They have a bad reputation in-universe, called "vultures" by other Allied pilots for their flight patterns and sociopathic enjoyment of their jobs. |
| 41 | *** The Empire gets the Giga Fortress, a floating MacrossMissileMassacre provider that can attack all units and transforms into a giant flying demon head with a BreathWeapon that outranges all static AntiAir defenses but can't attack air units (ironically, the Empire is best-suited to taking them down as their fighters don't need to reload). It's the single most expensive unit in the game, costing more than an MCV and taking the same amount of time to build, which will not stop the AI from cheerfully building a dozen of them. |
| 42 | ** ''VideoGame/MentalOmega'', a GameMod of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', features a few of these units, called Epic Units. They are specific to certain subfactions, boast massive firepower, are heavily armored, and can self-repair, requiring heavy focus-fire to destroy. They also have ContractualBossImmunity to most effects. |
| 43 | *** China has the Centurion Siege Crawler, a massive walking artillery that outranges all static defenses but one. It chews apart buildings and defenses, and can attack enemy aircraft. It can carry up to three passengers who can shoot at enemies from inside. |
| 44 | *** Epsilon HQ has the Aerial Fortress Irkalla, a gigantic UFO. It does poorly against buildings, but takes out groups of units quickly and can target both ground and air forces. It is excellent at establishing territorial control, but moves slowly. |
| 45 | *** Haihead has the M.A.D.M.A.N., a bomb truck on steroids. While it cannot attack units directly, its self-destruct process hits ''harder than a superweapon''. |
| 46 | *** Wings of Coronia has the Harbinger, which bombards an area and takes out a chunk of a base in a few hits. While its bombing run lasts a long time, it cannot be controlled by the player. |
| 47 | *** The campaign-exclusive Perun Flagship is a large bulking helicopter constantly boosting other Tesla weaponry near it, while its own Tesla cannon tears enemy units apart. It is used by [[spoiler:Epsilon in the final Soviet campaign mission.]] |
| 48 | *** The Allies are the only faction that lacks an Epic Unit. In the campaign, Pacific Front has the Shin Tsurugi Decimator in only one mission, while the Paradox Engine is a central plot device in Act Two, being the only true threat for Epsilon even after being rendered nearly-inoperable. |
| 49 | ** Epic units in ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheReds'' (a GameMod for ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'') require a 5-star Generals' Promotion and a high-level technology building, have a hideous price tag, and take 60 seconds after one is destroyed to even ''consider'' building another one (presumably, it takes everyone that long to change their drawers), ensuring that you're without your epic unit in the worst possible situation: the enemy is the one with enough dakka now: |
| 50 | *** The [[UnitedEurope European Continental Alliance]]'s Manticore superheavy tank's impressive compliment of weaponry comprise twin 150mm cannons, a brace of autocannons, and a missile pod, giving it ''almost'' "enough dakka", and this is backed up by a powerful chassis and a bevy of repair drones that keep it and its allies in tip-top shape, plus a Nano Shield that for 8 seconds makes it invulnerable to any incoming attack and gives an extreme boost to its self-repair rate, although it cannot attack while the shield is active. |
| 51 | *** The [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain Russian Federation]]'s Blackbear is a souped up version of its already potent Sentinel superheavy tank. Boasting even more HP than the Manticore (2500 vs 1800), a single 220mm main gun that deals over twice as much damage as the Manticore's dual guns '''combined''', and a pair of AA missile pods, it can win a 1-on-1 engagement against any enemy unit that isn't another Blackbear, and that's without activating either of its defensive secondary abilities (Shtora system that makes it briefly untargetable, and Smoke Screen that forces enemies to blindly fire through it). |
| 52 | ** The ''VideoGame/TiberiumEssence'' GameMod for ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars'' has one epic unit for each faction once they reach the top of the tech tree: |
| 53 | *** GDI has the Mammoth mk. II walker, taken out of mothball and upgraded from ''Tiberian Sun''. Four railguns, two autocannons, and a set of missile launchers, as well as a modular spinal mount. |
| 54 | *** The Brotherhood of Nod has the Montauk, a DrillTank bristling with laser gun batteries. It also acts as a BaseOnWheels due to the fact that it cannonically ''is'' Nod's main base of operations, and can summon several groups of units from the tunnel network. |
| 55 | *** The Scrin get the Conqueror walker, which is more support oriented, seeding Tiberium fields on-demand to provide power-ups to its allies, and can assimilate the weapons of each of the other faction's GiantRobot units. |
| 56 | * ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes'' has several vehicles that can only be obtained through {{Support Power}}s, but the one most applicable is the Wehrmacht's Terror Doctrine-exclusive King Tiger, a huge tank with a monstrous 88mm cannon that can only be summoned once per game. The American equivalent to it is the M26 Pershing. |
| 57 | * ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' has its top tier of units locked behind the ownership of a "Relic," a special [[StrategicAssetCaptureMechanic Capture Point]]. These include squads of heavy infantry and super-heavy tanks. In the original and in ''Winter Assault,'' you could build as many as you'd like, but from ''Dark Crusade'' onwards, they are restricted to one each. |
| 58 | ** The Space Marines have Terminators (Highly decorated, elites-among-the-elite Space Marine heroes with extremely tough PoweredArmor and double-barrelled {{Hand Cannon}}s, which they can swap for [[GatlingGood miniguns]] or [[FireBreathingWeapon double-barrelled flamethrowers]]), Assault Terminators (the same tier of Bad Enough Dude, just with electrified warhammers and tower shields), and the Land Raider APC (which sports two laser cannon batteries and a pair of machine guns). |
| 59 | ** Chaos Space Marines have the Bloodthirster, a BigRedDevil brandishing a battleaxe the size of a car. He literally wastes away from boredom if he's not fighting something. |
| 60 | ** Orks have the Squiggoth, best describes as "an alien [[WarElephants War Elephant]] armed with several normal cannons and a LightningGun." Its attacks are as powerful as they are inaccurate, even in melee, and can theoretically charge through infantry mobs (but usually gets stuck on said infantry). |
| 61 | ** The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] get the Avatar of Khaine, the ''manifestation of a dead god'' with a FlamingSword. He regenerates in and out of combat also lets them build more units and speeds up their construction time and makes them harder to demoralize (many of these traits being common fan complaints about the Eldar being overpowered). |
| 62 | ** The Imperial Guard get the Baneblade Super-Heavy Tank, which sports no less than ''eleven'' seperate guns and is the size of their HQ building. |
| 63 | ** The Necron get the Monolith, a teleporting BaseOnWheels with a huge particle cannon and a MookMaker. It has to be killed twice to be destroyed; first as a tank, then as a building. They also have the Nightbringer, the invulnerable manifestation of ''[[TheGrimReaper Death itself!]]'' In the ''Soulstorm'' expansion, they also get the Deceiver, basically "alien {{Satan}}." |
| 64 | ** The Tau get the Greater Knarloc, a terror bird the size of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. It can have more HP than a Squiggoth (due to being a Kroot and therefore sharing in their CannibalismSuperpower), but spends most of its time turning around. |
| 65 | ** The Dark Eldar have the Dais of Destruction, a combination of party boat and giant HoverTank which sports huge dark energy blasters, {{Disintegrator Ray}}s, and some sexy ladies (not a euphemism for anything). It's piloted by Asdrubael Vect (leader of the entire Dark Eldar race, not just the faction present in the game) himself. |
| 66 | ** The Sisters of Battle get the Living Saint, an ''actual angel'' with a flaming sword. She has ResurrectiveImmortality, teleporting back to the Shrine building when killed, and [[SwordBeam the ability to spray a jet of holy flames from her sword]]. |
| 67 | * ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII'': Retribution: The campaign lets the player face against every faction's super unit as well as their own (and claiming it in the latter case). |
| 68 | ** The Space Marines get a Land Raider stolen from the traitors before the can desecrate it. |
| 69 | ** The Imperial Guard get a Baneblade, also stolen from traitors. Unlike the previous game, the main gun has to be fired manually. |
| 70 | ** The Orks get a battlewagon, a Film/MadMax-esque vehicle that combines the roles of tank, troop transport, and road roller. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvmgs6BPmZ4 The one faced in the campaign is called Daisy.]] |
| 71 | ** Chaos gets Ulkair, a Great Unclean One of Nurgle and the BigBad of the previous game. |
| 72 | ** The Eldar get the Avatar of Khaine by activating the one they fight after a completely avoidable misunderstanding leads to them fighting their own troops. |
| 73 | ** The Tyranids get the Swarmlord, a melee monster that lets nearby Tyranids reinforce themselves. |
| 74 | * In ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper 2'', the [[ADungeonIsYou Keeper]] gets the late-game power to {{summon|Magic}} the Horned Reaper, an [[CompleteImmortality invulnerable]] LightningBruiser that can steamroll anything in his path. His only drawback is the ruinous {{Mana}} cost to keep him on the field. If you consider the Horned Reaper actually a power, then true end-game units are the Dark Angels which are the last units you discover in the campaign. While having only above average durability, the Dark Angels have strong magic and devastating sword attacks and in numbers will easily wipe out a larger enemy force. For the 1st game, your mightiest are the Horned Reapers (they weren't unique back then) and Dragons (the Reapers provided the melee, while the dragons were your top artillery). |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/Dungeons3'' has the Titan units which stand outside of your population cap. For the Horde, the Ogre is their top heavyweight, the Demons have the Pit Fiend and the Undead have the Grave Golem. |
| 76 | * ''[[VideoGame/Earth2150 Earth 2150: Moon Project]]'' had several specific to each faction in the campaign: Eurasian Dynasty had the Escorts which were grounded [=UFOs=] that could [[HealingFactor self-repair]] and had devastating alien energy weapons, United Civilized States had the Grizzly III which were MiniMecha that had a pair of heavy weapon placements, heavily armored and had the game's highest health for a vehicle. Finally the Lunar Corporation have the Prototypes, these were fast moving, heavily armored vehicles with significant health, rapid HealingFactor and had a potent cannon which could ionize enemies. The drawback to these vehicles was that while they weren't unique, they were in limited quantities and even their own faction couldn't produce them due to BlackBox technology. Additionally these units were only in the [=ED=] campaign where you could capture them, in the other campaigns these vehicles were renamed and became {{Hero Unit}}s. Finally all these vehicles start off unshielded so you need to find a [[DeflectorShield Shield Projector]] or have a repairer add one. |
| 77 | ** ''[[VideoGame/Earth2150 Earth 2160]]'', while the factions of the Eurasian Dynasty and the United Civilized States continue to use "conventional" WeaponsOfMassDestruction such as a teleported time bomb and a ballistic missile launcher, the Lunar Corporation decided to show their NASA nerdiness. Their weapon is the Ripper (or the Ultimate Ripper if you pay for the R & D), which is a [[PlasmaCannon heavily armed UFO]] flying from a tower which has an ''Ultimate Battle Module'' built on top. |
| 78 | * ''VideoGame/GoblinCommander'' had Titan units appropriate for each clan. Stonekrusher had the Stone Ogre, Hellfire had the Warpig Pult, Stormcaller had the Lightning Elemental, Plaguespitter had Slime and finally thr Nighthorde had the Battle Ball. |
| 79 | * ''VideoGame/GreyGoo2015'' calls these "Epic Units": |
| 80 | ** The Beta have the Hand of Ruk, a BaseOnWheels armed with a nuclear bomb-flinging mortar and six turrets that can be garrissoned by any of the vehicles churned out by its MobileFactory. |
| 81 | ** The Goo have the Purger, a massive BlobMonster made out of ravenous, angry NanoMachines that can batter appart and/or assimilate anything it gets its pseudopods on. |
| 82 | ** The Humans have the Alpha, a GiantRobot armed with extremely powerful laser cannons. |
| 83 | ** The Shroud have the Dirge, with three levels of EvolutionPowerup, which it progresses through by eating resources and killing enemies. At first, it has a gun that causes DamageOverTime. After huffing enough Catalyst, it upgrades to an artillery gun. After it uses that to kill enough enemies, it gains a ''black hole cannon'' called the "Gravity Well." |
| 84 | * ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear 2: Overture'' (the OddballInTheSeries with heavy RealTimeStrategy elements)Â has Elite Servants. They're usually stronger than a character's normal Servants, but are much more expensive to summon, and only one of each type can be active at any given time. |
| 85 | * ''VideoGame/HaloWars'': |
| 86 | ** The UNSC get the Vulture, an [[CoolPlane enormous VTOL gunship]] which can be upgraded to launch a MacrossMissileMassacre at enemy targets. |
| 87 | ** The Covenant, meanwhile, have the freakin' [[SpiderTank Scarab]], a nigh-unstoppable walking tank that can reduce almost anything to cinders with its WaveMotionGun. |
| 88 | ** Notably, the former is wholly outclassed by the latter, but is much cheaper and can be deployed in numbers, as opposed to the Scarab taking up half of the player's standard troop capacity. |
| 89 | * ''VideoGame/HaloWars2'' introduces the Condor Gunship, a VTOL craft equipped with laser cannons and a ''[[MagneticWeapons Mini-MAC]]'', as well as the Retriever Sentinel, a massive Forerunner construct meant for mining operations now deployed at [[ScienceHero Professor Anders]]' behest. |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/{{Paraworld}}'': Each of the playable factions have the following Titans (note that while you can build more than one, they start at Tier 4 and there's an ArbitraryHeadcountLimit of 3 Tier 4 units and 1 Tier 5 - a tier that can only be reached by promotion): |
| 91 | ** Norsemen have the Triceratops Titan which was a triceratops with a thick armor-plated barding plus a trio of outer compartments that can hold infantry and which they can fire their weapons from. The Triceratops also has an armor-piercing HornAttack. |
| 92 | *** Unique to the Norsemen, they alternately have the Steam Tank (which has the same Tier ranking) which was a heavily armored tank with a powerful ballista and can transport 10 infantry into battle. |
| 93 | *** And in Skirmish if Norsemen have [[HeroUnit Charles Babbit]] they can create the Exoskeleton which is a heavily armored, powerful melee MiniMecha. |
| 94 | ** Dustriders have the T-Rex Titan which is a Tyrannosaurus with a bite that's one of the most damaging attacks in the game. |
| 95 | ** Dragon Clan has the Seismosaur Titan is a dinosaur similar to a small brachiosaur and carries a pair of gunners operating machine guns. |
| 96 | * ''Titan'' class war-robots from the emponymous ''VideoGame/PlanetaryAnnihilation'' ExpansionPack are built to solo enemy armies and bases, and violently explode on death. ''These are not the most powerful weapons in the game.'' That honour goes to the Metal Planet, an InfinityPlusOneSword that is a CaptainErsatz of the Death Star, which can destroy worlds, something that otherwise involves smashing them together or the ''Ragnarok''s special attack. |
| 97 | * ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'': |
| 98 | ** The Vinci have the Land Leviathan, a tunnelling [[SpiderTank spider]]-[[GiantEnemyCrab crab tank]] with several machine guns and a [[MacrossMissileMassacre MLAS]] mounted on it. It also has an ArmCannon that launches missiles, and the grinders on its arms. |
| 99 | ** The Alin have the Great Glass Dragon, which flies around spitting clouds of broken glass at enemies. It can also focus sunlight through its body to shoot a huge laser beam at enemies. |
| 100 | ** The Cuotl have the City of Destruction, an AwesomePersonnelCarrier with several weapons, including a city-destroying laser and a Gravity-Wave Generator to deal with hordes. |
| 101 | ** In Skirmish mode, there's a unique neutral Master Unit called the Elder Glass Golem that can be created if its lair is captured. Additionally in Skirmish mode, the Moon God Ix can be captured as an extra Master Unit. Interestingly in Campaign mode, you can't create Master Units though one mission does have you recover a badly damaged Land Leviathan. Instead Campaign has you earning many {{Hero Unit}}s beyond the 3 heroes in Skirmish. |
| 102 | * ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire: Entrenchment'' has Titans, massive ships with firepower, fighter bays, and defenses similar to military-dedicated starbases. Each one is emblematic of the military doctrine of their faction (for example, the vengeance-obsessed TEC Rebels have a gigantic flying gun battery, while their more war-weary and isolationist TEC Loyalist cousins have a more support-oriented DamageSpongeBoss). They require five Research items to be completed before launch, and no less than ''two'' Capital Ship Crews each. They cost as much as whole fleets of lesser craft, and you can only launch one of them at a time. |
| 103 | * ''VideoGame/{{Spellforce}}'' has Titans for each faction such as the humans with their Griffin. Titans start off with extremely high health and hitting power. Additionally a unique feature is that they gain ExperiencePoints like a HeroUnit (everything else is topped out from the start). That said they have the usual drawback of being unique and really slow, etc. |
| 104 | * ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'': |
| 105 | ** In skirmish/multiplayer modes, the Protoss can field a single Mothership, a huge FlyingSaucer with anti-air plasma missiles and a "Planet Cracker" ventral laser cannon battery that is, canonically, fully capable of wiping out all life on a planet (this is seen in the ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' opening cutscene), they just want to keep this one habitable. |
| 106 | ** ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIWingsOfLiberty'': A couple missions in the campaign feature the Odin, the SuperPrototype for the smaller (but still [[HumongousMecha massive]]) Thor units. The mission where Raynor's Raiders steal it basically amounts to keeping it repaired while the pilot (whose radio is broken) rampages across the map. |
| 107 | ** ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'' climaxes the prologue with a boss fight against the Archangel, a transforming heavy mech/fighter-bomber laying siege to the Umojan blacksite facility holding Kerrigan. It also features the Zerg Leviathan, a ([[UnitsNotToScale canonically]]) [[ThatsNoMoon moon-sized]] Zerg bio-ship available as a temporary summon. It mounts ''base defenses and other units'' as weaponry. It also features a PuzzleBoss battle against the [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]] ''Gorgon''-class Battlecruiser, which can only be killed by an entire ''horde'' of Scourge, a kind of Zerg kamikaze fighter-beast. |
| 108 | ** The ''Covert Ops'' DLC finishes with a battle against the Xanthos Heavy Mech, armed with railguns and flamethrowers, and the option to switch to a lazer cannon. It takes the entire Covert Operations army to take out. |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has Juggernauts, huge starships that are the spacegoing equivalent of a BaseOnWheels (base-on-hyperdrives?) that sport a shipyard/repair bay and a pair of Massive gun-mountings. Not to be confused with Colossi, absolutely brobdingnagian ships with a single weapon designed to produce an EarthShatteringKaboom, DepopulationBomb, or a planet-sized ContainmentField |
| 110 | * ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' has Tier 4 Experimental units. Unlike most examples, these are fully spamable, and while certainly big and tough and able to mop the floor with armies, to take on the enemy base requires either squads of the things or a supporting army of mooks. They're so X-box huge that they often get built directly on the battlefield by Tier 3 {{Worker Unit}}s. While each faction has three (four with the ''Forged Alliance'' expansion pack; these are listed last in their respective sub-list), some fall under the purview of a straight {{Superweapon}}, and one is a superpowered generator. |
| 111 | ** The UEF (who have two regular superweapons): |
| 112 | *** The ''Fatboy'' is a Land Battleship with an integrated MobileFactory and bubble-shield generator. |
| 113 | *** The ''Atlantis'' "Submersible Battleship," which includes aircraft carrying capacity along with nuclear torpedoes. |
| 114 | *** The ''Mavor'' Experimental Artillery is a massive stationary cannon which can fire at anywhere on the map. |
| 115 | *** The ''Novax'' Experimental Satellite is a powerful KillSat. |
| 116 | ** The Cybrans: |
| 117 | *** The ''Monkeylord'' is a huge SpiderTank carrying a sustained-fire microwave laser cannon and "Electron Bolter" autocannons. |
| 118 | *** The ''Soul Ripper'' is a massive, flying gun platform. While it has no big gimmick, it does have loads of guns and HP. |
| 119 | *** The ''Scathis'' is a gigantic self-propelled GatlingGood howitzer tank that launches storms of {{Neutron Bomb}}s. |
| 120 | *** The ''Megalith'' is a GiantEnemyCrab robot with an integrated MobileFactory. It's intended as a naval unit, and has more torpedo weaponry than anything else. |
| 121 | ** The Aeon Illuminate: |
| 122 | *** The ''Galactic Colossus'' is a HumongousMecha with a tractor beam hands to prevent escape from its EyeBeams. |
| 123 | *** The ''CZAR'' is basically a CaptainErsatz of the Alien City-Destroyer ships from ''Independence Day,'' being an AirborneAircraftCarrier with a ventral WaveMotionGun. |
| 124 | *** The ''Tempest,'' a huge, disc-shaped submarine MobileFactory warship armed with several torpedo launchers and the ominously-named Oblivion Cannon. |
| 125 | *** The ''Paragon'' is the aforementioned superpowered generator, able to create a near-limitless supply of [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas resources]]. |
| 126 | ** Seraphim (the fourth faction; introduced in the expansion): |
| 127 | *** The ''Awassa'' is a huge flying-fortress-type bomber armed with nukes able to kill entire armies. |
| 128 | *** The ''Ythotha'' is a giant, walking weapons platform that's actually two super units in one: once killed, it ejects its EnergyBeing pilot, a massive ball lightning called an ''Othuy.'' |
| 129 | *** The ''Yolona Oss'' is a unique Strategic Missile Launcher, constructing a special nuke which requires ''two'' defense missiles to shoot down, devastates a much larger area with greater power, and is constructed much faster than both the regular strategic nukes ''and'' a single strategic defense building. |
| 130 | * ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander2'' has what amounts to the UpdatedReRelease of many of the previous game's super units, and more besides. They require Experimental Gantry structures to deploy from as well. The game features the option to launch them at 50% build capacity (which the game refers to as "launching half-baked") as an emergency measure, in which case, they're riddled with problems and often stall. Experimental Units in this game are divided into Major experimental units (which are more like the ones in the last game) and Minor experimental units (faster and cheaper to build but not quite as powerful, though still far more powerful than any regular unit). |
| 131 | ** UEF Minor: |
| 132 | *** The ''Fatboy II'' returns as a pure land battleship, without the bubble shields and factory. |
| 133 | *** The ''AC-1000 Terror'' is a KingMook version of their regular gunship. |
| 134 | *** The ''C-230 Star King'' is a giant air transport, able to carry even other experimental units. |
| 135 | *** The ''Atantis'' returns almost unchanged (besides swapping out AA capacity for a bigger deck gun), and is only slightly more expensive then their next most powerful battleship. |
| 136 | ** UEF Major: |
| 137 | *** The ''Mega Fortress'' is an AirborneAircraftCarrier with its own complement of weaponry-most of them pointed at the ground, relying on its fighter complement to tackle other air threats. |
| 138 | *** The ''Disruptor Station'' is a powerful artillery weapon that can stun the units it hits. |
| 139 | *** The ''King Kryptor'' is a giant robot with battleship turrets for {{Shoulder Cannon}}s and fireball-launcher hands. |
| 140 | *** The ''Noah Experimental Unit Cannon'' is a factory that fires the units it produces like an artillery weapon. |
| 141 | *** The ''Aegis'' (DLC only) is a powerful shield generator. |
| 142 | *** The ''Super Triton'' (DLC only) is an even larger battleship. |
| 143 | *** The ''Jackhammer'' (DLC only) a mobile artillery launcher which must [[AnchoredAttackStance lock into position]] to fire. |
| 144 | ** Cybran Minor: |
| 145 | *** The ''Megalith II'' returns with bigger guns and without its integrated factory and DropPod dispenser. |
| 146 | *** The ''Giant Transport'' is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin giant air transport]] like the Star King. |
| 147 | *** The ''Bomb Bouncer'' is a mobile shield projector that charges up from the damage it receives and can blast it back at enemies. |
| 148 | *** The ''Recycler'' (DLC only) automatically reclaims nearby wreckage. |
| 149 | *** The ''Cicada'' (DLC only) is a mobile stealth field generator. |
| 150 | ** Cybran Major: |
| 151 | *** The ''Proto-Brain Complex'' massively boosts your [[TechTree research]] and the Proto-Brain on top can detach to act as a gunship and boost [[VeteranUnit Veterancy rates]] of nearby units. |
| 152 | *** The ''Kraken'' is a submarine battleship made in imitation of, what else, a giant squid, with a cannon on each tentacle. |
| 153 | *** The ''Magnetron'' is a giant electro-magnet that can [[HollywoodMagnetism attract or repel]] enemy units. It also has giant grinding disks that destroy any enemy units it pulls in completely and turns them into [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas resources]]. |
| 154 | *** The ''Cybranosaurus Rex'' can only be called a "[[ArmoredDragon Dragon]] in PoweredArmor." |
| 155 | *** The ''Soul Ripper II'' returns largely unchanged. |
| 156 | *** The ''Monkey Lord'' also returns, but is behind a DLC paywall. |
| 157 | *** The ''Boomerang'' (DLC only) redirects incoming nuclear missiles back at their launcher. |
| 158 | ** Aeon Minor: |
| 159 | *** The ''Urchinow'' is a superheavy tank referred to as an "Assault Block," which has three big cannons and multiple light guns. |
| 160 | *** The ''Willfindja'' is a huge HoverTank with all its weaponry mounted on twenty or so {{Attack Drone}}s. |
| 161 | *** The ''Airnomo'' is a powerful anti-air unit. |
| 162 | *** The ''Pulinsmash'' is a mobile magnet that can pull in enemy units and crush them. |
| 163 | *** The ''Buhbledow'' (DLC only) is an artillery station designed to disable shields. |
| 164 | ** Aeon Major: |
| 165 | *** The ''Space Temple'' creates a two-way teleportation corridor between itself and any point on the map within a large range. |
| 166 | *** The ''Universal Colossus'' is the upgraded version of the Galactic Colossus which can now suck up enemy units and shoot them back as projectiles. |
| 167 | *** The ''Loyalty Gun'' can [[EnemyExchangeProgram capture enemy units]]. |
| 168 | *** The Czar's little brother, the ''Darkenoid'' loses its aircraft factory, but retains the underside quantum laser array. |
| 169 | *** The ''Sooprizer'' (DLC only) is a large gunship intended for surgical strikes to compliment the ''Darkenoid.'' |
| 170 | *** The ''Illuminator'' (DLC only) is a powerful radar installation. |
| 171 | * ''VideoGame/TheyAreBillions'': The two end-game units the Titan and the Mutant. |
| 172 | ** The Mutant has the highest health of any controllable unit, along with a high movement speed. It also inflicts Area of Effect damage to any units in melee range, making it capable of devastating hordes of Infected. However, it's not as suited for holding of the Special Infected for long periods of time. |
| 173 | ** The Titan is the most expensive and time-consuming unit available to the player. Best described as a mobile Executor turret, the Titan has a good movement speed and inflicts Area of Effect damage at a good range. Its high health also allows it to act as a temporary wall and physically hold back the Infected if only for a few seconds. A small squad of Titans is easily able to clear an entire map of the Infected. |
| 174 | * ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilation:'' The infamous Krogoth is the single most expensive unit in the game, armed with three different weapons capable of taking on quick swarms, heavy units, and aircraft simultaneously. It is also incredibly durable and explodes on death, making it risky for the enemy Commander to simply [[OneHitKill D-Gun]] the Krogoth. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/TotalAnnihilationKingdoms:'' Each faction has a dragon that is fast moving, hard hitting unit. But they are expensive and take a long time, and a lot of mana to build. Then there's their deity units, which are massive walking gods that can detect all enemy units in the fog of war, and can decimate anything in their path, but are even more expensive, and only the Monarch can build them. |
| 176 | * The Hierarchy from ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar'' produces these as a matter of course. Their barracks, factory, and research "structures" are actually huge {{Spider Tank}}s that act like a BaseOnWheels, and while they totally have a conventional army, a perfectly viable strategy is to load up one, two, or all of their Walkers with weapons or weapon upgrade modules, and maybe a couple {{Flying Saucer}}s set to Repair mode if you don't want to sacrifice a leg socket for a Repair Bay module to keep them fighting fit. They can't be destroyed normally, instead requiring that at least two of the CognizantLimbs in the upper section be destroyed to expose the reactor, which then must be destroyed. However, a very low-tier research ability causes the breached reactor to irradiate the surrounding area, either killing or zombifying the enemy troops while stimulating the HealingFactor of the Hierarchy's own. |
| 177 | * ''VideoGame/WarlordsBattlecry:'' |
| 178 | ** Each race has a unique Titan unit at the top of their tech tree such as Lord Bane of the Undead and King Khallid of the Dwarves. A Titan can only be built once per match and has a high resource cost, but each one is incredibly powerful. All players are informed that "A Titan walks the land" whenever one is built. |
| 179 | ** Dragons are not quite as strong as Titans, but they are another top-tier super unit available to every race and can be built in limitless numbers. |
| 180 | * ''Warrior Kings'' from Microids had one for each faction. The Imperials got the Archangel who can create a GroundWave with his sword, the Pagans have the demon lord Baal who has deadly EyeBeams and the Renaissance had their Rocket Towers. Uniquely among these 3 units, the Rocket Towers were controlled by the player (the other 2 were computer controlled only) and while expensive more than one Rocket Tower can be produced at a time. The only drawback is that an individual Rocket Tower isn't a durable and damaging as the Archangel or Baal. |
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| 184 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders3'' has super units for each of the different command types. These range from massive tanks bristling with guns, to [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] crackling with lighting to literal [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reapers]]. Notably it also shows why these units tend to be rare in most games: Most of these super units aren't particularly hard to acquire mid-to-late game, meaning eventually every battle devolves into clashes between these units and ''nothing else''. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfWondersPlanetfall'' also has Tier IV units for each race and some of the Secret Technology tech trees. Some have powerful support abilities (such as the Kir'ko Harbinger), others are powerful as individual combatants (the Dvar Earth Crusher), and some do a mixture of both (such as the Assembly Reaver). The problem of spamming these units seen in ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders3'' is handled by using [[GreenRocks Cosmite]] as a limiting factor. Producing a Tier IV unit and outfitting it with upgrades costs an enormous amount of Cosmite and requires more in per-turn upkeep, reducing the ability to produce further elite units. |
| 186 | * The ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' video games has the vast majority of the teams able to add a ''Big Guy'' (two for teams that are notorious for being small). Big Guys such as the Rat Ogre for Skaven are blessed with very high strength and most start with the skill Mighty Blow. This means most of them are especially effective at withstanding a block attempt and when they win the block, they're more likely to injure an opponent. However most Big Guy hirings are AwesomeButImpractical, every Big Guy unit has either stupidity or some other issue that make them unreliable in taking action. Additionally Big Guys are often very slow and too clumsy to handle a ball well. |
| 187 | * ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'' has a super unit for each of the Affinities: |
| 188 | ** Purity gets the massive LEV Destroyer, a floating battleship that can set up and launch siege attacks at range. |
| 189 | ** Supremacy gets the ANGEL, a four legged walker that isn't as tough as the other super units by itself, but makes up for this by buffing nearby armies and being buffed by them in return. |
| 190 | ** Harmony gets the Xeno Titan, effectively a Kaiju with the highest strength in the game bar none, balanced out by the fact that it's a melee unit and the rest of the Harmony army is slightly weaker than equivalent units of the other Affinities. |
| 191 | * ''VideoGame/CivilizationVI'': The [[HumongousMecha Giant Death Robot]] is a unique endgame "Super-unit" with greater melee strength than an army full of the next-most powerful unit, plus unmatched ranged strength, resistance to nuclear weapons, and the ability to upgrade it further with [[MechaEnablingPhlebotinum Future tech]], such as a city-busting particle beam cannon. |
| 192 | * ''[[VideoGame/ElementalWarOfMagic Fallen Enchantress]]'' has a unique event where if you succeed, allows you to build dragons - the most powerful units in the game. Besides fantastic stats, they can move far and have a melee attack that hits in a radius plus they have a BreathWeapon so they can severely harm or kill other powerful melee units before they get in range. Additionally having a unit with large stacks doesn't help survive against a dragon, since dragons have the overpowering trait so any dragon attack hits every member in a stack. The only real counter to a dragon is another dragon. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/EndlessLegend'': The five Guardians (each corresponding to an element of Auriga) are comparable to nuclear options--colossal one-man armies that can easily change the tide of a battle by themselves with their outstanding stats and world map abilities. In return, they cannot be attached to armies and with the amount of time and resources it takes to research and create one Guardian, you could build several city improvements and other units. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings'' has the tier 3 Espers. Very powerful, and each can easily obliterate armies of tier 1 and 2 Espers by itself. However, you can only summon one of each at a time, and you need to unlock them from various sidequests first. |
| 195 | * ''VideoGame/GihrensGreed'': Some Mobile Suits and Mobile Armours act as Super Units, costing significantly more resources and time to build. However, reflecting the LensmanArmsRace that is a big part of the series, as time goes on even regular grunt units can become capable of matching earlier Super Units, encouraging the player to advance their technology to keep up. In addition, depending on the game, there might even be a hard cap on how many of the unit the player can produce [[note]] This is mostly in ''Shin Gihren's Greed'', where only one of certain custom or SuperPrototype machines like Char's Gelgoog or the RX-78-2 Gundam can be built[[/note]]. A few examples include: |
| 196 | ** The RX-78-2 Gundam, the one the entire franchise is named for, is the most famous example. Compared to virtually every other unit of the One Year War era, the RX-78-2 can fight in ''every'' environment (i.e. space, land, underwater). While the RX-78-3 (aka G3 Gundam) can also do the same, the RX-78-2 has the added advantage of swapping between the energy-based beam rifle and the solid ammo-based Hyper Bazooka, giving it more flexibility when faced with enemies equipped with anti-beam defenses. It's also incredibly expensive and takes a long time to construct, generally taking multiple turns compared to the single turn needed for the humble [=GM=]. In addition, only skilled pilots can utilise it to its full potential: without a named pilot it's just a somewhat tougher MS, while at the hands of someone like [[AcePilot Amuro Ray or Lydo Wolf]] it's fully capable of taking down full squads of enemy Mobile Suits single-handed. |
| 197 | ** The Mobile Armour Byg Zam was specifically designed to repel fleets, and it does that job well thanks to its anti-beam I-field making it completely immune to beam attacks (which are the main weapons of nearly all warships). While it's possible to whittle away at its health with close quarters attacks by [=GMs=] and their beam sabers backed by barrages by Balls and their cannons, it's actually more effective to go for its AchillesHeel: it's so energy intensive that if it's cut off from supplies it will grind to a halt, allowing the player to assault it with impunity. As long as it's well-supplied, however (e.g. it's situated on a location's main base, meaning it will always recover health and energy each turn), it becomes a lot more difficult to bring down. |
| 198 | ** From ''Menace of Axis'', the Quebeley. Equipped with [[AttackDrone funnels]], beam weapons built into the hands, with high mobility and evasion, at the hands of a sufficiently powerful Newtype pilot like [[LadyOfWar Haman Khan]] it's easily able to wipe out dozens of enemy MS solo and tank assaults from entire fleets thanks to its agility. In comparison, the Mass-Production Quebeleys are far cheaper, but also far less powerful. |
| 199 | * ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic III'' has the Azure Dragon, a juggernaut of a creature that has 1000 health, flight, a piercing breath attack, a passive fear aura that causes all enemies to suffer bad morale, and magic resistance. It's no surprise that the manual describes them as Tier 10 creatures [[OffTheChart when the highest tier otherwise is 7]]. They can only be acquired from the Adventure map once per week for the high price of 30,000 Gold and 20 Mercury per dragon, and you need to fight three of them in order to claim their dwelling. |
| 200 | * ''VideoGame/MordheimCityOfTheDamned'' has a category called Impressive unit. Each faction has one such as the Skaven and their Rat Ogre. Tough and powerful, as well as often very big these beings will often wipe out mooks and even a HeroUnit in one combo due to their innate strength and unique lack of drawbacks in DualWielding or using [[{{BFS}} two-handed weapons]]. On the other hand most are too big to fit thru doors and only the Maiden of Sigmar can do something as basic as pick items off the ground. |
| 201 | * While ''VideoGame/RingOfRed'' is a mecha combat game first and a StrategyRPG second, there are a couple examples: |
| 202 | ** The first story arc involves the GrandTheftPrototype of an [[AMechByAnyOtherName Armored Fighting Walker]] that combines all the disparate roles of the game's various types of walker (except for artillery, due to the accuracy proplems inherent in its UnusualWeaponMounting-someone thought it was a good idea to put its guns in its elbows, of all places). The enemy army supporting it is only there to slow your guys down so it can escape, as it's fully capable of mopping the floor with them in a standup fight. |
| 203 | ** The final boss of the game is the Dora Gustav, an immense SpiderTank sporting both the largest cannon ever made and a magazine stocked with nuclear bombs. |
| 204 | * ''VideoGame/SDGundamGGeneration'': In general, as in the source material Mobile Armours often act as super units, though how "super" they can be sometimes depends on what special abilities they have in-game. For example, in ''SD Gundam G Generation F'', I-fields make units completely immune to Beam 1 attacks (e.g. beam rifles, beam spray guns, beam machine guns) while halving damage from Beam 2 attacks (e.g. beam cannons, mega particle cannons), so the likes of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Byg Zam]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Neue Zeil]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Psyco Gundam Mk-II]] can laugh off most beam attacks. In later games like ''SD Gundam G Generation Genesis'', I-fields merely reduce beam attack damage and so the aforementioned trio don't feel ''quite'' as powerful. |
| 205 | ** Even with the above caveat, some Mobile Armours are so effective that they can easily [[GameBreaker trivialise much of the game]] when sufficiently built up. For example, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Neo Zeong]] from ''SD Gundam G Generation Genesis'' has tons of health, plenty of firepower, has the special ability to prevent enemy attacks beyond a certain range, '''and''' can be purged to reveal a Sinanju at full health. |
| 206 | ** The Psycho Gundam Mk-II has the I-field to help with defense, comes with a range of weapons (from beam cannons to beam sabers) and becomes more powerful when piloted by a powerful Newtype (which increases both the range of and damage done by Psycommu weapons), making it a reliably useful though expensive unit in any game where it appears. |
| 207 | ** The Full Power Gundam Phoenix is a deliberately overpowered Mobile Suit that has a healing factor thanks to [[NanoMachines Nanoskin]], has I-fields (depending on the game), comes equipped with weapons that allow it to fight at any range (with the Feather Funnels becoming more powerful and far-reaching the higher the pilot's Awakening stat) and has both decent health and armour in addition to high evasion and movement. The Phoenix Gundam that players will normally start with can be evolved into the Full Powered version, but that is often a long, tough slog since the Phoenix can quickly be outstripped by many protagonist units. However, [[MagikarpPower it's generally worth it]]. Trying to purchase a brand-new one is often incredibly expensive, though. |
| 208 | * ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles,'' a hybrid of third-person shooter and turn-based-tactics game, features a boss fight against the ''Marmota,'' an imperial BaseOnWheels referred to as a "land dreadnought," with several machine gun turrets and a battery of four battleship cannons. Similar to the real-life Landkruizer Ratte, it was intended to be merged with the most powerful weapon ever made in a bid to control all of Europa: the Valkof, a huge (big enough to be HiddenInPlainSight as a "space needle"-style building) WaveMotionGun left behind by the series' AbusivePrecursors. |
| 209 | * ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000ChaosGate'' has the Terminator squad. These guys aren't available until you reach a certain point in the campaign and even then only non-hero Ultramarines who earned a Crux Terminatus award can be made a Terminator. They can't run and they can't crouch plus they're bulky. They also have an additional balancing penalty in that only one Terminator can field an assault cannon and only one Terminator can use the heavy flamer. But when they're on the field, Chaos forces are doomed. Termies have triple the armor of the already tough Space Marine and are likely at least Champions in experience level. A starting Termie gets a power fist and storm bolter, this combo alone makes them superior to every marine and hero you have except possibly the Librarian and a marine with a multi-melta. A Termie with an assault cannon can wipe out the map [[OneManArmy by himself]]. |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000Gladius'' has a heavy or superheavy final unit for each faction. These include the Astra Militarum's Baneblade, the Necron's Tesseract Vault, Chaos's Defiler and etc. While each are capable of being mass-produced, they use a large amount of resources and depending on the faction is either in the final or 2nd last tier of research. Additionally some are only available from paid [=DLCs=]. For their respective faction, these are the most durable and damaging units plus they often have powerful unique abilities. |
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| 213 | [[folder:Other Video Games]] |
| 214 | * ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense 6'' has several variants: |
| 215 | ** Upon release, it has the Tier 5 upgrades. In the game, each tower has three different upgrade paths, each path having five tiers. The fifth upgrades are very powerful, but to compensate they're usually very expensive, costing around 5 to 10 times the previous upgrades, and you can only have one of each at a time. Of particular note is the True Sun God, one of the Tier 5 upgrades of the Super Monkey tower. It's the single most expensive upgrade in the game at five hundred thousand. It also has a unique sacrifice mechanic, that when you buy this upgrade, the tower will destroy all other towers in its radius, gaining additional powers depending on the sacrifice. Furthermore, if you have the "There Can Only Be One" Monkey Knowledge, you can also sacrifice The Anti-Bloon and Legend of the Night, the other Tier 5 upgrades of the Super Money to the True Sun God, transforming the god into a darker, much more powerful version. |
| 216 | ** Later updates upped the ante with Paragon towers. To build them, you need to have all three tier 5 upgrades of a tower, and you still need to spend hundreds of thousands of money. Upon building, they consume all towers of their type, and the amount of money you spend on the consumes towers further improve the Paragon's strength. Very costly to build, but the result is a tower that can easily last you hundreds of rounds. |
| 217 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': TheJuggernaut known as '''LIBERTY PRIME''' was designed as the United States' ultimate weapon for destroying the communist army of China during the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska. It's capable of shooting EyeBeams, throws nuclear football bombs, and shrugs off conventional and energy weapons. The US ultimately couldn't solve its short power supply problem due to all of its weapons, so it didn't see use until over 200 years later, when the [[PlayerCharacter Lone Wanderer]] helps the Brotherhood of Steel reactivate it in time to pave their way through the forces of the Enclave to reclaim the Jefferson Memorial and Project Purity with it. In the ''Broken Steel'' DLC, Prime once again plays an important part in curbstomping the Enclave's forces protecting their final stronghold, and it is only taken out of the fight through the use of a KillSat. |
| 218 | ** Not even getting destroyed and reduced to pieces was enough to keep Liberty Prime down, as the Brotherhood recovered what they could of the HumongousMecha and kept it stored until they could rebuild it. 10 years later, during the events of ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', if the player opts to follow the Brotherhood questline, they once more contribute to the revitalization of Liberty Prime, only this time not just to power him up, but to give him a complete remodel into Liberty Prime '''Mark II'''. And once he's powered on and turned in the direction of the Institute, a CurbStompBattle for the third time around ensues! |
| 219 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', of the three HumongousMecha units available for use in the PlayerVersusPlayer mode Rival Wings (which is between teams of 24 players and some AI {{Mooks}}, and features some elements of TheSiege), Brute Justice stands head and shoulders above the rest. Its RocketPunch can heavily damage structures or stun players to open them to being demolished by its WaveMotionGun. It also possesses a flamethrower to melt waves of mammets and players unfortunate enough not to get out of the way in time. This power means that unlike the more specialized Cruise Chaser and Oppressor, Brute Justice can only be used by a team that has lost a tower, making it purely [[ComebackMechanic a comeback tool.]] |
| 220 | * The third act of ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' involves a BattleshipRaid against the ''Kreon,'' a massive TransformingMecha space battleship/SpiderTank too big and bad to fight conventionally. |
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| 223 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 224 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Superheavy Battlemechs (which weigh between 105-200 tons) were created with the ''intention'' of being this. However, it's acknowledged in-universe that their limitations cause them to fall far short of the trope in practise. While they are quite powerful and heavily armored, they're still [[MightyGlacier extremely slow]] and are still vulnerable to being overwhelmed by more agile targets. They're also absurdly expensive and have to be carried as cargo because there are no dropship bays large enough for one. Which is why almost no one has bothered with them; Stefan Amaris built one FlawedPrototype that broke under its own weight the first time it was turned on, the Word of Blake built one mech that was very durable but simply not that overwhelming in power, and the Republic of the Sphere was the only faction to ever put Superheavy Battlemechs into production with the 125 ton Poseidon and the 135 ton Ares, neither of which ever quite managed to really be worth it. |
| 225 | * ''TabletopGame/DropzoneCommander'': Behemoths are the largest land-based fighting vehicles in the 27th century, towering over even super-heavy tanks. They feature exceedingly thick armour and are capable of laying waste to entire formations single-handedly, but are also far more expensive than any other units in the game and can only be fielded as part of War Engine battlegroups (and thus limited to one plus one per 1000 points in an army). To reflect their extreme size and power, Behemoths have a unique set of in-depth rules. |
| 226 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Ogre}}'' by Creator/SteveJacksonGames pits ''[[AsymmetricMultiplayer one]]'' [[AsymmetricMultiplayer Ogre unit against a small army defending a command post.]] |
| 227 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Lords of War is a battlefield role reserved for exceptional {{Hero Unit}}s, super-heavy vehicles, walkers, aircraft and gargantuan creatures that are insanely durable and boast destructive weaponry far beyond normal units, but demand a significant cost in both points/power level and real money to field. Coupled with their sheer size, you can be sure that your opponent will be prioritizing its destruction with everything they have (which tends to make them AwesomeButImpractical). In 4th and 5th editions, you can only field them in Apocalypse games; from 6th to 9th Edition and in ''Horus Heresy'' (which also has the Primarch role for Primarchs and equivalent), they can be taken in normal games, with restrictions to ensure that they don't unbalance the game[[note]]the Force Organisation Chart was axed in 10th Edition; only the Titanic keyword remains for superheavy vehicles and gargantuan creatures[[/note]]. In a normal 2000pts game, a single Lord of War will probably constitute a quarter of your armies' points value. |
| 228 | * ''[[TabletopGame/IronKingdoms Warmachine]]'': Colossal warjacks and horrors and gargantuan warbeasts are the largest and most powerful of their kind to stride the battlefield. They are undoubtedly the hardiest models on any gaming table, with the same defensive stats and twice as much health as a heavy. On the flip side, they are also the most expensive models in the game, taking a significant percentage of your list, meaning that they need to pull their weight and losing one can be disastrous. |
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| 230 | |
| 231 | !!!'''Non-game examples:''' |
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| 233 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 234 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': Thanks to being such a long-running franchise, there are a lot of these, far too many to list here. A few generalisations are possible: |
| 235 | ** Gundams nearly always fall under these, thanks to often being SuperPrototype machines. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam The original RX-78-2 Gundam]], for example, was a game-changer in-universe. Its Luna Titanium armour (later renamed Gundarium in its honour) made it impervious to the 120mm ammo used by the mainline battle Mobile Suit the Zaku II, it could function easily in space, on Earth or underwater (and even had systems that allowed it to survive atmospheric reentry), and had thrusters powerful enough it could fly up and attack ''aircraft'' in melee. Its beam rifle gave it the equivalent power of a '''battleship''', and the beam saber could cut through just about any armour. It also came with a learning computer that stored the pilot's combat data, allowing the Gundam to adapt itself to the pilot's style. In addition, it could also purge the upper and lower torso thanks to the Core Block system, allowing the pilot and precious combat data to escape. Naturally, all of these features made mass-producing the Gundam unfeasible, and so nearly all of them were cut when developing the much more economical [=GM=] (most notably, they only used regular titanium for armour, with only their shields made of Luna Titanium). |
| 236 | *** That said, not ''every'' Gundam is one of these even in-universe. There were several Gundams-in-name-only machines that were deliberately designed to resemble the RX-78-2 to take advantage of its fearsome reputation (e.g. Aqua Gundam was merely a slightly more powerful Aqua [=GM=] with a Gundam-style head, the Ground Combat Gundams were likewise slightly improved Ground Combat [=GMs=] with Gundam-style heads). Even protagonist machines like [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam the Zeta Gundam]] aren't necessarily Super Units: while powerful and advanced, the Zeta's contemporary machines were fully capable of keeping up with it (compared to how the original Gundam was a quantum leap in MS development). In fact, in ''Zeta Gundam'' it was actually a plot point that the Gundam Mark-II was only a slight improvement over the original Gundam, despite a 7 year difference in-universe. |
| 237 | ** ''Anime/GundamWing'': The five titular Gundams (Wing Gundam, Gundam Deathscythe, Shenlong Gundam, Gundam Sandrock and Gundam Heavyarms) are all but unbeatable in the early half of the series thanks to their armour making them practically indestructible to most forms of ammo. In addition, their equipment (e.g. Wing's [[WaveMotionGun Buster Rifle]], Deathscythe's stealth systems, Heavyarms' [[MoreDakka armament]]) meant they could overwhelm their enemies with almost contemptuous ease. They were deliberately overpowered, their designers believing that one super unit would be more effective than a squad of less powerful ones. That's why each of the five Gundams could operate pretty much independently, though as the series went on and technology advanced they lost their tech advantage. The undisputed Super Units of the series are the [[SuperPrototype Wing Gundam Zero]] and the Gundam Epyon, both fully capable of destroying entire space colonies solo. |
| 238 | ** Mobile Armours are designed to be force multipliers, and generally a SuperPrototype will be deployed in a series. Sometimes, they'll also get mass-produced. In the original Gundam, several MAs were faced by the Gundam (e.g. the Zakurello, the Brau Bro), but the Ur-Example is probably the Byg Zam. Thanks to its i-field, it was completely immune to beam weaponry (such as the ones equipped on warships), and its multiple beam cannons (along with the main mega particle cannons) meant that it could fly into a fleet, unleash its firepower, and then move on after leaving said fleet nothing but wreckage. Dozle Zabi hoped to mass-produce it, boasting that such a feat would guarantee Zeon's victory, but it had several flaws that caused Zeon to drop the idea (chief among them was the fact that the i-field generators and all the other specialised equipment generated so much heat the Byg Zam could only fight for about 20 minutes before having to retreat to cool down). |
| 239 | ** Occasionally, giant Mobile Suits that can transform into Mobile Armours appear. The first of these was [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam the Psyco Gundam]] [[note]] The "Psyco" in the name is a reference to the Psycommu System that allows a Newtype pilot to operate their machine as if it was an extension of their own body[[/note]], which could transform from a Mobile Fortress mode that allowed it to fly into a 40 meter tall Mobile Suit armed with beam cannons built into its fingers, chest and head. Likewise, the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Destroy Gundam]] was a 38 meter tall Mobile Suit that could convert into a Mobile Armour mode that granted it the ability to hover at low altitude (thus improving mobility). Its sole purpose is [[ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin to destroy]], with enough firepower to level a city like Berlin in a matter of minutes. These types of machines are explicitly Super Units even in-universe: their primary function is to overwhelm their enemies with superior firepower, but the cost involved in building them means that if they're damaged to the point repairs aren't possible (or worse, if they're outright destroyed), then it's often a huge setback to the faction fielding them. [[note]] That said, in ''SEED Destiny'' three more Destroy Gundams were deployed in a single battle, but [[BadassDecay were destroyed far easier than the original]]. [[/note]] |
| 240 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has Knightmare Frames of all sorts, with the first Britannian Knightmares being this in-and-of themselves, capable of running roughshod over the Japanese army's tanks like a team of linebackers bowling into a Little League team. As Knightmare Frames became more commonplace on the battlefield, other units would stand out for their ability to make quick work of rank-and-file Sutherlands, Glasgows, and Burais. The two most notable such units are Britannia's Lancelot (later upgraded to the Lancelot Albion) and the Black Knights' Guren MK-II (later upgraded to the Guren SEITEN). The Lancelot is a heavily experimental high-performance unit outfitted with cutting-edge equipment that made it a one-man army, while the Guren MK-II is an exceptionally agile Knightmare that can run circles around other units before using its Radiant Wave Surger to OneHitKill its target. |
| 241 | * ''Literature/HeavyObject'' is set InAWorld where power creep has replaced conventional armies with [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Technodrome-esque]] land battleships, the titular Objects. Warfare in the setting revolves around the idea that only an Object can stop another Object (they can even shrug off direct hits with nuclear weapons), and lesser military units are simply swept away beneath their power, as Objects routinely dump enough energy per-shot that a miss can cause earthquakes. The protagonists are the "Dragon Slayers," a group of soldiers who accidentally proved that Objects can be infiltrated and brought down from the inside while on a self-imposed mission to rescue their pilot. |
| 242 | * Parodied with the Great Golem from ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]],'' which was a MagiTek HumongousMecha armed with a powerful laser beam cannon. The royal family of the nation who discovered it (in one of their castle turrets) certainly ''thought'' it was one of these, but due to centuries of neglect, its first test-firing tore it to peices. |
| 243 | * ''Literature/EightySixEightySix'' introduces the Legion's new unit "Morpho" in Volume 3, a high-speed giant train-based weapon armed with a devastating 800mm railgun that has a range of over 400 kilometers that would allow it to bombard a nation's capital and rapidly move away to avoid retaliatory strikes. Much of Volume 3 revolves around a multinational operation involving three armies to box in the Morpho and launch a special strike team to destroy the machine. Future volumes reveal that this was far from a unique weapon: in Volume 4, a second Morpho under construction is found half-complete after a Legion Weisel mobile factory is seized, and in Volume 8 another Morpho is placed in an oceanic offshore platform to bombard an island nation to oblivion. It gets even worse in Volume 11 [[spoiler: which reveals the Legion have another 6 Morphos under construction.]] |
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| 246 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 247 | * The World-Devastators from the ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' series combines a PlanetDestroyer with an automated, [[AdaptiveAbility self-modifying]] MobileFactory to create the mechanical equivalent of Shub-Niggurath. A World-Devastator would locate a planet and begin to stripmine it for resources to churn out hordes of droid TIE fighters, [[VonNeumannMachine eventually producing another World-Devastator]]. They're deployed in fleets, not for protection, but because just one can't eat a planet fast enough for [[spoiler: the resurrected Emperor Palpatine's liking.]] They can withstand an entire enemy fleet hammering on them all day, and are finally destroyed by [[spoiler: R2-D2 hacking them and telling them to eat each other.]] They are swiftly made obsolete by the activation of the Galaxy Gun. |
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| 250 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 251 | * The climax of ''Film/{{Casshern}}'' has the villain Burai unleash a giant robot armed with an absolutely X-Box huge MLAS ArmCannon to solo the Eurasian Federation army attacking his castle. Once its battle-clock has wound down enough, it [[spoiler: detonates the nuclear bomb inside of it, wiping them out and destroying the fortress.]] |
| 252 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 253 | ** The Death Star from ''Film/StarWarsANewHope'' is a [[PlanetSpaceship moon-sized]], nearly indestructable starship so big it can only be called a "space station," built to solo an enemy fleet and zap their homeworld with a [[PlanetDestroyer planet-busting]] WaveMotionGun. TheEmpire was planning to hinge its utter domination of the Galaxy on the threat of using it on rebellious planets. It has the [[AttackItsWeakPoint critical weakness]] of an exhaust pipe that leads directly to the main power plant (which was, according to ''Film/RogueOne,'' done deliberately because its designer was horrified at his work being used for evil, and accordung to ''Literature/DeathStar,'' done by accident because it was built from cockeyed plans by angry slaves), allowing a single SpaceFighter to blow it up with the kind of ordinance intended for use on other starfighters-[[AirstrikeImpossible if they can get close enough, dodge all its defense turrets and fighter squads, locate and fly down the right trench, and shoot a teeny-tiny target, all while trying not to get blown into space junk.]] The one in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' is bigger, badder, and [[spoiler: can use its planet-busting main gun to snipe enemy ships [[ArmorPiercingAttack right through their]] {{Deflector Shield}}s several times in a row]]. |
| 254 | ** The First Order's ''Dreadnought''-class Star Destroyers from the sequel trilogy (specifically ''Film/TheLastJedi'') are built to be ''mass produced'' Death Stars; one for each planet in the New Republic. Poe Dameron explicitly calls them out as "Fleet-Killers." The entirety of the New Republic fleet spends 99% of ''TLJ running the heck away from just one of them.'' |
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| 257 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 258 | * The ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' series features self-aware tanks fully capable of defending ''entire planets'' from enemy invasion fleets by themselves. However, they're a bit too effective, as several enemy fleets decide to just nuke them from orbit rather than try to fight them. |
| 259 | * Parodied along with PlanetSpaceship in ARRR Roberts' ''Star Warped'' (a parody of Star Wars), which has the [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Imperial Empire of the Imperium]] build a fleet of "Super Mega Big-Bucket Star Cruisers" which are "the size of a small city and bristling with weapons;" [[CripplingOverspecialization the star-nation eschewing smaller ships entirely. ]] Consequently, they're so big they take a whole week to turn around, and can therefore be outmanouvered by smaller craft. The Imp-Emp-Imp (yes, really) decide to change tack entirely, employing {{Zerg Rush}}es of starfighters, which have their own problems. This is to reflect the SW's Empire's love of big showpeices like the Super Star Destroyers from ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi'', and reliance on fighter swarms to protect them from more reasonably-sized vessels. Their {{Expy}} of the Death Star (the Death ''Spa'') is a joke as well, but a more straight example. Instead of a PlanetDestroyer, it fires a MindControl ray that forces the population to excersize-but most citizens are so unhealthy it acts as a DepopulationBomb. |
| 260 | * The ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'' climaxes with a battle between a half-completed third Death Star (actually a test bed for a prototype version of the original Death Star's superlaser) and the Sun-Crusher, a starfighter with ArmorOfInvincibility and star-popping plasma torpedoes, and both of them fall into a black hole while ineffectually shooting at each other with neither superweapon able to harm the other. |
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| 263 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 264 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Since Transformers is primarily about war ("Autobots wage their battles to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons", after all), this sometimes comes up throughout the franchise. This is normally undercut by the fact nearly all named Transformers are unique characters (thus voiding the "these don't have much in the way of a personality" angle mentioned in the description for this trope), there are still some examples: |
| 265 | ** As a group, the [[CombiningMecha combiners]] are meant to be this, being gestalt beings created from several regular Transformers. Being MerchandiseDriven, sometimes this results in BadassDecay: the first ever combiner Devastator was initially portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' as being TheJuggernaut, and even treated as a terrible threat in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' (despite the fact that in season 2 of the cartoon several characters were introduced who could match him, including other combiners). By the time of the third season, he was once defeated by Perceptor, the Autobot chief scientist, with a single shot. [[note]] This is not a hard and fast rule: King Poseidon from ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' was easily trounced by any of the Godmasters, but he was a genuine threat to any '''non'''-Godmaster Autobots all the way up to the end of the series. [[/note]] |
| 266 | ** The Guardian Robots (aka [[DubNameChange GADEP]]) are mass-produced versions of the Autobot Guardian Omega Supreme. In some media (e.g. ''The Transformers'', ''Anime/TransformersEnergon''), Omega is treated as simply being a member of the Guardians, TheLastOfHisKind, or even their leader. In others like ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'', Omega is built on Earth completely independent of the Guardians. In any universe where they appear, the Guardians are treated as the biggest military threat faced by the Decepticons at the beginning of the war (due to their sheer size and power), and it's their defeat that causes the Autobots to realise that they'll have to take up arms themselves. |
| 267 | ** ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' introduced the Godmasters, who were (prior to the introduction of the [[PhysicalGod Thirteen Original Primes]]) the most powerful Transformers in existence barring [[MechanicalAbomination Uni]][[GodOfEvil cron]]. Among other things, their command of Chokon Power [[note]] Jinchokon the power of individual life, Tenchokon the power of space, Chichokon the power of life on a life-bearing planet [[/note]] granted them the ability to use ElementalPowers ([[TheHero Ginrai]] had a fondness for fire and lightning, while [[TheDragon Overlord]] had a preference for wind) as well as the ability to regenerate from almost any injury near-instantly. The presence of even ''one'' of the Godmasters would've swung the GreatOffscreenWar between the main Autobot and Decepticon forces in space in their factions' favour, but luckily at the end of the series when the Godmasters and their comrades left Earth their power had been greatly reduced thanks to events of the finale. In fact, God Ginrai, the mightiest of the Godmasters, was killed off in [[Anime/TransformersVictory the sequel series]] with comparative ease by [[BigBad Deathsaurus]]. |
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| 270 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 271 | * Invoked in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius.'' Many "Sparks" certainly ''think'' their first invention is this, and try to solo the local warlord's private army with their all-conquering-whateveritis. They are usually swiftly and violently disabused of these notions, either because they didn't build something on par with a superweapon, or because they ticked off the fully-intelligent... thing... they just forced into tormented existence in a bout of reality-warping craziness. About one in a thousand or so actually succeed in their goal, and a good many more catch the attention of The Baron, who wants to see what fun little toys they can make under controlled conditions-at least, until they annoy him and get [[ReassignedToAntarctica sent to work on one of his more dangerous projects]] or find themselves StrappedToAnOperatingTable. |
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| 274 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 275 | * An AprilFools joke made by Blizzard during the development of ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' stated that Terran players would have the ability to merge their base structures into the [=TerraTron=], a giant robot armed with a laser drill-firing ArmCannon, and a [[ChainsawGood lightsaber buzzsaw]]. The model was actually made, and forms the final boss of the "The Lost Viking" minigame of ''VideoGame/WingsOfLiberty''. |
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