Awesome / Getter Robo

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Manga Continuity

• Everything with the dinosaurs. Everything.
• Musashi killing a dinosaur by swinging it around by the tentacle-drill it just impaled him with. And still having the strength to pilot the Getter almost immediately afterwards, despite bleeding from the gaping hole in his stomach.
• The ever-morbid Professor Shikishima frees himself from the dinosaur holding him hostage by telling Ryoma to just shoot them both, because his life dream is to die in a bloody fashion. To show how serious he is, he asks Ryoma to shoot him with the flashiest weapon he has, remember to photograph it, put it in Shikashima's personal photo album and narrates in detail where he wants to be shot, which of his organs he should lose and how his corpse should lie sprawled out. When the dinosaur shits itself and flees, Shikashima just walks away, dejected that he couldn't get his wish. Double as a Cross the Line Twice Funny Moments.
• Musashi's sacrifice at the end of the original series has permanently etched itself into the minds of mecha fans as the prime example of a Heroic Sacrifice. Anyone who can maintain their heroic resolve while literally melting in the cockpit counts as a Grade-CMOA Determinator.
  • And it was such a noble sacrifice that the Shin VS. Neo Getter Robo OVA actually put it at the very beginning of the series. Only this one took out all of New York, and the entire forces that the Getter Team had been struggling to fight in the first place. It was also reenacted in Super Robot Wars Alpha 2.
  • There's also the lesser-known sacrifice of Benkei, in the Shin Getter Robo manga, which was arguably just as awesome since he was on fire.
• The final battle of Getter Robo G is 100 freakin' pages of awesome super robot action. Notable for featuring the first instance of Getter Dragon's Badass Arm-Fold pose, used as it rises out of the ocean it was shot down into - a scene imitated in many later anime.
• Gou from Getter Robo Go saves his allies (who pilot Humongous Mecha ranging from 11.2 to 20 meters tall), from an enemy mecha that's even larger by using the Beetle, a scouting mecha that can't be any more than twice his height. And he does it by jumping in the air and spinning so fast that the legs become a drill which rips the enemy in half.
• Canadian pilots Sam and Bob Hosner get theirs when they demonstrate the defensive power of their mecha - by casually shrugging off a direct hit from a satellite cannon strong enough to burn entire forests to the ground or destroy reinforced underground military bases. Twice.
  • Debatably this or when they single-handedly take on the Dragon Turtle, stopping its advance with their tiny machine's body long enough for the Allies' ship to arrive.
• Schwarz+Shou saving the immobilised Volga by grabbing its (as described) FUCKING HUGE CANNON!! with their mech and yanking the whole gigantic robot around so its cannon is pointing at the enemy.
• Ryoma, who after returning partway through Getter Robo Go, spends pretty much the rest of the series crushing dinosaur skulls with his BARE HANDS.
• Ryoma's debut: He walks into a martial arts tournament to avenge his disgraced father by beating the utter shit out of his father's enemies on live television, dropping eleven people in seconds in one blow each.
• Anyone else impressed that Ryoma broke a katana in half by catching it with his pecs and flexing it to pieces?
  • Catching it is nothing. Someone stabs him in the heart and breaking the sword while it was in him was his response.
• Gou stops the nuclear missile aimed at his allies by leaping in its path with Getter Robo and combining with it as soon as it hits his mech. Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke indeed.
  • And then everything that follows. Gou combines with the enemy's Mobile Fortress (which doubles as a One-Winged Angel... made from robot dinosaurs), "swims" through thick layers of solid steel and then just emerges out of the wall on the inside to crush Gol's mech. Then, the total hijacking of said creature which gets reformed into an giant version of Shin Getter Robo with the regular Shin Getter controlling it from inside. It all culminates in the absorption of most of the North Pole, a chunk of the ocean and the Dinosaur Empire's main base, before the now Moon-sized mecha takes off into space towards Mars. They reach it in an instant.
  • Not to mention they ignore the old rule of having to open get and recombine to use different forms. By this point they have so much Getter Energy that they just spawned the top half of Getter-2, giant drill and all, from the chest of Getter-1.
• The whole fact that the Getter Emperor was created by combining Shin Getter Robo with freakin' MARS!
  • …Maybe...
• Professor Shikishima is awesome by virtue of the completely off-the-wall weapons he invents throughout the series. His crowning achievement is a toss-up between the missile launcher minigun he builds for Getter Robo or the belt-fed revolver with explosive rounds he hands to Takuma.
• The Emperor Machines - the three components of the series' most Humongous Mecha, crush enemy planet Dabeen by combining into it from three directions. This not only destroys everything, but also allows them to use the extra mass from the planet to form an even larger mecha.
  • When your robot generates enough energy to cause a Big Bang just by combining, you know you're epic.
• When one of the plant monsters from Getter Robo Hien attacks New York, America responds by transforming the Statue of Liberty into an enormous Wave-Motion Gun, that is wielded by another Humongous Mecha, and opens fire.
• In the final battle of Hien, the Getter Robo gets into a fight with the colossal Getter Gaia. After nearly getting destroyed, the Getter Robo evolves into the titular Getter Robo Hien and gets into a Beam-O-War with Gaia, which generates so much energy that it opens a hole to another dimension.
• The "final battle" in Will of Evolution, between the galaxy-sized Getter Emperor and "God"... who the mecha just punches face-first through a galaxy.
  • It should be noted that Getter Emperor didn't just punch "God" through a galaxy. It fired a Getter Beam that took 400 million years to miss for the sole purpose of seeding an entire galaxy with Getter Energy, and punches "God" through that galaxy to kill her using that energy.
• While flying a mecha that is also a bomber Sho and Schwartz are besieged by a swarm of monsters that start to eat their way in. Getting too many holes in a plane that high up wasn't going to be pretty. Cue Sho going to even higher altitudes and constantly pushing the machine to its limits all the while the monsters are falling off or getting cooked to a crisp. When the last one finally dies they're pretty much in the atmosphere. Oh and the cherry on top are Sho's words when they arrive at the rendezvous point with "Sorry we're late." as though they had been held up by foul weather.
• How about the fact that at first they could've just made this a basic monster of the week manga but it eventually evolved into something that's rather closer to a story by H. P. Lovecraft and still manages to make it epic without everyone just falling into absolute despair. The only drawback was the ending to Getter Arc where the betrayal from Kamui comes across more as an Ass Pull then anything else.

Getter Robo Devolution

• It seemed impossible for the longest time. Nothing could match it, not to mention barely TOUCH it, but after all these years Getter Robo Devolution is possibly hinting at the fact SOMETHING has finally injured Getter Emperor with the Piece of the Emperor that Doctor Saotome showed Ryoma.
  • And now more information has been brought up regarding the Devolutionary bodies. The good news? It's not the Dinosaur Empire or the Hyakki Empire or even the Andromeda Country.... the bad news? IT'S OTHER GETTER ROBOS.
• Devolution's incarnation of Ryoma managing to evolve Getter Robo by acting upon the manga's Arc Words, gaining vastly increased power and draconic features for Getter-1, including freaking angel wings and a dragon's tail!
• In the final battle of Devolution both the “real” and “virtual” versions of the Getter pilots team up to fight the Getter Emperor (an incomplete version of it but still). Their first move is to throw a a moon sized Stoner Sunshine at it and it only gets more epic from there.
• The finale of Devolution, where the protagonists pull off a Combined Energy Attack powered by humanity in order to blow a hole in the personified will of the universe (shaped like the Getter Emperor!), then create an entirely new universe with the sheer Getter Energy output!

Getter Robo: Armageddon

• Each series has its own, but the Revival Armageddon tends to have them all over the place. In particular, the Stoner Sunshine scene tends to take the cake.
  • And right before that scene, the one-on-one (until the bad guys cheat) fight between Shin Getter and Getter G. Specifically, how it ends, with Shin Getter 1 grabbing part of Getter Dragon in mid-transformation:
    Ryouma: C'mon, Doc, can't you pull off a change without checking the controls?
    Hayato: Must be something you learn when you belong to a real team.
    *Ryouma proceeds to crush Saotome's Getter Machine to pieces*
  • Even better in the original version.
    Ryouma: Sorry man, we are able to change even with our eyes closed!
    Hayato: That's the difference between development team and combat team.
    • What really sells the moment is, after a fast paced action sequence with both teams trying to one-up the other with transformations, just as Getter Poseidon finishes assembling to face off Shin Getter 3, the ever-so-short lag is NOT missed by any of our three heroes, who all sport the ultimate shit-eating grin (so iconic Super Robot Wars games use it as their combination attack sprite!) as they just simultaneously realized the opening they're about to use. Cue the above Pre Ass Kicking One Liner.
    • Not to be one-upped, Saotome proceeds to remind the Getter Team that the Invader Team has the homefield advantage inside Shin Dragon by having it rapidly construct a new Dragon Jet around him. Also on a rewatch Saotome's taunt about not forgetting they're inside Shin Dragon turns out to be a veiled hint from his human self on how his Getter can't be defeated unless the whole thing goes.
  • Before any of that comes the Invaders' attempt to hit the Getter Team with a Psychological Torment Zone that causes them all to experience their greatest regrets. For Hayato and Ryoma it's the accident that killed Michiru and for Benkei it's Musashi's death. However, two golden lights appear out of nowhere and grant the team visions: One revealing that Michiru's death was actually a Heroic Sacrifice she performed on purpose to kill the Invader Parasite that had infected her and Musashi entrusting Genki's safety to Benkei. Those lights? Michiru and Musashi's souls. Learning the truth also fills Hayato, originally the most amoral of the Getter Team, with righteous fury.
    Hayato: How dare you... (the camera pans up to momentarily show him crying tears of fury) How dare you do that to Michiru?!
  • As he is about to be obliterated by the Stoner Sunshine, Saotome also manages to pull a Dying Moment of Awesome, cementing borderline insane Determinator credentials as he faces utter obliteration and the parasite invader within him is about to escape his husk. What does he do? His will as a human being completely surfaces, taking advantage of his now retrieved freedom and he manages to hold the invader within him so that it wouldn't escape, facing oblivion without fear in order to kill the parasite that took everything from him and dying as himself, while giving a last pep talk to our heroes. It helps that he implies he had been subtly Fighting from the Inside all along in order to give the team what they'd need to take down the Invaders once and for all.
    Saotome: Ryoma, Hayato, Benkei! This is the end of the rail I built for you. After this, you should forge humanity's future on your own. So long!
• The debut of the Black Getter, where it proceeds to tear apart one of the invaders with its bare hands, after the Shin Getter itself had so much trouble with it, is way up there, as well.
• The entire ending of Getter Robo: Armageddon, where the two Getter teams find themselves in the future where the Getter Army fights the enemies of Mankind.
  • Any fan of the manga take note: the ending is also the only animated appearance of Getter Emperor until Getter Robo Arc, which included the Getter Emperor in the opening sequence.
  • The SHIN SHINE SPARK attack that brings the Shin Getter and Shin Dragon into what the fandom calls "Getter Valhalla" is such an evocative and awesome moment, several incarnations of Shin Getter in the Super Robot Wars games have a version of Shin Shine Spark that has a Dynamic Kill animation where the enemy is dragged through space and time by Shin Getter and dumped before the Emperor and the endless army of smaller Getter Robo mecha, to be destroyed by the forces involved as Shin Getter flies out of the blast zone (video link, starts at 9:51).
• Near the end of Getter Robo Armageddon, the Invaders combine with Jupiter and turn it into a new sun that utterly devours the entire solar system from the moon outward... and is destroyed by the combined efforts of the old and new Getter Teams, who create an enormous Getter Tomahawk that smashes all of Jupiter's moons and cuts the planet right down the center. It even blows the arms of the mecha using it right off.
  • The nature of the Shin Getter Robo/Shin Dragon combo is in itself a CMOA. A giant robot surfing into space on the head of a giant robot dragon attached to the crotch of another giant robot made from thousands of giant robots combined together? Awesome.
  • the true Shin Dragon's reveal is awesome as well, with it being revealed to be a Good Counterpart to Uzahra, swapping out its humanoid mechanical body for an enormous Getter Dragon torso. It also makes its debut on the battlefield by saving the Getter Team from burning up in atmosphere before unleashing a titanic Getter Beam from its dragon mouth that wipes out a huge chunk of the Invader fleet and one shots Ganymede.
  • On that note, the Invaders deserve one for the fact that when they realized they no longer needed Earth after converting Jupiter into a Getter Ray Sun, they chucked Ganymede at it
• Dr. Saotome stopping Shin Getter-2's giant drill with the palm of his hand. Note that he wasn't piloting a giant robot, though he was standing on the head of one. He then swings the Humongous Mecha around by its drill, before hurling it across the battlefield.
• Action Girl Kei defeating a HUGE Metal Beast while naked? And right after discovering the truth about Go's origins as Michiru's Opposite-Sex Clone and building a Psychic Link with him through an Out-of-Clothes Experience? Awesome.

Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo

• As mentioned previously, the first episode opens with a close adaption of Musashi's Heroic Sacrifice from the original manga, now animated, and it's even more awesome here than previously. In the original manga, Musashi managed to take half the Dinosaur Empire with him, and Ryoma and Hayato had to finish the other half themselves in Getter Robo G. In Shin vs Neo? Musashi takes out the whole empire with his suicide attack. Adaptational Badass doesn't even begin to cover it.
• Ryoma gets his in Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo when he jumps from the head of a 200ft tall robot to dropkick a dinosaur in the face. He then proceeds to beat up its buddies - a squad of dinosaurs with guns - by himself, using karate.
• Ryoma rescues four falling children by speeding towards them on a rope ladder hanging from the bottom of Neo Getter Machine 1, jumping off and grabbing them in mid-air, then falling several hundred feet (the skyscrapers looked very small beneath them) and onto the roof of a car. They all survive.
• Texas Mack. Just... Texas Mack. Even though Shin vs. Neo is commonly regarded as the weakest Getter OVA, Eaglelander Jack King and his giant cowboy robot Texas Mack (also piloted by his sister, and Jack's ranch dog) are generally considered a walking CMOA AND Funny Moment, and reason enough to watch the short series. The high point of his screentime involves pulling out a Texas Mack-sized anti-materiel sniper rifle from a coffin buried in the soil of the American Embassy, and then using it to snipe a satellite that had been bombarding the Earth with projectiles.
• While most of the Dinosaur Empire have to pilot Humongous Mecha to challenge the Getter Team, Emperor Goru doesn't even bother - he just increases in size a few times over and starts punching their robot. Then again, he is a cyborg zombie dinosaur with maces for hands...
• During the final assault on Goru's flying ring fortress, after Gou, Shou, and Gai help Ryoma, Professor Saotome, Hayato, and Professor Shikishima go inside the base (They enter by flying the Neo Getter One jet through the hole made by Shin Getter 2's drill). Now, Hayato has a gun, Ryoma has his bare hands and karate greatness, and Shikishima has a gun that disintegrates the dinosaurs. Guess who takes out the most dinosaurs.
• Neo Getter Team gets some good ones. Shin Getter's revival in episode three and its comeback fight against General Bat was pretty nice.

New Getter Robo

• Ryoma runs across the street and dropkicks his attackers in the face... immediately after they just shot him in the neck with an animal tranquilizer capable of killing ordinary humans. Note that this was immediately after a fight with three mafia assassins, where he was roughed up considerably and even got a knife buried in his shoulder, so he should've already been exhausted.
  • A knife which he just had to pull out and throws into another guy so hard that it takes his arm off. Don't stab Ryoma. It just gives him a knife to kill you with.
  • Really, the sheer awesomeness of Ryoma's three-way fight against Yakuza assassins can't be put into words. Have a video, instead
• And after the above, Saotome just smacks him with his geta. Ryoma has just killed three assassins, knocked down his two bodyguards, and should, by all that is right and holy, be on the ground by now from blood loss and a tranq to the neck. *smack*
  • Heh heh heh...geta...
• Ryoma shows us that it's not just the Humongous Mecha that have access to Hammerspace in New Getter Robo. First when he challenges the small Oni army on the bridge while carrying two axes and fifteen katanas, while his arsenal during the assault on the Oni capital needs to be seen to be believed.
  • The Big Bad watches this assault via magical telescope, and all we are treated to seeing after the initial reveal of Ryoma's inventory... are dynamite explosions that gradually get closer to the gate. And stop. And then start up again inside the city.
• Ryoma's moment of sheer insanity in the final episode, where he absorbs enough Getter Energy to single-handedly trash three god-like beings (capable of feats no less than bringing themselves back to life) while piloting the machine so erratically that it almost kills the other two pilots.
  • Immediately following this, the awesome quick-switching the team pulls off to beat three of the four, before facing down the biggest one of all.
  • And you thought Ryoma had crazy expressions before this scene? Take a look at this.
  • This scene is reenacted in Super Robot Wars NEO, but with Abe no Seimei
• You think Ryoma is crazy in this one? Well, you're right, but that doesn't make Hayato any less nuts himself. See this?◊ That's Hayato Jin poking somebody's ears off. And then he claws his eyes out.
  • Hayato, in this episode, is also able to fight Ryoma to standstill before a bunch of oni interrupt them. Read Ryoma's exploits above this, then remember: Hayato fought him to a standstill.

70's Anime

• Sure, it was a watered-down version of Ishikawa's original vision in a number of ways, but the 70's anime adaptations of Getter Robo and Getter Robo G could still be awesome in their own way. Here, for example, is Musashi's sacrifice in the anime continuity.
  • Soccer, Hayato style.
• In episode 3, Ryoma was plagued by a specific form of acrophobia where he start having trouble focusing during high altitude diving maneuvers during training. So, what does he do? He went to a nearby rope bridge...and proceeded to bungee jump off of said bridge to simulate the dive. For a watered down version of the manga, Ryoma sure showed some balls and avoided the standard plotline where the teammates had to force Ryoma into the situation.
  • Ryoma just casually opening Getter 1's cockpit to lob a grenade at a mechasaur, all while the theme song play's. To quote one comment:

"Regardless of Ryoma's version, he will always be a badass."

Getter Arc (manga and 2021 anime)

• Nagare Takuma starts out strong, shrugging off a biker attack at a convenience store and then taking them down on the counterattack. He then shrugs off attacks from territorial scrap scavengers at the junkyard, immediately going straight for the Getter D-2 and taking control of it, then proceeds to fight the giant squidlike robot monster for more than three minutes without a protective pilot suit, complaining about the D-2's lack of high-powered Getter weapons, while shocking Hayato's support team with the way he pilots the Getter instinctively without any training. Right off the bat, he immediately shows that he is truly the son of Ryoma.
• The Opening Sequence deserves a mention. Showing off the fully 3D Animated Getter Arc annihilating it's enemies, and the Getter Emperor in full 3D animation, all to the tune of another banger from JAM Project.
• The appearance of Shin Getter Tarak was an unexpected and downright awesome moment. It appears from a rift in space, fires a Getter beam right down the middle of a massive Andromeda enemy causing a massive explosion in the process, proceeds to blast a chunk of the enemies head away with a Getter Beam from it's finger, casually destroys the enemies arms that tried to crush it with the just the spread of it's wings, easily slices up hoards of mooks with it's Tomahawk and then proceeds to blow away both the giant Andromeda enemy, the entire army of smaller versions and the black void they appear from with the Stoner Sunshine.
  • Bonus points for the fact that the black void it destroyed had previously redirected an entire fleet's missile salvo back towards them via some dimension warping. Shin Getter Tarak was powerful enough to bypass and destroy such a thing.
• Episode 10 has this in spades because of the sheer scale of the Holy War Musashi describes.
  • "Change Getter Emperor One!", finally in animated form.
  • EP 11 had Arc not only fight Uzhara controlled by Mcdonald, but also Arc used it's own variant of Shine Spark, the Arc Shine Bomber to finish it off! Bonus Point for an Orchestral remix of Bloodlines playing during the whole fight
  • The fact that Takuma managed to defeat it, something even Ryoma couldn't do. Mcdonald even lampshades this "Not even your Father, Ryoma Nagare, had what it took to this defeat this legendary beast! The almighty Uzahra!
  • EP 12 revealing what Bug is truly capable (Barring it's appearance in Hien/Anthology). As well as why it was designed as the answer to Getter. As it turns out, it is capable of recreating the universe, a feat that would put it on par with, if not surpass Getter Emperor!
• EP 13 has several awesome moments in spades:
  • Bug demonstrates it's power by splitting the sea, causing tsunami's across the globe (Even in Egypt) and tearing up continents.
  • Hayato vs the Gettersaurus pilots and Kamui. The fight showed that despite his old age, as well as injuries, he's more than a match for them. Even better, we see glimpses of Hayato from his youth as he fights almost like a mad demon.
  • Bug vs Arc. Takuma shows he's proficient in fighting in all 3 forms of Getter Arc. We see Khan use missiles and Spike Crusher, Kirik use a Double Drill Hurricane to pierce Bugs shield and then Arc Shine Bomber as the last attack.
  • The appearance of Getter Dragon emerging, revealing it has become Getter Saint Dragon and the sudden appearance of the evolved Shin Getter on Mars known as Getter Ten (meaning "Sky/Heaven" or "One"), confirming that Dragon is Saint Dragon and Shin Getter is Emperor to fans.
    • And where does Takuma fit into all this? He's picking up Kamui from prison, accompanied by Baku who has somehow returned. The anime ends with the three of them riding out in Getter Arc to challenge the nascent Getter Emperor to change the future they saw!!!
      Takuma: Both the past and the future can eat shit! Our future…the only future that matters…!
      Takuma, Baku, and Kamui: Is the one we make for ourselves! CHANGE GETTER!
      Takuma: AAAAAARC!

Other

• In a poll on Twitter by "Iako-chan" Ryoma was pitted against Goku to determined the most influential anime character of all time in the semi-final round. Most who followed the poll assumed Ryoma would be the losing team given that it's Goku of all characters. To everyone's surprise, not only has Ryoma won,but he curbstomped Goku by over 70%.
  • To make it more impressive, a few hours after the poll was up, Goku began climbing after what looked like a gradual decline. It looked like Goku might make a comeback. But after another few hours, Ryoma and Goku entered a stalemate were the score was barely changing, until Ryoma suddenly started climbing again.
  • He then proceeded to defeat Guts by a similar 70%+ difference, making Ryoma the winner of the poll as whole.
  • Another awesome aspect is that Ryoma for both Goku and Guts had scored at least 2000 votes out of around 3000 or so. Believe in Getter indeed
  • Getter Robo is one of the few series that can actually claim that it has beaten Goku. Not only that, but this is the 3rd time. The first being against Hakkotsuki of the Toei Getter Robo G. The 2nd is against Cyclaminos of Super Robot Wars 30. Both of these character share Masako Nozawa (The Japanese voice of Goku) as their VA's.
  • It should also be noted that Ryoma previously went up against the other big name Shonen Protagonist, Naruto and even the Char Aznable of Gundam fame, a character that alongside Ryoma are two iconic characters in mecha.
  • Lastly: Due to Ryoma and Getter success Iago posted a raffle with a chance for 3 people at random to a win a gift for Super Robot Wars 30. Over 300 comments were made as of present.