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What? You thought that just because it's the father of most combining Mecha stories means Getter doesn't have Bring Me My Brown Pants moments? In fact it's often considered more of a horror story than a Shonen Manga.
- Several aspects of the Getter Rays are like this, as are many of the enemies.
- One of the best examples is the final battle of Getter Robo Go where Shin Getter absorbs everything it comes into contact. This doesn't become clear until the largest enemy mecha grabs Shin Getter in its tentacles, which then turn into a hand. The POV shifts to show that the mecha is now Shin Getter's new body. Enemy and ally alike are freaked out.Schwartz: AAAH! AAAH! THE GETTER IS EATING IT!!
- The Devolved beings in Getter Robo Devolution. They're unlike any other mechanical beast the Getter has faced before. They're strong and quick. Able to hurt the Getter as well....but the truly scary part about them? They're all different Getter Robos.
- Oh and now it gets worse. Turns out there's been a BIGGER threat looming over them. This threat has also been their closest ally. Has assisted the team and humanity in fighting the Devolved beings but has slowly revealed it's true nature. The name of this threat? You guessed it. The Getter Emperor yet again... the whole manga seemingly is it's ACTUAL origin story.
- And it gets worse. Turns out the world of Devolution is a simulation, the 900,000,105th to be exact, of countless scenarios that lead to the rise of Emperor and the destruction of the universe. It makes it seem as if Emperor is an all consuming singularity that all Getters across the multiverse are heading towards, which means there could be more than one of it.
- The Invaders in Armageddon. Of particular mention is the way they infiltrated and assimilated a large portion of a polar colony, then used the still-alive Colonists to ward Shin Getter off from attempting to attack it. Just as it's about to do irreversible damage to Shin Getter, the Black Getter swoops out of the sky, and proceeds to brutally rip the Invader to shreds without caring about the moaning and crying colonists that were assimilated by the Invaders
. The resulting chorus of cries from the unfortunates who splatter everywhere while still moaning horrifies the pilots of the Shin Getter, as well as the one girl they managed to rescue. - Shin Getter Robo itself, given it's sinister look, it's demonic expression (complete with batshit insane, robotic eyes) and the fact that the robot itself develops a malicious self awareness thanks to it's superior Getter Ray storage capacity.
- When the group return to Saotome Laboratory in Go, there is something unnerving about the place even knowing about the events that occurred in the place in Shin. Most surfaces are covered over with concrete, causing the a few within the group to wonder if a nuclear meltdown occurred there. This all leads up to when they get to the door to Shin, which is untouched and meet the ghost of Saotome. When they open the door to Shin, they find it in pristine condition and the area remarkably clear of getter rays. Furthermore, when they go to use the machine, they find out that the facility is being maintained by the ghosts of those who died in the incident that destroyed the lab.
- Absolutely awesome as the battle against the Four Heavenly Kings is in New Getter Robo, Ryoma's reaction to the sudden burst of Getter Rays from the fallen Getter Machines is horrifying. While Benkei and Hayato are lucid and slightly disturbed by their bodies literally pulsing with Getter Rays, Ryoma goes completely Ax-Crazy, roaring like a beast and laughing like a maniac while ignoring the fact that his furious movements are literally crushing his allies to death. It takes the two of them screaming his name at the top of their lungs to get him to snap out of it.
- And that's not even getting into what ends the fight. The team doesn't kill the last Heavenly King, a version of Saint Dragon appears and crushes the monster to pulp in it's hand!
- One of the best examples is the final battle of Getter Robo Go where Shin Getter absorbs everything it comes into contact. This doesn't become clear until the largest enemy mecha grabs Shin Getter in its tentacles, which then turn into a hand. The POV shifts to show that the mecha is now Shin Getter's new body. Enemy and ally alike are freaked out.
- Getter Emperor is nightmare fuel of the highest caliber! Everything mentioned above does not begin to describe the sheer scale of this Mechanical Abomination! In fact, Getter Emperor cannot be fully described or measured! To elaborate, this is the final form of the Getter machines and is less of a robot and more a force of nature. The three Getter ships it comprises generate shockwaves heard across galaxies when they combine. These ships are able to destroy whole planets with a single attack! The Emperor himself is unstoppable, able to conquer any force that stands in his way. With this power, humanity would continue to grow and spread across galaxies and the Emperor would grow stronger and stronger. Loved by humanity and hated by the rest of the universe, Getter Emperor is overall Lovecraftian in nature and is evolution incarnate!
- We finally get to witness the scale and horror of it all in Getter Arc episode 10, as Musashi describes the weapons the Getter Fleet possesses, and the whole conflict, with very unsettling glee. All while casually committing genocide with a smile. Not even death phases him, thanks to a mass factory dedicated to making more Musashis when one dies.
- Just to give you an idea on how horrifying the non-Getter Emperor ships are, the standard motherships are equipped with a weapon called "The Black Death" which when fired, will wipe out a planet in mere minutes by rotting it from the inside out.
- Saint Dragon. Just....Saint Dragon◊. Culmination of Getter Robo G/Getter Dragon spending almost two decades buried underground and evolving thanks to having absorbed insane amounts of Getter Rays, it's appearance is downright unsettling and alien even when compared to Getter Emperor, which has a mechanical design more in line with other Getter machines. In the future timeline that Ryoma witnesses, it's so gigantic that only it's head is poking out of the ground and causing powerful lightning storms that obliterate any Getter machine trying to approach it or escape from the nightmarish hellscape that is the Getter Rays-irradiated Earth, Saint Dragon's domain.
- The Andromeda Flow country, a group of Incredibly technologically advanced humanoid insects from the far future, determined to wipe out Getter Robo & humanity before they become too powerful. To this end, they utilize technology ranging from giant biotechnological insectoids made up of smaller biomechanical bugs, parasitic insect queens, gas weapons, cybernetics that can bring back the dead, and a means for time travel thanks to the Zone, a means of creating a large, controlled wormhole.
- The nightmarish Bad Future seen in the New Getter Robo episode "Hell's Upheaval", adapted from a similar scene in the Shin Getter Robo manga, is just as scary when animated. Just the basic concept of this timeline is scary enough before we start talking about the messed-up shit that Ryoma sees there: in short, whilst the oni have been defeated, the Getter Rays have corrupted humanity to the last and driven every last man, woman and child utterly mad. Every last human has been physically fused into its own Getter Robo, and these Getter Robos now wage an endless war against each other, slaughtering and cannibalizing one another with the intent of fighting only one Getter-Man remains to inherit the blasted, broken remnants of the Earth.
- One of the first things that Ryoma sees after arriving in this hellish timeline is two Getter-Mans brawling viciously. It ends when the winner literally tears the loser in half, sending blood spewing everywhere.
- Then it turns out the winning Getter-Man is a corrupted Benkei, who attacks Ryoma to rip him apart and cannibalize him in turn.
- After knocking Benkei out and realizing who he is, Ryoma leaves his Getter Robo and attempts to help Benkei out of the cockpit, only for Benkei to bite him savagely in the shoulder and demand to know what Ryoma is doing. Which is when Ryoma sees that Benkei's body below the waist trails off into a hideous mess of raw meat overgrown with cybernetic components. Benkai gurgles madly about being unable to live without his Getter, blood spewing from his mangled lower body, then dies.
- Ryoma gets to watch several other Getter-Mans fighting and cannibalizing each other, and stumbles across the partial, cyberized remains of Michiru Saotome impaled on a spike.
- Ryoma's conversation about the hell-world with the insane Professor Saotome, who is little more than a vaguely human-shaped mass of cybernetics with his head impaled on one end of it.
- A broken Getter-Man cockpit with a crying, eerily human-looking cyborg baby in it.
- Seeking to fight whatever turned the world into this hellscape, Ryoma flies up into a massive thunderstorm, where he finds himself amongst a crowd of Getter-Mans, who fly blindly towards their destination even as lightning bolts cut them out of the sky. The one exception suddenly attacks Ryoma, forcing him to cut it in half... which leads to Hayato's armless upper torso splashing onto Ryoma's cockpit in a great shower of blood, ranting about how he will be the last Getter-Man before he slides off of the cockpit window and plummets to his death.
- The monster behind the storm; an enormous Getter Robo with a spiky, demonic-looking head. Even as Ryoma approaches it, he realizes his cockpit is coming alive around him and trying to fuse into his body. And when he punches the thing... it turns into a giant, monstrous version of Ryoma's face and starts laughing at him. Is it any wonder that upon returning to the present, Ryoma tries to quit the Getter Robo team?
