Super Giant Robot Brothers is an Animated Series created by VÃctor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres for Netflix. It was released on August 4, 2022.
In the series, a little girl genius creates an intelligent Giant Robot she calls Shiny to help the Extreme Defense Force protect the Earth from giant monsters from space. But when Shiny carelessly enters the wormhole the monsters come out of, he returns to Earth 10 years later with no knowledge of what happened. He finds that his creator is now a teenager, and he now has a "brother" in the form of a new robot named Thunder. Everyone must adapt to these circumstances.
Super Giant Robot Brothers features examples of:
- All-CGI Cartoon: The series was made using the Unreal Engine software. It is the first series to be fully rendered in "real time".
- Affectionate Parody: Of the Super Robot Genre and even tokusatsu as a whole.
- Alien Invasion: The Kaiju are being sent by an alien empire to help them conquer the Earth.
- Bad Boss: Overlord Master is quick and cruel in his punishments so the alien spy doesn't mind the advantage the long distance of her job gets her from him.
- Big Bad: Overlord Master is the leading alien who not only sends the Kaiju after earth but is the direct superior of the alien spy that is directly causing trouble for the heroes. He finally attacks Earth himself in the season one finale with a mechanical weapon of mass destruction: Kalaxian Obliterator.
- Black Comedy: The show will indulge in a bit of this every once in a while. For example, in the first episode, a careless reporter, who's doing more criticizing than reporting, ends up getting acid-sprayed by the Kaiju, turning him into a standing skeleton who drops his perfectly intact mic. (The shot of which is featured among the episode's credits.) As an ambulance pulls up behind him, he only had one more thing to say after that:"That stings"...
- "Inner Space" is another example, wherein not only are some events played for gross-out humor, but many of the main events vacillate between being played for genuine survival horror and straight-up Black Comedy.
- Body Snatcher: The alien spy who infiltrates the base is a form of this, though it is not apparent if it copies the bodies of its victims or merges with them (as it happens off camera).
- Character Development: Thunder at first dismisses the idea of Shiny as his brother, and largely considers him a screw up who puts his emotions before logic. As the show goes on, Thunder starts to openly acknowledge Shiny as his brother, and while still getting into conflict with him, considers him valuable in fighting off the alien invasion and sheds some of his logic-oriented mindset, engaging in some silly antics with Shiny.
- Child Prodigy: Exaggerated, Alex is able to fully design Shiny by age three.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: The main heroes eventually start doing it near the end of season one.
- Easy Amnesia: After coming out of the wormhole, Shiny had forgotten about all of his weapons and must rediscover them. Similarly, because Alex was so young when she designed him, she no longer remembers what they are either.
- Faint in Shock: In "Gone and Back Again", Shiny faints after Alex tells him that he's been gone for 10 years.
- Fun with Acronyms: This show has several such as:
- C.H.I.P.S. (Center for Human Interface Protection and Support)
- G.W.A.K. (Global War Against Kaijus; pronounced "guac")
- And later P.O.O.P. (Pneumatic Operating Overseer Pragmatition)
- Fun with Homophones: The EDF in this show stands for Extreme Defense Force, obviously a take on the Earth Defense Force from other series [which in turn are based on the SDF/Self Defense Force, Japan's National Army.]
- Green-Eyed Monster: In "Upgrades", Shiny is driven by jealousy for Thunder to accept unauthorized upgrades from Sarge, which end up turning him evil.
- Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs: Exaggerated with Dr. Alex Rose, a renowned Teen Genius who earned fourteen PhDs, thirty-two Masters Degrees, and a hundred and twelve Associate's Degrees by the age of three.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: The giant monsters are called Kaiju, despite there being no evidence of the series taking place in Japan.
- Hero Insurance: Despite the massive collateral damage that happens in nearly every episode, the only consequences seem to be bad publicity for the EDF.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: The alien spy has an incredibly thin waist, which just highlights how inhuman she looks even in disguise.
- Impossibly Graceful Giant: Every colossal being in the show falls victim to this trope, but Shiny exaggerates it by sprinting around and even doing parkour.
- Kill and Replace: This seems to be the modus operandi for the alien spy as none of her victims have reappeared.
- Laughing Mad: Overlord Master erupts into insane laughter once he learns about Alex being the daughter of the two Earthling Rebels that give them trouble.
- Master of Disguise: The alien spy can easily impersonate humans of any gender.
- Monster of the Week: The series runs on this, though some monster types are re-used.
- Mutual Envy: In "Road Trip", Shiny and Thunder at one point get the idea to turn the two-headed monster's heads against each other by projecting some of their own issues with each other: Shiny wishes he was cool and smart like Thunder, but Thunder wishes he had the high self-esteem and social popularity that Shiny has.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Shiny just happens to rediscover his weapons just when he needs them.
- Noodle Incident: In "Upgrades", Alex recalls Sarge as being "the one who built the crazy washing machine". This isn't elaborated on at all.
- Nuke 'em: A variation: the EDF has the "Big One", presumably a nuclear bomb, carried by a jet fighter but only meant to be used when no other recourse is left. The jet's pilot, however, seems excited to use it and saddened when they don't.
- Parental Abandonment: Alex's parents disappeared and are presumed dead, though she refuses to believe it.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Creed, the commander of the EDF, can kick a lot of ass when necessary.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Shiny is the Red Oni as he has an impulsive personality (and is colored red). Thunder is the Blue Oni (but is not colored blue) as he is strictly logic-driven. They constantly clash as a result.
- "Second Law" My Ass!: Shiny repeatedly goes against Alex's orders in favor of doing what he thinks is right. Usually fighting Kaiju solo, which doesn't end well.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode "Inner Space" features some Xenomorph Xerox creatures.
- One of the EDF's Air Squadrons is named "Screaming Skull".
- In "Gone and Back Again," Alex Rose shouts "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
- In "Inner Space", a random character is sneezed on and yells "This is supposed to be my day off!"
- Sick Episode: In "Inner Space", Shiny and Thunder are infected after fighting a parasite ridden Kaiju, which causes them both to become sick. In Thunder's case, it's more of a Glitch Episode.
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Average Joe Android for Shiny and Thunder, though their personalities are very different.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: The alien spy is usually calm and collected while taking great joy in harming others. Her voice is rarely louder than a raspy whisper.
- Super Robot Genre: What this series is, except the robots are not piloted.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Colonel Creed wonders to Alex why she can't access Shiny's weapons or remember how she designed him (despite being a child prodigy), Alex has a sound argument for that. Her brain isn't the same as it was when she was 3. In the last 10 years, it's grown and developed. She even makes a pointed observation that recalling specific early childhood memories are difficult (even for child prodigies).
- Symbol Face: Thunder's face is a digital display. It usually displays basic face symbols (eyes and a mouth), but can also change to match certain situations, such as an exclamation mark to denote surprise.
- Teen Genius: Alex by the time Shiny returns to Earth.
- Would Hurt a Child: While the alien spy "merely" slaps Alex for being smug in front of her boss, Overlord Master flat out electrocutes Alex as punishment.
- Though the alien spy was originally planning to just kill her in the episode "Road Trip" and only changed her mind once she learned about Alex's parentage.
