Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Did we ever do anything with this?
, started by Deboss on Nov 27th 2010 at 2:11:12 PM
Why the use of Gundam Build Fighters? The mechs in that series aren't that big.
I'd argue that Evas from Evangelion don't fall under this trope in a strict sense: They are clones of beings that most of the time (at least in Rebuild, and to a lesser extent in the orginial series) take the form of multidimensional geometric forms. Imho, if they were indeed just scaled up humans, or giant machines, the trope would aply, but they are neither, as their origin is not human engineering or earthly biology but ... something else entirely.
The Master Plan
Does Oars from One Piece count? He's not a machine, strictly speaking, but he's still a giant corpse puppet and even has a cockpit in his stomach so Moria can "pilot" him. Even without Moria's Shadow Revolution ability, just being powered by Luffy's shadow makes him agile enough to dodge cannon fire at point-blank range.
Uncle Sumer Sez
Anime' : - the 'Angels' of (Rebuild Of- ...) Evangelion have impressed me as elementally such - stately, deliberate and quantum-weird alien figures, but fluidly implacable, fractally articulated, and coordinated unto higher dimensions . . . [each a beautiful and awesome eldritch entity - utterly-non-humanoid, but eloquently graceful titans] . . .
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Edited by UncleSumer
Arguably, there's plenty of real life precedent for this: many very tall animals (giraffes in particular) move with seemingly impossible grace. They do so because they have to: if they didn't, they would be too clumsy to survive.