Specific mecha in media

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In some works of science fiction (and, more rarely, fantasy), mecha, giant robots, meka, or mechs are piloted or remote-controlled limbed vehicles. They are generally, though not necessarily, bipedal. The distinction between low-end mecha and their smaller cousins, the powered armor suits, is blurred; in general, anything large enough to have a cockpit where the pilot is seated is usually considered a mecha.

This article is a list of mecha shown in television shows, films, and other forms of entertainment media. In most stories in which they appear, mecha are war machines: essentially armored fighting vehicles with legs instead of treads or wheels. Some stories have them used for civilian purposes such as heavy construction work, police functions, or firefighting.

For more information about mecha in general, see the article on Mecha.

[edit] Specific mecha in media

(list is not comprehensive)

• "Aestivalis" - Nadesico
• "All Terrain Armored Combatant" (ATAC) - Vanguard Bandits
• "Antibody" or "Organic Machine" - Brain Powered
• "Anti-Gnosis Weapon System" (A.G.W.S.) - Xenosaga

• "APU (Armored Personnel Unit) - The Matrix Reloaded/The Matrix Revolutions
• "Arm Slave" - Full Metal Panic
• "Armored Core" ("AC") - Armored Core
• "Armored Fighting Walker" - Ring of Red
• "Armored Shrike" - Blue Gender
• "Armored Soldier" - Panzer World Galient
• "Armored Trooper" - Armored Trooper Votoms
• "Armored Walking Gun System" (A.W.G.S.) - Gungriffon
• "Assault Dragoon" and "Valkuria" - Super Robot Taisen 64
• "Assault Maneuver Weapon System" (A.M.W.S.) - Xenosaga
• "Assault Scouter" - Super Robot Wars Alpha 3
• "Assault Vehicles" (A.V.'s) - Big Bad Beetleborgs

• "AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport)" - Star Wars
• "AT-PT (All Terrain Personnel Transport)" - Star Wars
• "AT-ST (All Terrain Scout Transport)" - Star Wars
• "AT-TE (All Terrain Tactical Enforcer)" - Star Wars
• "Aura Battler" - Aura Battler Dunbine, Wings of Rean
• "Battle Vehicles" (B.V.'s) - Beetleborgs Metallix
• "Battle Walker" - Battlefield 2142
• "Battleoid" - Master Of Orion series (2 and 3)
• "BattleMech" ("'Mech") - BattleTech
• "Battlizers" - Power Rangers
• "Buster Machine" and "Sizzler" - Gunbuster
• "Broadside Suit"(Tau) - Warhammer 40,000
• "Boron" - Beetleborgs Metallix
• "Chao Walker" - Sonic Adventure 2
• "Chokijin", "Tetsukijin", "Shoushin", "Super Machinery Humanoid", and "Dynamic General Guardian" - Super Robot Wars
• "Combat Armor" - Fang of Sun Dougram
• "Combots" - Metal Fatigue
• "Crisis Suit"(Tau) - Warhammer 40,000
• "CV-4", "F-6 Big Foot" and "JII-G" - Shadow the Hedgehog
• "Cyclone" - Sonic Adventure 2
• "Cyclone 1" - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle

• "Dann of Thursday" - Gun X Sword
• "Dannars" - Godannar
• "Dark Chao Walker" - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
• "Destroid" - Macross/Robotech
• Dalek travel machine - Doctor Who
• "Dark Trooper" (Phase III) - Star Wars
• "Decimator" - Orguss 02
• "Deus Machina" - Demonbane
• "Dolem" - RahXephon
• "Dreadnought" - Warhammer 40,000
• "E-frame" (shortened "Exo-Frame") - Exosquad
• "EGG-HVC-D01" - Sonic CD
• "Egg Walker" - Sonic Adventure 2
• "Einwalt" - Infinite Ryvius (Note: Usually referred to simply as the "Vital Guarder", although the latter term is a catch-all for battleship-linked mecha in the series)

• "ES Unit" - Xenosaga
• "Evangelion Unit" - Neon Genesis Evangelion (Note: The Evangelion is mostly organic rather than mechanical)
• "Exo-Armor" - Jovian Chronicles
• "Evil Robot" (controlled by a massive brain rather than an actual pilot) - Metal Slug 6
• "Fafner" - Fafner of the Azure
• "Fafnir" - MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
• Fuchikoma - Ghost in the Shell (manga)
• "GAMBEE" and "STRAIN" - Soukou no Strain
• "Gargant - Ork
• "Gear" - Heavy Gear, Xenogears
• "Gear Fighter" and "Data Weapon" - Gear Fighter Dendoh
• "Gladiator" - Innocent Venus
• "Goddess" and "Pilot Trainers" - Pilot Candidate/Candidate for Goddess
• "Goliath" - Starcraft
• "Golemech" - Lylat Wars
• "Guardian" - Giant Gorg
• "Guymelef" and "Melef" - Escaflowne
• "Hakkeshu" - Hades Project Zeorymer
• "Hazard Trooper" - Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• "Headmasters" - Transformers
• "Heavy Mobile Mecha" - Space Runaway Ideon
• "Heavy Metal" - Heavy Metal L-Gaim
• "Hercules Titan" - City of Heroes (Contains human brain rather than a complete pilot)
• "Humaniform-Emulation Roboticized Combat Unit with Leg-Articulated Navigation" (HERCULEAN or Herc) - Earthsiege and Starsiege
• "Human-Assisted Robot" (or HAR) - One Must Fall series (2097 and Battlegrounds)
• "Hunter" - Secret Fantasy Odyssey
• "Iczer Robo" - Fight! Iczer One
• "Imperfect" - The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal
• "Jango" - Burst Angel
• "Jet Alone" - Neon Genesis Evangelion (Note: Though possessing artificial intelligence, this unmanned craft was remotely human-operated before becoming rogue)
• "Jin-ki" (Man-Machine) - Jinki Extend
• "Kaijuuki" (Strange Heavy Machine) - Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
• "Kbot" - Total Annihilation
• "KLF (Kraft Light Fighter)" - Eureka Seven
• "Knightmare Frames" - Code Geass
• "Koubu" - Sakura Wars
• "Kronos Titan" - City of Heroes (Contains human brain rather than a complete pilot)
• "L-5 Riesig" and "T-39 Bogatyr" Battlewalkers - Battlefield 2142
• "Labor" and "Patrol Labor" - Patlabor
• "Landmate" - Appleseed
• "Landwalker" - Airforce Delta Storm
• "LFO (Light Finding Operation)" - Eureka Seven
• "Magitek (M-tek) Armor" - Final Fantasy VI (US translation only; Original Japanese version translated closer to "Majick-Based Armor")
• "Magnus von Grapple" and "Magnus von Grapple 2.0" - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• "Mammoth mark II" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
• "Maneuver Slave" - Megazone 23
• "Man-Machine" - Gaia Gear
• "Mashin" - Magic Knight Rayearth

• "Masouki" (Elemental Machine) and "Masoukishin" (Elemental Machine God) - Cybuster
• "MAV" - Dark Horizons: Lore
• "Mecha Bandicoot"- Crash Twinsanity
• "Mecha Bowser" - Super Mario Sunshine
• "Mechagodzilla"- Godzilla films
• "Mecha-King Ghidorah"- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
• "Mecha-Tama-chan"- Love Hina
• "Medarot / Medarot Damashii" - [Medabots / Medabots Spirit]
• "Metal Gear", e.g. "Metal Gear REX" and "Metal Gear RAY" - Metal Gear
• "Megadeus" - The Big O
• "Megadoomer X-3 Stealth Mech" - Invader Zim
• "Megas" (Mecha Earth Guard Attack System) - Megas XLR

• "Mekton" - Mekton
• "Metal Armor" - Metal Armor Dragonar
• "Mobile Bit" - Gundam X
• "Mobile Citizen" - Superior Defender Gundam Force
• "Mobile Doll" - Gundam Wing
• "Mobile Fighter" - G Gundam
• "Mobile Fortress" - Appleseed
• "Mobile Operation Godzilla Expert Aero-Type" (MOGERA) - Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
• "Mobile suit", "Mobile armor" and "Mobile Worker"- Gundam
• "MCA (Mobile Combat Armor)" - Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
• "Mortar Headd" - Five Star Stories
• "M.T.A (Mobile Tactical Armor)" - Hennarah Saga
• "Multi Walker" - Super Robot Wars GC
• "Muscle Tracer" ("MT") - Armored Core

• "Neuronoid" - Betterman
• "NoBot" - Wars CCG
• "Orbital Frame" and "LEV(Laborious Extra-orbital Vehicle)" - Zone of the Enders
• "Omnidroid 9000" - The Incredibles
• "Omnigear" - Xenogears
• "Opa-opa" - Fantasy Zone
• "Overkill Engine" - Carnage Heart
• "Personal Trooper" and "Armored Module" - Super Robot Wars: Original Generation
• "Power Animal" - Hyakujuu Sentai GaoRanger
• "Powered Suit" - Starship Troopers
• "Power Loader" - Aliens (an improvised battle mecha)
• "Productnoid" - Omega Boost
• "Psycho Armor" - Govarian
• "RahXephon" - RahXephon
• "Roboborg" - Beetleborgs Metallix
• "Robotron" - Dexter's Laboratory
• "Robots" - Robot Jox
• "Round Buckler" - The Mars Daybreak
• "Round Vernian" - Vifam
• "Scoobee" and "SV" - Phantom Crash

• "Scorpion Troops B-3x "Hot Shot"" - Sonic Adventure 2
• "Sentinel" - Slave Zero and X-men (both purely mechanical robots)
• "Senjutsuki" - Muv-Luv Unlimited/Alternative
• "Shinobi Machine" - Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger
• "Shōgozyu" (Guardian Beast) - Kyoryuu Sentai Zyuranger
• "SMAP (Super Maneuver Armed Puppet)" - Real Robot Battleline
• "Soldierboy", "Flyboy" and "Waterboy" - Forever Peace
• "Solid Armor", - Detonator Orgun
• "Spider Troops F-6t "Big Foot"" - Sonic Adventure 2
• "ST (Standing Tank)" - Battle Clash and Metal Combat
• ""S.T.R.I.P.E."--DC Comics superhero from Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA
• "Struggle Suit" - Gall Force
• "Super Powered Tracer" and "Terror Striker" - Blue Comet SPT Layzner
• "Super Robot" - Mazinger Z, Getter Robo
• "Slave" - Slave Zero (a biological robot)
• "T.A. (Tatical Armor)" and "Metal Fake" - Gasaraki

• Tachikoma - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Think Tank - Ghost in the Shell series
• "Titan" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
• "Titan", "Dreadnought", "Sentinel", "Knight", "Killa Kan", "Wraithlord", and "Defiler" - Warhammer 40,000
• "Tracer" - Voices of a Distant Star
• "Tripod" - The War of the Worlds; one of the first mecha in Western literature, appearing decades before the term "mecha" was even coined
• "V.A. (Variant Armor)" - Armored Warriors/Cyberbots
• "Vandread" and "Vanguard" - Vandread
• "Variable Fighters" - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
• "Vector" - Aquarion
• "Veritech fighter" - Robotech
• "Vermillion" - RahXephon
• "Vertical Tank" - Steel Battalion
• "Voltron" - Voltron
• "VOTOM (Verticle One-man Tank for Offensive Maneuvers)" - Armored Trooper Votoms
• "VR (Virtuaroid)" - Virtual On series

• "Walker Machine" - Combat Mecha Xabungle
• "Wolverine powered assault armor" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
• "Wanderung Panzer" ("Wanzer") - Front Mission
• "Zarg" - Argentosoma
• "Zeus Titan" - City of Heroes (Contains human brain rather than a complete pilot)
• "Zenith Megamech" - City of Heroes (Never seen in action, destroyed before it can be activated.)
• "Zoid" - Zoids
• "Zord" - Power Rangers