List of fictional mecha
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.
Specific mecha in media
(list is not comprehensive)
- "Aestivalis" - Nadesico
- "All Terrain Armored Combatant" (ATAC) - Vanguard Bandits
- "All Terrain Armored Transport" (AT-AT) - Star Wars
- "All Terrain Scout Transport" (AT-ST) - Star Wars
- "Ame no Murakumo" - Kannazuki no Miko
- "Amplified Mobility Platform suit", "AMP Suit" Avatar
- "Antibody" or "Organic Machine" - Brain Powered
- "Anti-Gnosis Weapon System" (A.G.W.S.), "Assault Maneuver Weapon System" (A.M.W.S.) and "ES (Ein Sof) Unit" - Xenosaga
- "APU (Armored Personnel Unit) - The Matrix Reloaded/The Matrix Revolutions/Animatrix
- "Arm Slave" - Full Metal Panic
- "Armo-Fighter" and "Armo-Bomber" - Genesis Climber Mospeada
- "Armor" - Gun X Sword
- "Armored Command Unit" ("ACU") - Supreme Commander
- "Armored Core" ("AC") and "Muscle Tracer" ("MT") - 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 "Valkyria" - Super Robot Taisen 64
- "Assault Scouter" - Super Robot Wars Alpha 3
- "Assault Suit" - Metal Warriors
- "Assault Vehicles" (A.V.'s) - Big Bad Beetleborgs
- "Assembly Walker" - Universe at War: Earth Assault
- "Aura Battler" - Aura Battler Dunbine, Wings of Rean
- "Avatar Warmech" - Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- "AWGS" - Xenosaga
- "AWMS" - Xenosaga
- "Bakuryū" - Bakuryū Sentai AbaRanger
- "Battlemover" - Bubblegum Crisis
- "Battle Fever Robo" - Battle Fever J
- "Battle Vehicles" (B.V.'s) - Beetleborgs Metallix
- "Battle Walker" - Battlefield 2142
- "Battleoid" - Master Of Orion series (2 and 3)
- "BattleMech" ("'Mech") - BattleTech
- "Big Guy" - Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
- "Bio Armor" - Jushin Liger
- "Bismarck" - Star Musketeer Bismarck
- "Black Bomb" - Advance Wars: Dual Strike
- "Bolo" - Bolo Anthologies
- "BRAHMA" (Bipedal Robotic Assault Heavy Mechanized Armor) - BRAHMA Force: The Assault on Beltlogger 9
- "Buster Machine" and "Sizzler" - Gunbuster
- "Broadside Suit"(Tau) - Warhammer 40,000
- Carmagic Mecha ("Ranger Vehicles" and "Victory Ranger Vehicles") - "Gekisou Sentai CarRanger"
- "Castle Doran, Shoodoran and Powerd IXER" Kamen Rider Kiva
- "Chao Walker" - Sonic Adventure 2
- "Chokijin", "Koukijin", "Super Machinery Humanoid", and "Dynamic General Guardian" - Super Robot Wars
- "Combat Armor" - Fang of Sun Dougram
- "Corus armor" - Sym-Bionic Titan
- "Combots" - Metal Fatigue
- "Crawler" - Gin-iro no Olynssis
- "Crisis Suit"(Tau) - Warhammer 40,000
- "CV-4", "F-6 Big Foot" and "JII-G" - Shadow the Hedgehog
- "CyberKing" - Doctor Who
- "Cybers" - Empire Earth
- "Cyclone" - Sonic Adventure 2
- "Cyclone 1" - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
- "Cyclops" -(Strogg) - Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- "Dannars" - Godannar
- "Dark Chao Walker" - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
- Dalek travel machine - Doctor Who
- "Dark Trooper" (Phase III) - Star Wars
- "Decimator" - Orguss 02
- "Defiler" - Universe at War: Earth Assault
- "Destroid" - Macross/Robotech
- "DenLiner, ZeroLiner, GaohLiner and KingLiner" - Kamen Rider Den-O
- "Deus Machina" - Demonbane
- "Digla" - Fiasco
- "Doge Hammer"-Rise of Legends
- "Dolem" - RahXephon
- "Dragoon" - StarCraft
- "Dreadnought" - Warhammer 40,000
- "Drone" - Drone Tactics
- "E-frame" (shortened "Exo-Frame") - Exosquad
- "Elite Powered Armor" (EPA) - F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
- "Endlaves" - Guilty Crown
- "Engines" - Engine Sentai Go-Onger
- "EGG-HVC-D01" - Sonic CD
- "Egg Walker" - Sonic Adventure 2
- "E.S." - Xenosaga
- "Escaflowne" - The Vision of Escaflowne
- "Evangelion Unit" - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- "Exo-Armor" - Jovian Chronicles
- "Evil Robot" - Metal Slug 6
- "Fafner" - Fafner of the Azure
- "Field Inverter" - Universe at War: Earth Assault
- "Frontline Battle Mech", "Maimbot", Megadoomer X-3 Stealth Mech" and "Plasma Armed Battle Tank" - Invader Zim
- Fuchikoma - Ghost in the Shell (manga)
- "Frontmission Wanzers" - Wanzers
- "GAMBEE" and "STRAIN" - Soukou no Strain
- "Gardener" - Gin-iro no Olynssis
- "Gargant - Ork
- "Galactic Colossus" (Aeon Mecha) Supreme Commander
- "Gear" - Heavy Gear, Xenogears
- "Gear Fighter" and "Data Weapon" - Gear Fighter Dendoh
- Geki Beasts - Juken Sentai Gekiranger
- "Gladiator" - Innocent Venus
- "Glastonbury" - No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
- "Goddess" and "Pilot Trainers" - The Candidate for Goddess
- "Goliath" - Starcraft
- "Golem" - Break Blade
- "Golemech" - Lylat Wars
- "Gosei Machines" and "Headders" - Tensou Sentai Goseiger
- "GoGo Vehicles" - GoGo Sentai Boukenger
- "Gokai Machines" - Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- "Grandizer/Goldorak" = Grendizer
- "Guardian" - Giant Gorg, Moonlight Mile
- "Guardian Knight" - NG Knight Lamune & 40
- "Gunmen" - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- "Guymelef" and "Melef" - Escaflowne
- "Habitat Walker" - Universe at War: Earth Assault
- "Hakkeshu Robot" - Hades Project Zeorymer
- "Havoc suit" - Gun Metal (video game)
- "Hazard Trooper" - Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- "Headmasters" - Transformers
- "Heavy Mecha" - Space Runaway Ideon
- "Heavy Gear" - Heavy Gear Dream Pod-9
- "Heavy Metal" - Heavy Metal L-Gaim
- "Heavy Unit" - Heavy Unit
- "Heavy Walker" - Red Faction Guerrilla
- "Hercules Titan" - City of Heroes
- "High Agility Versatile Weapons Carrier" (XHA-1065II HAVWC) - Flag
- "HOUNDs" - Chromehounds
- "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
- "iDOL (Immortal Defender of Legatee)" - Idolmaster: Xenoglossia
- "Immortal" - StarCraft II
- "Imperfect" - The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal
- "IS (Infinite Stratos)"- Infinite Stratos
- "Jango" - Burst Angel
- "Jet Alone" - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- "Jinki" (Man-Machine) - Jinki Extend
- "Juggernaut" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Firestorm expansion
- "Kaijuuki" (trnslt: Strange Heavy Machine; antagonist mecha) - Tokusou Sentai DekaRanger
- "Kbot" - Total Annihilation
- "Knightmare Frames", "Knight Giga Fortress" - Code Geass
- "Koubu" - Sakura Wars
- "Kronos Titan" - City of Heroes
- "L-5 Riesig" and "T-39 Bogatyr" Battlewalkers - Battlefield 2142
- "Labor" - Patlabor
- "Landmate" - Appleseed
- "Landwalker" - Airforce Delta Storm
- "Light Walker" - Red Faction Guerrilla
- "LFO (Light Finding Operation)" and "KLF" (Kraft Light Fighter) - Eureka Seven
- "Machina" & "Anti-Machina" - Linebarrels of Iron
- "MADOX-01" - from the anime of the same name.
- "Magitek (M-tek) Armor" - Final Fantasy VI (US translation only; Original Japanese version translated closer to "Majick-Based Armor")
- "MagiMajin" and "Majuu" - Mahou Sentai MagiRanger
- "Magnus von Grapple" and "Magnus von Grapple 2.0" - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- "Makusenjin" - Yamato Takeru (anime)
- "Mammoth Mk. II" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
- "Maneuver Slave" - Megazone 23
- "Man-Machine" - Gaia Gear
- "Marauder Powered Armour" - Starship Troopers 3
- "Mashin" - Magic Knight Rayearth and Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru
- "Masouki" (Elemental Machine) and "Masoukishin" (Elemental Lord) - Cybuster
- "Massive Armored Unit" (MAU, of the Bellato Race) - RF Online
- "Manus armor" - Sym-Bionic Titan
- "MAV" - Dark Horizons: Lore
- "Md Tank" - Advance Wars
- "Mecha Bandicoot"- Crash Twinsanity
- "Mecha Bowser" - Super Mario Sunshine
- "Mechagodzilla"/"Kiryu" - Godzilla films
- "Mechanoid" - The King of Braves GaoGaiGar
- "Mecha-King Ghidorah"- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
- "Mechanical 'suit'"-Rise of Legends
- "Mecha-Tama-chan"- Love Hina
- "Mecha/Jet Tengu"- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- "Medarot / Medarot Damashii" - [Medabots / Medabots Spirit]
- "Mega Tank" - Advance Wars: Dual Strike
- "Megadeus" - The Big O
- "Megadoomer": a mech with reverse jointed "chicken legs" from Invader Zim
- "Megas" (Mecha Earth Guard Attack System) - Megas XLR
- "Mekton" - Mekton
- "Metal Armor" - Metal Armor Dragonar
- "Metal Fighter" - Red Baron
- "Metal Gear (weapon)" and "Gekko" - Metal Gear
- "Metal Head" - Metal Head
- "Mirabel and Viktor" - Universe at War: Earth Assault
- "Mobile Bit" - Gundam X
- "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
- "MonkeyLord SpiderBot" - (Cybran Mecha) Supreme Commander
- "M.T.A (Mobile Tactical Armor)" - Hennarah Saga
- "Multi Walker" - Super Robot Wars GC
- "Neotank" - Advance Wars 2
- "Neuronoid" - Betterman
- "Ninja Machine" - Tobikage
- "Nirvash Type Zero" - Eureka seven
- "NoBot" - Wars CCG
- "Nubertron - Mechquest
- "Nubertron anni V-13 - Mechquest
- "Olynssis Machine" - Gin-iro no Olynssis
- "Orbital Frame" and "LEV(Laborious Extra-orbital Vehicle)" - Zone of the Enders
- "Omnidroid 9000" - The Incredibles (purely mechanical robot)
- "Omnigear" - Xenogears
- "Opa-opa" - Fantasy Zone
- "Orgone Machine" - Super Robot Wars J
- "Origami" - Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
- "OriHalcyon Golem"-Slayers NEXT
- "Overkill Engine" - Carnage Heart
- "Overman" and "Silhouette Machine" - Overman King Gainer
- "Personal Trooper", "Armored Module" and "GESTALT" - Super Robot Wars Original Generations
- "Peace Walker" - Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
- "Planet Runner" - Shattered Steel
- "Power Animal" - Hyakujuu Sentai GaoRanger
- "Power Loader" - Aliens and Power Dolls
- "Powered Suit" - Starship Troopers
- "Powerpuff Dynamo/Dy. Na.Mo" - The Powerpuff Girls/Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
- "Productnoid" - Omega Boost
- "Psycho Armor" - Govarian
- "R-1/A Flying Dog -Sonic Adventure 2
- "RahXephon" - RahXephon
- "Rasetsuki" - Super Robot Wars OG Saga Endless Frontier EXCEED
- "Ramrod" - Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
- "Redeemer" - Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
- "Rescue Mecha" - Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V
- "Ride Armor" - Megaman X (series)
- "Roboborg" and "Boron" - Beetleborgs Metallix
- "Robotron" - Dexter's Laboratory
- "Robot(s)" and "Mega Robots"- Robot Jox and Robot Wars
- "Round Buckler" - The Mars Daybreak
- "Round Vernian" - Vifam
- "Ryu" - Lord of Lords Ryu Knight
- "Rounder" - WarTech: Senko No Ronde
- "S-MAP (Super-Maneuver Armed Puppet)" - Real Robot Battleline
- "Science Walker" - Universe at War: Earth Assault
- "Scoobee" and "SV" - Phantom Crash
- "Scorpion Troops B-3x "Hot Shot"" - Sonic Adventure 2
- "Scorpion Troops B-3x "Bigfoot"" - Sonic Adventure 2
- "Seijuu" - Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
- "Sereiki" (Holy Machine) - Sereiki Rayblade
- "Sentinel" - Slave Zero and X-men (both purely mechanical robots)
- "Shinobi Machine" - Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger
- "Shock Trooper" (Gurab) - Genesis Climber Mospeada
- "Shōgozyu" (Guardian Beast) - Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger
- "Shurashin" - Super Robot Wars Compact 3 & Super Robot Wars Original Generations
- "Slave Pod" - Super Robot Wars NEO
- "Soldierboy" "Flyboy" and "Waterboy" - Forever Peace
- "Solid Armor" - Detonator Orgun
- "Sonic Diver Units"- Sky Girls
- S.P.D. Mecha - Tokusou Sentai DekaRanger
- "Spider Troops F-6t "Big Foot"" - Sonic Adventure 2
- "Stalker"-StarCraft II
- "ST (Standing Tank)" - Battle Clash and Metal Combat
- "Strider"-Half-Life 2
- "S.T.R.I.P.E." - 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, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]
- "Slave" - Slave Zero (a biological robot)
- "Sym-Bionic Titan" - Sym-Bionic Titan
- "T.A. (Tactical Armor)" and "Metal Fake" - Gasaraki
- Tachikoma - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- "Tactical Surface Fighter" - Muv-Luv Unlimited/Alternative
- "Take no Yamikazuchi" - Kannazuki no Miko
- "Tekki Musha" - Shin SD Sengokuden Chou Kidou Daishougun Hen
- Think Tank - Ghost in the Shell series
- TimeJet 3D Mecha System, Time Shadow, and V-Rex - Mirai Sentai TimeRanger
- "Titan" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
- "Titan", "Dreadnought", "Sentinel", "Knight", "Killa Kan", "Wraithlord", and "Defiler" - Warhammer 40,000
- "Thor"- StarCraft II
- "Tracer" - Voices of a Distant Star
- "Tripod" - The War of the Worlds
- "Trench" - Trenched
- "Shinuchi Tsurugi/Blood Crus, Kazu'uchi Tsurugi/Red Crus" - Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa
- "V.A. (Variant Armor)" - Armored Warriors/Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
- "Vandread" and "Vanguard" - Vandread
- "Variable Fighters" - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
- "Vector" - Aquarion
- "Veritech fighter" - Robotech
- "Vermillion" - RahXephon
- "Vertical Tank" - Steel Battalion
- "Vital Guarder" - Infinite Ryvius
- "Viking"-StarCraft II
- "Vital Suit" - Lost Planet
- "Voltron" - Voltron
- "VOTOM (Vertical One-man Tank for Offensive Maneuvers)" - Armored Trooper Votoms
- "VR (Virtuaroid)" - Virtual On series
- "Walker" - Quake 4
- "Walker" - Star Wars
- "Walker Machine" - Combat Mecha Xabungle
- "Wolverine powered assault armor" - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
- "Wander Panzer" ("Wanzer") - Front Mission
- "Yokusemi no Mizuchi" - Kannazuki no Miko
- "Zarg" - Argentosoma
- "Zeus Titan" - City of Heroes
- "Zenith Megamech" - City of Heroes
- "Zoid" - Zoids
- "Zord" - Power Rangers