#a kamen rider valkyrie super form of this exists in my head

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Izzy’s notes:

Types of Robots / Mecha:

Things are not mutually exclusive. It’s often combinations of different types / categories.

Non-Giant Robot - probably anything smaller than about 4 meters?

Friend shape - R2-D2, Haro, Wall-E. (Sometimes a giant robot can fit this too)

Androids - Basically just mostly humanoid guys who are robots. Astroboy, Data from Star Trek, Robby the Robot, C-3PO

Cyborgs - generally the type of cyborg where they’re either treated as if they’re androids or if there’s questions about maintaining their humanity. There can be a lot of crossover between what is considered an android and cyborg. Kamen Rider, Androids 17 & 18. I’d slot my Xenu here, personally.

Power armor - It’s closer to a suit of armor than a giant. Knight Sabers from Bubblegum Crisis, the power loader from Aliens, the power armors from fallout, Samus Aran.

Giant robot - big! Lots of categories here, plus some spectrums.

Piloted / Non-Piloted - this sounds like a binary, but lots of stuff likes to have AI or some sort of life or soul in the robot.

Alive / Object - pretty close to the same deal. But all the combinations seem to exist.

Real / Super robot - reals tend to focus on plausibility and super robots tend to have some sort of fantastical element. Again, it’s a spectrum and most stuff probably lands more in the middle.

Categories:

Spider-mechs - there’s enough of them that they might as well get their own category

Military - most Gundams, Macross, Votoms

Super Science - Mazinger-Z, Getter Robo, actually just about everything I know from the 70s.

Hero/Anti-Hero - pretty close to the vibes of superhero media, but with the giant robots.

Fantasy - Escaflowne, Magic Knight Rayearth

Biomechanical - I think the distinction I give between this and the next is whether the focus is on including bio-engineering and being made by crazy science. So I slot Evangelion here. Geiger stuff, too. Both Samus Aran’s power armor and the metroids from metroid could fit here too. Also anything that’s like a cyborg, especially if it’s goopy.

Meat Mech - Avatar, Attack on Titan, Ratatouille

Transformers - they have a different form, normally a vehicle. Transformers, Macross Valkyries, Zeta Gundam.

Gestalts - Combiners, either from other robots or vehicles or something. Occasionally, it’s straight up guys combining’. Devastator from Transformers, ZZ Gundam, Voltron.

Robot for Classica from Ordinary Channel (aka Ordinary-chan)

Swappable backpack - includes head and tail

Changes weapons / look, but not shape

Tons of weapons.

Atleast a little cute.

Quatre’s backpack covered in stickers. Earth. Mole or other underground animal.

Emmy’s the most weaponized? Airhorns. Emote/emotion flag? Nickelodeon slime. Fire. Snake and anime girl.

Izzy’s flight mode. Air. Bird?

Morg? Water.

Bulky.

Torso is a head. Big eyebrows / v-fin on the torso face.

Animal head as the actual head.

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