12/11/2022 0 Comments Space runaway ideon trope![]() #SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON TROPE SERIES#The biggest question I always ask when encountering a new mecha series is, “Why are there giant robots in this? Could this story be told without them?” That’s the perspective I’m coming from. Instead, I’m interested in how this series plays with time-honored tropes and innovates on them. What parts of mecha are being preserved here, and what’s being changed? Where are Paknadel and Le going to take us that we haven’t been before? I’m going to constantly be calling back to various mecha series as we read this book, but not for the purpose of comparing quality. There’s been an upswing in kaiju-related comics lately as well, which is something of a sister genre to mecha. I’ve really been looking forward to this series, as I’m always interested in seeing how western creators adapt settings and tropes that are most prevalent in anime. I co-host a giant robots podcast ( Mech Ado About Nothing), and I’ve seen a wide range of mech anime, from the classics to more recent stuff. Ian Gregory: Some would say too much experience, Zach. And Ian, I take it you’ve got quite a bit more background in this area than I do, isn’t that right? Thankfully, I’m joined by my colleague, the Rev. Sure, I’ve read every issue of the 1980s Doug Moench/Herb Trimpe Shogun Warriors (as who among us hasn’t?), but my encounters with any of the Japanese innovators in this genre are virtually nil, and I could hardly tell a Gundam from an Astro Boy if my voting rights depended on it. I’ve been enormously excited to read this debut, which might come as a surprise to some of the people who know my reading habits, since I really don’t have much experience in the way of mecha fiction. We are gathered here today in the presence of our mechanical overlords to observe the solemn debut of GIGA, the new series from Alex Pakenadel and John Le about a distant yet eerily familiar human society living in the shadow of fallen mech gods. Zach Rabiroff: Welcome, congregation, to the Holy Church of the Enormous Robots. Zach Rabiroff and Ian Gregory check out the new Vault Comics series by writer Alex Paknadel, artist John Le, colorist Rosh and letterer Aditya Bidikar. When disgraced engineer Evan Calhoun finds an apparently murdered Giga, his society and the fascistic tech-centered religious order that controls it are rapidly thrown into chaos. All they know is that when the fighting finally stopped, the dormant Giga became humanity’s new habitat and new gods in one. did the individual Units ever got into a long battle? which in turn allowed them to show the weapons on them.Nobody knows why the skyscraper-sized mechs known as ‘Giga’ fought their bitter, centuries’ long war. That reminds me, to anyone who has watched Ideon in full. did that Haken finisher ever killed an MOTW? they even have a combined form that IS NOT humanoid. they built/modified them to combat VoltĪnd how could i have forgotten about the Jet Machines? they all have their own special attacks/weapons. Liveman- not necessarily told in the show, as far as i can remember anyways, the additional ranger's mech were much like the main trio. it was sealed away(inside a mountain i think?) Great Five was possed by the MOTW the previous episode. it was built but got hit by lightning and went berserk. ) the Land Galaxy was one of the two mechs considered for the Hikari Sentai to use. the one responsible for showering the ancestor of the Biomen with bio particles.įlashman - IIRC, Titan Boy had an alien owner who had a beef with the enemy group ![]() While Getter's combining ability get emphasize often, you would have hard time looking for info of each Get Machines (beyond "it's armed with missile and form a head of X" and such).īioman-all i can recall is that the Bio Robo is sentient. Just think of the trope maker, Getter Robo. Otherwise they will just spend 10 seconds or so ineffectively attack the giant monster and then combine. Afterward, they will be important ONLY if a member is missing and thus unable to combine. ![]() Usually individual component only get some spotlight until they learn to combine. Nobody talks about how the Super Sentai mecha are combining mecha made out of multiple component vehicles, animal mecha, and/or humanoid mecha, either? I suggest that you do some research on old Super Sentai shows, you would realize that it's normal. But rarely, if ever, do I see or hear anyone talk about Ideon as a combining mecha, or about Ideon's three individual component vehicles and their capabilities when uncombined. ![]()
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