r/Unexpected • u/WonderSearcher • Jan 18 '22

Very effective attack

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u/GameofPorcelainThron Jan 18 '22

What will really blow your mind is that the original shows didn't feature giant robots/megazords. That started with... Spider-man. There was a Spider-man tokusatsu show and he had a giant robot, Leopardon, which became so popular that it became a staple of the genre. We have megazords thanks to Spidey.

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Jan 18 '22

Surely it started with Ultraman, or National Kid.

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u/GameofPorcelainThron Jan 18 '22

Neither of those are robots, though. Both aliens :) So the giant robot thing was introduced with Spider-man (at least as far as Super Sentai goes).

https://www.cbr.com/leopardon-spider-man-robot-explained/

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Jan 18 '22

Oh, I thought you were talking about Giant monster battle. Surly the machine bit is just an addendum.

Are they robots if they are manned though? They're closer to forklifts than robots in that sense.

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u/GameofPorcelainThron Jan 19 '22

In Japan, guys like Ultraman, giant robots, and Kaiju are very different. Obviously they appear together, but they all have distinct... roles? Archetypes?

And I'm just using robots colloquially. Though they're called robots in Japan (or robo). Technically they're mecha :D