So, the military's gotten some good data on your ancient Atlantean mecha's phlebotinum and built a mass production model that's supposed to be its equal, maybe even a little better since they worked out a few kinks.So, why do they all explode from just one shot and/or drive their pilots insane?
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I would say it is Status Quo is God clashing and eventually beating out Conservation of Ninjitsu.
Because Mecha are a fundamentally silly idea and the universe itself is rebelling against more such absurdities being created.
Because anime writers aren't all that creative, and they've all seen Eva.
I'm speaking from a position of low authority here, but I thought Eva just had mass-produced protagonists.
Anyway, I'm guessing it's a case of not understanding a black box properly.
Nope. The mass production Evas only came in the movie as villains.
Mass production uses cheap labor and cheap parts, while the original was probably made of enchanted alien metals and such. It's only to be expected.
Plus, the developers couldn't get the PC Shield emitters to work and just left them out.
I call it the B.A.T. Effect after the robots introduced to G.I. Joe after they started losing market share because the bad guys and good guys couldn't shoot each other.
At first they were nigh-indestructible and occurred only in small numbers, but within two episodes were ripe and ready cannon fodder such that one exploded when Snowjob stabbed it in the chest with a fork.
That which is extraordinary tends to become commonplace, even within the same narrative.
Or it turns out that the protagonist has some unique mental feature that makes them the only one that can control the mecha.
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