Super Robot shows are typically personified by "Love/Courage/Compassion/Friendship/Righteous-Anger/Insert-Positive-Emotion-Here Conquers All", and almost always have at least one character that is Hot-Blooded, though there are certain notable exceptions. In contrast to a Real Robot, where the mecha is just one more piece of equipment in the overall arsenal (even if it is the cornerstone), a Super Robot is an enabling device for its pilot to pull off badass heroics. Overall, the science behind a Super Robot is usually soft science fiction, with the Rule of Cool and the burning passion of The Hero and his friends and lovers having more effect on the machine's capabilities than a list of well-defined specifications. Instead of using an elaborate system of controls like those found in an airplane cockpit, the pilot controls a Super Robot using a mere handful of buttons (and maybe a joystick), motion capture or even a mind-reading system, and the motion of the mecha itself is often implausibly humanlike. The pilot tends to be an average-across-the-board Audience Surrogate, sometimes even an Ordinary High-School Student, who falls into the cockpit and discovers they have a natural aptitude for piloting a giant robot. or how they manage to keep anyone else (except the select few needed to drive the plot) from finding out about their activities is usually left as an exercise for the viewer.
Even allowing for a lot of these people not working on the carrier for the entire course of its construction, you're still looking at a build time many times greater than the average human lifespan if only one person was doing everything. In contrast to Real Robots, Super Robots are often (but not always) the creations of eccentric Mad Scientists who work alone in their secluded laboratories exactly where they get the parts, funding, and equipment, manage to even build the thing without help, note For comparison, the closest thing in size and complexity to a Giant Mecha in real life is probably a modern aircraft carrier - which, very roughly, takes 150,000 people and 7 years to build. The counterpoint to the Real Robot Genre (or rather, Real Robot is the counterpoint to this), the Super Robot Genre is a genre of science fiction - mostly Anime and Manga, but found in other mediums as well - focusing on a fantastic, Superheroic form of Humongous Mecha.
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