00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Greatest Flexes in Mecha Anime History.
00:25Number 10. Allow me to introduce myself.
00:28Super Robot Wars OG, The Inspector.
00:38If you've played any of the original generation games, then you know Sanger Zumwalt is just about the coolest M ever on the planet.
00:45Or any others for that matter.
00:47The TV series did a pretty good job of portraying this too, as you're about to see.
00:52In the ultimate display of aura farming, Sanger emerges from the water, giant sword first, in his Grungus Type-0.
00:59He then takes a simple circular swing at the surrounding units, and you'd probably expect them to all split in half.
01:13Typical anime trope, right?
01:15Wrong!
01:21Instead, they're diced into tiny pieces.
01:25How?
01:26Why?
01:27Because he's Sanger Zumwalt, dammit!
01:32Number 9. Breaking Back
01:34The Big O
01:35Jason Beck was a real pain in the ass for Roger pretty much any time he popped up on the show.
01:40The sleazy criminal was perhaps at his most annoying when he managed to put together his mega-deuce, the Beck Victory Deluxe.
01:47Look at him go! Run, Roger, run!
01:51It's a somewhat pathetic little thing, which even failed to pull off the Big O's iconic entrance.
01:56But alas, he got totally humbled after pulling off numerous frustrating stunts against Roger.
02:02Sorry to disappoint you, pal!
02:04In the closing moments of the fight, Big O pulls him in and dishes out its trademark pile bunker right to the skull.
02:21The whole thing shatters to pieces except for the cockpit, meaning Roger gets a front-row seat to the spineless pilots quivering in fear.
02:30Stupid punks!
02:31To be able to enact this kind of destruction but still leave the pilots alive isn't just an act of mercy and pity, it's a flex at how well he can hold back.
02:41Roger Smith may be a louse, but he's a better man than us.
02:44Number 8. Mission Accepted
02:46Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
02:48I will truly be victorious.
02:50The Gundams have all stopped fighting!
02:53Told ya!
02:54Sheer disrespect, that's the best way to describe this moment.
02:58When taking the fight to Dekim and Marimea, Hiro arrives at their final outpost looking to end the battle.
03:04He calls them for a quick chat, mostly to confirm one of their claims, that their fortress is impenetrable.
03:11Let me confirm, your shelter shield is activated?
03:14What are you planning?
03:16Your shelter is secure, is it?
03:18Of course it is.
03:19See for yourself just how powerless you are.
03:22Roger that.
03:23Challenge accepted, says Hiro, who then proceeds to contradict everything they've said by blasting the fortress relentlessly with Wing Zero.
03:31His aim is so good, that he's able to hit precisely the right spot to break the fortress's shield.
03:42That's impossible!
03:44How could this be happening?!
03:46Never tell a Gundam pilot that something is impossible.
03:50Number 7. Rising from the Ashes
03:52Yamato Takaru
03:54When your series features mechs created by literal gods, you know there's some flexing to be had.
04:01Early on in the show, Kazuno, piloted by Kiriyomi, manages to lay the smackdown on the divine machine, Susano, piloted by Yamato.
04:10It's here that Kiriyomi attempts to do a little flexing of his own, by using the powers of his mech,
04:23to summon a flow of lava to put the hero out for good.
04:26Game over, right?
04:33Ha! Did you forget what this list was?
04:36After being submerged in the lava, Susano emerges from it completely unscathed.
04:41Actually, looking better than ever.
04:43The biggest F you here comes from the fact that he places his hand in the scorching pool, lifts it up, and takes a big ol' gulp of the stuff.
04:52Was it necessary? Yes! Yes, it was.
04:58Number 6. Fine, we'll do it ourselves.
05:01King of Braves Gaogai-Gar
05:03The highlight of every episode of Gaogai-Gar is that god-tier combination sequence.
05:08But what happens when those Zonda bastards enact a plan to block the final fusion?
05:13Gaogai is left completely helpless.
05:23That is, until the 3G crew come up with the insane plan of trying to gattai Gaogai-Gar and the Gaog machines manually.
05:30That's right, they want to risk their own lives doing something that has to be machine-accurate with only about a 31% chance of success.
05:47Gaogai-Gar!
05:49Gaogai-Gar!
05:50Gaogai-Gar!
05:51Gaogai-Gar!
05:52Yatta!
05:53There's a small hiccup at first, but the team manages to pull it off in style, leaving the zonderized menace helpless against a heaven-and-hell attack.
06:02Gaogai-Gar!
06:08Pulling off something like this is not just brave, it's a damn flex.
06:12Number 5.
06:13Verne goes beast mode.
06:15The vision of Escaflowne.
06:17Perhaps the coolest moment in the entire series falls here when Verne pilots Escaflowne to claim a little bit of revenge.
06:24His target?
06:25The Dragon Slayers, who suffer some of the worst aura loss in anime history despite going up against Verne.
06:31More than 10 to 1.
06:33Within seconds, Verne is able to reduce them to blubbering, piss-sodden dweebs.
06:38He's taking them out left and right, but they don't die with dignity.
06:48No, no.
06:49Each one is screaming in terror as he chops them to bits.
06:53Each cherry on top comes when Verne gives Dillandau the badass slow walk of imminent doom.
07:06Dillandau survived this one, but he's never going to recover from how hard he and his crew job to Verne here.
07:12Number 4.
07:13Checkmate.
07:14Code Geass, Lelouch of the Rebellion.
07:17During his rebellion against the forces of Britannia, Lelouch under his zero guise did an awful lot of flexing.
07:23More often than not though, he's flexing his intellect rather than his raw strength.
07:29Though after this little spectacle, he managed to possess both traits.
07:33With the very first flight-capable nightmare frame nearing completion at the enemy encampment on the island,
07:44Lelouch is able to orchestrate one of his greatest campaigns in the whole series, infiltrating the enemy lines.
07:50However, he doesn't simply destroy the Gawain before Britannia can put it into action.
07:58No, he ends up rubbing it in their faces and claims it for himself.
08:09The worst part of this whole situation for the Britannians is that this is the perfect unit for Lelouch.
08:15Now he can get an aerial view of the battlefield, see all the pieces,
08:19and turn it into even more of a chessboard for him than ever before.
08:23Also doesn't hurt that it can fire massive Hadron cannons at his foes, but still.
08:27Number 3. Mirror Match – Getterobo Armageddon
08:36While we've seen some absolutely bonkers flexes in the Getterobo manga series,
08:41the anime have some pretty damn good ones in their own right.
08:44Take for example in Armageddon, everyone's favorite bit, when the second original team of Ryoma, Hayato, and Benkei
08:51are finally in the cockpit of Shin Getter and come face to face with the possessed Dr. Saotome and the invaders.
08:58It's Getter versus Getter, with the advantage obviously going to the constantly regenerating villains.
09:10They're frantically switching between forms over and over, but that's when the lads show just who the hell they are.
09:17They're so in sync with each other after countless battles that they're able to outpace the transformations of their opponents,
09:29even stopping them mid-docking.
09:31To be this much better at flowing between forms than the creator of the machine itself is one hell of a flex.
09:38And that stoner sunshine at the end is the ultimate chef's kiss.
09:51Mwah!
09:55Number 2. Kira Jesus Yamato – Mobile Suit Gundam C – Destiny
10:03Do you have any idea how hard it is to whittle it down to one Kira moment? The dude is a living flex machine.
10:10Well, if we have to pick from one of his finest, it's gotta go to his first launch of the Strike Freedom.
10:15He completely turns the tide of a huge scale battle in the blink of an eye.
10:22Kira's able to target the weak points of every would-be enemy around him, making them unable to fight.
10:28Now, we know he's only immobilizing the mechs because of his pacifist nature, but causing them to be unable to fight is so much more difficult than just straight-up obliterating them.
10:38And it's gotta be humiliating.
10:41He's done this before, but not to this scale.
10:48Alas, 25 downed opponents in two minutes just isn't enough for him, though.
10:53He then decides to take the fleet out, too.
10:56With shots so precise, the passengers survive.
10:59The lad is just plain ridiculous.
11:05The light in the sky are stars.
11:20You simply cannot talk about overpowered mecha with a huge amount of power.
11:26Who the hell do you think we are?
11:28Gurren Lagann the movie.
11:29The lights in the sky are stars.
11:31You simply cannot talk about overpowered mecha without bringing up Gurren Lagann.
11:36While the series conclusion saw the ridiculous, galaxy-sized Tengen Topper Gurren Lagann come together, the movie compilations had to take things even further beyond.
11:46Here in the final battle with the Anti-Spiral, rather than stopping at the Tengen Topper stage, Simon and the crew get absurdly bigger and reach Super Tengen Topper Gurren Lagann.
12:04We're talking trillions of light years in size.
12:11Stuff that'll make your head explode.
12:13They're not even trying to show off.
12:15Their will to fight and protect their loved ones is just that strong.
12:19What were the odds of victory again?
12:29Who cares?
12:30Do the impossible.
12:31See the invisible.
12:32Row, row, fight the power.
12:34Which mecha anime flex did we miss?
12:37Let us know in those comments below.
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