Fans of quasi-Japanese-cheesy-giant-robot parodies are experiencing a mini-renaissance here at Atom. Between Gigabots and MegaBot we’ve got enough nerd-stalgia to satiate your giant robot thirst. Check out ‘em out after the jump!

Guys, let me be real here. I love Twitter. How else can I make fun of little kids or get into one-sided flame wars with my mom? But fine, I get it, mostly Twitter is just a downward spiral of just how illiterate you can be and still kind of communicate, but still, when it Twitter hits, it kind of rules.

The genre has kind of come into its own with some amazing fake accounts (full disclosure, I am not immune to the allure of the fake Twitter), and because I’m in a sharing mood (and because the guys who make MegaBot reminded me of it by tweeting as a giant robot) here’re some of my fake Twitter favorites.

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The Notorious B.I.G.
This account is approached as if Biggie were still alive today, though still caught up in his early 90s ways, juxtaposed against his interactions with the current incarnations of his old Bad Boy Crew (Diddy, Lil’ Kim, I’m looking at your asses).

Recently:
   4:05 PM Sep 28th – avoiding ma$e’s calls
   10:26 AM Sep 15th – fuck my wealth manager. how you gonna tell me gateway stock aint makin shit?
   11:36 PM Sep 13th – yo, this lil mama like the scrappy doo of the VMAs.

Sometimes you can protect the world with traditional methods (guns, fighter planes, sanctions) and sometimes you need to go with a giant robot piloted by teenagers. Meet Megabot, Atom’s brand new parody of teenage, robotic vigilantism (with Fran Kraz, from Dollhouse) that’s gone on just a little too long.

Inspired by Megabot, we put together a list of some of our favorite robotic advocates for interstellar justice.

 
 

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#1: Voltron
The pilots who assembled to form Voltron labored under the delusion they were worth half a shit. They insisted on attacking their demonic foes with the lion vehicles, which inevitably got swatted away with a lethargic backhand. Sure, they’d form Voltron to cleave their opponent just nanoseconds later, but that was coasting on technology to do the heavy lifting.

Worse, I am beginning to think part of Voltron’s core mission was ethnic cleansing. Outfits aside, his pilots showed about as much diversity as a Klan rally.

“We must rid the universe of evil King Zarkon! And Blacks!”