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Tripod Terror
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The second most iconic of alien vehicles after the Flying Saucer, Rule of Three comes into play for the Alien Invasion, when our new overlords bring out their army of Three-Legged Humongous Mecha. This may also be here to induce What Measure Is a Non-Human? or earthly being, as most animals tend to have even numbers of legs. The Ur-Example is undoubtedly The War of the Worlds (1898), and its many adaptations since. Compare and contrast to Spider Tank. A Sub-Trope of Starfish Robots. |
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The massive Zeon wonderweapon Apsaras 3 in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team has three dangerously spindly-looking retractable legs, though it usually floats through the air using an exotic particle-based flight system, giving it a strong resemblance to both the book and 1953 movie versions of the classic Martian Fighting Machines. | |
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In War of the Servers, the Mingepods aren't even really tripods. They have two front wheels, and a third "leg" with another two wheels on it. Thus, while they're technically tripods (three 'legs') they still have four points of contact. | |
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The War of the Worlds (1898) is the Trope Maker, and arguably the Trope Codifier as well. | |
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In Monsterpocalypse, the Martian Menace faction has some figures based on the tripods from War of the Worlds: the monsters Deimos-9 and Phobos-7, and the Reaper and Despoiler units. | |
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The Justice League pilot "Secret Origins" features invading tripods from Mars, and a heap of War of the Worlds in-jokes. The instability of this method of locomotion is shown when Wonder Woman and the Flash work out ways to trip them up. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, also taking place on Mars, features the Mobile Workers, small, futuristic tanks with the legs ending in wheels. The 'terror' goes in two directions here, though - while Mobile Workers are notorious for their ability to shred infantry and break up riots, they're little more than tin-plated coffins if a mobile suit shows up. However, they're surprisingly effective for anti-personnel purpose, as shown by how Gjallarhorn dispatch the Dort protestants via a Curb-Stomp Battle. | |
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Scarlet Traces, being a fansequel to The War of the Worlds (1898). | |
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Half-Life 2: The Combine Striders and Hunters both posses three legs. The Striders are much taller, being about two stories tall, while the hunters are smaller and about human-sized. As with all Combine tech, they are made of Organic Technology. | |
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G.I. Joe had the Cobra Pogo Ballistics Battle Ball (called such despite it not actually being ball-shaped) toy. It was a red and black three-legged craft that used jets to bounce around battlefields. Several years later, it was renamed the Invader and released in a neon green color with a spring-fired missile launcher instead of the machine gun the original had. | |
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Expedition has a number of tripodal creatures, including the Sac Back, Beach Loper, and the Groveback (a gigantic animal that goes about on two legs and a massive supporting tail). | |
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The Idirans in Consider Phlebas have three legs. | |
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Black Manta mans a giant tripod in order to steal an armored car in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. "Mystery In Space" features Invaders on Rann in Tripods |
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As War of the Worlds: Goliath is a sequel to the Trope Maker, naturally the Martian tripods reappear. However, this film supposes that humanity reversed-engineered leftover Martian tech from the original invasion and have used it to create a Diesel Punk world full of human-built tripods armed with human-built heat rays, which become major centerpieces of the action when a second Martian invasion takes place. | |
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The Invaders in Occult Academy will use them to crush Mankind. | |
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The Tripods features, well, what you might expect. (The aliens that pilot them also have three legs.) John Christopher essentially filed the serial numbers off of Wells' Martians and depicted what the world might be like if their initial invasion had been successful. He also does a fair job of justifying the impracticality of the 3-legged design; the number 3 appears to be integral to the culture of the Masters, presumably as a consequence of their biology (as well as 3 legs they also have 3 tentacles and 3 eyes), and as well as the tripodal design of their vehicles, they also incorporate triangles and pyramids into their architecture and technology at every opportunity. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons has several three-legged monsters, such as the Xorn, the Otyugh, and the Triapheg. | |
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Fallout 3 has Sentry Bots, which are one of the game's most fearsome enemies. Also, Mister Handy/Gutsy, which resembles the aforementioned The War of the Worlds tripod bots. | |
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In Fallout 4 Automatron DLC, you can build your own Sentry Bots at a Robot Workbrench. | |
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Referenced in The Venture Bros., where Dr Venture transforms HELPER into a classic tripod "walking eye." When asked what they're good for, Venture is at a loss, apparently convinced by popular sci-fi that they're simply a requirement. Random scenes of destruction also occasionally show a tripod terror running amok. | |
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Scrin Annihilator and Reaper Tripods from Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars. The aliens just love these things. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has the Shogun Executioner in two scripted missions, a Humongous Mecha with three legs and three torsos, with each torso shaped like a samurai complete with a Laser Blade. The thing is so big it can destroy aircraft just by walking at them. It's especially effective against the Soviets, as electrical attacks only serve to heal it. |
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Unreal Tournament III: Darkwalkers and Scavengers. The Darkwalker is the classical Humongous Mecha variant of this trope, armed with a dual laser cannon. It is one of the stronger vehicles of the game. The Scavenger is a small but fast vehicle that runs on three tentacles. One of its attacks is turning into an electrified ball and roll into enemy players. | |
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The Mobile Suit Gundam SEED spinoff manga Delta Astray has the Guardshell, which can change from a tripod to a Gundam-like form that uses the tripod's carapace as a giant yo-yo. Considering it was designed and piloted by a Martian, it's definitely a Shout-Out to War of the Worlds. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's hotly Contested Sequel Frozen Teardrop, also taking place on the red planet, gets in on the act with an upgraded version of Epyon that turns into a three headed dragon. | |
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The Boxtrolls: Snatcher builds one, with the help of captured Boxtrolls, to break into the Boxtroll lair and round up the rest. | |
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Some clanks in Girl Genius have this design, like this one. Also, on "My vacation" picture, evidently left from one of older Heterodynes. The tripods on this filler page seems to be a more direct reference to The War of the Worlds. | |
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In Alien in a Small Town, the Jan and most of the animals from their world have trilateral symmetry. The Jan are cone-shaped, with three stumpy legs underneath and three arms sprouting out the top, two ending in hands and one in an eye. Like Rama's biots, they revolve as they walk. | |
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Gundam: The massive Zeon wonderweapon Apsaras 3 in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team has three dangerously spindly-looking retractable legs, though it usually floats through the air using an exotic particle-based flight system, giving it a strong resemblance to both the book and 1953 movie versions of the classic Martian Fighting Machines. The Mobile Suit Gundam SEED spinoff manga Delta Astray has the Guardshell, which can change from a tripod to a Gundam-like form that uses the tripod's carapace as a giant yo-yo. Considering it was designed and piloted by a Martian, it's definitely a Shout-Out to War of the Worlds. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, also taking place on Mars, features the Mobile Workers, small, futuristic tanks with the legs ending in wheels. The 'terror' goes in two directions here, though - while Mobile Workers are notorious for their ability to shred infantry and break up riots, they're little more than tin-plated coffins if a mobile suit shows up. However, they're surprisingly effective for anti-personnel purpose, as shown by how Gjallarhorn dispatch the Dort protestants via a Curb-Stomp Battle. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's hotly Contested Sequel Frozen Teardrop, also taking place on the red planet, gets in on the act with an upgraded version of Epyon that turns into a three headed dragon. |
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Rendezvous with Rama features three-legged biots used as a sort of mobile sensor. These move very fast by pivoting around on one leg, using each of them in alternation, and reversing the direction of rotation from time to time. As a matter of fact, a three-part symmetry is central to all things Raman. Unlike many of the examples on this page, they're harmless, unless you cut into one's power-cell while dissecting its corpse. | |
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The Lorwardians in Kim Possible make use of walkers during their invasion of the Earth, though they are technically four-legged. | |
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BattleTech advanced to the point where the 135 ton Ares, and its slightly smaller precursor, the 125 ton Poseidon, have been added to the game as the first two tripod mechs. Players have yet to decide if the advantages they have in firepower, armor, and their three-person cockpits make up for their extremely low speed. Beyond those two monsters, though, there are rules for constructing tripodal mechs (as well as one canon design that's a mere 75 tons, the Triskeleon). They get bonuses to stability and can easily change direction compared to standard designs, but with the added tonnage cost of the extra leg and the parts needed to control it they're a bit more limited in overall firepower than a standard bipedal mech of the same size and speed would be. | |
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Sonic X features Tripods in #7 and #12. | |
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Lightning McQueen has a dream where he stars in a movie about spark plug tripods (actually "quads", as they have four legs) destroying the city in Cars. | |
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The Day of the Triffids goes into a bit of detail about how the titular walking plants move, comparing them to a man on crutches and specifically noting that it's not an especially fast or stable method of locomotion. Being plants, of course, they don't really need to move very often or over a great distance. | |
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Pikmin 3 has a biological variant in the Quaggled Mireclops, the largest boss in the game which resembles a chunk of earth walking on three hoofed legs with a fruit-like head at the top. Its three legs are also its weak point, attacking them will cause the Mireclops to fall over, leaving its fruit-like head within reach of your Pikmin. | |
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The Olmecs' three-legged flying machine in The Mysterious Cities of Gold, which is also capable of walking. | |
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Lost in Space features a race of insectoid creatures with this flaw. The DVD commentary acknowledges this, admitting that nature would never design anything like this because of the off-balance problem. | |
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The Dark Nebula Empire has these in the Uchuu Senkan Yamato spin-off film Be Forever Yamato | |
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Speaking of the Jeff Wayne version, most Martian units in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, although they have a few quadropods, a bipod, and even a pentapod (five footed) walker, a mighty can of Beam Spam called the Tempest. | |
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The boss Tripod Sardine from G-Darius. See Real Life entry below. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has the Shogun Executioner in two scripted missions, a Humongous Mecha with three legs and three torsos, with each torso shaped like a samurai complete with a Laser Blade. The thing is so big it can destroy aircraft just by walking at them. It's especially effective against the Soviets, as electrical attacks only serve to heal it. | |
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The Wellsians from The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (slightly parodical versions of Wells's original Martians) are shown to have devised the Tripods on Earth as a last-minute solution when they realized Earth's gravity made it nearly impossible for them to move on foot. This might explain the rather slapdash engineering. | |
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Jimmy dreams up invading tripods in an episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy | |
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Ahem from The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is basically shaped like a biological version of an H.G. Wells tripod. | |
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The battle with Princess Shroob in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time has her battle the brothers in a three-legged robotic throne that shoots huge lasers and protects her with a force field. | |
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Genius: The Transgression has the Martian Empire, whose primary leaders, the Overlords, are based on the martians from The War of the Worlds, and as such go to battle in three-legged vehicles. | |
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In Quake IV, as a possible shoutout to the aforementioned Droidekas, the Convoy drones roll into battle before deploying tripod legs. Luckily, they don't have deflector shields. | |
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When Martians from Killraven's reality invade the mainstream Marvel Universe, they arrive in giant tripods. | |
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StarCraft II: Colossi may have four legs, but they are otherwise totally in fitting with the spirit of the trope. They fry stuff at extreme long range with sweeping heat rays, and have very long stilt-legs that let them stride over any terrain with ease. | |
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The AT-AP (All-Terrain Attack Pod) Walker seen in Revenge of the Sith is a tripod. However, the third leg is retractable — it primarily serves to steady the Walker when using its artillery cannon. | |
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The Deucalion Kataphrakt in Aldnoah.Zero was a three-legged machine, though it preferred to float thanks to its anti-gravity engines. | |
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The Mask: In the first episode, Stanley and Charlie have to house-sit a "home of the future". Naturally, Dr. Pretorius gets in and starts futzing with its processors, transforming it into a three-legged weapon of mass destruction. | |
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