I mean, I know there have been a few, but its been basically one or two a year for the last few years.

That doesn't seem to be stopping the makers of Super Robot Wars. Your mileage may vary, but I don't remember the giant robots part of Cowboy Bebop, for example. :)

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"They've... they've got Jupiter in there."

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That includes Chirico in galaxy-sized Scopedog. Opening the cockpit and shooting his enemies with a pistol. Once.
They usually explode after that.

Been playing since it came out. And you know what? Spike and Company fit in better than the Rayearth stuff. Spike & Co. are all part of a "wild west" Mars, covering Bebop, Nadesico and Gun-Sword. Rayearth is wedged in there with some hackery courtesy of Dunbine. Apparently the Aura Road not only connects Byston Well to the upper world of Earth, it also connects to Cephiro and Autozam.

But at least that makes more sense than representatives from Votoms and Expelled from Paradise which are... kinda... just... there because... an enemy did it?

In the end everybody just kinda shrugs and goes about their day.

Meta-wise, it's because they can only incorporate so many series into the storyline, some of them just don't fit. Corporate mandates, or just because they want to and CAN brings them in.

(interestingly, what I've heard is that Gainax initially refused to let NGE into Super Robot Wars, but Anno said, basically "My stuff can be beside Mazinger and Getter Robo?? *Do it.*" and thus began Shinji's actual *character progression* which allowed him to tell Kira fom Gundam Seed to suck it the frig up. Sure, End of Evangelion still happened, mostly, but it was entirely because of Gendou's fuckery behind the scenes.)

Sgt Bash or riot

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Also, claw on the front and giant circular saw on the back. Crush. Kill. Destroy. Bicker about why it wasn't brought back for the reboot series.

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