


Unfortunately the only thing he managed was that the monster went completely and unstoppably berserk. Finally Go lost his patience and blew the controls up, thinking that would stop it. However, Sho does not manage to keep it under control, no matter what she does.

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In another occasion he got to pilot Great Mazinger, and he was worried he wouldn't know how to pilot it. He stated the controls were too complicated to him.

Sayaka and her father did their best to teach him quickly, but until then he only survived due to Mazinger's impressive weaponry and sturdy body armor. Mazinger went on a rampage the first time he activated it because he kept punching random buttons as he tried to learn controling the damned thing (in the original manga he almost destroyed one whole city and in the anime he almost gets his little brother killed), and he got beaten in his first battles. Kouji Kabuto, the first Humongous Mecha pilot, knew absolutely nothing about piloting a giant robot or any manner of robot, really and in the first few episodes it shows.
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The Soviet Union particularly valued easily-learned equipment (and Russia has inherited that priority) the T-54/T-55 series of tanks (and engineering vehicles based on them) have basically the same controls as a large truck, except that they have steering levers instead of steering wheels. Some military vehicles (helicopters, aircraft) will never be easy to pick up on the fly, but there's equipment out there that's specifically designed to be easy to operate. This trope isn't necessarily as contrived or nonsensical as it might first appear. It could be that all the normal pilots were wearing Red Shirts that day, or the fact that the machine is kind of an Empathic Weapon, and can only key itself to its first pilot (or just likes him better), but for the time being, he's stuck in the cockpit of an engine of destruction, whether he wants to or not. Of course, the problem afterwards is how to keep them in the machine after the crisis has passed. Our hero might have an assload of raw talent, secretly be a Replacement Goldfish, part of the next stage in Human evolution or just play videogames a lot, but whatever the reason, he now has to pilot the thing in the middle of a battle (where he is now a prime target) just to get out of the situation alive.
