User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Philosophy in RWBY/@comment-10380701-20150126073355/@comment-25555436-20150126210320

Oh, that's just a nicke of the genre. In fact Evangelion tried to deconstruct this trope, by showing what would really happen if you gave a giant robot to a teenager with issues.

Of course, everyone ignored this, and that's why Shinji is hated so much.