Mecha and Monsters from Linebarrels

The following is a list of the many mecha and monsters that originated in the 2008 anime series *Linebarrels of Iron*. While this article will make mentions of the manga this article is intended for the anime adaption by Gonzo.

## Machinas

Machinas were humanoid machines from High Probability World that were sent to Earth by rogue machina humans to save the Earth from an incoming invasion led by Central. The Juda Corporation was tasked with finding pilots, known as factors, to bond with their machines using Drexler S.O.I.L.. Drexler S.O.I.L. allows machinas and their factors regeneration, performance based on tenacity and mental health, teleport, and for machinas subsonic flight capabilities.

* **Linebarrel** (ラインバレル): Length: 21 meters. Height: 19.1 meters. Weight: 51.27 tons. A machina whose factor was Kouichi Hayase. Powers include a pair of katanas and a green energy gun called the Executioner that can destroy a city block which can also be used as an energy blade. In its basic A-Mode it is mostly colored white.
	+ **B-Mode**: The first evolutionary form of Linebarrel which increased its speed. This mode is mostly colored gray.
	+ **C-Mode**: The second evolutionary form of Linebarrel which increased its speed further. This mode is mostly colored pink.
* **Vardant** (ヴァーダント): Length: 20.7 meters. Height: 18.8 meters. Weight: 50.83 tons. A machina whose factor was Hideaki Yajima. Powers include speed, a pair of double sided katanas, twin machine guns, a shield on each shoulder that can extend like wings, channeling energy from other machinas into Linebarrel, a pair of rail cannons called the Ogata Rail Cannons, and a missile launcher on the back.
* **Hind-Kind** (ハインド カインド): Length: 25.8 meters. Height: 23.2 meters. Weight: 73.1 tons. A machina whose factor was Satoru Yamashita. Powers include extendable arms called Bullet Arms, a double cannon on the back, and a pair of missile launchers on each wrist.
* **Painkiller** (ペインキラー): Length: 17.3 meters. Height: 17 meters. Weight: 40.9 tons. A machina whose factor was Miu Kujo. Powers include throwing knives, a beam cannon on each arm, ans spawning pink energy wings from the back that act like giant energy blades.
* **Deceive** (ディスィーブ): Length: 56.2 meters. Height: 54 meters. Weight: 117.5 tons. A machina whose factor was Shizuna and Izuna Endo. Its only known power is long wire-like tendrils called the Nerve Cracker from each side that can cuse pilots to hallucinate or cause them create pain, hack into machinery, and turn into giant hands to throw enemies.
* **Apparition** (アパレシオン): Length: 20.3 meters. Height: 19.2 meters. Weight: 50.2 tons. A machina whose factor was Hideaki Yajima after Hagure Machina's Drexler S.O.I.L. returned him back to life. Powers include a cloaking device to blend into the environment, a machine gun pistol, and an assault rifle.
	+ - **Hagure Machina** (ハグレマキナ) The prototype variation of Apparition that evolved after its Drexler S.O.I.L. turned the body of Hideaki Yajima into its factor. Powers include an assault rifle and an electric rail gun on its back.
* **Talisman** (タリスマン): Length: 20.2 meters. Height: 19 meters. Weight: 49.6 tons. A machina whose factor was Soubi Nakajima. Its only known power was a plasma cannon called Tale of Kingdom that also had a lance-like tip and a shield.

## Armas

Armas were imitations of original machina without Drexler S.O.I.L. created by the Katou Organization.

* **Standard Arma** (アルマ): The standard infantry of the Katou Organization used throughout the series. Powers include swimming, a machine gun pistol, and a lance with a jagged blade.
	+ **Stealth Stabilizer Arma** (アルマ ステルススタビライザー): Mostly the same as standard armas, instead of being able to swim they have a cloaking of a stealth stabilizer to blend into the environment.
* **Idaten** (イダテン): A commander unit arma used by Takuro Saqatari as its factor. Powers include an automatic pistol, a lance with a jagged blade, and speed.
	+ **Idaten Nogota** (イダテン弐型): An upgraded Idaten that was given shoulder thrusters for speed and space flight and had projectile resistant armor.
* **Kagutsuchi** (カグツチ): A commander unit arma used by Dimitri Magarov as its factor. Powers include a 3-tube missile pod on each shoulder, a machine gun, and a pistol.
* **Tsubaki-Hime** (ツバキヒメ): A commander unit arma used by Yurianne Faithful as its factor. Powers include a lance with a pair of bladed rings on it, a chainsaw, and speed.
* **Yaoyorozu** (ヤオヨロズ): A commander unit arma used by Riku Ousei as its factor. It was only used when the Helios was hijacked. Powers include flight, homing mines from the torso and shoulder, controlling satellites it is near, and energy resistant armor.

## High Probability World

* **Mass Production Machinas** (量産型マキナ): Length: 18.8 meters. Weight: 46.88 tons. The main invasion forces of High Probabilty World that are piloted by machina humans. These are also sometimes referred to as new Armas. Powers include flight, a machine gun pistol, and a katana.
	+ **Soubi's Mass Production Machina**: A command unit mass production machina used by Soubi Nakajima.
* **Invasion Pillars**: These large spear-like devices were designed by the inhabitants of High Probability World to collect the lifeforms of Earth. Powers include flight, energy shield nullification, spear tips, and storing flying drones that can collect lifeforms via tractor beam and forcing them into comatose.
* **Glain Neidr** (グラン ネイドル): Length: 120.1 meters. Height: 75.8 meters. Weight: 5230.7 tons. Powers include levitation, six underside lasers, sonic waves capable of nullifying energy shields from the underside, thick armor, twelve lasers from the front of the body, erecting a purple energy shield that is immune to energy based attacks, and shedding the armor to allow Naked to fight.
	+ **Naked** (ネイキッド): Height: 18.3 meters. A machina with Drexler S.O.I.L. that serves as Glain Neidr's real form. It is only armed with a powerful sword called Eliminator.
* **Central** (セントラル): The leader of the machina humans from High Probability World. Powers include opening dimensional portals, levitation, body lasers, a heat beam from the mouth, and thick armor.

## Other

* **Shangri La** (シャングリラ): Length: 1,011 meters. Width: 502.4 meters. Height: 390.2 meters. Weight: 3,771,000 tons. It was a large submarine designed to transport high ranking armas throughout the series. It was capable of both swimming and super sonic flight, if docked with Flag it could even travel into space. It was armed with a pair of energy cannons.
* **Jack Smith** (ジャック スミス): A machina human that worked for the American branch of the Katou Organization. Powers include a long katana, high jumping, a giant knife, environmental adaption, strength, and regeneration.
* **Helios** (ヘリオス): It was a military satellite that was hijacked by the Yaoyorozu. Powers include the island destroying Neutron Cannon with a six minute cool down time and commanding six defense satellites to reflect the Neutron Cannon that are each able to fire up to eight purple lasers at enemies and projectiles.
* **Amphibious Squid**: A squid that was mutated by radiation in episode 12 that could walk on land. It did not appear in the manga. Powers include tentacles and ink.
* **Pretender** (プリテンダー): Length: 22.3 meters. Height: 20.7 meters. Weight: 48.1 tons. An artificial machina the Self Defense Force developed with Drexler S.O.I.L. used by Eiji Kiriyama. Since it was based on the Deceive it was sometimes referred to has Deceive 4. Powers include morphing into a fighter jet, cluster missiles from behind the head, a wireless version of Nerve Crack that causes pilots to hallucinate and cause extreme pain, twin short sword, and turning the right hand into a drill after Eiji, the factor, turned into a machina human.
* **HFX-19 Jinrai** (迅雷): Length: 17.3 meters. Height: 17.3 meters. Weight: 46.35 tons. These were humanoid robots designed by the United Nations that were based on data from the original machinas although without Drexler S.O.I.L.. Powers include flight, a pistol, an assault rifle, and a broadsword.
	+ **Doumyouji's Jinrai**: Length: 18.5 meters. Height: 18.5 meters. Weight: 50.7 tons. It was a high performance command unit Jinrai used by Doumyouji Makoto. In addition to being much more agile than other Jinrai's it also possessed a second pistol although without an assault rifle.
* **Flag** (フラッグ): A one kilometer long flying ship that was secretly constructed under Juda's headquarters to transport the machinas to High Probability World. Powers include super sonic flight, docking with machinas or the Shangri La to enter space, camouflage, and erecting an energy shield.