Basic Trope: Prototype mechas (and other similar super weapons) are more powerful than their mass-produced counterparts. * Straight: Troperion Zero, the prototype used for the creation of the Troperion Mk. I, exceeds the specifications and has better equipment than its MP counterpart. * Exaggerated: Troperion Zero is capable of leveling entire armies with alarming ease, while the Troperion Mk. I units are mostly there just to explode by the dozen whenever the mecha of the week shows up. * Justified: Troperion Zero is an ancient alien starfighter from which reverse enginereed technology has been used to create the Mk. I units. A lot of its technology still is too advanced (or expensive) to be replicated, and a lot more remains beyond human understanding. * MP units are cloned/