While it, like the Gatchaman example above, has a glass cover over it that can, presumably, be flipped up with relative ease, Mikoto never bothers to do so, instead always opting to smash her fist right down through it.

In GaoGaiGar, Final Fusion is initiated with one of these.

It ends with Belldandy (whose personality is markedly different from Urd's) pushing the button.

Skuld finally writes 'push it' to prevent her sister from using it.

Lampshaded in a strip of Ah! My Goddess where Skuld writes under a Big Red Button 'don't push.' Urd wants to push it because it's stated not to do so.

Neon Genesis Evangelion has one of these, and it might be one of the more realistic things in the series in that it's an emergency shutdown switch for the Eva.

To emphasize that, the button has a glass cover that retracts when the missile system is armed, but sometimes Joe doesn't wait and punches through it to push the button.

In Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, the firing button for the God Phoenix's bird missiles is big and red and Condor Joe, being the team's gunner, just loves to push it.

It may also be there to confuse people infiltrating the secret base and it will immediately cause the pusher of the button to fall into a trap. Initiating the Self-Destruct Sequence, activating the Ejection Seat, using the Nitro Boost, sounding the Red Alert, and launching a missile, rocket, or air strike. There are several common things which pushing the big red button may do, including It is not, however, found in real-world examples of certain weapons. In nuclear reactors, this is referred to as a SCRAM Switch (quite the meaningful name, due to the incredibly strong urge to run like hell away from the malfunctioning nuclear reactor). It is always an emergency shutdown or power disconnect, intended to save the life of the operator or bystanders by stopping the machine in a big hurry.

Of course, if you don't tell them about it, they might walk right up to it and discover by experimentation the answer to the question ' What Does This Button Do?'Īlmost every piece of factory equipment or free-standing power tool sold in the real world has an actual Big Red Button.

Push the red button