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Character sheet for ''Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot''. Currently under construction. Since the series concluded over 10 years ago, spoilers are unmarked.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: "No pain receptors" is his most common one, though there are others.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: "No pain receptors" is his most common one, though there are others.
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* CatchPhrase: Implied as he often makes Big Guy say "For the love of Mike" whenever Rusty inadvertently jeopardizes the mission they are on. In one episode after Hunter falls victim to an alien plague, Dr. Slate is forced to take control of the Big Guy, which prompted her to say "For the love of Marry" when Rusty makes yet another screw-up. Which supports that Big Guy's catchphrase is actually Lt. Hunter's catchphrase.
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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: Implied as he often makes Big Guy say "For the love of Mike" whenever Rusty inadvertently jeopardizes the mission they are on. In one episode after Hunter falls victim to an alien plague, Dr. Slate is forced to take control of the Big Guy, which prompted her to say "For the love of Marry" when Rusty makes yet another screw-up. Which supports that Big Guy's catchphrase is actually Lt. Hunter's catchphrase.
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* KilledMidSentence: He doesn't even have time to complete Big Guy's {{Catchphrase}} before his wave motion gun blows him up.
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* KilledMidSentence: He doesn't even have time to complete Big Guy's {{Catchphrase}} CharacterCatchphrase before his wave motion gun blows him up.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: The most frequent of these in the series. "For the love of Mike." (or "For the love of Marry" when piloted by Dr. Erika Slate.) Which is implied to be the catchphrase of whoever is Big Guy's pilot.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: The most frequent of these in the series. "For the love of Mike." (or "For the love of Marry" when piloted by Dr. Erika Slate.) Which is implied to be the catchphrase of whoever is Big Guy's pilot.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: When he realizes he can't feed off of Rusty due to being a robot, he lets him go and politely asks if he knows where he can find some brains to feed on, though he still knocks Rusty away when the boy robot tries to challenge him to a fight. He also decides not to feast on Dwayne's brain due to having no personal grudge against him, though still subjects him to his mind control abilities.
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* TitleCharacter: His name's in the title.
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* TitleCharacter: His name's in the title.
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* CaptainPatriotic: This is basically the personality Hunter puts on while piloting Big Guy.
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* CaptainPatriotic: This is basically the personality Hunter puts on while piloting Big Guy. He's a lot more low-key out of it.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Played with, and justified. An easily missed early scene explains that Big Guy's targeting system is designed to accommodate siege weapons due to the sheer size of Big Guy's fire-arms. As such, when Big Guy is standing relatively still, his aim's acute. When he's on the move, Lt. Hunter has to manually adjust the aim, and the accuracy plummets.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Played with, and justified. An easily missed early scene explains that Big Guy's targeting system is designed to accommodate (immobile) siege weapons due to the sheer size of Big Guy's fire-arms. As such, when Big Guy is standing relatively still, his aim's acute. When he's on the move, Lt. Hunter has to manually adjust the aim, and the accuracy plummets.
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* {{Foil}}: The little, greenhorn actual robot serves as this to Big Guy, the giant, experienced actually-a-{{Mecha}} while the two are both committed to the defense of humanity. Even their weapons are a contrast, with Big Guy's many photo-realistic chain-guns and missiles compared to Rusty's singular and far more sci-fi "nucleoprotonic" {{Hand Blast}}s out from his index finger.
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* {{Foil}}: The little, greenhorn actual robot actual-robot serves as this to Big Guy, the giant, experienced actually-a-{{Mecha}} while the two are both committed alike in their commitment to the defense of humanity. Even their weapons are a contrast, with Big Guy's many photo-realistic chain-guns tending-to-photorealistic machine-guns (complete with ammunition belts) and missiles compared to Rusty's singular and far more sci-fi "nucleoprotonic" {{Hand Blast}}s out from his index finger.
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One of the two title characters, and marketed to the public as the first successful robotic soldier. In reality, he's a suit of PowerArmor for Lt. Dwayne Hunter.
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One of the two title characters, and marketed to the public as the first successful robotic soldier. In reality, he's a suit of PowerArmor HumongousMecha for Lt. Dwayne Hunter.
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* AmericanRobot: Subverted. The public at large, and Rusty, believes this is the case. He's just power armor.
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* AmericanRobot: Subverted. {{Subverted|}}. The public at large, and Rusty, believes this is the case. He's case, but he's actually just power armor.a HumongousMecha.
* BottomlessMagazines: {{Averted|}}, running out of ammunition does come up for Big Guy. In the "Moon Madness" episode, Hunter even has to pilot Big Guy without his weaponry because its weapons' drive was left uninstalled due to Hunter having to personally assemble Big Guy together in space while pressed for time.
* CaptainPatriotic: This is basically the personality Hunter puts on while piloting Big Guy.
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: Not long into the first episode, we learn that "the first successful robot soldier" is actually PowerArmor.
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: Not long into the first episode, we learn that "the first successful robot soldier" is actually PowerArmor.a {{Mecha}} piloted by a person.
* HumongousMecha: 30-feet of [[{{Eagleland}} pure, American steel!]] However, the fact that he is a {{Mecha}} piloted by a human being is a secret, and the public believes him to be a giant, sapient {{robot}}.
* {{Foil}}: The little, greenhorn actual robot serves as this to Big Guy, the giant, experienced actually-a-{{Mecha}} while the two are both committed to the defense of humanity. Even their weapons are a contrast, with Big Guy's many photo-realistic chain-guns and missiles compared to Rusty's singular and far more sci-fi "nucleoprotonic" {{Hand Blast}}s out from his index finger.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: While Rusy is the sidekick of the duo, he is the far more powerful of the two. Despite his childish attitude he is deceptively clever as well. The only reason he is the sidekick is because of Hunter's experience and Rusty being sent out with no training.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: While Rusy Rusty is the sidekick of the duo, he is the far more powerful of the two. Despite his childish attitude he is deceptively clever as well. The only reason he is the sidekick is because of Hunter's experience and Rusty being sent out with no training.
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* ExperiencedProtagonist: He's served long enough to earn a ChestOfMedals, and this experience ends up keeping him employed as Rusty's inexperience proved to make him insufficient for replacing Big Guy as originally planned.
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* AIIsACrapShoot: Played with. While the AI hardware is fully operational, the AI software was never completed to satisfaction due to cost-overruns and lack of available technical expertise and proper technology. This does cause problems on occasion, but strangely not because the AI is actually malevolent, just... incomplete.
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* AIIsACrapShoot: AIIsACrapshoot: Played with. While the AI hardware is fully operational, the AI software was never completed to satisfaction due to cost-overruns and lack of available technical expertise and proper technology. This does cause problems on occasion, but strangely not because the AI is actually malevolent, just... incomplete.
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* RedRightHand: Bobo's side of the body is lacking fur.
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* ButtMonkey: Ironically, and amusingly. Not only does he have an actual monkey constantly sitting on him, but the only reason he's not an outright HateSink is that his own universe hates him, and he's almost constantly subjected to pain and humiliation, most of it self-inflicted. Yet, he never learns his lesson or any humility, and keeps being a raging dick to just about everyone, which allows the viewer to laugh at him with absolutely no sense of guilt or shame.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Although rare, he ''can'' be correct about things. In the first episode he was correct to field Rusty, despite the boy robot not being ready, because the military had already decommissioned Big Guy, and nothing else even stood a chance against the MonsterOfTheWeek. Dr. Neugog wouldn't have been turned into a brain-eating man-spider hybrid if he had heeded Donovan's warning that the experimental telepathy equipment was too dangerous, and impractical to use. In addition, when the Legion was attempting a cyber-attack on Quark Industries, he might have been more willing to listen if Dr. Slate had mentioned that the Legion was jeopardizing the entire company through cyber-warfare rather than her merely stating Rusty was in danger, after Donovan had explicitly mentioned that the central computer being offline was costing the company millions of dollars ''per second.'' (He states Thousands per second, but given the size and scale of Quark, that was probably a mistake.)
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Although rare, he ''can'' be correct about things. In the first episode he was correct to field Rusty, despite the boy robot not being ready, because the military had already decommissioned Big Guy, and nothing else even stood a chance against the MonsterOfTheWeek. Dr. Neugog wouldn't have been turned into a brain-eating man-spider hybrid if he had heeded Donovan's warning that the experimental telepathy equipment was too dangerous, and impractical to use. In addition, when the Legion was attempting a cyber-attack on Quark Industries, he might have been more willing to listen if Dr. Slate had mentioned that the Legion was jeopardizing the entire company through cyber-warfare rather than her merely stating Rusty was in danger, after Donovan had explicitly mentioned that the central computer being offline was costing the company millions of dollars ''per second.'' (He states Thousands per second, but given the size and scale of Quark, that was probably a mistake.)mistake.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Ironically, and amusingly. Not only does he have an actual monkey constantly sitting on him, but the only reason he's not an outright HateSink is that his own universe hates him, and he's almost constantly subjected to pain and humiliation, most of it self-inflicted. Yet, he never learns his lesson or any humility, and keeps being a raging dick to just about everyone, which allows the viewer to laugh at him with absolutely no sense of guilt or shame.
* KarmicButtMonkey: Ironically, and amusingly. Not only does he have an actual monkey constantly sitting on him, but the only reason he's not an outright HateSink is that his own universe hates him, and he's almost constantly subjected to pain and humiliation, most of it self-inflicted. Yet, he never learns his lesson or any humility, and keeps being a raging dick to just about everyone, which allows the viewer to laugh at him with absolutely no sense of guilt or shame.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Rusty was actually Japanese in origin in the original comic.
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* ScrewPolitenesssImASenior: He constantly gets away with his crude mannerisms by the fact that he's old and cranky.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's rude and crude, but he does have the best interests of the team as a whole, and his charge in particular, at heart.
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* ScrewPolitenesssImASenior: He constantly gets away with his crude mannerisms by the fact that he's old and cranky.
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!! Mac
The most iconic and frequently on-screen member of BGY-11's pit crew.
* BrutalHonesty: He never minces his words. He will tell you exactly where you screwed up and how. He berates Rusty for falling for an easily spotted DefensiveFeintTrap and losing his bigger body, leaving him as only a head. Rusty responds by reminding him that he's still his chief mechanic, and he has to rig a make-shift body.
* GrumpyOldMan: He's a grouch and he's easily in his late 60's or early 70's.
* OldSoldier: He's in his late 60's, at the youngest, and still is in active service aboard the USS Dark Horse.
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The last of the members of the BGY-11 pit crew.
* FlatCharacter: Aside from being friendly, amiable, and apparently being a skilled mechanic and engineer, we really don't know that much about him.
* OutOfFocus: He suffers the same fate as Joan, as in he rarely gets any screen-time.
* TokenMinority: Of the entire cast, he's the only person of color. Everyone else appears Caucasian.
The most iconic and frequently on-screen member of BGY-11's pit crew.
* BrutalHonesty: He never minces his words. He will tell you exactly where you screwed up and how. He berates Rusty for falling for an easily spotted DefensiveFeintTrap and losing his bigger body, leaving him as only a head. Rusty responds by reminding him that he's still his chief mechanic, and he has to rig a make-shift body.
* GrumpyOldMan: He's a grouch and he's easily in his late 60's or early 70's.
* OldSoldier: He's in his late 60's, at the youngest, and still is in active service aboard the USS Dark Horse.
!! Garth
The last of the members of the BGY-11 pit crew.
* FlatCharacter: Aside from being friendly, amiable, and apparently being a skilled mechanic and engineer, we really don't know that much about him.
* OutOfFocus: He suffers the same fate as Joan, as in he rarely gets any screen-time.
* TokenMinority: Of the entire cast, he's the only person of color. Everyone else appears Caucasian.
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* SuperOCD: When she starts working on a project, the rest of the world just fades into the background. On several occasions, she's had ''a bomb'' ticking away right next to her head, and it doesn't even distract her in the slightest. Either she or the bomb had to be physically dragged away to save her life.
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* TheDeterminator: Give Number 4 credit, even when he's been pressed into a corner by enemies and allies turned enemies alike his resolve to survive keeps him going, cobbling together his own Mecha from spare parts in a Quark owned warehouse before attempting to nuke every immediate threat to his well being, all while stuck in a slow, unarmed body.
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* LogicalWeakness: He uses the same power packs as Rusty. As Argo is much larger than Rusty and carries more powerful weapons, he burns through his power supply much more quickly than the smaller robot.
* OneManArmy: When Rusty takes Big Guy from Po’s ship, he releases all of Po’s previously defeated opponents as a distraction. Po defeats them all.
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* SimpleYetAwesome: His PowerArmor doesn't have any built-in weapons, but its sheer strength is enough to overwhelm Big Guy hand to hand.
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* FlatCharacter: Aside from craving brains and being slightly pompous, there isn't much else to Neugog as a person. What ends up largely salvaging him is Creator/TimCurry's deliciously [[LargeHam hammy]] performance.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between him and Erika Slate. The series ends before they can [[RelationshipUpgrade hook up]].
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between her and Dwayne Hunter. The series ends before they can [[RelationshipUprade hook up]].
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between her and Dwayne Hunter. The series ends before they can [[RelationshipUprade [[RelationshipUpgrade hook up]].
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between her and Dwayne Hunter. The series ends before they can [[RelationshipUprade hook up]].
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* ShipTease: With Dwayne.
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* ShipTease: With Dr. Slate.
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* GotMeDoingIt: When she pilots Big Guy, she continues having him speak in exaggerated hammy tones and even says a modified version of his/Hunter's annoyed catch phrase. Either she was deliberately keeping up the charade or Big Guy's American pride is just so awesome it rubs off on whomever pilots him.
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* InstantExpert: Downplayed when she's forced to pilot Big Guy. Despite having no previous training, she manages to subdue the MonsterOfTheWeek. However, she's only able to do basic maneuvers, has trouble just flying, and saves the day by mothering the monster rather than destroying it.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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