History Characters / Pluto

* BigBad: As Abullah/Goji's benefactor, Roosevelt naturally falls into this.

* AdaptionalSympathy: In the original [[Manga/AstroBoy]] manga, he is simply a killing machine programmed not to feel any remorse for his murders or his job, and lacked any FreudianExcuse, outside of JustFollowingOrders. Here, he is a TragicMonster who hates killing deep down and feels nothing but remorse over his actions, and wishes to be put out of his misery.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Spends most of episode three alone with [[spoiler: an amnesiac Pluto. She only recognizes anything is wrong when Atom and Professor Ochanomizu arrive with the police]].

* InterruptedSuicide: Even though [[spoiler:her own grief for her [[OnlyMostlyDead supposedly dead]] brother Atom was weighing heavy on her]], she took time to prevent a bullied student from committing suicide ([[BungledSuicide although acording to herself, he likely would've landed in the suicide nets under the bridge, anyway]]) and even gave him a hungry kitty (whose mother was likely killed) to nurse back to health (probably so that his newfound resposibility for a living being would further steer him away from suicidal thoughts).

* TheEmpath: Uran has a unique ability to detect when someone is scared, whether they be human, animal, or robot, and can detect those emotions from several kilometers away.

* PetTheDog: At first, Dr. Tenma is shown to be incredibly harsh towards Atom, who he rejected once it became clear Atom's personality was very different from Tobio's, the late son that Atom had been built to resemble and replace. He calls Atom a 'failure', and the audience is also offhandedly told Atom had once been sold to a circus. However, after Atom is rendered nonfunctional after an encounter with Pluto, Dr. Tenma returns and spends 18 hours straight trying to repair Atom, and later even cries in mourning for Atom when it is uncertain Atom will ever wake up again, showing that despite his attitude in the past, Dr. Tenma has indeed grown to care for Atom.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In spades. His whole motivation is revenge for the war that destroyed his country and family, yet he has no problem harming war orphans from the same conflict.

* MisplacedRetribution: He blames the Bora Survey Group and the seven strongest robots for the destruction of his homeland. But they were all just tools of Thracia and regret what happened to Persia.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: He has a very similar face to the antagonist of Urasawa's [[Manga/{{Monster}} previous work]], Johan Liebert. Ironically, Epsilon is a devout pacifist. [[CastingGag Fittingly]], the English dub chose to cast Johan's English voice actor as Epsilon.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Hass is a devoted family man. Beyond that, Adolf loved his brother. In fact, he seems to be the only one who did.

* CopeByPretending: During his meeting with Gesicht, Atom requests his chip in order to read through his data, and in his search he sees something he does not disclose with Gesicht, instead excusing himself to the bathroom. He claims it's part of adjusting to human things but actually[[spoiler: it's to cry after having seen Gesicht's memories, more specifically the reality of his "Dreams".]]

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* NighInvulnerable: Made of Zeronium alloy and as a result is not only nearly indestructible, but also immune to {{EMP}}s and similar attacks.

* HeroicBSOD : [[spoiler: Upon awakening with Gesicht's memories his ongoing process of the information as well as these newly introduced emotions leaves him in a trance and his first actions upon awakening are to scribble the formula for an anti-neutron bomb into the walls which terrifies everyone that he's gone off the deep end as a result of hatred being introduced to his system, thankfully this is not the case.]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: As per the source material, he was originally created to replace Dr. Tenma's son Tobio, who died in a car accident. However, Atom's personality turned out to be far-flung from the real Tobio, being diligent and responsible when Tobio was not. He even liked foods that Tobio didn't, leading Tenma to reject him in time. [[spoiler: Tenma ultimately returns to try to repair Atom once he goes out of commission, and even cries in mourning of Atom during the period where it was uncertain Atom could be saved. This shows that Tenma has, on some level, grown to truly care for Atom himself as a son.]]

* RoomFullOfCrazy: [[spoiler: After his revival, he writes out the entire equation for an antimatter bomb before breaking out of the impenetrable shelter he was resting in.]]

* AdaptationNameChange: He's the series's version of the character known in other versions of Astro Boy as the Blue Knight or Blue Bon.
* AxCrazy: Brau is very clearly off his rocker, somehow, giggling, saying cryptic comments, and reveling in how scary he is.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Deconstructed. The series proposes it ''has'' to be a crapshoot or it's not a true A.I. (working off the logic that since HumansAreFlawed then for a robot to be of equal sentience it must be capable of the same mistakes). To this end, his A.I. was deliberately made as overcomplicated and unpredictable as possible via 6 billion different conflicting personalities in one mind.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:As a robot with basically billions of personalities, Goji can basically simulate just any face he has contained; nevertheless, when Tenma reveals to him the truth about his own nature, Goji has a nervous breakdown and his facial simulation programming glitches, revealing that [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gzpkegqMVU8/sddefault.jpg his actual face under the simulation is effectively featureless]].]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Despite being a supercomputer, Dr. Roosevelt didn't really understand that robots, like humans, have plenty of diverse opinions on both each other and Dr. Roosevelt's plan. [[spoiler:Something he learned the hard way.]]

* {{Irony}}: A portentous work of technology with an almost unparalleled intelligence, Dr. Roosevelt is actually incapable of free movement. [[spoiler:It's implied to have met a violent end by the hand of Brau, completely helpless and unable to defend itself from Brau's physical attack]].

* OffOnATechnicality: One of the maxims of robots is their programmed inability to kill people. Thing is, he uses the president of the United States of Thracia to do his dirty work for him. [[spoiler:Aside from that, it's implied that, when he reveals its apocalyptic plan to the president, Dr. Roosevelt may not have been bound to the laws of robotics to begin with]].

** [[spoiler:The first was when Atom came back with Gesicht's memories filled with hatred which shocked Dr. Roosevelt as he did not know one of the seven is back with revenge. An audible gasp is heard in the anime when [[Main/DeathGlare Atom stared and]] [[Main/RedEyesTakeWarning told Roosevelt not to piss him off.]]]]
** [[spoiler:The second is a subtle one when he initially thought Brau came back to accomplish his plan to off humanity. Only to realise that Brau is actually coming ''for his head''.]]

* VillainOverride: [[spoiler:Being a supercomputer, it is capable of doing this to any and all robots it so chooses, to the point where [[CantLiveWithoutYou the one being controlled dies if Roosevelt severs their connection or if Roosevelt itself were to be destroyed]].]]

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The very reason Dr. Tenma sold Atom. Atom is the splitting image of Tenma's son Tobio, but ''he is not Tobio''. Incapable of replicating the nuances of the late boy, and only serving to fuel his grief and frustration, Tenma opted to get rid of Atom.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Gesicht and Epsilon are far more humanoid in design compared to their counterparts in ''Anime/AstroBoy'', and as a result, are easier on the eyes.

--->[[spoiler: "Listen Up, I wouldn't even think about pissing me off."]]

%%* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Fits the trope to a T.

* CopeByPretending: During his meeting with Gesicht, Atom request's his chip in order to read through his data and in his search he sees something he does not disclose with the Gesicht and excuses himself to the bathroom. He claims it's part way of adusting to human things but actually[[spoiler: it's to cry after having seen Gesict's memories, more speficially the reality of his "Dreams".]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Averted at the very end thanks to Brau, who sacrifices himself to destroy the would-be ruler in the final pages of the series.]]

--->"Listen Up, I wouldn't even think about pissing me off."

* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: [[spoiler: After escaping the confined cell they were keeping him in after rebooting, Atom wanders onto the city street and upon detecting Dr. Roosevelt's surveillance system eying him he directs a warning directly at him. This causes the bear to audibly let out a gasp in the Anime.
--->"Listen Up, I wouldn't even think about pissing me off."]]

* HeroicBSOD: A gets one after he learns that [[spoiler: he committed murder]], although he quickly recovers and returns to duty.

* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler:Gesicht gets one courtesy of Ali, a hacked robot child who is hacked who shoots him with a cluster cannon that punches a gaping hole in his abdominal area.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Sahad's capacity of trasposing his consciousness to empty robot bodies is a feature that Abullah gave to his later creation Goji, and it's a telltale sign that the "Abullah" forcing Sahad to fight is no human, but rather, a robot in the form of Goji.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: When Adolf's dertermination to kill Geisicht becomes a detriment to his Robot Bigot allies he is marked for death as his brother's history would be a detriment to them if he was caught trying to kill the Detective in cold blood too soon.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When it becomes clear he can't escape being killed by the human supermacist he gives up on pretending he's a victim and admits he was going to kill Gesicht and tells him he doesn't care if he himself dies just as long as Gesicht saves his family from being killed as a result of his mistake.

* DistressedDude: He gets kidnapped by Goji and Abdulla after visiting Brau in order to have Abdulla's conscious transferred to The Bora.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the original "Strongest Robot In the World" story, Pluto is bankrolled by a deposed sultan who wants to get petty revenge on the world and whom hired a roboticist named Abullah to carry out his vision. He was not subtle in the slightest as a metaphor of Big Money corrupting ideals. In ''Pluto'', Darius is a somewhat more complex character with murky motivations (though the kernel that he bankrolled Abullah is still there).

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He was known as a dictator with numerous human and robot rights violations who was invading neighboring countries and stockpiling robots of mass destruction. How much of this is true vs. how much of it's Tracian propagada is left up to the viewer. It's clear that Persia never had weapons of mass destruction and [[spoiler:the superweapon Bora was actually designed to terraform the desert]]. Darius's approval of Pluto's murderous rampage only came after his country was leveled in front of him.
* TongueTrauma: Bites his tongue in an aparant suicide attempt.

** In the anime's Japanese dub, Hideyuki Tanaka plays him as respectful and stable, and it's very easy to believe that his tests came back clear. In the English dub, he's sarcastic and a little theatrical - he sounds happy to be a killer. The amusing thing is, the former's pretty close to the first Japanese dub for Hannibal Lecter (later dubs played him closer to Hopkins, rude and sarcastic on a whim) - and the latter is basically Creator/SungWonCho ''as'' Hopkins' Lecter.

The head of the Science Ministry in Persia during the 39th Central Asia War, Dr. Abullah and his family were killed in a bombing. A copy of his mind is loaded into a robot that he commissioned Dr. Tenma to create for him, yet did not immediately activate due to deliberating the numerous personas in its CPU. The robot, Goji, activates from assimilating Abullah's memories and emotion, driven insane and assuming he is the real Dr. Abullah as he turns the original's robotic son Sahad into Pluto to carry out his revenge while completing Bora.

* RoboticPsychopath: Putting things into perspective, Goji was already crazy to begin with even before it was kicked awake by the bias of Dr. Abullah. The Abullah personna just gave his infinite personalities focus on hatred and vengeance, compounded into a SplitPersonalityTakeover.

* ThatLiarLies: Invoked as what marks him a truly perfect artificial intelligence. The ability to lie has never been deliberately programmed into any robot, but particularly advanced ones can still develop it as a natural consequence of their decision making process. Goji's A.I. is so advanced that he's capable of lying even to himself, insisting he's the real Abdullah and therefore human.

* UnwittingPawn: He, and Persia's previous leader Darius XIV by extension, are this to the ShadowDictator of Thracia. Dr. Roosevelt. The Bora Fact-Finding Mission that Thracia sanctioned against Persia killed the real Dr. Abullah's family and eventually claimed his life too, resulting in Goji's creation and awakening. As the carrier of Dr. Abullah's hatred, it seeks to finish what its creator started and later transfers its will to Bora, which is exactly what Roosevelt wants.

** [[spoiler:The second spots a subtle one when he initially thought Brau came back to accomplish his plan to off humanity. Only to realise that Brau is actually coming ''for his head''.]]

* GentleGiant: Very big and very friendly. However, as a key participant in the 39th Central Asian Conflict, he has killed thousands of robots.
* HumbleHero: Mont-Blanc did not want a memorial dedicated to him lest it ruin any beautiful scenery.

* ThatLiarLies: Invoked as what marks him a truely perfect artificial intelligence. The ability to lie has never been deliberately programmed into any robot, but particularly advanced ones can still develop it as a natural consequence of their decision making process. Goji's A.I. is so advanced that he's capable of lying even to himself, insisting he's the real Abdullah and therefore human.

* RoboticPsychopath: Played completely straight, in fact, he is such a walking stereotype that [[spoiler:even other robotic murderers like Brau view his plans as disgusting.]]
* VillainOverride: [[spoiler: Being a supercomputer, it is capable of doing this to any and all robots it so chooses, to the point where [[CantLiveWithoutYou the one being controlled dies if Roosevelt severs their connection or if Roosevelt itself were to be destroyed]].]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: It uses its abilities to hack into Ali, the child that Gesicht bought flowers from, in order to kill him with a cluster cannon. Once the hit is complete, Roosevelt severs the connection, killing Ali and leaving no witnesses or traces to Gesicht's murder. Roosevelt later tries to do this with the President of Thracia by making him its slave, i.e. a puppet leader of the 10% of the human population that will survive the apocalypse. An escaped Brau, however, has other plans.]]

* TruerToTheText: Much like Pluto himself, Bora looks like a more realistic version of his Manga Counterpart as mostly featureless round robot.