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* The Iron Giant and others like it are supposed to scout for planets that can be easily conquered. A Iron Giant is sent to a planet, attacks the natives, and they fight back. If the natives can't do anything to stop it the Iron Giant contacts their creators to subsequently strip mine/enslave the natives. If the natives actually destroy an Iron Giant, the aliens leave the planet alone because the natives have demonstrated they'd take at least some losses trying to conquer the planet outright. So if the Iron Giant never comes back, the aliens won't bother with Earth.
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* The Iron Giant and others like it are supposed to scout for planets that can be easily conquered. A Iron Giant is sent to a planet, attacks the natives, and they fight back. If the natives can't do anything to stop it the Iron Giant contacts their creators to subsequently strip mine/enslave the natives. If the natives actually destroy an Iron Giant, the aliens leave the planet alone because the natives have demonstrated they'd take at least some losses trying to conquer the planet outright. So if the Iron Giant never comes back, the aliens won't bother with Earth.Earth.
[[WMG: Mansley will spend the rest of his life in prison]]
Launching an ICBM on an American town? With literally hundreds of eyewitnesses, including a three star general? Assuming he wasn't just executed, Mansley was tried and sentenced to life without parole in a federal prison.
[[WMG: Mansley will spend the rest of his life in prison]]
Launching an ICBM on an American town? With literally hundreds of eyewitnesses, including a three star general? Assuming he wasn't just executed, Mansley was tried and sentenced to life without parole in a federal prison.
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** Blue giant stars don't last more than 10 million years before they go supernova. Not even enough time for planets to form, nevermind advanced alien life capable of building such robots.
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My theory on the possible origin of the Giant and his kind: they were built by an alien civilization who had a war amongst themselves that started similar to the Cold War on Earth, but unlike in our history it escalated. The Giants were built as weapons in the war, but they followed their programming too well: they eradicated both sides of the conflict and the planet itself, then they probably took to the stars and continued inflicting their programming on other worlds.
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My theory on the possible origin of the Giant and his kind: they were built by an alien civilization who had a war amongst themselves that started similar to the Cold War on Earth, but unlike in our history it escalated. The Giants were built as weapons in the war, but they followed their programming too well: they eradicated both sides of the conflict and the planet itself, then they probably took to the stars and continued inflicting their programming on other worlds.worlds.
[[WMG: The Giant's purpose was as a scout for effortless conquest.]]
* The Iron Giant and others like it are supposed to scout for planets that can be easily conquered. A Iron Giant is sent to a planet, attacks the natives, and they fight back. If the natives can't do anything to stop it the Iron Giant contacts their creators to subsequently strip mine/enslave the natives. If the natives actually destroy an Iron Giant, the aliens leave the planet alone because the natives have demonstrated they'd take at least some losses trying to conquer the planet outright. So if the Iron Giant never comes back, the aliens won't bother with Earth.
[[WMG: The Giant's purpose was as a scout for effortless conquest.]]
* The Iron Giant and others like it are supposed to scout for planets that can be easily conquered. A Iron Giant is sent to a planet, attacks the natives, and they fight back. If the natives can't do anything to stop it the Iron Giant contacts their creators to subsequently strip mine/enslave the natives. If the natives actually destroy an Iron Giant, the aliens leave the planet alone because the natives have demonstrated they'd take at least some losses trying to conquer the planet outright. So if the Iron Giant never comes back, the aliens won't bother with Earth.
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* Doubtful. The Giant apparently has no idea where he came from or why he's on Earth when he has the bump on his head, and nothing we see after the bump vanishes indicates he remembered. What good is sending a robot ambassador to Earth if said ambassador has no idea why they're there? Plus, notice throughout the film that the Giant's defense mechanism is very easy to trigger, with the lazer-eyes incident in the junkyard when he saw Hogarth's toy gun -- the aliens who created the Giant had to have been pretty incompetent or suffering from an incomprehensible case of BlueAndOrangeMorality if they sent him to Earth for peaceful reasons.
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* Apparently, someone didn't watch the movie's opening, and also hasn't seen the Deleted Scene restored in the special edition which explicitly confirms the Giant is alien in origin.
* If the planet that the Giant and other robots destroyed in his dream in the restored Deleted Scene was their creators' original homeworld rather than just a world they attacked, then this might be true.
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In the year 3000 The Cold war was still raging and The Soviet Union was still in power. The American race build the Iron Giants to change the outcome of the war against The Soviet Communists, but the war erupted into an apocalypses that destroys the planet. But 1 American might halved send one of the giants to travel back in time in order to prevent this from happening by sending him to 1000 years before the apocolypic war would happened and make the Soviet Union collapse for good. But apparently the Giant went way to further back in the year 1957, and crashed in Maine. And he later befriended Hogarth Hughes.
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In the year 3000 The Cold war was still raging and The Soviet Union was still in power. The American race build the Iron Giants to change the outcome of the war against The Soviet Communists, but the war erupted into an apocalypses that destroys the planet. But 1 American might halved send one of the giants to travel back in time in order to prevent this from happening by sending him to 1000 years before the apocolypic war would happened and make the Soviet Union collapse for good. But apparently the Giant went way to further back in the year 1957, and crashed in Maine. And he later befriended Hogarth Hughes.Hughes.
* In the extra scene in the Signature Edition, if you consider it canon, the futuristic world that gets destroyed in the Giant's dream is clearly an alien world with a giant red moon and lots of new neighboring bodies. So unless humanity did some major {{terraform}}ing-style rearranging of their solar system on a celestial scale while also juggling the Cold War...
[[WMG: The Giant was built for an alien ShadowArchetype of the Cold War]]
My theory on the possible origin of the Giant and his kind: they were built by an alien civilization who had a war amongst themselves that started similar to the Cold War on Earth, but unlike in our history it escalated. The Giants were built as weapons in the war, but they followed their programming too well: they eradicated both sides of the conflict and the planet itself, then they probably took to the stars and continued inflicting their programming on other worlds.
* In the extra scene in the Signature Edition, if you consider it canon, the futuristic world that gets destroyed in the Giant's dream is clearly an alien world with a giant red moon and lots of new neighboring bodies. So unless humanity did some major {{terraform}}ing-style rearranging of their solar system on a celestial scale while also juggling the Cold War...
[[WMG: The Giant was built for an alien ShadowArchetype of the Cold War]]
My theory on the possible origin of the Giant and his kind: they were built by an alien civilization who had a war amongst themselves that started similar to the Cold War on Earth, but unlike in our history it escalated. The Giants were built as weapons in the war, but they followed their programming too well: they eradicated both sides of the conflict and the planet itself, then they probably took to the stars and continued inflicting their programming on other worlds.
