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As it just so happens, Tenma’s son, Toby, has inherited his extraordinary intelligence, and is absolutely fascinated by robots and the science behind them. After breezing through a pop quiz at school and receiving permission to leave early as a result, Toby learns from a brief chat with his father’s hologram that he won’t be able to take him to the Symposium, because it turns out he’s needed at the unveiling of the Peacekeeper, a new military robot to be shown to the President Stone later that day. Naturally, despite being ordered to go home, Toby hacks into the robot in charge of driving the car and immediately goes along to see it with him.
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As it just so happens, Tenma’s son, Toby, has inherited his extraordinary intelligence, and is absolutely fascinated by robots and the science behind them. After breezing through a pop quiz at school and receiving permission to leave early as a result, Toby learns from a brief chat with his father’s hologram that he won’t be able to take him to the Symposium, because it turns out he’s needed at the unveiling of the Peacekeeper, a new military robot to be shown to the President Stone later that day. Naturally, despite being ordered to go home, Toby hacks into the robot in charge of driving the car and immediately goes along to see it with him.
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* TelescopingRobot: The fighting robot called "Little Stinker", which starts out smaller than Astro, then unfolds into something much larger and more threatening.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: President Stone seems like a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Just hear him about going at war against the Surface; in fact, that part alone is a huge DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything moment.
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* NuclearPhysicsGoof: One researcher says the blue energy sphere is more powerful than nuclear energy. Unfortunately, YouFailPhysicsForever. A watt is a watt, no matter what the source. This is like saying a pound of steel weighs more than a pound of feathers. It's all the same, unless you specify the basis for your comparison (such as "...more watts than X" or "...a higher voltage than Y.")
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* TheMessiah: Astro, right down to [[spoiler:communing with unfortunates, HeroicSacrifice and resurrection by Zog]].
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* ThreeLawsOfRobotics: Every robot must obey them, [[spoiler:save Zog, who existed 50 years before the rules were mandatory in every robot.]] Astro is an exception as well, though he does assert that he doesn't ''want'' to hurt anyone. [[spoiler:Later, he moves into his final confrontation with Peacekeeper because he wants to -- he could easily walk away, and almost did, thus violating the law regarding allowing humans to come to harm. It's only Widget's distress that brings him back to fight.]] He's also more than capable of disobeying a human's orders.
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* ThreeLawsOfRobotics: Every robot must obey them, [[spoiler:save Zog, who existed 50 years before the rules were mandatory in every robot.]] Astro is an exception as well, though he does assert that he doesn't ''want'' to hurt anyone. [[spoiler:Later, he moves into his final confrontation with Peacekeeper because he wants to -- he could easily walk away, and almost did, thus violating the law regarding allowing humans to come to harm. It's only Widget's distress that brings him back to fight.]] He's also more than capable of disobeying a human's orders. orders.
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* AdaptiveArmor: The Red Energy-infused Peacekeeper. To the point where it adapts ''[[spoiler: President Stone]].'' [[spoiler: Don't worry, he's fine. He/it then uses a giant gunship as it's arm cannon and whole buildings as armor]].
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* GoneHorriblyRight: The President wants to put the evil red orb inside the war machine to make it more aggressive and violent. Well, it ''worked''...
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[[caption-width-right:202:Fitting in isn't always easy.]]
'''''Astro Boy''''' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI movie]] produced by Imagi Animation Studios, released in October 2009. Based on the manga ''Manga/AstroBoy''.
In the future, there exists a city in the sky, hovering over the garbage-ridden surface of the Earth. Metro City is a utopia in which robots have been created to take over many of the tasks once done by humans, from simple shopping trips to the dirty work that no one wants to do. Their creator is none other than the brilliant Doctor Tenma, the head of the Ministry of Science.
As it just so happens, Tenma’s son, Toby, has inherited his extraordinary intelligence, and is absolutely fascinated by robots and the science behind them. After breezing through a pop quiz at school and receiving permission to leave early as a result, Toby learns from a brief chat with his father’s hologram that he won’t be able to take him to the Symposium, because it turns out he’s needed at the unveiling of the Peacekeeper, a new military robot to be shown to the President Stone later that day. Naturally, despite being ordered to go home, Toby hacks into the robot in charge of driving the car and immediately goes along to see it with him.
From there, things take a turn for the worse. There are two newly discovered cores capable of powering a robot; a blue, positive one, and the extremely unstable red one that resulted as a side effect from the creation of the first. While initially the blue one had been intended for the robot, President Stone, despite having little to no knowledge in the field, decides to use the red one instead. Disaster breaks loose as the robot goes berserk, and in an effort to seal it in behind a glass wall, Toby gets trapped inside with it. When the robot attempts to break free, he is caught in the explosion and completely vaporized.
The experience shatters Tenma, who soon gets to work building a robotic replacement powered by the blue core, giving it all the memories of his deceased son in an effort to return things to normal. In the beginning, it seems as though the robot is a perfect copy, but Tenma starts noticing differences, and rejects him. (There's an implication that the robot isn't as different from Toby as Tenma thinks, but rather he's seeing a side of his son he never saw before, because he's giving the replacement the attention he was always too busy to give the original.) As if the sudden rejection by his father weren’t enough, it isn’t long before President Stone finds out that Astro is in possession of the blue core, and resolves to hunt him down and retrieve it for use in the Peacekeeper. Astro finds himself alone in a search for his destiny, the place in the world where he belongs. At the same time, the president is hot on his tracks for the core that powers him, and will stop at nothing to get re-elected by the public.
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!!The 2009 film provides examples of, in addition to tropes inherited from the manga:
* AdaptiveArmor: The Red Energy-infused Peacekeeper. To the point where it adapts ''[[spoiler: President Stone]].'' [[spoiler: Don't worry, he's fine. He/it then uses a giant gunship as it's arm cannon and whole buildings as armor]].
* AdultFear: The death of a child. Inverted with Child Fear, the fear of rejection by a parent.
* AllStarCast: Nathan Lane, Charlize Theron, Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, and SamuelLJackson.
* AmusingInjuries: Astro is extraordinarily prone to crashing through signs, buildings, streets....
* AndTheAdventureContinues
* ArmiesAreEvil: The creators saw fit to [[{{Anvilicious}} incessantly hammer you over the head]] with this.
* BadassAdorable: Astro
* BadassBoast: "I'm old school!"
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: After Astro pulls a [[spoiler:heroic sacrifice, he is covered in (burn?) marks and his right arm is ripped at the shoulder. But then Zog revives him and he's all cleaned up.]]
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The FantasticRacism between robots and humans is almost entirely absent from the final film. As one review put it, it's nothing more than a "toothless" message about friendship. Probably most notable is how the Robot Revolutionary Front is presented as comic relief, while the original manga... well... had characters like the [[KnightTemplar Blue Knight]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: Two-thirds of the Robot Revolutionary Front.
* CallItKarma: [[spoiler: Astro brought Zog to life with the Blue Core energy; Zog repaid the favor.]]
* CameBackWrong / DamagedSoul: Toby/Astro. The memories were there, but his personality was different enough to cause Tenma to [[ParentalAbandonment reject him]].
* CatchPhrase: Onward and upward!
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning, Astro learns he can tunnel through solid rock. later, when he is up against the [[spoiler:Peacekeeper/Stone]] he gets smushed into the ground, only to come up between the bad guys legs
* TheChewToy: When Astro flies around Metro City, Mustache/Shunsaku Ban ''will'' meet with some random misfortune as Astro passes.
* ChildProdigy: Toby. Astro is still intelligent, as he shows when he resolves the equation Tenma showed him; he just acts and thinks like his age: playful and distracted. (There's an implication that, although Tenma thinks he CameBackWrong, Toby was the same; it's just Tenma never noticed because he was always too busy to spend time with him.)
* CompositeCharacter: Inverted. While Dr. Tenma turns evil in other versions, in this version he stays good and [[CanonForeigner President Stone]] fills the role that Evil!Tenma normally does.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: President Stone in spades. For example, when Tenma expresses how devastated he was when his son died, Stone replies, "I know. ''I hate losing, too.''"
* ComingOutStory: Astro Boy's secret of being a robot resembles most Coming Out Stories, especially the nighttime scene when he almost "comes out" to Cora.
* CreatorCameo: Osama Tezuka is animated in the film with glasses and nicehat.
* CreatorKiller: The movie's spectacular lack of success took down Imagi Animation Studios.
* DeadHatShot: When [[spoiler:Toby is vaporised by the out-of-control military robot, there's not a trace left of him -- except his hat]].
* DeadpanSnarker
** Nearly everything Elefun, of all people, says to Stone.
** Cora as well.
-->'''Cora:''' ''(when Astro gives his fetid pizza slice to another boy)'' Don't be so nice. You're going starve to death -- or be the sole survivor.
* DeathGlare
** Tenma's a master. Nearly always against Stone, though an impressive one is unleashed on Orrin early on.
** Astro tries it once or twice, but he's not up to his father's level yet.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Cora. She still misses her parents, however]].
* DieOrFly: Astro gains access to his various abilities when he really needs them. Often coincides with CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Stone is ''way'' too enamored of the Red Core. [[spoiler:Experience fails to teach him that he can't control it.]]
* ExpressiveMask: The FacelessGoons helmets have computer screens to indicate when they are surprised (!), confused (?), or have emptied their bowels.
* FloatingContinent: Arguably subverted.
* GeneralRipper: President Stone
* GenreSavvy: One of the faceless mooks drops his weapons and runs for it in the few seconds before [[spoiler:the Peacekeeper starts its rampage]].
* GentleGiant: Zog, but don't push him.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: The robot revolutionaries, during Astro's first encounter with them.
* GoldfishPoopGang: The robot revolutionaries. They're about as capable as a deflated tire -- and as funny as one, too.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The red and blue cores.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Astro during his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Widget and Sludge, who also invoke SiblingSenioritySquabble.
* {{Headdesk}}: Trash Can's reaction after his numerous failed attempts to tell the orphans that Astro is a robot. He even writes "HE'S A ROBOT" in the dirt with an arrow pointed right at Astro, unfortunately for him, the only orphan present at the time happened to be the illiterate one.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:''Cruelly'' subverted: Toby dies a ''very'' family-unfriendly death.]]
* InkSuitActor: Hamegg is SO Nathan Lane, right down to the eyebrow movement.
* IsThisThingOn
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Toby.]] Unlike the original version, this character gets a fair amount of screen time before [[spoiler:he is vaporized by the Peacekeeper.]]
* LampshadeHanging: The window cleaner robots note Astro/Toby's unusual hairstyle; he explains it off as "gel". Also a meta example of ProductPlacement: a hair-gel company did an ad campaign in which kids used its products to get the "Astro Boy look" to tie in with the film. The first editions of the DVD came with rebate coupons for said hair gel.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Tenma's reaction to his son's death.
* MarilynManeuver: When Metro City starts to fall, a woman's dress flies up.
* MeaningfulEcho: The RRF on Astro's name, and then the kids' reaction to it.
* TheMessiah: Astro, right down to [[spoiler:communing with unfortunates, HeroicSacrifice and resurrection by Zog]].
* MissingMom
** Toby's mother is never mentioned.
** There's a lot of this going around; all of the kids with Hamegg are stated to be orphans, though dialog implies that Widget and Sludge may have been actively kicked out while Zane was apparently abandoned at a young age. [[spoiler: Averted with runaway Cora, whose parents are shown to have been looking for her and are delighted to find her again.]]
* MostWritersAreAdults: Inverted; most child characters look and behave much ''younger'' than their given age. (Astro/Toby is said to be thirteen and more closely resembles a nine-year-old; Cora is claimed to be seventeen but comes off as perhaps fifteen; the twins are said to be nine but seem more like six or seven-year-olds. Zane, on the other hand, is fourteen and seems accurate.) Of course, this is long-term in ''Astro Boy'' -- the original was claimed to be nine and looks six.
* MythologyGag
** The bit where Astro drills through Mount Sophia is a visual echo of a bit from the 1963 TV series title sequence.
** One of the scientists that works with Dr. Tenma and Dr. Elefun looks quite a bit like Tezuka-as-drawn-by-Tezuka, including his trademark hat. Tezuka's signature pig-mushroom doodle appears on a billboard that's in the background of several scenes.
** Several ReusedCharacterDesign characters turn up in bit roles, most noticeably Mr. Mustache/Shunsaku Ban as Toby's teacher.
** Elefun plugging the Blue Core line into the Peacekeeper looks remarkably like him reattaching the cable during Astro's activation in the 2003 series.
** Astro's movements on being activated closely resemble his first attempts to walk in the 1980 series. And when he takes his first steps, Astro makes the same squeaking sounds he does in the 60s anime.
** The blueprints to build Astro are actual drawings from the Manga.
** ClothingDamage results in Astro being dressed in only his original 50s UnderwearOfPower by the time the final battle is done.
** [[spoiler:Butt-mounted machine guns.]] Even Astro doesn't get it.
* NeverSayDie: Averted. Tenma says to Stone that if he wants the core, he'll have to ''kill'' him.
* NeverTrustATrailer
** All over the place. [[spoiler:The sun-like alien that appears in two shots of the trailer only shows up at the end of the film, and has nothing to do with the story at all!]]
** Not to mention, the trailer barely shows the movie for what it is (a heart-warming tale of a robot boy finding his place in the world) and decides to make it look like a mindless comedy/action film. Unless you find the Japanese trailer that is.
* NuclearPhysicsGoof: One researcher says the blue energy sphere is more powerful than nuclear energy. Unfortunately, YouFailPhysicsForever. A watt is a watt, no matter what the source. This is like saying a pound of steel weighs more than a pound of feathers. It's all the same, unless you specify the basis for your comparison (such as "...more watts than X" or "...a higher voltage than Y.")
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Tenma becomes one, ultimately willing to sacrifice himself to the military (alongside Elefun) to protect his boy.]]
* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler:Astro Boy sacrifices his Blue Core energy to save the world.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Astro is literally powered by this.
* PresidentEvil: President Stone, an exaggerated pastiche of [[Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin General Hein]].
* PuppyDogEyes
** When Toby realizes he is in danger of dying.
** When Astro/Toby realizes that Stone has ordered firing missiles at him, as well as when Tenma reveals his true nature. (Actually, in general Astro seems to have mastered this as thoroughly as Tenma has mastered the DeathGlare.)
** Orrin manages a surprisingly effective version when watching Astro leave the Tenma household, though only the audience gets to see it.
* TheQuietOne: Zog, and any time he actually speaks he says automatically cool - it's Samuel L. Jackson.
* RedOniBlueOni: The negative and positive energy cores, respectively. Force-fed to the audience very early in the film as to which is good and which is evil.
* RentAZilla: The [[spoiler:giant Peacekeeper robot]] in the finale.
* ReplacementGoldfish: True to its source material.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Trash Can, the pet robot dog of Hamegg's band of orphans. Also doubles as UglyCute because he's, ya know, a trash can.
* RobotBuddy: Played straight and cruelly subverted with the whole scrap heap sequence.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: The remaining third of the Robot Revolutionary Front.
-->"I'm Mike the Fridge. ''({{beat}})'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin I'm the fridge.]]"
* ShoutOut: ''Lots.''
** The Peacekeeper near the beginning makes ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' noise.
** President Stone seems like an evil version of [[Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin General Hein]].
** The Alien in the end is actually an Artificial Sun from another Tezuka Manga and appears in the ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'' game.
** The flashlight in the briefcase is a reference to ''Film/PulpFiction''.
** The Robot Revolutionaries attempt to make the "Franchise/{{Transformers}}" sound.
** President Stone's campaign banner: "We Don't Need Change!" Subtle.
** Astro gets [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} attached to strings]] several times.
** When Astro first visits the surface, many derelict robots approach him and eventually end up chanting "One of us! ''[[Film/{{Freaks}} One of us!]]''"
** Astro's interaction with Trashcan: [[Series/{{Lassie}} What is it, boy? Is someone in trouble?]]
* SiblingSenioritySquabble: "I'm older." "By ninety seconds!"
* SkunkStripe: Cora
* ThoseTwoGuys: The windowcleaner bots, who are scared into [[UrineTrouble a bit of oil splatter]] by Astro's passage.
* ThreeLawsOfRobotics: Every robot must obey them, [[spoiler:save Zog, who existed 50 years before the rules were mandatory in every robot.]] Astro is an exception as well, though he does assert that he doesn't ''want'' to hurt anyone. [[spoiler:Later, he moves into his final confrontation with Peacekeeper because he wants to -- he could easily walk away, and almost did, thus violating the law regarding allowing humans to come to harm. It's only Widget's distress that brings him back to fight.]] He's also more than capable of disobeying a human's orders.
* WhoIsDriving: Trash Can is driving.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Cora (actually blue-black with purple SkunkStripe[=s=]).
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[[caption-width-right:202:Fitting in isn't always easy.]]
'''''Astro Boy''''' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI movie]] produced by Imagi Animation Studios, released in October 2009. Based on the manga ''Manga/AstroBoy''.
In the future, there exists a city in the sky, hovering over the garbage-ridden surface of the Earth. Metro City is a utopia in which robots have been created to take over many of the tasks once done by humans, from simple shopping trips to the dirty work that no one wants to do. Their creator is none other than the brilliant Doctor Tenma, the head of the Ministry of Science.
As it just so happens, Tenma’s son, Toby, has inherited his extraordinary intelligence, and is absolutely fascinated by robots and the science behind them. After breezing through a pop quiz at school and receiving permission to leave early as a result, Toby learns from a brief chat with his father’s hologram that he won’t be able to take him to the Symposium, because it turns out he’s needed at the unveiling of the Peacekeeper, a new military robot to be shown to the President Stone later that day. Naturally, despite being ordered to go home, Toby hacks into the robot in charge of driving the car and immediately goes along to see it with him.
From there, things take a turn for the worse. There are two newly discovered cores capable of powering a robot; a blue, positive one, and the extremely unstable red one that resulted as a side effect from the creation of the first. While initially the blue one had been intended for the robot, President Stone, despite having little to no knowledge in the field, decides to use the red one instead. Disaster breaks loose as the robot goes berserk, and in an effort to seal it in behind a glass wall, Toby gets trapped inside with it. When the robot attempts to break free, he is caught in the explosion and completely vaporized.
The experience shatters Tenma, who soon gets to work building a robotic replacement powered by the blue core, giving it all the memories of his deceased son in an effort to return things to normal. In the beginning, it seems as though the robot is a perfect copy, but Tenma starts noticing differences, and rejects him. (There's an implication that the robot isn't as different from Toby as Tenma thinks, but rather he's seeing a side of his son he never saw before, because he's giving the replacement the attention he was always too busy to give the original.) As if the sudden rejection by his father weren’t enough, it isn’t long before President Stone finds out that Astro is in possession of the blue core, and resolves to hunt him down and retrieve it for use in the Peacekeeper. Astro finds himself alone in a search for his destiny, the place in the world where he belongs. At the same time, the president is hot on his tracks for the core that powers him, and will stop at nothing to get re-elected by the public.
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!!The 2009 film provides examples of, in addition to tropes inherited from the manga:
* AdaptiveArmor: The Red Energy-infused Peacekeeper. To the point where it adapts ''[[spoiler: President Stone]].'' [[spoiler: Don't worry, he's fine. He/it then uses a giant gunship as it's arm cannon and whole buildings as armor]].
* AdultFear: The death of a child. Inverted with Child Fear, the fear of rejection by a parent.
* AllStarCast: Nathan Lane, Charlize Theron, Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, and SamuelLJackson.
* AmusingInjuries: Astro is extraordinarily prone to crashing through signs, buildings, streets....
* AndTheAdventureContinues
* ArmiesAreEvil: The creators saw fit to [[{{Anvilicious}} incessantly hammer you over the head]] with this.
* BadassAdorable: Astro
* BadassBoast: "I'm old school!"
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: After Astro pulls a [[spoiler:heroic sacrifice, he is covered in (burn?) marks and his right arm is ripped at the shoulder. But then Zog revives him and he's all cleaned up.]]
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The FantasticRacism between robots and humans is almost entirely absent from the final film. As one review put it, it's nothing more than a "toothless" message about friendship. Probably most notable is how the Robot Revolutionary Front is presented as comic relief, while the original manga... well... had characters like the [[KnightTemplar Blue Knight]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: Two-thirds of the Robot Revolutionary Front.
* CallItKarma: [[spoiler: Astro brought Zog to life with the Blue Core energy; Zog repaid the favor.]]
* CameBackWrong / DamagedSoul: Toby/Astro. The memories were there, but his personality was different enough to cause Tenma to [[ParentalAbandonment reject him]].
* CatchPhrase: Onward and upward!
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning, Astro learns he can tunnel through solid rock. later, when he is up against the [[spoiler:Peacekeeper/Stone]] he gets smushed into the ground, only to come up between the bad guys legs
* TheChewToy: When Astro flies around Metro City, Mustache/Shunsaku Ban ''will'' meet with some random misfortune as Astro passes.
* ChildProdigy: Toby. Astro is still intelligent, as he shows when he resolves the equation Tenma showed him; he just acts and thinks like his age: playful and distracted. (There's an implication that, although Tenma thinks he CameBackWrong, Toby was the same; it's just Tenma never noticed because he was always too busy to spend time with him.)
* CompositeCharacter: Inverted. While Dr. Tenma turns evil in other versions, in this version he stays good and [[CanonForeigner President Stone]] fills the role that Evil!Tenma normally does.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: President Stone in spades. For example, when Tenma expresses how devastated he was when his son died, Stone replies, "I know. ''I hate losing, too.''"
* ComingOutStory: Astro Boy's secret of being a robot resembles most Coming Out Stories, especially the nighttime scene when he almost "comes out" to Cora.
* CreatorCameo: Osama Tezuka is animated in the film with glasses and nicehat.
* CreatorKiller: The movie's spectacular lack of success took down Imagi Animation Studios.
* DeadHatShot: When [[spoiler:Toby is vaporised by the out-of-control military robot, there's not a trace left of him -- except his hat]].
* DeadpanSnarker
** Nearly everything Elefun, of all people, says to Stone.
** Cora as well.
-->'''Cora:''' ''(when Astro gives his fetid pizza slice to another boy)'' Don't be so nice. You're going starve to death -- or be the sole survivor.
* DeathGlare
** Tenma's a master. Nearly always against Stone, though an impressive one is unleashed on Orrin early on.
** Astro tries it once or twice, but he's not up to his father's level yet.
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Cora. She still misses her parents, however]].
* DieOrFly: Astro gains access to his various abilities when he really needs them. Often coincides with CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Stone is ''way'' too enamored of the Red Core. [[spoiler:Experience fails to teach him that he can't control it.]]
* ExpressiveMask: The FacelessGoons helmets have computer screens to indicate when they are surprised (!), confused (?), or have emptied their bowels.
* FloatingContinent: Arguably subverted.
* GeneralRipper: President Stone
* GenreSavvy: One of the faceless mooks drops his weapons and runs for it in the few seconds before [[spoiler:the Peacekeeper starts its rampage]].
* GentleGiant: Zog, but don't push him.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: The robot revolutionaries, during Astro's first encounter with them.
* GoldfishPoopGang: The robot revolutionaries. They're about as capable as a deflated tire -- and as funny as one, too.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The red and blue cores.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Astro during his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Widget and Sludge, who also invoke SiblingSenioritySquabble.
* {{Headdesk}}: Trash Can's reaction after his numerous failed attempts to tell the orphans that Astro is a robot. He even writes "HE'S A ROBOT" in the dirt with an arrow pointed right at Astro, unfortunately for him, the only orphan present at the time happened to be the illiterate one.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:''Cruelly'' subverted: Toby dies a ''very'' family-unfriendly death.]]
* InkSuitActor: Hamegg is SO Nathan Lane, right down to the eyebrow movement.
* IsThisThingOn
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Toby.]] Unlike the original version, this character gets a fair amount of screen time before [[spoiler:he is vaporized by the Peacekeeper.]]
* LampshadeHanging: The window cleaner robots note Astro/Toby's unusual hairstyle; he explains it off as "gel". Also a meta example of ProductPlacement: a hair-gel company did an ad campaign in which kids used its products to get the "Astro Boy look" to tie in with the film. The first editions of the DVD came with rebate coupons for said hair gel.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Tenma's reaction to his son's death.
* MarilynManeuver: When Metro City starts to fall, a woman's dress flies up.
* MeaningfulEcho: The RRF on Astro's name, and then the kids' reaction to it.
* TheMessiah: Astro, right down to [[spoiler:communing with unfortunates, HeroicSacrifice and resurrection by Zog]].
* MissingMom
** Toby's mother is never mentioned.
** There's a lot of this going around; all of the kids with Hamegg are stated to be orphans, though dialog implies that Widget and Sludge may have been actively kicked out while Zane was apparently abandoned at a young age. [[spoiler: Averted with runaway Cora, whose parents are shown to have been looking for her and are delighted to find her again.]]
* MostWritersAreAdults: Inverted; most child characters look and behave much ''younger'' than their given age. (Astro/Toby is said to be thirteen and more closely resembles a nine-year-old; Cora is claimed to be seventeen but comes off as perhaps fifteen; the twins are said to be nine but seem more like six or seven-year-olds. Zane, on the other hand, is fourteen and seems accurate.) Of course, this is long-term in ''Astro Boy'' -- the original was claimed to be nine and looks six.
* MythologyGag
** The bit where Astro drills through Mount Sophia is a visual echo of a bit from the 1963 TV series title sequence.
** One of the scientists that works with Dr. Tenma and Dr. Elefun looks quite a bit like Tezuka-as-drawn-by-Tezuka, including his trademark hat. Tezuka's signature pig-mushroom doodle appears on a billboard that's in the background of several scenes.
** Several ReusedCharacterDesign characters turn up in bit roles, most noticeably Mr. Mustache/Shunsaku Ban as Toby's teacher.
** Elefun plugging the Blue Core line into the Peacekeeper looks remarkably like him reattaching the cable during Astro's activation in the 2003 series.
** Astro's movements on being activated closely resemble his first attempts to walk in the 1980 series. And when he takes his first steps, Astro makes the same squeaking sounds he does in the 60s anime.
** The blueprints to build Astro are actual drawings from the Manga.
** ClothingDamage results in Astro being dressed in only his original 50s UnderwearOfPower by the time the final battle is done.
** [[spoiler:Butt-mounted machine guns.]] Even Astro doesn't get it.
* NeverSayDie: Averted. Tenma says to Stone that if he wants the core, he'll have to ''kill'' him.
* NeverTrustATrailer
** All over the place. [[spoiler:The sun-like alien that appears in two shots of the trailer only shows up at the end of the film, and has nothing to do with the story at all!]]
** Not to mention, the trailer barely shows the movie for what it is (a heart-warming tale of a robot boy finding his place in the world) and decides to make it look like a mindless comedy/action film. Unless you find the Japanese trailer that is.
* NuclearPhysicsGoof: One researcher says the blue energy sphere is more powerful than nuclear energy. Unfortunately, YouFailPhysicsForever. A watt is a watt, no matter what the source. This is like saying a pound of steel weighs more than a pound of feathers. It's all the same, unless you specify the basis for your comparison (such as "...more watts than X" or "...a higher voltage than Y.")
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Tenma becomes one, ultimately willing to sacrifice himself to the military (alongside Elefun) to protect his boy.]]
* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler:Astro Boy sacrifices his Blue Core energy to save the world.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Astro is literally powered by this.
* PresidentEvil: President Stone, an exaggerated pastiche of [[Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin General Hein]].
* PuppyDogEyes
** When Toby realizes he is in danger of dying.
** When Astro/Toby realizes that Stone has ordered firing missiles at him, as well as when Tenma reveals his true nature. (Actually, in general Astro seems to have mastered this as thoroughly as Tenma has mastered the DeathGlare.)
** Orrin manages a surprisingly effective version when watching Astro leave the Tenma household, though only the audience gets to see it.
* TheQuietOne: Zog, and any time he actually speaks he says automatically cool - it's Samuel L. Jackson.
* RedOniBlueOni: The negative and positive energy cores, respectively. Force-fed to the audience very early in the film as to which is good and which is evil.
* RentAZilla: The [[spoiler:giant Peacekeeper robot]] in the finale.
* ReplacementGoldfish: True to its source material.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Trash Can, the pet robot dog of Hamegg's band of orphans. Also doubles as UglyCute because he's, ya know, a trash can.
* RobotBuddy: Played straight and cruelly subverted with the whole scrap heap sequence.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: The remaining third of the Robot Revolutionary Front.
-->"I'm Mike the Fridge. ''({{beat}})'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin I'm the fridge.]]"
* ShoutOut: ''Lots.''
** The Peacekeeper near the beginning makes ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' noise.
** President Stone seems like an evil version of [[Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin General Hein]].
** The Alien in the end is actually an Artificial Sun from another Tezuka Manga and appears in the ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'' game.
** The flashlight in the briefcase is a reference to ''Film/PulpFiction''.
** The Robot Revolutionaries attempt to make the "Franchise/{{Transformers}}" sound.
** President Stone's campaign banner: "We Don't Need Change!" Subtle.
** Astro gets [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} attached to strings]] several times.
** When Astro first visits the surface, many derelict robots approach him and eventually end up chanting "One of us! ''[[Film/{{Freaks}} One of us!]]''"
** Astro's interaction with Trashcan: [[Series/{{Lassie}} What is it, boy? Is someone in trouble?]]
* SiblingSenioritySquabble: "I'm older." "By ninety seconds!"
* SkunkStripe: Cora
* ThoseTwoGuys: The windowcleaner bots, who are scared into [[UrineTrouble a bit of oil splatter]] by Astro's passage.
* ThreeLawsOfRobotics: Every robot must obey them, [[spoiler:save Zog, who existed 50 years before the rules were mandatory in every robot.]] Astro is an exception as well, though he does assert that he doesn't ''want'' to hurt anyone. [[spoiler:Later, he moves into his final confrontation with Peacekeeper because he wants to -- he could easily walk away, and almost did, thus violating the law regarding allowing humans to come to harm. It's only Widget's distress that brings him back to fight.]] He's also more than capable of disobeying a human's orders.
* WhoIsDriving: Trash Can is driving.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Cora (actually blue-black with purple SkunkStripe[=s=]).
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