History WesternAnimation / AstroBoy

* AdaptiveArmor: The Red Energy-infused Peacekeeper. To the point where it adapts [[spoiler:''President Stone''. Don't worry, he's fine. He/it then uses a giant gunship as its arm cannon and whole buildings as armor]].

* AmusingInjuries: Astro is extraordinarily prone to crashing through signs, buildings, streets....

* 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.)

** [[spoiler:Butt-mounted machine guns.]] Even Astro doesn't get it.

** 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!]]

* TelescopingRobot: The fighting robot called "Little Stinker", which starts out smaller than Astro, then unfolds into something much larger and more threatening.

* 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.

* TooDumbToLive: Toby is constantly warned that the demonstration is dangerous, which is why his father is mad that he decided to come to see it anyway. When he sees the demonstration, he decides it's a good idea to get ''closer'' on seeing the Peacekeeper blowing up droids. This unsurprisingly leads to his death when things go wrong.

* OnlySaneMan: Elefun is the only one who questions Tenma about creating a robot double of his son. When Temna rejects Astro, Elefun gives him a WhatTheHellHero about how he's treating a boy who calls him "Dad".

%% * GeneralRipper: President Stone

%%* GoldfishPoopGang: The robot revolutionaries. They're about as capable as a deflated tire.

%%* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Astro during his HeroicSacrifice.]]

%% * IsThisThingOn

%% * MoodWhiplash

* MyGreatestSecondChance: The kids feel really guilty when they reject [[spoiler:Astro on learning he's a robot, and he lets President STone arrest him. Cora decides to commandeer Hamegg's car to fly up and help their new friend]].

* TheQuietOne: Zog, and any time he actually speaks he says automatically cool - it's Samuel L. Jackson.

%%* WhoIsDriving: Trash Can is driving.

** 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.

** The blueprints to build Astro are actual drawings from the Manga.

''Astro Boy'' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI movie]] produced by Imagi Animation Studios and distributed by Creator/LionsGate underneath their Summit Entertainment label in October 2009, based on the manga ''Manga/AstroBoy''.

''Astro Boy'' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI movie]] produced by Imagi Animation Studios, released in October 2009, and based on the manga ''Manga/AstroBoy''.

* AdultFear:
** The death of a child at your workplace, by straying into a place where they shouldn't have been.
** Inverted with Child Fear, the fear of rejection by a parent. Astro sincerely asks why his dad doesn't love him anymore as Tenma realizes that he's not Toby.
** Then the scene where Astro runs away. Soon the Army show up at Tenma's lab, searching for the boy. Tenma tries to claim it was a MomentOfWeakness and that he'll find Astro and deactivate him, but he and Elefun are obviously relieved that the boy is away.
** Cora reveals she ran away from home and wonders if her family misses her. When she finds a cellphone, she tries to call home desperately. [[spoiler:It turns out they were frantically looking for her and are relieved she's alive.]]

* SkunkStripe: Cora's got two purpleish stripes on either side of her face.

** The Alien in the end is actually an Artificial Sun from another Tezuka Manga and appears in the ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'' game.

* WhoIsDriving: Trash Can is driving.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Cora (actually blue-black with purple SkunkStripe[=s=]).

* AdaptationalModesty: To the relief/rage of many fans, Astro wears pants in this version (and a shirt, but mostly the pants are what we're concerned about.)

** Then the scene where Astro runs away. Soon the cops show up at Tenma's lab, searching for the boy. Tenma tries to claim it was a MomentOfWeakness and that he'll find Astro and deactivate him, but he and Elefun are obviously relieved that the boy is away.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police are this in the movie. They hunt down Astro on the president's orders, but at first try to capture him nonviolently. One cop is grateful to Astro for saving him, and they're all horrified when the President orders him killed. At the end, [[spoiler:they arrest Stone for endangering the City with the Peacekeeper]].

* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Long-Term fans of ''Astro Boy'' all know the story about how Dr. Tenmas' son Tobio invariably died in a car accident and caused the good doctor to create a robot built in the likeness of his late son, with only a few variants that allow for the Astro Boy to eventually break away or be separated from Dr. Tenma. So it came as a shock that Toby in the movie didn't follow the fate of the other Tobios. [[spoiler:Instead, he was completely vaporized by an out-of-control military robot during an experiment.]]

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler: The giant cycloptean alien appears in literally the last few seconds of the movie, with no explanation whatsoever, starts blasting things with its eye-laser and Astro flies out to fight it. The end.]]

''Astro Boy'' is a [[AllCGICartoon CGI movie]] produced by Imagi Animation Studios, released in October 2009. Based on the manga ''Manga/AstroBoy''.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: President Stone seems like a thinly veiled "Evil-Version" {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Just hear him about going at war against the Surface; in fact, that part alone is a huge DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything moment.

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 (Creator/NicholasCage), the head of the Ministry of Science.

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 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.

* 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 its arm cannon and whole buildings as armor]].

** Cora reveals she ran away from home and wonders if her family misses her. When she finds a cellphone, she tries to call home desperately. [[spoiler:it turns out they were frantically looking for her and are relieved she's alive]].

* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning, Astro learns he can tunnel through solid rock. later, when he is up against the [[spoiler:Peacekeeper/Stone]] he gets smashed into the ground, only to come up between the bad guys legs

* DeadpanSnarker

* DeathGlare

** Tenma programs Astro with all the mechanics that self-defense systems that can protect a child from harm. It turns the kid into a superweapon.

%%* GoodColorsEvilColors: The red and blue cores.

* {{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.

* MythologyGag

* NeverTrustATrailer

* PuppyDogEyes

* LovingAShadow: One theory behind Astro's creation is that he is that he is exactly like Toby and Tenma never spent too much time with him to know that. As a result Tenma was in love with the idea with who he thought Toby was. But once Astro failed to live up to the ideal he started to reject him.

* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Tenma becomes one, ultimately willing to sacrifice himself to the military (alongside Elefun) to protect his boy. He also urges Astro to not fight the Peacekeeper, since the red and blue core meeting will will both of its holders]].

* ReplacementGoldfish: True to its source material.

* TomatoInTheMirror: Toby only learns from accidentally falling out the window that he's not the original Toby.
* TooDumbToLive: Astro is constantly warned that the demonstration is dangerous, which is why his father is mad that he decided to come to see it anyway. When he sees the demonstration, he decides it's a good idea to get ''closer'' on seeing the Peacekeeper blowing up droids. This unsurprisingly leads to his death when things go wrong.

* BeingGoodSucks: Robots are literally programmed to help out humans and receive nothing in return. The sentient

* DrivenToSuicide: Astro turns himself in when the army shows up at the robot fighting wars, realizing no one except the robots will fight for him. President Stone is quite happy about explaining that removing his core will

* EveryoneHasStandards: The crowd at the robot killer ring start booing at [[spoiler:Hanmegg when he tries to taser Astro into fighting, only for Astro to save him from Zog]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The police are this in the movie. They hunt down Astro on the president's orders, but at first try to capture him nonviolently. One cop is grateful to Astro for saving him, and they're all horrified when the President orders him killed. At the end, [[spoiler:they arrest Stone for endangering the City with the peacekeeper]].

* AdultFear: The death of a child. Inverted with Child Fear, the fear of rejection by a parent.

* BaitTheDog: Hamegg gets a case of AdaptationalHeroism for almost half of his scenes and he ''genuinely'' treats the children he cares for with care and respect. [[spoiler: Then he puts on his classic top hat and knocks out Astro for his fighting games, and later tries to callously abandon all of said children to that he can go get rich somewhere else.]]

* CameBackWrong: Toby/Astro. The memories were there, but his personality was different enough to cause Tenma to [[ParentalAbandonment reject him]].

* 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

* GoneHorriblyRight: The President wants to put the evil red orb inside the war machine to make it more aggressive and violent. Well, it ''worked''...

* 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.]]

** Astro gets [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} attached to strings]] several times.

** On his first flight, Astro swirls a cloud into an ice-cream shape, as the Magic Carpet does in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'''s "A Whole New World" sequence.

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.

* BaitTheDog: Hamegg gets a case of AdaptationalHeroism for almost half of his scenes and he ''genuinely'' treats the children he cares for with care and respect. [[spoiler: Then he puts on his classic top hat and knocks out Astro for his fighting games.]]

* GladIThoughtOfIt: The robot revolutionaries, during Astro's first encounter with them.
* GoldfishPoopGang: The robot revolutionaries. They're about as capable as a deflated tire.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: The red and blue cores.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Astro during his HeroicSacrifice.]]