History WesternAnimation / BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot

* BecomeARealBoy: Averted. Rusty doesn't want to become human. Even when given the opportunity to experience human feeling, he opted to switch back.
* ButtMonkey: Donovan.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Rusty is an ''astonishingly'' terrible shot, unless he takes a second to aim, often with both hands. The first episode even has Big Guy just attach Rusty to his own arm, just to make the shot.

* {{Irony}}: Gryffin left the BGY-11 project because he didn't approve the idea of Big Guy being an artificial intelligence instead of a PoweredArmor. Because he left, he didn't learn they failed to develope a working intelligence for Big Guy and made it a PoweredArmor to hide the truth. Griffin eventually created his own PoweredArmor to compete against Big Guy and his defeat made him change his beliefs. Is there any troper not wishing he knew the truth just so they could see his reaction?

* MoreDakka: Big Guy has ''four'' often used heavy machine guns folded in his elbows, plus two seldom-used [[MacrossMissileMassacre dispensers]] next to them. He also has a number of recurring weapons like a [[FrickinLaserBeams forehead laser]], [[ArmCannon retractable wrist cannons]], a shoulder mounted [[GatlingGood gatling gun]], and a couple minor one-off weapons.

* TheNthDoctor: Big Guy and Dwayne are played by two separate actors.

* TalkingAnimal: Dr. Donovan's sidekick Jenny. While none of the characters in the show seemed to think it was [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight unusual]], except for one MonsterOfTheWeek villain who [[LampshadeHanging questioned her on the origins of her abilites]]. Thanks to Big Guy [[TheUnreveal she never got to explain]].

* AIIsACrapshoot: For the most part if the robot doesn't have an [[TinMan emotion grid]] like Rusty they turn out to be evil.

* BaldOfEvil: [[BigBad Legion Ex Machina]] bots.

* EagleLand: Type1 Retro-future.(but quite tongue-in-cheek)

* GatlingGood

* MoreDakka: Big Guy has ''four'' often used heavy machine guns folded in his elbows, plus two seldom used. Rusty as well, in that after loosing an arm the Big Guy welds his Mag-Popper onto the socket instead.
* MacrossMissileMassacre dispensors next to them. He also has a number of recurring weapons like a [[FrickinLaserBeams forehead laser]], [[ArmCannon retractable wrist cannons]], A shoulder mounted [[GatlingGood gatling gun]], and a couple minor one-off weapons.

* TimeAlteringMacGuffin: When BGY-11 was accidentally sent to the past, it was found by English soldiers who learned how to control it. They renamed it "Iron Jack" and used it to stop TheAmericanRevolution. Because nobody knew everything needed for its maintenance, it eventually blew up but the damage was done. As a result of this, nobody developed BGY-11 or anything else that could have stopped the alien invasion BGY-11 did at the beginning of the series in the original timeline. Dwayne Hunter and Rusty then had to travel back in time to recover it and set history right.

* DeadpanSnarker: Big Guy [[spoiler:or rather his pilot Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter]] certainly has his moments.
The Legion ex Machina has a few as well.

** Another to DrStrangelove when Big Guy's repaired AI starts malfunctioning, making it paranoid:
-->The work's never done, so long as They crave our precious bodily metals.

* MoreDakka: Big Guy has ''four'' often used heavy machine guns folded in his elbows, plus two seldom used MacrossMissileMassacre dispensors next to them. He also has a number of recurring weapons like a [[FrickinLaserBeams forehead laser]], [[ArmCannon retractable wrist cannons]], A shoulder mounted [[GatlingGood gatling gun]], and a couple minor one-off weapons.

You [[AndTheFandomRejoiced can watch all of the episodes]] now, on [[http://www.youtube.com/show?p=Ei27B66YXlI Youtube]]. Unless you're [[NoExportForYou in the USA]], ironically.

* BrandX / NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted with references to such celebrities as [[{{Seinfeld}} Jerry Seinfeld]] and product such as a Sony Playstation being blatantly mentioned.

* TelescopingRobot: You could maybe, ''maybe'' realistically fit all the weapons that come out of Big Guy in there, but not if you still want to have space for working motors and such.

* GiantSpider: Dr. Neugog gets turned into one, with the added bonus of still having a human face, and the ability to suck out people's brains. AccidentalNightmareFuel ''at best''.

Based on the Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot comic. The Big Guy was the old warhorse robot superhero who was to be replaced by an all-American Rusty; however, Rusty's inexperience forced the Big Guy back out of retirement to serve as Rusty's mentor and partner. Complicating matters was the fact that the Big Guy, Rusty's hero and role model... wasn't actually a ''robot''. Unable to develop a working AI in time, the government secretly converted it into a PoweredArmor, piloted by Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter, who poses as the Big Guy's mechanic to the outside world. The secret has to be kept from Rusty, as well, for fear of what the shock might do to his mind.

** I may be remembering incorrectly, but this was actually brought up in one episode. Rusty's built in weapons are significantly more powerful than anything Big Guy is armed with, but which is more intimidating: a child robot pointing his finger at you, or a thirty foot tall metal superman unfolding his arm into dual chainguns?

* PoweredArmor

* CulturalTranslation: Rusty was changed from Japanese to American for the cartoon.

* [[spoiler:BigBadFriend]]: In the episode ''Harddrive'', [[spoiler:the titular EvilCounterpart of Big Guy turns out to be a PoweredArmor piloted by Griffin, Dwayne Hunter's old friend]].

* {{Americanitis}}: Rusty was changed from Japanese to American for the cartoon.

** This is lampshaded (Kinda) by a Legion Ex Machina version of Big Guy, who, after learning the big secret, notes that the inclusion of a cockpit means the Big Guy doesn't have a WaveCannon built in the chest...like he does.

* BadassAdorable: Rusty. No surprise, considering [[AstroBoy whom]] he is an {{Expy}} of.