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1!!Astro Boy
2* AllAnimationIsDisney: Thanks to his Disney-inspired look, Astro is occasionally mistaken for a Disney or otherwise western cartoon.
3* AudienceAlienatingEra: Astro Boy might be a classic, but even it is not immune to audience-alienating eras. In the sixties, Tezuka had Astro Boy go through a FaceHeelTurn, and wrote a story where a construction error turned Astro Boy evil. Instead of being a champion of justice who never wanted to hurt a human being, the evil Astro didn't care a bit about human lives anymore. Though Tezuka was fully aware that violent anti-heroes were the latest trend in manga, he didn't feel that it was the way to go for Astro Boy, but [[ExecutiveMeddling his editor insisted that an Astro Boy who killed people and destroyed buildings would be more interesting]]. Tezuka himself was convinced that the readers preferred Astro to be a good-hearted robot, and was proven right when the readers turned out to have zero interest in reading about an evil Astro Boy. Tezuka [[HeelFaceTurn changed him back]], but it took a lot of time and effort to get the series' popularity back.
4%%* MemeticHair: Astro Boy in all versions.
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6!!! ''Astro Boy'' (manga)
7* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Australians make up a large fanbase, partly due to being one of the few countries outside Japan that got the 1982 series.
8* GeniusBonus: The [[{{Zeerust}} goofy looking]] planes piloted by the Hot Dog Corps in the first volume of the collected edition may look like something made up for a sci-fi cartoon, but they're actually a real design, specifically the Convair Pogo, a very early prototype VTOL fighter.
9* MorePopularSpinoff: Astro first appeared in Tezuka's comic ''Ambassador Atom'' in 1951, and spun off into his own, vastly more popular standalone series the following year.
10* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: There's a story arc about a group who skins dogs and turns them into cyborgs. While it's not actually shown on-panel, it's still incredibly dark. Likewise, other stories explore topics like racism ([[FantasticRacism through anti-robot prejudice]]), war, and child abuse (as in Astro's origin). Nevertheless, it's still aimed at children, likely because Tezuka respected his audience and didn't want to talk down to them.
11%%* TheWoobie: Astro, during the retelling of his origin in the Scara arc.
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13!!! ''Astro Boy'' (1963 TV series)
14* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In episode 193, [[spoiler:after Astro [[HeroicSacrifice goes into the sun to save the Earth one last time]], Dr. Ochanomizu states that, even if our hero doesn't return, he'll build a second and third model of Astro, right where he was activated back in episode 1.]] Throughout nearly four decades, we DID get two new anime adaptations.
15* {{Woolseyism}}: The original title theme was instrumental. When NBC dubbed the show for their English audience, lyrics were added, sung by a children's chorus.
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18!!! ''Astro Boy'' (1980 Series)
19* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
20** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sagMPvl1ccs show's theme song]] is wonderfully upbeat and energetic, which extends to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyuW23QQ9hY French version performed by Franck Oliver.]]
21** The end credits theme called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ZGWyRM4S8 "Facing Toward Future"]] is also catchy and perfectly captures the franchise's optimistic and hopeful tone. Especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ff9MiwAus8 extended version heard in the 1980 album.]]
22* RetroactiveRecognition: In the Latin American Spanish dub, this was the debut role of Creator/MonicaManjarrez as a voice actress, doing many random voices during the series.
23* ValuesDissonance: The episode "Saving Our Classmate" ends with Alvin's mother embracing her son after he almost died via sneaking onto an unfinished rideā€¦ before his father starts spanking him in front of everyone. Even back in 1980 when this show first came out, CorporalPunishment was heavily frowned upon.
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25!!! ''Astro Boy'' (2003 TV series)
26* JerkassWoobie: Dr. Tenma.
27* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The GBA game, ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'', by Creator/{{Treasure}}, is acclaimed as one of the best action games for the portable.
28* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The Platform/PlayStation2 entry by Creator/{{Sega}} ended up being incredibly bland in terms of gameplay, among other problems.
29* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Atlas. His first 2 episodes built him up as the perfect ShadowArchetype to Astro. Then, he's sent adrift in space for thirty-something episodes, only to be brought back for one RedemptionEqualsDeath episode, and is brought BackFromTheDead to be a minor player in the GrandFinale.
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31!!! ''Astro Boy'' (2009 film)
32* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Did Astro really have [[CameBackWrong a different personality than Tobio?]] Or was Tenma just seeing parts of Tobio that he'd never seen before and [[LovingAShadow only cared for what he thought Tobio was]]?
33* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The attack of the giant alien at the end, whose only purpose was to give Astro an action shot.
34* CompleteMonster: [[PresidentEvil President Stone]] is a man whose apparent stupidity and childishness truthfully mask a murderous and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] personality. Stone alienates, withholds resources for, and threatens war against the downtrodden surface-dwellers out of an insane belief it will assure his reelection, and commissions scientists Tenma and Elefun to develop the powerful Peacekeeper robot to better serve in his useless war. When his own carelessness and power lust result in the death of Tenma's son, Stone [[LackOfEmpathy shrugs it off]] and continues to force Tenma and Elefun's compliance under threat of execution. After Tenma rebuilds his son as a robot named "Astro", Stone endangers countless people to capture the boy, [[EvilIsPetty mocks him over his lack of true humanity]], and tries to rip out of his power core to power the Peacekeeper. Upon merging with and assuming control of the Peacekeeper, Stone begins destroying the city and threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild crush Astro's numerous friends to death]] to draw him out and kill him, focused solely on finalizing his plans to lay waste to the surface-dwellers and continue his rule as president.
35* NightmareFuel:
36** Toby's death. He sneaks in to see the Peacekeeper demonstration and decides to get closer, but the robot starts to go rogue. When his father activates a defensive barrier, Toby gets trapped behind the barrier and yells for help. Tenma desperately tries to override the barrier, but he fails, and can only reassure Toby as the robot tries to vaporize the barrier. When Elefun successfully deactivates the robot, all that remains of Toby is his hat, which thankfully has some of Toby's hair in it.
37** Hamegg [[spoiler:tasering Astro several times, first to knock him out and put him in the ring, and the second to make him fight Zog]]. It hits home that [[spoiler:Astro may be a NighInvulnerable robot, but he's also mentally a child and Hamegg thinks he's justified because Astro isn't human]].
38* OlderThanTheyThink: Quite a few people complained that giving Astro butt lasers was disrespectful to the source material and Astro's creator... Astro actually had them in the original work, they just weren't featured in later adaptations.
39* SoOkItsAverage: The film suffers from a weak villain and some IdiotBall moments regarding the power cores, but it's still a visually pleasing animated film that at least gets most of its source material pretty competently for being a Western adaptation of a manga/anime, [[Film/DragonBallEvolution unlike]] [[Film/DeathNote2017 others]].
40* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The tie-in game tried to borrow gameplay from ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'' and failed ''miserably''. Everything from the original's controls and mechanics is implemented in a gimped or even outright broken way: Astro is limited to basic short-ranged attacks and useless also short-ranged charged attacks. No finger laser. His basic movement ranges from clunky to uncontrollable as you use powerups. With no ability to LagCancel into and out of air dashes, a critical feature of ''Omega Factor'''s mechanics, the difficulty escalates really fast the moment bosses start putting up a fight. It is not possible to air dash in diagonals, and in the shoot 'em up levels, you can't air dash at all to avoid bullets!
41* RainbowLens: Astro Boy's secret of being a robot resembles most {{Coming Out Stor|y}}ies, especially the nighttime scene when he almost "comes out" to Cora.
42* RetroactiveRecognition:
43** Grace, the girl Cora gives a chainsaw to, is voiced by Creator/ElleFanning.
44** Cora is Creator/KristenBell!
45* TheScrappy: President Stone is generally considered the weakest part of the movie if not an outright detriment to it overall due to his shallow and unsubtle villain motivation that he reiterates over and over again with no actual elaboration, with his actual villainy coming across more as him being an absolute reckless idiot rather than ruthless and cold-hearted like the movie attempts to frame it as. Creator/DonaldSutherland's shockingly dull voice performance does not help matters. It's not uncommon for many viewers to have found themselves wishing that [[LoveToHate Hamegg]] had been the main antagonist of the film instead.
46* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: {{Inverted|Trope}} regarding the Peacekeeper. While it isn't an outright scrappy like President Stone, some fans feel its design is kind of bland and that Atlas or Pluto could have easily served its role.

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