!!Astro Boy
* MemeticHair: Astro Boy in all versions.

!!! ''Astro Boy'' (manga)
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Australians make up a large fanbase, partly due to being one of the few countries outside Japan that got the 1982 series.
* IWantMyJetPack: Despite nuclear energy being utilized rapidly for civilian purposes today, as Tezuka hoped, we're ''nowhere'' nearing jetpack stage.
* TheWoobie: Astro, during the retelling of his origin in the Scara arc.

!!! ''Astro Boy'' (1963 TV series)

* {{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.

!!! ''Astro Boy'' (1982 TV series)

* {{Macekre}}: The English dub is abysmal, with the dialogue sounding like it was made up on the spot by the voice actors.
!!! ''Astro Boy'' (2003 TV series)

* JerkassWoobie: Dr. Tenma.
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The PS2 entry by Sega ended up being incredibly bland in terms of gameplay, among other problems.


!!! ''Astro Boy: Omega Factor''

* ThatOneBoss: Carabs, Pluto, Sharaku.
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Averted greatly. Treasure knows their stuff when it comes to making fun games.

!!! ''Astro Boy'' (2009 film)

* {{Anvilicious}}: President Stone will say it again and again: he is the president, and for Metro City to depend on him he needs to make a war.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: President Stone seems like a thinly veiled Expy of George W Bush. Just hear him about going at war against the Surface; in fact, that part alone is a huge DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything moment.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The attack of the giant alien at the end whose only purpose was to give a shirtless Astro an action shot, probably.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The title theme (played in variation the first time Astro flies, over the end credits, and a few other times) is truly gorgeous.
* GenreSavvy: The {{Mook}} who runs away just before [[spoiler: President Stone gets integrated into the Peacekeeper]]
* InNameOnly: It's a Pixar-type CGI kid-flick which has nothing to do with any of the versions before it, with several concepts created out of whole cloth, often for sheer [[RuleOfFunny comedy value]]. That said, [[TropesAreNotBad taken as its own movie, unconnected to the originals]], it's not bad.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Quite a few people claimed that giving him butt lasers was disrespectful to the source material and Astro's creator...
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The tie-in game tried to borrow gameplay from Omega Factor and failed miserably.
* WTHCastingAgency: In Brazil, Astro Boy was voiced by [[http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Faro this guy]].