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• In the old Astroboy mangas/show, Astroboy gets oil by having some device plugged into his butt. Strange, yet innocent, right? Well, think about it: This is a robot who looks like a nine-year-old boy. He's having a phallic-shaped oil-delivering object being shoved into his butt while EVERY OTHER ROBOT IN THE MANGAS/SHOW receives their oil by drinking it from a cup. Of course, it begs to be added that Astroboy is the ONLY robot that pretty much has no clothes on save for some underparts and shoes. The other robots have clothes. And remember: the creator was trying to make a robot replacement for his dead son... Pass the Brain Bleach, please.
• At the end of the Scara time travel arc, New Astro can't be activated until Old Astro is destroyed (same Astro, different points in his own time stream), which of course is a brilliant excuse to show Astro's birth again... wait. Astro just blew up. That was Astro's real, honest-to-goodness never coming back death there for all to see.
• The end of the movie is supposed to be happy, but then you remember that Toby is still dead. Without a body to bury.

• In the 2003 anime, Dr. O'Shay speculates that the days Tenma spent with Tobio/Astro were probably the happiest days of his life. So what's the first step in Tenma's Villainous Breakdown? Erasing Astro's memory so he can relive those days.