History Anime / Metropolis

** Even when there is SoundtrackDissonance, there is not LyricsDissonance: The lyrics fit a number of the characters rather snugly because the song is about a guy who cannot let his lover go, and announces he will reject his sad reality and start living in the beautiful past.

** Though the lyrics fit a number of the characters rather snugly.

* ApocalypseWow: [[spoiler: It's only the one city,]] but it looks ''awesome''.

* BigBlackout: Tima's hack into the Ziggurat causes a blackout in the blocks surrounding their current location, after the hack, the [[MacGyvering jerry-rigged steampunk computer]] [[ExplosiveInstrumentation exploded,]] [[RuleOfCool for bonus points]].

* DieselPunk: With tidbits of CyberPunk sprinkled around it.

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[[caption-width:350:It's a loooooooong way up.]]

* OldShame: The reason a film adaptation was never attempted in Tezuka's lifetime was that he came to dislike the original manga as being to crude and amateurish.

!!Tropes used in this movie include:

* HairOfGold: Tima.

* OldShame: The reason a film adaptation was never attempted in Tezuka's lifetime was that he came to dislike the his original manga as being to crude and amateurish.

* PragmaticVillainy: Doctor Lattan doesn't use human organs in his robots, because he [[UnfortunateImplications claims they don't last very long]].

* BittersweetEnding: Played straight and possibly averted, depending on the version you watch. [[spoiler:The Ziggurat falls, Duke Red and Rock are explicitly shown dead, the city is devastated in the fallout, and poor sweet Tima slips from Kenichi's grasp right as her sense of self is returning, falling into the burning abyss. The final scene hints that Tima's parts can be reclaimed, and her spirit is still somehow broadcasting through a radio.]] However, there's also a final image after the credits that [[spoiler: full-on reveals that Kenichi was somehow able to rebuild Tima, and they've opened their own robot company together.]] Unfortunately, despite being in the original Japanese and English theatrical releases, the image was cut from the English DVD release, [[NoExportForYou for whatever stupid reason]]. Luckily, the image is restored in the streamed Hulu version (it was also there in the 2005 AdultSwim showing).

** Probably unintentional, as this is actually a MythologyGag. The character first appeared in an ''AstroBoy'' story, where instead of being a straight robot he was a cyborg created from the nervous system of a dog due to his creators wanting an army of killer robots but were unable to get their hands on AI that wasn't ThreeLawsCompliant.

* FauxSymbolism: There's a nice bit where Tima is standing on the roof in a beam of sunlight, presumably recharging. A bird lands on her shoulder. They cut to another viewpoint, and she looks ''exactly'' like an angel.
* FridgeBrilliance: The tipping point [[spoiler: for the revolution]] seems to be the construction of the Ziggurat. Why? You notice the wide, spacious area full of modern, low-rise buildings surrounding it-[[UnfortunateImplications and the lack of all surface slums...]]

The 2001 Animated film by Tristar Pictures, directed by Rintaro, and animated by {{Madhouse}}. It did not actually involve OsamuTezuka and was made after his death. It draws as much from the classic German film {{Metropolis}} as it does from Tezuka's manga of the same name, and [[BroadStrokes does not attempt]] to be faithful to either. But it was rated on one film site's [[http://movies.ign.com/articles/650/650717p1.html all-time best animated films]] list.

* StockSounds: The Ziggurat weapon winding down sounds the same as the [[TheEmpireStrikesBack Millennium Falcon failing to make a hyperspace jump]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Duke Red doesn't even care that his artificial goddess is dressed like a street person. That's a subtle bit. Also the non-protagonists treat the robots as cattle and [[spoiler: all the sentient robots in the film end up dead]]. The Japanese protagonists (and possibly Atlas) are the only people that relate to the robots as sentient entities.
** Though Atlas [[spoiler: ruthlessly kills Pero for trying in vain to disperse the riot]] without much thought at all.

* CoolButImpractical: The firefighting robot thingies.

* AccidentalPervert: Avoided so much that it's actually disturbing. Tima goes without pants for a fair part of the movie, keeps sitting facing Kenichi, and he doesn't flinch or say anything.

* StarSystem: Tezuka's "actors" reprise their original roles from the manga, while Rock (who wasn't in the original manga) comes in to provide conflict and [[TriggerHappy shoot stuff]].
* DieselPunk: With tidbits of CyberPunk sprinkled around it.