History WesternAnimation / AstroKid

* CoversAlwaysLie: A small one, but the cover for the English dub (see page image) depicts one of the rock monsters with green skin. In the actual movie, they have a pinkish to reddish skin.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: The planet Willy lands on has an atmosphere breathable for humans, and there are plenty of plants and fruits humans can eat. However, the dangers of eating unknown, alien plants are brought up, and Buck scans everything first to determine what is and what is not safe for human consumption. And even then; the food that is safe to eat still tends to have side-effects, like causing Willy to foam from the mouth, or freeze up. The trope also goes the other way; Flash eats one of Willy’s chocolate bars, and suffers no ill effects.

* LizardFolk: Flash has a reptile-like appareance when he grows up.

Following the destruction of their ship, a young boy named Willy is separated from his parents with whom he traveled in space. His spare capsule lands on a wild and unexplored planet. With the help of Buck, a survival robot, and Flash, an eight-legged alien thing he befriends, he will have to hold until the arrival of a rescue mission.

Following the destruction of their ship, a young boy named Willy is separated from his parents with whom he traveled in space. His spare capsule lands on a wild and unexplored planet. With the help of Buck, a survival robot, and Flash, an alien creature he befriends, he will have to hold until the arrival of a rescue mission.

* HoverBoard: Willy has one on board the spaceship at the start of the movie. His experience with riding one allows to make an improvised skateboard while on the planet.

* LetsGetDangerous: The scene of Willy preparing himself to go after Buck’s spare battery again; he dons a makeshift armor, makes new arrows, and [[ThisMeansWarpaint covers his face in warpaint]].

* StickySituation: The planet contains purple berries, which become a tough glue when squeezed. Buck finds out the hard way when he gets covered with the berries and subsequently gets stuck to a rock. Later, after Willy learns to use a bow and arrow, he arms his arrows with these berries.

* AdultFear: Your only son is lost somewhere in space, on who knows what kind of dangerous planet.

* ChekhovsGun: When Willy first sees the giant bug-like creatures, one has fallen onto it’s back and can’t get up, so it calls his fellow bugs for help by emitting a horn-like sound. Later, when Willy finds himself stuck in a pit, he summons the bug he helped earlier by making a horn and blowing it, imitating the alarm call.

* CoversAlwaysLie: A small one, but the cover for the English dub (see page image) depicts one of the rock monsters with green skin. In the actual movie, they have a pinkish to redish skin.

* EscapePod: The ship that Willy and his parents traveled on has these, and they are forced to use them when their ship is hit by asteroids. The pods come equiped with emergency rations and a personal survival module.

* HoverBoard: Willy has one on board the space ship at the start of the movie. His experience with riding one allows to make an improvised skateboard while on the planet.

* MinimalistCast: For the mayority of the movie, Willy, Buck and Flash are the only main characters. Willy's parents have a supporting role, appearing only at the start and end of the movie.

* RandomEventsPlot: The movie consist of multiple scenes of Willy’s adventures on the planet with the local flora and fauna, with only the overarching theme of Willy having to survive connecting them all.

* SceneryPorn: The many scenes of the alien planet and all it's wildlife.
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Buck explains to Willy that anytime a space explorer goes missing, search probes are send across space to try and locate them. Unfortunately, there is no telling when one will reach Willy’s planet, and when one finally does, Willy needs Buck to actually contact this probe and let it know he is there.

* TookALevelInBadass: Willy over the course of the movie; he learns to survive on his own, makes his own bow and arrow and becomes quite skilled at using them, and becomes notably more atletic and agile. He also finally dares to take the rock beasts head on.

* ABoyAndHisX: a boy (Willy) and his alien pet/friend (Flash)

* DarkestHour: For Willy, this comes around the one hour mark of the movie; Buck’s battery has been drained, Willy’s attempt to retrieve the spare battery from the escape pod lead to another encounter with the rock beasts during which Flash was injured. When a remorseful Willy tries to get Flash back to their camp, he ends up falling into a deep pit he can’t get out of even with his grappling hook. For a moment, the boy gives up hope of ever surviving this, until he figures out a way to make an improvised horn and summon the bug-like creature he helped earlier (see ChekhovsGun above).

* LetsGetDangerous: The scene of Willy preparing himself to go after Buick’s spare battery again; he dons a makeshift armor, makes new arrows, and [[ThisMeansWarpaint covers his face in warpaint]].

* LetsGetDangerous: The scene of Willy preparing himself to go after Buick’s spare battery again; he dons a makeshift armor, makes new arrows, and covers his face in warpaint.

* AndroclesLion: When Willy sees how a large, buglike creature breaks the horn on it's head, he rushes in and helps the creature restore the broken horn by fastening it with a vine. The creature later returns the favor by helping Willy out of a pit (see DarkestHour below).

* ButNowIMustGo: When rescue finally arrives, Willy can go back to Earth, but naturally has to say goodbye to Flash.
* DarkestHour: For Willy, this comes around the one hour mark of the movie; Buck’s battery has been drained, Willy’s attempt to retrieve the spare battery from the escape pod lead to another encounter with the rock beasts during which Flash was injured, and Willy himself ends up falling into a deep pit he can’t get out of even with his grappling hook. For a moment, the boy gives up hope of ever surviving this, until he figures out a way to make an improvised horn and summon the bug-like creature he helped earlier.

** The spaceship of Willy and his parents has one, but it is ultimately unable to keep the asteroids out.
** Buck can also create one, which comes in use when he has to shield Willy against a storm of gigantic hailstones. Unfortunately, it requires so much power that it ends up draining his battery.
* EscapePod: The ship that Willy and his parents traveled on has these, and they are forced to use them when their ship is hit by asteroids.
* FindTheCure: At one point, Willy is poisoned after he pricks his finger on the needles of a plant, and the infection spreads fast, covering his body in blue rash. While Buck scans every plant in the vicinity in hopes of detecting a cure, Flash, who knows what kind of poison they are dealing with, runs off to fetch anther plant that contains the antidote.
* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: When young, Flash is the size of a housecat. Willy can easily pick him up and carry him. Once an adult, he is at least four times bigger than Willy and the boy can ride on his back.
* MacGuffin: The spare battery for Buck, which is still in the desolated area where the escape pod crashed. Said area is full of dangerous [[RockMonster rock beasts]]. Willy has to get it when Buick’s first battery is fully drained, since Buck being able to send a distress signal to a passing search probe is Willy's only hope for rescue. The first attempt fails miserably, and it scares Willy out of trying again until a search probe flies by after the 10 month TimeSkip.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: The planet Willy lands on has an atmosphere breathable for humans, and there are plenty of plants and fruits humans can eat. However, the dangers of eating unknown, alien plants are brought up, and Buck scans everything first to determine what is and what is not safe for human consumption.

* RobotBuddy: Buck for Willy
* RockMonster: The desert that Willy’s escape pod crashes in is filled with several giant, quadrupedal beasts with rocklike skin.

* TookALevelInBadass: Willy over the course of the movie; he learns to survive on his own, makes his own bow and arrow and becomes quite skilled at using them, and becomes notably more atletic and agile.

* WildWilderness: A whole planet of it.

* MacGuffin: The spare battery for Buck, which is still in the desolated area where the escape pod crashed. Said area is full of dangerous [[RockMonster rock beasts]]. Willy has to get it when Buick’s first battery is fully drained, since Buck being able to send a distress signal to a passing satellite is Willy's only hope for rescue. The first attempt fails miserably, and it scares Willy out of trying again until the satellite returns after the 10 month TimeSkip.

* MacGuffin: The spare battery for Buck, which is still where the escape pod crashed in a desolated area full of dangerous [[RockMonster rock beasts]]. Willy has to get it when Buick’s first battery is fully drained, since Buck is his only hope for rescue. The first attempt fails miserably, and it scares Willy out of trying again until after the 10 month TimeSkip.

* DarkestHour: For Willy, this comes around the one hour mark of the movie; Buck’s battery has been drained, Willy’s attempt to retrieve the spare battery from the escape pod lead to another encounter with the rock beasts during which Flash was injured, and Willy himself ends up falling into a deep pit he can’t get out of even with his grappling hook. For a moment, the boy gives up hope of ever surviving this.