Astro Boy (character)

Astro Boy (known in Japan as Tetsuwan Atomu) is the eponymous protagonist of the series Astro Boy. A robot by Creation, Astro (Atom) strives to be as human-like as possible by going to school, making friends, and obtaining a robotic family for himself. However, Astro is almost always pulled away from his happy emulation of human life by Ochanomizu (or of his own accord) to deal with dangers to Earth.

Background
Originally created by Doctor Tenma, Astro was meant to be a replacement for his son: Toby, who ran away in the 2003 series. in the 1980's version However he was in a crash. because Astro was not able to grow and age like a normal human child, Doctor Tenma abandoned him to a Robot Circus led by the cruel Ham Egg(In the 1980's version, Astro joined the circus himself and the circus appears in the 2003 series in a different story). At the circus, Astro was found by Professor Ochanomizu and adopted. Professor Ochanomizu gave Astro a family with a robotic mother, father, sister (Uran), and brother (Cobalt). As head of the Ministry of Science, Professor Ochanomizu often calls on Astro to help resolve situations involving humans, robots, and on occasion, extraterrestrials.In the 2009's version,Toby was recently killed By the Peacekeeper,a robot that has the power to become HUGE,and absorb and contol anything.

Powers
Astro's most commonly used power is his flight ability. He achieves this by retracting his feet into his legs and blowing exhaust out. Another famous ability is his oft quoted 100,000 (in some versions boosted to 1,000,000) horsepower. he can also lift 65 ton's at least. In later manga and the 1980 and 2003 series he has lasers in his fingers. He also has useful tools such as a brain that can speak more than 100 languages and solve tough math problems in seconds, searchlights in his eyes, and in earlier versions, the power to look into a humans heart to decipher if their intentions are good or evil. In the 2003 anime he gains a powerful new weapon, a cannon in his arm which he use's in escape from volcano island to create a huge tornado of laser to save a ship from a exploding volcano. This was likely added to give Astro a big appeal to viewers of a new generation. The new Astro Boy movie coming also added machine guns in Astro's butt which is also used in the 1980's version.