Astro Boy (character)

Astro Boy '(アトム, Atomu lit. "Atom" )' He is the eponymous protagonist in the series of "Astro Boy". Astro is a robot. Astro is very friendly and kind robot. Astro strives to be as human-like as possible by going to school, making friends, and obtaining a robotic family for himself. In the 2003 version Dr. O'shay and Zoranis his family instead. 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: In the 1980's version he had died in a car crash. In the 2003 series he had ran away and died in a car crash. In the 2009's version,Toby was recently killed by the Peacekeeper, a robot that has the power to absorb and control anything.

When Astro was created, Dr Tenma was angry that Astro was not able to grow and age like a normal human child. In the manga, Doctor Tenma abandoned him to a Robot Circus led by the cruel Ham Egg (In the 1980's anime version, Astro joined the circus himself. In the 2003 series, the circus appears in a different story. Instead in the 2003 series, Dr Tenma shut down Astro and leaves him in storage at the Ministry of Science were later Professsor Ochanomizu will find him.) 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.

2009
In the 2009 CGI-based movie, we see several dramatic changes to Astro.

First of all, part of the initial construction is shown on on how he is created together. The way he got his appearance is completely different from previous manga: although he still has the skin suite, his appearance is projected on to him, similar to a hologram. Second, he has the ability to lie. Unlike 1980's manga, he is able to tell lies and half-truths. This is proven when he is captured by Cora and her family. When they are trying to help him up, Cora says "That's not a robot, that's a kid", with Astro responding "That's right, I'm a kid, like you." He also claims to be an orphan in Hamegg's house.

Astro weapons in the movie have been changed compared to the other series. Astro has machine guns on his bottom like the 1980s. He does not have his finger lasers from the manga/anime series. Instead of the arm cannon it is changed to full arm blasters. Yet another difference, he has no arm rockets, as far as the audience can tell. Another diference is that instead of being 9 years of age, he is 13.

Robot Family:
Mama and Papa - Astro Boy's robotic parents. Mama is depicted as an idealized 1960s housewife. Sweet, kind and nurturing. She is entirely trusting of her son's impeccable nature, knows he would never deliberately lie or harm another being (as seen in Episode 20). In contrast, Papa is portrayed as something of a well-meaning blowhard, often jumping to conclusions and losing his temper over minor incidents. They first appeared in Episode 2: Colosso. In the Sankei Newspaper Astroboy manga series it is revealed that Mama was modified to resemble Dr. Tenma's wife who had died of a heart condition shortly after Astro was sold to the circus.

Powers

 * Flight: Astro's most commonly used power is his flight ability. He achieves this by retracting his feet into his legs and blowing exhaust out.


 * Super Stength: Another famous ability is his oft quoted 100,000 (in some versions boosted to 1,000,000) horsepower. he can also lift 65 tons at least.


 * Digit beams: In later manga and the 1980 and 2003 series he has lasers in his fingers.


 * Machine intellect: 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.


 * Laser cannon arm: In the 2003 anime he gains a powerful new weapon, a cannon in his arm which he uses 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.


 * Posterior mounted machine guns: The new Astro Boy movie coming added machine guns in Astro's bottom. In the 1980's series, Astro had his machine guns in his hips, but the way it was animated made it look like it was coming out of his bottom.
 * The ability to translate more than 60 languages
 * The ability to fly using jets in his legs and arms
 * Amplification of his hearing up to one thousand times
 * Invulnerability to conventional physical injury
 * An electro-heart that can discern people's criminal intentions
 * Bright eye-lamps to assist his vision
 * An extremely accurate electronic brain

Energy:
Astro Boy runs on different type of engery in the different animation show.
 * In the 1980's version, Astro ran on a type of battery cell that had to be replaced. This was a great weekness to Astro as when he had to fight the battery would run out of energy quickly and Astro would shut down until he or another replaced the run down battery cell with a new one.
 * In the 2003 version, Astro was built using "Kokoro" ("Kokoro" is Japanese for "Heart".) His energy seems to run on a cell energy, but little is known, there is however one episode where you see Astro talking to Zoran while recharging at his house. This has also never appeared to be a weakness of Astro compared with the 1980's version.
 * In the 2009 movie, Astro runs on an energy that called "Blue Core Energy" which seems to never have to be recharged. The energy is also capable of reviving robots who has run out of energy by transfering from one robot to another. After Astro saved Metro City from being totally destroyed as a result of falling to the earth, Astro then sacrificed himself to save the world however when his body was found Dr. Elefun and Cora told Zog to transfer some of the "Blue Core Energy" back to Astro (who had used this "Blue Core Energy" before to revive Zog) Zog was then able to return some of the energy back to Astro and revive him.

Appearences

 * Comics
 * 1960 TV series
 * 1980 TV series
 * 2003 TV series
 * 2009 CG Movie

Other
On 7 April 2003, the City of Niiza registered the character as an actual resident.[1] He was also inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2004.