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Also, this manga [[Pluto Is Expendable|is not expendable]].

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Tenma ''sold'' Atom. Is that abusive enough for you?

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted for the most part. Even human-killer Brau 1589 has no malfunctions in his programming (that is, there's nothing ''inherently'' wrong with him - he's pretty obviously insane, but that's not due to the way he was built). Several characters openly wonder if that willingness and ability to kill is, rather, the self-''perfection'' of A.I. {{spoiler|Dr. Tenma even proclaims that an A.I. willing to lie to ''itself'' is the pinnacle of A.I., the true emulation of human nature}}.

* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: {{spoiler|Gesicht}}.

** To give you an idea on just how far this trope goes: {{spoiler|Gesicht, ''the main character'', dies two volumes before the end.}} Though if you've seen the original 'Greatest Robot on Earth' story anywhere else you could pretty much see that coming.

* [[Arc Words]]: "500 zeus a body."

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Montblanc didn't like the idea of a statue of him littering the Alps, and while the pedestal was built, the statue apparently wasn't. Heracles didn't like the idea of a statue of him littering the Greek sealine (and distracting from the old ruins nearby), but his statue got built and placed anyway.

* [[Just a Machine]]: {{spoiler|The child robot that Gesicht rescues, in particular.}} Otherwise averted, although Ridiculously Human bodies are only that without a mind in it.

** ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' also makes a cameo as an escaped zoo animal during Uran's debut.

* [[Locards Theory]]: The fact that no trace evidence can be found at any of the murder scenes leads the investigators to conclude that the [[Serial Killer]] they're looking for is a robot.

** It's almost certainly [[Black Jack (Manga)|Black Jack]], as what we can see of him has him wearing his characteristic long black coat.

** In many panels Atom sports a kind of double cowlick, referencing his [[Trope Maker|trope making]] [[Anime Hair]].

* [[Norse Mythology]]: Brau 1589's character design seems to be based off of Odin, particularly the story where Odin sacrificed himself to himself.

* [[Off With His Head]]: {{spoiler|Epsilon.}}

* [[Pacifist]]: Epsilon refused to be drafted due to this, although he readily admits to some cowardice. (The irony being that he's easily the most destructive of the strongest robots.)

* [[Papa Wolf]]: {{spoiler|Gesicht's [[Unstoppable Rage|rage]] at his "son's" death is so great that he breaks one of the [[Three Laws Compliant|Three Laws of Robotics]] to get his revenge}}.

* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Part of Abullah's back story. {{spoiler|A fraudulent part.}}

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Montblanc. (The story takes pains to flesh him out in flashbacks, and it's clear he was a very good guy.)

* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: At the end of the series {{spoiler|it is revealed that the Dr. Roosevelt (the [[Creepy Child|robot teddy]]) had Thracia invade Persia, causing Abullah to lose his family, and thus create Pluto to attack Thracia and the world's five most advanced robots. Doing so would insure Thracia's dominance in the world once its disadvantage in robotics was made moot -- and activate a [[Earthshattering Kaboom|very large bomb]] that [[Apocalypse How|would kill most of humanity]] and establish robots as the dominant species on the planet.}} He gets very close: {{spoiler|however, Atom is repaired and enhanced with the emotions from Gesicht's memory chip, and manages to not only beat Pluto, but then convince him to stop the bomb. Roosevelt also doesn't count on Brau escaping and coming to kill him personally.}}