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{{quote|''Perfection is in the mind that makes mistakes... And that, Professor, is what will give birth to'' [[Arc Words|the greatest robot on Earth]]...|'''Professor Tenma'''}}
A manga by [[Naoki Urasawa]], the man behind ''[[Monster (
In a world where humans and sentient robots co-exist, someone or some''thing'' is targeting the seven most advanced robots, killing them off one by one. Even more disturbingly, the same killer seems to be murdering humans as well. Only a supremely powerful robot could be killing the other robots--but [[Three Laws Compliant|all robots are hardwired to be unable to kill humans]], with one very important exception.
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* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Atom. {{spoiler|When he grabs and stops Pluto's [[Combat Tentacles|tentacle]] dead before it can skewer him, rips it out, then forces himself out of Pluto's fist to twist his arm off, I'd say he qualifies}}. Uran is also at least as powerful as a human adult, but never has to show off.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: of Astro Boy.
* [[Death
* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]}}
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: AI units have a subconscious and in some cases the ability to dream, with the additional benefit of being able to save them to memory. This proves to be a major plot point later on.
** Beyond that, Gesicht seems to have incorporated a transmission from Atom into a dream at one point, such that it's basically a [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|prophetic dream]] until he figures out what happened.
* [[Doomed
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Of a sense. Gesicht was named the much more generic and stereotypical German name Gerhardt in the original Tezuka stories.
* [[The Empath]]: Uran.
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* [[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.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it one for [[
** ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' also makes a cameo as an escaped zoo animal during Uran's debut.
* [[Locard's 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.
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*** In fact, Brau is probably a mistranslation. It's probably supposed to be Blau, German for blue.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Uran.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Several. The various jabs about the doggy cop cars, [[Kimba the White Lion]]'s brief cameo & more. The most brilliant one, though comes from the North #2 mini-arc. Paul Duncan mentions his life was saved by a famous Japanese doctor. But since the doctor's name & face are never shown, we're left wondering whether he's [[Black Jack
** It's almost certainly [[
** In many panels Atom sports a kind of double cowlick, referencing his [[Trope Maker|trope making]] [[Anime Hair]].
* [[Name's the Same]]: The Dr. Tenma in this series has no relation to [[Monster (
* [[Norse Mythology]]: Brau 1589's character design seems to be based off of Odin, particularly the story where Odin sacrificed himself to himself.
* [[Off
* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]: Happens to a robot that served with Heracles.
* [[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.)
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* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Montblanc, North #2, Brando, Heracles, Gesicht, Atom, and ''especially'' Epsilon.
* [[Perspective Flip]]: Essentially this is the original Astro Boy story from the POV of a (previously) minor character.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: A [[Reused Character Design]] version. Urasawa gives Epsilon the same character design as Johan from ''[[Monster (
* [[Post Cyber Punk]]
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Montblanc {{spoiler|and the real Dr. Abullah}}.
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* [[Robotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Abullah is in fact the robot Goji, who Dr. Tenma created.}}
* [[Robot War]]: The 39th Central Asian Conflict 4 years ago.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Seiun Award]]: In 2010.
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Brando tried a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by fighting against Pluto, so Gesicht can use live footage from Brando's eye camera to find Pluto's weakness. But then Brando's life flashes before his eyes, [[Tear Jerker|ruining the Pluto footage and rendering it useless.]]}}
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** Accepting that, one gets a second [[Shout-Out]]. Tezuka enjoyed referencing famous works of art in his work, and doing so could be considered a Tezuka reference in itself.
** While Prof. Ochanomizu looks about what you'd expect him to in Urasawa's style, he's apparently based on ''Tezuka''.
* [[Taking You
* [[Teach Him Anger]]: In a double example, {{spoiler|Tenma does this to to both Goji and Atom to awaken them.}} It works, but in completely different ways, and not quite in the way everyone expected. {{spoiler|Goji, overwhelmed by the hatred Abullah carried with him at his death, awakened and proceeded to convince himself that ''he'' was Abullah, and therefore human. Atom instead learns the folly relying on anger and hatred to win, and in fact realized the futility of those emotions instead}}.
* [[There Can Be Only One]]: this trope is inherent in the phrase "World's Strongest Robot" but in practice it's more of a [[Dwindling Party]] situation - there's really no force on Earth that can stop Pluto {{spoiler|and Bora}} once the "Strongest Robots" are dead.
* [[Three Laws Compliant]]: At least the First Law is supposed to be hardwired in all AI units. The only cases of a robot breaking it were Brau 1589 and {{spoiler|Gesicht}}.
** And {{spoiler|Abullah/Goji/Shadow, though this may not technically count, since he apparently [[Tomato in
* [[Ultimate Universe]]: Frequently compared favourably to Marvel's Ultimate books. Interestingly, this version mixes elements of both the original 1960s version and the 2003 anime.
* [[Unobtanium]]: The Zeronium Alloy that Gesicht is made from, as well as the ultra-heavy Zeronium weapons. They can tear through almost anything, and it takes a special type of particle gun to destroy it.
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