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* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The hip-hop dance thing before the fights.
** There's also the scene with {{spoiler|Atom seemingly staring at himself in the mirror. It's left to the viewer to determine whether or not he's actually sentient}}.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Ricky actually ''disqualifies'' himself as ''merely'' this with his tactics before the end of the film. To wit: the man continuously rubs it in Charlie's face he beat him in a boxing match and threatens to beat him up if he doesn't pay up to his end of the bet, which Charlie doesn't do because Ricky allowed Ambush to be completely destroyed even when Charlie threw in the towel. However, what ''really'' pushes him into this is when he hires goons to take the money by force. Beating up Charlie for cheating him? Jerkish, but understandable. Beating up ''Charlie's son who had done '''nothing''' wrong?!'' Completely unforgivable. And what makes his sense of morals far, FAR less than nothing is he ''laughs his head off'', enjoying every second of what misery he's caused, and that when he learns Max's relationship to Charlie, he actually beats him up even more than before. Thank goodness for [[Laser
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: {{spoiler|Max and Atom's Shadow Mode jog. Being much smaller than Atom, Max is able to nimbly weave around and between obstacles- which Atom sends flying seconds later. The tough bot even ''dislodges a fire hydrant'' near the end.}}
* [[Designated Hero]]: Charlie. When he hears about his girlfriend's death and his son, he reacts with no surprise that he had a son 11 years ago, so he knowingly left his girlfriend and son right before he was born. Then he signs him over to the boy's aunt and uncle for 100 grand, furthering the deadbeat dad vibe. Does he pay off all his debts with the money? No. He buys another robot to replace a broken one instead! He then gets the nerve to not pay his rent at the gym he works at, then lambasts the owner for thinking of selling it, claiming her deceased father would be pissed off at her. Then, when the robot gets destroyed and they're looking for replacement parts, he leaves Max in the pouring rain, to carry the new robot he found after surviving a fall off a cliff (This is the first time Charlie showed that he cared for him though). He comes back in the morning which the main female character fails to notice. He softens up to him a bit but that could be just him being profitable to him. There was no reason stated for why he left Max at the beginning and no one minded that this was essentially child abuse.
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