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''[[The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot]]'' (1995) began as [[Frank Miller]]'s and [[Geof Darrow]]'s much more family friendly collaboration after the energetically demented ''[[Hard Boiled]]''. The comic was a big, over-the-top tribute to [[Silver Age]] comics, ''[[Godzilla]]'' and ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]''. The story is about a giant, primordial monster unleashed upon Tokyo which the military is unable to defeat it; subsequently the government is forced to send the newly developed and inexperienced Rusty the [[Robot Kid|Boy Robot]] in to try and neutralize the threat. Unfortunately he is also overwhelmed by the monster and the government calls on the aid of their [[America Saves the Day|American allies]] who send in Big Guy, a bigass humanoid robot, with two fists and [[More Dakka|a whole lot of guns]].

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* [[American Robot]]: Big Guy is a [[Invoked Trope|deliberate]] example of this. 
* [[Body Horror]]: The villain's drool transforms people into reptilian monstrosities.
* [[Crossover]]: With [[Madman (Comic Book)|Madman]], the main characters also make an appearance in a [[Mushroom Samba|hallucination]] in [[Sin City]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Apparently the dinosaurs were all actually examples of this.
* [[Everything Is Better With Monkeys]]: Jenny the talking monkey of the scientist who was in charge of the experiment that reawakened the monster. She had the jitters about it.
* [[Expy]]: The monster to [[Godzilla]], Rusty to [[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]] and Big Guy to [[Iron Man]].
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Big Guy curses like this.
* [[Hand Blast]]
* [[Large Ham]]: The monster: "Sweating, Squealing, simpering, screaming rodents! You are doomed!"
** Big Guy himself "I Brought you some Candy!"
* [[Made of Explodium]]: The Monster and his minions.
* [[Narm Charm]]: Intentionally invoked.
* [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]: A given with Darrow's highly detailed [[Cyberpunk]] style cityscapes.
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Also a given since there's a giant monster rampaging that cityscape.
* [[Slave to PR]]: Big Guy is actually a piloted mecha, but for publicity reasons the populace (and Rusty) is led to believe he's a giant robot.
* [[Standard Evil Organization Squad]]: The Legion Ex Machina.

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