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Directed by [[Brad Bird]] (who was one of the original writers of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' and would later move on to work for [[Pixar]]), ''The Iron Giant'' is a critically-acclaimed animated film from [[Warner Bros]], based on Ted Hughes' novel ''The Iron Man'' ([[Iron Man|not to be confused with
Despite the immense critical praise given to it, the movie was a dud at the box office, thanks mostly to the disastrous marketing of the film by Warner Bros. The studio later did a 180 and gave it a marketing blitz on home video instead, and the movie's gathered a large cult following since then. Much of its following also comes from [[Cartoon Network]], which used to run the film in annual [[Marathon Running|all-day marathons]] on Thanksgiving.
The movie was produced by [[The Who|Pete Townshend]], who loved the original story and had previously done a [[Rock Opera]] based on it.
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* [[Absent Aliens]]: A planned scene (that was ultimately scrapped) seems to confirm that the Giant ''was'', in fact, built by aliens. But said aliens are never actually seen or mentioned, with the action focusing on the Giant's adventures on Earth.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: A dark example: At one point, while Hogarth was preparing to photograph the Iron Giant, he accidentially takes a picture of himself after cleaning and adjusting the camera perfectly. {{spoiler|That picture ironically turned out to be the incriminating evidence to the Iron Giant's existence, as the Giant was right behind him without his knowledge at that time, which Mansley managed to find after finding the camera as well as developing the photos.}}
* [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"]]: At one point, the Giant declares "I Superman!" and adorns his chest with a giant S. {{spoiler|A minute later, he showcases the bad side of the Man of Steel with a case of [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]].}}
* [[The Cameo]]: Former Disney animators [[
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Earlier in the film, Hogarth's mother doesn't believe him when he tries to tell her about the robot. He later chooses to keep it a secret.
** Mansley gets blown off by the general when he tries to phone him about the Giant's existence. Later, when he is finally capable of producing evidence, {{spoiler|Hogarth gets the one-up on him by disguising the Giant as one of Dean's pieces of metal art. Though Mansley is vindicated when, after being fired by the general for his supposed incompetence, the Giant appears in public in full view of the military convoy.}}
* [[Check, Please!]]: Invoked by Dean at the start of the film after he unleashes a squirrel on the diner.
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* [[Cold War]]: The entire film is couched in the paranoia and fear of the Cold War.
* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: Very notably averted; The necessity of cost-effectively and realistically portraying a metal man led to the Giant being rendered in 3D. The animators went out of their way to add slight irregularities to the lines while rendering the Giant to make it fit in more with spectacular results.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: [http://i43.tower.com/images/mm108971293/iron-giant-jennifer-aniston-vhs-cover-art.jpg The VHS and DVD cover]{{Dead link}} for the film had Hogarth (in the Giant's hand) wearing a powder blue sweater, which he doesn't wear in the actual movie (he just wears a red-and-blue-striped sweater for most of the movie).
** Averted with the 2004 Special Edition DVD, which has a completely different cover where more emphasis is placed on the Giant and Hogarth is depicted in the form of a silhouette.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The giant's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
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** This would probably fall under [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Dean
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Electric power stations don't have master on/off switches. Probably justified by [[Rule of Drama]]--Hogarth and the Giant have to meet and bond, after all.
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* [[General Ripper]]: Subverted with General Rogard. He has the appearance and mannerisms of your standard Cold War psychotic, but turns out to be a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] who quite clearly distrusts Mansley and {{spoiler|calls off the attack when it is finally revealed that the Giant only attacks defensively}}.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: [[The Movie]]
* [[Giant Hands of Doom]]: Sort of: After the Giant's first on-screen repair function is displayed, it is later revealed that he didn't quite take into account all of his body parts. It turns out that the left hand sneaked into Hogarth's house, forcing the boy to create a lot of distractions to keep his mother and Mansley from seeing it before it can rejoin the Giant.
* [[Giant Robot]]
* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]: Possibly [[Justified]] - you see the hand move directly after it catches them, and appears to still have been several feet off the ground when it did.
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* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Mansley
** [[Subverted]] in that {{spoiler|he barely did any actual fighting against the benign Giant, and when he did, he nearly killed them all}}.
* [[He's a Friend]]: "His name is Dean; we like Dean"
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[Vin Diesel]] as the Giant, [[Friends|Rachel]] as Hogarth's mom, [[Will and Grace|Leo]] as Dean, [[Frasier|Martin Crane]] as the General, and [[American Pie|Stifler's brother]] as Hogarth.
** [[Happy Gilmore|Shooter McGavin]] as Kent Mansley.
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* [[In Name Only]]: The film has little-to-no resemblance with the original novel.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Dean is just an animated version of Harry Connick Jr. Seriously, there's no difference at all.
** Same with [[
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Hogarth and Dean.
* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Hogarth's grades are high enough to skip a grade; he mention before he gets bullied for it.
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* [[More Dakka]]: {{spoiler|The Giant.}}
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Hogarth, twice - once in the scene where he has an espresso and the other when the Giant's hand flushes the toilet upstairs and he says: "Gottausethebathroom".
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Dean, the handsome artistically inclined beatnik with the voice of Harry Connick Jr.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Very bluntly averted, almost defied.
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'''Rogard:''' To ''die'', Mansley. ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|For our country]]''. }}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: From a certain point of view since Mansely did have good intentions. {{spoiler|But he panics and nearly brings nuclear death on the area}}. Rogard puts its bluntly...
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* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted to great effect, though still tastefully, when Hogarth gives Mansley a large dose of laxative.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: "Do you remember the raccoon, Hogarth? (shudder) ''I'' remember the raccoon."
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** Dean's no slouch, either. His first reaction to seeing the Giant is to protect the kid. He also chews out the Giant after nearly vaporizing Hogarth by accident.
* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Annie does not seem to have the faintest clue that Hogarth unabashedly ''despises'' Mansley, and has been desperate to avoid him since he moved in. She goes so far to suggest Hogarth take Mansley around and show him the sights. Whether this is true obliviousness or just Annie wanting her son to accept they have to rent the spare room for money is not completely obvious. As he starts to show his true colors, she quickly dislikes him.
* [[Perma
* [[Planet Killer]]: {{spoiler|The deleted Dream Scene shows that the giant is supposed to be this. Even without the scene, the film itself, especially during the giant's rampage, heavily implies that this was what he really was.}}
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Mansley intends to track down and destroy the Iron Giant since he believes it to be a threat to America. {{spoiler|He's ultimately right, as the Iron Giant is eventually revealed to be what is heavily implied to be a [[Planet Killer]], although his folly was that he let it become genuine paranoia.}}
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** The Western that General Rogard was watching when Mansley was contacting him was the exact same one the Dalmatian puppies were watching in Disney's ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''.
** The "scary movie" that Hogarth was watching was a shout out to the cheesy sci-fi movies of the fifties (more specifically, ''The Brain from Planet Arous'').
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** Likewise, one of the weapons on the Iron Giant {{spoiler|when he goes berserk in vengeance for the apparent death of Hogarth}} heavily resembles the cannons utilized by the Martians in ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Especially regarding cars, architecture, pop culture, and clothing styles of the 1950's.
** Hogarth's comic covers are all genuine (save for Atomo, who was made up for the film).
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* [[Time Compression Montage]]: While Hogarth is in the forest trying to get a picture of the Giant.
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The trailers make it seem as though Dean discovered the Giant, and tried to get Hogarth away from the Giant when he was about to eat an alarm-live car. In actuality, the Giant eating the alarm-live car occurred ''before'' Dean discovered the Giant, and even then it wasn't from the live alarm.
* [[Trans
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: {{spoiler|Hogarth seemingly dies.}} Ladies and gentlemen, the [[Berserk Button]] has been pressed.
* [[Up, Up, and Away]]: The Giant doesn't ''have'' to do this to fly, but Hogarth insists on it.
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** Also, the movie itself was originally going to be a musical with songs by Pete Townshend, but the songs were dropped when Warner Bros. approached Brad Bird to direct the project.
** There was originally going to be a brief flashback in which the audience would see a few vague details about the Giant's origins, but it was ultimately scrapped. The idea was to have a scene where he dreams about the [[Absent Aliens|alien factory]] where he was built, and to have the dream transmitted electronically to Dean's television for the audience to see. The scene was never animated, but some of the sketches for it can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05XM9huSWNU here].
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Hogarth and the Giant question whether he has a soul.
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Kent Mansley with this line: "Hogarth? What an
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Subverted, the Giant easily could be if he was not so docile.
* [[You Just Told Me]]: How Annie tricks Dean into telling her Hogarth sneaks off to his junkyard every night.
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