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Pluto (Manga)

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Pluto (Manga)	comment	A manga by Naoki Urasawa, the man behind Monster and 20th Century Boys. The story is an Ultimate Universe reimagining of the classic Astro Boy story arc "The Greatest Robot on Earth" (which can be found in Astro Boy book three, in case you want to check it out before reading the remake). Takashi Nagasaki is credited as a co-author, while Makoto Tezuka (Osamu Tezuka's son) supervised the story. The manga ran in the seinen magazine Big Comic Original from 2003 to 2009.In a world where humans and sapient robots co-exist, someone or something 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 all robots are hardwired to be unable to kill humans, with one very important exception.German robot detective Gesicht (German for 'face'), who is so advanced as to be nearly indistinguishable from a normal human, investigates the killings in an effort to learn the secret link between the advanced robots and humans being murdered. This is an especially urgent matter for Gesicht, since he's one of the scheduled murder victims...In 2010, Universal picked up the rights to make a CGI/live-action movie. 2017 saw an announcement for an eight-episode Animated Adaptation. A sneak peak for the anime was released in February 2023, confirming a Netflix release. GENCO and Studio M2 animate the series with help from Tezuka Productions, MAPPA, DR Movie, BILBA and Studio VOLN. The anime released on October 26, 2023, with eight hour-long episodes.No relation to the former planet, nor the cartoon bloodhound, nor the Sailor Senshi, nor the Greco-Roman god of the Underworld, other than the titular robot being named after said god. Also, this manga is not expendable.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
Pluto (Manga) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Dr. Tenma is Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Mustachio is Wilford Brimley (in his second role in a Naoki Urasawa production).
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Pluto (Manga) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: To give you an idea on just how far this trope goes: 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.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_12476700	type	Locard's Theory
Pluto (Manga) / int_12476700	comment	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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Pluto (Manga) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Pluto (Manga) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Gesicht has one moments before his death.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Pluto (Manga) / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: Each of the 7 greatest robots come from a different country. Gesicht from Germany, Atom from Japan, Mont Blanc from Switzerland, North #2 from Scotland, Brando from Turkey, Hercules from Greece, and Epsilon from Australia. Pluto and Bora are Persian.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Pluto (Manga) / int_14beeefd	comment	The story begins as a Darker and Edgier retelling of a famous Astro Boy arc, with more realistic art style and world. The story shifting away from a traditional version of The Hero in Astro and towards a Noir Detective like Gesicht also means it gets to explore the seedier sides of the world and asks more complex questions about robotic intelligence and memory. As the story reaches its conclusion, Astro retakes his position as the protagonist and begins fighting Pluto not out of revenge, but to end the Cycle of Revenge and stop Pluto from destroying himself (and the world).
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Pluto (Manga) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The Thracian invasion of Persia that makes up a key part of the backstory (being the invasion of a Middle Eastern country by a Western superpower-led coalition under suspect pretenses) is clearly inspired by the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, which began the same year that the manga began publishing.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Pluto (Manga) / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Prof. Ochanomizu. As the Japanese Science Minister, he tells several people more powerful than him (in theory) to shove it. As a man of science, he works throughout the night to try and save a dying robot dog. As a lover of peace, he would rather die than allow Atom to fight an unnecessary battle.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
Pluto (Manga) / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: Pluto's mark is leaving something in the shape of horns by or on the victim. It's a method of identification until he does it to Brando (using his arms as the horns and his memory chip as the head), where it has more of a "bragging" feel to it.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Pluto (Manga) / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: Brando tries 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, ruining the Pluto footage and rendering it useless.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Pluto (Manga) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Gesicht's rage at his "son's" death is so great that he breaks one of the Three Laws of Robotics to get his revenge.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Pluto (Manga) / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Gesicht does not die at the hands of Pluto but by being blown away by a hacked robot child with a Cluster Cannon who somehow made it all the way from Persia to the Netherlands. After quitting Europol and taking roses to his wife to tell her he wishes to go journeying around the globe.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Pluto (Manga) / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Dr. Roosevelt, the Greater-Scope Villain of the story, is a supercomputer whose avatar that it communicates through is a teddy bear. So he's Teddy Roosevelt.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Pluto (Manga) / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: Zeronium Cluster Cannons.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Pluto (Manga) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Atom and his sister are frequently misidentified as human, even by other robots. This ability becomes an important plot point later.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Pluto (Manga) / int_237404cc	comment	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. After a robot policeman is killed in duty, Gesicht offers to erase his wife's memories to ease her suffering. She refuses, because she would rather keep him in her memories, and grieves in her own fashion. After Gesicht's son is brutally murdered, and he kills the murderer in his fury, both Gesicht and his wife Helena's memories of the child (and killing the murderer) are erased, which results in Gesicht never quite getting over it, living with an inexplicable hatred inside him, and suffering horrible nightmares.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Pluto (Manga) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Several. The various jabs about the doggy cop cars. Kimba the White Lion's brief cameo. In the North #2 mini-arc, Paul Duncan mentions his life was saved by a famous Japanese doctor. It's almost certainly Black Jack, as what we can see of him has him wearing his characteristic long black coat and having no medical license. Both the anime adaptation and its English dub cast the doctor's voice to Black Jack's regular voice actors, Akio Ōtsuka and Kirk Thornton respectively. In many panels Atom sports a kind of double cowlick, referencing his trope making Anime Hair. Epsilon doesn't only look similar to Johan Liebert, but is also often surrounded by children. This is particularly notable since the two characters have polar opposite world views.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_271ec178	type	IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight
Pluto (Manga) / int_271ec178	comment	"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Gesicht, Epsilon, and Atom in their respective fights against Pluto AKA Sahad.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Pluto (Manga) / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: One generic police robot is given a name "Yujiro". He is killed just a couple pages later.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Pluto (Manga) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Brau 1589 and Bora.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Pluto (Manga) / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Happens to the President of Thracia, who ordered the invasion of Persia under the pretence that they were creating robots of mass destruction (actually so he could expand his empire), only for a Persian scientist to begin creating them in retaliation - and now said robots are vengeance-crazed and about to crack Thracia's continental plate. The once Smug Snake is reduced to a cowering wreck hiding in a bunker ...and then Brau 1589 shows up.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2b3937ef	type	Our Hero Is Dead
Pluto (Manga) / int_2b3937ef	comment	Our Hero Is Dead: Of course Atom isn't going to be gone for good. Gesicht, on the other hand...
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Pluto (Manga) / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: Epsilon might very well be the strongest character in the setting, stronger even than the one who is killing the other robots, considering that during their first encounter, Epsilon easily defeats Pluto, but lets him go since he has no personal quarrel with him. During their second encounter, they fight at night, which puts Epsilon at a disadvantage since he is powered by the sun, and then he is distracted by his adoptive son being in danger and focuses on protecting him rather than himself, which allows Pluto to kill him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
Pluto (Manga) / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: Epsilon's Photon Energy, which seems to be something like solar-powered intense radiation. Not to mention the Anti-Proton bombs that Urasawa is so fond of.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
Pluto (Manga) / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Uran.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Pluto (Manga) / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: The real Abullah is dead. The one running around is the perfect A.I. he built, convinced that it is him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Pluto (Manga) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Even the anti-robot Ku Klux Klan stand-ins are horrified when one of their members turns out to be a sadistic serial killer who targets robot children, though they have no problem using the consequences (the enraged robot father breaking the laws of robotics to kill the man in vengence) to their advantage. Brau 1589 does not take kindly to an Omnicidal Maniac.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_33a2f32f	type	Do Androids Dream?
Pluto (Manga) / int_33a2f32f	comment	Do Androids Dream?: A.I. 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 prophetic dream until he figures out what happened.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Pluto (Manga) / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Brau 1589. It says a lot when a barely functioning robot somehow escapes a high-security prison and pretty much ''crawls'' to finally bring down Roosevelt and the president of Thracia while having a giant spear stuck in him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Pluto (Manga) / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: The story revolves around the seven robots officially recognised in-universe as weapons of mass destruction: Montblanc, North #2, Brando, Heracles, Gesicht, Atom, and especially Epsilon. Pluto and Bora also qualify.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_3765da01	type	PowerOfHate
Pluto (Manga) / int_3765da01	comment	Power Of Hate: According to Tenma, the only thing that separates humans and humanoid machines is that humans have the capacity to hate others. A machine that possesses this quality is no longer considered merely a machine.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Pluto (Manga) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Gesicht is voiced by Shinshu Fuji in the anime adaptation, who is also the official Japanese dub voice of Daniel Craig's James Bond, both characters being blonde-haired and agents.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_3977aeb5	type	Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear
Pluto (Manga) / int_3977aeb5	comment	Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear: Played with when it comes to Dr. Roosevelt. It's not that it's a teddy bear per se, but the teddy bear is used by it so that people are able to focus on something when talking with it, as they would otherwise be talking with a portentously big and featureless supercomputer the size of a building without knowing where to look.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_3a12261d	type	Robot Soldier
Pluto (Manga) / int_3a12261d	comment	Robot Soldier: Robots were used for war (especially The Eight Strongest Robots), but since even those robots are programmed to obey the three laws of robotics (some robots were able to ignore these rules, such as when Gesicht iced the killer of his son), they can only be used against other robots.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Pluto (Manga) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: This is a Perspective Flip of Tezuka's "World's Strongest Robot" arc, so anyone who's read the original knows that Gesicht is screwed. For that matter, you'll know that Atom doesn't stay dead.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Pluto (Manga) / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: Brando and Heracles both use these when fighting in the war and the ring (they're wrestlers during the day), though they have to detach their heads from their general-use bodies.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Pluto (Manga) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Atom vs. Pluto: If you can even call it that...
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Pluto (Manga) / int_41914bb3	type	Blade Below the Shoulder
Pluto (Manga) / int_41914bb3	comment	Blade Below the Shoulder: North #2 has two of these.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Pluto (Manga) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Deconstructed. The story proposes that it has to be a crapshoot or else it's not a true A.I. (working off the logic that since Humans Are Flawed, then for a robot to be considered of equal sentience to a human, it must be capable of the same mistakes). It's therefore the robots who display the most unpredictability that the manga considers the closest to true sentience. No robot has ever been programmed with the ability to lie, for example, yet the most advanced ones are able to do so anyway as emergent behaviour, with the robot that the story dubs the first ever "truly perfect A.I." being capable of lying even to itself.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
Pluto (Manga) / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: While the robot murders were carried out by Pluto, the human murders appear to be the work of Goji/Abullah.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Pluto (Manga) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The way Gesicht's kid was killed was never shown. Neither was Gesicht's killing of the murderer shown explicitly.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Pluto (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Zig-zagged. While the plot treats a robot developing rage, and murderous one at that, as the pinnacle of their evolution, robots for the most part are still showcased as remaining sane enough to show regret for their actions (such as Pluto and Geischt and also the other greatest robots on Earth, with the latter 6 developing a variation of PTSD for their actions) while humans most definitely do not and the greatest murderous maniac of all is a robot programmed with the mental engrams of a man who died feeling a tremendous amount of rage. Of the two killer robots running around, Brau 1589 and Roosevelt, the former shows a bit of standards and kills Roosevelt, and the other, while exposing that he hopes all humans die by the actions of Bora and being The Man Behind the Man of the Thracians and thus the one who ordered the war, causing all of the plot, is mostly an Opportunistic Bastard.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Pluto (Manga) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Atom comes awfully close a few times.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_4cb90f31	type	Three Laws-Compliant
Pluto (Manga) / int_4cb90f31	comment	Three Laws-Compliant: At least the First Law is supposed to be hardwired in all A.I. units. The only cases of a robot breaking it are Brau 1589, Gesicht, and Abullah/Goji/Shadow, though the last may not technically count, since he apparently believed himself to be human. Roosevelt doesn't seem to obey them either, but then he was created specifically to mastermind Thracia's corruption, so he may have been illegally built without them.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Pluto (Manga) / int_4d1423b9	comment	Several tropes in android sci-fi, like Become a Real Boy and Do Androids Dream?, are discussed by the narrative with fairly dark interpretations. Unlike most other media where androids adopt human characteristics that are good, the androids of Pluto adopt ones that are negative, like pride, prejudice, and even a capacity for senseless violence. The story even posits that the factor that makes artificial intelligence a true, growing life form is none other than the ability to lie to others and itself. However, the story then bends in the other direction and demonstrates how negative human characteristics can still be used for good through Atom. Over the course of the story, Atom gains the ability to feel hatred, desire revenge, and even lie to others, but he uses all three for good reasons- he feels hatred for how Pluto has been treated and the situation both of them have been forced into, he desires revenge for his comrades but ultimately understands pursuing it against a victim like Pluto is the wrong thing to do, and he lies to Gesicht's wife about the missing memory of their murdered child, because he knows the pain she will feel if he allows her to remember it. The story demonstrates how negative aspects of humanity are not always destructive or cruel, and can in fact be used for good intentions.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_4e1d9178	type	Tailor-Made Prison
Pluto (Manga) / int_4e1d9178	comment	Tailor-Made Prison: Brau 1589, the first known human-killer robot, was considered so dangerous they didn't even bother to haul his mostly-destroyed body to a prison. No, what they did was they built the prison around where he lay, with huge warning signs, checkpoints and cement barriers. The electrified spear impaling him is also the only thing keeping him alive, but no human dares come close enough to remove it, and Brau 1589 emits highly-disruptive magnetism that scrambles the AI of most ordinary robots that come near without protective gear.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_51616227	type	Power Born of Madness
Pluto (Manga) / int_51616227	comment	Power Born of Madness: This is what happens when a robot is filled with rage and hatred, apparently.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Pluto (Manga) / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: The American meteorological robot Arnold discovers a crack on the roof in a building he happens to be in; he doesn't have to dig in that much further until he discovers by serendipity that there is a great seismological increase in the United States of Thracia, correctly speculating that there could be a nuclear device under the surface. He is quickly dismissed by Dr. Roosevelt and the Thracian President as a potential Spanner in the Works. Because he is known to be an eccentric robot, Arnold is effectively the least influential individual possible to have discovered the truth.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Pluto (Manga) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: To the point there's even an anti-robot version of the KKK.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_58afe9f2	type	Torso with a View
Pluto (Manga) / int_58afe9f2	comment	Torso with a View: The Cluster Cannon blast that kills Gesicht leaves a humongous hole in his lower torso that can be seen through.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Pluto (Manga) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: While it mostly focuses on expanding a single story arc, it also incorporates elements from the greater Astro Boy mythos at large. For instance, Atom's death and return were taken from the tail-end of the Blue Knight saga and the idea of Darius trying to legitimize his dictatorship by claiming descent from an ancient ruler from antiquity comes from the Cleopatra's Heart storyline.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Pluto (Manga) / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: The Bora Investigation was part of a setup to establish the United States of Thracia as the world's main superpower by playing other nations against each other. There's also the cover-up the European Union pulled when it turned out Gesicht wasn't Three Laws-Compliant.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Pluto (Manga) / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: Robots are hard coded to be unable to kill human beings. Only one robot, Brau 1589, has ever been able to commit human murder. Only it turns out there are two more who have committed murder. Goji, who was able to convince himself he was a human, and thus mentally able to avoid the restrictions of being a robot, and Gesicht, whose fury at the death of his son overrode any programming that would stop him from killing.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_5e4cb57a	type	Tears from a Stone
Pluto (Manga) / int_5e4cb57a	comment	Tears from a Stone: Most advanced A.I.s are capable of crying, but only in order to better simulate human behavior. When they cry for themselves and mean it, you know it's important.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_5ece868a	type	Consulting a Convicted Killer
Pluto (Manga) / int_5ece868a	comment	Consulting a Convicted Killer: Gesicht is tracking a serial killer who might be a robot, and consults Brau 1589, previously believed to be the only robot who ever killed a human.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Pluto (Manga) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Atom, Pluto and Brau 1589 to Dr. Roosevelt.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_60fb6e02	type	I Am Not a Gun
Pluto (Manga) / int_60fb6e02	comment	I Am Not a Gun: Pick a powerful robot. Heracles was the most comfortable with the war as a fighter, and even he laments that "That war was no fight." The others don't handle things nearly as well, and deal(t) with it in various ways. (Moreover, given how inclusive society has become, they have no trouble fitting into civilian life, possibly excepting North #2.)
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Pluto (Manga) / int_631ef99	type	Shapeshifter Swan Song
Pluto (Manga) / int_631ef99	comment	Shapeshifter Swan Song: A rather unique inversion. The reason the ultimate A.I. robot failed to come to life to begin with was because it was shifting through so many personalities and faces that the hardware just couldn't keep up. Later played straight when said ultimate A.I. is confronted by the truth about itself, whereupon its face morphs into Gesicht's, Brando's, Hercules', and Epsilon's before reverting to a featureless, lifeless base form.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_6400a34	type	Arm Cannon
Pluto (Manga) / int_6400a34	comment	Arm Cannon: Gesicht's left hand can transform into two different non-lethal weapons: one that shoots knockout gas, and a version that can shoot a "stun" beam. His right arm, however, transforms into an incredibly dangerous Cluster Cannon complete with Zeronium Missiles. The champion in this regard is North #2. He has four arm cannons: two that look like gatling guns and two that look like energy cannons.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Pluto (Manga) / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Atom was originally created by Dr. Tenma as a replacement for his son Tobio. However, Atom differed from Tobio in many ways (Atom enjoyed doing his homework, cleaning his room, and always aimed to please Tenma, while Tobio hated doing those things and was more rebellious), causing Tenma to abandon him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Pluto (Manga) / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Pluto.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Pluto (Manga) / int_676e942c	comment	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.)
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Pluto (Manga) / int_68913e61	type	Hello, [Insert Name Here]
Pluto (Manga) / int_68913e61	comment	"______ didn't want to die."
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Pluto (Manga) / int_6b4763f	type	Morph Weapon
Pluto (Manga) / int_6b4763f	comment	Gesicht's left hand can transform into two different non-lethal weapons: one that shoots knockout gas, and a version that can shoot a "stun" beam. His right arm, however, transforms into an incredibly dangerous Cluster Cannon complete with Zeronium Missiles.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Pluto (Manga) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Professor Roosevelt is named after Theodore Roosevelt, the source of "teddy bear". "Gesicht" is both German and Dutch for "face". Brau 1589 gets his name from the original "Blue Bon". "Brau" is similar-sounding to "Blue", whereas 1589 is the year when the House of Bourbon took over in France — in other words, one hell of a historical Shout-Out. In fact, Brau is probably a mistranslation. It's probably supposed to be Blau, German for blue. Ochanomizu is Japanese for 'tea water'.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_6ca5a8c2	type	Master Computer
Pluto (Manga) / int_6ca5a8c2	comment	Master Computer: Dr. Roosevelt.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Pluto (Manga) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "500 zeus a body." "Bora". "______ didn't want to die." "Robots cannot lie". The perfect robot can lie, even to itself.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Pluto (Manga) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Several of the robots that participated in the 39th Central Asian Conflict, but especially North #2.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
Pluto (Manga) / int_7a19a69b	comment	Not Quite the Right Thing: The very reason Dr. Tenma sold Atom. Atom is the splitting image of Tenma's son Tobio, but he is not Tobio. Incapable of replicating the nuances of the late boy, and only serving to fuel his grief and frustration, Tenma opted to get rid of Atom.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7b90899b	type	Ultimate Universe
Pluto (Manga) / int_7b90899b	comment	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.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Pluto (Manga) / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: Justified, intentional example. For most of the story, Pluto is an elemental beast of destruction, the monster that hides in darkness. Once he's finally fully seen though, he helps out a child and then begs for help himself, wishing to die. In other words, the monster in darkness turns out to be something human after all. Pluto's role as an elemental monster is then replaced by Bora.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Pluto (Manga) / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: Invoked as part of the Three Laws of Robotics, but ultimately averted in several ways. The more advanced an A.I., the more capable it is of emulating humanity, including lying. Most importantly, Goji lying to himself that he was Abullah, and therefore human. This, according to Dr. Tenma, marks him as a truly perfect A.I. The four other instances of an advanced A.I. lying are Brando, lying to his family and to his assistant, before going off to battle Pluto; Abullah, lying to Gesicht in the latter's inquiry, which causes Gesicht to incorrectly identify Abullah as human; Uran, lying about the nature of the robot she found; and Atom, lying to Helena about the gap in her and Gesicht's memories. In the last case, the person being lied to knows it immediately, but acknowledges it as a small kindness.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Pluto (Manga) / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Epsilon.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Pluto (Manga) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original story, of the seven super robots, only Astro, Mont Blanc, Gerhardt, and Epsilon were depicted as nice people. North #2 had no discernible personality and only followed his master's orders, Brando was a borderline Asshole Victim who threatened to destroy Astro if he got in his way, and Heracles insisted on fighting Pluto alone due to his Honor Before Reason personality, costing him and Epsilon their lives. Here, they are all given some much-needed backstory and portrayed far more sympathetically. Police Inspector Tawashi is nowhere as antagonizing towards Atom as he is in the original manga, though he is still very resentful of robots in general. Still, there are factions of humans that do have a vitriolic hatred of robots.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_82e8cfeb	type	The Power of the Sun
Pluto (Manga) / int_82e8cfeb	comment	The Power of the Sun: Epsilon, as long as he has time to (re)charge in sunlight.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_8404a0f3	type	Amnesiac Dissonance
Pluto (Manga) / int_8404a0f3	comment	Amnesiac Dissonance: Gesicht.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_84591e0	type	Pacifist
Pluto (Manga) / int_84591e0	comment	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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Pluto (Manga) / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
Pluto (Manga) / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: All robots are equipped with a device that dampens emotional responses as one of the failsafes to ensure that they stay Three Laws-Compliant. Advanced robots can overwhelm the block with a sufficiently strong emotion — say, Unstoppable Rage.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Pluto (Manga) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: Essentially this is the original Astro Boy story from the POV of a (previously) minor character.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Pluto (Manga) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Montblanc and the real Dr. Abullah.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Pluto (Manga) / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Invoked. It's on this reasoning that Tenma strongly advises Abdullah not to uncover the face of the comatose 'perfect AI' robot he had created, which was at that time rapidly morphing through the faces of six billion people.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Pluto (Manga) / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it one for Black Jack in the arc about North #2. In the anime heâ€™s even credited as "BJ" and is voiced by his original voice actor. Kimba the White Lion also makes a cameo as an escaped zoo animal during Uran's debut.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Pluto (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	In the original story, of the seven super robots, only Astro, Mont Blanc, Gerhardt, and Epsilon were depicted as nice people. North #2 had no discernible personality and only followed his master's orders, Brando was a borderline Asshole Victim who threatened to destroy Astro if he got in his way, and Heracles insisted on fighting Pluto alone due to his Honor Before Reason personality, costing him and Epsilon their lives. Here, they are all given some much-needed backstory and portrayed far more sympathetically.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
Pluto (Manga) / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: The child robot that Gesicht rescues, in particular. Otherwise averted, although Ridiculously Human bodies are only that without a mind in it.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Pluto (Manga) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Abullah is confronted with the truth about himself, he pretty much explodes with denial until he (or, rather, his current body) just overloads and collapses.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Pluto (Manga) / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: Pretty much all the main characters have some kind of connection to the 39th Central Asian Conflict. This is a plot point.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Pluto (Manga) / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: Hogan the bodyguard is a large, beefy robot assigned to protect Epsilon (he notes the irony - if not for the weather, Epsilon could protect a whole continent on his own). Normally he wouldn't fall under this trope, but he protects Wassily from the collateral damage caused by Epsilon and Pluto when they finally fight.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Pluto (Manga) / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: The first appearance of Abullah. As Atom and Uran correct a security guard who mistakenly tries to direct them into a "human" doorway instead of the "non-human" one they were headed towards, he remarks that it truly is becoming impossible to tell robot from human. As this happens, Atom sees Abullah walk through the "human" door. Abullah is in fact Goji, a robot so advanced that he was even able to convince himself he was human.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Pluto (Manga) / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: At the end of the series it is revealed that Dr. Roosevelt (the supercomputer) had Thracia invade Persia, causing Abullah to lose his family, and thus create Pluto to attack Thracia and the world's seven most advanced robots, who took part in the war. Doing so would insure Thracia's dominance in the world once its disadvantage in robotics was made moot — and activate a very large bomb that would kill most of humanity and establish robots as the dominant species on the planet. However, Atom is repaired and enhanced with the emotions from Gesicht's memory chip, and not only defeats Pluto, but convinces him to stop the bomb. Roosevelt also doesn't count on Brau 1589 escaping and coming to kill him personally.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Pluto (Manga) / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Explored very thoroughly.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Pluto (Manga) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: All over the place; "Pluto" is basically Urasawa's tribute to Osamu Tezuka.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_9f6198cb	type	What Is This Feeling?
Pluto (Manga) / int_9f6198cb	comment	What Is This Feeling?: Robots who feel love, grief, or utter hatred for the first time will indubitably utter this phrase.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_9f9540ae	type	We Can Rebuild Him
Pluto (Manga) / int_9f9540ae	comment	We Can Rebuild Him: Part of Abullah's back story. A fraudulent part.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Pluto (Manga) / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Every super-robot that is not Atom.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_a5398aba	type	Authority in Name Only
Pluto (Manga) / int_a5398aba	comment	Authority in Name Only: The President of the United States of Thracia.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Pluto (Manga) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Gesicht didn't last seven pages back in the original story, now he's the hero.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Pluto (Manga) / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Averted with Gesicht; it takes him a while to realize he's been shot with a Cluster Cannon.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Pluto (Manga) / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The story takes place on our Earth, with most countries and cities being the same, but certain places are different. Like the Middle East has become the Republic of Persia, and the United States of America are instead the United States of Thracia, stemming from a country that today is Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Pluto (Manga) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: In the anime, the composer's classical-styled piano piece plays over North No.2's memory of being in the battlefield, killing his fellow robots wholesale. It helps convey the tragedy of the situation.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
Pluto (Manga) / int_abdf1659	comment	Bodyguarding a Badass: Epsilon, one of the most powerful robots in the world if not actually the most powerful, is guarded by a somewhat generic security robot. Said robot even remarks on the irony of it.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
Pluto (Manga) / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Darius XIV, the strongman ruling Persia is a blatant facsimile of Saddam Hussein (he even looks almost the same), the dictator of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, just like the 39th Central Asian Conflict is one of the Real Life 2003 Iraq War. On the side of his foes, the Thracian president Alexander bears more than just a passing resemblance to the 43th US president George W. Bush.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Pluto (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Tenma sold Atom. Dr Abullah. He perverts his son Sahad, a gentle robot who only wants to fill his homeland with flowers and live peacefully, into a horrible weapon for his own vengeance due to his overwhelming hatred.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_b14ca7ba	type	Two Aliases, One Character
Pluto (Manga) / int_b14ca7ba	comment	Two Aliases, One Character: Three, actually. Goji, Bora, and the Dr. Abullah seen in most of the story all turn out to be the same character.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Pluto (Manga) / int_b1619b3c	comment	Brau 1589 does not take kindly to an Omnicidal Maniac.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Pluto (Manga) / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: It's only seen through flashback, but the war between Thracia and Persia is heavily based on the Iraq War (with robots). The United States of Thracia accuses the Middle East nation of Persia of making Robots of Mass Destruction, but before other countries can complete their investigation into whether it's true, Thracia sends troops in and starts a horrific, wasteful war that devastates the country. This is all just a ploy to make Thracia the world's main superpower.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_b5fb096b	type	People Puppets
Pluto (Manga) / int_b5fb096b	comment	Early in the story it's revealed that Brando and Heracles both have human-like bodies outside their robot ones. When Uran meets a vagrant-like robot, a reader familiar with the original story will assume that this is Pluto's human-like body. It turns out the body belonged to another robot - Pluto was just using the empty body for a joyride. (It's eventually revealed he did have a human-like body though.)
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Pluto (Manga) / int_bb44f503	type	Robot War
Pluto (Manga) / int_bb44f503	comment	Robot War: The 39th Central Asian Conflict 4 years ago where humans fought humans and robots fought robots.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_bd08288f	type	Mouthy Kid
Pluto (Manga) / int_bd08288f	comment	Mouthy Kid: Uran just loves to drop age-appropriate snark in almost every line she says, and when she treats someone kindly namely Pluto she still is a bit prone at taking over the conversation.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c2cedbfc	type	Big "NO!"
Pluto (Manga) / int_c2cedbfc	comment	Big "NO!" When Tenma reveals to Abullah that he was the "perfect A.I" he created.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Pluto (Manga) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Admit it, when he survived his bout with Pluto, you really thought Gesicht was going to survive. Not just Gesicht, but Epsilon as well.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c5d25ab4	type	One Cast Member per Cover
Pluto (Manga) / int_c5d25ab4	comment	One Cast Member per Cover: Each volume features a main character's face on the cover, starting with the two heroes of the story, Gesicht and Atom, on the first and second volume respectively. Subsequent volumes have Uran, Doctor Tenma, Hercules, Professor Ochanomizu, Epsilon, and finally Atom again for the concluding volume.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c70059b4	type	Psychic Dreams for Everyone
Pluto (Manga) / int_c70059b4	comment	Beyond that, Gesicht seems to have incorporated a transmission from Atom into a dream at one point, such that it's basically a prophetic dream until he figures out what happened.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Pluto (Manga) / int_c75df49a	comment	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.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Pluto (Manga) / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: As Gesicht and Haas separately confront the fact that Gesicht killed Haas's brother, Haas's wife asserts that Gesicht, a robot, could not have been motivated by hatred of Haas's brother. Cut to Brau 1589 stating that Gesicht could have and was.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Pluto (Manga) / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Gesicht attempts to retire or get vacation time only pages before he dies.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Pluto (Manga) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Brau 1589 killing Professor Roosevelt with the spear he had been impaled with. Brau 1589 had previously declared that removing the spear from his body would kill him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Pluto (Manga) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: It takes several volumes before we get a full view of Pluto, which makes his appearances that much more terrifying. Notably when he does appear he stops becoming the elemental monster he was in all his previous appearances - see Villain Decay. In universe example: When the authorities opened up Brau 1589 to examine the glitch in his "Three Laws" compliance, what did they find? What corrupted him to the point that he could even kill a human? ...Nothing. There was nothing wrong with his programming and thus nothing that could explain why any other robot couldn't do the same thing. This is the reason that he's kept in isolation instead of just being destroyed, the authorities are still trying to find an error that could have caused this because they're simply too frightened of the implications that there wasn't one. They're too scared of what he represents to even kill him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Pluto (Manga) / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Epsilon's orphanage is one of few, and the existence of several orphans in the former kingdom of Persia shows how poorly reconstruction is going. The informal nature of the orphanage is cause for trouble, when Wassily is kidnapped from the orphanage because neither of the human caretakers, browbeaten by a couple of presumed government officials, remembered to make a background check on the adoptive father.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Pluto (Manga) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The fact that scanners identify the figure in the dead policebot's memory files as human. Abullah believes himself to be human so hard that he acts it convincingly enough to fool modern equipment, even when performing obviously inhuman feats like vaulting between two skyscrapers. He tells others (and himself) that his limbs are artificial since he lost his real ones in the war. The reality is that his whole body is a robot imitating the real Abullah. Early in the story it's revealed that Brando and Heracles both have human-like bodies outside their robot ones. When Uran meets a vagrant-like robot, a reader familiar with the original story will assume that this is Pluto's human-like body. It turns out the body belonged to another robot - Pluto was just using the empty body for a joyride. (It's eventually revealed he did have a human-like body though.)
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Pluto (Manga) / int_dc115332	type	Scrubbing Off the Trauma
Pluto (Manga) / int_dc115332	comment	Scrubbing Off the Trauma: In Chapters 33 and 34, Hercules recalls seeing a shell-shocked robot after a battle, desperately trying to wash his hands under a broken water pipe, saying "It just won't come out."
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Pluto (Manga) / int_ddc4aa51	type	Unobtanium
Pluto (Manga) / int_ddc4aa51	comment	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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Pluto (Manga) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Pluto (Manga) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Ultimately this trope is played with. While Gesicht does die two volumes before the Finale, his investigation is instrumental in discovering the identity of Pluto. Not only that, his final thoughts were of how hatred destroys all, which is ultimately what stops Atom from killing Pluto. To top that off, his and Helena's flashback to their child provides the coda for the manga's ending.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_dfe888e0	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Pluto (Manga) / int_dfe888e0	comment	"Robots cannot lie". The perfect robot can lie, even to itself.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e0113647	type	Decon-Recon Switch
Pluto (Manga) / int_e0113647	comment	Decon-Recon Switch: The story begins as a Darker and Edgier retelling of a famous Astro Boy arc, with more realistic art style and world. The story shifting away from a traditional version of The Hero in Astro and towards a Noir Detective like Gesicht also means it gets to explore the seedier sides of the world and asks more complex questions about robotic intelligence and memory. As the story reaches its conclusion, Astro retakes his position as the protagonist and begins fighting Pluto not out of revenge, but to end the Cycle of Revenge and stop Pluto from destroying himself (and the world). Several tropes in android sci-fi, like Become a Real Boy and Do Androids Dream?, are discussed by the narrative with fairly dark interpretations. Unlike most other media where androids adopt human characteristics that are good, the androids of Pluto adopt ones that are negative, like pride, prejudice, and even a capacity for senseless violence. The story even posits that the factor that makes artificial intelligence a true, growing life form is none other than the ability to lie to others and itself. However, the story then bends in the other direction and demonstrates how negative human characteristics can still be used for good through Atom. Over the course of the story, Atom gains the ability to feel hatred, desire revenge, and even lie to others, but he uses all three for good reasons- he feels hatred for how Pluto has been treated and the situation both of them have been forced into, he desires revenge for his comrades but ultimately understands pursuing it against a victim like Pluto is the wrong thing to do, and he lies to Gesicht's wife about the missing memory of their murdered child, because he knows the pain she will feel if he allows her to remember it. The story demonstrates how negative aspects of humanity are not always destructive or cruel, and can in fact be used for good intentions.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e0dbaf11	type	Death by Flashback
Pluto (Manga) / int_e0dbaf11	comment	Death by Flashback: Several of the robots have flashbacks before getting killed, but especially Gesicht.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e16fb8ca	type	Hero Killer
Pluto (Manga) / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: The eponymous villain.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Pluto (Manga) / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Essentially Brau 1589's purpose, being an Expy of the trope namer, although not in the usual way;note We only ever see him interviewed by robots, and the traditional Lecture doesn't quite work on them. Gesicht eventually exchanges memories with him (to get a killer's perspective on the weird crap that's been happening) and this has a negative effect later on, but he's otherwise cooperative. (Aside from this, he emits powerful magnetic waves that will kill unprotected 'normal' robots within a certain range - 4 have already died this way before the manga starts.)
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Pluto (Manga) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Of a sense. Gesicht was named the much more generic and stereotypical German name Gerhardt in the original Tezuka stories. Notably averted for Atom. This is the only English version of Astro Boy where Astro Boy's name is left as Atom instead of being changed to Astro Boy. The reason for this lack of name change is probably to maintain the more serious tone of the series.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Pluto (Manga) / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Gesicht is an actual German word. It just wouldn't be used as a name since it literally means "face". Interestingly, in the original story, Gesicht had the name "Gerhardt", which is an actual name.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: All of the seven most powerful robots, except Montblanc and North #2. Gesicht has trouble telling that Atom is a robot at times. Apart from them, Atom's sister Uran and Gesicht's wife Helena are also robots that look very human. Many robots, such as Brando and Heracles, use a Ridiculously Human body in their free time, while having a more traditionally "robotic" body for their main jobs, finding that easier to fit in with society. Many robots who display more clearly robotic appearances, such as many cleaning or police bots, are frequently commented to be 'older' or 'outdated' models. Given Montblanc and North #2's more robotic appearances in contrast, especially the latter's clear desire to move past his original purpose as a combat robot and hiding most of his body under a cloak in his every day life, there's implication that they're more similar to older or simpler robot models, and their consciousness cannot be transplanted to a different body.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Abullah/Goji is actually a combination of four different Astro Boy characters. The original Abullah/Goji and Bora from the classic Strongest Robot On Earth story; a one-shot character from another classic manga story entitled The Blast Furnace Mystery, a robot whose creator had raised him to believe he was really Human; and Shadow, an original character from the 2003 series who was created by Dr. Tenma and replaced Abullah and the Sultan in that version in order to fit it better with the series' Myth Arc.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Several characters look a lot like characters from some other Urasawa series. Granted, several of those Urasawa characters were Expies of Tezuka's Star System, so they're really just coming full circle. Speaking of "full circle", Pluto's version of Professor Tenma is strongly reminiscent of Gendo Ikari — who isn't entirely unlike the original version of Tenma from Astro Boy. (He's actually drawn off of Leonard Bernstein in his younger days, of all people.) Though it's never said out loud, Brau 1589 bears considerable resemblance to Hannibal Lecter in personality, though he takes design cues from the (original) Blue Knight "Blue Bon".
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e69004a6	type	There Can Be Only One
Pluto (Manga) / int_e69004a6	comment	There Can Be Only One: 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 and Bora once the "Strongest Robots" are dead.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e7065d4	type	Weapon Tombstone
Pluto (Manga) / int_e7065d4	comment	Weapon Tombstone: Half of Pluto's horn stands at the end of the series, while Atom reminiscences about the robots that have gone before him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_e8749dab	comment	Teach Him Anger: In a double example, 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. 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 in relying on anger and hatred to win, and in fact realizes the futility of those emotions instead.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Pluto (Manga) / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The seven super robots are the only ones who stand a chance against Pluto. Too bad they all get picked off throughout the story.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Pluto (Manga) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The Micro Bears, mind-controlling teddy bears created by Goji (or rather "Shadow") in the 2003 anime were the inspiration behind both the robo roaches (smaller robots Goji uses to control others) and Dr. Roosevelt (manipulative teddy bear).
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Pluto (Manga) / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Pluto (Manga) / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Pluto, fighting off Bora who is about to lay waste to the entire world with a supervolcano. The supervolcano eventually does erupt, but Pluto freezes the lava.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Pluto (Manga) / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Atom falls into this occasionally - he seems to like being a normal kid, but doesn't hesitate to shed that persona when things get serious. Wassily too, although he's suffering from some form of PTSD. In the anime adaptation, Dr. Roosevelt has a perky childlike voice that matches its teddy bear avatar but contrasts disconcertingly with its enthusiastic commentary on Pluto's killing spree and its genocidal intentions toward the human race.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_f6254414	type	Cute Bruiser
Pluto (Manga) / int_f6254414	comment	Cute Bruiser: Atom. When he grabs and stops Pluto's tentacle dead before it can skewer him, rips it out, then forces himself out of Pluto's fist to twist his arm off, it's clear he qualifies. Uran is also at least as powerful as a human adult, but never has to show it off.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_fade9118	type	Robotic Psychopath
Pluto (Manga) / int_fade9118	comment	Robotic Psychopath: Deconstructed, subverted and played straight. Pluto showcased that the morality of a robot is as diverse as it is complex, with a few sociopathic robots even learning what redemption is.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_fb8f6a95	type	Memory-Restoring Melody
Pluto (Manga) / int_fb8f6a95	comment	Memory-Restoring Melody: In chapters 4-6, an elderly composer is frustrated by his inability to finish the melody of a song he only vaguely remembers from his childhood. His android butler, North #2, helps him by going to his home country and discovering the rest of the song. When he plays the song to the composer, it makes him remember that his mother was the one who sang it to him, which allows him to see her in a positive light again after spending his life believing she had abandoned him.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Pluto (Manga) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Gesicht's conversation with little Ali the first time they met. The second time they meet, Ali kills Gesicht.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Pluto (Manga) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Tenma encourages Helena to cry after Gesicht's death. He also cries with when he finally admits that Atom's dead, seeing that it affected him as well.
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Pluto (Manga) / int_ffb34813	type	Obi-Wan Moment
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Pluto (Manga) / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: If his battle with Epsilon is any indication, Pluto wants to die.
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