# ID this animated kid's movie about robots **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115 "2009-11-03T00:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/1 "2009-11-03T00:50:32Z")
There’s an old animated movie that I vaguely remember from my childhood, and was wondering if anyone can tell me what it was called. Details I remember: - Many of the characters were robots. - There was one big, evil robot killing other robots… for some reason. I think it had pincers on its head. - One of the victims was a large, solar-powered robot. Another was a human-sized gold-plated robot that was laserproof. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/2 "2009-11-03T00:52:48Z")
Actually sounds very much like an episode (double episode actually I think it was) of Astroboy. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/3 "2009-11-03T01:02:53Z")
> [@GreedySmurf](#): > > Actually sounds very much like an episode (double episode actually I think it was) of Astroboy. The two part Greatest Robot on Earth. The big guy with the pincers is Pluto (Bruton in the dub), who was sent out by his creator to kill the seven most powerful robots on earth. Including Astro. Which would make him the most powerful robot on Earth. [spoiler]Astro was the only survivor, mostly because Pluto had developed a soft spot for his sister, Uran, IIRC. The laser-proof robot (Zeron in the dub) had a particularly laughable end, honestly.[/spoiler] Recently, a manga called Pluto was released, which retells the story as a murder mystery. (In an alternate universe, which gives Pluto a slightly different motive, makes several of the robots more human - basically everyone but Pluto, Montblanc, and the buttlerbot - and makes a couple other changes.) It’s currently being released by Viz, and it very good. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/4 "2009-11-03T01:09:08Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > - One of the victims was a large, solar-powered robot. You’ve actually conflated at least two of the robots with this one - there were two large robots, other than Pluto: Montblanc, the mountaineer, and Brando (possibly spelt Brawndo) the robo-wrestler. Neither of whom was noted as solar powered. The solar powered robot was the human-size, and quite delicate looking, Aussie nannybot - I’ve never been able to figure out just what his name was in the dub - either Voltar or Photar would be my guess. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/5 "2009-11-03T01:14:49Z")
Sorry to double post, but I’m sure it is Astroboy you’re thinking of, and I’ve dug up some more info on it. It was a double episode **The Greatest Robot in the World** (Part 1 & 2) The evil robot, who was called **Bruton** , was a massive blue fellow with big horns on his head (not pincers), although he could move the horns about a bit to almost act like a set of pincers I guess. The gold plated guy was called **Zeron** , he was German, and the gold plated made him immune to lasers. There was solar powered robot called Photar, who lived within sight of Ayers Rock at a child care centre :dubious:. He wasn’t a giant robot though? There were at least a couple of other giant robots in the show though that Bruton kills. The summary was Bruton was made and programmed (by an oil shiek or similiar IIRC) to track down and kill the 10 most powerful robots on earth so as to become _The Greatest Robot in the World_. It’s widely regarded as one of the best episodes in the 1980’s Astroboy cartoon series. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/6 "2009-11-03T01:15:07Z")
Thank you, both of you. The additional details **Tengu** provided match up with a few other things I remember (Astro Boy’s sister, Zeron’s end), so it looks like that’s certainly it. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/7 "2009-11-03T01:16:24Z")
Oops, looks like Tengu beat me to it, while I was double checking. :smack: Oh and, the names I’ve used are from the dubbed version of the cartoon, which was a staple viewing for me as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-animated-kids-movie-about-robots/516115/8 "2009-11-03T01:33:06Z")
BTW, I’m just going to pimp Pluto again, by pointing out some interesting trivia - it’s done by Naoki Urusawa, the creator of, among other things, Monster. Which, like Astro Boy, features a character named Dr Tenma. The main character of Pluto (at least the first several volumes…I’ve seen references which suggest that it switches at some point later than I’ve gotten to) is Gesicht, the detective robot. Atom (Astro) has a fairly minor roll.