Astro Boy (2009) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Originally Toby Tenma, a teenager who dies and is recreated as a robot by his father using a positive blue core. Revived in a junkyard and renamed Astro by the Robot Revolutionary Front. He possesses...
An orphan living in the junkyard who befriends Astro. She is from Metro City and ran away due to conflicting feelings about her parents, but later regrets her decision. She becomes close to Astro, is...
A former Ministry of Science official and caretaker of the junkyard orphans. He takes Astro in but secretly exploits him by forcing him to fight in a brutal robot arena. He tortures Astro when his rob...
A member of the Robot Revolutionary Front who lives in the junkyard. He and his companions aim to liberate robots from human oppression but are comically inept and restricted by the Laws of Robotics....
A scientist at the Ministry of Science who works alongside Dr. Tenma. He discovers the star fragment containing the energy cores and warns against using the negative red core. He assists Tenma in stal...
The ambitious president of Metro City running for re-election. He orders the creation of the Peacekeeper robot and recklessly installs a negative red core, indirectly causing Toby's death. He relentle...
Toby's father and a scientist at the Ministry of Science. Grief-stricken after his son's death, he creates a robotic successor driven by a blue core. He initially rejects the robot but later realizes...
An orphan living in the junkyard alongside other children like Zane, Sludge, and Cora. He is part of the group that becomes acquainted with Astro and the Robot Revolutionary Front.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Hamegg takes Astro in after Astro reaches the junkyard and lives among the orphaned children.
Hamegg is described as the caretaker of the junkyard orphans, including Cora.
The plot states that Tenma works at the Ministry of Science alongside Elefun, and Elefun assists Tenma during the conflict with Stone.
Stone orders the Ministry scientists to create the Peacekeeper, while Elefun warns against using the negative red core.
The scientists create the Peacekeeper under President Stone's orders, and Tenma later agrees to disable Astro to escape arrest by Stone's forces.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Trashcan accompanies the junkyard children and is among Astro's friends who search for him before the final confrontation.
Zane is one of the orphaned children in the junkyard who meets Astro and later searches for him with the group.
Widget is an orphan living alongside the other junkyard children and becomes acquainted with Astro.
Sludge lives with the other orphaned children in the junkyard and becomes part of the group acquainted with Astro.
Mike the Fridge is identified as a member of the Robot Revolutionary Front, which attempts to recruit Astro.
Sparx and the Robot Revolutionary Front try to recruit Astro for their effort to free robots from human control, and the group renames him Astro.
Cora is from Metro City, regrets running away because she loves her parents, and is finally reunited with them after the crisis.
Astro meets Cora among the junkyard children, has a heart-to-heart with her, and later returns to save her after the Peacekeeper captures his friends.
Astro reunites with Elefun after surrendering, and Elefun later helps restore Astro after the final battle.
Stone's forces pursue Astro to retrieve the blue core, and Stone later commands the Peacekeeper to destroy him and recover it.
A grieving scientist's robotic son must choose his own identity and sacrifice himself to protect both humans and robots.
Directed by David Bowers
Astro Boy (2009) · 6.3/10 · action, animation, family, science-fiction
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