Atroboy's charactistics: physical, emotional, intellectual, etc.

[tonigirl1000]

Thanks, wonder if the the good manners Astroboy has is self-taught, or from Dr Elefun?
Wonder what kind of technology is involve in the kind of heart that Dr Elefun was suppose to give Astroboy in "The Haunted Ship"?
Could Astroboy have intelligence reaching the level of Brainiac 5 in the Legion of Super Heroes?
Thanks

[mr skunk]

New posts are all well and good, but when they get excessive, and from the same person, it gets kind of annoying. I mean, you've only been here a few weeks, and you already have over 400 posts. It took me years to get up to 400 posts!

Sometimes less is more.

As for your question, I'm not sure who this "Brainiac 5" is, so I wouldn't really know. But anyone who has any basic knowlege of Astro Boy knows that he has a good heart, and was taught by Dr. Elefun. Soooooo, this question doesn't really go anywhere.

[jeffbert]

I have merged several threads into this one, in order to reduce clutter.

[Ryo]

Probably taught by Dr Elefun. A robot/ android can learn, and after the initial learning, it grows of its own accord. He could be a braniac level, but wouldnt flaunt it like Braniac lol.

[tonigirl1000]

Brainiac 5- is suppose to be a very advanced scientific mind, easily able to think at much higher level than humans. In the final episode of "Justice League Unlimited", Luthor told a "monitor" of events in our Universe, he had a mind more than capable of 12th level of intellect i believe. He said he was over- qualified to go where even the "monitor" was afraid to go. That would give Luthor a mind that would be much better at analzying the Universe than Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Galileo combined. My point is i wonder how advanced Astroboy is in his thinking and analyzing things? From what i have seen in the 1963 series he had a very advanced robotic mind, wonder what his intelligent mind is capable of. Thanks
PS- I was wondering what kind of technology was involve in the heart because Dr Elefun told Astroboy he was giving him a human heart so he could feel fear.

[jeffbert]

I think you are reading too much into the story. You are asking a question that assumes Astroboy is a technological marvel; but this entirely misses the whole point of Astroboy. Tezuka, like many other authors, created fiction that aside from entertaining its readers, also conveyed his message. Tezuka used his Astroboy stories to ask his readers if man's technology had outpaced man's wisdom. Atoms page (http://en-f.tezuka.co.jp/studio/character/c001/c001.html) only briefly mentions this, but an examination of the stories themselves reveals this. Atom, after the destruction of robots created by selfish men asked why they creeated robots for such purposes? Dam Dam (Goliath), Robio & Robiet immediately come to mind, but there are others. Humans created these sentient beings, deprived them of the joys that humans take for granted, and use them for their own selfish means to and end.

Dam Dam was equipped with an extremely destructive ray on his head, & although he was originally placed upon a remote planet, he was an emotional robot, who lost his temper easily. The combination was tragic, but his creators thought nothing about his needs only their own.

Anyway, Yani Natta (Ohno) & Ijio Haruzo (Ornery) cared nothing about the happiness of their own creations, whom they considered their own children. They only used them as an ongoing competetion to build a better robot.

Victor Von Frankenstein, whom I usually envision as Peter Cushing, created his monster, an intelligent sentient being, just to see if he could create such a being. Upon succeeding, he immediately sent the poor wretch away, becuase he was ugly. The damned SOB should have thought about that before bringing him to life! Dr. Tenma created the robot Tobio for the sole purpose of relieving his own grief at the death of the human Tobio. He thought nothing about the happiness of this sentient being whom he just created. Whether he rejected his creation because of lack of growth or because his robot made mistakes, he thought only of himself. Thus, Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Tenma are alike.

[tonigirl1000]

Thanks, you made my point, Astroboy from the story i have seen and hope to see was a robot that with the help of people like Dr Elefun exceeded what his creator could had done with him. Because he gave up on him, Dr Elefun did not.
I wonder how many people are a living Astroboy in reality, not robotic but human?, tragedy like that should not happen but do.