Pluto (Astro Boy)

Pluto is a male robot anime and manga character who features in Astro Boy.

Biography

Pluto (Japanese: プルートウ, Hepburn: Purūtō)

Sultan Chochi Ababa wants to be the ruler of the robot world, and hires a scientist to build a robot with one million horsepower and various other specifications that will make it the 'Strongest Robot in the World'. Named Pluto, his first target is a Swiss mountain robot with 135,000 horsepower named Mont-Blanc, who proves an easy victim due to not expecting an attack from a complete stranger.

Pluto then goes on to fight Astro far away from the latter's home. Astro himself does not engage in battle, with his sister Uran pretending to be him in order to fight Pluto and being easily overpowered before being held captive as leverage to force Astro to fight; the enraged protagonist robot follows in hot pursuit.

Meanwhile, Pluto fights and easily destroys his next target, a beetle-like butler robot named North #2 (or Molnar). He and Astro again meet in Turkey, the residence of the next targeted robot, Brando. Pluto releases Uran to Astro, not wanting her to come to harm, and confronts Brando in battle. Pluto destroys Brando, but is heavily damaged in the process, requiring repair from his masters in order to survive. To contact them, a button on his chest must be pushed to send a distress signal, and due to being unable to move his arms, Pluto turns to Astro, begging him to push it, and after much thought and consideration, Astro agrees. Pluto expresses his gratitude to Astro, seeing in him a noble quality. After retrieving Pluto, his masters plant a suicide bomb in his chest, intending to ensure the mutual destruction of anyone who defeats him in the future. Pluto then faces and destroys his next target, a German robot detective named Gerhardt.

Astro, who was informed of the battle with Gerhardt beforehand and sees its result on the news, realizes that Pluto must be stopped, yet is too powerful for even him to defeat. Astro turns to Professor Ochanomizu to upgrade him, only to find that he has been captured by the sultan, who uses his captivity to force Astro to fight Pluto again. The two robots meet in the desert, in the middle of a highly flammable oil field, where Astro refuses to fight and Pluto in turn spares his life due to having been saved by him earlier while telling him that he will only do so this once before later fighting and destroying a Greek gladiator robot named Hercules.

Astro then receives a phone call from Epsilon, a kind and gentle Australian robot who is one of Pluto's last remaining target and requests that they team up against Pluto; Astro accepts but arrives only after Epsilon has already been destroyed by Pluto. The last two remaining robots then resolve to fight to the finish, moving to do so on the Mountain of Tears, a volcano which erupts during the battle. Astro and Pluto work together to contain the explosion, at which point the villainous scientist responsible for Pluto's creation calls forth Bora, an even stronger robot of his creation, to destroy them both. Pluto blows himself up in an attempt to destroy Bora, who is then finished off by Astro. Afterwards, it is revealed to the surprise of everyone, the Sultan included, that Pluto's creator was a robot himself, and built Pluto and Bora to show that horsepower isn't the only way to win a battle.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Pluto shows no emotion when destroying his enemies, claiming to be only obeying his master, to whom he is blindly loyal. He furthermore refuses to take part in any sort of activity that does not have anything to do with fighting, claiming to be a 'fighting robot' and caring about nothing else. He is furthermore shown to never shy away from a fight, even when knowing that defeat is inevitable, such as when he promises Astro to not forget him, after going on bravely to fight Bora.

His master, a fallen and corrupt sultan named Chochi Chochi Ababa the Third, orders him to fight and destroy Earth's mightiest robots so that he might become 'king of the robot world'.

Notes

• Pluto was created by Osamu Tezuka where he featured in the setting of Astro Boy.

Appearances

• Astro Boy:

External Links

• Astro Boy Wiki Entry

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