History WesternAnimation / BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot

* LeftHanging: [[spoiler: All of the Legion Ex Machina are destroyed, or so they thought until it was revealed that there was a final member still at large.]]

* TheParalyzer: A biological-only one gets used on Big Guy, and succeeds in paralyzing Lt. Hunter, forcing Rusty to deal with the Legion robot on his own. (Luckily it wears off fairly quickly, and they're able to pass it off as a core shutdown to Rusty.)

* PhotoprotoneutronTorpedo: Rusty is powered by nucleoprotons, which he can also fire at his enemies as an energy weapon.

** To Franchise/StarWars in the episode The Lower Depths.

* RealityEnsues: Decommisioning Big Guy in favor Rusty, who hadn't even had any basic training, quickly proves a mistake since the more advanced, but inexeperienced gets beaten in his first outing. By the same token, Rusty shows that he was expected to replace Big Guy for reason given his greater firepower and working with Big Guy does allow to prove his worth.

** ''Sibling Mine'' has Rusty reluctant to fight an alien, leading to his Earl being sent out as a replacement, who appears to be a better sidekick. That proves a mistake as the alien was GoodAllAlong, and when Big Guy attempts to give new orders, Earl sees him an enemy for "defending the enemy" and blasts his head off, showing why he was just a prototype and why he was dismantled and put in storage.

* RocketPunch

-->'''Rusty:''' "I need to ''look'' tough."
-->'''Dr. Slate:''' "Looks aren't every thing"
-->'''Donovan:''' "Maybe, but they're half the fun." ''Reveals a large [[WeaponForIntimidation scary-looking robot]]''

---> '''Big Guy''': "Thank Ford for interchangeable parts!"

---> '''Po:'''"Po has never lost before. Please forgive Po for not taking it well."

---> "Thank Ford for interchangeable parts."
---> (Sees a fuel tanker being telekinetically thrown at him) "SWEET HENRY FORD!"

** George Washington is prominently featured, even though he did not become involved in the American Revolution until months after Lexington and Concord.

** Paul Revere's famous ride and the engagements at Lexington and Concord seem to take place within a few hours of each other in the same night.

** George Washington is prominently featured, even though he did not become involved in the American revolution until months after Lexington and Concord.
** British!Slate explains that "Iron Jack" lead the British to victory at Lexington and Concord, then Fort Ticonderoga, before exploding at Bunker Hill. The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred two months after Lexington, and the Siege of Ticonderoga was in 1777.

* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Quite a few antagonists do this during the series. Edie, Dr. Neugog, and even Pierre. The crown has to go to Po, The Obliterator. His hat is going to populated planets, force their mightiest champion to fight him in an "honorable" duel, or he simply destroys the planet "for laughs." Once the fight begins, he just keeps trolling his opponent by playing one dirty trick after another until his opponent's worn down, and then renders him unconscious to take as a trophy to constantly mock in PeopleJars. When Big Guy had the opportunity for a rematch, which many of Po's other victims did not get, he showed Po exactly how it feels on the receiving end. He was even prepared in case Po decided not to honor the terms of the agreement and leave quietly.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Frequently''. The final episode takes the cake.

** George Washington is prominently featured, even though he was not involved in the American revolution until months after Lexington and Concord.

* EvilKnockoff: The Legion Ex Machina's first robot, Argo is one of Big Guy, being around the same size and displaying similar weapons, but also has Rusty's weapons, which allowed him to defeat Big Guy in both his confrontations with him. They later built one meant to impersonate Big Guy, but ran into problems when they realize Big Buy was piloted by a human. Lastly, the Legion seizes control of Donovan's mass produced Rusty clones.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: George Washington is prominently featured in "Patriot Games," even though he was not involved in the American revolution until months after Lexington and Concord.

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (1999-2000) was an animated television series, based on the Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot comic. The Big Guy was the old warhorse robot superhero who was to be replaced by an all-American Rusty; however, Rusty's inexperience forced the Big Guy back out of retirement to serve as Rusty's mentor and partner. Complicating matters was the fact that the Big Guy, Rusty's hero and role model... wasn't actually a ''robot''. Unable to develop a working AI in time, the government secretly converted it into a PoweredArmor, piloted by Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter, who poses as the Big Guy's mechanic to the outside world. The secret has to be kept from Rusty, as well, for fear of what the shock might do to his mind.

-->'''Dr. Slate''' (via hologram recording): Help us, Big Guy. You're our only hope!
** To Franchise/StarWars again in "5000 Fingers Of Rusty" as he uses the Vader voice to exclaim "I am your father!"
** Another couple to DrStrangelove when Big Guy's repaired AI starts malfunctioning, making it paranoid:
-->'''Big Guy''': The work's never done, so long as They crave our precious bodily metals.

* AdaptationalBadass: Rusty. In the comic, he existed only to get [[TheWorfEffect stomped flat by monsters]] & annoy Big Guy. While he still does that in the cartoon, he manages to become a genuinely effective (& likeable) character.

** Goes Double with Po, the Obliterator. Not only does he leave his power armor out the back, [[spoiler: when he literally gets stomped by Big Guy, his armor breaks apart, but first, and Po cowers in "crash position."]]

* MotherlyScientist: Dr. Erika Slate, Rusty's creator, treats the boy robot as her own son throughout the series. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] more than once.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Rare, but it does happen. Donovan can occasionally be found correct about certain things. Dr. Neugog wouldn't be a man-spider if he heeded Donovan's warnings about the telepathy experiment,(considering Donovan's absolute loathing for safety protocols, this should have triggered a huge, red warning flag for Dr. Neugog), and had Dr. Slate told him that their mainframe was under cyber-attack by the Legion Ex Machina instead of merely stating that Rusty's in trouble (one robot vs the entire obligations of Quark Enterprises) Donovan might not have been
so quick to try to start a reboot.