History WesternAnimation / TheIronGiant

* CatapultNightmare: In the "Signature Edition", this happens to the Giant after he wakes from his [[DoAndroidsDream bad dream]].

* {{Angrish}}: Kent has a tendency to use this, namely during his mini tantrum trying to hang up the Hughes' phone.

** Mansley gets blown off by Rogard when he tries to phone him about the Giant's existence. Later, when he is is able to produce photographic evidence, Hogarth and Dean disguise the Giant as one of Dean's pieces of metal art destroying Mansley's credibility. He's only vindicated when the Giant appears in public in full view of the military convoy.

* AnAesop:
** "You are who you ''choose'' to be."
** "It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun."
** Unchecked paranoia mixed with rampant patriotism is a dangerous combination.

* TrackTrouble: The Giant tries to eat a railroad track. Hogarth gets him to put the tracks back, but he takes too long and is hit by a train.

* DangledByAGiant: When Dean McCoppin first meets the title robot, the robot grabs him by the collar of his robe and lifts him into the air for a face-to-face meeting.

In [[TheFifties 1957]], the titular Iron Giant (voiced by Creator/VinDiesel) falls to Earth, and a boy named Hogarth Hughes (Creator/EliMarienthal) befriends him. Hogarth tries to hide the Giant from the public (particularly due to UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era paranoia), especially his mother (Creator/JenniferAniston) and a persistent government agent named [[BigBad Kent Mansley]] (Creator/ChristopherMcDonald). But the Giant has a very mysterious past of his own, and if things get out, the Cold War may just go hot...

In [[TheFifties 1957]], the titular Iron Giant (voiced by Creator/VinDiesel) falls to Earth, and a boy named Hogarth Hughes (Creator/EliMarienthal) befriends him. Hogarth tries to hide the Giant from the public (particularly due to UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era paranoia), especially a persistent government agent named [[BigBad Kent Mansley]] (Creator/ChristopherMcDonald). But the Giant has a very mysterious past of his own, and if things get out, the Cold War may just go hot...

* DisintegratorRay: During the CurbStompBattle with the army, the Giant's left arm weapon fires a green plasma bubble that vaporizes a tank into nothing. Luckily, the soldiers inside escaped in time.

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his giant robot. Though Hogarth's bond with the Giant more effects the Giant's CharacterDevelopment than his own.

* CatchPhrase: Kent Mansley with his "...and all that that implies."

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: One of the theatrical trailers spoils the Giant going into defense-mode.

Directed by Creator/BradBird (who was one of the original directors of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and would later move on to work for Creator/{{Pixar}}), ''The Iron Giant'' is a 1999 animated film from Creator/WarnerBros, based on Ted Hughes' novel ''The Iron Man'' ([[ComicBook/IronMan not to be confused with the comic book]]).

** The heavy cruisers in Rockwell's Bay are referred to as battleships.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Extremely idealistic and heartfelt.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mansley launching [[spoiler:a nuclear missile]] on the Giant's current location... which is about fifty feet away from him and ''in the middle of town''.

* NuclearOption: When nothing else seems capable of stopping the Giant, Mansley actually lays out a reasonable strategy for luring the Giant out of town and striking it down with a nuclear missile. [[spoiler:However, after Hogarth gets the Giant to stop its rampage and the General orders his troops to stand down, Mansley grabs the radio and screams the order to launch the missile anyway, which is LethallyStupid as the Giant is standing fifty feet away ''in the center of town''.]]

* TemptingFate: When Mansley tells General Rogard to [[spoiler:launch the nuclear missile on]] the Giant, Rogard asks, "Are you mad, Mansley?" [[spoiler:because the Giant is standing about fifty feet away from them and is in the middle of town]]. When the Giant gives Mansley a DeathGlare, Mansley flips out and snatches the radio from Rogard to [[spoiler:order the launching of the missile]], forgetting that this means [[spoiler:[[LethallyStupid the deaths of everybody in town]], [[TooDumbToLive including himself]]]]. So, Rogard, is Mansley mad? Yes, yes he is.

* TooDumbToLive: Mansley falls victim to this near the end. He sees the Giant glaring at him and flips out, grabs Rogard's walkie-talkie and [[spoiler:orders the missile targeting the Giant be launched]]. Cue an OhCrap when Rogard asks him where the Giant is standing and Mansley realizes that the Giant is ''in the middle of the town, barely fifty feet away''.

** Majorly Subverted with the Giant's screw. [[spoiler:The Giant was thought to have been destroyed after his HeroicSacrifice to save Rockwell, and General Rogard found the screw and sent it to Hogarth. However, the Giant is still alive and summoning his parts to rebuild himself. So the screw actually turns out to be the means by which Hogarth learns the Giant survived.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mansley launching [[spoiler:a nuclear missile]] on the Giant's current location... which is about 5 feet away from him and ''in the middle of town''.

* NuclearOption: When nothing else seems capable of stopping the Giant, Mansley actually lays out a reasonable strategy for luring the Giant out of town and striking it down with a nuclear missile. [[spoiler:However, after Hogarth gets the Giant to stop its rampage and the General orders his troops to stand down, Mansley grabs the radio and screams the order to launch the missile anyway, which is LethallyStupid as the Giant is standing 5 feet away ''in the center of town''.]]

* TemptingFate: When Mansley tells General Rogard to [[spoiler:launch the nuclear missile on]] the Giant, Rogard asks, "Are you mad, Mansley?" [[spoiler:because the Giant is standing about five feet away from them and is in the middle of town]]. When the Giant gives Mansley a DeathGlare, Mansley flips out and snatches the radio from Rogard to [[spoiler:order the launching of the missile]], forgetting that this means [[spoiler:[[LethallyStupid the deaths of everybody in town]], [[TooDumbToLive including himself]]]]. So, Rogard, is Mansley mad? Yes, yes he is.

* TooDumbToLive: Mansley falls victim to this near the end. He sees the Giant glaring at him and flips out, grabs Rogard's walkie-talkie and [[spoiler:orders the missile targeting the Giant be launched]]. Cue an OhCrap when Rogard asks him where the Giant is standing and Mansley realizes that the Giant is ''in the middle of the town, barely five feet away''.

* SuperRobotGebre: The Giant certainly qualifies.

** When Annie and Mansley walk in on Hogarth "using the bathroom", Annie slams the door shut very quickly in embarrassment, smashing Mansley's face in between the frame and the door.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mansley launching [[spoiler:a nuclear missile]] on the Giant's current location... which is about 50 feet away from him and ''in the middle of town''.

* NuclearOption: When nothing else seems capable of stopping the Giant, Mansley actually lays out a reasonable strategy for luring the Giant out of town and striking it down with a nuclear missile. [[spoiler:However, after Hogarth gets the Giant to stop its rampage and the General orders his troops to stand down, Mansley grabs the radio and screams the order to launch the missile anyway, which is LethallyStupid as the Giant is standing 50 feet away ''in the center of town''.]]

* TemptingFate: When Mansley tells General Rogard to [[spoiler:launch the nuclear missile on]] the Giant, Rogard asks, "Are you mad, Mansley?" [[spoiler:because the Giant is standing about fifty feet away from them and is in the middle of town]]. When the Giant gives Mansley a DeathGlare, Mansley flips out and snatches the radio from Rogard to [[spoiler:order the launching of the missile]], forgetting that this means [[spoiler:[[LethallyStupid the deaths of everybody in town]], [[TooDumbToLive including himself]]]]. So, Rogard, is Mansley mad? Yes, yes he is.

* TooDumbToLive: Mansley falls victim to this near the end. He sees the Giant glaring at him and flips out, grabs Rogard's walkie-talkie and [[spoiler:orders the missile targeting the Giant be launched]]. Cue an OhCrap when Rogard asks him where the Giant is standing and Mansley realizes that the Giant is ''in the middle of the town, barely 50 feet away''.

In [[TheFifties 1957]], the titular Iron Giant (voiced by Creator/VinDiesel) falls to Earth, and a boy named Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal) befriends him. Hogarth tries to hide the Giant from the public (particularly due to UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era paranoia), especially a persistent government agent named [[BigBad Kent Mansley]] (Creator/ChristopherMcDonald). But the Giant has a very mysterious past of his own, and if things get out, the Cold War may just go hot...

* WingPull: The Giant skids off a cliff and appears about to plummet into the ocean...until rockets in his feet automatically ignite.