Paolo wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:07 pm
I always wondered if Pinocchio got genitals when he was made a real boy.
The Japanese version of Astro Boy was a nullo. They made it clear that he didn't have anything under those black speedos.
However the Americanized Astro Boy from the 2009 move was a complete male. In the American movie Astro doesn't even realize that he's a robot until several days after his creation. Until the time that he discovers he can understand robot talk and fly he thinks he's a human boy. Had he woken up that first morning and discovered he was a nullo it would have been a dead giveaway.
But hold on a second. This story is science fiction after all. I never considered this before but what if Toby, the boy Astro had been built to replace, had been a nullo? That would mean that Astro wouldn't have felt there was anything missing if he didn't have genitals.
Is that really so farfetched when we consider that Astro has 50 CAL. machine guns in his butt? When Astro offers you his butt he isn't being seductive. It's more like he has you in his cross hairs.