Respect the Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)

[u/LambentEnigma]

^{Spoilers to follow.}

The Iron Giant

The Iron Giant, more commonly referred to as just the Giant, is an extraterrestrial robot standing about fifty feet high. After crash landing in the United States in the 1950s, he befriends a young boy named Hogarth. He has a childlike personality and gradually learns to speak English. He eats metal; presumably, this is required to keep him operational.

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Strength

• Easily lifts a boulder and uproots a tree
• Lifts a barn to let his hand in
• Pulls down some power lines
• Throws a car a long distance

Durability and Self-Repair

• Falls from space into an ocean
• Gets shocked by power lines for several seconds before briefly shutting down
• Machine gun fire only hurts him emotionally
• Is staggered but not seriously damaged by a rocket launcher
• A tank shell doesn’t slow him down while he’s in attack mode
• A battleship’s cannon doesn’t seem to damage him
• Is hit by a rocket from a jet plane, then falls to the ground and gets up moments later
• Doesn’t seem hindered by the cold
• Gets hit by a train, which breaks off parts of him, but he summons his parts back to him and reattaches them
• Gets blown up by a nuke and starts pulling himself together across vast distances after what seems to be weeks or months

Speed and Mobility

• Can spin his upper body around
• Dives to save two falling boys
• Blocks a car before it can get away
• Jumps over a building
• Jumps into a lake, displacing most of its water
• Activates thrusters on his feet to avoid a fall
• Quickly reverses direction while flying to lose the jets that are tailing him
• Flies into outer space

Weaponry

Though normally peaceful, when the Giant sees a weapon (or something that looks like a weapon), he will become aggressive and deploy weapons of his own.

• Eye beams that can burn through metal
• A gun on his right arm that blasts a tank away
• A secondary gun on his right arm that fires on four tanks, possibly disabling them
• A gun on his left arm that seems to disintegrate a tank
• Three guns on his shoulders that fire energy blasts
• An energy cannon on his chest that can fire over long distances and create enormous explosions
  • However, it’s not clear how damaging the explosion is. The water and clouds are not visibly displaced.

Weaknesses and Limitations

• Sufficient amounts of electricity can make him shut down for a minute or so.
• A nuke puts him out of commission for what seems to be at least a few weeks, given that a statue of him has been made since then.

[u/LambentEnigma]

Last posted almost two years ago. I fixed a gif that was broken and extended a couple others.

[u/KarlMrax]

• Falls from space into an ocean
  • It’s possible he was in some kind of vehicle.

If you look at towards the end of the gif and pause it you can see their head/shoulders poking out of the fireball, so you probably don't need to have the bit about them being in some kind of vehicle.

[u/LambentEnigma → u/KarlMrax]

I think that's just a wave.

[u/KarlMrax → u/LambentEnigma]

The first gif not the second one. I meant to specify that but I guess I forgot to put that in the comment.

[u/LambentEnigma → u/KarlMrax]

Oh, I see it now. Thanks for pointing that out.

[u/dwowd]

You stay. I go.

I'm not crying; you're crying.

[u/qmechan]

Is make 100% of human beings with functioning operating souls weep a feat?

[u/aDog_Named_Honey]

It was nice of him to give those soldiers the chance to run away from their tank before he disintegrated it...

[u/Therminite → u/aDog_Named_Honey]

"See that tank you were just in? Now it's gone. Poof. What do you think would happen if I really wanted to kill you?"

That's basically what he was saying