| “ | Doctor, in any conflict between positive and negative energy, the negative always prevails! Look at human history! Look at me! | „ |
| ~ President Stone describing his view on good and evil to Dr. Elefun |
President Dufus Stone (also simply known as Stone), or better known as President Stone, is the main antagonist of the 2009 sci-fi film Astro Boy based on the manga of the same name.
He is the corrupt president of Metro City who seeks to get re-elected by threatening a war against the Surface-Dwellers. In doing so, he commissioned a powerful robot called the Peacekeeper to "protect" the city from a possible attack from the surface world.
He was voiced by the late Donald Sutherland, who also played Donald McClintock in Outbreak and Richard Straker in the Salem's Lot miniseries.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He had the Red Core placed into the Peacekeeper out of carelessness and power lust because he loves destruction over peace, inadvertently getting Toby Tenma, a child, killed by the robot.
- Despite it being an accident, Stone showed no sadness for Tenma nor any remorse for what his actions had caused.
- He threatened Dr. Tenma and Elefun to be imprisoned if the two don't comply to retrieve Astro Boy and the Blue Core, and later on tried to have the two arrested and shot for apparent treason.
- He didn't show any care for Astro Boy's feelings and just saw him as a simple machine, and only wanted his blue core for the Peacekeeper, even cruelly taunting him about it by offering a "drink" in the form of an oil can.
- He wanted to use the Peacekeeper just as a supreme weapon and he didn't care about the Peacekeeper's functions only because he got an election to win.
- After fusing with the Peacekeeper robot, Stone started his rampage within Metro City, causing destruction by absorbing entire ships and buildings while endangering those inside in the process.
- He took a building to strike Astro Boy away like a baseball bat.
- He attempted to destroy Astro Boy and rip out the Blue Core from him.
- He used Astro's numerous new friends and threatened them to death just to interrogate them on where is Astro now.
- He tried to wage a war against the surface-dwellers below Metro City out of an insane belief it will assure his success in the election and remain as ruling president.
- In addition, he alienated the said group of people and did nothing to help them out of their ongoing situation (evident when Stone was disgusted by the use of the Blue Core for the Peacekeeper instead of the more turbulent Red Core, suggesting he would have used the latter to prevent the Surface-Dwellers from entering the city).
- When Grace kicked him in the shin, he attempted to have the cops arrest her despite the fact that she is a child.
- While he is very comedic with many jokes about his stupidity, whenever he actually has to do anything really heinous, his depravity is portrayed as horrifically straight, with Toby's death being a huge gut punch for the film. Furthermore, all of his comedic moments only emphasise on how much of an twisted man-child he is.
Trivia[]
- Despite being a movie-exclusive character, President Stone is the darkest villain in the Astro Boy franchise, even worse than the more antagonistic version of Dr. Tenma.
- He and Dr. Roosevelt are the only Astro Boy villains to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- President Stone on the Villains Wiki
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