User blog comment:AustinDR/PG Proposal: The Iron Giant/@comment-31330278-20191110164906

Yes very much. He's the benevolent ruler every real-life state need to have. Hogarth told him not to be a gun, and he listened. Other people would surrender to the corruption phase. Iron Giant chose to be a hero, and even sacrificed himself for saving everybody from the bomb, even saving the very man who wanted to catch him.