User blog comment:AustinDR/PG Proposal: The Iron Giant/@comment-39032584-20191111130629

Yes. As mentioned, even if he was created as a weapon, he ultimaely chose to be benevolent when he learned the concept of morality from Hogarth. He may have threatened violence in some moments of rage, but he never went through with it, and of course, sacrificing itself to save the city from a nuclear missile even after the way most of the people treated it is undoubtedly admirable.