History Awesome / Robocop1987

-->'''Robo''': '''[[ItsPersonal I'm not arresting you anymore.]]'''

-->'''Robo''': ''[[ItsPersonal I'm not arresting you anymore.]]''

-->'''Robo''': [[ItsPersonal ''I'm not arresting you anymore.'']]

-->'''Robo''': [[ItsPersonal I'm not arresting you anymore.]]

*** Watching Boddicker go from a hardened criminal ("Fuck you!") to a blubbering mess [[spoiler: willing to give up his boss at OCP to save his skin]] is CatharsisFactor defined.

--> '''Boddicker:''' ''[spits blood in Robo's face]'' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you.]]

* Murphy, reborn as an [[NighInvulnerable invincible warrior of living steel]] known as [=RoboCop=], bravely marches into a cocaine factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to hell where they belong with his [[HandCannon mighty Beretta Auto-9.]] Just how awesome was this scene? The directors played the movie for some real life police, and thought they would be horrified by this scene. Instead the officers cheered, saying this is how Miranda rights should be read. (Tell me this hasn't become HarsherInHindsight given the uptick in police brutality since the film came out...)

* When the Old Man shouts "Dick, you're '''FIRED!!'''", thus freeing [=RoboCop=] from the [[RestrainingBolt restraining Directive 4]] and allowing him to finally kill the bastard.

* A moment for Lewis: Boddicker shoots her after crashing his car, yet she not only [[MadeOfIron survives]], but uses the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of the Cobra Assault Cannons]] to take out Leon.

* A moment for Lewis: Boddicker shoots a whole loader on her after crashing his car, yet she not only [[MadeOfIron survives]], but uses the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard grenade launcher]] to take out Leon.

--> '''Boddicker:''' Wait a minute...''Wait a minute!'' I'm working for someone! Someone important!
--> '''Robo:''' You have the right to remain silent.
--> ''(Boddicker is thrown screaming through a window)''
--> '''Boddicker:''' OCP! He's the number two guy at OCP! ''Dick Jones!'' '''I work for Dick Jones!'''
--> '''Robo:''' You have the right to an attorney.
--> '''Boddicker:''' What is this '''''SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT??!?!?''''' ''(Boddicker is thrown through another window)''
* When Robo has Clarence completely at his mercy. Whether it's Alex Murphy's humanity or the repeated insistence of his Third Directive, Robocop takes Clarence into custody rather than killing him.
--> '''Clarence:''' (being choked by Robo) You're a cop!

--> '''Robo:''' (eases his grip) Yes. I am a cop.

*** It's a more subtle moment for the Old Man: he is the only besides Murphy and Johnson that doesn't panic during the boardroom scene, only raising his voice to fire Dick. He's completely unshaken to see Dick get shot of the window, and casually fixes his tie afterwards. CoolOldGuy indeed.

* Murphy, reborn as an [[NighInvulnerable invincible warrior of living steel]] known as [=RoboCop=], bravely marches into a cocaine factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to hell where they belong with his [[HandCannon mighty Beretta Auto-9.]] Just how awesome was this scene? The directors played the movie for some real life police, and thought they would be horrified by this scene. Instead the officers cheered, saying this is how Miranda rights should be read.

--> '''RoboCop:''' You have the right to remain silent.

--> '''RoboCop:''' You have the right to an attorney.

* Murphy, reborn as an [[NighInvulnerable invincible warrior of living steel]] known as [=RoboCop=], bravely marches into Boddicker's crack factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to hell where they belong with his [[HandCannon mighty Beretta Auto-9.]] Just how awesome was this scene? The directors played the movie for some real life police, and thought they would be horrified by this scene. Instead the officers cheered, saying this is how Miranda rights should be read.

---> '''Old Man:''' (brushing himself off) Nice shooting, son. What's your name?

* When Robo has Clarence completely at his mercy. Whether it is a combination of Alex Murphy's humanity or the repeated insistence of his Third Directive, Robocop takes Clarence into custody rather than killing him.

* The battle in the warehouse scene, particularly when Robo has Clarence completely at his mercy. Whether it is a combination of Alex Murphy's humanity or the repeated insistence of his Third Directive, Robocop takes Clarence into custody rather than killing him.

* The battle in the warehouse scene, particularly when Robo has Clarence completely at his mercy. Whether it is a combination of Alex Murphy's humanity or the repeated insistence of his Third Directive, Robocop takes Clarence into custody rather than killing him.
--> '''Clarence:''' (being choked by Robo) You're a cop!
--> '''DIRECTIVE 3: UPHOLD THE LAW'''
--> '''Robo:''' (eases his grip) Yes. I am a cop.

* Robocop's first night on the job has some choice moments, like when he calculates how to shoot through a woman's dress to avoid hurting her while hitting the guy holding her hostage in the groin, or stopping a convenience store robbery by bending the perp's machine gun barrel down.
-->(''after saving the woman from her two assailants, one of whom is laying on the ground writhing in agony'') Your move, creep!
* The SWAT scene was more in the TearJerker territory, but the fact that Robo was able to keep moving despite being outnumbered and out gunned by concentrated firepower just shows he's more than a machine.

* Even before he became Robocop, Alex proved he's awesome.

* ''"You have 20 seconds to comply."'' Though what [[MoreDakka follows]] proves to be one of the finest practical effect moments captured in an action film, it's a RedShirt who dies and NightmareFuel that results.
* Murphy, reborn as an [[NighInvulnerable invincible warrior of living steel]] known as [=RoboCop=], bravely marches into Boddicker's crack factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to hell where they belong with his [[HandCannon mighty Beretta Auto-9.]] It may also count as a typical example of FiveRoundsRapid.

*** Murphy's apprehension of Boddicker is awesome in itself. He reads him his Miranda Rights, while sending him flying through windows.
** Just how awesome was this scene? The directors played the movie for some real life police, and thought they would be horrified by this scene. Instead the officers cheered, saying this is how Miranda rights should be read.
* Even before he became Robocop, Alex proved he had an iron will by taking twenty-something rounds of shotgun shells to the chest and refusing to go down.

* Also, the [[MessianicArchetype resurrected]] Robo/Murphy, having taken off his helmet to show his real face, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic walking on water]] to confront Boddicker and [[BigDamnHeroes rescue Lewis]].

* Murphy, reborn as an [[NighInvulnerable Invincible Warrior of Living Steel]] known as [=RoboCop=], bravely marches into Boddicker's crack factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to Hell where they belonged with his [[HandCannon Mighty Beretta Auto 9.]] It may also count as a typical example of FiveRoundsRapid.

* After Dick Jones sends out the ED-209 to finish Robo off once and for all, the bigger machine smacks him around like a piece of cardboard. As the security robot gets closer, the camera ''zooms into Robo's face, where the audience can see through his broken visor, and his eye is wide open in surprise'', as the music swells. As ED-209 levels its weapon at him, Robo lifts the arm with all his strength, forcing the bigger machine to fire on its other arm, and partially disabling it as the music reaches a triumphant crescendo.

* Robocop is apparently defeated and defenceless at Clarence Boddicker's feet, while he prepares to land a finishing blow with a metal rod, exclaiming "Sayonara, Robocop!". Robocop instead springs the spike used as a computer jack out from his hand, and stabs Boddicker in the neck, killing him.
* "Your move, creep."

* Murphy, reborn as an [[NighInvulnerable Invincible Warrior of Living Steel]] known as [=RoboCop=], bravely marches into Boddicker's crack factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to Hell where they belonged with his [[{{BFG}} Mighty Beretta Auto 9.]] It may also count as a typical example of FiveRoundsRapid.