History Characters / Robocop

* GlassCannon: Not [=RoboCain=] himself but his Assault Cannon is literally this due to being vulnerable to small arms fire. The cannon has enough stopping power to knock [=RoboCop=] off his feet so it could cause major damage to any target without significant armor. However, ordinary 9mm Parabellum bullets are enough to destroy the cannon in relatively few rounds.

* SurvivorGuilt: Although it immediately goes away when she realizes [[=RoboCop=]] is Murphy.

[-Played by Felton Perry-]

[-Voiced by Jon Davison-]

[-Played by Belinda Bauer-]

[-Played by Jesse D. Goins-]

[-Played by Calvin Jung-]

[-Played by Freddie Hice-]

[-Played by Neil Summers-]

[-Played by Gabriel Damon-]

* BerserkButton: Snitching is one major thing Cain despises. Duffy gets [[ColdBloodedTorture special treatment]] after [=RoboCop=] makes him crack reveal the location of Cain's hideout.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: He wears almost nothing but black and grey—clearly, a bad dude.

* HateSink: Has the main protagonist brutally killed via a long and drawn-out firing squad, treats his own gang as expendable, is a hitman for a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and has an extensive record of killing police officers. All in all, a totally despicable person.

[[caption-width-right:264:''"I know you! You're dead! WE KILLED YOU!"'']]

* AnArmAndALeg: More like his entire body explodes.
* AxCrazy: Just as insane as his boss, but more impulsive, as seen when he threatens to kill an employee at the gas station [[ForTheEvulz simply for laughs.]]
* BodyHorror: His last moments were unpleasant, to say the least.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It is really grisly. His body starts rapidly deteriorating after getting drenched in toxic waste. Him subsequently getting liquified by Boddicker's car was effectively a MercyKill.
* DeadlyDodging: With Robocop as the dodger. Emil attempts to run over Robocop, but Robocop sidesteps and causes Emil to crash into a tank of toxic waste which melts him alive.
* DeathByDisfigurement: Gets disfigured by toxic waste.

-->"''Don't touch me man!''" [pushes Emil away and flees]

* {{Irony}}: Earlier he offers Dougie a cigarette which the latter declines, warning him that they’ll kill him. Emil mockingly brushes him off, asking if he “wants to live forever?”. Later on in the movie [[spoiler: [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he gets the slowest and most painful death out of all of Clarence’s gang members]].]]

* MadeOfPlasticine: He goes ''splat'' when hit by a car-- presumably because the acidic toxic waste has weakened his bones.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He told [=RoboCop=] "We killed you!" which helps [=RoboCop=] learn he used to be a man with a loving wife and son (his past was meant to be covered up a secret from him by Morton).
* NotQuiteDead: Although the scene where Robo fires at him, and he crashes his motorcycle, looks like he's dying, he shows up later alive (though he still has a gash on his face). [[AssholeVictim Then he dies a much, much more horrible death.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: His terrified disbelief when he first sees Robocop.
-->'''Emil:''' I know you...You're dead. We killed you!...''We killed you!!!''

* KilledMidSentence: Lewis [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fires his own grenade launcher at him]] and blows him up. [[LastWords "I got him, Clarence! I got hi-"]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: His violence is not completely wanton. When he's going to assassinate Bob Morton, the target is in the company of two hookers. Clarence simply orders them "Bitches, leave!" and lets them flee the scene unharmed.

** As RoboCain, he fills the same role as ED-209, a hulking

* TheNotLoveInterest: She's the only person who gets close to Robo, she's female, and the way they look at each other sometimes looks like they have feelings for each other, but it never goes far beyond them being partners on the force.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It is really grisly.

* MadeOfIron: Survives multiple gunshot wounds from Boddicker towards the end of the first film.

* ContinuitySnarl: The subject of his first name is possibly one. In the scene when Morton, Johnson, and co. and taking [=RoboCop=] to Metro West in the original movie, Morton asks who Reed is, to which Johnson replies "Sgt. John Reed", but in the second, following Faxx's tampering with [=RoboCop=], Murphy calls Reed "Warren". While it could initially have been chalked up to Faxx's tampering like butchering age-old sayings was, the comic adaptation of the original script for ''3'', ''[[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop RoboCop: Last Stand]]'' does confirm that "Warren" was intended to be Reed's name as he was address there as "Sgt. Warren Reed".

* HateSink: Boddicker has the main protagonist brutally killed via a long and drawn-out firing squad, treats his own gang as expendable, is a hitman for a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and has a extensive record of killing police officers. All in all, a totally despicable human being.

* HateSink: A despicable human being.

* TheDriver: Acts as the group’s getaway driver during their introductory scene.

--> "''Don't touch me man!''" [pushes Emil away and flees]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Zig-zagged. He is not the first of the gang to die overall, as Bobby dies (with help from Clarence) in the initial confrontation with Murphy and Lewis, and Steve Minh dies previously during the shootout with Robo at the cocaine factory. However, he is the first of Clarence's gang to die in their final confrontation with [=RoboCop=].]]

* ContinuitySnarl: The subject of his first name is possibly one. In the scene when Morton, Johnson, and co. and taking [=RoboCop=] to Metro West in the original movie, Morton asks who Reed is, to which Johnson replies "Sgt. John Reed", but in the second, following Faxx's tampering with [=RoboCop=], Murphy calls Reed "Warren". While it could initially have been chalked up to Faxx's tampering like butchering age-old sayings was, the comic adaptation of the original script for ''3'', ''[[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop RoboCop RoboCop: Last Stand]]'' does confirm that "Warren" was intended to be Reed's name as he was address there as "Sgt. Warren Reed".

* ContinuitySnarl: The subject of his first name is possibly one. In the scene when Morton, Johnson, and co. and taking [=RoboCop=] to Metro West in the original movie, Morton asks who Reed is, to which Johnson replies "Sgt. John Reed", but in the second, following Faxx's tampering with [=RoboCop=], Murphy calls Reed "Warren", though given his programming was driving Murphy crazy and he was butchering age-old sayings, it's also possible Murphy just called Reed by the wrong name.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Paul [=McDaggett=], though he's clearly the lesser evil.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With the OCP CEO.

* AntiVillain: He's slime, but compared to the other OCP execs he's relatively nice.. [[spoiler: [[AlasPoorVillain His death scene makes him look more pathetic than anything as he begs for his life while Boddicker shoots him and leaves him to die]].]]

* ManlyFacialHair: He's one of the few undisputed examples of BigGood in the whole franchise, and on the third film is the one who organizes the citizens of Cadillac Heights to fight back against the Rehab/Splatter army that is coming to kick out (or kill) everybody. And in all three films, he rocks a solid mustache.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cain isn't necessarily committed to becoming a cyborg and shows great fright when Dr. Faxx lies about him dying and kills his life support for his surgery-transplant. Cain presumably starts to regret his predicament once he learns he's a pawn of OCP and won't get his Nuke fix unless he follows orders.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cain isn't necessarily committed to becoming a cyborg and shows great fright when Dr. Faxx lies about him dying and kills his life support. Cain presumably starts to regret his predicament once he learns he's a pawn of OCP and won't get his Nuke fix unless he follows orders.

* BerserkButton: Snitching is one major thing Cain despises. Duffy gets [[ColdBloodedTorture special treatment]] after Robocop makes him crack reveal the location of Cain's hideout.

* KickTheDog: Cain likes to be sadistic or ruthless for little to no apparent gain besides the fact that [[JustifiedTrope he loathes snitching]]. When he finds a Chinese EthnicMenialLabor worker in his limo pleading to not allow the cops to arrest her, he robotically pulls out his personal side arm and shoots-and-dumps her out the other door of the limo presumably to eliminate a possibile snitch. He also has his TortureTechnician vivisect Duffy to death for snitching to Robocop (under duress), and forces Hob to watch.