History Characters / Robocop

!!Boddicker's Gang

[[folder:In general]]
A ruthless gang of OCP-backed criminals.

* CreateYourOwnHero: Boddicker and his gang killed Alex Murphy--which bit them in the ass when Morton used Murphy to create [=RoboCop=].
* ForTheEvulz: It's their main motivation, with money just being a nice bonus.
* {{Hate Sink}}s: Every member qualifies. Boddicker takes great joy in his sadism and is a BadBoss, Emil was willing to kill a gas station employee simply for being a college student (even while he was cooperating), and all of them (especially Joe) enjoyed every single bit of inflicting as much pain as possible to Murphy before his initial death. All in all, their downfall at the end of the movie is them getting their just desserts.
* LargeHam: All of them are incredibly over the top in the best way.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Nash and Mihn are the only ones who don't fit this.
** Boddicker himself has two of his most famous lines: first telling the ladies with Morton "Bitches, leave," and then telling Sal he'd "shove enough of this factory up his stupid wop ass." Oddly, he doesn't refer to Robo as "it."
** Joe called Emil a "faggot" twice.
** Emil himself makes a crack about PrisonRape after he escapes from prison during the police strike.
* VillainousFriendship: About as close to being friends as a bunch of AxCrazy murderers can get.

[[folder:Clarence Boddicker]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. So I don't like cops."'']]
[-Played by Creator/KurtwoodSmith-]

The secondary antagonist of the first movie. He is the crime boss of Old Detroit.

* ArchEnemy: For Alex/Robo, being the one who killed him and all.
* AxCrazy: As his execution of Murphy and [[spoiler: Morton]] shows, he's a violent sadist fond of torture and murder.
* BadassNormal: No special cybernetics or crazy drugs in his system, yet still capable of posing a threat to [=RoboCop=] through ruthlessness, equipment, and no small amount of guile.
* BadBoss: Asks an injured lackey, "Can you fly, Bobby?" before throwing him at a pursuing police car.
* BaldOfEvil: He's balding and a sadistic monster.
* {{BFG}}: He and his gang get Cobra Assault Cannons to destroy [=RoboCop=].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Jones. Boddicker is the [[TheHeavy much-more immediate threat]] due to personally being in the field with his goons killing people, and it's his actions that result in Murphy becoming [=Robocop=] in the first place.
* CardCarryingVillain: Doesn't even try to hide the fact he is a despicable excuse for a human being; in fact, Boddicker ''rebels'' on it.
-->'''Clarence:''' See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. ''So I don't like cops.''
* CopKiller: He's essentially a serial killer of cops, wanted in connection to the death of at least 32 of them before killing Alex. Boddicker openly tells Alex that cops don't like him, so he doesn't like them.
* DeadpanSnarker: He can make some dismissive yet witty comments.
* DestinationDefenestration: When he gets cornered by [=RoboCop=] at the drug factory and is read his Miranda rights, he gets thrown through several windows until he confesses his plot.
* DiabolicalMastermind: As a crime boss in Old Detroit, he has connections with companies and some law enforcers, and pretty much untouched by law.
* DirtyCoward: Clarence's arrogance and cruelty vanish when Robocop backs him into a corner, especially the second time, and he quickly devolves into a pleading wreck who will say anything to save his skin.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: He has African-American Joe Cox, Asian-American Steve Minh, and Emil Antonowsky, who may have some Slavic ancestry, on his gang.
* EvilGloating: "Are you a good cop, hotshot? You gotta be some kind of ''great'' cop, coming in here all by yourself!"
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He's not above the occasional violence-based pun.
* EvilIsHammy: As opposed to Alex and the other good guys, he is quite loud.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has Kurtwood Smith's impressive vocals and is as bad as they come.
* EvilWearsBlack: He wears almost nothing but black and grey—clearly, a bad dude.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He tries to sound polite to his opponents, even when he threatens to kill them. He treats his gang members like friends but won't hesitate to kill them if it suits his needs.
* ForTheEvulz: This is Clarence's main motivation for almost everything he does.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Typically seen with his glasses. And there is the whole "based on UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler" thing...
* HandCannon: Carries a Desert Eagle with a massive silencer.
* HateSink: While every member qualifies, Boddicker especially stands out. He 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, has an extensive record of killing police officers, and [[CardCarryingVillain takes joy on his heinous acts]]. His death, while not the most painfully slow (that would be Emil) or quick and overkill (that would be Leon), is all the more fitting.
* HeroKiller: Murphy is just his latest in a long string of victims. He nearly does it again against Robo in their second fight, but thankfully Robo manages to finally end his life.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: While Boddicker is technically part of a BigBadDuumvirate, he technically works for Jones to advance himself. However, Jones and Murphy don't have any personal animosity towards each other, with Jones hating [=RoboCop's=] creator, Bob Morton, for endangering his position in the company and wanting [=RoboCop=] dead only because he threatens his ED-209 project. By contrast, Murphy only regains his sense of identity through his desire for vengeance against Boddicker for killing him, and their fight in the climax is much more personal than Murphy going after Jones, which is more akin to just taking down another criminal.
* KarmicDeath: Opened his protracted torture of a helpless Murphy at the steel mill by blowing his right hand off with a shotgun. [[BookEnds At the end of the film at the same mill]], Murphy is oncemore rendered seemingly helpless and at Clarene's mercy [[spoiler: but having use of his right hand lets Murphy finally kill him.]]
* KneeCapping: Does this to Morton at Jones' orders, keeping him alive long enough to show him Jones' final message to him and to futility struggle to defuse a grenade that he plants in his house.
* LaughablyEvil: He can actually be pretty funny at times.
* LargeHam: ''Very'' enthusiastic and expressive. You can tell Kurtwood Smith was having a lot of fun in the role. The TV Asahi Japanese dub [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4N8xXHKLJ0 raised this angle]] up to eleven, courtesy of the late Nobuo Tanaka, aka [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure DIO in the 90s OVAs]]. Meanwhile, in English:
-->"Ooh, guns guns ''guuuuuns!'' Come on Sal! The Tigers are playing... ''tonight'': And I ''never'' miss a game!"
* TheLeader: Of the crooks that killed Alex.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: He threw his incompetent minion Bobby at Murphy and Lewis's car to slow them down.
* NoIndoorVoice: Especially when he is very happy or angry.
* OhCrap: When he realizes that Robo is trying to ''kill him'' the second time, not arrest him.
* PetTheDog: Subverted. He stops Emil from killing Murphy, [[CruelMercy but only to give him a far more torturous death.]]
* PetRat: He's a crime boss who does odd-jobs and assassinations for Dick Jones, the number two guy at [=OCP=]. Jones gets obstacles to his position eliminated while Boddicker gains new opportunities to expand his criminal empire with Jones's connections in exchange.
* PinPullingTeeth: He does this with the grenade he uses to finish off Bob Morton. Although since it seems to be designed differently from normal grenades, it might be a type with a pin especially easy to pull.
* PragmaticVillainy: 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, showing his violence is not completely wanton.
* PreMortemOneLiner: He attempts this with "Sayonara, [=RoboCop=]!" after beating and stabbing him with a metal rod, but unfortunately for Boddicker, the process of saying it puts his throat within range of Robocop's computer spike...
* PsychoForHire: Dick Jones got to hire a ruthless crime lord to do his bidding.
* PuttingOnTheReich: His costuming (wiry glasses, overcoat, leather gloves) was inspired by UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, reinforcing the idea of him as intelligent but highly sadistic and evil.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He doesn't rape anyone onscreen, but one of the many [[LongList many]] charges on his rap sheet is rape to hammer home how much of a scumbag he is.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: During his first confrontation with [=RoboCop=], Clarence can turn his brutalization into a lawful arrest by pointing out that he works for Dick Jones, who runs OCP and the cops by extension, so, since [=RoboCop=] is a cop, their personal, derivative allegiance to Dick Jones must defuse the conflict. [=RoboCop=] does stop upon hearing it, but only because Murphy abides to uphold the law and his program.
* {{Sadist}}: His joy in inflicting pain and causing carnage is clear in every scene and line he speaks.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Initially plans to walk out of his deal with Dick Jones when Dick asks him to kill [=RoboCop=]. Then Dick tempts him by the promise of the business he can have when Delta City's construction begins.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How he dies, courtesy of Murphy ramming his data spike into his throat and violently ripping it out in a spray of blood.]]
* TheSociopath: To him, other people are just toys to be played with and disposed of once they break.
* SoftSpokenSadist: One of the less hammy villains in the movie, though still a veritable fountain of meme-tastic, scenery-chewing one-liners.
* TomTheDarkLord: It takes a special kind of evil to be a middle-aged, bespectacled, skinny man with a receding hairline named Clarence and remain intimidating. Boddicker is that man.
* VillainousBreakdown: After Robo throws him through a few windows, he starts pleading with him not to kill him because he has dirt on Jones.
* VillainousValor: He's a selfish, greedy man, and if you offer him enough reward, he will even risk his neck to try and kill Robocop.
* VillainsWantMercy: While he's still too proud to beg for it, he desperately starts trying to appeal to Murphy's sense of duty both times, he loses the upper hand to Robo. [[spoiler: It only saves him the first time.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: A combination of this and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. When one of his goons ends up burning the money during a bank robbery by blowing the doors and gets his legs shot during a shoot-out between the cops and their getaway van, Boddicker decides to use his incompetent and useless henchman as a way to keep the cop car from pursuing. "Can you fly, Bobby?"

[[folder:Emil M. Antonowsky]]
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[[caption-width-right:264:''"I know you! You're dead! We killed you! We killed you! WE KILLED YOU!!"'']]
[-Played by Creator/PaulMcCrane-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

* AssholeVictim: Let's be honest, even if Emil's moments before death are brutal and nightmarish, his lack of redeeming qualities means no one will feel bad for his death.
* 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: Trying to run over [=RoboCop=] with a truck, he instead crashes into a tanker of toxic waste, which drenches him and [[ImMelting melts him alive]], completely disfiguring him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His body starts rapidly deteriorating after getting drenched in toxic waste. Him subsequently getting ran over by Boddicker's car was effectively a MercyKill. Though despite being really grisly, [[LaserGuidedKarma he definitely deserved it]].
* DeadlyDodging: With [=RoboCop=] as the dodger. Emil attempts to run over Murphy, but he sidesteps and causes Emil to crash into a tank of toxic waste which [[ImMelting melts him alive]].
* DeathByDisfigurement: Subverted. Emil gets disfigured by toxic waste, but is still alive [[ICannotSelfTerminate and well-aware he is agonizing]]. Boddicker running over his car finally does the trick.
* TheDriver: Acts as the group's getaway driver during their introductory scene.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He cruelly teases the gas station attendant, who turns out to be a college kid studying plane geometry, with this quip: "I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you can ''outsmart'' a bullet?!"
* EvilIsPetty: Threatening to shoot the gas station's employee simply for being at college and doing homework easily qualifies as this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Easily demonstrated when he threatens the gas station's employee. He laughes at the employee being at college, and threatens the man to shoot him dead with a SlasherSmile... which he soon [[MoodSwinger drops]] for [[AxCrazy his actual personality]].
-->'''Emil:''' Hey man, what'cha reading in there? ''(The book reads "Plane Geometry")'' Hahahahahaha... you're a college boy or something, huh? ''(the employee nods)'' I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you can outsmart a bullet? What do you say we find out, huh? ''(his smile falters) [[SuddenlyShouting I'm talking to you!]] What do you say? Huh? Huh?! '''I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!'''''
* HairTriggerTemper: Is infuriated when Murphy accidentally shoots the gang's stolen TV.
-->'''Emil:''' [[BerserkButton Your ass is mine.]]
* HellBentForLeather: Wears a lather jacket and rides a motorcycle.
* HollywoodAcid: Involved in a horrible accident leading to his famous "melting man" scene.
* HumanoidAbomination: His last moments were completely unplesant, to say the least. Once the toxic waste [[ImMelting disfigures Emil]], all that remains is the sad husk of a man walking away his last moments.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: After getting drenched in acid, Emil bumps into another one of Bodicker's henchmen, Leon, and lets out a barely decipherable croak begging for Leon to finish him off. Leon does ''not'' oblige.
-->"''Don't touch me man!''" ''(pushes Emil away and flees)''
* ImMelting: During the gang's final showdown with [=RoboCop=], his truck crashes into a large vat of green goo labeled with a radioactive sign... and it ''really'' did not agree with his squishy bits. [[BodyHorror His body melts as a result]].
* {{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, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he gets the slowest and most painful death out of all of Clarence’s gang members]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Even for a sadistic henchman, he's really obnoxious.
* LudicrousGibs: His entire body explodes once Boddicker runs over his melted, disfigured body that gets [[AlienBlood reduced to green slime]]; all that can be seen from that is [[OffWithHisHead his head]] flying over Boddicker's car.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The acidic toxic waste weakens his bones to the point he goes ''splat'' when hit by Boddicker's car.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from calm, to laughing, to crazy and violent at the gas station when threatening the employee.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He told [=RoboCop=] "We killed you!", which helps Murphy 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). [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Then he dies]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a much, much more horrible death]].
* PrisonRape: Seems to be averted. He claims not to have been raped while in prison.
* SkewedPriorities: Is infuriated when Murphy shoots Dougy... because he shoots the stolen TV in the process.
* VillainousBreakdown: His terrified disbelief when he first sees [=RoboCop=].
-->'''Emil:''' I know you. You're dead... We killed you! ''We killed you!! '''[[ThisCannotBe WE KILLED YOU!!!]]'''''

[[folder:Leon Nash]]
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[[caption-width-right:330:''"I got him, Clarence! I got him!"'']]
[-Played by Creator/RayWise-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

* EvilGloating: After dropping a ton of scrap metal on Robo and incapacitating him, he yells and cheers, which leads to KilledMidSentence below.
* GroinAttack: He tries to knee Robo in the balls. Too bad [=RoboCop=] is a cyborg.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His own grenade launcher is turned on him by Lewis.
* KilledMidSentence: Lewis [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fires his own grenade launcher at him]] and blows him up.
-->'''Leon:''' [[LastWords I got him, Clarence! I got hi-]] ''(BOOM)''
* NumberTwo: Acts like this for Clarence, as being more reliable than Joe or Emil.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When a melting Emil comes to him for help, Nash freaks out (in all fairness, it's hard to blame him), yells "Don't touch me, man!" and runs away.
* ShootingSuperman: Punching [=RoboCop=].
* StuffBlowingUp: His fate, what with being on the receiving end of a rocket launcher and all.
* VillainBall: He opts to dump a load of scrapped metal onto Murphy (which doesn't do much) instead of just firing at him from a safe distance using the powerful rocket launcher gun his gang got for the job.
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[[folder:Joe P. Cox]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Good night, sweet prince. Hahahahahahahaha!"'']]
[-Played by Creator/JesseDGoins-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

* 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=].]]
* CampingACrapper: Subverted. He is caught relieving himself by Lewis, but manages to knock her out and escape unharmed.
* CoolCar: When released from prison, he gets a 6000 SUX.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: During their final showdown with Robocop, [[spoiler: Boddicker's gang all get memorable deaths except for Joe, who just gets shot in the chest at the beginning and quickly forgotten about. Originally it was planned that he would be knocked over a railing and impaled on a fence (not unlike how he threw Lewis over a railing) but it was cut to tighten up the sequence]]. He ''does'' go over a railing and get taken out of the fight during the cocaine factory sequence, however.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He finds every aspect of the gang's execution of Murphy hilarious.
* EvilLaugh: Everytime he laughs is when he's done something bad or is about to do.
* GoodNightSweetPrince: He says this to Murphy as he lays dying.
* HumanShield: Leon uses him as one in the climax.
* TheHyena: He is recognizable for his high-pitched crazy laugh, which he lets out in most scenes he appears in.
* KickTheDog: After blasting off Murphy's hand, arm and countless shots to his chest, Joe reacts to Murphy's loud cries of pain with a mocking 'Does it hurt, does it hurt?' question before cackling loudly.
* LargeHam: Always laughing loudly and acting all camp.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from being upset that Boddicker blows up his new stolen car to thrilled about the Cobra Assault Cannon that did it.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Invoked. Cox is making water when Lewis comes upon him: rather than zip himself up before turning around and putting his hands up, he opts to give Lewis "the full monty", knowing she'll be distracted, giving him the opening he needs to take her out.
* OddNameOut: The only member of Clarence's gang to not have a cutesy French name (after the death of Bobby, Dougy, and Steve, at least).
* ScaryBlackMan: A black member of a ruthless crime gang which is known for his deranged laughter and being trigger-happy.
* SignatureLaugh: Again, his laughter is probably his most notable trait.
* TokenMinority: As mentioned, he’s the only black member of Clarence’s gang.
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[[folder:Steve Minh]]
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[-Played by Creator/CalvinJung-]

Another of Clarence's thugs.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Altogether now, "Oh, fuck you!"
* FlatCharacter: Minh is the one in the gang that gets the least characterization.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Normally carried around a Mossberg 500 Cruiser shotgun.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Often paired with or seen with Cox.
* TokenMinority: He's the only Asian gang member.
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[[folder:Bobby]]
[-Played by Creator/FreddieHice-]

A thug who was put in charge of breaking open bank vaults to get the cash.

* CarFu: He gets rammed by Murphy and Lewis's car when Clarence ordered he be literally thrown under the bus, and most likely died from the collision.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, when there's another character called Bob Morton.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: The most short-lived member of Clarence's gang. We learn that he cannot fly, crash-landing on Murphy and Lewis's car and likely left for dead.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Clarence is outraged that Bobby burnt the cash with bombs. While in the midst of beating up Bobby for the burnt money, Emil alerted him about a car of cops closing in on them, and the cops shot Bobby in his legs. With Bobby dying from blood loss, Clarence found Bobby to be a burden to carry around and had his crew [[NoHonorAmongThieves throw Bobby at the cops]] to slow them down.
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[[folder:Dougy]]
[-Played by Creator/NeilSummers-]
Another of Clarence's thugs.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Literally, as he and Emil seem to be fans of the horrible in-universe sitcom "It's Not My Problem."
* FlatCharacter: His character makes so little an impression that he's often forgotten about in write-ups of the film. Makes sense since Summers' works primarily as a stuntman and his character is only in two scenes.
* ForgettableCharacter: None of the members of Clarence's gang even acknowledge his death. He's also the only gang member whose name is not mentioned onscreen.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Only in two scenes he uses a Remington 870 shotgun in both (or tries to the second time before being ventilated by Murphy).
* SmokingIsNotCool: Believes so and tries to warn Emil about the dangers of smoking.
* TooDumbToLive: When Murphy tells him, "Don't move," he reaches for his gun and gets shot.

!!Nuke Cult

[[folder:In General]]
A ReligionOfEvil and criminal organization centered around Cain.

* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Hob was the only one of the main trio ''not'' getting high on Nuke himself.
** Cain takes shots of Nuke during his scenes as a human, and he can immediately tell that his chemist used the wrong ingredients after taking a hit from the latest batch. This bites Cain in the ass later, as his addiction keeps him in agonizing withdrawal pains even after being transferred to the [=RoboCop=] 2 chassis, forcing him to play along with orders to get his fix.
** Like the rest of the gang, Angie's also a Nuke user. Hob uses her addiction to stop her from rescuing Cain from the hospital and instead help him take over.
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[[folder:Cain / [=RoboCop=] 2]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The people want paradise. They will have it."'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robocop_2_1.jpg]]
[-Played by Creator/TomNoonan-]

The main antagonist of the second movie, and the distributor of a street drug called "Nuke."

* AddledAddict: Cain's Nuke addiction doesn't seem to slow him down at first. As a cyborg, his withdrawals are excruciating, and OCP uses the drug to control him. In the end, his need for Nuke gets him killed--Murphy exploits it to finish him off.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear exactly what Cain is like when sober and how much of his villainy is a result of his Nuke addition. We only see Cain in his Nuke-addicted state throughout the film, and learn that he served in an Amazon War and got court-martialed for an unknown charge.
* AndIMustScream: His still-alive brain (with eyeballs attached) is put in a jar after OCP doctors remove it from his body. It's implied that seeing his own hollowed-out severed head is what causes Cain to ''really'' snap.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: [=RoboCain's=] Assault Cannon is effectively an armor piercing shotgun. [=RoboCop=] prioritizes taking it out with his Auto-9 after suffering chest damage and being knocked off his feet from the force of its projectiles.
* AxCrazy: He was a psychotic killer ''before'' he became a cyborg. After that, he gets worse.
* BackFromTheDead: As [=RoboCop=] 2 aka [=RoboCain=].
* BerserkButton: Snitching is one major thing Cain despises. Duffy gets [[ColdBloodedTorture special treatment]] after [=RoboCop=] makes him crack and reveal the location of Cain's hideout.
* BigBad: Of ''[=RoboCop=] 2''. He is even ''called'' ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' in universe during the press release, so the film's title is his alias when he becomes a cyborg.
* BrainInAJar: His organic components are basically limited to the brain, eyes, and spinal cord.
* BreakTheBadass: His transformation into a cyborg on top of being enslaved by a Nuke addiction and Dr. Faxx marks the point where he goes through a major mental meltdown.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: A two-fold example as both a human criminal and killer cyborg:
** Unlike Dick Jones from the original, a CorruptCorporateExecutive of OCP, Cain is an anarchistic drug lord who doesn't work for OCP until his robotic rebirth. While Dick Jones seeks to move up in the company, Cain is motivated by a god complex and to lord over Detroit. And while Dick Jones is pushing the "Delta City" project to bulldoze Old Detroit, Cain wants to keep Detroit as a hellhole for the Nuke Cult.
** In contrast to Clarence Boddicker, Cain is highly irrational, due to GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply. While Clarence is business-minded but still revels in gratuitous violence, Cain is largely a NonActionBigBad who lets his gang do the fighting for him until his transformation into [=RoboCain=], and has a vague notion of turing Detroit into a "paradise". Finally, while Clarence is an associate of a BigBad at OCP, Cain becomes an unwilling slave in a prototype by Dr. Faxx.
** As [=RoboCain=], he fills the same role as ED-209, a hulking robot who challenges Robocop. But while ED 209 is a ChickenWalker with limited mobility, [=RoboCain=] is humanoid and far less clumsy, as well as more heavily armed. ED 209 has faulty programming, while Cain goes haywire because he has the mind of a psychopathic criminal. Also while ED 209 remains a lumbering weapon to OCP, [=RoboCain=] proves uncontrollable and goes on a rampage against the company.
* CopKiller: He had Duffy gutted for ratting him out.
* DarkMessiah: What he sees himself as. Cain promises that his drugs will bring humanity to "paradise."
-->'''Cain, when Murphy is at his mercy''': Jesus... had days like these.
* DeaderThanDead: Let's see... getting his life support taken off, his brain used to control [=RoboCop=] 2, then having said brain ripped out and smashed to pieces by [=RoboCop=]. That's about as dead as you get!
* DecompositeCharacter: Cain originally started in Creator/FrankMiller's [[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop original script for]] ''Film/RoboCop2'' as a drug-addled merc/Rehab officer named Kong, who'd be severely injured fighting Murphy and turned into [=RoboCop=] 2. While Cain would keep many of these elements, the Rehab/merc aspect would be recycled for ''Film/RoboCop3''[='=]s Paul [=McDaggett=].
* DrugsAreBad: Cain's Nuke addiction is presumably not doing his mental stability any favors while the withdrawal pains are agonizing. Once transformed into [=RoboCain=], Dr. Faxx exploits the later by withholding his Nuke fix until he complies with OCP orders.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When escaping from Robocop and Lewis busting one of his Nuke lab operation, he finds a Chinese woman in his limousine pleading to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested; he proceeds to draw a handgun and kill her without flinching, pushing her body out of the limo without missing a beat, establishing Cain as having a gross LackOfEmpathy.
* 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. Once [=RoboCain=] steals the remote controlling his weapons to arm his guns and destroy the remote, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and everything in sight.
* EvilCounterpart: To [=RoboCop=]. He even strikes Robo's iconic firing pose while firing on civilians during the press conference, seemingly to taunt his counterpart.
* EvilIsBigger: As [=RoboCop=] 2, he's almost MiniMecha size and almost twice as large as the more human-like Robocop.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Turns out putting the brain of a psychopathic criminal mastermind inside a war-machine robot isn't the best of ideas.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: When Faxx looks him up, it's revealed he served in the Amazon War and was court-martialed on an unknown charge. He escaped from his prison and moved to Detroit to set up shop.
* FullConversionCyborg: When he's critically injured and captured, OCP uses the opportunity to convert him to a cyborg against his will (temporarily rendering him a BrainInAJar while he goes through drug withdrawal, which doesn't help his mood), banking on using his Nuke addiction to keep him under control. Go fig, placing a brain with a severe drug addiction, a GodComplex, a sadistic sense of humor, and zero empathy into a massive, heavily armed robotic body is a ''bad'' idea, and Cain goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and the police the second he has a chance.
* GatlingGood: Mounts a minigun on one of his arms.
* GlassCannon: Not [=RoboCain=] himself (who is merely staggered by multiple anti-tank rounds that could one-shot an ED-209) 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 and damage his torso armor so it could cause major damage to any target without significant protection. However, ordinary 9mm Parabellum bullets are enough to destroy the cannon in relatively few rounds.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Doctor Faxx reasoned that to endure the psychological trauma of being turned into another [=RoboCop=], they should start with someone with a mind that doesn't value their own humanity that much to begin with. It worked. Congratulations, now you have a military-grade combat robot with the mind of a violent psychopath.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He fancies himself as a messiah and talks to Murphy about him being persecuted (implied by him saying "Jesus had days like this...") and "forgives" Murphy for trying to shoot him. However Cain has already been shown killing someone in cold blood on screen, and not long after capturing and releasing [=RoboCop=] with his mechanical limbs detached, has someone tortured to death with mock surgery and looks on the scene in blank apathy while forcing Hob (a child) to watch the brutality.
* IronicEcho: His recreation as [=RoboCain=] and ultimate defeat are prefaced respectively with "[Good]night." from Dr. Faxx and "''Good''bye." from Alex Murphy.
* TheJuggernaut: As [=RoboCop=] 2. He was built to be superior to the original, and on that front, it succeeded. He is better armored, with Murphy spending the entire climax trying to kill him and only succeeding by removing the brain from his robot body and smashing it.
* JunkieProphet: How he views himself.
* KarmicTransformation: Similar to what he ordered done to torture Duffy, Cain is forced to endure having his body disassembled, his spine and brain extracted and suspended in life-supporting fluid. He is at the mercy of Dr. Faxx, a person who has a god complex of her own and who tries to control him by using his Nuke addiction against him. Given Nuke's narcotic traits, the withdrawal pains are presumably agonizing and torturious and Kane is forced alive on his life support.
* 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.
* LaserGuidedKarma: His smug VillainBall choice of damaging and dumping Murphy in front of the protesting cops to rub it on their faces instead of throwing him into a furnace and be 100% sure he's out of the picture will end up biting him in the ass once Murphy gets rebuilt and severely cripples him after a chase, which will then lead into his transformation into [=RoboCain=], and eventually to his death.
* LeanAndMean: As Cain, he's tall, thin, and creepily evil.
* LightningBruiser: Despite his huge size, immsense firepower and heavily armored chassis, [=RoboCop=] 2 is also capable of surprising speed, and is even fast enough to run up an elevator shaft.
* ImmuneToBullets: Even more so that the original Robocop. In the first film, sustained concentrated fire from multiple SWAT teams armed with military-grade weaponry was able to at least seriously injure Murphy (granted, Murphy was unable to shoot back and had to take it for a solid minute). The same amount of firepower directed against Cain just mildly annoys him. Even the Cobra Assault Cannon, a weapon that can destroy an ED-209, can't even put a dent in [=RoboCain=].
* MadeOfIron: As [=RoboCop=] 2, he's so heavily armored that he can shrug off shots from the Cobra Assault Cannon, which two-hit killed ED-209 in the first film.
* NameOfCain: Naturally.
* NoSell: As [=RoboCop=] 2, '''EVERYTHING'''. Gunfire, the Cobra Assault Cannon, explosions, falling off a skyscraper, nothing damages his robot body. His organic parts are a different story...
* OhCrap: His screen head has this reaction when he sees that Murphy has ripped his brain and spine out and is about to splatter them on the pavement.
* PowerFist: His less-lethal option is a pneumatic ram.
* RestrainingBolt: After the fiasco that was ED-209, [=OCP=] at least has the sense to have [=RoboCop=] 2's weapon systems controlled by an external remote control. However, [=RoboCop=] 2 just steals the remote from them, activates his guns, then smashes the remote (apparently [=OCP=] never bothered to make more than one).
* RoboticPsychopath: Being made a cyborg against his will didn't stop him from being AxCrazy.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: [=RoboCain's=] shoulder-mounted armor-piercing Assault Cannon has a shotgun like spread, and projects considerable stopping power even against the otherwise implacable [=RoboCop=]. It is capable of blasting away huge chunks of the auditorium seats, leaving visible damage on [=RoboCop=] and knocking [=RoboCop=] off his feet from the force. It's enough of a threat that, [=RoboCop=] prioritizes targeting and destroying it.
* SinisterShades: He wears sunglasses in most of his human appearances.
* SoftspokenSadist: He's got a much cooler, quieter demeanor than most of the other criminals in the series.
* TheSpeechless: Post-[=RoboCop=] 2 transformation, Cain never speaks a word on-screen, even when he deploys his TV screen to show his face. The most he does is make various growls and screeches.
* SuperiorSuccessor: [=RoboCop=] 2 is this to both the original [=RoboCop=] and to the ED-209s, being much more heavily armed and armored than either while retaining Robocop's human-level reasoning abilities. Too bad he's also a Nuke-addicted maniac with the brain of a sociopathic crime lord. His operating system also seems to be a version of Apple O/S, compared to Robocop's simpler green CRT text operating system.
* TopHeavyGuy: [=RoboCop=] 2's chest is huge, but its legs and lower body are comparatively thin. This does nothing to hinder its toughness or structural stability, however.
* TVHeadRobot: After becoming [=RoboCop=] 2, though instead of being a constant feature, it's only deployed when he wants to show his face.
* WalkingArsenal: [=RoboCop=] 2 has an insane amount of heavy weaponry incorporated into his body, including a minigun with an absurd amount of stored ammo, a shoulder-mounted cannon ''shotgun'', an extendable pneumatic battering ram for a fist, and a plasma cutting arm. The design philosophy while building him was TheresNoKillLikeOverkill.
* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Cain's personal side arm is a Walther PPK, a common side arm for officers of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and favored by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself. In the very first scene where Kane draws it, he has an ice cold expression and uses it to shoot trice one of his Chinese [[EthnicMenialLabor ethnic laborers]] who has taken refuge in his limo. She begs him to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested.
* VillainousBreakdown: [=RoboCain's=] final moments involve watching helplessly as Murphy smashes his brain and spine to mush on the pavement and his TV face glitching and spazzing out in horror and pain as it happens.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His first act as [=RoboCop=] 2 is to massacre every member of his former gang. Granted this was done under a directive sent by [=OCP=], but his complete lack of resistance to this particular order compared to later ones suggest this was something Cain was thinking of doing anyway, as he no longer needs his gang as the unstoppable killing machine he's now become.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hob]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hob_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Can't shoot a kid, can you, fucker?"'']]
[-Played by Creator/GabrielDamon-]

A young hoodlum who serves as Cain's apprentice in ''[=RoboCop=] 2''.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:His death is played quite tragically, for as evil as he was, we get a glimpse of the child he could have been under better circumstances. He makes some form of amending by revealing Cain to be [=RoboCop=] 2, and all he asks in return is for [=RoboCop=] to not leave him while he dies.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He reasons that the Nuke cult is better than cigarette and fast food companies because they don't advertise a product they ''know'' is no good for you (HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs nonwithstanding) as fun and/or cool.
* BadassAdorable: A gloomy, evil version. A kid he may be, but he's got what it takes to pull his weight in the [[CrapsackWorld crime-ridden hellhole that is Detroit]]. Cain's thugs and clients clearly know better than crossing him.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Hob dons a classy suit as he takes over the gang, by which time his badass credentials are quite established.
* CoolGun: Both his machine-gun camouflaged as a lunchbox and the magnum he uses to shoot Robocop.
* CopKiller: Not successful, but one of his earliest acts is to try to garrote Lewis, and he comes close to succeeding.
* CuteBruiser: Despite his age and size, Hob is a very good shot and proves adept in a brawl against trained adults.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: In a way. [[spoiler: As Hob lays dying, he no longer bears ill will against Robo, and revealing who is his killer provides a clue on how to fight him.]]
* TheDragon: To Cain.
* DragonAscendant: Takes over Cain's gang after his apparent demise. But despite coming close to getting his drugs legal, his rule is cut short by his former boss, who just CameBackStrong.
* EnfantTerrible: He's as bad as any of the adult members of Cain's gang.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hob is horrified when Cain has Officer Duffy eviscerated.
* EvilOrphan: A hardened, pre-pubescent criminal with no parent around. Though some believe that Hob is Cain's son.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Looks like a cute blond, blue-eyed kid but is nasty as they come.
* ForcedToWatch: Less in the usual "I want you to suffer along with him" manner, and more "You need to learn to get used to this kind of stuff" when Cain has Duffy tortured in front of him.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival:
** First played straight as [=RoboCop=] can't bring himself to shoot Hob, allowing Hob to shoot him in the head and escape.
---> '''Hob:''' Can't shoot a kid can you [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKER!!!]]
** Subverted next, as Lewis has no problem beating him up when he tries to strangle her.
** [[spoiler:Finally dangerously averted when [=RoboCop=] 2 enters the picture.]]
* KidsAreCruel:
** Played straight when the thugs are dismantling Murphy. "They say he's got a brain, I wanna see it."
** Averted when Cain has Duffy butchered in the most horrible way imaginable. Hob is revulsed and can't bear to watch.
* NervesOfSteel: Not cowed by adults the slightest, nor by the very intimidating [=RoboCop=]. Even before his death, despite being visibly terrified, he remains level-headed enough to hide and almost manages to escape.
* OnlySaneMan: The sole member of Cain's gang who is not a fanatical psycho or a barely functioning addict. Which might be why the others obey him. Justified as he never took any drug.
* PragmaticVillainy: Wants to run his business without troubles nor pointless violence. His offers to help Mayor Kuzak pay off the city's debts to OCP in exchange for legalizing Nuke are almost reasonable.
* {{Sadist}}: This little prick enjoys dishing out the pain too much. Though some things are still too horrible for him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hob has zero qualms about high tailing away, leaving Cain to die.
-->'''Hob:''' Fuck Cain!
* SirSwearsALot: Can't utter a sentence without an expletive.
* TheStarscream: While he isn't shown actively plotting against Cain, Hob was disgusted with Cain having Duffy gutted and took advantage of the fact that, unlike Angie, he wasn't using Nuke to force her to abandon Cain after he's hospitalized and take over the operation. [[spoiler:He also ends up killed for this when Cain becomes [=RoboCop=] 2.]]
* StraightEdgeEvil: Hob's the only one of the main three who's not using Nuke himself, which he uses against Angie to take over the Nuke gang after Cain is hospitalized.
* TeenGenius: Pretty smart and an effective drug trafficker despite being fourteen at most.
* TragicDropout: Implied. [=RoboCop=] is bewildered upon entering a busy arcade when he and Lewis are trying to catch Hob and other gang members.
-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': Isn't this a school day?
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Seeing a boy his age acting like a vicious, unhinged criminal is unsettling, to say the least.
* VillainSong: Actually gets one on the soundtrack.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rE6YGBKzk "The Kid Goes Wild," by Babylon A.D.]]

[[folder:Angie]]
[-Played by Galyn Görg-]
Cain's girlfriend and a Nuke addict.
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* AddledAddict: Is forced to choose between Cain and her drug addiction. She chooses the latter.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is similar to "angel" and she is the girlfriend of a cult leader with messianic delusions.
* {{Robosexual}}: Her reaction to seeing Cain's new body is to fondle one of its claws and hesitantly say that they may still make it work as a couple. [[spoiler:It just puts her at grappling range when Cain goes berserk (because he wants Nuke, maybe because of her betrayal, maybe because of sexual frustration or maybe all of the above), grabbing her by the head and either crushing it or snapping her neck]].
[[/folder]]

!!Rehabs

[[folder:Paul [=McDagget=]]]
[-Played by John Castle-]

Commander of the Rehabs, mercenaries hired by OCP.
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* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: He hires a vicious street gang after the police force quits.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the OCP CEO in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''.
* ColonelKilgore: The CEO calls him "war-wacky" on the climax. The fact that he seems to like all the fighting that is going on and the carnage involved only adds to that.
* CopKiller: He tells his men to fire upon Metro West's officers when they decide to assist the Cadillac Heights rebels [[spoiler:and he personally gunned down Lewis.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: He takes over the Rehab/merc aspect from Kong in Creator/FrankMiller's [[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop original script for]] ''Film/RoboCop2'' when the Rehabs for recycled for ''3''.
* DragonInChief: Though nominally the CEO is supposed to be his superior, [=McDagget=] ultimately answers only to Kanemitsu directly and mostly only tolerates the CEO. In fact it seems he's willing to go to extreme lengths not authorized by Kanemitsu in order to achieve his mission of cleansing Old Detroit to make way for Delta City.
* EvilBrit: British and very evil.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Officer Anne Lewis, a MoralEventHorizon moment for him [[InUniverse which leads Murphy]] to come gunning for him.]]
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Even with OCP finished as a company, his forces either dead or in retreat and having nothing to gain by doing so, [=McDagget=] wanted to [[JustYouAndMeAndMyGUARDS kill [=RoboCop=] with the help of two Otomos]] for his own personal satisfaction and ultimately died because of this. The OCP executives and his own surviving men [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere wisely retreated]] because they had nothing to gain from destroying one lone cyborg at this point.
* KillThePoor: He plans to wipe out the citizens of Old Detroit who refuse to cooperate with being relocated from their homes.
* MoreDespicableMinion: Even the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]] at OCP ultimately find his methods to be beyond the pale. He just pulls a HandCannon on the CEO and tells him to sit down and shut up.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Even more so than [=OCP=] (who were blatantly PuttingOnTheReich in the second film). The Rehabs also greatly resemble the infamous "Black And Tans" from UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution, considering that they're war veterans hired as mercenaries to augment the police in evictions. [=McDaggett=] himself being an EvilBrit hammers this home.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not blatantly racist, but as noted above, he's very much about [[KillThePoor killing the poor]].
[[/folder]]

!!Kanemitsu Corporation

[[folder:Otomo]]
[-Played by Bruce Locke-]

An android assigned to destroy [=RoboCop=].
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Otomo's katana is sharp enough to slice through titanium.
* AxCrazy: He shows some deranged facials and seems to toy with his opponents, implying he is either programmed that way for some twisted reason or actually sentient and sadistic.
* CorporateSamurai: A literal example, as he works for Kanemitsu Corporation and even uses a katana as he hunts down [=RoboCop=] while still maintaining some honor.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: If it wasn't by his introduction scene explaining that Otomo is an inanimate android, it would have been impossible to tell until the moment he gets his face shell damaged in a scuffle.
* GlassCannon: Otomo's not nearly as tough as [=RoboCop=] or ED-209; one grenade launcher headshot is enough to take him out, something both of the mentioned characters would have survived to. However, he's ''much'' faster than Robocop, with speed and agility as good as if not better than a very fit human athlete, able to perform flips, spins, and jumpkicks, while still being superhumanly strong, enough to knock Robocop's several hundred pound chassis around.
* HonorBeforeReason: Has a chance to kill [=RoboCop=] from behind but waits for him to turn around. Later waits for him to get up after being knocked down.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Otomo's sole weapon is a katana sword, which happens to be [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp enough to chop off Robocop's titanium hand]].
* NightmareFace: Some bullets to the face crack his shell. Although this seems to cause no loss of function on him, it does leave him with a grotesque visage.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's an android samurai assassin.
* OffscreenTeleportation: In Robocop's first encounter with one, Otomo appears behind [=RoboCop=] [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers style]] in the 2 seconds it takes [=RoboCop=] to bend down and pick up a piece of paper that was on the ground.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: An android who is essentially indistinguishable from a normal human (in terms of appearance at least, as he never talks so it's unclear whether he has any social programming). He even smokes, presumably having been designed that way to better blend in.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The two Otomos in the final fight seem to be equipped with one that triggers if they're destroyed. [=McDagget=] mentions they have a blast radius of 20 yards and ends up dying in the resulting explosion after the two are destroyed.
* SmokingIsCool: Can be seen calmly smoking while in the OCP headquarters.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Nicely contrasts the Japanese automotive industry of the 1980's with that of the USA. While American robots like Robocop, ED-209, and [=RoboCop=] 2 are powerful but cumbersome [[MightyGlacier Mighty Glaciers]] that stick out like a sore thumb, the Japanese-developed Otomo is a sleeker, more advanced [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] fast enough and strong enough to juggle [=RoboCop=] in a fight.
* TheVoiceless: Being designed to pass perfectly as a human, he should be capable of talking, but never does, at least onscreen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kanemitsu]]
[-Played by Creator/{{Mako}}-]
Chairmen of the Kanemitsu Corporation.
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* GracefulLoser: Despite the damage [=RoboCop=] did to his company, he treats him respectfully in their meeting.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's the CEO of the corporation that ''purchased OCP''. But he doesn't directly act as an antagonist in any way, and his only interaction with [=RoboCop=] is meeting him after the climax.
* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: His corporation owns OCP, which means he technically owns Detroit.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It's implied the CEO and [=McDagget=] are working behind his back, and he doesn't know how bad the situation in Detroit really is. He does fire the CEO at the end of the movie.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For the Old Man.
* VillainRespect: Meets [=RoboCop=] in person, and he bows in the traditional Japanese style.

[[/folder]]

!!Other
[[folder:Rebellion]]

!!Bertha Washington
[-Played by Creator/CCHPounder-]


The leader of the Rebellion against OCP and Rehab.
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* BlackBossLady: She's the leader of the rebels.

!!Nikko Halloran

[-Played by Remy Ryan-]

A [[InnocentProdigy young girl]] who's taken under the Rebellion's wing after Rehab takes and murders her parents.
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* AscendedFanboy: Nikko has a [=RoboCop=] action figure and gets excited at the possibility that he's pursuing the rebels' van. She later befriends Murphy and helps him take down OCP.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just as [=RoboCop=] is beaten by two Otomos and [=McDagget=] [[EvilGloating gloats in triumph]], Nikko hacks into the two androids and reprograms them to [[MutualKill attack each other]] instead.
* ChildProdigy: Nikko is a computer whiz, smart enough to be learning calculus at her age.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She gets separated from her parents as Rehabs force them onto a bus, and ends up in the Rebellion's care in which [=RoboCop=] later learns Nikko's parents were KilledOffscreen.
* GenderBlenderName
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* KidAppealCharacter
* MultiEthnicName: Nikko is biracial with a Japanese mother and a White father.
* PlayfulHacker: She hacks into an ED-209 to make it as "loyal as a puppy."
* ReplacementGoldfish: To [=RoboCop=], having moved on from his wife and son in the previous movie.
* TagalongKid: Nikko gets dragged into the Rebellion after she's separated from her parents, and Bertha rescues her from Rehab, but she quickly proves her worth.

!!Dr. Marie Lazarus
[-Played by Jill Hennessey-]

An OCP scientist who helped create Robocop. She gets fired for refusing to erase Murphy's emotions and joins the Rebellion.
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* MadScientist: A benevolent one that specializes in robotics and cybernetics like Robocop.
* MeaningfulName: She helped bring Murphy back to life, and her name is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Lazarus Lazarus]]

!!Coontz
[-Played by Creator/StephenRoot-]

A member of the Rebels. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be TheMole for the Rehabs.]]
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* DirtyCoward: He spends most of his time on-screen acting like the rebel on the verge of a nervous breakdown [[spoiler:before deciding to sell the whole group to [=McDaggett=].]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He's a constantly-nervous FatBastard who loudly questions if fighting OCP is worth it at one point. He was going to sell the rebels to OCP either [[DirtyCoward to save his own ass]] or [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for money]], that much was sure]].
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:The Rehabs blow him away during their raid on the Rebels' base -- we don't see the actual shooting, of course, but we see the Rehabs finding his dead body right after [=McDaggett=] orders them to look for him in an explicit invocation of this trope.]]

!!Moreno
[-Played by Daniel Von Bargen-]

A mechanic who joins the rebellion.
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* TheLancer: To Bertha.
* WorkingClassHero: He was a mechanic before joining the rebels.

!!Zack
[-Played by Stanley Anderson-]

Another member of the rebellion
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* TheLancer: To Bertha, along with Moreno.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Media]]

!!Casey Wong
[-Played by Mario Machado-]

An anchor for Mediabreak
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* KentBrockmanNews: Both he and Jess are just shills for OCP.

!!Jess Perkins
[-Played by Leeza Gibbons-]

An anchor for Mediabreak
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* KentBrockmanNews: Both she and Casey are just shills for OCP.
* PutOnABus: She does not appear in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''

!!Debbie Dix
[-Played by Creator/EvaLaRue-]
Casey Wong's co-anchor in [=RoboCop=] 3
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Refuses to report the "bullshit" story of [=RoboCop=] massacring several nuns and clergy and walks off the set.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As mentioned above, she storms out after one too many false reports by OCP of Murphy attacking people.

!!Bixby Snyder
[-Played by S.D. Nemeth-]

The star of the popular show ''[[ShowWithinAShow It's Not My Problem]]''
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* CatchPhrase: "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
[[/folder]]

!!Omni Consumer Products

[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ocp.png]]
[[caption-width-right:275:''"I say good business is where you find it."'']]

The BigBad of the franchise and a powerful {{Megacorp}} that dabbles in everything.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Anybody who works for OCP is a ruthless scumbag, especially if they are an executive.
* CorporateConspiracy: Omni Consumer Products is not the most ethical of corporations. [[Film/Robocop1987 The original film]] had a vice-president willing to make a deal with a crime boss to start a crime spree, so that OCP can step in and offer to [[LawEnforcementInc privatize the police force]]. And all of this to demolish Detroit and [[VillainousGentrification rebuild it as Delta City]]. By the time of [[Film/Robocop3 the third movie]], they're even hiring a street gang to drive out the locals.
* EvilInc: OCP is a cutthroat, heartless corporation that will use any cutthroat method it can, especially if it involves cutting corners.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: OCP's incompetence and difficulties in buying out all of Detroit from its citizens results in it gradually losing much of its value. [[spoiler: It is completely bankrupted by the revelation of its atrocities in ''Film/Robocop3''.]]
* IncompetenceInc: Big time, thanks to a combination of incompetence and greed. They prioritize making showpieces for military contracts rather than actually keeping the streets safe, and further prioritize said showpieces looking cool for the cameras and getting out early over them actually working. Regardless of what their product is, it's all CoolButInefficient, focusing entirely on looking flashy with no concern if it actually works, [=RoboCop=] being implied to be a fluke. This does eventually come back to bite them, as between the second and third films, they ended up being bought out by a Japanese company.
* LawEnforcementInc: They've privatised the Detroit Police Department as part of the city's bailout package. This is one of the first steps towards Delta City.
* MegaCorp: They have divisions in all kinds of diverse fields, such as consumer products, healthcare, prisons, space exploration, law enforcement and military grade weaponry.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: ''Film/RoboCop3'' was about OCP's warranty becoming void between Kanemitsu buying the company, the Old Man being implied to have been forced out, [[spoiler:the public learning the truth about the Rehabs, the resultant bankruptcy as stocks plummet, their headquarters being blown up by the Otomos, and the CEO getting fired.]]
* NoNameGiven: The Old Man's name was never revealed. The CEO's name is also unstated in ''Film/RoboCop3'', though if one counts the comic adaptation as AllThereInTheManual, then it's only his first name that unknown as it's stated there he's Bob Morton's dad (Johnson even calls him "Mr. Morton").
* VisionaryVillain: Their plan to transform Detroit into the privately owned Delta City.

[[folder:Richard "Dick" Jones]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dick_jones.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake."'']]

[-Played by Creator/RonnyCox-]

The main antagonist of the first movie, next to Clarence. He is the corrupt vice-president of OCP.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Boddicker, being the NonActionBigBad who supplies Boddicker with his equipment and money.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Keeps up an air of politeness when doing business, but whenever the chips are down he shows his true colors.
* TheChessmaster: Turning out to be the ManBehindTheMan for Detroit's latest crime spree and managing to smooth-talk Boddicker into staying his lackey by pointing out how much he'll benefit once Delta City brings a lot of suckers for construction work surely fits here.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[AlwaysChaoticEvil This is a pattern with OCP]], but Jones took it up to eleven. He doesn't even ''care'' that he made ''a piece of utter crap'' that ''killed a board member!''
-->'''Richard''':I had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209 - renovation program, spare parts for twenty-five years... ''Who cares if it worked or not!?''
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: His attempt to rebel against the Old Man ends up going ... out the window.]]
* ADickInName: The film '''loves''' to go out of its way to remind you that he's as terrible as his namesake by having every character [[PunctuatedForEmphasis really. emphasize. the. pronunciation]] of his nickname when they are being angry or sarcastic at him. Conversely, while Boddicker is trying to play nice for him, he pointedly calls him "Richard" instead.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Gives this speech to [=RoboCop=] when he comes to arrest him
-->'''Richard''': "What did you think? That you were an ordinary cop? You're our product! And we can't very well have our products turning against us, can we?"
* TheDreaded: OCP's other executives are terrified of Dick. They will talk smack about him behind his back, but are quick to run when he shows his face.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: After his ED-209 specimen kills a fellow executive by accident, he [[LackOfEmpathy brushes off]] the death as a "temporary setback". The Old Man [[EvenEvilHasStandards has none of it]].
-->'''Old Man''': [[SuddenlyShouting You call]] ''[[SuddenlyShouting this]]'' [[SuddenlyShouting a glitch?!]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. It's hinted that one of the reasons Dick opposes the [=RoboCop=] project is because the idea of Frankensteining humans into cyborgs creeps him out. However, he doesn't view any humanity within [=RoboCop=] and wastes no time trying to destroy him despite him technically being a human.
* EvilerThanThou: Played straight with the dynamics between him and his rival, Bob Morton. Though Bob Morton might be a JerkAss CorruptCorporateExecutive, he doesn't stoop to the level of villainy like Jones and gets outplayed - [[AlasPoorVillain Unfortunately for him.]]
* EvilGloating: When Robo comes to arrest him, unknowingly activating Directive 4, he holds out his arms and sarcastically offers to let Robo bring him in. Then he summons ED-209 to kill him, [[TooDumbToLive boasting about how he killed Bob Morton.]]
* EvilOldFolks: Not as much as The Old Man, but enough so that Rob Morton saw his advanced years as a sign of weakness... A fatal mistake.
* EvilIsHammy: "It's best if you think of it as a game... I'm ''cashing you out,'' Bob!"
* FauxAffablyEvil: He presents himself as polite and friendly, but he's a ruthless and greedy sociopath who wants to take over OCP at all costs and doesn't care if innocent people die in the process.
* HateSink: OCP executives are mostly scumbags, but Dick's depths of depravity makes him the most loathsome of them all. He buddies with a bloodthirsty crime lord for money, has Bob killed for screwing over his ED-209 project, views [=RoboCop=] as his "[[ItIsDehumanizing product]]" and happily tries to have him killed, and threatens to murder the Old Man when he's exposed.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He tells Bob after hearing Bob insult him and the Old Man that he's made jabs at his bosses too, but he always respected them. In the final scene when he's outed as the BigBad, he takes the Old Man hostage.
** He chews out Boddicker for implicating him in Boddicker's actions because Robo records everything he sees, and those recordings could be used as a evidence in a trial. Come the final scene, Robo reveals Dick's true colors to OCP by playing his recording of Dick's JustBetweenYouAndMe.
** As an executive of OCP, he always builds up the company as being a reliable, strong enterprise, but as he reveals to Bob in their confrontation, he's well aware that ED-209 is total garbage and even has a contingency in place to profit from its malfunction.
** He criticizes Bob for pulling the rug under him with [=RoboCop=], claiming he didn't go through the proper channels while also insulting the company thanks to how he ruined the plans with ED 209. This is despite the fact that Dick has shown he will go to any lengths to get what he wants, hiring Boddicker to kill Bob to get him out of the way, and even taking the Old Man hostage.
* {{Irony}}: He's livid at Clarence for spilling about Dick's involvement to [=RoboCop=] because, as a cyborg, [=RoboCop=] can record his confession which can then be admitted as evidence. [[spoiler: He's fired from OCP (and subsequently dispatched by [=RoboCop=]) [[HoistByHisOwnPetard because of his own careless gloating]], which was recorded and played to the board as evidence of his crimes.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: He really doesn't care about providing the company with a reliable product, he only cares about his advancement opportunity.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't care about any people who die as a result of his actions, only for his own advancement.
* LargeHam: His gloating about how he "erased the mistake" that was Morton was only heard by Murphy and nobody else solely because the floor was empty.
* NoIndoorVoice: A common ''[=RoboCop=]'' villain trait.
* NonActionBigBad: He's not much of a physical threat, leaving that to Boddicker or ED-209 or resorting to Robo's RestrainingBolt to protect himself. His main danger is his influence in OCP as well as his connections providing the likes of Boddicker powerful weaponry.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: When he's furious with Bob Morton, he comes in close and starts stroking his hair before grabbing a hank of it and threatening him.
* OhCrap: He's as smug as a human can possibly be, convinced he's safe behind Directive 4. [[spoiler:Then the Old Man shouts, "DICK, YOU'RE FIRED!"]] and his entire bearing collapses [[spoiler:in his last few seconds of life]].
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Jones brags that he added Directive Four, which essentially renders OCP execs above the law, into Robo's programming.
* TheSociopath: A classic example: he's [[FauxAffablyEvil charming]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], and completely indifferent to the lives of others.
* TheStarscream: His plan is to wait for the Old Man to die, take over OCP, and run the city of Detroit like his own personal fiefdom.
* VillainousBreakdown: All throughout the movie, he's been quite the SmugSnake sleaze, but once Robo [[EngineeredPublicConfession plays back his confession]], he tries to bargain his way out by holding the Old Man hostage.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The rest of OCP, including his boss, has no idea about his mob connections and general underhandedness.
* VisionaryVillain: His twisted vision of Delta City (New Detroit), a reboot of the town to enable more corporate and [[GangsterLand conventional]] theft.

[[folder:Donald Johnson]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"He's legally dead. We can do pretty much what we want to him."'']]
[-Played by Creator/FeltonPerry-]

An executive at OCP that always manages to stick around no matter what happens.

* AffablyEvil: Out of the film trilogy villains, Johnson is nice to everyone, including [[{{Jerkass}} Morton]], and is generally, a HarmlessVillain. Even when he does try and use his OCP clout, it comes off as pitiful.
* BizarreTasteInFood: He takes quite a liking to Robo's nutrient paste.
* ComedicSociopathy: He reacts way too happy when Robo kills Dick, complete with a huge smile and a thumbs-up, though it may be because he just found out Dick had murdered Morton, who he considered a friend.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is horrified by the ED-209 screw-up, happy when Jones died after learning about Bob's death, and was appalled with Faxx's ideas for the [=RoboCop=] 2 project.
* MauveShirt: Johnson went through three movies and the closest he ever came to danger was Cain's rampage at the end of ''2''. He was also promoted several times.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Sort of. In the movies, he's referred to only as Johnson, though his first name is supposed to be Donald. The Creator/MarvelComics adaptation and its series has him named as Daniel.
* OnlySaneMan: While no less amoral than his superiors, he is a lot more level-headed. In ''2'', he rightly points out how stupid it is to let Dr. Faxx put the mind of a criminal in their new law enforcement death bot, but is forced to go along with it. Later, after the predictable occurs, he convinces the Old Man to paint her as the sole cause of the rampage and is entirely reasonable to do so.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Witness him clapping every time the man in charge of OCP makes a mention of the grand goal of creating Delta City at the beginning of each film, even as everybody else in the room gives increasingly less of a crap.
* RankUp: The CEO in the third film mentions that he made him a vice president.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the third film, he bails out of OCP headquarters once things go south.
* SmugSnake: Witness his attempts at strong-arming people, such as Reed in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. His attempt at ShameIfSomethingHappened to Reed's pension got [[ThreatBackfire quite the]] [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt backfire]] and Johnson can only stand there impotently yelling.
* VillainousBreakdown: A minor one. When the Detroit cops all resign rather than help the Rehab officers in ''3'', he starts ranting about how they're jeopardizing their retirement benefits, clearly annoyed that [[BewareTheHonestOnes people would act on principle rather than out of self-interest]].
* VillainousFriendship: With Bob Morton. He's genuinely outraged to learn Dick Jones killed him and happy when [=RoboCop=] avenges him.

[[folder:The Old Man]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes we just have to start over from scratch to make things right, and that's exactly what we're going to do."'']]
[-Played by Creator/DanOHerlihy-]

Head of OCP in the first two movies.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Regardless of how he goes out in ''Rogue City'', [=RoboCop=] seems to be genuinely saddened at his death.]]
* BenevolentBoss: He genuinely wants to use OCP's power and influence to better the city of Detroit, even if nobody else at his company cares about it, and is the only member of the company who shows any kind of conscience.
* BusCrash: Seems to have died in the period between ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' and ''[=RoboCop=] 3'', leaving his company in the much less capable hands of The CEO in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. Johnson implies that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he was considered expendable]] between films. ''Rogue City'' (which takes place between the two films) reveals that [[spoiler:he attempted to turn himself into a cyborg using the Robocop 2 body, thus becoming the game's FinalBoss]].
* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** In the first movie he shows no serious moral failings, refusing to sell a half-finished, potentially dangerous product and being appalled by his underling's criminal dealings. He's still a CorruptCorporateExecutive, however. He's not at all bothered by poor Kinney's death, he's more concerned that this malfunction will set them back millions in interest payments and the PR nightmare it will be; he's just not overtly evil, unlike Dick. In the sequel, he has seen numerous attempts to recreate [=RoboCop=] fail horribly. Yet he utterly ignores all warnings, safety inspections or psych profile of the murder machine he has paid money for before rolling it out to a crowded, televised press conference. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also bringing a can of real street drugs with him, what the hell?]] Most egregiously, he authorizes a hit on the mayor of Detroit when the desperate mayor tries to make a deal with a crime lord to save the city's finances, which would set back [=OCP=]'s plans.
** ''Rogue City'' is an inversion: [[spoiler: As the end of his life approaches, he talks to Murphy in private about how he grew up in Old Detroit and wants to make the city better place. Later, he shows Murphy a recording of how he understands that Murphy is still a human being and looking forward to the two of them working together to make Detroit a better place. That said, he goes to some very shady means to ensure his conversion, which offends Murphy enough that he might either kill him or leave him to die, depending on the player's decision.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be corrupt, but there are a few lines he draws, most prominently [[spoiler:petty treason involving hostage-taking]]. When [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] crosses that line, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness his usefulness to OCP ends then and there]]. He is also angry at Jones trying to downplay ED-209's DisastrousDemonstration (in all of its gory mess) as "only a glitch". ''Rogue City'' also shows that he genuinely wants to help the people of Detroit.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When visiting him in the hospital in ''Rogue City'', you can overhear him talking to his mother, who inspired him to do good for people, and confuses Robocop for someone named Michael, who he holds in high regard.[[note]]Although he could be thinking of the Archangel Michael.[[/note]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the original film trilogy. Downplayed in the first movie (even though his employee Dick Jones is the BigBad with connections to Boddicker, he plays no part in the conspiracy), but played straight in the sequel when CharacterizationMarchesOn when he purposely allowed Faxx to have [=RoboCop=] decommissioned and then supervise the [=RoboCop=] 2 project by using the brain of the BigBad to control the robot. Even in his absence in the third film with the new head of OCP in his place, his sinister influence still cast its shadow.
* KarmicDeath: Looking at just the movies, we never find out [[NoodleIncident what exactly happened to him]], but after ending the second film showing himself to be every bit as corrupt as everybody else in OCP, the third movie shows that he is no longer in charge and Johnson just cryptically says in one scene that the Old Man found out the hard way that "everyone's expendable" to the company. The video game ''Rogue City'', which takes places between the last two movies, shows karma catch up to him when [[spoiler: he had himself turned into a cyborg after he died, and the result was that he CameBackWrong in the Robocop 2 body, with the project being mismanaged by the executive corruption he neglected to control. He ultimately dies fighting Murphy, someone he admired and hoped to work with, with the OCP skyscraper crumbling down on him. The exact circumstances are up to the player's choice: he is either killed or [[NorthWorthKilling abandoned by Robocop]], or [[DyingAsYourSelf sacrificing himself to save Robocop from falling debris]].]]
* LackOfEmpathy: At the end of the second film, he leaves the building by stepping over the corpse of a bystander killed by Cain.
* LargeHam: He's VERY LOUD and EXPRESSIVE sometimes:
-->"[[SuddenlyShouting YOU CALL THIS]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards A GLITCH!]]"\\
"DICK ... YOU'RE FIRED!"\\
"BEHAVE YOURSELVES!"
* NiceToTheWaiter: His attitude towards Murphy in the climax of the first movie truly deserves mention; bear in mind, by this point, Murphy isn't legally a ''person'' anymore: he is a ''product'', OCP property. Yet when he barges in unannounced in the conference room, the Old Man ''politely'' asks him what his business is. When Murphy replies that Dick Jones is wanted for murder, the Old Man calmly points out that such serious charges need proof, which Murphy provides. And after Jones has been taken care of (which involved taking the Old Man hostage at gunpoint, mind you), the Old Man congratulates Murphy's skills and asks what his name is while casually calling him "son", like a regular old man thanking a normal cop for taking care of a minor inconvenience. ''Rogue City'' takes this further with him showing genuin admiration for Murphy, who keeps going despite everything he's suffered.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: No one ever calls him anything other than "The Old Man."
* OnlySaneMan: In the first movie, he appears to be the only executive at OCP who plans don't involve making money through excessive villainy. It's dropped in the sequel.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Old Man in the first movie is just about the only OCP bigwig with any sort of moral standard, especially if compared to young upstarts. In the sequels, he inexplicably becomes a typical corporate douchebag.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:In ''Rogue City'', should [=RoboCop=] choose to save him, he pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Murphy from falling debris.]]
* SkewedPriorities:
** His response to ED 209 killing a man is to express outrage over the setbacks it would create. He doesn't complain about Dick allowing the machine in with live ammunition for no good reason.
** When shown the videos of the failed [=RoboCop=] 2 prototypes, his reaction is not one of horror towards the candidates going mad and killing themselves, or the deaths and injuries to the OCP scientists, but is instead to complain about cost overruns.
* SmugSnake: A pretty amiable one, but one nonetheless. Standard OCP board behavior, really.
* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: He was practically the TokenGoodTeammate of OCP and even thanked [=RoboCop=] and referred him as a human being in the first film. He's suddenly a ruthless corporate asswipe that has people killed and uses improperly tested weapons in the sequel to a point he's nearly an {{Expy}} of [[ActorAllusion his actor's]] past CorruptCorporateExecutive role as Conal Cochran in ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'', except his motives are out of {{Greed}} rather then ForTheEvulz unlike Cochran. That said, [[https://youtu.be/CE667_oaRxM as this video]] from fan site ''[=RoboCop=] Archive''[='=]s Website/YouTube channel points out, we only saw the Old Man twice in the original film at board meetings, whereas the Old Man was seen in ''2'' behind closed doors multiple times.
* TookALevelInDumbass: In the first movie, he disproves of ED 209 after seeing it is dangerous and unreliable. In the sequel, he approves of building a successor to [=RoboCop=] that is effectivily walking war machine, and putting the brain of a drug addicted crime lord into it.
* VillainousValor: When [=RoboCop=] 2 goes on its inevitable rampage during its public unveiling, the Old Man doesn't cower or panic. Instead, he stands tall, makes sure the woman he's sleeping with is taken to safety, then steps forward and tells the battling [=RoboCop=] and [=RoboCop=] 2 to "BEHAVE YOURSELVES!", only leaving the scene of the fight when it becomes clear there's nothing else to be done. Might verge on TooDumbToLive given the circumstances, but he makes it work.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He honestly believes his plans for Detroit are for the good of the city as well as his corporation, even if they involve using giant police robots to wipe out crime before rebuilding it, to say nothing of the ramifications of gentrification.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Does this to [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] when he tries to take him hostage.
** Johnson implies this happened to him between the second and third films.

[[folder:Bob Morton]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"We're projecting the end of crime in Old Detroit within forty days. There's a new guy in town. His name is [=RoboCop=]."'']]
[-Played by Creator/MiguelFerrer-]

A young up-and-coming executive at the helm of the '[=RoboCop=]' project.

* AffablyEvil: He was originally written as just another yuppie corporate douchebag, but Creator/MiguelFerrer brought a kind of smarmy charm and manic charisma with genuinely good qualities to the character that, when combined with Morton's almost fatherly pride in Robocop, made him strangely likeable.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Even though he's a JerkAss CorruptCorporateExecutive and his ambitions are purely selfish, he still has some redeeming qualities and he's much more likeable compared to the real BigBad of the story. He comes across even better in the sequel even postmortem with the added context that the Robocop project could've gone ''so,'' '''so''' [[NightmareFuel/{{Robocop 2}} much worse]] with someone else at the helm.
* AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation of ''3'' states that the new CEO is, in fact, Bob's dad.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He's killed by Boddicker, though his death is more of a AlasPoorVillain moment for him.]]
* AntiVillain: He's slimy, 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]].]]
* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: How he gets on Dick Jones' bad side. Jones does not appreciate being shown up by one of his subordinates on his own project.
* BigGood: Downplayed. Even for a SmugSnake {{Jerkass}} CorruptCorporateExecutive AntiVillain, he can be considered to be this of the first film as he was responsible for bringing Murphy back to life as the indestructible cybernetic crimefighter to sincerely solve Detroit's crime problem. At the very least he can be considered very competent [[spoiler:as even after his death, his legacy still lived on through his successful creation Robo.]] Plus, given the Old Man's SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome in the the second film after being depicted as the TokenGoodTeammate of the first film, Morton is by comparison the true sole TokenGoodTeammate of OCP as he genuinely wanted his creation to solve the city's problems, even though his creation's sincerity of being the solution made Morton felt it would grant him a promotion above anything else.
* CharacterDeath: He dies when [[spoiler:Boddicker uses a hand grenade to blow him and his house up]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Between this and an HonestCorporateExecutive. Like all OCP executives, he did ''not'' get where he is by being nice about it, and he deliberately sent police officers to their deaths just to use one of their corpses as wetware for his [=RoboCop=]. However, unlike many of his contemporaries, he's actually concerned with turning in a legitimately good product that will benefit the public rather than one that's just marketable.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although the [=RoboCop=] initiative addresses virtually all of the weaknesses in the ED-209 rollout; Morton fails to account for a critical flaw in his own plan: Most soldiers or cops converted into Frankensteinian cyborgs would be driven mad by the loss of their humanity. Morton got ''lucky'' with Murphy - his desire for vengeance against the criminals who killed him combined with his strong devotion to the law and generally strong will overall, enabled him to adapt to his new existence. Attempts to create more [=RoboCop=]s fail spectacularly when the candidates reject the transformation and [[DrivenToSuicide destroy themselves]]. Though to be fair, Morton died before any attempt to replicate his work was seriously discussed.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** For all his flaws, Bob does take his work seriously and does it well, making sure that [=RoboCop=] has the highest level of quality and he's disgusted at Jones wanting to knowingly sell defective or dangerous products.
** When ED-209 kills Kinney, Morton is seen to have been shielding a female coworker.
* EvilIsHammy: Morton is right at home to the other slimy 80s action villains.
* GreaterScopeParagon: [[spoiler:Following his death, his mostly redeeming legacy lives on through his creation Robo in the sequels.]]
* HiddenDepths: Bob seems like and largely is a typical sleazy exec, focused on his own career and hedonism, but he does take his work very seriously. He oversees almost every aspect of the [=RoboCop=] project and makes sure everything is at the highest level and he takes genuine pride in the end result, sincerely believing it can help bring down crime.
* HonestCorporateExecutive: Downplayed, but is between this and CorruptCorporateExecutive, due to being one of the few or even the ''only'' one to have any redeeming qualities and acting as a MoralityChain to the Old Man and [=OCP=] [[spoiler:until his death]].
* HookersAndBlow: What he was doing before [[spoiler: Boddicker came to his house.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: In fairness it would be pointless to let Murphy keep his organic arm when already having removed almost everything else, and it would be weaker than the rest of his cybernetic body to no benefit.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he is a bit more on the {{Jerkass}} side of things and is still looking out for number one, he doesn't cut corners with [=RoboCop=] like Jones did with the ED-209 series. Robo is every bit the badass he is intended to be, and during the unveiling Morton makes sure he knows it, indicating Morton genuinely does want his creation to really fight crime with full effect on the streets of Detroit.
--> '''Morton:''' You are gonna be a bad mother fucker!
* JustAMachine: While he does care about Robocop's quality as a product, ultimately he sees him as just a product and cares nothing about his mental state when Murphy starts remembering his old life since as far as he's concerned Alex Murphy died to give birth to Robocop.
* LackOfEmpathy: (After a young intern gets blown to pieces) "Hey, it's life in the big city."
* LargeHam: NoIndoorVoice aside, Ferrer was clearly having a blast playing Morton and it ''shows''.
-->To the under-construction Robo) "You're gonna be a ''bad'' motherfucker!"\\
(Also regarding his creation) "That's good. That's very good. ''I fuckin' love that guy''!!"
* MoralityChain: Even though he's just another CorruptCorporateExecutive, but to due to his somewhat genuine goal of creating a crimefighting cyborg with absolutely no ill effects and to make sure Old Detroit is safe to walk in the streets again with no worries unlike the first film's sole 100% genuine CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopath Dick Jones, Morton seems to be this to the Old Man (who seems to be less corrupt in the first film) and the company OCP (which includes employees like [[OnlySaneMan Johnson]]) in general. Add to this his competent approach to his work to make an actual high calibre "product" unless Dick Jones incompetence and shortcuts. [[spoiler:However, after Morton's death in the first film, in the second film, the Old Man become as bad as Dick Jones, which in turn OCP becomes just another amoral EvilInc unlike the first film where the company only had a few crooked chief executives following the death of his and the company's one of the few or even ''only'' employee of a CorruptCorporateExecutive with any redeeming qualities.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, he shares a name with a minor mook named Bobby.
* SmugSnake: "Fuck Jones. He's old, we're young... and that's life."
* TechnicianVsPerformer: The performer to Dick's technician surprisingly enough. On the surface it seems the other way around, as Dick's ED-209 was all show and no substance while Bob's idea of a bionic cop seems more feasible and bland. However, Dick's method of creating a "solution" to crime was actually very by the numbers. He went through corporate channels, made a robot (by modern times many industries and sectors are becoming more mechanized), and even followed a corporate line of planned obsolescence or creating a problem to sell a solution for (namely the ED-209's bugs and flaws). Bob on the other hand had a more intricate plan, which involved out of the box thinking like sending the best officers to crime-infested areas to later claim any that died, using a top tier police officer as wet-ware or parts for a bionic law enforcement officer that can be flexible and calculate the solutions to numerous situations and learn more on its own, and Bob made sure that everything worked, the parts were top of the line, and that his peace officer could do everything a normal peace officer could do but better. Jones wanted to make a product. Morton wanted to make a badass super cop.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Say what you will about his methods, but when Bob got the job of creating a police robot, he paid close attention to every step of the process -- right down to ''[[TheUriahGambit arranging Murphy's death]]'' -- and insisted on delivering the best product he could. Truly an inspiring -- albeit amoral -- example of the capabilities of American corporations. Compare Jones, who didn't even care whether or not his robot ''worked'' -- just if he could ''sell'' it! Compared to his colleagues, Morton was of the few or even the ''only'' CorruptCorporateExecutive to have ''any'' redeeming qualities following Old Man's, Johnson's and the rest of his colleagues' irredeemable SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome in the sequels [[spoiler:after his death, revealing Morton to be their MoralityChain]].
* UriahGambit: An odd version, as he didn't even know Murphy, let alone had any real disagreement with him. Morton wanted a skilled, experienced police officer to use for his [=RoboCop=] project and for said officer to be dead so he could exploit legal loopholes regarding the use of the officer's body, and thus arranged several officers to be sent to the dangerous Metro West section of Detroit. Alex Murphy just has the crappy luck of being killed and selected by Morton.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He crosses some very questionable lines but Bob does seem to sincerely believe [=RoboCop=] will improve the city.

[[folder:Enforcement Droid series 209 (ED-209)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am now authorized to use physical force."'']]
[-Voiced by Creator/JonDavison-]
-->''"Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply."''

A battle droid created by Dick Jones. Very much fashion over function when it comes to performance.

* AchillesHeel: Never let it go near a staircase. Or a manhole. Or let a child hack into its AI.
* AdaptationNameChange: For some reason, the cartoon and toyline featured the ED-''260'' (possibly justified, as that may have been intended to be a successor model to the movie robot).
* AdaptationalBadass:
** In one of the ''[=RoboCop=] vs. Terminator'' comics, an ED-209 fights a T-800 and wins. Being ED-209, its flawed logic immediately ruins its crowning moment of awesome, as it opts to finish off the downed opponent by shooting it with a rocket ''while the damaged T-800 is at ED-209's feet'', blowing himself up.
** ED-209 acts as an AssistCharacter for [=RoboCop=] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''. Given that it only shows up for [[DesperationAttack Fatal Blows]] and a Fatality, 209's very much ''not'' played for laughs and its weaponry ''devastates'' Robo's opponents.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The infamous demonstration shows problems with its ability to recognise that a suspect has complied with its orders. In addition, it's stupidly easy for someone to hack into and take control of.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: ED-209 advances dangerously on [=RoboCop=] for being illegally parked on private property at the end of the film, possibly having been deliberately programmed to be more aggressive than usual to protect the building due to the police strike.
* AwesomeButImpractical: ED-209's design is just straight-up awesome looking and its firepower is something to be reckoned with, but as a rushed-out product, its numerous design flaws give him essentially zero practical applications. Except, oddly enough, as a children's toy in RealLife.
* BreakoutVillain: ED-209 is possibly the most renowned "villain" in the whole franchise, and is about as iconic as [=RoboCop=] himself.
* TheBrute: It is this to Dick Jones. ED-209 is the first thing that manages to do any kind of damage to [=RoboCop=].
* ButtMonkey: ED-209 becomes the butt of jokes in the ''[=RoboCop=]'' franchise due to its dumb AI and tendency towards clumsy failures.
* CatchPhrase: "Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply," and once the countdown ends "I am now authorized to use [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill physical force]]."
* CantUseStairs: Ostensibly built for urban policing, it was designed without the ability to navigate a simple staircase. Justified in-story, as it was intentionally written as a poorly-conceived design in several ways (spotty AI, major weak points, seriously overarmed), which is why the project was abandoned in favor of [=RoboCop=].
* ChickenWalker: Its leg design, which is a design flaw. ED-209 is too slow and clunky to navigate urban terrain, as shown when it gets stuck in a manhole or when it tumbles down a flight of stairs. Yet nobody at OCP bothers to fix this flaw.
* CoolButInefficient: In its "intended" role as a police robot, one really has to imagine what advantages ED-209 would have. It's very cool, but its weapons and tactics are insanely overkill for any police purpose, it's too clunky to navigate urban terrain, and its AI is too cumbersome to resolve anything a cop would be expected to manage. Much of its makes a little more sense from the perspective of a military conflict, where it could put those guns to good use, but it's still likely to be a liability.
* CripplingOverspecialization: It has enough firepower to damage [=RoboCop=] and could very likely kill him in a straight long-range fight. The problem is that its design and programming has so many flaws Robo can easily outmaneuver it and put it down long before it can make that happen. Dick Jones bluntly admits ED-209's primary purpose was to sell defense contracts rather to ''actually work''.
* DisastrousDemonstration: The ED-209's product demo results in one of OCP's lesser executives becoming LudicrousGibs. Exactly what moron would use ''live ammo'' or test it in front of the higher-ups?
* DisproportionateRetribution: One charges Robo with illegal parking, then readies its machine guns.
* TheDitz: While ED-209 is much larger, more cumbersome, and less maneuverable than a humanoid, its greatest weakness is its dumb AI, which is prone to errors and flaws of logic, nicely illustrating the huge difference between a programmed machine and a human mind like Robo's.
* DumbMuscle: ED-209's firepower is capable of dealing more damage to [=RoboCop=] with a single burst from its arm cannons than an entire factory full of goons with automatic weapons could manage in an extended firefight. It's also strong enough to sock [=RoboCop=] with a punch to send him flying a couple dozen feet, despite its short stubby arms clearly not being intended for anything other than shooting stuff. And yet because of its dumb AI, ED-209 is incredibly ineffectual.
* EpicFail: ED-209 attempts to descend a set of stairs in the OCP building ''even when'' its feet are too big to go down the steps.
* EyelessFace: Designer Craig Davies deliberately avoided giving the ED-209 anything resembling eyes, seeing as eyes "convey too much emotion" and robot eyes had already become cliché by then.
* FlawedPrototype: Its initial presentation to the OCP board is a complete disaster after it is unable to register that Kinney has complied with its order to put down his weapon with [[MoreDakka fatal consequences]]. During Murphy's first encounter with it, he damages it by turning on of its own guns against it and disables it entirely by simply fleeing down a flight of stairs. As the second and third films show, these flaws go uncorrected, as a news report in the second film shows one trapped by an open manhole and OCP receiving complaints from various police departments about the machine's clumsiness. In the third film, its AI is easily hacked into by ''a child''. None of this matters to Jones, because he was trying to sell the service contracts and spare parts it would require precisely because it was awful.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: ED-209's first demonstration not only fails to register a "hostile" surrendering, it can't be stopped from firing unless its plug is pulled. This is why the Old Man is so eager to hear about the [=RoboCop=] program.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: ED-209 suffers an embarrassing failure once per movie, from falling down the stairs in ''Robocop'', getting its foot stuck in an open manhole in ''[=RoboCop=] 2'', and being hacked and made to declare itself a puppy dog in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. Dick Jones outright admits ED-209 was built by the lowest bidder and it's primary purpose was to sell defense contracts rather to ''actually work''.
* MightyGlacier: Much like its cyborg competition, it's not the fastest robot, but it sure packs a lot of firepower and is hard to destroy.
* MechaMook: One serves as Dick Jones' personal bodyguard.
* MoreDakka: It has plenty of firepower, including repeating guns and rocket launchers. Despite this, [[DavidVsGoliath it's unable to take on the smaller but more clever [=RoboCop=].]]
* ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon: At one point the ED-209 walks up to [=RoboCop=] and uppercuts him with its arm. Its arm is a short and stubby ArmCannon and clearly designed for long range use ''only''. ED-209 also spends the entire fight walking up to [=RoboCop=] to shoot him at point-blank range; this just gives [=RoboCop=] the opportunity to grab [=ED=]'s arm and force it to shoot itself. ED-209 really isn't the brightest bulb in the room.
* StaircaseTumble: It tumbles down a flight of stairs while trying to chase Robo.
* TakeThat: ED-209's design was partially meant as a jab at then-contemporary American car design. Designer Craig Davies claimed he envisioned futuristic designers making the robot look good in order to make it marketable before they made it work well, "just like an American car." This led to stuff like the over-designed hydraulics system and the vulnerable radiator grill at the front.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: As much of an UrbanHellscape Detroit (and the average city in America, if not [[CrapsackWorld the world]]) has become, 20mm auto-cannons and rocket launchers are excessive pieces of hardware to outfit on a law enforcement unit (even with the justification of Dick Jones wishing to sell it to the military at a later date).
* ThrowTheDogABone: ED-209 acts as an AssistCharacter for [=RoboCop=] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''. Given that it only shows up for [[DesperationAttack Fatal Blows]] and a Fatality, 209's very much ''not'' played for laughs and its weaponry ''devastates'' Robo's opponents.
* UnskilledButStrong: Its AI is largely ineffective and it has all the wit of a rock. Unfortunately for Robocop, ED-209 is still a hulking war-machine that puts its twin-cannons and massive size to lethal use when they first meet.
* VillainousBreakdown: After falling down the stairs and landing on its back, it thrashes around for a bit and making whining sounds. [[MoodWhiplash It's strangely amusing.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: ED-209's main flaw is that it can't easily maneuver around tight urban terrain, what with far too broad legs to manage the narrow and steep steps of a stairwell. One is also shown flailing about uselessly after it gets its foot caught in a manhole. Its AI is also rudimentary, as a ''child'' manages to hack into it very easily. Apparently, OCP didn't care about fixing these flaws even when it was obvious.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: It's only capable of extreme firepower as a standard response to all threats and lawbreaking, even something as minor as illegal parking.

[[folder:Juliette Faxx]]
[-Played by Creator/BelindaBauer-]

The OCP psychologist who proposes putting the mind of a criminal into [=RoboCop=] 2.

* BreakTheBadass: Once she has Cain at her mercy in the hospital, she makes a phone call to report that Cain is "dead" and he starts panicking nonverbally when he realizes that he's about to become an experiment in cybernetics. Once inside of his new mecha body, Cain goes further downhill in his sanity.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After everything is said and done and her crazy theory leads to about fifty people getting killed, she is a pretty good example of "being so driven about whether she could that she didn't stopped to think if she should".
* MadDoctor: She shows absolutely no remorse for what she does throughout the movie, driving [=RoboCop=] half mad with nonsense directives, and taking Cain, a sociopathic drug lord with delusions of godhood, and giving him an indestructible armed-to-the-teeth cyborg body. Not only that but it seems that when she was put on the [=RoboCop=] 2 project she started looking at death row inmates as candidates straight away, with no indication that she looked elsewhere. She also seems to relish prolonging Cain's suffering when she cuts his life support.
* PsychoPsychologist: Puts a drug-dealing cult leader's brain into a MiniMecha body. Her reasoning for doing so is that only people who are crazy enough to not care [[WasOnceAMan about the bad part of becoming a full-body cyborg]] and instead focus on the "[[NighInvulnerable cool]]" things of their transformation would be acceptable subjects - the events of the film demonstrate the obvious outcome: people that crazy to begin with are only useful as "kill-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out" attack dogs (definitely worthless as ''law'' enforcers), and that is if they can be controlled at all.
* TheScapegoat: In the end, OCP used her as this to save the company from fallout over the [=RoboCop=] 2 fiasco, even if it had to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty create some evidence]] to do so. It's even more satisfying considering that Faxx is a SmugSnake who won't see what's going to happen to her until it's too late. It doesn't do much good as by ''Film/Robocop3'', OCP has to be bought out to be saved from bankruptcy.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Implied to be doing this with the Old Man.
* SmugSmiler: She tends to shoot annoyingly smug smiles at the other OCP executives whenever the Old Man takes her suggestions over theirs. [[LaserGuidedKarma Because of this]], the executives happily [[TheScapegoat use her to save their company from the disaster she herself started]].
* SmugSnake: Although she is a clever scientist, she [[DidntSeeThatComing has trouble anticipating the consequences of her own poor choices]]. Faxx didn't foresee that putting the brain of a drug-addled psychopath into a fully-armed cybernetic nightmare would lead to many casualties and deaths at her own workplace. She also didn't foresee that the Old Man would ultimately put his own welfare before hers, thinking she could just charm her way out of the consequences of her own actions by seducing the Old Man.

[[folder:The CEO]]
[-Played by Creator/RipTorn-]

The New head of OCP who is in-charge of the company in ''Film/RoboCop3''

* AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation of ''[=RoboCop=] 3'' states that he's Bob Morton's father.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Paul [=McDaggett=] for ''[=RoboCop=] 3'', though he's clearly the lesser evil.
* BigBadWannabe: Quite possibly the most incompetent villain in the series.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Per the course for the higher-ups of OCP.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Draws the line at killing police officers who were standing up for the rebels.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's only referred to by his job title. As noted under "All There In the Manual", he's Bob Morton's dad, though his first name still isn't revealed.
* IncompetenceInc: He isn't as smart as the Old Man, and it's clear OCP hasn't prospered since he was appointed its new head, with the company sinking lower and lower. In another sign of his idiocy, related to the comic adaptation stating he's Bob Morton's dad, he asked whose idea was [=RoboCop=], unaware it was his son's project.
* {{Jerkass}}: He wants OCP to prosper (again because he's run it to the ground). And if going to war with the citizens of Detroit is what it takes, then so be it.
* KillThePoor: He has no problem with the Rehabs killing people who resist getting kicked out of their homes as long as it doesn't make the news. The moment he protests is because [=McDaggett=] decides to continue the campaign even if it means ''killing cops''.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The comic reveals he's the father of Bob Morton, who died in the first film.
* PuppetKing: He may be technically in charge at OCP, but Kanemitsu is giving him his orders.
* SmugSnake: The moment the smug finally goes out of his face is the moment when he discovers that 1) OCP's stock has completely bottomed out (as a response to the public discovering how violent the Rehabs are) and the corporation is now utterly worthless and 2) [=McDaggett=] showcases himself to be EvilerThanThou.

[[folder:RoboCop Technician/Linda Garcia]]
[-Played by Creator/PatriciaCharbonneau-]

A technician at the police station who's in charge of doing maintenance on Robocop.

* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization reveals her first name as "Linda."
* AmbiguousSituation: Most technicians in this role are OCP employees. However, she often speaks of OCP with contempt.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: There's a bit of ShipTease between her and Murphy. As she says, "I know every inch of him. Every circuit. Every living nerve.
* ItCanThink: She insists that Murphy is a conscious, suffering human being, not the unthinking machine OCP insists he is.
* NoNameGiven: She has quite a prominent role for an unnamed, uncredited character. You can only see the name "Garcia" on her name tag if you pause the movie.

!!Boddicker's Gang

[[folder:In general]]
A ruthless gang of OCP-backed criminals.

* CreateYourOwnHero: Boddicker and his gang killed Alex Murphy--which bit them in the ass when Morton used Murphy to create [=RoboCop=].
* ForTheEvulz: It's their main motivation, with money just being a nice bonus.
* {{Hate Sink}}s: Every member qualifies. Boddicker takes great joy in his sadism and is a BadBoss, Emil was willing to kill a gas station employee simply for being a college student (even while he was cooperating), and all of them (especially Joe) enjoyed every single bit of inflicting as much pain as possible to Murphy before his initial death. All in all, their downfall at the end of the movie is them getting their just desserts.
* LargeHam: All of them are incredibly over the top in the best way.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Nash and Mihn are the only ones who don't fit this.
** Boddicker himself has two of his most famous lines: first telling the ladies with Morton "Bitches, leave," and then telling Sal he'd "shove enough of this factory up his stupid wop ass." Oddly, he doesn't refer to Robo as "it."
** Joe called Emil a "faggot" twice.
** Emil himself makes a crack about PrisonRape after he escapes from prison during the police strike.
* VillainousFriendship: About as close to being friends as a bunch of AxCrazy murderers can get.

[[folder:Clarence Boddicker]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clarencebodickerwithhissmugface.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. So I don't like cops."'']]
[-Played by Creator/KurtwoodSmith-]

The secondary antagonist of the first movie. He is the crime boss of Old Detroit.

* ArchEnemy: For Alex/Robo, being the one who killed him and all.
* AxCrazy: As his execution of Murphy and [[spoiler: Morton]] shows, he's a violent sadist fond of torture and murder.
* BadassNormal: No special cybernetics or crazy drugs in his system, yet still capable of posing a threat to [=RoboCop=] through ruthlessness, equipment, and no small amount of guile.
* BadBoss: Asks an injured lackey, "Can you fly, Bobby?" before throwing him at a pursuing police car.
* BaldOfEvil: He's balding and a sadistic monster.
* {{BFG}}: He and his gang get Cobra Assault Cannons to destroy [=RoboCop=].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Jones. Boddicker is the [[TheHeavy much-more immediate threat]] due to personally being in the field with his goons killing people, and it's his actions that result in Murphy becoming [=Robocop=] in the first place.
* CardCarryingVillain: Doesn't even try to hide the fact he is a despicable excuse for a human being; in fact, Boddicker ''rebels'' on it.
-->'''Clarence:''' See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. ''So I don't like cops.''
* CopKiller: He's essentially a serial killer of cops, wanted in connection to the death of at least 32 of them before killing Alex. Boddicker openly tells Alex that cops don't like him, so he doesn't like them.
* DeadpanSnarker: He can make some dismissive yet witty comments.
* DestinationDefenestration: When he gets cornered by [=RoboCop=] at the drug factory and is read his Miranda rights, he gets thrown through several windows until he confesses his plot.
* DiabolicalMastermind: As a crime boss in Old Detroit, he has connections with companies and some law enforcers, and pretty much untouched by law.
* DirtyCoward: Clarence's arrogance and cruelty vanish when Robocop backs him into a corner, especially the second time, and he quickly devolves into a pleading wreck who will say anything to save his skin.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: He has African-American Joe Cox, Asian-American Steve Minh, and Emil Antonowsky, who may have some Slavic ancestry, on his gang.
* EvilGloating: "Are you a good cop, hotshot? You gotta be some kind of ''great'' cop, coming in here all by yourself!"
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He's not above the occasional violence-based pun.
* EvilIsHammy: As opposed to Alex and the other good guys, he is quite loud.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has Kurtwood Smith's impressive vocals and is as bad as they come.
* EvilWearsBlack: He wears almost nothing but black and grey—clearly, a bad dude.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He tries to sound polite to his opponents, even when he threatens to kill them. He treats his gang members like friends but won't hesitate to kill them if it suits his needs.
* ForTheEvulz: This is Clarence's main motivation for almost everything he does.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Typically seen with his glasses. And there is the whole "based on UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler" thing...
* HandCannon: Carries a Desert Eagle with a massive silencer.
* HateSink: While every member qualifies, Boddicker especially stands out. He 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, has an extensive record of killing police officers, and [[CardCarryingVillain takes joy on his heinous acts]]. His death, while not the most painfully slow (that would be Emil) or quick and overkill (that would be Leon), is all the more fitting.
* HeroKiller: Murphy is just his latest in a long string of victims. He nearly does it again against Robo in their second fight, but thankfully Robo manages to finally end his life.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: While Boddicker is technically part of a BigBadDuumvirate, he technically works for Jones to advance himself. However, Jones and Murphy don't have any personal animosity towards each other, with Jones hating [=RoboCop's=] creator, Bob Morton, for endangering his position in the company and wanting [=RoboCop=] dead only because he threatens his ED-209 project. By contrast, Murphy only regains his sense of identity through his desire for vengeance against Boddicker for killing him, and their fight in the climax is much more personal than Murphy going after Jones, which is more akin to just taking down another criminal.
* KarmicDeath: Opened his protracted torture of a helpless Murphy at the steel mill by blowing his right hand off with a shotgun. [[BookEnds At the end of the film at the same mill]], Murphy is oncemore rendered seemingly helpless and at Clarene's mercy [[spoiler: but having use of his right hand lets Murphy finally kill him.]]
* KneeCapping: Does this to Morton at Jones' orders, keeping him alive long enough to show him Jones' final message to him and to futility struggle to defuse a grenade that he plants in his house.
* LaughablyEvil: He can actually be pretty funny at times.
* LargeHam: ''Very'' enthusiastic and expressive. You can tell Kurtwood Smith was having a lot of fun in the role. The TV Asahi Japanese dub [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4N8xXHKLJ0 raised this angle]] up to eleven, courtesy of the late Nobuo Tanaka, aka [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure DIO in the 90s OVAs]]. Meanwhile, in English:
-->"Ooh, guns guns ''guuuuuns!'' Come on Sal! The Tigers are playing... ''tonight'': And I ''never'' miss a game!"
* TheLeader: Of the crooks that killed Alex.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: He threw his incompetent minion Bobby at Murphy and Lewis's car to slow them down.
* NoIndoorVoice: Especially when he is very happy or angry.
* OhCrap: When he realizes that Robo is trying to ''kill him'' the second time, not arrest him.
* PetTheDog: Subverted. He stops Emil from killing Murphy, [[CruelMercy but only to give him a far more torturous death.]]
* PetRat: He's a crime boss who does odd-jobs and assassinations for Dick Jones, the number two guy at [=OCP=]. Jones gets obstacles to his position eliminated while Boddicker gains new opportunities to expand his criminal empire with Jones's connections in exchange.
* PinPullingTeeth: He does this with the grenade he uses to finish off Bob Morton. Although since it seems to be designed differently from normal grenades, it might be a type with a pin especially easy to pull.
* PragmaticVillainy: 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, showing his violence is not completely wanton.
* PreMortemOneLiner: He attempts this with "Sayonara, [=RoboCop=]!" after beating and stabbing him with a metal rod, but unfortunately for Boddicker, the process of saying it puts his throat within range of Robocop's computer spike...
* PsychoForHire: Dick Jones got to hire a ruthless crime lord to do his bidding.
* PuttingOnTheReich: His costuming (wiry glasses, overcoat, leather gloves) was inspired by UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler, reinforcing the idea of him as intelligent but highly sadistic and evil.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He doesn't rape anyone onscreen, but one of the many [[LongList many]] charges on his rap sheet is rape to hammer home how much of a scumbag he is.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: During his first confrontation with [=RoboCop=], Clarence can turn his brutalization into a lawful arrest by pointing out that he works for Dick Jones, who runs OCP and the cops by extension, so, since [=RoboCop=] is a cop, their personal, derivative allegiance to Dick Jones must defuse the conflict. [=RoboCop=] does stop upon hearing it, but only because Murphy abides to uphold the law and his program.
* {{Sadist}}: His joy in inflicting pain and causing carnage is clear in every scene and line he speaks.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Initially plans to walk out of his deal with Dick Jones when Dick asks him to kill [=RoboCop=]. Then Dick tempts him by the promise of the business he can have when Delta City's construction begins.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How he dies, courtesy of Murphy ramming his data spike into his throat and violently ripping it out in a spray of blood.]]
* TheSociopath: To him, other people are just toys to be played with and disposed of once they break.
* SoftSpokenSadist: One of the less hammy villains in the movie, though still a veritable fountain of meme-tastic, scenery-chewing one-liners.
* TomTheDarkLord: It takes a special kind of evil to be a middle-aged, bespectacled, skinny man with a receding hairline named Clarence and remain intimidating. Boddicker is that man.
* VillainousBreakdown: After Robo throws him through a few windows, he starts pleading with him not to kill him because he has dirt on Jones.
* VillainousValor: He's a selfish, greedy man, and if you offer him enough reward, he will even risk his neck to try and kill Robocop.
* VillainsWantMercy: While he's still too proud to beg for it, he desperately starts trying to appeal to Murphy's sense of duty both times, he loses the upper hand to Robo. [[spoiler: It only saves him the first time.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: A combination of this and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness. When one of his goons ends up burning the money during a bank robbery by blowing the doors and gets his legs shot during a shoot-out between the cops and their getaway van, Boddicker decides to use his incompetent and useless henchman as a way to keep the cop car from pursuing. "Can you fly, Bobby?"

[[folder:Emil M. Antonowsky]]
[[quoteright:264:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emil_from_robocop.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:264:''"I know you! You're dead! We killed you! We killed you! WE KILLED YOU!!"'']]
[-Played by Creator/PaulMcCrane-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

* AssholeVictim: Let's be honest, even if Emil's moments before death are brutal and nightmarish, his lack of redeeming qualities means no one will feel bad for his death.
* 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: Trying to run over [=RoboCop=] with a truck, he instead crashes into a tanker of toxic waste, which drenches him and [[ImMelting melts him alive]], completely disfiguring him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His body starts rapidly deteriorating after getting drenched in toxic waste. Him subsequently getting ran over by Boddicker's car was effectively a MercyKill. Though despite being really grisly, [[LaserGuidedKarma he definitely deserved it]].
* DeadlyDodging: With [=RoboCop=] as the dodger. Emil attempts to run over Murphy, but he sidesteps and causes Emil to crash into a tank of toxic waste which [[ImMelting melts him alive]].
* DeathByDisfigurement: Subverted. Emil gets disfigured by toxic waste, but is still alive [[ICannotSelfTerminate and well-aware he is agonizing]]. Boddicker running over his car finally does the trick.
* TheDriver: Acts as the group's getaway driver during their introductory scene.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He cruelly teases the gas station attendant, who turns out to be a college kid studying plane geometry, with this quip: "I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you can ''outsmart'' a bullet?!"
* EvilIsPetty: Threatening to shoot the gas station's employee simply for being at college and doing homework easily qualifies as this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Easily demonstrated when he threatens the gas station's employee. He laughes at the employee being at college, and threatens the man to shoot him dead with a SlasherSmile... which he soon [[MoodSwinger drops]] for [[AxCrazy his actual personality]].
-->'''Emil:''' Hey man, what'cha reading in there? ''(The book reads "Plane Geometry")'' Hahahahahaha... you're a college boy or something, huh? ''(the employee nods)'' I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you can outsmart a bullet? What do you say we find out, huh? ''(his smile falters) [[SuddenlyShouting I'm talking to you!]] What do you say? Huh? Huh?! '''I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!'''''
* HairTriggerTemper: Is infuriated when Murphy accidentally shoots the gang's stolen TV.
-->'''Emil:''' [[BerserkButton Your ass is mine.]]
* HellBentForLeather: Wears a lather jacket and rides a motorcycle.
* HollywoodAcid: Involved in a horrible accident leading to his famous "melting man" scene.
* HumanoidAbomination: His last moments were completely unplesant, to say the least. Once the toxic waste [[ImMelting disfigures Emil]], all that remains is the sad husk of a man walking away his last moments.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: After getting drenched in acid, Emil bumps into another one of Bodicker's henchmen, Leon, and lets out a barely decipherable croak begging for Leon to finish him off. Leon does ''not'' oblige.
-->"''Don't touch me man!''" ''(pushes Emil away and flees)''
* ImMelting: During the gang's final showdown with [=RoboCop=], his truck crashes into a large vat of green goo labeled with a radioactive sign... and it ''really'' did not agree with his squishy bits. [[BodyHorror His body melts as a result]].
* {{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, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he gets the slowest and most painful death out of all of Clarence’s gang members]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Even for a sadistic henchman, he's really obnoxious.
* LudicrousGibs: His entire body explodes once Boddicker runs over his melted, disfigured body that gets [[AlienBlood reduced to green slime]]; all that can be seen from that is [[OffWithHisHead his head]] flying over Boddicker's car.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The acidic toxic waste weakens his bones to the point he goes ''splat'' when hit by Boddicker's car.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from calm, to laughing, to crazy and violent at the gas station when threatening the employee.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He told [=RoboCop=] "We killed you!", which helps Murphy 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). [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Then he dies]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a much, much more horrible death]].
* PrisonRape: Seems to be averted. He claims not to have been raped while in prison.
* SkewedPriorities: Is infuriated when Murphy shoots Dougy... because he shoots the stolen TV in the process.
* VillainousBreakdown: His terrified disbelief when he first sees [=RoboCop=].
-->'''Emil:''' I know you. You're dead... We killed you! ''We killed you!! '''[[ThisCannotBe WE KILLED YOU!!!]]'''''

[[folder:Leon Nash]]
[[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/600px_vlcsnap_233326.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:330:''"I got him, Clarence! I got him!"'']]
[-Played by Creator/RayWise-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

* EvilGloating: After dropping a ton of scrap metal on Robo and incapacitating him, he yells and cheers, which leads to KilledMidSentence below.
* GroinAttack: He tries to knee Robo in the balls. Too bad [=RoboCop=] is a cyborg.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His own grenade launcher is turned on him by Lewis.
* KilledMidSentence: Lewis [[HoistByHisOwnPetard fires his own grenade launcher at him]] and blows him up.
-->'''Leon:''' [[LastWords I got him, Clarence! I got hi-]] ''(BOOM)''
* NumberTwo: Acts like this for Clarence, as being more reliable than Joe or Emil.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When a melting Emil comes to him for help, Nash freaks out (in all fairness, it's hard to blame him), yells "Don't touch me, man!" and runs away.
* ShootingSuperman: Punching [=RoboCop=].
* StuffBlowingUp: His fate, what with being on the receiving end of a rocket launcher and all.
* VillainBall: He opts to dump a load of scrapped metal onto Murphy (which doesn't do much) instead of just firing at him from a safe distance using the powerful rocket launcher gun his gang got for the job.

[[folder:Joe P. Cox]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joe_from_robocop.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Good night, sweet prince. Hahahahahahahaha!"'']]
[-Played by Creator/JesseDGoins-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

* 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=].]]
* CampingACrapper: Subverted. He is caught relieving himself by Lewis, but manages to knock her out and escape unharmed.
* CoolCar: When released from prison, he gets a 6000 SUX.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: During their final showdown with Robocop, [[spoiler: Boddicker's gang all get memorable deaths except for Joe, who just gets shot in the chest at the beginning and quickly forgotten about. Originally it was planned that he would be knocked over a railing and impaled on a fence (not unlike how he threw Lewis over a railing) but it was cut to tighten up the sequence]]. He ''does'' go over a railing and get taken out of the fight during the cocaine factory sequence, however.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: He finds every aspect of the gang's execution of Murphy hilarious.
* EvilLaugh: Everytime he laughs is when he's done something bad or is about to do.
* GoodNightSweetPrince: He says this to Murphy as he lays dying.
* HumanShield: Leon uses him as one in the climax.
* TheHyena: He is recognizable for his high-pitched crazy laugh, which he lets out in most scenes he appears in.
* KickTheDog: After blasting off Murphy's hand, arm and countless shots to his chest, Joe reacts to Murphy's loud cries of pain with a mocking 'Does it hurt, does it hurt?' question before cackling loudly.
* LargeHam: Always laughing loudly and acting all camp.
* MoodSwinger: Goes from being upset that Boddicker blows up his new stolen car to thrilled about the Cobra Assault Cannon that did it.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Invoked. Cox is making water when Lewis comes upon him: rather than zip himself up before turning around and putting his hands up, he opts to give Lewis "the full monty", knowing she'll be distracted, giving him the opening he needs to take her out.
* OddNameOut: The only member of Clarence's gang to not have a cutesy French name (after the death of Bobby, Dougy, and Steve, at least).
* ScaryBlackMan: A black member of a ruthless crime gang which is known for his deranged laughter and being trigger-happy.
* SignatureLaugh: Again, his laughter is probably his most notable trait.
* TokenMinority: As mentioned, he’s the only black member of Clarence’s gang.

[[folder:Steve Minh]]
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[-Played by Creator/CalvinJung-]

Another of Clarence's thugs.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Altogether now, "Oh, fuck you!"
* FlatCharacter: Minh is the one in the gang that gets the least characterization.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Normally carried around a Mossberg 500 Cruiser shotgun.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Often paired with or seen with Cox.
* TokenMinority: He's the only Asian gang member.

[[folder:Bobby]]
[-Played by Creator/FreddieHice-]

A thug who was put in charge of breaking open bank vaults to get the cash.

* CarFu: He gets rammed by Murphy and Lewis's car when Clarence ordered he be literally thrown under the bus, and most likely died from the collision.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, when there's another character called Bob Morton.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: The most short-lived member of Clarence's gang. We learn that he cannot fly, crash-landing on Murphy and Lewis's car and likely left for dead.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Clarence is outraged that Bobby burnt the cash with bombs. While in the midst of beating up Bobby for the burnt money, Emil alerted him about a car of cops closing in on them, and the cops shot Bobby in his legs. With Bobby dying from blood loss, Clarence found Bobby to be a burden to carry around and had his crew [[NoHonorAmongThieves throw Bobby at the cops]] to slow them down.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dougy]]
[-Played by Creator/NeilSummers-]
Another of Clarence's thugs.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Literally, as he and Emil seem to be fans of the horrible in-universe sitcom "It's Not My Problem."
* FlatCharacter: His character makes so little an impression that he's often forgotten about in write-ups of the film. Makes sense since Summers' works primarily as a stuntman and his character is only in two scenes.
* ForgettableCharacter: None of the members of Clarence's gang even acknowledge his death. He's also the only gang member whose name is not mentioned onscreen.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Only in two scenes he uses a Remington 870 shotgun in both (or tries to the second time before being ventilated by Murphy).
* SmokingIsNotCool: Believes so and tries to warn Emil about the dangers of smoking.
* TooDumbToLive: When Murphy tells him, "Don't move," he reaches for his gun and gets shot.
[[/folder]]

!!Nuke Cult

[[folder:In General]]
A ReligionOfEvil and criminal organization centered around Cain.

* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Hob was the only one of the main trio ''not'' getting high on Nuke himself.
** Cain takes shots of Nuke during his scenes as a human, and he can immediately tell that his chemist used the wrong ingredients after taking a hit from the latest batch. This bites Cain in the ass later, as his addiction keeps him in agonizing withdrawal pains even after being transferred to the [=RoboCop=] 2 chassis, forcing him to play along with orders to get his fix.
** Like the rest of the gang, Angie's also a Nuke user. Hob uses her addiction to stop her from rescuing Cain from the hospital and instead help him take over.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cain / [=RoboCop=] 2]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cain_3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"The people want paradise. They will have it."'']]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robocop_2_1.jpg]]
[-Played by Creator/TomNoonan-]

The main antagonist of the second movie, and the distributor of a street drug called "Nuke."

* AddledAddict: Cain's Nuke addiction doesn't seem to slow him down at first. As a cyborg, his withdrawals are excruciating, and OCP uses the drug to control him. In the end, his need for Nuke gets him killed--Murphy exploits it to finish him off.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear exactly what Cain is like when sober and how much of his villainy is a result of his Nuke addition. We only see Cain in his Nuke-addicted state throughout the film, and learn that he served in an Amazon War and got court-martialed for an unknown charge.
* AndIMustScream: His still-alive brain (with eyeballs attached) is put in a jar after OCP doctors remove it from his body. It's implied that seeing his own hollowed-out severed head is what causes Cain to ''really'' snap.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: [=RoboCain's=] Assault Cannon is effectively an armor piercing shotgun. [=RoboCop=] prioritizes taking it out with his Auto-9 after suffering chest damage and being knocked off his feet from the force of its projectiles.
* AxCrazy: He was a psychotic killer ''before'' he became a cyborg. After that, he gets worse.
* BackFromTheDead: As [=RoboCop=] 2 aka [=RoboCain=].
* BerserkButton: Snitching is one major thing Cain despises. Duffy gets [[ColdBloodedTorture special treatment]] after [=RoboCop=] makes him crack and reveal the location of Cain's hideout.
* BigBad: Of ''[=RoboCop=] 2''. He is even ''called'' ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' in universe during the press release, so the film's title is his alias when he becomes a cyborg.
* BrainInAJar: His organic components are basically limited to the brain, eyes, and spinal cord.
* BreakTheBadass: His transformation into a cyborg on top of being enslaved by a Nuke addiction and Dr. Faxx marks the point where he goes through a major mental meltdown.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: A two-fold example as both a human criminal and killer cyborg:
** Unlike Dick Jones from the original, a CorruptCorporateExecutive of OCP, Cain is an anarchistic drug lord who doesn't work for OCP until his robotic rebirth. While Dick Jones seeks to move up in the company, Cain is motivated by a god complex and to lord over Detroit. And while Dick Jones is pushing the "Delta City" project to bulldoze Old Detroit, Cain wants to keep Detroit as a hellhole for the Nuke Cult.
** In contrast to Clarence Boddicker, Cain is highly irrational, due to GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply. While Clarence is business-minded but still revels in gratuitous violence, Cain is largely a NonActionBigBad who lets his gang do the fighting for him until his transformation into [=RoboCain=], and has a vague notion of turing Detroit into a "paradise". Finally, while Clarence is an associate of a BigBad at OCP, Cain becomes an unwilling slave in a prototype by Dr. Faxx.
** As [=RoboCain=], he fills the same role as ED-209, a hulking robot who challenges Robocop. But while ED 209 is a ChickenWalker with limited mobility, [=RoboCain=] is humanoid and far less clumsy, as well as more heavily armed. ED 209 has faulty programming, while Cain goes haywire because he has the mind of a psychopathic criminal. Also while ED 209 remains a lumbering weapon to OCP, [=RoboCain=] proves uncontrollable and goes on a rampage against the company.
* CopKiller: He had Duffy gutted for ratting him out.
* DarkMessiah: What he sees himself as. Cain promises that his drugs will bring humanity to "paradise."
-->'''Cain, when Murphy is at his mercy''': Jesus... had days like these.
* DeaderThanDead: Let's see... getting his life support taken off, his brain used to control [=RoboCop=] 2, then having said brain ripped out and smashed to pieces by [=RoboCop=]. That's about as dead as you get!
* DecompositeCharacter: Cain originally started in Creator/FrankMiller's [[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop original script for]] ''Film/RoboCop2'' as a drug-addled merc/Rehab officer named Kong, who'd be severely injured fighting Murphy and turned into [=RoboCop=] 2. While Cain would keep many of these elements, the Rehab/merc aspect would be recycled for ''Film/RoboCop3''[='=]s Paul [=McDaggett=].
* DrugsAreBad: Cain's Nuke addiction is presumably not doing his mental stability any favors while the withdrawal pains are agonizing. Once transformed into [=RoboCain=], Dr. Faxx exploits the later by withholding his Nuke fix until he complies with OCP orders.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When escaping from Robocop and Lewis busting one of his Nuke lab operation, he finds a Chinese woman in his limousine pleading to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested; he proceeds to draw a handgun and kill her without flinching, pushing her body out of the limo without missing a beat, establishing Cain as having a gross LackOfEmpathy.
* 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. Once [=RoboCain=] steals the remote controlling his weapons to arm his guns and destroy the remote, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and everything in sight.
* EvilCounterpart: To [=RoboCop=]. He even strikes Robo's iconic firing pose while firing on civilians during the press conference, seemingly to taunt his counterpart.
* EvilIsBigger: As [=RoboCop=] 2, he's almost MiniMecha size and almost twice as large as the more human-like Robocop.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Turns out putting the brain of a psychopathic criminal mastermind inside a war-machine robot isn't the best of ideas.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: When Faxx looks him up, it's revealed he served in the Amazon War and was court-martialed on an unknown charge. He escaped from his prison and moved to Detroit to set up shop.
* FullConversionCyborg: When he's critically injured and captured, OCP uses the opportunity to convert him to a cyborg against his will (temporarily rendering him a BrainInAJar while he goes through drug withdrawal, which doesn't help his mood), banking on using his Nuke addiction to keep him under control. Go fig, placing a brain with a severe drug addiction, a GodComplex, a sadistic sense of humor, and zero empathy into a massive, heavily armed robotic body is a ''bad'' idea, and Cain goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and the police the second he has a chance.
* GatlingGood: Mounts a minigun on one of his arms.
* GlassCannon: Not [=RoboCain=] himself (who is merely staggered by multiple anti-tank rounds that could one-shot an ED-209) 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 and damage his torso armor so it could cause major damage to any target without significant protection. However, ordinary 9mm Parabellum bullets are enough to destroy the cannon in relatively few rounds.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Doctor Faxx reasoned that to endure the psychological trauma of being turned into another [=RoboCop=], they should start with someone with a mind that doesn't value their own humanity that much to begin with. It worked. Congratulations, now you have a military-grade combat robot with the mind of a violent psychopath.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He fancies himself as a messiah and talks to Murphy about him being persecuted (implied by him saying "Jesus had days like this...") and "forgives" Murphy for trying to shoot him. However Cain has already been shown killing someone in cold blood on screen, and not long after capturing and releasing [=RoboCop=] with his mechanical limbs detached, has someone tortured to death with mock surgery and looks on the scene in blank apathy while forcing Hob (a child) to watch the brutality.
* IronicEcho: His recreation as [=RoboCain=] and ultimate defeat are prefaced respectively with "[Good]night." from Dr. Faxx and "''Good''bye." from Alex Murphy.
* TheJuggernaut: As [=RoboCop=] 2. He was built to be superior to the original, and on that front, it succeeded. He is better armored, with Murphy spending the entire climax trying to kill him and only succeeding by removing the brain from his robot body and smashing it.
* JunkieProphet: How he views himself.
* KarmicTransformation: Similar to what he ordered done to torture Duffy, Cain is forced to endure having his body disassembled, his spine and brain extracted and suspended in life-supporting fluid. He is at the mercy of Dr. Faxx, a person who has a god complex of her own and who tries to control him by using his Nuke addiction against him. Given Nuke's narcotic traits, the withdrawal pains are presumably agonizing and torturious and Kane is forced alive on his life support.
* 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.
* LaserGuidedKarma: His smug VillainBall choice of damaging and dumping Murphy in front of the protesting cops to rub it on their faces instead of throwing him into a furnace and be 100% sure he's out of the picture will end up biting him in the ass once Murphy gets rebuilt and severely cripples him after a chase, which will then lead into his transformation into [=RoboCain=], and eventually to his death.
* LeanAndMean: As Cain, he's tall, thin, and creepily evil.
* LightningBruiser: Despite his huge size, immsense firepower and heavily armored chassis, [=RoboCop=] 2 is also capable of surprising speed, and is even fast enough to run up an elevator shaft.
* ImmuneToBullets: Even more so that the original Robocop. In the first film, sustained concentrated fire from multiple SWAT teams armed with military-grade weaponry was able to at least seriously injure Murphy (granted, Murphy was unable to shoot back and had to take it for a solid minute). The same amount of firepower directed against Cain just mildly annoys him. Even the Cobra Assault Cannon, a weapon that can destroy an ED-209, can't even put a dent in [=RoboCain=].
* MadeOfIron: As [=RoboCop=] 2, he's so heavily armored that he can shrug off shots from the Cobra Assault Cannon, which two-hit killed ED-209 in the first film.
* NameOfCain: Naturally.
* NoSell: As [=RoboCop=] 2, '''EVERYTHING'''. Gunfire, the Cobra Assault Cannon, explosions, falling off a skyscraper, nothing damages his robot body. His organic parts are a different story...
* OhCrap: His screen head has this reaction when he sees that Murphy has ripped his brain and spine out and is about to splatter them on the pavement.
* PowerFist: His less-lethal option is a pneumatic ram.
* RestrainingBolt: After the fiasco that was ED-209, [=OCP=] at least has the sense to have [=RoboCop=] 2's weapon systems controlled by an external remote control. However, [=RoboCop=] 2 just steals the remote from them, activates his guns, then smashes the remote (apparently [=OCP=] never bothered to make more than one).
* RoboticPsychopath: Being made a cyborg against his will didn't stop him from being AxCrazy.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: [=RoboCain's=] shoulder-mounted armor-piercing Assault Cannon has a shotgun like spread, and projects considerable stopping power even against the otherwise implacable [=RoboCop=]. It is capable of blasting away huge chunks of the auditorium seats, leaving visible damage on [=RoboCop=] and knocking [=RoboCop=] off his feet from the force. It's enough of a threat that, [=RoboCop=] prioritizes targeting and destroying it.
* SinisterShades: He wears sunglasses in most of his human appearances.
* SoftspokenSadist: He's got a much cooler, quieter demeanor than most of the other criminals in the series.
* TheSpeechless: Post-[=RoboCop=] 2 transformation, Cain never speaks a word on-screen, even when he deploys his TV screen to show his face. The most he does is make various growls and screeches.
* SuperiorSuccessor: [=RoboCop=] 2 is this to both the original [=RoboCop=] and to the ED-209s, being much more heavily armed and armored than either while retaining Robocop's human-level reasoning abilities. Too bad he's also a Nuke-addicted maniac with the brain of a sociopathic crime lord. His operating system also seems to be a version of Apple O/S, compared to Robocop's simpler green CRT text operating system.
* TopHeavyGuy: [=RoboCop=] 2's chest is huge, but its legs and lower body are comparatively thin. This does nothing to hinder its toughness or structural stability, however.
* TVHeadRobot: After becoming [=RoboCop=] 2, though instead of being a constant feature, it's only deployed when he wants to show his face.
* WalkingArsenal: [=RoboCop=] 2 has an insane amount of heavy weaponry incorporated into his body, including a minigun with an absurd amount of stored ammo, a shoulder-mounted cannon ''shotgun'', an extendable pneumatic battering ram for a fist, and a plasma cutting arm. The design philosophy while building him was TheresNoKillLikeOverkill.
* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Cain's personal side arm is a Walther PPK, a common side arm for officers of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and favored by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself. In the very first scene where Kane draws it, he has an ice cold expression and uses it to shoot trice one of his Chinese [[EthnicMenialLabor ethnic laborers]] who has taken refuge in his limo. She begs him to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested.
* VillainousBreakdown: [=RoboCain's=] final moments involve watching helplessly as Murphy smashes his brain and spine to mush on the pavement and his TV face glitching and spazzing out in horror and pain as it happens.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His first act as [=RoboCop=] 2 is to massacre every member of his former gang. Granted this was done under a directive sent by [=OCP=], but his complete lack of resistance to this particular order compared to later ones suggest this was something Cain was thinking of doing anyway, as he no longer needs his gang as the unstoppable killing machine he's now become.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hob]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hob_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Can't shoot a kid, can you, fucker?"'']]
[-Played by Creator/GabrielDamon-]

A young hoodlum who serves as Cain's apprentice in ''[=RoboCop=] 2''.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:His death is played quite tragically, for as evil as he was, we get a glimpse of the child he could have been under better circumstances. He makes some form of amending by revealing Cain to be [=RoboCop=] 2, and all he asks in return is for [=RoboCop=] to not leave him while he dies.]]
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He reasons that the Nuke cult is better than cigarette and fast food companies because they don't advertise a product they ''know'' is no good for you (HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs nonwithstanding) as fun and/or cool.
* BadassAdorable: A gloomy, evil version. A kid he may be, but he's got what it takes to pull his weight in the [[CrapsackWorld crime-ridden hellhole that is Detroit]]. Cain's thugs and clients clearly know better than crossing him.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Hob dons a classy suit as he takes over the gang, by which time his badass credentials are quite established.
* CoolGun: Both his machine-gun camouflaged as a lunchbox and the magnum he uses to shoot Robocop.
* CopKiller: Not successful, but one of his earliest acts is to try to garrote Lewis, and he comes close to succeeding.
* CuteBruiser: Despite his age and size, Hob is a very good shot and proves adept in a brawl against trained adults.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: In a way. [[spoiler: As Hob lays dying, he no longer bears ill will against Robo, and revealing who is his killer provides a clue on how to fight him.]]
* TheDragon: To Cain.
* DragonAscendant: Takes over Cain's gang after his apparent demise. But despite coming close to getting his drugs legal, his rule is cut short by his former boss, who just CameBackStrong.
* EnfantTerrible: He's as bad as any of the adult members of Cain's gang.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Hob is horrified when Cain has Officer Duffy eviscerated.
* EvilOrphan: A hardened, pre-pubescent criminal with no parent around. Though some believe that Hob is Cain's son.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Looks like a cute blond, blue-eyed kid but is nasty as they come.
* ForcedToWatch: Less in the usual "I want you to suffer along with him" manner, and more "You need to learn to get used to this kind of stuff" when Cain has Duffy tortured in front of him.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival:
** First played straight as [=RoboCop=] can't bring himself to shoot Hob, allowing Hob to shoot him in the head and escape.
---> '''Hob:''' Can't shoot a kid can you [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKER!!!]]
** Subverted next, as Lewis has no problem beating him up when he tries to strangle her.
** [[spoiler:Finally dangerously averted when [=RoboCop=] 2 enters the picture.]]
* KidsAreCruel:
** Played straight when the thugs are dismantling Murphy. "They say he's got a brain, I wanna see it."
** Averted when Cain has Duffy butchered in the most horrible way imaginable. Hob is revulsed and can't bear to watch.
* NervesOfSteel: Not cowed by adults the slightest, nor by the very intimidating [=RoboCop=]. Even before his death, despite being visibly terrified, he remains level-headed enough to hide and almost manages to escape.
* OnlySaneMan: The sole member of Cain's gang who is not a fanatical psycho or a barely functioning addict. Which might be why the others obey him. Justified as he never took any drug.
* PragmaticVillainy: Wants to run his business without troubles nor pointless violence. His offers to help Mayor Kuzak pay off the city's debts to OCP in exchange for legalizing Nuke are almost reasonable.
* {{Sadist}}: This little prick enjoys dishing out the pain too much. Though some things are still too horrible for him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Hob has zero qualms about high tailing away, leaving Cain to die.
-->'''Hob:''' Fuck Cain!
* SirSwearsALot: Can't utter a sentence without an expletive.
* TheStarscream: While he isn't shown actively plotting against Cain, Hob was disgusted with Cain having Duffy gutted and took advantage of the fact that, unlike Angie, he wasn't using Nuke to force her to abandon Cain after he's hospitalized and take over the operation. [[spoiler:He also ends up killed for this when Cain becomes [=RoboCop=] 2.]]
* StraightEdgeEvil: Hob's the only one of the main three who's not using Nuke himself, which he uses against Angie to take over the Nuke gang after Cain is hospitalized.
* TeenGenius: Pretty smart and an effective drug trafficker despite being fourteen at most.
* TragicDropout: Implied. [=RoboCop=] is bewildered upon entering a busy arcade when he and Lewis are trying to catch Hob and other gang members.
-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': Isn't this a school day?
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Seeing a boy his age acting like a vicious, unhinged criminal is unsettling, to say the least.
* VillainSong: Actually gets one on the soundtrack.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rE6YGBKzk "The Kid Goes Wild," by Babylon A.D.]]

[[folder:Angie]]
[-Played by Galyn Görg-]
Cain's girlfriend and a Nuke addict.

* AddledAddict: Is forced to choose between Cain and her drug addiction. She chooses the latter.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is similar to "angel" and she is the girlfriend of a cult leader with messianic delusions.
* {{Robosexual}}: Her reaction to seeing Cain's new body is to fondle one of its claws and hesitantly say that they may still make it work as a couple. [[spoiler:It just puts her at grappling range when Cain goes berserk (because he wants Nuke, maybe because of her betrayal, maybe because of sexual frustration or maybe all of the above), grabbing her by the head and either crushing it or snapping her neck]].
[[/folder]]

!!Rehabs

[[folder:Paul [=McDagget=]]]
[-Played by John Castle-]

Commander of the Rehabs, mercenaries hired by OCP.

* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: He hires a vicious street gang after the police force quits.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the OCP CEO in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''.
* ColonelKilgore: The CEO calls him "war-wacky" on the climax. The fact that he seems to like all the fighting that is going on and the carnage involved only adds to that.
* CopKiller: He tells his men to fire upon Metro West's officers when they decide to assist the Cadillac Heights rebels [[spoiler:and he personally gunned down Lewis.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: He takes over the Rehab/merc aspect from Kong in Creator/FrankMiller's [[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop original script for]] ''Film/RoboCop2'' when the Rehabs for recycled for ''3''.
* DragonInChief: Though nominally the CEO is supposed to be his superior, [=McDagget=] ultimately answers only to Kanemitsu directly and mostly only tolerates the CEO. In fact it seems he's willing to go to extreme lengths not authorized by Kanemitsu in order to achieve his mission of cleansing Old Detroit to make way for Delta City.
* EvilBrit: British and very evil.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Officer Anne Lewis, a MoralEventHorizon moment for him [[InUniverse which leads Murphy]] to come gunning for him.]]
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Even with OCP finished as a company, his forces either dead or in retreat and having nothing to gain by doing so, [=McDagget=] wanted to [[JustYouAndMeAndMyGUARDS kill [=RoboCop=] with the help of two Otomos]] for his own personal satisfaction and ultimately died because of this. The OCP executives and his own surviving men [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere wisely retreated]] because they had nothing to gain from destroying one lone cyborg at this point.
* KillThePoor: He plans to wipe out the citizens of Old Detroit who refuse to cooperate with being relocated from their homes.
* MoreDespicableMinion: Even the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]] at OCP ultimately find his methods to be beyond the pale. He just pulls a HandCannon on the CEO and tells him to sit down and shut up.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Even more so than [=OCP=] (who were blatantly PuttingOnTheReich in the second film). The Rehabs also greatly resemble the infamous "Black And Tans" from UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution, considering that they're war veterans hired as mercenaries to augment the police in evictions. [=McDaggett=] himself being an EvilBrit hammers this home.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not blatantly racist, but as noted above, he's very much about [[KillThePoor killing the poor]].
[[/folder]]

!!Kanemitsu Corporation

[[folder:Otomo]]
[-Played by Bruce Locke-]

An android assigned to destroy [=RoboCop=].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Otomo's katana is sharp enough to slice through titanium.
* AxCrazy: He shows some deranged facials and seems to toy with his opponents, implying he is either programmed that way for some twisted reason or actually sentient and sadistic.
* CorporateSamurai: A literal example, as he works for Kanemitsu Corporation and even uses a katana as he hunts down [=RoboCop=] while still maintaining some honor.
* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: If it wasn't by his introduction scene explaining that Otomo is an inanimate android, it would have been impossible to tell until the moment he gets his face shell damaged in a scuffle.
* GlassCannon: Otomo's not nearly as tough as [=RoboCop=] or ED-209; one grenade launcher headshot is enough to take him out, something both of the mentioned characters would have survived to. However, he's ''much'' faster than Robocop, with speed and agility as good as if not better than a very fit human athlete, able to perform flips, spins, and jumpkicks, while still being superhumanly strong, enough to knock Robocop's several hundred pound chassis around.
* HonorBeforeReason: Has a chance to kill [=RoboCop=] from behind but waits for him to turn around. Later waits for him to get up after being knocked down.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Otomo's sole weapon is a katana sword, which happens to be [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sharp enough to chop off Robocop's titanium hand]].
* NightmareFace: Some bullets to the face crack his shell. Although this seems to cause no loss of function on him, it does leave him with a grotesque visage.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's an android samurai assassin.
* OffscreenTeleportation: In Robocop's first encounter with one, Otomo appears behind [=RoboCop=] [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers style]] in the 2 seconds it takes [=RoboCop=] to bend down and pick up a piece of paper that was on the ground.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: An android who is essentially indistinguishable from a normal human (in terms of appearance at least, as he never talks so it's unclear whether he has any social programming). He even smokes, presumably having been designed that way to better blend in.
* SelfDestructMechanism: The two Otomos in the final fight seem to be equipped with one that triggers if they're destroyed. [=McDagget=] mentions they have a blast radius of 20 yards and ends up dying in the resulting explosion after the two are destroyed.
* SmokingIsCool: Can be seen calmly smoking while in the OCP headquarters.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Nicely contrasts the Japanese automotive industry of the 1980's with that of the USA. While American robots like Robocop, ED-209, and [=RoboCop=] 2 are powerful but cumbersome [[MightyGlacier Mighty Glaciers]] that stick out like a sore thumb, the Japanese-developed Otomo is a sleeker, more advanced [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Robot]] fast enough and strong enough to juggle [=RoboCop=] in a fight.
* TheVoiceless: Being designed to pass perfectly as a human, he should be capable of talking, but never does, at least onscreen.

[[folder:Kanemitsu]]
[-Played by Creator/{{Mako}}-]
Chairmen of the Kanemitsu Corporation.
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* GracefulLoser: Despite the damage [=RoboCop=] did to his company, he treats him respectfully in their meeting.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's the CEO of the corporation that ''purchased OCP''. But he doesn't directly act as an antagonist in any way, and his only interaction with [=RoboCop=] is meeting him after the climax.
* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: His corporation owns OCP, which means he technically owns Detroit.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: It's implied the CEO and [=McDagget=] are working behind his back, and he doesn't know how bad the situation in Detroit really is. He does fire the CEO at the end of the movie.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For the Old Man.
* VillainRespect: Meets [=RoboCop=] in person, and he bows in the traditional Japanese style.

[[/folder]]

!!Other
[[folder:Rebellion]]

!!Bertha Washington
[-Played by Creator/CCHPounder-]


The leader of the Rebellion against OCP and Rehab.
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* BlackBossLady: She's the leader of the rebels.

!!Nikko Halloran

[-Played by Remy Ryan-]

A [[InnocentProdigy young girl]] who's taken under the Rebellion's wing after Rehab takes and murders her parents.
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* AscendedFanboy: Nikko has a [=RoboCop=] action figure and gets excited at the possibility that he's pursuing the rebels' van. She later befriends Murphy and helps him take down OCP.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just as [=RoboCop=] is beaten by two Otomos and [=McDagget=] [[EvilGloating gloats in triumph]], Nikko hacks into the two androids and reprograms them to [[MutualKill attack each other]] instead.
* ChildProdigy: Nikko is a computer whiz, smart enough to be learning calculus at her age.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She gets separated from her parents as Rehabs force them onto a bus, and ends up in the Rebellion's care in which [=RoboCop=] later learns Nikko's parents were KilledOffscreen.
* GenderBlenderName
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* KidAppealCharacter
* MultiEthnicName: Nikko is biracial with a Japanese mother and a White father.
* PlayfulHacker: She hacks into an ED-209 to make it as "loyal as a puppy."
* ReplacementGoldfish: To [=RoboCop=], having moved on from his wife and son in the previous movie.
* TagalongKid: Nikko gets dragged into the Rebellion after she's separated from her parents, and Bertha rescues her from Rehab, but she quickly proves her worth.

!!Dr. Marie Lazarus
[-Played by Jill Hennessey-]

An OCP scientist who helped create Robocop. She gets fired for refusing to erase Murphy's emotions and joins the Rebellion.
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* MadScientist: A benevolent one that specializes in robotics and cybernetics like Robocop.
* MeaningfulName: She helped bring Murphy back to life, and her name is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Lazarus Lazarus]]

!!Coontz
[-Played by Creator/StephenRoot-]

A member of the Rebels. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be TheMole for the Rehabs.]]
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* DirtyCoward: He spends most of his time on-screen acting like the rebel on the verge of a nervous breakdown [[spoiler:before deciding to sell the whole group to [=McDaggett=].]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:He's a constantly-nervous FatBastard who loudly questions if fighting OCP is worth it at one point. He was going to sell the rebels to OCP either [[DirtyCoward to save his own ass]] or [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for money]], that much was sure]].
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:The Rehabs blow him away during their raid on the Rebels' base -- we don't see the actual shooting, of course, but we see the Rehabs finding his dead body right after [=McDaggett=] orders them to look for him in an explicit invocation of this trope.]]

!!Moreno
[-Played by Daniel Von Bargen-]

A mechanic who joins the rebellion.
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* TheLancer: To Bertha.
* WorkingClassHero: He was a mechanic before joining the rebels.

!!Zack
[-Played by Stanley Anderson-]

Another member of the rebellion
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* TheLancer: To Bertha, along with Moreno.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Media]]

!!Casey Wong
[-Played by Mario Machado-]

An anchor for Mediabreak
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* KentBrockmanNews: Both he and Jess are just shills for OCP.

!!Jess Perkins
[-Played by Leeza Gibbons-]

An anchor for Mediabreak
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* KentBrockmanNews: Both she and Casey are just shills for OCP.
* PutOnABus: She does not appear in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''

!!Debbie Dix
[-Played by Creator/EvaLaRue-]
Casey Wong's co-anchor in [=RoboCop=] 3
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Refuses to report the "bullshit" story of [=RoboCop=] massacring several nuns and clergy and walks off the set.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As mentioned above, she storms out after one too many false reports by OCP of Murphy attacking people.

!!Bixby Snyder
[-Played by S.D. Nemeth-]

The star of the popular show ''[[ShowWithinAShow It's Not My Problem]]''
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* CatchPhrase: "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
[[/folder]]

!![=RoboCop=]

[[index]]
See [=RoboCop=]'s character page [[Characters/RoboCopTheCharacter here]].
[[/index]]

!!Detroit Police Department

[[folder:Anne Lewis]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20_lewis.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Murphy, it's you."'']]
[-Played by Creator/NancyAllen-]

Originally Murphy's partner, and first on the scene after his fatal shooting. Remains assigned to work with him after his cyberization.

* ActionGirl: She's a competent cop that is no DamselInDistress, unlike most 80s female leads.
* BadassDriver: Serves as the driver during the van chase at the beginning of the movie, rescues Murphy from an extrajudicial execution in her squad car, and also drives during the climactic shootout at the steel mill.
* BadassNormal: She may not be a superhuman cyborg like Murphy, but they still make a great team. She also saves his life in a BigDamnHeroes moment, and is a pretty good shot ... with a ''grenade launcher''.
* BoyishShortHair: An intentional choice by the film's creators to give her a bit of an androgynous look, since they felt her gender was not important, though she averts this in the sequels.
* CharacterTic: Chewing bubblegum, which alerts one of the gang members to her presence: he incapacitates her so she can't help Murphy when he's cornered.
* DumbBlonde: Averted. Despite having dirty-blonde hair, she's one of the few people working for OCP who isn't a complete moron.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Is introducing by subduing a misbehaving perp with a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: BoyishShortHair in the first film, chin length bob in the second film and shoulder length EightiesHair perm in the third film.
* FemaleGaze: She sneaks up on one of Boddicker's goons while he's relieving himself. He puts his hands up, but then casually nods towards his crotch and asks her if he should "zip this up" first. She doesn't fall for the obvious ruse at first but, unfortunately, she can't resist glancing down, and once she does, he catches her off-guard and disarms her.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She spends a lot of the movie being the only person under OCP who treats Robo like a human being rather than JustAMachine, and goes out of her way and disobeys orders to help him.
* HeroicBSOD: She's visibly (and understandably) distraught seeing Murphy's desecrated corpse.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By [=McDagget=], a MoralEventHorizon moment for him.]]
* TheLancer: She is Robo's main ally and OnlyFriend.
* MadeOfIron: Survives multiple gunshot wounds from Boddicker towards the end of the first film. [[spoiler:Unfortunately she can't repeat the feat in the third.]]
* OnlyFriend: She's the only police officer who tries to befriend Robo and believes that somewhere in his metallic body, he's still her former partner.
* OralFixation: She regularly chews bubblegum.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Her and Alex/Robo are strictly TrueCompanions.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: After slugging her and throwing her off a rail, Joe P. Dix believes he's killed her and reports such to Boddicker and the rest of the gang. In truth, she survived, although severely dazed upon returning to consciousness and too late to save Murphy.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:In the third movie. KilledByRequest of actress Nancy Allen]].
* {{Sidekick}}: Averted. They're very much equals, despite the fact that one's now a NighInvulnerable cyborg.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Don't be fooled by her feminine features. See EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Is fatally injured by [=McDagget=] around halfway in the third movie and dies in Murphy's arms]].
* SurvivorGuilt: Although it immediately goes away when she realizes [=RoboCop=] is Murphy.
* TheNotLoveInterest: [[{{Robosexual}} 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.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's never without a bubblegum.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name is usually used as a guy's name. Same applies to her actress.
* YouAreTooLate: After being knocked out, she arrives right after Murphy has been shot up and is dying.

[[folder:Sergeant John/Warren Reed]]

[-Played by Creator/RobertDoQui-]
[[quoteright:316:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reed_0.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:316:''"Without cops, this city would tear itself apart!"'']]

The sergeant in charge of Metro West and one of Robocop's strongest allies.

* BigGood: His attitude towards the officers under his command resembles AFatherToHisMen.
* 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 addressed there as "Sgt. Warren Reed".
* DaChief: He is in charge of the Detroit Police Department.
* DeskJockey: He's mostly seen working at his desk, but he can still hold his own in the field if he needs to.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''3'', he's had enough of OCP's BS by the time Johnson and [=McDaggett=] order him to force people out of their homes and leads most of the Metro West cops against them.
* AFatherToHisMen:
** After [=RoboCop=] is badly damaged after his encounter with Cain and is taken away by OCP, Reed makes it clear that he expects them to bring "his man" back.
** In ''[=RoboCop=] 3'', when he throws down his badge rather than assist the Rehabs in evicting the people of Cadillac Heights, almost every officer in the precinct follows suit.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: Rips off his ''own'' badge to demonstrate he won't be a corporate goon anymore.
* LastStand: Against OCP at the end of ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. Saved by Murphy pulling a BigDamnHeroes with his jetpack.
* ManlyFacialHair: He's one of the few undisputed examples of BigGood in the whole franchise, and in 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.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He opposes OCP's moronic policies that put his officers in danger, and tries to dissuade them from striking.
* TurnInYourBadge: Shown in ''[=RoboCop=] 3'', he takes off his badge and drops it to the floor in defiance of Johnson's edict for the station to help clear people out of Cadillac Heights.
* TwoFirstNames: Reed can be used as a given name for guys. His name actually counts as three first names if you take into account the ContinuitySnarl of his given name. ''Four'' if you count ''Alpha Commando'' [[AdaptationNameChange changing his given name]] to "Joe".
[[/folder]]

!!Omni Consumer Products

[[folder:In general]]
[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ocp.png]]
[[caption-width-right:275:''"I say good business is where you find it."'']]

The BigBad of the franchise and a powerful {{Megacorp}} that dabbles in everything.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Anybody who works for OCP is a ruthless scumbag, especially if they are an executive.
* CorporateConspiracy: Omni Consumer Products is not the most ethical of corporations. [[Film/Robocop1987 The original film]] had a vice-president willing to make a deal with a crime boss to start a crime spree, so that OCP can step in and offer to [[LawEnforcementInc privatize the police force]]. And all of this to demolish Detroit and [[VillainousGentrification rebuild it as Delta City]]. By the time of [[Film/Robocop3 the third movie]], they're even hiring a street gang to drive out the locals.
* EvilInc: OCP is a cutthroat, heartless corporation that will use any cutthroat method it can, especially if it involves cutting corners.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: OCP's incompetence and difficulties in buying out all of Detroit from its citizens results in it gradually losing much of its value. [[spoiler: It is completely bankrupted by the revelation of its atrocities in ''Film/Robocop3''.]]
* IncompetenceInc: Big time, thanks to a combination of incompetence and greed. They prioritize making showpieces for military contracts rather than actually keeping the streets safe, and further prioritize said showpieces looking cool for the cameras and getting out early over them actually working. Regardless of what their product is, it's all CoolButInefficient, focusing entirely on looking flashy with no concern if it actually works, [=RoboCop=] being implied to be a fluke. This does eventually come back to bite them, as between the second and third films, they ended up being bought out by a Japanese company.
* LawEnforcementInc: They've privatised the Detroit Police Department as part of the city's bailout package. This is one of the first steps towards Delta City.
* MegaCorp: They have divisions in all kinds of diverse fields, such as consumer products, healthcare, prisons, space exploration, law enforcement and military grade weaponry.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: ''Film/RoboCop3'' was about OCP's warranty becoming void between Kanemitsu buying the company, the Old Man being implied to have been forced out, [[spoiler:the public learning the truth about the Rehabs, the resultant bankruptcy as stocks plummet, their headquarters being blown up by the Otomos, and the CEO getting fired.]]
* NoNameGiven: The Old Man's name was never revealed. The CEO's name is also unstated in ''Film/RoboCop3'', though if one counts the comic adaptation as AllThereInTheManual, then it's only his first name that unknown as it's stated there he's Bob Morton's dad (Johnson even calls him "Mr. Morton").
* VisionaryVillain: Their plan to transform Detroit into the privately owned Delta City.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Richard "Dick" Jones]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dick_jones.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake."'']]

[-Played by Creator/RonnyCox-]

The main antagonist of the first movie, next to Clarence. He is the corrupt vice-president of OCP.
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[-Played by Creator/RonnyCox-]

[-Played by Creator/FeltonPerry-]

[-Played by Creator/DanOHerlihy-]

A young up-and-coming executive at the helm of the '[=RoboCop=]' project.

[-Voiced by Creator/JonDavison-]

The OCP psychologist who proposes putting the mind of a criminal into [=RoboCop=] 2.

The New head of OCP who is in-charge of the company in ''Film/RoboCop3''

A technician at the police station who's in charge of doing maintenance on Robocop.

[-Played by Creator/KurtwoodSmith-]

[-Played by Creator/PaulMcCrane-]

One of Clarence's thugs.

One of Clarence's thugs.

[-Played by Creator/CalvinJung-]

[-Played by Creator/FreddieHice-]

[-Played by Creator/NeilSummers-]

!!Cain's Gang

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The main antagonist of the second movie, and the distributor of a street drug called "Nuke."

[-Played by Creator/GabrielDamon-]

Cain's girlfriend

Commander of the Rehabs, mercenaries hired by OCP.

An android assigned to destroy [=RoboCop=].

[-Played by Creator/{{Mako}}-]

The leader of the Rebellion against OCP and Rehab.

[-Played by Remy Ryan-]

An OCP scientist who helped create Robocop. She gets fired for refusing to erase Murphy's emotions and joins the Rebellion.

A member of the Rebels. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be TheMole for the Rehabs.]]

A mechanic who joins the rebellion

Another member of the rebellion

An anchor for Mediabreak

An anchor for Mediabreak

[-Played by Creator/EvaLaRue-]

The star of the popular show ''[[ShowWithinAShow It's Not My Problem]]''

* HeroKiller: Murphy is just his latest in a long string of victims. He nearly does it again against Robo in their second fight.

** ''Rogue City'' is an inversion: [[spoiler: As the end of his life approaches, he talks to Murphy in private about grew up in Old Detroit and wanting to make the city better place. Later, he shows Murphy a recording of how he understands that Murphy is still a human being and looking forward to the two of them working together to make Detroit a better place. That said, he goes to some very shady means to ensure his conversion, which offends Murphy enough that he might either kill him or leave him to die, depending on the player's decision.]]

* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: His attempt to rebel against the Old Man ends out going ... out the window.]]

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first movie he shows no serious moral failings, refusing to sell a half-finished, potentially dangerous product and being appalled by his underling's criminal dealings. He's still a CorruptCorporateExecutive, however. He's not at all bothered by poor Kinney's death, he's more concerned that this malfunction will set them back millions in interest payments and the PR nightmare it will be; he's just not overtly evil, unlike Dick. In the sequel, he has seen numerous attempts to recreate [=RoboCop=] fail horribly. Yet he utterly ignores all warnings, safety inspections or psych profile of the murder machine he has paid money for before rolling it out to a crowded, televised press conference. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also bringing a can of real street drugs with him, what the hell?]] Most egregiously, he authorizes a hit on the mayor of Detroit when the desperate mayor tries to make a deal with a crime lord to save the city's finances, which would set back [=OCP=]'s plans.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be corrupt, but there are a few lines he draws, most prominently [[spoiler:petty treason involving hostage-taking]]. When [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] crosses that line, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness his usefulness to OCP ends then and there]]. He is also angry at Jones trying to downplay ED-209's DisastrousDemonstration (in all of its gory mess) as "only a glitch".

* LackOfEmpathy: At the end of the second film, he leaves the building by stepping over the corpse of a bystander killed by Cain.

* NiceToTheWaiter: His attitude towards Murphy in the climax of the first movie truly deserves mention; bear in mind, by this point, Murphy isn't legally a ''person'' anymore: he is a ''product'', OCP property. Yet when he barges in unannounced in the conference room, the Old Man ''politely'' asks him what his business is. When Murphy replies that Dick Jones is wanted for murder, the Old Man calmly points out that such serious charges need proof, which Murphy provides. And after Jones has been taken care of (which involved taking the Old Man hostage at gunpoint, mind you), the Old Man congratulates Murphy's skills and asks what his name is while casually calling him "son", like a regular old man thanking a normal cop for taking care of a minor inconvenience.
* OffscreenKarma: We never find out [[NoodleIncident what exactly happened to him]], but after ending the second film showing himself to be every bit as corrupt as everybody else in OCP, the third movie shows that he is no longer in charge and Johnson just cryptically says in one scene that the Old Man found out the hard way that "everyone's expendable" to the company.

* BusCrash: Seems to have died in the period between ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' and ''[=RoboCop=] 3'', leaving his company in the much less capable hands of The CEO in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. Johnson implies that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he was considered expendable]] between films.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Even though he's a JerkAss CorruptCorporateExecutive and his ambitions are purely selfish, he still has some redeeming qualities and he's much more likeable compared to the real BigBad of the story. He comes across even better in the sequel even postmortem with the added context that the Robocop project could've gone ''so,'' '''so''' much worse.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Even though he's a JerkAss CorruptCorporateExecutive and his ambitions are purely selfish, he still has some redeeming qualities and he's much more likeable compared to the real BigBad of the story.

* LudicrousGibs: His entire body explodes once Boddicker runs over his melted, disfigured body; all that can be seen from that is [[OffWithHisHead his head]] flying over Boddicker's car.

* FullConversionCyborg: When he's critically injured and captured, OCP uses the opportunity to convert him to a cyborg against his will (temporarily rendering him a BrainInAJar while he goes through drug withdrawal, which doesn't help his mood), banking on using his Nuke addiction to keep him under control. Go fig, placing a drug addict's brain with a GodComplex, a sadistic sense of humor, and zero empathy into a massive, heavily armed robotic body is a ''bad'' idea, and Cain goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and the police the second he has a chance.

* FullConversionCyborg: When he's critically injured and captured, OCP uses the opportunity to convert him to a cyborg against his will (temporarily rendering him a BrainInAJar while he goes through drug withdrawal, which doesn't help his mood), banking on using his Nuke addiction to keep him under control. Go fig, placing a brain with a GodComplex, a sadistic sense of humor, and zero empathy into a massive, heavily armed robotic body is a ''bad'' idea, and Cain goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and the police the second he has a chance.

!!Played by Creator/NancyAllen-]

* KarmicTransformation: Similar to what he did to Duffy, Cain is forced to endure having his body disassembled, his spine and brain extracted and suspended in life-supporting fluid. He is at the mercy of Dr. Faxx, a person who has a god complex of her own and who tries to control him by using his Nuke addiction against him.

[-Played by Creator/NancyAllen-]

* HateSink: While every member qualifies, Boddicker especially stands out. 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. His death, while not the most painfully slow (that would be Emil) or quick and overkill (that would be Leon), is all the more fitting.

* PetTheDog: When he comes to kill Bob Morton, who is being entertained by two prostitutes at the moment, he orders the prostitutes to leave rather than kill them as potential witnesses.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It is really grisly. His body starts rapidly deteriorating after getting drenched in toxic waste. Him subsequently getting ran over by Boddicker's car was effectively a MercyKill. [[LaserGuidedKarma He definitely deserved it, though.]]
* DeadlyDodging: With [=RoboCop=] as the dodger. Emil attempts to run over Murphy, but he sidesteps and causes Emil to crash into a tank of toxic waste which melts him alive.

* HairTriggerTemper: Is infuriated when Murphy accidentally shoots the gang's stolen TV, telling him, "Your ass is mine."

* MadeOfPlasticine: He goes ''splat'' when hit by a car -- presumably because the acidic toxic waste has weakened his bones.

* OffWithHisHead: His entire body explodes once Boddicker runs over his melted, disfigured body; all that can be seen from that is his head flying over Boddicker's car.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Prior to killing Murphy, they just seemed like merry pranksters, essentially harmless. Clarence even jokes around with [[PremortemOneLiner one-liners like "Can you fly, Bobby?"]] and [[DistractAndDisarm Joe cheekily shows Lewis his schlong]]. When they actually start dismembering Murphy [[MoodWhiplash it feels like a complete 180 from what we saw before]].

* TheStarscream: His plan is to wait for the Old Man to die, take over OCP and run the city of Detroit like his own personal fiefdom.

* NiceToTheWaiter: His attitude towards Murphy in the climax of the first movie truly deserves mention; bear in mind, by this point, Murphy isn't legally a ''person'' anymore: he is a ''product'', OCP property. Yet when he barges in unnanounced in the conference room, the Old Man ''politely'' asks him what his business is. When Murphy replies that Dick Jones is wanted for murder, the Old Man calmly points out that such serious charges need proof, which Murphy provides. And after Jones has been taken care of (which involved taking the Old Man hostage at gunpoint, mind you), the Old Man congratulates Murphy's skills and asks what his name is while casually calling him "son", like a regular old man thanking a normal cop for taking care of a minor inconvenience.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Although the [=RoboCop=] initiative addresses virtually all of the weaknesses in the ED-209 rollout; Morton fails to account for a critical flaw in his own plan: Most soldiers or cops converted into Frankensteinian cyborgs would be driven mad by the loss of their humanity. Morton got ''lucky'' with Murphy - his desire for vengeance against the criminals who killed him with a strong will combined with his strong devotion to the law, enabled him to adapt to his new existence. Attempts to create more [=RoboCop=]s fail spectacularly when the candidates reject the transformation and [[DrivenToSuicide destroy themselves]]. Though to be fair, Morton died before any attempt to replicate his work was seriously discussed.

* GlassCannon: Not [=RoboCain=] himself (who is merely staggered by multiple anti-tank rounds that could one-shot an ED-209) 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.

A central antagonist of the first movie. He is the crime boss of Old Detroit.