History Film / Robocop3

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The lady newscaster finally quits when the absurd lies she's told to tell on the air get ''too'' absurd, the breaking point being accusations that [=RoboCop=] slaughtered a convent full of nuns.

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: This happens to OCP news when the female anchor gets fed up with the blatant falsehoods she's being forced to peddle. Her co-anchor shrugs before the camera cuts away.

* {{Zeerust}}: A special case, as many of the TV's are actually widescreen CRT's.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The police's role is to maintain law and order. However, when the OCP order them to forcibly relocate the poor people of Cadillac Heights, they refuse and quiet in disgust, joining the resistance.

* BlatantLies: The OCP's TV ad about the Rehabs peacefully relocating the poor doesn't correspond in any way what the Rehabs are doing for real on the streets. In fact, it's far from helpful and and very violent.

* AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation does have few details not seen in the movie, including the CEO being Bob Morton's dad, the Rehabs setting up base in Metro West happened during Nikko's visit, and [[spoiler:none of Murphy's fellow officers bought that he killed Lewis and realized it was the Rehabs who did it]].

* AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation does have few details not seen in the movie, including the CEO being Bob Morton's dad, the Rehabs setting up base in Metro West happening during Nikko's visit, and [[spoiler:none of Murphy's fellow officers bought that he killed Lewis and realized it was the Rehabs who did it]].

[[caption-width-right:273:''Back on line. Back on duty.'']]

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The Splatterpunks get the idea to shoot [=RoboCop=] in the mouth, reasoning he's weak there. One protests ("cyborg eat bullets") but the other adds that they'll set him on fire, too.
** Subverted in that Robocop's face is only a superficial layer of skin as it's all metal beneath.

** The pimp upon realizing he just tried to threaten [=RoboCop=].

** Seitz gets out a [[ReactiveContinuousScream long scream]] when the tank's alarm beeps warns him that Robocop is targeting him with a smart bomb before he is killed.

* VillainousGentrification: While it was a looming threat for the citizens of Detroit in the first two films, OCP's desire to create Delta City at any cost finally takes center stage in this movie, and the Rehabs have no problem kicking people out of their homes and killing them, first in secret ("[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything shot while trying to escape relocation camp]]") and then in open battle at the film's climax.

* VillainousGentrification: While it was a looming threat for the citizens of Detroit in the first two films, OCP's desire to create Delta City at any cost finally takes center stage in this movie, and the Rehabs have no problem kicking people out of their homes and killing them, first in secret ("[[DoesThisRemindsYouOfAnything shot while trying to escape relocation camp]]") and then in open battle at the film's climax.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Although Kanemitsu Corporation [[KarmaHoudini walks away unscathed]], this film is all about OCP's warranty expiring, with its stocks already in a death spiral before the movie even begins and then hitting rock bottom by the third act when the people find out what OCP is actually doing instead of "relocation" [[spoiler:and then a significant chunk of the company headquarters gets atomized by the Otomos' self-destruct. Johnson also gets a lot of egg on his face when the Detroit Police quits when he tries to strong-arm them into helping the Rehabs (although whether or not he remains employed is left up in the air), the Old Man discovered he was not indispensable to OCP between films, and the new CEO is fired by Mr. Kanemitsu.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Otomo.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After the Rehab assault on the resistance safehouse, Seitz asks [=McDaggett=] about [[spoiler:Coontz, who was killed during the raid]], with [=McDaggett=] not caring he'd died, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ostensibly because he didn't want to pay the latter for being a turncoat]].

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After the Rehab assault on the resistance safehouse, Seitz asks [=McDaggett=] about [[spoiler:Coontz, who was killed during the raid]] [=McDaggett=] not caring he'd died, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ostensibly because he doesn't want to pay the latter for being a turncoat]].

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After the Rehab assault on the resistance safehouse, Seitz asks [=McDaggett=]about [[spoiler:Coontz, who was killed during the raid]][ [=McDaggett=] not caring he'd died, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ostensibly because he doesn't want to pay the latter for being a turncoat]].

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After the Rehab assault on the resistance safehouse, [=McDaggett=] orders a defeated-looking [[spoiler:Coontz]] to be executed, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ostensibly because he doesn't want to pay the latter for being a turncoat]].