History Film / Robocop3

* EightiesHair: Lewis is sporting a seriously big bouffant hairstyle in this one, which really contrasts with the relatively shorter hair she had in the previous two movies.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Coontz.]]
* MotherlyScientist: Dr. Lazarus.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Otomo is essentially a Samurai Terminator.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Otomo's WeaponOfChoice.

** During the final battle, [=RoboCop=] gets blindsided and knocked down by two [[KillerRobot Otomos,]] and [=MacTaggart=] threatens to shoot Nikko and Lazarus if he tries to get up. He then sees that Nikko is doing something on her computer, and instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting her,]] like he had ''just threatened to do'', he just says "what are you doing?" a couple of times, giving her time to [[spoiler: hack into the Otomos and make them destroy each other.]]

* BigBad: [=McDaggett=], the man in charge of the Rehab operation.

** During the final battle, Robocop gets blindsided and knocked down by two [[KillerRobot Otomos,]] and [=MacTaggart=] threatens to shoot Nikko and Lazarus if he tries to get up. He then sees that Nikko is doing something on her computer, and instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting her,]] like he had ''just threatened to do'', he just says "what are you doing?" a couple of times, giving her time to [[spoiler: hack into the Otomos and make them destroy eachtoher.]]

** During the final battle, Robocop gets blindsided and knocked down by two [[KillerRobot Otomos,]] and MacTaggart threatens to shoot Nikko and Lazarus if he tries to get up. He then sees that Nikko is doing something on her computer, and instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting her,]] like he had ''just threatened to do'', he just says "what are you doing?" a couple of times, giving her time to [[spoiler: hack into the Otomos and make them destroy eachtoher.]]

* IdiotBall: Anne Lewis has the ball when she chooses to go out with [=RoboCop=] after finishing her shift, but turns down another officer's offer of body armor.

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'''Sergeant Warren Reed:''' I am. (''removes his badge, drops it on the floor at Johnson's feet'') I'm thinking I have to go home and face them.

* SelfDestruct: When the Otomo-tans decapitate each other, [=McDagget=] tells everyone that they come with a "thermal failsafe device", and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. [=RoboCop=] rolls into his jet pack, grabs Marie and Nikko, and flies them to safety as the top half of the OCP Building explodes. To put the icing on the cake, the exhaust from the jet pack burns [=McDagget's=] shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it.

'''Sergeant Warren Reed:''' I am. (''throws his badge on the floow'') I'm thinking I have to go home and face them.

** Omni Consumer Products (and its new shareholders the Kanemitsu Corporation) hire a band of mercenaries to force out the inhabitants of Old Detroit. To combat this, the regular folks form a underground resistance.

* LastStand: The climax of the movie involves the rebels and the Detroit Police going against the Rehabs.

* ContinuityNod: The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" television host is seen in a brief cameo, while an OCP officer named Cecil (who attempted to stop the officers from destroying Robo in the OCP parking garage during [[Film/RoboCop1987 the first film]]) returns as an officer who walks out on OCP and helps Sergeant Reed during the Splatterpunk attack in Old Detroit.

** The CEO, Johnson, and even McDaggett's fellow Rehabs book it after the two Otomos show up to fight Murphy.

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

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Related to what was released about the CEO in the comic adaptation, he appears in this film -- years after the death of his son, [[Film/RoboCop1987 Bob Morton]].

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Related to what was released about the CEO in the comic adaptation, he appears in this film -- years after the death of his son, Bob Morton.

* OutlivingOneOffspring: Related to what was released about the CEO in the comic adaptation, he appears in this film -- years after the death of his son, Bob Morton.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The Old Man (played by Dan O'Herlihy) disappears in the interim between films, and no one seems to reflect on the fact that he's been replaced by The CEO. While it's likely that he faced criminal charges after what happened in [[Film/RoboCop2 the previous film]], there's no discussion of his fate besides a reference by Johnson that he was "expendable".

* SassyBlackWoman: Bertha.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: 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.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Lewis is killed by [=McDaggett=]. However, this is because Allen asked the producers to write her character out of the franchise]].

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: This happens to ''[=MediaBreak=]'' 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.

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: This happens to ''[=MediaBreak]='' 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.

* TheOneWith: [=RoboCop=] fighting a ninja.