History Trivia / Robocop

*** Dan Hennessey ([[CareBears Brave Heart Lion]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Bully Koopa]], [[{{WesternAnimation/COPS}} Turbo Tu-Tone]] [[InspectorGadget Chief Quimby]]) was [=RoboCop=]

*** Blu Mankuma ([[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Tigatron, Tigerhawk]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Flutterguy]]) is Sgt. Reed. ''AC'' also wasn't Blu's first time in a ''RoboCop'' series as he appear in ''[[Series/RoboCopTheSeries The Series]]'' as Stan Parks, a CaptainErsatz of Reed.

*** Creator/SusanRoman was Anne.

*** Dean Haglund ([[Series/TheXFiles Richard "Ringo"]] [[Series/TheLongGunmen Langly]]) is Cornelius Neumeier.

*** Campbell Bell ([[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Rampage]], [[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution Mastermind]] is Alpha Prime.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Alpha Commando'', David Sobolov ([[WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}} Tatsurion the Unchained/Bob]], [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Depth Charge]], [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Lobo]], [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Shockwave]]) is [=RoboCop=] himself.
** In the original, he was portrayed by Dan Hennessey, who also voiced [[CareBears Brave Heart Lion]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Bully Koopa]], [[{{WesternAnimation/COPS}} Turbo Tu-Tone]] and [[InspectorGadget Chief Quimby]]. Anne was [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Jupiter]].
** Back to ''Alpha Commando'', [[BeastWars Rampage]] is Alpha Prime and Nancy Miner is [[SpiderManUnlimited Dr. Naoko Yamada-Jones]].

** Not forgetting [[That70sShow Red Forman]] as Clarence Boddicker.

** In the original, he was portrayed by Dan Hennessey, who also voiced [[CareBears Brave Heart Lion]], [[WesternAnmation/WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Bully Koopa]], [[WesternAnimation/COPS Turbo Tu-Tone]] and [[InspectorGadget Chief Quimby]]. Anne was [[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Jupiter]].

!!TV-Shows

* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Alpha Commando'', David Sobolov ([[WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}} Tatsurion the Unchained/Bob]], [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Depth Charge]], [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Lobo]], [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Shockwave]]) is RoboCop himself.

!!The films:

* ''Trivia/RoboCop''
* ''Trivia/RoboCop''

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[RoddyPiper John]] [[Film/TheyLive Nada]] is a scientist, graphic artist and subversive superhero.

* AwesomeDearBoy: This is part of the reason why Creator/PaulVerhoeven did the first film. He initially rejected the opportunity to direct it when he read the script and thought it was silly and stupid. He changed his mind when his wife convinced him that there were more layers to the story than he initially thought, and because the writers pointed out the amount of {{Gorn}} there was, to which he responded "Well, I've never seen the hero [[{{Fingore}} get his hand blown off]]!"

** What's Dr. Romano from {{ER}} doing working as a street thug in future Detroit? [[spoiler:Getting splattered after a toxic waste bath, that's what!]]
** [[KurtwoodSmith Clarence Boddicker]] is [[That70sShow Red Forman]] and his gang includes the aforementioned ''ER'' doctor and [[{{Reaper}} The Devil]].
*** If you imagine Boddicker ending each of his lines with "dumbass!", it makes the movie even better!
** Attentive fans of 80s comic books will also notice [[ROMSpaceKnight ROM]].
** [[PeterWeller RoboCop]] himself in the first two films is both BuckarooBanzai and [[Series/TwentyFour Christopher Henderson]]. In the third film, he's [[{{Thinner}} Billy Halleck]]/[[GenerationKill James Mattis]]/[[LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Ed Tucker]].

** Dick Jones is [[Series/StargateSG1 Senator Robert Kinsey]], [[{{Freespace}} Admiral Aken Bosch]] ''and'' [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Cohaagen.]] There's just something about Ronny Cox's screen persona that lends itself perfectly to "corrupt high-ranking jackass." He was in fact PlayingAgainstType at the time -- he had normally played morally upright characters up to that point.
** Now why would [[TwinPeaks Leland Palmer]] be so silly as to try and kick Robocop in the crotch?
*** He probably didn't know that [[TwinPeaks Albert Rosenfeld's]] design team gave Robocop balls of steel.
** Back when he had a full head of hair, [[CrossingJordan Dr. Garret Macy]] designed [=RoboCop=]!
** Robo's partner, Lewis, is [[{{Carrie}} Chris Hargensen]].
** Combining this with HeyItsThatVoice - In the first film [[GoofTroop Goofy]] is a reporter and a young (and uncredited) [[SailorMoon Sailor Mars]] makes a cameo.
** [[RoddyPiper John]] [[Film/TheyLive Nada]] is a scientist, graphic artist and subversive superhero in the TV series.

** [[MiguelFerrer Bob Morton]] is [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Vandal Savage]].
* ThrowItIn
** [=RoboCop=] was supposed to stop the rapist holding his target as a shield with a precision headshot. When staging the scene, they saw how perfectly a bullet [[GroinAttack could fly through]] the woman's dress...
** The politician being thrown to the ground was supposed to be just out of sight. The dummy they used for the scene had its legs kick up comically when it landed and was visible to the cameras. It looked too funny to leave out.

** Professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper is Tex Jones/Commander Cash in the series.
** And from ''Prime Directives'' Ann Kay is Leslie Hope, aka [[Series/TwentyFour Teri Bauer.]]

* FakeAmerican: Dr. Faxx in the second movie is played by Australian Belinda Bauer. See also OohMeAccentsSlipping.

** Cain, the drug-addicted (and making) cult leader in the second movie, was [[Film/{{Manhunter}} the original Francis Dolarhyde]].

** [[JohnGlover Lionel]] [[{{Smallville}} Luthor]] seems to have gotten his start pitching lethal car theft deterrent devices.

** The anti-OCP movement in the third movie was led by [[TheShield Claudette Wyms]] and consisted of [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Commandant Spangler]], [[Film/TheRock The President of]] [[Film/{{Armageddon}} The United States]], and [[NewsRadio Jimmy James]]/[[OfficeSpace Milton Waddams]], [[spoiler: the last of whom turned out to be TheMole.]]
** Hob, Cain's child henchman in the second movie, is played by [[TheLandBeforeTime Littlefoot]].
** [[AustinPowers Alotta Fagina]] is in an ad for sunblock.

** [[RoddyPiper John]] [[TheyLive Nada]] is a scientist, graphic artist and subversive superhero in the TV series.

** [[GabrielDamon Hob]] is [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Littlefoot]].
** [[JohnGlover The Magnavolt Spokesman]] is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the Riddler]].
** [[CCHPounder Bertha]] is [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Amanda Waller]].
** [[StephenRoot Coontz]] is [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland]].

* LifeImitatesArt: In 2013 Detroit went bankrupt for real. An unelected city manager privatized and outsourced city services before giving up entirely. Police response time is up over an hour (if they come at all) however official crime stats have shown declines because few people bother to call the police or make reports.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ''Frank Miller's [=RoboCop=]'' comic is an adaptation of FrankMiller's original script for ''[=RoboCop=] 2'', some unused ideas of which he recycled into ''Film/RoboCop3''. The DrugsAreBad and JapanTakesOverTheWorld aspects of the second and third movies weren't Miller's idea. The BigBad would have been pop psychologist Dr. Love, who ended up becoming Dr. Faxx; she was responsible for both the [=RoboCop=] 2 project and [=RoboCop=]'s PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad directives. The brain used for [=RoboCop=] 2 was to have been Kong, a psychotic ShellShockedVeteran, and [=RoboCop=] 2 had a video screen for a face because Dr. Love uploads her personality into him and her face replaces Kong's on the screen.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ''Frank Miller's [=RoboCop=]'' comic is an adaptation of FrankMiller's original script for ''[=RoboCop=] 2'', some unused ideas of which he recycled into ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. The DrugsAreBad and JapanTakesOverTheWorld aspects of the second and third movies weren't Miller's idea. The BigBad would have been pop psychologist Dr. Love, who ended up becoming Dr. Faxx; she was responsible for both the [=RoboCop=] 2 project and [=RoboCop=]'s PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad directives. The brain used for [=RoboCop=] 2 was to have been Kong, a psychotic ShellShockedVeteran, and [=RoboCop=] 2 had a video screen for a face because Dr. Love uploads her personality into him and her face replaces Kong's on the screen.

** OCP in the third movie was ran by [[Film/MenInBlack Zed]] and he answered to OCP's new owner, [[SamuraiJack Aku]]. Oh, and Cain, the drug-addicted (and making) cult leader in the second movie, was [[Film/{{Manhunter}} the original Francis Dolarhyde]].

*** And on that note, [[CrossingJordan Jordan Cavanaugh]] herself (alternatively, [[LawAndOrder Claire Kincaid]]) was Marie Lazarus, the scientist who was friends with Robo in the third movie.

** Mario Machado and Leeza Gibbons were the newsanchors in the first two movies. Machado reprised his role in Robocop 3, but his co-anchor was [[CSIMiami Natalia Boa Vista]], who couldn't wait to go back to the Crime Lab.

** [[{{Mako}} Kanemitsu]] is [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]] and [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Iroh]].

* AwesomeDearBoy: This is part of the reason why Paul Verhoeven did the first film. He initially rejected the opportunity to direct it when he read the script and thought it was silly and stupid. He changed his mind when his wife convinced him that there were more layers to the story than he initially thought, and because the writers pointed out the amount of {{Gorn}} there was, to which he responded "Well, I've never seen the hero [[{{Fingore}} get his hand blown off]]!"

* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Alpha Commando'', David Sobolov ([[WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}} Tatsurion the Unchained/Bob]], [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Depth Charge]], [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Lobo]], [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Shockwave]]) is RoboCop himself.

** The anti-OCP movement in the third movie was led by [[TheShield Claudette Wyms]] and consisted of [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Commandant Spangler]], [[Film/TheRock The President of]] [[Film/{{Armageddon}} The United States]], and [[NewsRadio Jimmy James]], [[spoiler: the last of whom turned out to be TheMole.]]

** [[RoddyPiper John]] [[TheyLive Nada]] is a graphic artist and subversive superhero in the TV series.

** [[RoddyPiper John]] [[TheyLive Nada]] is a graphic artist and subversive superhero.

* ShoutOut: The ShowWithinAShow ''I'd Buy That for a Dollar'' is a homage to the idiot's TV-derived catchphrase from the dystopic SF novel ''The Marching Morons'', updated for inflation. Originally: "I'd buy that for a quarter!" [[hottip:*:The star of the show, Bixby Snyder, is possibly a homage to Creator/BennyHill. Or a parody. In a supposedly-filmed scene, there's one final newscast where the newsreaders announce that Snyder has been arrested for receiving sexual favours from underaged co-stars.]]
** In ''2'', Caine is overseeing the development of new versions of nuke, one of which is named Blue Velvet, likely after the song. But just maybe because the chemist working on it is named [[BlueVelvet Frank.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Alpha Commando'', David Sobolov ([[WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}} Tatsurion the Unchained/Bob]], [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Depth Charge]], [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Lobo]], [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Shockwave]]) is RoboCop himself.
* ShoutOut
** When Robo boards a helicopter to get into the blocked-off OCP building in one episode of the TV series, he asks the pilot to "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Take me up, Scotty."]]
** At the end of a an episode of ''Prime Directives'', [=RoboCop=] muses that ''[[TheDarkKnightReturns the world only makes sense when you force it to]]''.
** The original animated series had an unexpected nod to Murphy's death, with a flashback to the very end of the scene, Boddicker's [[BondOneLiner "Fun's over"]] and the final shot to Murphy's head, rendered in animation.

** [[PeterWeller RoboCop in the first two movies]] is [[Film/TheDarkKnightReturns Batman]].

** Dick Jones is [[Series/StargateSG1 Senator Robert Kinsey]], [[{{Freespace}} Admiral Aken Bosch]] ''and'' [[Film/TotalRecall1990 Cohaagen.]] There's just something about Ronny Cox's screen persona that lends itself perfectly to "corrupt high-ranking jackass." He was in fact PlayingAgainstType at the time -- he had normally played morally upright characters up to that point.** OCP in the third movie was ran by [[Film/MenInBlack Zed]] and he answered to OCP's new owner, [[SamuraiJack Aku]]. Oh, and Cain, the drug-addicted (and making) cult leader in the second movie, was [[Film/{{Manhunter}} the original Francis Dolarhyde]].

** Professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper is Tex Jones\Commander Cash in the series.
** And from ''Prime Directives'' Ann Kay is Leslie Hope, aka [[Series/TwentyFour Teri Bauer.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''Alpha Commando'', David Sobolov ([[WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}} Tatsurion the Unchained/Bob]], [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Depth Charge]], [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Lobo]]) is RoboCop himself.