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** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upper hand with his [=RoboCop=] project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
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** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] Dick Jones is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upper hand with his [=RoboCop=] project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: When Robocop is in his first patrol at the convenience store, he prevents the robber's shooting by bending the barrel of the gun. In reality, this would have been impossible because the robber was still holding the gun - to create that amount of stress to make the barrel bend like that, the robber would have needed to be as strong as Robocop. Otherwise, the gun would sooner flip out of the robber's arms rather than bend.
** In the POV scenes when Robocop is being assembled, when the female engineer says "Bring in the LED, lock it down", the tech uses a drill with a drilling bit as opposed to a screw or bolt driving bit. This obviously would not work as the tech would be drilling holes in Robo's head instead of securing on LED.
** When Robocop is first on patrol and he responds to the convenience store robbery, the angle of impact with the suspect is inconsistent with the laws of physics. The suspect, after spending his rounds of ammunition, attempts to run past Murphy's left side, to which Murphy reacts by spinning around and clotheslining the suspect from the front, which would instantly send him to the ground. Yet, in the next shot, the suspect flies face first into the beer cooler several feet away. In order for this to have occurred, Murphy would have had to spin around and strike the suspect from behind, not from front.
** The grenade use by Clarence to kill Bob Morton is a concussion style grenade, and not a fragmentation (anti-personnel) type, neither of which is capable of producing the type of explosion that obliterated Morton's home. In order to achieve the orange and black smoke as shown, gasoline would have to be involved.
** In the POV scenes when Robocop is being assembled, when the female engineer says "Bring in the LED, lock it down", the tech uses a drill with a drilling bit as opposed to a screw or bolt driving bit. This obviously would not work as the tech would be drilling holes in Robo's head instead of securing on LED.
** When Robocop is first on patrol and he responds to the convenience store robbery, the angle of impact with the suspect is inconsistent with the laws of physics. The suspect, after spending his rounds of ammunition, attempts to run past Murphy's left side, to which Murphy reacts by spinning around and clotheslining the suspect from the front, which would instantly send him to the ground. Yet, in the next shot, the suspect flies face first into the beer cooler several feet away. In order for this to have occurred, Murphy would have had to spin around and strike the suspect from behind, not from front.
** The grenade use by Clarence to kill Bob Morton is a concussion style grenade, and not a fragmentation (anti-personnel) type, neither of which is capable of producing the type of explosion that obliterated Morton's home. In order to achieve the orange and black smoke as shown, gasoline would have to be involved.
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** Although arguably [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Do Not Like This Cool Thing]] is at least partly in effect, since the ultraviolence is often depicted in an over-the-top and somewhat campy manner (as mentioned above, the famous ED-209 scene often mentioned was deliberately intended to be so ludicrously violent that the audience would end up [[RefugeInAudacity laughing at how over the top it was) and when Robocop starts taking down the borderline-{{Complete Monster}}s he's facing throughout the movie with similar gratuitous violence it's hard not to find it triumphant on some level.
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** Although arguably [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Do Not Like This Cool Thing]] is at least partly in effect, since the ultraviolence is often depicted in an over-the-top and somewhat campy manner (as mentioned above, the famous ED-209 scene often mentioned was deliberately intended to be so ludicrously violent that the audience would end up [[RefugeInAudacity laughing at how over the top over-the-top it was) was]]) and when Robocop starts taking down the borderline-{{Complete Monster}}s he's facing throughout the movie with similar gratuitous violence it's hard not to find it triumphant on some level.
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** Although arguably [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing Do Not Like This Cool Thing]] is at least partly in effect, since the ultraviolence is often depicted in an over-the-top and somewhat campy manner (as mentioned above, the famous ED-209 scene often mentioned was deliberately intended to be so ludicrously violent that the audience would end up [[RefugeInAudacity laughing at how over the top it was) and when Robocop starts taking down the borderline-{{Complete Monster}}s he's facing throughout the movie with similar gratuitous violence it's hard not to find it triumphant on some level.
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** And in the end, once Murphy reveals spoiler:Jones' corruption, [[VillainousBreakdown he immediately pulls out a pistol and holds it to his boss' head]]. Directive Four explicitly prevents him from harming [[ExactWords OCP executives]], and it doesn't occur to him that he could get fired for holding his boss hostage, which makes the old man telling him he's fired all the more sweeter.
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** And in the end, once Murphy reveals spoiler:Jones' Jones' corruption, [[VillainousBreakdown he immediately pulls out a pistol and holds it to his boss' head]]. Directive Four explicitly prevents him from harming [[ExactWords OCP executives]], and it doesn't occur to him that he could get fired for holding his boss hostage, which makes the old man telling him he's fired all the more sweeter.
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** And in the end, once Murphy reveals [[spoiler:Jones']] corruption, [[VillainousBreakdown he immediately pulls out a pistol and holds it to his boss' head]]. Directive Four explicitly prevents him from harming [[ExactWords OCP executives]], and it doesn't occur to him that he could get fired for holding his boss hostage, which makes the old man telling him he's fired all the more sweeter.
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** And in the end, once Murphy reveals [[spoiler:Jones']] spoiler:Jones' corruption, [[VillainousBreakdown he immediately pulls out a pistol and holds it to his boss' head]]. Directive Four explicitly prevents him from harming [[ExactWords OCP executives]], and it doesn't occur to him that he could get fired for holding his boss hostage, which makes the old man telling him he's fired all the more sweeter.
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* MisaimedFandom: A sizable portion of the film's fans love the film for its gratuitous ultraviolence. Said film is brutal satire attacking (particularly American) media for glorifying and commercialising violence while ''actual people'' living in ''actual cities'' are struggling with ''actual violence'', and implies that the only people who can stomach such violence are insane and sadistic criminals, and those scarred physically and emotionally by violence.
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* MisaimedFandom: A sizable portion of the film's fans love the film for its gratuitous ultraviolence. Said film is brutal satire attacking (particularly American) media for glorifying and commercialising violence while ''actual people'' living in ''actual cities'' are struggling with ''actual violence'', and implies that the only people who can stomach such violence are insane and sadistic criminals, and those so scarred physically and emotionally by violence.violence that they've lost their humanity.
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* MisaimedFandom: A sizable portion of the film's fans love the film for its gratuitous ultraviolence. When the film is brutal satire attacking the commercialisation and glorification of the violence in (particularly American) media when actual people living in actual cities are struggling with actual violence, and implies that the only people who can really handle such violence are the insane criminal perpetrators who enjoy it, and someone crippled both physically and emotionally ''by'' violence.
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* MisaimedFandom: A sizable portion of the film's fans love the film for its gratuitous ultraviolence. When the Said film is brutal satire attacking the commercialisation and glorification of the violence in (particularly American) media when actual people for glorifying and commercialising violence while ''actual people'' living in actual cities ''actual cities'' are struggling with actual violence, ''actual violence'', and implies that the only people who can really handle stomach such violence are the insane criminal perpetrators who enjoy it, and someone crippled both sadistic criminals, and those scarred physically and emotionally ''by'' by violence.
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* GenreTurningPoint: Just a few months after ''Film/{{Superman}} VI: The Quest For Peace'' became an embarrassing flop that threaten to make SuperHero films feel like a nothing genre, this hit film with its thrilling action, cutting satire and moving human drama gave the genre newfound dramatic credibility.
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* GenreTurningPoint: Just a few months after ''Film/{{Superman}} VI: IV: The Quest For Peace'' became an embarrassing flop that threaten to make SuperHero films feel like a nothing genre, this hit film with its thrilling action, cutting satire and moving human drama gave the genre newfound dramatic credibility.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The line "I'd buy that for a dollar!" is derived from a sarcastic put-down from 1951 short story ''The Marching Morons'': "Would you buy it for a quarter?".
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*** To add to it, the novelization makes clear that [[spoiler: Jones]] ''meant'' for ED-209 to kill Kinney. And at least in the script, MacNamara realizes why ED-209 failed to realize that Kinney had stood down--it didn't ''hear'' the gun drop, because it landed in deep carpet. One gets the feeling that's ''precisely'' the landing place [[spoiler: Jones]] expected.
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** Clarence Boddicker is an insane, short-tempered, raging psychopath that kills a lot of hard-working police officers (and innocent civilians) simply ForTheEvulz. During the chase scene, when Bobby (one of his goons) gets shot in the leg by Murphy, Clarence just orders his others goons to throw Bobby on the hood of Murphy's car. His true KickTheDog moment is the horrible murder of Murphy at his hands and those of his goons.
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** Clarence Boddicker is an insane, short-tempered, raging psychopath that kills a lot of hard-working police officers (and innocent civilians) simply ForTheEvulz. During the getaway chase scene, following what appears to be a bank robbery gone wrong, when Bobby (one of his goons) gets shot in the Murphy shoots up Bobby's leg by Murphy, with a pistol, Clarence just orders his others goons to throw Bobby on the hood of Murphy's car.car as dead weight. His true KickTheDog moment is the horrible murder of Murphy at his hands and those of his goons.
** The 6000 SUX, "An American Tradition!" (note: 8.2 mpg gas mileage) became so thanks to the Hummer H-class series of gas-guzzling [=SUV=]s hitting the road in the 2000s.
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***"You now have fifteen seconds to comply. You are in direct violation of Material Code 113, Section 9."
***"You now have five seconds to comply. Four, three, two, one. I am now authorized to use physical force. ''*[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG]]*''
***"Somebody want to call a goddamn paramedic?!"
***"You now have five seconds to comply. Four, three, two, one. I am now authorized to use physical force. ''*[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG]]*''
***"Somebody want to call a goddamn paramedic?!"
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** ''[=RoboCop=]'': Boddicker's henchman Emil [[spoiler:gets dunked in toxic waste, causing him to melt. And then he gets hit by a car, and explodes into LudicrousGibs. His head slides gracefully along the top of the car, and a substance like dirty water emerges from his exploded body to coat the windshield.]]
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** ''[=RoboCop=]'': Boddicker's henchman Emil [[spoiler:gets dunked in toxic waste, causing him to melt. And then he gets hit by a car, and explodes into LudicrousGibs. His head slides gracefully along the top of the car, and a substance like dirty water emerges from his exploded body to coat the windshield.]]
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* {{Narm}}: "It's turning into a war zone!"
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* Flanderization: The Old Man of OCP is, in this film, something of an occasionally [[CloudCuckooLander eccentric]] CEO of the company who reacts to the butchering of one of his employees with a ''"I'm '''very''' disappointed."'' but is otherwise presented as a if not benevolent then decent enough individual who wants to make Detriot better and plans to do so by not only redeveloping Old Detriot into Delta City, but also funding public services and the like. He's not good, but he's certainly not ''evil''. The next films have him as an outright CorruptCorporateExecutive who is complacent in the butchering of several police officers for the Robocop 2 project, and who throws one of his employees under a bus at the first sign of trouble, and he only gets worse from there.
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* SpiritualLicensee: Many argue that ''Robocop'' was a film adaptation of ''JudgeDredd''. Many of the themes are quite similar, particularly the use of BlackComedy.
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* MagnumOpus: Widely considered to be director Paul Verhoeven's best film.
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* Flanderization: The Old Man of OCP is, in this film, something of an occasionally [[CloudCuckooLander eccentric]] CEO of the company who reacts to the butchering of one of his employees with a ''"I'm '''very''' disappointed."'' but is otherwise presented as a if not benevolent then decent enough individual who wants to make Detriot better and plans to do so by not only redeveloping Old Detriot into Delta City, but also funding public services and the like. He's not good, but he's certainly not ''evil''. The next films have him as an outright CorruptCorporateExecutive who is complacent in the butchering of several police officers for the Robocop 2 project, and who throws one of his employees under a bus at the first sign of trouble, and he only gets worse from there.
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Flanderization: The Old Man of OCP is, in this film, something of an occasionally [[CloudCuckooLander eccentric]] CEO of the company who reacts to the butchering of one of his employees with a ''"I'm '''very''' disappointed."'' but is otherwise presented as a if not benevolent then decent enough individual who wants to make Detriot better and plans to do so by not only redeveloping Old Detriot into Delta City, but also funding public services and the like. He's not good, but he's certainly not ''evil''. The next films have him as an outright CorruptCorporateExecutive who is complacent in the butchering of several police officers for the Robocop 2 project, and who throws one of his employees under a bus at the first sign of trouble, and he only gets worse from there.
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** "You're dead, we "I know you. You're dead. We killed you. We killed you!"
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** ''[=RoboCop=]'': Boddicker's henchman Emil [[spoiler:gets dunked in toxic waste, causing him to melt. And then he gets hit by a car, and explodes into LudicrousGibs. His head slides gracefully along the top of the car, and a substance like dirty water emerges from his exploded body to coat the windshield.]]
** Murphy's death. Made more so by the fact that the gang members taunt him viciously as they're turning him into hamburger. "Give the man a hand!" "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?" Watching the trauma team at Henry Ford try to resuscitate the poor guy is every bit as painful. It's one of the more realistic trauma code scenes committed to Hollywood film. The trauma team were played by real paramedics. Yes, they [[ShownTheirWork did the research.]]
** Murphy's death. Made more so by the fact that the gang members taunt him viciously as they're turning him into hamburger. "Give the man a hand!" "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?" Watching the trauma team at Henry Ford try to resuscitate the poor guy is every bit as painful. It's one of the more realistic trauma code scenes committed to Hollywood film. The trauma team were played by real paramedics. Yes, they [[ShownTheirWork did the research.]]
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** Murphy's death. Made more so by the fact that the gang members taunt him viciously as they're turning him into hamburger. "Give the man a hand!" "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?" Also, at one point you see [[AnArmAndALeg his entire right arm get blown off.]]
** Watching the trauma team at Henry Ford try to resuscitate the poor guy is every bit as painful. It's one of the more realistic trauma code scenes committed to Hollywood film. The trauma team were played by real paramedics. Yes, they [[ShownTheirWork did the research.]]
** Murphy's death. Made more so by the fact that the gang members taunt him viciously as they're turning him into hamburger. "Give the man a hand!" "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?" Also, at one point you see [[AnArmAndALeg his entire right arm get blown off.]]
** Watching the trauma team at Henry Ford try to resuscitate the poor guy is every bit as painful. It's one of the more realistic trauma code scenes committed to Hollywood film. The trauma team were played by real paramedics. Yes, they [[ShownTheirWork did the research.]]
** The scene as planned by Paul Verhoeven was ''even gorier'' than in the director's cut. In particular, it was going to show the back of Murphy's skull blown apart by Boddicker's ''coup de grâce'' (that would foreshadow the back of his skull being replaced with metal in the scene where he takes his helmet off).
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** Boddicker sees no problem with [=RoboCop=] knowing about his alliance with Jones, feeling the confession can't be proven since they were alone at the time and he was being beaten. Jones doesn't quite see it that way: "He's a cyborg, you idiot! He recorded every word you said, his memories are admissible as evidence!" Which becomes ironic when Jones just simply shouts [[JustBetweenYouAndMe proclaims he had to kill Bob Morton Morton]] for making a mistake and how he wants now he's going to kill [[DeadlyEuphemism erase that mistake, mistake]], [[TooDumbToLive even when he knows Robo is capable of recording.recording him.]]
*** Boddicker said that because he was afraid for his life, and justifies it to Dick Jones that way. (And it works: Robo does stop his [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge beatdown]] once Boddicker says "You're a ... cop" and he remembers his third directive.)
*** On the other hand, Dick Jones was just indulging in some EvilGloating, figuring there was no way Robo would survive being attacked by ED-209. Too bad OCP themselves built Robo to be nearly invincible, whereas for ED-209 they cut corners and just didn't care.
*** Boddicker said that because he was afraid for his life, and justifies it to Dick Jones that way. (And it works: Robo does stop his [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge beatdown]] once Boddicker says "You're a ... cop" and he remembers his third directive.)
*** On the other hand, Dick Jones was just indulging in some EvilGloating, figuring there was no way Robo would survive being attacked by ED-209. Too bad OCP themselves built Robo to be nearly invincible, whereas for ED-209 they cut corners and just didn't care.
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** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upperhand with his [=RoboCop=] project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
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** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upperhand upper hand with his [=RoboCop=] project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
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** In the first film some shots of [=RoboCop=]'s handheld locating device show painfully clearly how the prop just has a painted-on small map with an embedded red LED. The scenes where it's actually put to use shows a close-up with proper animations, though.
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** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upperhand with his RoboCop [=RoboCop=] project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
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* FridgeBrilliance: From a corporate stand-point, Dick Jones' "guaranteed military sales, 25 years of spare parts, renovation programs" plan for the ED-209 turns out to be much more solid than Bob Morton's: Robocop is ''not'' cost effective, he's irreplaceable, and needs millions of dollars of maintenance every year. Meanwhile ED-209, while not very good at police duty, did turn out to be a capable (and easily manufactured) sentry bot and widely employed as security/military drones. Even its toys are very popular and sought-after in the real world!
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** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] in the same movie is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upperhand with his RoboCop project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
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* CompleteMonster
** Clarence Boddicker is an insane, short-tempered, raging psychopath that kills a lot of hard-working police officers (and innocent civilians) simply ForTheEvulz. During the chase scene, when Bobby (one of his goons) gets shot in the leg by Murphy, Clarence just orders his others goons to throw Bobby on the hood of Murphy's car. His true KickTheDog moment is the horrible murder of Murphy at his hands and those of his goons.
** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] in the same movie is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upperhand with his RoboCop project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
*** That said, he would probably have Boddicker (and his gang as well) [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed when he wouldn't need them anymore.]]
* CrossesTheLineTwice: The scene near the beginning with the demonstration of the ED-209 in the Director's Cut. In the theatrical version, it merely just shoots the executive for a second or two to kill him in a perfunctory manner. In the uncut version, it unloads [[Main/MoreDakka hundreds of bullets]] into him with gallons of HighPressureBlood spraying everywhere as the engineers try to disable the robot. This goes on for about 15 seconds, long after any human being could survive with ED-209 just chewing up the corpse. To top it off, some random guy says "Should we call a medic?" after ED's done turning the guy into paste. The original intent of the film was to make it so [[RefugeInAudacity outrageously violent]] you couldn't take it seriously. The [[ExecutiveMeddling studio cut forced out]] much of the violence so that some scenes ended up a bit more depressing than others.
* FridgeBrilliance: From a corporate stand-point, Dick Jones' "guaranteed military sales, 25 years of spare parts, renovation programs" plan for the ED-209 turns out to be much more solid than Bob Morton's: Robocop is ''not'' cost effective, he's irreplaceable, and needs millions of dollars of maintenance every year. Meanwhile ED-209, while not very good at police duty, did turn out to be a capable (and easily manufactured) sentry bot and widely employed as security/military drones. Even its toys are very popular and sought-after in the real world!
* HilariousInHindsight: "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Oh my God, ED-209 killed Kinney!]]"
** The line "Bitches, leave!" is more amusing after hearing the line "Bitches, come!" in ''Film/XXx''.
* MemeticMutation: "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
** "You're dead, we killed you!"
** "Dead or alive, you're coming with me."
** "Please put down your weapon, you have 20 seconds to comply."
** "Bitches leave."
** "Your move, creep."
* MisaimedFandom: A sizable portion of the film's fans love the film for its gratuitous ultraviolence. When the film is brutal satire attacking the commercialisation and glorification of the violence in (particularly American) media when actual people living in actual cities are struggling with actual violence, and implies that the only people who can really handle such violence are the insane criminal perpetrators who enjoy it, and someone crippled both physically and emotionally ''by'' violence.
* {{Narm}}: "It's turning into a war zone!"
* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the first film some shots of [=RoboCop=]'s handheld locating device show painfully clearly how the prop just has a painted-on small map with an embedded red LED. The scenes where it's actually put to use shows a close-up with proper animations, though.
** When Dick Jones falls to his death in the first film, he's an obvious claymation puppet.
* {{Squick}}
** ''[=RoboCop=]'': Boddicker's henchman Emil [[spoiler:gets dunked in toxic waste, causing him to melt. And then he gets hit by a car, and explodes into LudicrousGibs. His head slides gracefully along the top of the car, and a substance like dirty water emerges from his exploded body to coat the windshield.]]
** Murphy's death. Made more so by the fact that the gang members taunt him viciously as they're turning him into hamburger. "Give the man a hand!" "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?" Watching the trauma team at Henry Ford try to resuscitate the poor guy is every bit as painful. It's one of the more realistic trauma code scenes committed to Hollywood film. The trauma team were played by real paramedics. Yes, they [[ShownTheirWork did the research.]]
*** Of course that just makes it all the more satisfying when Robocop catches up tot he bad guys and kills them with extreme prejudice.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** What was Dick Jones thinking to demonstrate a robot (ED-209) that clearly if fully armed in a public office?
** And in the end, once Murphy reveals [[spoiler:Jones']] corruption, [[VillainousBreakdown he immediately pulls out a pistol and holds it to his boss' head]]. Directive Four explicitly prevents him from harming [[ExactWords OCP executives]], and it doesn't occur to him that he could get fired for holding his boss hostage, which makes the old man telling him he's fired all the more sweeter.
** Boddicker sees no problem with [=RoboCop=] knowing about his alliance with Jones, feeling the confession can't be proven since they were alone at the time and he was being beaten. Jones doesn't quite see it that way: "He's a cyborg, you idiot! He recorded every word you said, his memories are admissible as evidence!" Which becomes ironic when Jones just simply shouts he had to kill Bob Morton for making a mistake and how he wants to kill that mistake, [[TooDumbToLive even when he knows Robo is capable of recording.]]
** Clarence Boddicker is an insane, short-tempered, raging psychopath that kills a lot of hard-working police officers (and innocent civilians) simply ForTheEvulz. During the chase scene, when Bobby (one of his goons) gets shot in the leg by Murphy, Clarence just orders his others goons to throw Bobby on the hood of Murphy's car. His true KickTheDog moment is the horrible murder of Murphy at his hands and those of his goons.
** [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] in the same movie is arguably worse than Boddicker, not only is he a CorruptCorporateExecutive (one of the most well known examples), but it's revealed that Clarence Boddicker is working for him from the very beginning, ordering him to kill plenty of good-working/innocent cops so that Jones could make money with his failed ED-209. Speaking of ED-209, Jones doesn't care one bit when it malfunctions and blows holes in an InnocentBystander ("Who cares it worked or not?). And when, due to the failing of ED-209, Bob Morton gets the upperhand with his RoboCop project, he has him murdered. While Boddicker has some PetTheDog moments, this guy lacks empathy.
*** That said, he would probably have Boddicker (and his gang as well) [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed when he wouldn't need them anymore.]]
* CrossesTheLineTwice: The scene near the beginning with the demonstration of the ED-209 in the Director's Cut. In the theatrical version, it merely just shoots the executive for a second or two to kill him in a perfunctory manner. In the uncut version, it unloads [[Main/MoreDakka hundreds of bullets]] into him with gallons of HighPressureBlood spraying everywhere as the engineers try to disable the robot. This goes on for about 15 seconds, long after any human being could survive with ED-209 just chewing up the corpse. To top it off, some random guy says "Should we call a medic?" after ED's done turning the guy into paste. The original intent of the film was to make it so [[RefugeInAudacity outrageously violent]] you couldn't take it seriously. The [[ExecutiveMeddling studio cut forced out]] much of the violence so that some scenes ended up a bit more depressing than others.
* FridgeBrilliance: From a corporate stand-point, Dick Jones' "guaranteed military sales, 25 years of spare parts, renovation programs" plan for the ED-209 turns out to be much more solid than Bob Morton's: Robocop is ''not'' cost effective, he's irreplaceable, and needs millions of dollars of maintenance every year. Meanwhile ED-209, while not very good at police duty, did turn out to be a capable (and easily manufactured) sentry bot and widely employed as security/military drones. Even its toys are very popular and sought-after in the real world!
* HilariousInHindsight: "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Oh my God, ED-209 killed Kinney!]]"
** The line "Bitches, leave!" is more amusing after hearing the line "Bitches, come!" in ''Film/XXx''.
* MemeticMutation: "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
** "You're dead, we killed you!"
** "Dead or alive, you're coming with me."
** "Please put down your weapon, you have 20 seconds to comply."
** "Bitches leave."
** "Your move, creep."
* MisaimedFandom: A sizable portion of the film's fans love the film for its gratuitous ultraviolence. When the film is brutal satire attacking the commercialisation and glorification of the violence in (particularly American) media when actual people living in actual cities are struggling with actual violence, and implies that the only people who can really handle such violence are the insane criminal perpetrators who enjoy it, and someone crippled both physically and emotionally ''by'' violence.
* {{Narm}}: "It's turning into a war zone!"
* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the first film some shots of [=RoboCop=]'s handheld locating device show painfully clearly how the prop just has a painted-on small map with an embedded red LED. The scenes where it's actually put to use shows a close-up with proper animations, though.
** When Dick Jones falls to his death in the first film, he's an obvious claymation puppet.
* {{Squick}}
** ''[=RoboCop=]'': Boddicker's henchman Emil [[spoiler:gets dunked in toxic waste, causing him to melt. And then he gets hit by a car, and explodes into LudicrousGibs. His head slides gracefully along the top of the car, and a substance like dirty water emerges from his exploded body to coat the windshield.]]
** Murphy's death. Made more so by the fact that the gang members taunt him viciously as they're turning him into hamburger. "Give the man a hand!" "Does it hurt? Does it hurt?" Watching the trauma team at Henry Ford try to resuscitate the poor guy is every bit as painful. It's one of the more realistic trauma code scenes committed to Hollywood film. The trauma team were played by real paramedics. Yes, they [[ShownTheirWork did the research.]]
*** Of course that just makes it all the more satisfying when Robocop catches up tot he bad guys and kills them with extreme prejudice.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** What was Dick Jones thinking to demonstrate a robot (ED-209) that clearly if fully armed in a public office?
** And in the end, once Murphy reveals [[spoiler:Jones']] corruption, [[VillainousBreakdown he immediately pulls out a pistol and holds it to his boss' head]]. Directive Four explicitly prevents him from harming [[ExactWords OCP executives]], and it doesn't occur to him that he could get fired for holding his boss hostage, which makes the old man telling him he's fired all the more sweeter.
** Boddicker sees no problem with [=RoboCop=] knowing about his alliance with Jones, feeling the confession can't be proven since they were alone at the time and he was being beaten. Jones doesn't quite see it that way: "He's a cyborg, you idiot! He recorded every word you said, his memories are admissible as evidence!" Which becomes ironic when Jones just simply shouts he had to kill Bob Morton for making a mistake and how he wants to kill that mistake, [[TooDumbToLive even when he knows Robo is capable of recording.]]
