| 1 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 2 | |
| 3 | !!Omni Consumer Products |
| 4 | |
| 5 | [[folder:In general]] |
| 6 | [[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ocp.png]] |
| 7 | [[caption-width-right:275:''"I say good business is where you find it."'']] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | The BigBad of the franchise and a powerful {{Megacorp}} that dabbles in everything. |
| 10 | ---- |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Anybody who works for OCP is a ruthless scumbag, especially if they are an executive. |
| 13 | * 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. |
| 14 | * EvilInc: OCP is a cutthroat, heartless corporation that will use any cutthroat method it can, especially if it involves cutting corners. |
| 15 | * 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''.]] |
| 16 | * 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. |
| 17 | * 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. |
| 18 | * MegaCorp: They have divisions in all kinds of diverse fields, such as consumer products, healthcare, prisons, space exploration, law enforcement and military grade weaponry. |
| 19 | * 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.]] |
| 20 | * 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"). |
| 21 | * PuttingOnTheReich: Particularly in Robocop 2, OCP is rife with Nazi imagery. Their flag seen in the conference hall when Robocop 2 is unveiled is red with a white circle in the middle with their logo in black in the circle. Their security guards uniforms are modelled after SS uniforms. Then there's the Delta city thing which echoes Hitler's plans to have Berlin destroyed and rebuilt into a concrete city "Welthauptstadt Germania" if he won the war. |
| 22 | * VisionaryVillain: Their plan to transform Detroit into the privately owned Delta City. |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:The Old Man]] |
| 26 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oldman_8.jpg]] |
| 27 | [[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."'']] |
| 28 | [-Played by Creator/DanOHerlihy-] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Head of OCP in the first two movies. |
| 31 | ---- |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Regardless of how he goes out in ''Rogue City'', [=RoboCop=] seems to be genuinely saddened at his death.]] |
| 34 | * AntiVillain: Of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned]] variety. The Old Man is involved in a lot of shady activities and he's a CorruptCorporateExecutive without a doubt, but he's genuinely trying to improve Detroit and he's nowhere near as ruthless as most of the other villains. |
| 35 | * 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. |
| 36 | * 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]]. |
| 37 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: |
| 38 | ** 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. |
| 39 | ** ''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.]] |
| 40 | * 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. |
| 41 | * 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]] |
| 42 | * 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. |
| 43 | * 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]].]] |
| 44 | * LackOfEmpathy: At the end of the second film, he leaves the building by stepping over the corpse of a bystander killed by Cain. |
| 45 | * LargeHam: He's VERY LOUD and EXPRESSIVE sometimes: |
| 46 | -->"[[SuddenlyShouting YOU CALL THIS]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards A GLITCH!]]"\ |
| 47 | "DICK ... YOU'RE FIRED!"\ |
| 48 | "BEHAVE YOURSELVES!" |
| 49 | * 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 genuine admiration for Murphy, who keeps going despite everything he's suffered. |
| 50 | * OffscreenKarma: Before ''Rogue City'' came out thirty years later to supply a potential version of what happened, the only mention of the Old Man in ''Robocop 3'' is Johnson cryptically mentioning that he is no longer in charge of OCP because "everyone's expendable" to the company. |
| 51 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: No one ever calls him anything other than "The Old Man." |
| 52 | * 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. |
| 53 | * 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. |
| 54 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:In ''Rogue City'', should [=RoboCop=] choose to save him, he pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Murphy from falling debris.]] |
| 55 | * SkewedPriorities: |
| 56 | ** 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. |
| 57 | ** 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. |
| 58 | * SmugSnake: A pretty amiable one, but one nonetheless. Standard OCP board behavior, really. |
| 59 | * 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. |
| 60 | * 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. |
| 61 | * VillainousValor: In the first film he's the only OCP executive not to panic when ED-209 starts to malfunction, and is able to keep his cool when taken hostage by Dick Jones. In the second film, when [=RoboCop=] 2 goes on its inevitable rampage during its public unveiling, the Old Man doesn't cower or freak. 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. |
| 62 | * 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. |
| 63 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Delivers a completely exhausted and weary {{Facepalm}} when he sees the [[BodyHorror horrifying results of the RoboCop 2 prototypes]], mostly out of sheer [[SeenItAll pragmatism]] of how his people keep completely and utterly fucking it up at the very seams rather than out of genuine concern or worry about the two researchers that got shot, or the test subjects ''[[DrivenToSuicide killing themselves at the first opportunity]]''. Johnson shares the sentiment despite having been at ground zero of one of the incidents and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere narrowly avoiding death himself]]. |
| 64 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: |
| 65 | ** Does this to [[spoiler:Dick Jones]] when he tries to take him hostage. |
| 66 | ** Johnson implies this happened to him between the second and third films. ''VideoGame/RoboCopRogueCity'' details the Old Man's fall from grace. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:The CEO]] |
| 70 | [-Played by Creator/RipTorn-] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | The New head of OCP who is in-charge of the company in ''Film/RoboCop3'' |
| 73 | ---- |
| 74 | |
| 75 | * AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation of ''[=RoboCop=] 3'' states that he's Bob Morton's father. |
| 76 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With Paul [=McDaggett=] for ''[=RoboCop=] 3'', though he's clearly the lesser evil. |
| 77 | * BigBadWannabe: Quite possibly the most incompetent villain in the series. |
| 78 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Per the course for the higher-ups of OCP. |
| 79 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Draws the line at killing police officers who were standing up for the rebels. |
| 80 | * 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. |
| 81 | * 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. |
| 82 | * {{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. |
| 83 | * 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''. |
| 84 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: The comic reveals he's the father of Bob Morton, who died in the first film. |
| 85 | * PuppetKing: He may be technically in charge at OCP, but Kanemitsu is giving him his orders. |
| 86 | * 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. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Holzgang]] |
| 90 | [-Played by Jeff [=McCarthy=]-] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | A lawyer for OCP. Appears in ''Film/RoboCop2''. |
| 93 | ---- |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Dr. Weltman]] |
| 97 | [-Played by James [=McQueen=]-] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | A doctor in the OCP Medical Facility. Dr. Juliette Faxx notified him that Cain expired, moments before shutting off Cain's life support. |
| 100 | ---- |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | !!! Security Concepts |
| 104 | The department of OCP responsible for the police cyborg program and the creation of products like [=RoboCop=], ED-209, [=RoboCop=] 2, [[spoiler: and the [=UEDs=].]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Richard "Dick" Jones]] |
| 107 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dick_jones.jpg]] |
| 108 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake."'']] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [-Played by Creator/RonnyCox-] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | The main antagonist of the first movie, next to Clarence. He is the corrupt Senior President of OCP, answering only to the Old Man, and he oversees Security Concepts. |
| 113 | ---- |
| 114 | |
| 115 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With Boddicker, being the NonActionBigBad who supplies Boddicker with his equipment and money. |
| 116 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Keeps up an air of politeness when doing business, but whenever the chips are down he shows his true colors. |
| 117 | * 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. |
| 118 | * 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!'' |
| 119 | -->'''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!?'' |
| 120 | * CuttingCorners: What was done with the design checking of his Enforcement Droid series just so he could rush out a personal win with the Old Man. |
| 121 | * DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler: His attempt to rebel against the Old Man ends up going ... out the window.]] |
| 122 | * 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. |
| 123 | * DidYouActuallyBelieve: Gives this speech to [=RoboCop=] when he comes to arrest him |
| 124 | -->'''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?" |
| 125 | * 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. |
| 126 | * 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]]. |
| 127 | -->'''Old Man''': [[SuddenlyShouting You call]] ''[[SuddenlyShouting this]]'' [[SuddenlyShouting a glitch?!]] |
| 128 | * 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. |
| 129 | * 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.]] |
| 130 | * 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. |
| 131 | * EvilIsHammy: "It's best if you think of it as a game... I'm ''cashing you out,'' Bob!" |
| 132 | * 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.]] |
| 133 | * 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. |
| 134 | * 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. |
| 135 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 136 | ** He tells Bob after hearing the hotshot insult him, that he's made jabs at his bosses too. But unlike Morton, Dick always respected them. In the final scene when he's outed as the BigBad, he takes the Old Man hostage. |
| 137 | ** He chews out Boddicker for implicating him in his gangs 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. |
| 138 | ** 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. |
| 139 | ** 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 the former ruined his plans for 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, using Detroit Police to gun down one of their own and even taking the Old Man hostage as things go south. |
| 140 | ** Jones's spiting Robo as a thing and a "violent, mechanical psychopath." comes off as comical to the point of absurdity. Considering he hires out psychotics & murderous scumbags to do his dirty work, while disregarding his own inhumanity after brushing off a junior exec being killed at the start of the movie. |
| 141 | ** At the latest executive board meeting, Jones's lack of tact in speechifying the very concepts one doubts the company where he works at actually stands for. Courage, Strength, Conviction. His being a coward, a lazy weakling and a shallow overconfident moron with no hindsight contradicts such statements. |
| 142 | * {{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.]] |
| 143 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He really doesn't care about providing the company with a reliable product, he only cares about his advancement opportunity. |
| 144 | * LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't care about any people who die as a result of his actions, only for his own advancement. |
| 145 | * 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. |
| 146 | * LethallyStupid: Jones's whole sales slogan and way of running things practically highlights a pointlessly SuicidalOverconfidence in his hairbrained schemes. See too dumb to live below. |
| 147 | * MissingStepsPlan: What his ill thought out money making scam with the faulty ED-209 series mobile walker breaks down to. A poorly thought out GetRichQuickScheme using faulty product for entirely selfish ends, even though he was fully aware just how studded with design flaws said creaking junkpile well & truly was. |
| 148 | * NoIndoorVoice: A common ''[=RoboCop=]'' villain trait. |
| 149 | * 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. |
| 150 | * 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. |
| 151 | * 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]]. |
| 152 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Jones brags that he added Directive Four, which essentially renders OCP execs above the law, into Robo's programming. |
| 153 | * TheSociopath: A classic example: he's [[FauxAffablyEvil charming]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], and completely indifferent to the lives of others. |
| 154 | * 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. |
| 155 | * TooDumbToLive: Oh, On so many levels. |
| 156 | ** Knowing full well how pathetically dilapidated the construction processes that went into manufacturing his Enforcement Droid 209 was, he still thought it was a good idea to bring it into a live board meeting (with no security protocols at all) where any number of things could've gone wrong for the people involved. Which inevitably does. And despite its underwhelming initial performance, Jones insists on rolling out the faulty weapon, convinced that it could contend with the far more successful Robocop initiate. One slip down a flight of stairs and landing on its back with no ability to correct its position quickly proves Jones wrong. |
| 157 | ** Instead of severing ties with Clarence Boddiker the instant he rats on Dick's involvement with the gangs of Detroit (after being pressured by the bionic supercop), he instead doubles down by having his unreliable henchman (in the course of a very public meeting on the premises of OCP headquarters) attempt to destroy the nigh-invulnerable adversary, despite their previous utter lack of success. |
| 158 | ** He builds his entire escape plan at the end on Directive 4 keeping him safe... and then [[spoiler:takes as a hostage ''the one man in the company who can fire him'']]. |
| 159 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: The rest of OCP, including his boss, has no idea about his mob connections and general underhandedness. |
| 160 | * 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. |
| 161 | * VisionaryVillain: His twisted vision of Delta City (New Detroit), a reboot of the town to enable more corporate and [[GangsterLand conventional]] theft. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Donald Johnson]] |
| 165 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/donald_johnson.jpg]] |
| 166 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"He's legally dead. We can do pretty much what we want to him."'']] |
| 167 | [-Played by Creator/FeltonPerry-] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | An executive at OCP that always manages to stick around no matter what happens. |
| 170 | ---- |
| 171 | |
| 172 | * 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. |
| 173 | * BizarreTasteInFood: He takes quite a liking to Robo's nutrient paste. He says it tastes like baby food. |
| 174 | * ComedicSociopathy: He reacts way too happily 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, whom he considered a friend. |
| 175 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He is horrified by the ED-209 screw-up, [[KubrickStare dismayed]] to find that Jones is behind Bob's murder, happy when Jones is killed and is appalled with Faxx's ideas for the [=RoboCop=] 2 project. |
| 176 | * 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. |
| 177 | * 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. |
| 178 | * 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. |
| 179 | * 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. |
| 180 | * PutOnTheBus: Despite appearing in all the films in the trilogy, he doesn’t appear or even get mentioned in Rogue City. |
| 181 | * RankUp: The CEO in the third film mentions that he made him a vice president. |
| 182 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the third film, he bails out of OCP headquarters once things go south. |
| 183 | * 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. |
| 184 | * 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]]. |
| 185 | * VillainousFriendship: With Bob Morton. He's genuinely outraged to learn Dick Jones killed him and happy when [=RoboCop=] avenges him. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Bob Morton]] |
| 189 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miguel_ferrer_robocop_20011.jpg]] |
| 190 | [[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=]."'']] |
| 191 | [-Played by Creator/MiguelFerrer-] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | A young up-and-coming executive at the helm of the '[=RoboCop=]' project. |
| 194 | ---- |
| 195 | |
| 196 | * 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. |
| 197 | * AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation of ''3'' states that the new CEO is, in fact, Bob's dad. |
| 198 | * 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]].]] |
| 199 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He's killed by Boddicker, though his death is more of a AlasPoorVillain moment for him.]] |
| 200 | * BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: How he cements getting put on Dick Jones' bad side. Jones does not appreciate being shown up by one of his subordinates on his own project, and certainly doesn't care to be mocked for it. |
| 201 | * 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. |
| 202 | * CharacterDeath: He dies when [[spoiler:Boddicker uses a hand grenade to blow him and his house up]]. |
| 203 | * 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. |
| 204 | * 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. |
| 205 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 206 | ** 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. |
| 207 | ** When ED-209 kills Kinney, he's seen shielding a female coworker. And he's the one who calls for a paramedic to be called in right away in case Kinney could still be saved. |
| 208 | * EvilIsHammy: Morton is right at home alongside other slimy 80s action villains. |
| 209 | * GreaterScopeParagon: [[spoiler:Following his death, his mostly redeeming legacy lives on through his creation Robo in the sequels.]] |
| 210 | * 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. |
| 211 | * 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]]. |
| 212 | * HookersAndBlow: What he's doing before [[spoiler: Boddicker comes to his house.]] |
| 213 | * 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. |
| 214 | --> '''Morton:''' You are gonna be a bad motherfucker! |
| 215 | * 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. |
| 216 | * 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=]. |
| 217 | * LackOfEmpathy: (After a fellow junior executive gets blown to pieces) "Hey, that's life in the big city." |
| 218 | * LargeHam: NoIndoorVoice aside, Ferrer was clearly having a blast playing Morton and it ''shows''. |
| 219 | -->To the under-construction Robo) "You're gonna be a ''bad'' motherfucker!"\ |
| 220 | (Also regarding his creation) "That's good. That's very good. ''I fuckin' love that guy''!!" |
| 221 | * 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. |
| 222 | * MoralityChain: Even though he's (mostly) just another CorruptCorporateExecutive, due to his somewhat genuine goal of creating a crimefighting cyborg to make sure Old Detroit is safe to walk in the streets again (unlike the first film's sole 100% genuine CorruptCorporateExecutive sociopath Dick Jones), Morton seems to be this to the Old Man (who seems far less corrupt in the first film) and the company OCP (which includes employees like [[OnlySaneMan Johnson]]) in general. This is coupled with his genuine commitment to making an actual high caliber "product", unlike Dick Jones's incompetence and shortcuts. [[spoiler:However, after Morton's death in the first film, in the second film, the Old Man becomes as bad as Dick Jones, and OCP itself becomes just another amoral EvilInc, unlike the first film where the company only had a few crooked chief executives.]] |
| 223 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted; he shares a first name with a minor mook named Bobby, who coincidentally [[spoiler: is also murdered by Clarence Boddicker.]]. |
| 224 | * SmugSnake: "Fuck Jones. He's old, we're young... and that's life." |
| 225 | * 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. |
| 226 | * 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]]. |
| 227 | * UriahGambit: An odd version, as he didn't even know Murphy, let alone had any kind of animosity towards 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 had the crappy luck of being one of many selected by Morton, leading to his demise. |
| 228 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He crosses some very questionable lines but Bob does seem to sincerely believe [=RoboCop=] will improve the city. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Enforcement Droid series 209 (ED-209)]] |
| 232 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/list_2_140_20101210_031619_430_th.jpg]] |
| 233 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I am now authorized to use physical force."'']] |
| 234 | [-Voiced by Creator/JonDavison-] |
| 235 | -->''"Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply."'' |
| 236 | |
| 237 | A battle droid created by Dick Jones. Very much fashion over function when it comes to performance. |
| 238 | ---- |
| 239 | |
| 240 | * AchillesHeel: Never let it go near a staircase. Or a manhole. Or let a child hack into its AI. |
| 241 | * 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). |
| 242 | * AdaptationalBadass: |
| 243 | ** 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. |
| 244 | ** 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. |
| 245 | * 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. |
| 246 | * 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. |
| 247 | * 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. |
| 248 | * BreakoutVillain: ED-209 is possibly the most renowned "villain" in the whole franchise, and is about as iconic as [=RoboCop=] himself. |
| 249 | * TheBrute: It is this to Dick Jones. ED-209 is the first thing that manages to do any kind of damage to [=RoboCop=]. |
| 250 | * ButtMonkey: ED-209 becomes the butt of jokes in the ''[=RoboCop=]'' franchise due to its dumb AI and tendency towards clumsy failures. |
| 251 | * 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=]. |
| 252 | * CharacterCatchPhrase: "You are [[[MadLibsCatchPhrase doing whatever the ED-209 is programmed to consider unlawful]]]. Please [stop doing said thing]/put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply," and once the countdown ends "I am now authorized to use [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill physical force]]." |
| 253 | * 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. |
| 254 | * 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. |
| 255 | * 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 than ''actually work''. |
| 256 | * 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? |
| 257 | * DisproportionateRetribution: One charges Robo with illegal parking, then readies its machine guns. |
| 258 | * 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. |
| 259 | * 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. |
| 260 | * 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. |
| 261 | * 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. |
| 262 | * 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. |
| 263 | * 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. |
| 264 | * 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''. |
| 265 | * MechaMook: One serves as Dick Jones' personal bodyguard. |
| 266 | * 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. |
| 267 | * 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=].]] |
| 268 | * 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. |
| 269 | * StaircaseTumble: It tumbles down a flight of stairs while trying to chase Robo. |
| 270 | * 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. |
| 271 | * 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). |
| 272 | * 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. |
| 273 | * TooDumbToLive: Widely recognized to be one of the ''stupidest'' robots in pop culture, ED-209 has a habit of not thinking about what it's doing, and often destroys itself trying to do something it was very much not designed to. |
| 274 | * 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. |
| 275 | * 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.]] |
| 276 | * 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. |
| 277 | * WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: It's only capable of extreme firepower as a standard response to all threats and lawbreaking, even something as minor as illegal parking. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder: Dr [=McNamara=]]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | An OCP scientist in charge of developing the ED-209 and its upgraded version the ED-260 in the animated series. |
| 283 | |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | * ArchEnemy: In the animated series, he loathes the fact that the Robocop project has siphoned OCP funds away from his ED-260 project and is hell-bent on destroying and humiliating Robocop to force the corporation's leadership to rectify this. |
| 286 | * ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Heaven only knows how big a chain of people are responsible for loading the ED-209 with live ammunition for its DisastrousDemonstration to the Old Man, but he definitely is one of the links. |
| 287 | * AscendedExtra: Appears in one scene in the first film and becomes a recurring character in the animated series. |
| 288 | * BigBadDuumvirate: In the animated series he is not above handing an experimental combat helicopter to Clarence Boddicker[[note]]who [[SparedByTheAdaptation is still alive]][[/note]] to terrorize Detroit and humiliate Robocop. |
| 289 | * CompositeCharacter: Aside from being an AscendedExtra, the animated series give him elements from Dick Jones as the most recurring OCP executive who has an issue with Robocop screwing over his own projects. |
| 290 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: A normal guy in the first film, the animated series gave him ArtificialLimbs and implied artificial eyes. |
| 291 | * MadScientist: The animated series makes him a bit too obsessed with getting the ED-260 into mass production. |
| 292 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: After Robert [=McNamara=], the technocratic Secretary of State during the Vietnam war. |
| 293 | * OhCrap: He is desperately working on the controls trying to make the ED-209 shut down when it malfunctions and continues carrying its command to shoot Kinney after Kinney surrenders, and [[CutTheJuice rips off the power cord feeding ED-209]] [[MultipleGunshotDeath far too late.]] |
| 294 | * SinisterShades: Wears what seems to be pair of high-tech piece-nez (or legless wrap-around) shades in the animated series. [[SunglassesAtNight Constantly.]] |
| 295 | * SunglassesAtNight: He never takes off his SinisterShades in the animated adaptation. It's implied that he has cybernetic eyes. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Mr. Kinney]] |
| 299 | [-Played by Ken Page-] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | A young executive within the Security Concepts division of the OCP. He gets selected for the demonstration of the ED-209’s capabilities, which ends horribly for him. |
| 302 | ---- |
| 303 | |
| 304 | * ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: During the demonstration of ED-209, Kinney proceeds to recklessly point the weapon at Dick Jones, who should be far more outraged than he was. |
| 305 | * LudicrousGibs: The end result of being shot by ED-209. |
| 306 | * MultipleGunshotDeath: Mr. Kinney is completely annihilated on this fashion via the three mounted high-caliber auto-cannons of the ED-209. Made even more gruesome on the extended cut, where the ED-209 keeps on going for about half a minute after he's down and tears a gigantic hole that exposes the ribs on his torso (among other miscellaneous {{Gorn}}). |
| 307 | * OhCrap: Understandably reacts this way when the ED-209 keeps counting down despite him having already dropped the gun for demonstration purposes until it proceeds to use physical force on him. |
| 308 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Kinney's death at the demonstration. Poor guy was more lead than flesh by the time they shut ED-209 down. In the director's cut, ED-209 continually blasts Kenney's lifeless corpse as it lies on the table. |
| 309 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: The first onscreen death of the first film. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Bill Walker]] |
| 313 | [-Played by Rick Lieberman-] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | A senior executive at Omni Consumer Products. |
| 316 | ---- |
| 317 | |
| 318 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At the urinals, he and Bob Morton spoke candidly about Dick Jones. However, after learning Jones was present, Walker hurriedly left the lounge before he had finished relieving himself. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Dr. Tyler]] |
| 322 | [-Played by Sage Parker-] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | A woman who was involved in transforming Alex Murphy into Robocop and considered Chief Technician of the Robocop program. |
| 325 | ---- |
| 326 | |
| 327 | * AscendedExtra: Appears in a few scenes in the first film and becomes a recurring character in the animated series. |
| 328 | * GenderFlip: Sort of, the novelization describes RoboCop seeing an unidentified drunken woman during his development. Although this description matches Dr. Tyler in the film, the novelization later describes Tyler as a "bearded fellow." |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:Dr. Roosevelt]] |
| 332 | [-Played by Stephen Berrier-] |
| 333 | |
| 334 | Another scientist who worked on the Robocop program. |
| 335 | ---- |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Barbara Clegg]] |
| 339 | [-Played by Joan Pirkle-] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | The secretary of Dick Jones. |
| 342 | ---- |
| 343 | |
| 344 | * AdaptationalNameChange: In the novelization of the first film, the character is named Marsha. |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Juliette Faxx]] |
| 348 | [-Played by Creator/BelindaBauer-] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | The OCP psychologist who proposes putting the mind of a criminal into [=RoboCop=] 2. |
| 351 | ---- |
| 352 | |
| 353 | * BreakTheBadass: She inflicts this upon Cain. Once she has Cain 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. |
| 354 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She fills the roles of Bob Morton and Richard Jones and contrasts both of them. While Morton's method of placing Officer Alex Murphy in the line of fire was very sketchy ethically but enabled the heroic [=RoboCop=] I to be made, Faxx blatantly uses a criminal drug lord for her [=RoboCop=] II project and uses his drug addiction to force him to do her bidding, having little care about the true loyalty of the human pilot. Also, while Jones is very proactive about climbing the corporate ladder, doesn't directly help make his flawed but controllable ED-209, and cares more about his robotics than cyborgs, Faxx uses a more subtle approach of SleepingTheirWayToTheTop, and oversees Cain's cyborg conversion with the glee of a MadDoctor. Faxx also ends up becomming TheScapegoat unlike Jones [[spoiler: who died before he could be prosecuted]]. |
| 355 | * 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". |
| 356 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. While she does look on in shock as Cain/RoboCop 2 massacres people in the climax, she seems to be in awe of the deaths she has caused rather than showing any remorse, later stepping over dead bodies with absolute indifference. |
| 357 | * JerkassHasAPoint: The whole franchise demonstrates what she says to the Old Man and Johnson when they wonder why the other Robocop candidates have been DrivenToSuicide: that Alex Murphy is a man with a tremendous amount of HeroicWillpower and a sense of duty stronger than the directives installed in him, and is a SuperPrototype as a result. |
| 358 | * 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. |
| 359 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Dr. Faxx is like a Cyberpunk adaptation of UsefulNotes/JosefMengele to go with [=OCP=] PuttingOnTheReich in ''[=RoboCop=] 2''. She conducts unethical medical experiments with a sense of intrigue and no sign of remorse, savoring the prospect of implanting Cain's brain into a ludicrously armed cyborg. Even Cain is horrified when she calls to "inform" that Cain has died before shutting off his life support with gleeful joy. |
| 360 | * 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. |
| 361 | * 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 if any good as by ''Film/Robocop3'', OCP has to be bought out to be saved from bankruptcy. |
| 362 | * SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Implied to be doing this with the Old Man. |
| 363 | * 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]]. |
| 364 | * 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. |
| 365 | * VillainousLegacy: Her take on [=RoboCop II=] wouldn't be forgotten, and is part of the story in ''VideoGame/RoboCopRogueCity''. |
| 366 | [[/folder]] |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[folder:RoboCop Technician/Linda Garcia]] |
| 369 | [-Played by Creator/PatriciaCharbonneau-] |
| 370 | |
| 371 | A technician at the police station who's in charge of doing maintenance on [=RoboCop=]. |
| 372 | ---- |
| 373 | |
| 374 | * AllThereInTheManual: The novelization reveals her first name as "Linda." |
| 375 | * AmbiguousSituation: Most technicians in this role are OCP employees. However, she often speaks of OCP with contempt. |
| 376 | * 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." |
| 377 | * ItCanThink: She insists that Murphy is a conscious, suffering human being, not the unthinking machine OCP insists he is. |
| 378 | * 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. |
| 379 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Doctor Tyler from ''{{Film/RoboCop1987}}''. |
| 380 | [[/folder]] |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[folder:Tak Akita]] |
| 383 | [-Played by Tzi Ma-] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | A technician who assisted Linda Garcia in maintaining [=RoboCop=]. |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Dr. Schenk]] |
| 390 | [-Played by John Doolittle-] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | The OCP scientist that designed the robot body and inner mechanics of the [=RoboCop=] 2 . |
| 393 | ---- |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder: Dr. Marie Lazarus]] |
| 397 | [-Played by Jill Hennessey-] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | An OCP scientist who helped create [=RoboCop=]. She gets fired for refusing to erase Murphy's emotions and joins the Rebellion. |
| 400 | ---- |
| 401 | |
| 402 | * MadScientist: A benevolent one that specializes in robotics and cybernetics like [=RoboCop=]. |
| 403 | * MeaningfulName: She helped bring Murphy back to life, and her name is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Lazarus Lazarus]] |
| 404 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Doctor Linda Garcia from ''Film/RoboCop2''. |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder: Jeff Fleck]] |
| 408 | [-Played by Creator/BradleyWhitford-] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | An executive at Omni Consumer Products, the head of the Security Concepts division in ''Film/RoboCop3''. |
| 411 | ---- |
| 412 | * AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Thankfully [[GoryDiscretionShot we don't get to see the mess]].]] |
| 413 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Blows his brains out after the CEO fires him and technically dissolves OCP Security Concepts because of Murphy's rebellion.]] |
| 414 | * FaceDeathWithDespair: [[spoiler:The last we see of him before [[GoryDiscretionShot he walks out of the OCP control room and blows his brains out on the corridor]] is him [[DespairEventHorizon getting a "trying not to cry" look on his face]] from the CEO firing him.]] |
| 415 | * GoingPostal: Subverted. After [[spoiler:he shows Johnson that he carries a gun on him to [[AteHisGun blow his brains out]] if fired and the CEO fires him, it looks for a couple of seconds like he is going to shoot the CEO, but he decides to walk out of the room and do exactly what he said he was going to do with that gun right outside.]] |
| 416 | * {{Jerkass}}: His treatment of nearly everybody, [[BadBoss especially Dr. Lazarus]], is smarmy. He also is angry about Robocop prioritizing saving fellow cops from being murdered by Splatterheads over chasing the Rebels and orders Lazarus to add a chip to Murphy's brain to make him obedient (which she decides not to do). He also sneers about the rise in suicides among the company's executives and calls them cowards for doing it in such ways as jumping out the window [[spoiler:before he gets his own dose of karma and is fired.]] |
| 417 | * TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Fleck calls the executives committing suicide because OCP is on the outs cowards by doing it through methods like jumping off the building and shows Johnson the gun he is carrying in a shoulder holster to "leave less of a mess" about two minutes before he gets a dose of what they were feeling by being fired and he immediately [[AteHisGun follows them]].]] |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Max Becker]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | An OCP employee who acts as Murphy's overseer during the events of ''Rogue City''. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | |
| 425 | See ''Characters/RobocopRogueCity'' |
| 426 | [[/folder]] |
| 427 | |
| 428 | !!!Rehabs |
| 429 | A paramilitary force made of Amazon War veterans that appeared in ''Film/RoboCop3''. The group was commissioned by OCP to evict citizens of Old Detroit to pave the way for Delta City, a process they defined as "urban rehabilitation." |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Paul [=McDagget=]]] |
| 432 | [-Played by John Castle-] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | Commander of the Rehabs, mercenaries hired by OCP. |
| 435 | ---- |
| 436 | |
| 437 | * ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: He hires a vicious street gang after the police force quits. |
| 438 | * BigBadDuumvirate: With the OCP CEO in ''[=RoboCop=] 3''. |
| 439 | * 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. |
| 440 | * 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.]] |
| 441 | * 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''. |
| 442 | * 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. |
| 443 | * EvilBrit: British and very evil. |
| 444 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Kills Officer Anne Lewis, a MoralEventHorizon moment for him [[InUniverse which leads Murphy]] to come gunning for him.]] |
| 445 | * 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. |
| 446 | * KillThePoor: He plans to wipe out the citizens of Old Detroit who refuse to cooperate with being relocated from their homes. |
| 447 | * 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. |
| 448 | * 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. |
| 449 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's not blatantly racist, but as noted above, he's very much about [[KillThePoor killing the poor]]. |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Seltz]] |
| 453 | [-Played by Judson Vaughn-] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | The right-hand man of Paul McDaggett. |
| 456 | ---- |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 |
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