Line #13 Trivia/RoboCop


1	* ''Trivia/RoboCop1987''
2	* ''Trivia/RoboCop2''
3	* ''Trivia/RoboCop3''
4	* ''Trivia/RoboCopTheSeries''
5	* ''Trivia/RoboCopPrimeDirectives''
6	* ''Trivia/FrankMillersRoboCop''
7	* ''Trivia/RoboCop2014''
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10	!![[Franchise/RoboCop The franchise]]:
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12	* ActorSharedBackground: As noted under "Cast the Expert", Casey Wong and Jess Perkins were played by people who were actual news reporters in real life.
13	* CastTheExpert: Both Leeza Gibson (Jess Perkins) and the late Mario Machado (Casey Wong) were actual news anchors.
14	* CaliforniaDoubling: None of the films have been shot in Detroit.
15	** Most of the first movie was shot in [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]]. The city was chosen for containing both abandoned industrial areas and futuristic architecture (for example, [[https://mattmulcahey.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/robocop-2.png exterior shots of the OCP building were actually of the Dallas city hall]]). The filming crew did do location scouting in Detroit, but found it sorely lacking on the futuristic side.
16	** ''Film/RoboCop2'' was shot in UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}.
17	** ''Film/RoboCop3'' was shot in UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, using many of the buildings that would soon be torn down to make room for the facilities for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
18	** Similar to its predecessors, the 1994 TV series (and ''Prime Directives'') use Canadian locations as a stand-in for Detroit. [[Film/RoboCop2014 The 2014 film]] itself uses Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton... though apparently they finally [[http://www.freep.com/article/20121003/ENT01/121003078/RoboCop-remake-MGM-Motor-City used Detroit itself at least once.]]
19	* {{Defictionalization}}: There is a real life company called Omni Consumer Products. They specialize in... making Defictionalized products. In a nicely full circle manner, the company's owner gave 25,000 dollars to a project seeking to build a statue of [=RoboCop=] in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}.
20	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The first animated series. Thanks to MGM and Creator/{{Disney}} (who owns the library of its studio Marvel Productions) having to share dibs on it, there are no DVD releases planned for Region 1. All that's available of the series are the three VHS releases from 1991, which are difficult to track down. Averted [[NoExportForYou in the UK]], where the entire series was released.
21	* TheOtherDarrin: Not counting the remake, four actors have played live-action Robocop: Peter Weller (''[=RoboCop=]'' 1 & 2), Robert John Burke (''[=RoboCop=] 3''), Richard Eden (1994 TV series) and Paige Fletcher (''Prime Directives'' miniseries).
22	* TroubledProduction: A downplayed example, but Peter Weller has said being in the film was one of the worst events of his life, not due to anything wrong with the movie, but rather because the suit made him [[NauseaFuel sweat bucketloads.]]
23	* YouLookFamiliar:
24	** Gary Bullock, who played the doctor who carved up Duffy in [=RoboCop=] 2, also appeared in ''[=RoboCop=] 3'' as the gas station clerk who deals with Otomo stealing a map and slicing through a sign.
25	** In the Japanese dubs, there's three voice actors who had worked in almost all the productions of the franchise brought to Japan: Kazue Komiya, who had voiced Anne Lewis in [[DuelingDubs all the dubbed versions of the original trilogy]], Dr. Tyler in the dub of the first animated series and Karen Dean in the 2014 reboot. Likewise, the late Creator/KinryuArimoto had voiced at least one character in the original trilogy: Lt. Hedgecock in the VHS version of the first film, Holzgang and the Magnavolt salesman in the TV Asahi dub of the second one, and Nikko's father in the TV Tokyo dub of the third, while Creator/HiroyaIshimaru had voiced Joe Cox in the TV Asahi dub of the first film, and Major Kuzak and Chet in the first DVD dubbed version of the second film.
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27	!!''Alpha Commando'':
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29	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/DavidSobolov, who usually voices villainous characters like [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Shockwave]] and [[Series/TheFlash2014 Gorilla Grodd]] or anti-heroes like [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Depth Charge]], voices Murphy himself, who is depicted as far more straightforwardly heroic in the series.
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