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* Murphy's CruelAndUnusualDeath, with Lewis being unable to do anything except watch him get repeatedly shot to death and weep over his dead body.
* Bordering on FridgeHorror, the scene where the SWAT officers open fire on a seriously damaged [=RoboCop=], who by this point was self aware of his past life as Murphy. Considering his original death, then potentially another ''at the hands of officers'' that he had worked side by side with is almost as jarring to watch as his first death. What's more, we see that neither the SWAT officers opening fire nor their commander giving the order actually ''wants'' to do this.
** Three officers vocally protest against opening fire on one of their own, then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walk away in disgust]] when it becomes obvious the commanding officer is still going through with it. It's somewhere between TearJerker and SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome but their sheer rage and heartbreak are painful to watch.
* There's the heart-rending terror of ''re-living'' his traumatic death by gunfire in his memories.
** After [=RoboCop=]'s nightmares, he begins exiting the police station, disturbed by his visions. Lewis confronts [=RoboCop=] to assure him, "Murphy, it's ''you''." This causes him to walk backwards slowly in fright, in spite of his supposed amnesia.
* The first several scenes mention a previous Boddicker victim, Officer Fredericks, who is fighting for his life in the hospital, with both the news anchors and his fellow cops coping and rooting for him to pull through. This goes on just long enough for uninformed viewers to start wondering if Fredericks might survive to become Robocop before his death is abruptly revealed when Reed and his assistant walk into the locker room to solemnly clear out his locker and ask for donations to his family, as the other cops stare sadly.
* After discovering his past identity as Murphy, [=RoboCop=] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain returns to his former home]] and finds out that his wife and son have moved away and his neighbourhood is going to be turned in to a model housing development. He wanders around the house while memories of his family come back to him, and we see that he was a humble, well-mannered, and kind-hearted {{everyman}} [[HappilyMarried whose wife loved him]] and who was [[HeroWorshipper a hero to his son]]. He sees a monitor showing an advertisement for the new model homes and gets so angry at how his life was stolen from him that he [[ShootTheTelevision puts his fist through it.]] Throughout the scene, Peter Weller's magnificent acting (when ONLY HIS MOUTH IS VISIBLE), conveying the realization of what Murphy has lost and how his life is changed forever should at least make you swallow hard. And then as he storms through the house the music is a [[DarkReprise sorrowful rendition]] of "Rock Shop", AKA [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic THE [=RoboCop=] theme]].
* When [=RoboCop=] is hooked into the police database and is looking up the status of Alex Murphy. Dark percussive music plays over the reveal like a nightmare-come-true:
-->MURPHY ALEX J. 548 PRIMROSE LN. DETROIT MI... '''[DECEASED]'''
** What makes it even worse is when his life is flashing before his eyes, he has a {{Flashback}} to his wife angrily telling him "I really need to tell you something!" as if to imply that his life had its ugly side. Then when the memory plays out again, it's extended to include her smiling (because she was joking) and warmly saying "I love you."
* Bob Morton's death at the hands of Boddicker sent by Dick Jones to eliminate any competition, especially when he was slowly and painfully tortured at first by being repeatedly shot in his legs with a silenced Deagle, following by Dick's taunting video before his death via explosion. While he was a CorruptCorporateExecutive, compared to his co-workers he was probably not just one of the few, but perhaps the ''only'' one to have ''any'' redeeming qualities such as his creation of [=RoboCop=], done with sincere effort and competence, along with his resurrection of Murphy, making him the Old Man's and the OCP's MoralityChain as after his death, they all become as bad as Dick Jones in the sequels. It's more saddening in recent times following the untimely death of Morton's actor Creator/MiguelFerrer in January 2017, thirty years after playing the role in this film.
* After Emil comes out of the toxic waste, half-melted and in excruciating pain, and begs Leon for help, Leon runs away in disgust.
* When [=RoboCop=] removes his helmet for the first time and stares sadly at his reflection, seeing for the first time the mechanical monster he's been turned into against his will. He asks Lewis what happened to his family and she tells him they started a new life without him, believing him to be dead.
-->'''[=RoboCop=]:''' I can feel them ... but I can't remember them.
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