History Film / Robocop2014

* CorruptCop: John Lake and Andre Daniels, the dirty cops responsible for Murphy's car bomb attack as part of the movie's plot at the start. Both men are working with crime boss Antoine Vallon, hiding evidence of his activities and procuring weapons from Detroit Police impound to sell to Vallon. [[spoiler:Later it is revealed the Detroit Chief of Police Karen Dean is one as well.]]

* DirtyCop: Antoine Vallon is shown to have multiple cops in his pocket. John Lake and Andre Daniels provide him a tip on Murphy's movements and encourage him to sanction a hit on Murphy when Daniels reminds him they'll be silencing any efforts to investigate him. [[spoiler:Chief Dean is also on his payroll]].

** John Lake and Andre Daniels get caught by Alex Murphy because one or both didn't wear gloves when smuggling dirty guns out of the evidence lockup, and incriminating finger prints were found on the guns Murphy recovered. They presumably felt untouchable due to their connections with the underworld and didn't anticipate having to deal with a robo-detective but letting finger prints end up on contraband was taking a chance even without Robocop on the force.

The crime lord the dirty cops work for wants Murphy out of the picture as well, but with his hands clean, since [[CopKiller cop killers]] get the enmity of the entire police force. The dirty cops do the dirty work for him, and tag his car with a bomb. It goes off, burning Murphy badly and damaging his eyes and ears from the concussion. Enter Omni Corp, who has been looking for a way to get their crime-stopping robots on the streets of an American city. The American people don't feel comfortable with a soulless robot who can't feel, so putting a human face on a robot seems to be the ticket.

** The 1987 [=RoboCop=]'s design has encumbered speed due to his heavy armor, but the 2014 [=RoboCop=] implements superhuman speed, jumping and reflexes akin to the obscure Japanese police-cyborg Anime/EighthMan. The new Alex Murphy is also a detective rather than a police officer, much like Detective Yokoda before he became 8-Man.

** The ED-209s making animal noises not only reminds one of the original ED-209s, but calls to mind the Gekkos from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Also, Murphy jumps onto a ED-209 to disable it at close range, like Raiden does with some of his aerial attacks. Mind you, he's not as successful as Raiden is.

* BloodlessCarnage: [=RoboCop=] himself, naturally, has no blood. It's averted when he shoots Vallon because you can see blood has definitely pooled around Vallon's body. Averted again when [[spoiler:Murphy guns down Sellars at the end.]] A spray of blood is visible on the ground behind him.

* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Sgt. Reed from the original film is a desk sergeant dedicated to his duty and was never seen as corrupt. In this film, Sgt. Reed's analogous counterpart is a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Karen Dean who happens to be a CorruptCop involved in Alex Murphy's attempted murder.

* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: When paired off against an EM-208 in the simulator, Murphy turns out to be several seconds slower as his reflexes are affected by human decision-making processes. Under pressure from his boss to get results, Dr. Norton writes Murphy's software so that it takes over in combat situations, while signals are sent into Murphy's brain giving him the illusion of controlling events. Although Murphy's decisions are slower than the EM-208s, they're generally ''better decisions'', including using cover and clearing corners instead of just charging straight into the middle of the room.