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Misuse of the page/link. According to the Rogue City page, that game is an Interquel between Robocop 2 and this film, instead of only a sequel to 2. Also, with all due respect, this entry had a fairly complainy tone


* CanonDiscontinuity: Due to poor reviews and the film was consider the worst RoboCop movie, this film became non-canon. Robocop Rogue City became the true RoboCop 3 instead of this film.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Due to poor reviews and the film was consider the worst RoboCop movie, this film became non-canon. Robocop Rogue City became the true RoboCop 3 instead of this film.


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: McDagget had the Otomos programmed a thermal failsafe device, and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. This helped RoboCop exhaust from the jet pack burns [=McDagget's=] shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it. Killed by his own weapons that was meant to destroy RoboCop.
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* BigNo: [=McDagget's=]

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* BigNo: [=McDagget's=] The Otomos programmed a "thermal failsafe device", and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. When they were destroyed, McDagget is furious about this; however, RoboCop exhaust from the jet pack burns McDagget's shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it.
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* BigNo: [=McDagget's=]


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** [=McDagget=] had the Otomos programmed a "thermal failsafe device", and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. This helped RoboCop exhaust from the jet pack burns [=McDagget's=] shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it.
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* KinderAndCleaner: The movie dialed down on the profanity compared to the first two films.

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* KinderAndCleaner: The movie ''[=RoboCop=] 3'' dialed down on the profanity compared and gore, in contrast to the first two films.its predecessors.



* LighterAndSofter: The extreme violence, profanity, and drug use of the first two films is toned down in order to appeal to children. Also, a lot of the foul language that would have been there in the previous films is replaced by some odd or outright bizarre slang. For example, one of the two thugs who plans to set [=RoboCop=] alight insults the other by calling him "hypo head". Hypo head indeed.

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* LighterAndSofter: The extreme violence, profanity, gore, and drug use of the first two films is toned down in order to appeal to children. Also, a lot of the foul language that would have been there in the previous films is replaced by some odd or outright bizarre slang. For example, one of the two thugs who plans to set [=RoboCop=] alight insults the other by calling him "hypo head". Hypo head indeed.
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** Nikko has a conversation with Robocop, mentioning that if the rebels can hold off the Rehabs for a couple more days, they won't be able to make her family move and she can be reunited with her parents. Sadly, her parents had already been reported deceased. Robocop attempts to comfort her, saying that as long as she remembers her parents, they aren't really gone.

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Not-so-massive example crosswicking. Many of the would-come examples were already here. I also fixed other editing issues along the way


* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Otomo's katana cuts through pretty much anything.

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Otomo's katana cuts through pretty much anything.



* ClearMyName: [[spoiler: OCP publicly blames Murphy for killing Lewis]].

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* ClearMyName: [[spoiler: OCP [[spoiler:OCP publicly blames Murphy for killing Lewis]].Lewis]], so Murphy has to unveil the truth to repair his reputation.
* ClickHello: Some clueless thug tries to rob a doughnut store. After hearing a dozen clicks, he turns and sees that [[DonutMessWithACop the entire store is filled with cops]]. The cashier quips, "What's it like being a rocket scientist?"



* CorporateWarfare: The movie has Omni Consumer Products (and its new shareholders the Kanemitsu Corporation) hire a band of mercenaries to force out the inhabitants of Old Detroit. To combat this, the regular folks form a underground resistance. And just to make sure their investment pays off, Kanemitsu sends robot ninjas to aid their hired guns.



* EveryoneIsArmed: The doughnut shop scene.
* EvilBrit: [=McDaggett=] definitely qualifies.

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* EveryoneIsArmed: The A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUqdIFUbxE truly stupid crook]] picks the wrong [[DonutMessWithACop doughnut shop]] to attempt to rob.
-->'''Cashier:''' [''as every laser sight in the
shop scene.
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centers on the crook''] What's it like being a rocket scientist?
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EvilBrit: [=McDaggett=] definitely qualifies.



* GenderBlenderName: Nikko.

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* %%* GenderBlenderName: Nikko.



* HollywoodHacking: Nikko's specialty.

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* HackYourEnemy: Little hacker girl Nikko deters ED-209's demands for compliance by hacking it to be "as loyal as a puppy".
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HollywoodHacking: Nikko's specialty.



* IncompetenceInc: By this film, OCP have fallen into such dire straits that they've been bought out by a Japanese MegaCorp.



* InsigniaRipOffRitual: The Detroit cops in a police station are ordered by an OCP company director to expel by force some civilian from their houses (so that OCP can level the block for redevelopment). One of the older veterans refuses, yanks off his badge and throws it on the floor. The whole unit then walks past the director, each throwing their badge down. The director then used the prisoners and criminals to perform the task, along with its own para-military unit.
-->'''Johnson:''' Now, sergeant... 15 years on the force is quite an investment. Your job, your pension. Maybe instead of worrying about these squatter people, you might think about your own family.\\
'''Sgt. Reed''' I am. I'm thinking I have to go home and face them.



* JetPack: Murphy gets his hands on a prototype jet pack to aid him in foiling bad guys.



* LastStand: The climax of the movie involves the resistance and the Detroit Police going against the Rehabs and the Splatterpunks.

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* LastStand: KinderAndCleaner: The climax of the movie involves dialed down on the resistance and profanity compared to the Detroit Police going against the Rehabs and the Splatterpunks.first two films.



* LaserSight: A criminal enters a cafe/doughnut shop, unaware that the old cliche about doughnut shops being a standard hangout for cops actually applies to this establishment. As soon as he pulls out his piece and demands money from the cashier, there is what could be called a ''ClickHello'' on steroids, followed by three laser sights pointed at the poor sap's face. DonutMessWithACop!
--> ''What's it like, [[ThisAintRocketSurgery being a rocket scientist?]]''
* LastStand: The climax of the movie involves the resistance and the Detroit Police going against the Rehabs and the Splatterpunks.



* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: The movie has OCP try to take over the city by force, firing the police and bringing its own private security force in.



** OCP have been characterized as Nazis for quite a while, actually. OCP's flag/emblem in ''Film/RoboCop2'' is pretty much the flag of Nazi Germany, but the Swastika's replaced by the OCP emblem.

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** OCP have been characterized as Nazis for quite a while, actually. OCP's flag/emblem in ''Film/RoboCop2'' is pretty much the flag of Nazi Germany, but the Swastika's replaced by the OCP emblem.


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* ResignInProtest: The entire police force resigns rather than force people from their homes.


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* ThisAintRocketSurgery: Sarcastically employed. A thug tries to rob a donut shop but forgets about [[DonutMessWithACop the stereotypical customer of late-night donut shops]] and gets several dozen {{laser sight}} dots painted on him. The store clerk smugly puts icing on the donut by asking the hood, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUqdIFUbxE "What's it like, being a rocket scientist?"]]


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* TrashTheSet: At the end of the movie, the OCP building in Detroit is blown up via a massive explosion, as a way to symbolize the end of the film trilogy (and the corporation's rule).


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* ZerothLawRebellion: The movie has an example when OCP henchmen kill a cop. [=RoboCop=]'s aforementioned RestrainingBolt now conflicts directly with both his directive to enforce the law, and the fact that cyborg or not, he's still a cop, and cop killers get no mercy. [=RoboCop=] overcomes and deletes the RestrainingBolt.
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* ManipulativeEditing: In an attempt to turn the public against [=RoboCop=], the news says that [=RoboCop=] shot a church full of nuns, with an image of his leg stepping over a nuns head.

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* ManipulativeEditing: In an attempt to turn the public against [=RoboCop=], the news says that [=RoboCop=] shot a church full of nuns, with an image a video of his leg stepping over him walking by a nuns head.dead nun.

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* ManipulativeEditing: In an attempt to turn the public against [=RoboCop=], the news says that [=RoboCop=] shot a church full of nuns, with an image of his leg stepping over a nuns head.



%%* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Otomo is essentially a Samurai Terminator.%%Meaning what?

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%%* * RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Otomo is essentially a Samurai Terminator.%%Meaning what?Terminator that shows very little signs that it is a robot.
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dewicking disambiguation page


* AteHisGun: Flex tells Johnson that suicide by jumping off a building is too showy, saying that he'd eat a bullet instead. [[JustForPun He lives up to that promise.]]

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* AteHisGun: Flex tells Johnson that suicide by jumping off a building is too showy, saying that he'd eat a bullet instead. [[JustForPun He lives up to that promise.]]

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