History NightmareFuel / Robocop2014

* Alex Murphy waking up as Robocop has him paralyzed electronically. The notion that you can not move unless somebody sees fit to unlock your components can be frightening by itself. Then, Dennett Norton shows Murphy the "gravity of his situation"...
* Murphy's [[BodyHorror dis-assembling]] is the film's highlight in Nightmare Fuel. It gets to the point where even Murphy himself is too visibly shocked to see what'd happened to his body after the CarBomb that critically wounded him. And they don't cut away, showing what was left of his body in every detail. Even before Alex's remains were amputated, his body is shown on a screen to Mrs. Murphy for the audience to see with him severely disfigured from the car bomb with severe burns and loss of limbs.

* The ED-209s, hulking armored walkers the size of a semi truck and packing high caliber automatic weapons, are programmed to consider a [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight knife-wielding teen-aged boy]] a threat that warrants [[MoreDakka machine-gunning him]] to death. Even if one assumes that the boy was suicidal and like the other suicide bombers was intending on getting himself killed live on international television, it's still a bit of overkill.

** An even more disturbing aspect is the fact that, when they evaluate his thought procedures, they show how many steps there are in the process between seeing the target and shooting. For a human being, there's about five or six steps, or maybe a better word would be '''safeguards''', that prevent an ordinary human being from gunning a person down in a combat situation until they're certain that person is not a target. For a robot, there's two: See, and shoot. Unless the individual in question is a Red Asset, anyone with a weapon is fair game when the robot is in combat mode. Now, imagine if, for a moment, in a similar situation to the one in Iran, [[WouldHurtAChild the subject were to encounter a child with a knife, or anything of a similar nature.]] Suddenly, those missing steps are '''really freakin' important,''' as they are the only things stopping a person from shooting a child to death. Had Murphy encountered something similar to that situation in Iran before he'd gained the ability to override his systems, he'd have the death of a child on his conscience, and would have been powerless to do anything but watch as, with his body on full automatic (But the wiring inside making him believe that he's in control), he puts a bullet in the child's brain.

*** Never mind legal carry; what would one of those drones do if it chased a suspect into an ''active restaurant kitchen'', or any other location where knives are used for innocent purposes?

* Murphy's [[BodyHorror dis-assembling]] is the film's highlight in Nightmare Fuel. It gets to the point where even Murphy himself is too visibly shocked to see what'd happened to his body after the CarBomb that critically wounded him. And they don't cut away, showing what was left of his body in every detail. Even before Alex's remains were amputated, his body is shown on a screen to Mrs. Murphy for all of to see with him severely disfigured from the car bomb with severe burns and loss of limbs.

* Murphy's [[BodyHorror dis-assembling]] is the film's highlight in Nightmare Fuel. It gets to the point where even Murphy himself is too visibly shocked to see what'd happened to his body after the CarBomb that critically wounded him. And they don't cut away, showing what was left of his body in every detail.

* Alex Murphy waking up as Robocop has him paralyzed electronically. The notion that you can not move unless somebody sees fit to unlock your components can be frightening by itself. Then, Denet Norton shows Murphy the "gravity of his situation"...

** This becomes even more horrific in light of recent incidents with people legally licensed to carry concealed firearms being shot by police officers who mistakenly assumed they were reaching for their guns. A perfectly law-abiding citizen with a carry permit suddenly becomes a "threat" in the eyes of the robot's programming. Unless [=OmniCorp=] has some serious software upgrades for their drones, using them as American police forces turns them into walking Second Amendment rights violations.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Holy Christ, there's nothing left!"]]

** An even more disturbing aspect is the fact that, when they evaluate his thought procedures, they show how many steps there are in the process between seeing the target and shooting. For a human being, there's about five or six steps, or maybe a better word would be '''safeguards''', that prevent an ordinary human being from gunning a person down in a combat situation until they're certain that person is not a target. For a robot, there's two: See, and shoot. Unless the individual in question is a Red Asset, anyone with a weapon is fair game when the robot is in combat mode. Now, imagine if, for a moment, in a similar situation to the one in Iran, [[WouldHurtAChild the subject were to encounter a child with a knife, or anything of a similar nature.]] Suddenly, those missing steps are '''really freakin' important,''' as they are the only things stopping a person from shooting a child to death. Had Murphy encountered something similar to that situation in Iran before he'd gained the ability to override his systems, he'd have the death of a child on his conscience, and would have been powerless to do anything but watch as, with his body on full automatic (But the wiring inside making him believe that he's in control), puts a bullet in the child's brain.

** An even more disturbing aspect is the fact that, when they evaluate his thought procedures, they show how many steps there are in the process between seeing the target and shooting. For a human being, there's about five or six steps, or maybe a better word would be '''safegaurds''', that prevent an ordinary human being from gunning a person down in a combat situation until they're certain that person is not a target. For a robot, there's two: See, and shoot. Unless the individual in question is a Red Asset, anyone with a weapon is fair game when the robot is in combat mode. Now, imagine if, for a moment, in a similar situation to the one in Iran, [[WouldHurtAChild the subject were to encounter a child with a knife, or anything of a similar nature.]] Suddenly, those missing steps are '''really freakin' important,''' as they are the only things stopping a person from shooting a child to death. Had Murphy encountered something similar to that situation in Iran before he'd gained the ability to override his systems, he'd have the death of a child on his conscience, and would have been powerless to do anything but watch as, with his body on full automatic (But the wiring inside making him believe that he's in control), puts a bullet in the child's brain.