History Characters / RobocopCriminals

* DeadpanSnarker: He can make some dismissive yet witty comments.
* DestinationDefenestration: When he gets cornered by [=RoboCop=] at the drug factory and is read his Miranda rights, he gets thrown through several windows until he confesses his plot.

* DirtyCoward: Clarence's arrogance and cruelty vanish when Robocop backs him into a corner, especially the second time, and he quickly devolves into a pleading wreck who will say anything to save his skin.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: He has African-American Joe Cox, Asian-American Steve Minh, and Emil Antonowsky, who may have some Slavic ancestry, on his gang.

* AxCrazy: As his execution of Murphy and [[spoiler: Morton]] shows, he's a violent sadist fond of torture and murder.

* {{BFG}}: He and his gang get Cobra Assault Cannons to destroy [=RoboCop=].

* CreateYourOwnHero: Boddicker and his gang killed Alex Murphy--which bit them in the ass when Morton used Murphy to create [=RoboCop=].

* {{Hate Sink}}s: Every member qualifies. Boddicker takes great joy in his sadism and is a BadBoss, Emil was willing to kill a gas station employee simply for being a college student (even while he was cooperating), and all of them (especially Joe) enjoyed every single bit of inflicting as much pain as possible to Murphy before his initial death. All in all, their downfall at the end of the movie is them getting their just desserts.

** Joe called Emil a "faggot" twice.

* BadBoss: Asks an injured lackey, "Can you fly, Bobby?" before throwing him at a pursuing police car.

* SuperiorSuccessor: [=RoboCop=] 2 is this to both the original [=RoboCop=] and to the ED-209s, being much more heavily armed and armored than either while retaining Robocop's human-level reasoning abilities. Too bad he's also a Nuke-addicted maniac with the brain of a sociopathic crime lord. His operating system also seems to be a version of Apple O/S, compared to Robocop's simpler green CRT text operating system.

* CoolGun: Both his machine gun camouflaged as a lunchbox and the magnum he uses to shoot Robocop.

* HateSink: Kane's actions throughout the film firmly serve to establish him as an unlikable sociopath. In his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing scene]] where he escapes a Nuke lab being raided by [=RoboCop=], he opens a back door to his limo and finds a Chinese EthnicMenialLabor lady pleading to not let the police arrest her. He proceeds to pull out his side arm and shoot her without flinching, pushing her body out the other door very disrespectfully. He is also raising the kid Hob as a child soldier to do his bidding, and even [[ForcedToWatch forces him]] to watch a torture murder that clearly, deeply disturbs him.

* HateSink: Kane's actions throughout the film firmly serve to establish him as an unlikable sociopath. In his [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing scene]] where he escapes a Nuke lab being raided by [=RoboCop=], he opens a back door to his limo and finds a Chinese EthnicMenialLabor lady pleading to not let the police arrest her. He proceeds to pull out his side arm and shoot her without flinching, pushing her body out the other door very disrespectfully. He is also raising the kid Hob as a child soldier to do his bidding, and even forces him to watch a torture murder that clearly deeply disturbs him.

* HateSink: Kane's actions throughout the film firmly serve to establish him as an unlikable sociopath. In his debut scene where he escapes a Nuke lab being raided by [=RoboCop=], he opens a back door to his limo and finds a Chinese EthnicMenialLabor lady pleading to not let the police arrest her. He proceeds to pull out his side arm and shoot her without flinching, pushing her body out the other door very disrespectfully. He is also raising the kid Hob as a child soldier to do his bidding, and even forces him to watch a torture murder that clearly deeply disturbs him.

** Boddicker himself has two of his most famous lines: first telling the ladies with Morton "Bitches, leave," and then telling Sal he'd "shove enough of this factory up his stupid wop ass." Oddly, he doesn't refer to Robo as "it."

* CardCarryingVillain: Doesn't even try to hide the fact he is a despicable excuse for a human being; in fact, Boddicker ''revels'' on it.

* DiabolicalMastermind: As a crime boss in Old Detroit, he has connections with companies and some law enforcers, and pretty much untouched by law.

* EvilIsHammy: As opposed to Alex and the other good guys, he is quite loud.

* HateSink: While every member qualifies, Boddicker especially stands out. He has the main protagonist brutally killed via a long and drawn-out firing squad, treats his own gang as expendable, is a hitman for a CorruptCorporateExecutive, has an extensive record of killing police officers, and [[CardCarryingVillain takes joy on his heinous acts]]. His death, while not the most painfully slow (that would be Emil) or quick and overkill (that would be Leon), is all the more fitting.
* HeroKiller: Murphy is just his latest in a long string of victims. He nearly does it again against Robo in their second fight, but thankfully Robo manages to finally end his life.

* KarmicDeath: Opened his protracted torture of a helpless Murphy at the steel mill by blowing his right hand off with a shotgun. [[BookEnds At the end of the film at the same mill]], Murphy is oncemore rendered seemingly helpless and at Clarene's mercy [[spoiler: but having use of his right hand lets Murphy finally kill him.]]
* KneeCapping: Does this to Morton at Jones' orders, keeping him alive long enough to show him Jones' final message to him and to futility struggle to defuse a grenade that he plants in his house.

* LargeHam: ''Very'' enthusiastic and expressive. You can tell Kurtwood Smith was having a lot of fun in the role. The TV Asahi Japanese dub [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4N8xXHKLJ0 raised this angle]] up to eleven, courtesy of the late Nobuo Tanaka, aka [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure DIO in the 90s OVAs]]. Meanwhile, in English:

* PetRat: He's a crime boss who does odd-jobs and assassinations for Dick Jones, the number two guy at [=OCP=]. Jones gets obstacles to his position eliminated while Boddicker gains new opportunities to expand his criminal empire with Jones's connections in exchange.

* PragmaticVillainy: When he's going to assassinate Bob Morton, the target is in the company of two hookers. Clarence simply orders them "Bitches, leave!" and lets them flee the scene unharmed, showing his violence is not completely wanton.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Initially plans to walk out of his deal with Dick Jones when Dick asks him to kill [=RoboCop=]. Then Dick tempts him by the promise of the business he can have when Delta City's construction begins.

* VillainsWantMercy: While he's still too proud to beg for it, he desperately starts trying to appeal to Murphy's sense of duty both times, he loses the upper hand to Robo. [[spoiler: It only saves him the first time.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: His body starts rapidly deteriorating after getting drenched in toxic waste. Him subsequently getting ran over by Boddicker's car was effectively a MercyKill. Though despite being really grisly, [[LaserGuidedKarma he definitely deserved it]].

* DeathByDisfigurement: Emil gets disfigured by toxic waste, but is still alive [[ICannotSelfTerminate and well-aware he is agonizing]]. Boddicker running over his car finally does the trick.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Easily demonstrated when he threatens the gas station's employee. He laughes at the employee being at college, and threatens the man to shoot him dead with a SlasherSmile... which he soon [[MoodSwinger drops]] for [[AxCrazy his actual personality]].

* HellBentForLeather: Wears a lather jacket and rides a motorcycle.

* HumanoidAbomination: His last moments were completely unplesant, to say the least. Once the toxic waste [[ImMelting disfigures Emil]], all that remains is the sad husk of a man walking away his last moments.

* {{Irony}}: Earlier he offers Dougie a cigarette which the latter declines, warning him that they'll kill him. Emil mockingly brushes him off, asking if he “wants to live forever?”. Later on in the movie, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he gets the slowest and most painful death out of all of Clarence’s gang members]].

* MoodSwinger: Goes from calm, to laughing, to crazy and violent at the gas station when threatening the employee.

* NotQuiteDead: Although the scene where Robo fires at him, and he crashes his motorcycle, looks like he's dying, he shows up later alive (though he still has a gash on his face). [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Then he dies]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a much, much more horrible death]].

* CampingACrapper: Subverted. He is caught relieving himself by Lewis, but manages to knock her out and escape unharmed.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: During their final showdown with Robocop, [[spoiler: Boddicker's gang all get memorable deaths except for Joe, who just gets shot in the chest at the beginning and quickly forgotten about. Originally it was planned that he would be knocked over a railing and impaled on a fence (not unlike how he threw Lewis over a railing) but it was cut to tighten up the sequence]]. He ''does'' go over a railing and get taken out of the fight during the cocaine factory sequence, however.

* EvilLaugh: Everytime he laughs is when he's done something bad or is about to do.
* GoodNightSweetPrince: He says this to Murphy as he lays dying.

* KickTheDog: After blasting off Murphy's hand, arm and countless shots to his chest, Joe reacts to Murphy's loud cries of pain with a mocking 'Does it hurt, does it hurt?' question before cackling loudly.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: Invoked. Cox is making water when Lewis comes upon him: rather than zip himself up before turning around and putting his hands up, he opts to give Lewis "the full monty", knowing she'll be distracted, giving him the opening he needs to take her out.

* ScaryBlackMan: A black member of a ruthless crime gang which is known for his deranged laughter and being trigger-happy.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Altogether now, "Oh, fuck you!"

* CarFu: He gets rammed by Murphy and Lewis's car when Clarence ordered he be literally thrown under the bus, and most likely died from the collision.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, when there's another character called Bob Morton.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Clarence is outraged that Bobby burnt the cash with bombs. While in the midst of beating up Bobby for the burnt money, Emil alerted him about a car of cops closing in on them, and the cops shot Bobby in his legs. With Bobby dying from blood loss, Clarence found Bobby to be a burden to carry around and had his crew [[NoHonorAmongThieves throw Bobby at the cops]] to slow them down.

* FlatCharacter: His character makes so little an impression that he's often forgotten about in write-ups of the film. Makes sense since Summers' works primarily as a stuntman and his character is only in two scenes.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Only in two scenes he uses a Remington 870 shotgun in both (or tries to the second time before being ventilated by Murphy).

The main antagonist of the second movie, and the distributor of a street drug called "Nuke."

* AddledAddict: Cain's Nuke addiction doesn't seem to slow him down at first. As a cyborg, his withdrawals are excruciating, and OCP uses the drug to control him. In the end, his need for Nuke gets him killed--Murphy exploits it to finish him off.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear exactly what Cain is like when sober and how much of his villainy is a result of his Nuke addition. We only see Cain in his Nuke-addicted state throughout the film, and learn that he served in an Amazon War and got court-martialed for an unknown charge.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: [=RoboCain's=] Assault Cannon is effectively an armor piercing shotgun. [=RoboCop=] prioritizes taking it out with his Auto-9 after suffering chest damage and being knocked off his feet from the force of its projectiles.

* BerserkButton: Snitching is one major thing Cain despises. Duffy gets [[ColdBloodedTorture special treatment]] after [=RoboCop=] makes him crack and reveal the location of Cain's hideout.
* BigBad: Of ''[=RoboCop=] 2''. He is even ''called'' ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' in universe during the press release, so the film's title is his alias when he becomes a cyborg. However, he doesn't live up to his name, being used by Dr. Faxx as an indestructible assassin, and acts as a full-on [=RoboCrook=] once he sets himself free of his restraining bolt.

* BreakTheBadass: His transformation into a cyborg on top of being enslaved by a Nuke addiction and Dr. Faxx marks the point where he goes through a major mental meltdown.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: A two-fold example as both a human criminal and killer cyborg:

** In contrast to Clarence Boddicker, Cain is highly irrational, due to GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply. While Clarence is business-minded but still revels in gratuitous violence, Cain is largely a NonActionBigBad who lets his gang do the fighting for him until his transformation into [=RoboCain=], and has a vague notion of turing Detroit into a "paradise". Finally, while Clarence is an associate of a BigBad at OCP, Cain becomes an unwilling slave in a prototype by Dr. Faxx.
** As [=RoboCain=], he fills the same role as ED-209, a hulking robot who challenges Robocop. But while ED 209 is a ChickenWalker with limited mobility, [=RoboCain=] is humanoid and far less clumsy, as well as more heavily armed. ED 209 has faulty programming, while Cain goes haywire because he has the mind of a psychopathic criminal. Also while ED 209 remains a lumbering weapon to OCP, [=RoboCain=] proves uncontrollable and goes on a rampage against the company.

* DrugsAreBad: Cain's Nuke addiction is presumably not doing his mental stability any favors while the withdrawal pains are agonizing. Once transformed into [=RoboCain=], Dr. Faxx exploits the later by withholding his Nuke fix until he complies with OCP orders.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When escaping from Robocop and Lewis busting one of his Nuke lab operation, he finds a Chinese woman in his limousine pleading to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested; he proceeds to draw a handgun and kill her without flinching, pushing her body out of the limo without missing a beat, establishing Cain as having a gross LackOfEmpathy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Cain isn't necessarily committed to becoming a cyborg and shows great fright when Dr. Faxx lies about him dying and kills his life support for his surgery-transplant. Cain presumably starts to regret his predicament once he learns he's a pawn of OCP and won't get his Nuke fix unless he follows orders. Once [=RoboCain=] steals the remote controlling his weapons to arm his guns and destroy the remote, he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against OCP and everything in sight.

* EvilIsBigger: As [=RoboCop=] 2, he's almost MiniMecha size and almost twice as large as the more human-like Robocop.

* GlassCannon: Not [=RoboCain=] himself (who is merely staggered by multiple anti-tank rounds that could one-shot an ED-209) but his Assault Cannon is literally this due to being vulnerable to small arms fire. The cannon has enough stopping power to knock [=RoboCop=] off his feet and damage his torso armor so it could cause major damage to any target without significant protection. However, ordinary 9mm Parabellum bullets are enough to destroy the cannon in relatively few rounds.

* {{Hypocrite}}: He fancies himself as a messiah and talks to Murphy about him being persecuted (implied by him saying "Jesus had days like this...") and "forgives" Murphy for trying to shoot him. However Cain has already been shown killing someone in cold blood on screen, and not long after capturing and releasing [=RoboCop=] with his mechanical limbs detached, has someone tortured to death with mock surgery and looks on the scene in blank apathy while forcing Hob (a child) to watch the brutality.

* KarmicTransformation: Similar to what he ordered done to torture Duffy, Cain is forced to endure having his body disassembled, his spine and brain extracted and suspended in life-supporting fluid. He is at the mercy of Dr. Faxx, a person who has a god complex of her own and who tries to control him by using his Nuke addiction against him. Given Nuke's narcotic traits, the withdrawal pains are presumably agonizing and torturious and Kane is forced alive on his life support.
* KickTheDog: Cain likes to be sadistic or ruthless for little to no apparent gain besides the fact that [[JustifiedTrope he loathes snitching]]. When he finds a Chinese EthnicMenialLabor worker in his limo pleading to not allow the cops to arrest her, he robotically pulls out his personal side arm and shoots-and-dumps her out the other door of the limo presumably to eliminate a possibile snitch. He also has his TortureTechnician vivisect Duffy to death for snitching to [=RoboCop=] (under duress), and forces Hob to watch.
* LaserGuidedKarma: His smug VillainBall choice of damaging and dumping Murphy in front of the protesting cops to rub it on their faces instead of throwing him into a furnace and be 100% sure he's out of the picture will end up biting him in the ass once Murphy gets rebuilt and severely cripples him after a chase, which will then lead into his transformation into [=RoboCain=], and eventually to his death.

* LightningBruiser: Despite his huge size, immsense firepower and heavily armored chassis, [=RoboCop=] 2 is also capable of surprising speed, and is even fast enough to run up an elevator shaft.
* ImmuneToBullets: Even more so that the original Robocop. In the first film, sustained concentrated fire from multiple SWAT teams armed with military-grade weaponry was able to at least seriously injure Murphy (granted, Murphy was unable to shoot back and had to take it for a solid minute). The same amount of firepower directed against Cain just mildly annoys him. Even the Cobra Assault Cannon, a weapon that can destroy an ED-209, can't even put a dent in [=RoboCain=].

** His screen head has this reaction when he sees that Murphy has ripped his brain and spine out and is about to splatter them on the pavement.

* RestrainingBolt: After the fiasco that was ED-209, [=OCP=] at least has the sense to have [=RoboCop=] 2's weapon systems controlled by an external remote control. However, [=RoboCop=] 2 just steals the remote from them, activates his guns, then smashes the remote (apparently [=OCP=] never bothered to make more than one).

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: [=RoboCain's=] shoulder-mounted armor-piercing Assault Cannon has a shotgun like spread, and projects considerable stopping power even against the otherwise implacable [=RoboCop=]. It is capable of blasting away huge chunks of the auditorium seats, leaving visible damage on [=RoboCop=] and knocking [=RoboCop=] off his feet from the force. It's enough of a threat that, [=RoboCop=] prioritizes targeting and destroying it.

* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Cain's personal side arm is a Walther PPK, a common side arm for officers of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and favored by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself. In the very first scene where Kane draws it, he has an ice cold expression and uses it to shoot trice one of his Chinese [[EthnicMenialLabor ethnic laborers]] who has taken refuge in his limo. She begs him to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: His first act as [=RoboCop=] 2 is to massacre every member of his former gang. Granted this was done under a directive sent by [=OCP=], but his complete lack of resistance to this particular order compared to later ones suggest this was something Cain was thinking of doing anyway, as he no longer needs his gang as the unstoppable killing machine he's now become.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:His death is played quite tragically, for as evil as he was, we get a glimpse of the child he could have been under better circumstances. He makes some form of amending by revealing Cain to be [=RoboCop=] 2, and all he asks in return is for [=RoboCop=] to not leave him while he dies.]]

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He reasons that the Nuke cult is better than cigarette and fast food companies because they don't advertise a product they ''know'' is no good for you (HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs nonwithstanding) as fun and/or cool.

* CoolGun: Both his machine-gun camouflaged as a lunchbox and the magnum he uses to shoot Robocop.

* CuteBruiser: Despite his age and size, Hob is a very good shot and proves adept in a brawl against trained adults.

* TragicDropout: Implied. [=RoboCop=] is bewildered upon entering a busy arcade when he and Lewis are trying to catch Hob and other gang members.

* MeaningfulName: Her name is similar to "angel" and she is the girlfriend of a cult leader with messianic delusions.
* {{Robosexual}}: Her reaction to seeing Cain's new body is to fondle one of its claws and hesitantly say that they may still make it work as a couple. [[spoiler:It just puts her at grappling range when Cain goes berserk (because he wants Nuke, maybe because of her betrayal, maybe because of sexual frustration or maybe all of the above), grabbing her by the head and either crushing it or snapping her neck]].

A follower of Cain and member of the Nuke Cult.

* ElvisImpersonator: Presumably Catzo based his appearance on Elvis, as deleted scenes of the second film reveal Elvis is worshipped as a god and his skeleton is seen among the treasures of the Nuke Cult.

Another follower of Cain and member of the Nuke Cult.

* TokenMinority: The only Asian member of the Nuke Cult.

An Italian-American crime boss in Old Detroit. He ran a small time drug operation out of his cocaine factory.

* IndirectKiss: A rather unusual example, Boddicker stuck his fingers into Sal's wine glass to take a sniff of it, Sal saw no problem with it and just drunk straight out of it right after.

* DeathByDisfigurement: Subverted. Emil gets disfigured by toxic waste, but is still alive [[ICannotSelfTerminate and well-aware he is agonizing]]. Boddicker running over his car finally does the trick.

[[folder:Hob]]

* SharplyDressedMan: Always appears in a suit.

!!Other Criminals

[[folder:Sal]]
[-Played by Lee De Broux-]

An Italian-American crime boss in Old Detroit. He ran a small time drug operation out of his cocaine factory.

* FatBastard: Kind of chubby and runs a cocaine factory.
* IndirectKiss: A rather unusual example, Boddicker stuck his fingers into Sal's wine glass to take a sniff of it, Sal saw no problem with it and just drunk straight out of it right after.

* BigBad: Of ''[=RoboCop=] 2''. He is even ''called'' ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' in universe during the press release, so the film's title is his alias when he becomes a cyborg. However, he doesn't live up to his name, and acts as a full-on [=RoboCrook=] once he sets himself free of his restraining bolt.

* CardCarryingVillain: Doesn't even try to hide the fact he is a despicable excuse for a human being; in fact, Boddicker ''rebels'' on it.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: After getting drenched in acid, Emil bumps into another one of Bodicker's henchmen, Leon, and lets out a barely decipherable croak begging for Leon to finish him off. Leon does ''not'' oblige.
-->"''Don't touch me man!''" ''(pushes Emil away and flees)''

* OhCrap: His screen head has this reaction when he sees that Murphy has ripped his brain and spine out and is about to splatter them on the pavement.

* BigBad: Of ''[=RoboCop=] 2''. He is even ''called'' ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' in universe during the press release, so the film's title is his alias when he becomes a cyborg.