History ComicBook / FrankMillersRoboCop

* ShowWithinAShow: In addition to ''[=MediaBreak=]'', there's ''The Luke Spindle Show'', featuring the SmarmyHost of the same name, and ''Lilac'', hosted by a transgendered woman whose show is used to introduce Margaret Love.

* ShowWithinAShow: In addition to ''[=MediaBreak=]'', there's ''The Luke Spindle Show'', featuring a SmarmyHost, and ''Lilac'', hosted by a transgendered woman whose show is used to introduce Margaret Love.

However, the script became the stuff of legends and thus was born ''Frank Miller's [=RoboCop=]'', a comic miniseries by Creator/AvatarPress from 2003 to 2006, written by Steven Grant and drawn by Juan Jose Ryp. Reception to the comic has been mixed, with some thinking that the original script was better than what was actually released for ''2'' and others thinking it was a good thing Orion intervened.

* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Love and the Rehab frame Myrphy for the murder of Reed and Kong's subway station massacre.]]

* AdaptationAmalgamation: Inverted, as elements of the script were split between ''2'' and ''3''.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Murphy's not cleared of Reed's murder, is officially declared dead, and cuts off ties with Lewis, but he's now free of his directives and fighting OCP.]]

* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Love uploads a program based on her mind into [=RoboCop 2=] while shes dying from burns and injuries Murphy inflected on her.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Love has Murphy shocked twice: once after Murphy is just repaired and trying to talk to him, and later after forcing Murphy to talk to his ex-wife and mocking him. Additonally, she later has a system installed to inflict pain on Murphy if he acts "anti-social" and has doctors operate on a still-conscious cop considered for the [=RoboCop 2=] project under the pretext of "reality therapy".

* AdaptationalWimp: What ultimately happened in the actual version of ''2'', as Murphy is more resistant to the additional directives Love programs in him than he was in the actual movie.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Love has Murphy shocked twice: once after Murphy is just repaired and trying to talk to him, and later after forcing Murphy to talk to his ex-wife and mocking him. She later has doctors operate on a still-conscious cop considered for the [=RoboCop 2=] project under the pretext of "reality therapy".

* DecompositeCharacter: What ultimately happened with Kong, as parts of him became [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]] and [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]].

* ContemptibleCover: Some of Ryp's covers show of woman is sexy outfits and most notably, his cover for issue 4 features a bloodied Lewis posed on a streetlamp like she were a pole dancer.

However, the script became the stuff of legends and from 2003 to 2006, Creator/AvatarPress worked on a comic adaptation of the script, written by Steven Grant and drawn by Juan Jose Ryp. Reception to the comic has been mixed, with some thinking that the original script was better than what was actually released for ''2'' and others thinking it was a good thing Orion intervened.

* DepravedHomosexual: Kong kisses Stillson, a Rehab Murphy kills--and Kong is also a sadistic bastard, killing several people as both a Rehab officer and as [=RoboCop=] 2.

* GatlingGood: Unlike the machine gun/rocket launcher/flamethrower combo from ''3'', Murphy was switch out his left hand for a minigun attachment.

In 1987, Creator/OrionPictures had a hit in ''Film/RoboCop1987'' and naturally, they wanted a sequel. Unsatisfied with original writers Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner's ideas for a sequel, called "Corporate Wars" (that'd later become the loose basis for the pilot of ''Series/RoboCopTheSeries''), Orion turned to Creator/FrankMiller, fresh of his success on ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', to write the sequel. However, even then, they considered the script to be "unfilmable" and it was rewrote to what'd actually become ''Film/RoboCop2''.

* ColdBloodedTorture: Love has Murphy shocked twice: once after Murphy is just repaired and trying to talk to him, and later after forcing Murphy to talk to his ex-wife and micking him. She later has doctors operate on a still-conscious cop considered for the [=RoboCop 2=] project under the pretext of "reality therapy".

* ContemptibleCover: Some of Ryp's covers show of woman is sexy outfit and most notably, his cover for issue 4 features a bloodied Leiws posed on a streetlamp like she were a pole dancer.

However, the script became the stuff of legends and in 2003, Creator/AvatarPress started work on a comic adaptation of the script, written by Steven Grant and drawn by Juan Jose Ryp. Reception to the comic has been mixed, with some thinking that the original script was better than what was actually released for ''2'' and others thinking it was a good thing Orion intervened.

* SmarmyHost: Luke Spindle, who repeatedly insults his guests and audiences, and at one point punches a guy who's rightly pissed off at Spindle kissing his girlfriend, and calls OCP a homophobic slur. Tellingly, one of the cops he interviews and makes lewd remarks to uppercuts him and later, someone actually tried to kill him, though he survives.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: As in ''2'', Murphy's programmed with a bunch of directives to make him seem more PC in order to undermine his effectiveness. Biggest difference here is Murphy's more resistant to him.

* SmarmyHost: Luke Spindle, who repeatedly insults his guests and audiences, and at one point punches a guy who's rightly pissed off at Spindle kissing his girlfriend. Tellingly, one of the cops who interviews and makes lewd remarks to uppercuts him and later, someone actually tried to kill him, though he survives.

** The second time is after [[spoiler:combating the combination of Love's new directives and the first battle with [=RoboCop 2=] damaged him.]]

* SmarmyHost: Luke Spindle, who repeatedly insults his guests and audiences, and at one point punches a guy who's rightly pissed off at Spindle kissing his girlfriend. Teelingly, someone actually tried to kill him, though he survives.

* ContemptibleCover: Some of Ryp's cover show of woman is sexy outfit and most notably, his cover for issue 4 features a bloodied Leiws posed on a streetlamp like she were a pole dancer.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Miller did covers for the story--and none of them really reflected what was inside the book. Case in point, the cover to issue 4 involves a bald woman in glasses hugging Murphy's limbless torso. No such scene happens and if the woman is supposed to be Love, Love doesn't wear glasses and has a head full of blonde hair. Then again, Ryp's cover for that issue isn't better, depicted a bloodied Lewis posed on a streetlamp post like a pole dancer whwn, likewise, no such scene happened.

** [[spoiler:After deleting Murphy's programming at his behest, Love assumes he's dead, only to find out he's still alive.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: As expected for Creator/AvatarPress, there's a lot of scantily-clad women, including (much against what was ultimately decided by Creator/PaulVerhoeven in the original movie), Lewis. One of the covers for issue 4 even features Lewis posed on a streetlamp akin to a pole dancer.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillains: The Rehabs, who mimic stereotypes of Native Americans when they're torturing Whittaker.