History ComicBook / FrankMillersRoboCop

* AnAsskickingChristmas: One of the things that'd get recycled in ''Film/RoboCop3'' was the Christmas time setting, including the reprogrammed Murphy getting yelled at by a store Santa.

* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Love uploads a program based on her mind into [=RoboCop 2=] while she's dying from burns and injuries Murphy inflicted 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. Additionally, 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".

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

* AuthorTract: As noted on the [[Film/RoboCop2 the page]] for ''2'', Miller isn't fond of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad or pop psychology, hence the villain being a pop psychologist who's obsessed with political correctness.

* 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 them.

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

* PsychoPsychologist: Love, who has a god complex, in cohorts with the Rehabs in their actions, frequently engages in torture with the pretext of therapy.

* CustomBuiltHost: * In the story "Mortal Coils," Murphy and his head technician go to Colorado chasing a lead, when she gets kidnapped by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the local robber baron]] who wants to use her expertise in cybernetics to transfer his brain from his frail older body into a robotic body he had commissioned in the hopes of becoming eternal.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Reed is killed by the Rehabs in order to frame Murphy.]]

* AdaptationalDiversity: Inverted. Two of the officers to help Lewis, Whittaker and Estevez, are depicted as white men. In ''Film/RoboCop2'', they were respectively played by Roger Aaron Brown (an African-American) and Wanda De Jesus (a Latina).

* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:Love uploads a program based on her mind into [=RoboCop 2=] while she's dying from burns and injuries Murphy inflected on her.]]

* 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 was a pole dancer.

* {{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 -- and this is the same man who directed ''Film/BasicInstinct'' and ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'') Lewis. One of the covers for issue 4 even features Lewis posed on a streetlamp akin to a pole dancer.

* {{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.

* AuthorAppeal: Frank Miller wrote it; of ''course'' prostitutes are in it.

* Robosexual: Otomo and Faxx.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of [=RoboCop=], in how miserable, and wearied by his war with OCP

Boom Studios later obtained the license for [=RoboCop=] and chose to adapt Miller's original screenplay for ''Film/Robocop 3''. Steven Grant returned to adapt the screenplay into a 7-part miniseries with art by Kurt Otzkein.

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 rewritten to what'd actually become ''Film/RoboCop2''.

* HeroicRRoD: Happens to Murphy twice.

* GreatOffscreenWar: As befitting being the original script for ''Film/RoboCop2'' and having elements that go on to be in ''Film/RoboCop3'', this mentions the Amazon War that's mentioned in those with the Rehabs, like in ''3'' being former mercs who were involved in the conflict and Reed having served in it (and recongizing the Rehabs as mercs).
* HeroicRedRingOfDeath: Happens to Murphy twice.

* AdaptationalDiversity: Inverted. Two of the officers to help Lewis, Whittaker and Estevez, are depicted as white men. In ''Film/RoboCop2'', they were respectively played by Rgoer Aaron Brown (an African-American) and Wanda De Jesus (a Latina).

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Love has a god complex that gets worse when she transfers her mind into [=RoboCop=] 2.

* MsFanservice: Dr. Love, her assistant, and Lewis are given this role, being clad in revealing outfits and the former two posing proactively.

* WouldHurtAChild: One of the first thing Murphy deals with is a child slavery ring.