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* TheMockbuster: Of ''Film/RoboCop2014''.

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* TheMockbuster: Of ''Film/RoboCop2014''.''Film/RoboCop2014'', with some elements of Almost Human.
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* FantasticRacism: Hammond is not fond of AI's, due to his partner dying from a machine gun turret malfunctioning.

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* FantasticRacism: Hammond is not fond of AI's, [=AIs=], due to his partner dying from a machine gun turret malfunctioning.
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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs, who poisons an entire section of LA by cutting corners, then covers it up by having it quarantined under pain of death. When his daughter tries to expose his scheme, he's perfectly willing to have her killed.]]

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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs, who Jacobs pretends to be a dedicated public servant, but is so apathetic to the well-being of his citizenry that he poisons an entire section of LA by cutting corners, then covers it up by having it quarantined under pain of death. When his daughter tries city because he doesn't feel like spending the money to expose his scheme, he's test food rations, and is perfectly willing to have her killed.kill his own daughter to cover it up.]]
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It's the year 2049, and Los Angeles is a very different place. Androids have been invented, which is good. However, a horrific plague has sealed off a portion of the city, the Zone, which is very bad. Hammond is a cop who has just been assigned an android partner. Unfortunately, their partnership starts with having to find the Mayor's android daughter. As they search for the core, they unlock a GovernmentConspiracy that could rock LA to its very core...

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It's the year 2049, and Los Angeles is a very different place. Androids have been invented, which is good. However, a horrific plague has sealed off a portion of the city, the Zone, which is very bad. Hammond (White) is a cop who has just been assigned an android partner. Unfortunately, their partnership starts with having to find the Mayor's (Creator/CharlesSDutton) android daughter. As they search for the core, they unlock a GovernmentConspiracy that could rock LA to its very core...
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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs, who poisons an entire section of LA by cutting corners, then covers it up by having it quarantined under pain of death. When his daughter tries to expose his scheme, he's perfectly willing to have her killed.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Two cops blast their way through a crime-ridden section of the city to rescue the mayor's daughter. [[spoiler:They end up having to rampage some more to protect her from the government conspiracy.]]
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'''''Android Cop''''' is a 2014 American ScienceFiction {{buddy cop|show}} film made by Creator/TheAsylum and starring Creator/MichaelJaiWhite.

It's the year 2049, and Los Angeles is a very different place. Androids have been invented, which is good. However, a horrific plague has sealed off a portion of the city, the Zone, which is very bad. Hammond is a cop who has just been assigned an android partner. Unfortunately, their partnership starts with having to find the Mayor's android daughter. As they search for the core, they unlock a GovernmentConspiracy that could rock LA to its very core...
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!!This film contains examples of:

* ActionPrologue: Hammond and his first partner busting up an illegal sale in the Zone.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs]] is behind everything.
* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Hammond hates machines, but his mind was hooked up to one after he was gravely wounded by a malfunctioning turret.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The Zone is a section of future Los Angeles that's contaminated by radiation. In response, it was quarantined under pain of death for anybody who tries to enter or leave without a special bypass. The population are mostly mutants and criminals. The rest of LA isn't much better, since poverty is rampant and the government is incredibly corrupt. Also, euthanasia and organ harvesting is legal.
* DirtyCop: Hammond's superior, Jones, is perfectly willing to steal evidence for his own use. [[spoiler:As it turns out he and the majority of the police force are in on the mayor's plan to commit genocide on the Zone.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: At first it seems like the main threat will be drug boss Dexts Madison, but he's killed 15 minutes in and the plot moves on to a genocidal GovernmentConspiracy led by [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Jacobs shoots himself after his crimes are exposed.]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Andy records Jacobs trying to kill his daughter and plays it over the hospital's intercoms.]]
* FantasticRacism: Hammond is not fond of AI's, due to his partner dying from a machine gun turret malfunctioning.
* GovernmentConspiracy: The main antagonists are [[spoiler:the city government, which wants to commit genocide to cover up a prior crime the Mayor committed.]]
* HostageSituation: Hammond meets Andy when he's taken hostage by a criminal, and Andy saves him.
* JobTitle
* LivingLieDetector: Andy is programmed with the ability to read people's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression microexpressions]], which helps him figure out deceptive agendas.
* MayorPain: [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs is masterminding a scheme to slaughter the Zone to cover up his responsibility in contaminating it.]]
* TheMockbuster: Of ''Film/RoboCop2014''.
* SexSlave: It's common practice for androids to be kept as sex slaves.
* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Mayor Jacobs does one when he sends Hammond and Andy to find his daughter. They'll either kill a bunch of gang members in the process of doing the rescue, or die in the line of duty, giving him an excuse to kill them all himself.]]
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