History Headscratchers / Robocop2014

* This stand point is, astonishingly, never even mentioned in the whole movie. Senator Dreyfus, in what little screen time he has, keeps blabbering about the "human factor" and whatnot, to oppose mechanized crime control. OmniCorp surely can't have their products turned against them, can they?

** Earlier in the movie, Murphy overrode his priorities and investigated his own murder case. It might be possible that by threatening his wife and son, Sellars [[NiceJobFixingItVillain gave him enough resolve]] to to override the 'do not shoot' command, while he couldn't do so earlier even to save his own life.

[[folder:Why is Robocop better than the "old" drones?]]
* It's established in the movie that whenever Robo's visor is down for combat situations, the software takes over and Murphy's brain has no actual input on what's going on. In that case, why was Robocop so much better while fighting the Omnicorp drones? Under such conditions, He would be operating as he was yet another drone.

** Speaking of which, did Murphy become aware at some point of what goes on whenever the visor goes down? or by the end he remains fooled into thinking that he is the one kicking ass?
*** WMG territory here, but I suspect that Murphy 'bled' over into the software a bit, becoming a sort of directive-based overseer to the rest of the software. He both is and isn't kicking ass.

** [[spoiler: Mattox]] wasn't shot by Murphy. [[spoiler: He was shot by Lewis. Murphy reacted, and shot Lewis, non-lethally.]] Presumably, there is an override allowing for red assets being a danger to other red assets, which his wife and son qualified as, also allowing for [[spoiler: Sellars]] to get shot.
** But his wife and son weren't red assets. Nor was an override ever mentioned.
** Earlier in the movie it's mentioned that Alex is overwriting his priorities. It's not impossible he was able to overwrite the 'do not shoot' command. Lewis was also [[spoiler: shot by Mattox's partner,]] not Murphy.

[[/folder: The car bomb]]

** Murphy opened the car door himself with the remote on his keychain. You can see him point it at the car and press the button before the door opens.

** Presumably the delay was to obfuscate just when the bomb was planted. If it went off at the hospital, the first place anyone would start looking for evidence would be at the hospital--and they'd notice that the cameras went off at a certain time, and then they'd start looking at who was in the area. It's also possible that someone was watching Murphy's place and set it off manually when they saw, possibly through the CCTV cameras, that it was him at the car.

** A related question came to my mind: If the bomb was supposed to work like that, how would the people planting the bomb know that Murphy's wife wouldn't go check on the car?

** It's also possible that they used stem cells to repair the damage that had been done to what was salvaged. Sure, they're capable of all of this advanced surgery and cybernetics. Why not just grow him a new body entirely? I don't imagine growing a new body can be done in a short amount of time(considering that they had a schedule to follow when it came to saving Murphy's life)even with their level of technology, and I don't imagine it would be easy to port an existing brain over to said newly grown body and hooking up the old brain to the new nervous system. It might be easier just to hook up his brain and remaining organs to a cyborg body. Besides, if they had just ported Murphy's brain into a newly grown and highly vulnerable organic body, we wouldn't have Robocop ;)

** Triggering the alarm and at least unlocking the door if not opening it could be done by radio signal. There's already cars around today with enough computer control for that. The rest, I have no idea.

* So, that car bomb...it's planted in the hospital, but waits until Murphy's at home to go off. It can also somehow trigger the car alarm despite not being connected to it (it's just a metal box), and is somehow able to open the door when Murphy approaches. If anyone can explain why any of this rigmarole is necessary over "blow up when the engine starts", let me know.

** They also don't have access to the processing power needed to sort and cross-reference all that data. The police would have whatever government funding could get for them, and whatever that is is probably long since obsolete. Robocop has the bleeding edge technology from OmniCorp. It's almost literally the difference between your couple years old desktop versus a supercomputer.

** Lack of manpower/corruption

** Lack of manpower/corruption

** Earlier in the movie it's mentioned that Alex is overwriting his priorities. It's not impossible he was able to overwrite the 'do not shoot' command.

* Is there any reason the regular, non-cyborg cops couldn't use the massive video database that would allow them to solve practically any crime in Detroit?

** Perhaps they took a skin grafts from the rest of his undamaged body. There was a lot of surgery after all.

* Alex Murphy took a bomb to the face. When he is lying on the hospital bed, you can see that the burns extend to his face. Why is there not the slightest hint of scarring anywhere once he's in the Robocop outfit?

** [[spoiler: Mattox]] wasn't shot by Murphy. [[spoiler: He was shot by Lewis. Murphy reacted, and shot Lewis, non-lethally.]] Presumably, there is an override allowing for red assets being a danger to other red assets, which his wife and son qualified as, also allowing for [[spoiler: Sellars]] to get shot.

* How was Murphy able to [[spoiler:shoot Sellars]] when he was 'redtagged' and moments earlier was unable to [[spoiler: shoot Mattox]]?

* It's established in the movie that whenever Robo's visor is down for combat situations, the software takes over and Murphy's brain has no actual input on what's going on. In that case, why was Robocop so much better while fighting the Omnicorp drones? Under such conditions, He would be operating as he was yet another drone.