History Headscratchers / Robocop2014

** Because that would piss him off. Remember his reaction when he found out he was a cyborg? He '''freaked out'''. What do you think would happen if he realized that he was being flat out mind controlled?[[/folder]]

*** Likely even MORE inline recall how the Redtags are told NOT to shoot or get out of line, just in case. Guess what Sellars does? Threaten two unarmed civilians. Likely the program weakened AND Alex resolved more because Sellars went from unthreatening asset of the highest priority to threatening criminal to civilians.

* why not keep Alex's other organs? They seemed to be intact after the bomb and this would simplify his care requirements significantly, allowing his to eat normal food and making the nightly blood transfer unnecessary. Just chuck in a couple of waste bags and change those nightly.
* If you think about it, it's effectively another leash they have on Murphy. The old Robo was more or less autonomous and could wander off to do his own thing for extended lenghts of time, but this Robo has to return every night for his blood cleanup and nutrient dose, or he will die.

** Because that would piss him off. Remember his reaction when he found out he was a cyborg? He '''freaked out'''. What do you think would happen if he realized that he was being flat out mind controlled?

* Rather than have the computer take over "and he won't know the difference" why not ''tell Murphy'' about this aspect and that they can reverse it if it doesn't work out? He's already aware he's half machine anyway.

* There is also the fact the hand probably would work properly, given how much hand function depends on tendons in the arm.
* One of the cut scenes reveals that Sellars asked Norton to save Murphy's right hand for the sake of handshakes.

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*** Also it's Murphy's right hand (that is, the one you shake with) with represents the bridge between man and machine.

* 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 robot.

** also kind of WMG but Norton was literally in Murphy's head at the time perhaps he added some additional hardware to Murphy's subconscious to get the software to shave off those few seconds that everyone worried about.

** 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.

* OmniCorp surely can't have their products turned against them and those who they do business with (e.g criminals, politicians), can they? Robocop's "Priority" on solving cases is a subtle example; its true purpose is to keep him away from cases that might damage OmniCorp's interests. This stand point is, astonishingly, never even mentioned in the whole movie. Senator Dreyfus, in what little screen time he has to oppose mechanized crime control, keeps blabbering about the "human factor" and whatnot, while ignoring this obvious flaw.
** Well, consider that in this continuity, Omni is a lot cleaner than OCP was. Dick Jones' goals were A) turn Detroit into an even worse hellhole by any means necessary (which included having a psychotic gang leader on his payroll) so the company could buy the city cheap, screwing everybody in the processe, and B) selling to the goverment a highly defective military product. Sellars only became a card-carrying villain towards the end of the movie, and his initial goals were to simply sell a good, efficient product to the goverment. He doesn't even have any contact with the equivalent to Clarence Boddiker in the reboot. Seeing that OmniCorp finances an expensive research on advanced prosthetics, odds are they are villains with good publicity, so if a Senator suddendly put in question their motives and suggested stuff like that without any base, it would be damaging to his argument.