History WMG / RoboCop2014

Alex Murphy gets severely wounded like Jake Sully only Alex can not leave his "Avatar" body. His first time in his new body, he also gets to "escape" from the lab and go running outside. Alex also turns against his corrupt MegaCorp in a militant way and removes the corrupt leadership with lethal results (in this case, when Sellers holds his family hostage). Both end with the respective characters fully accepting their new forms.

** l The line "I wouldn't buy ''that'' for a dollar." suggests that the in-universe TV show this was from is still at least fairly well known.

** Adding credence to this theory is how much more competent the ED-209 robots are (albeit, still not perfect). The fact that the US Armed Forces are using the ED-209s alongside bipedal robot soldiers may support this idea.
** The line "I wouldn't buy ''that'' for a dollar." suggests that the in-universe TV show this was from is still at least fairly well known.

Alex Murphy gets severely wounded like Jake Sully only Alex can not leave his "Avatar" body. His first time in his new body, he also gets to "escape" from the lab and go running outside. Alex also turns against his corrupt MegaCorp in a militant way and removes the corrupt leadership with lethal results (in this case, when Sellers holds his family hostage). Both end with the respective characters fully accepting their new forms.

[[WMG: Novak was a bought and paid for [[TheShill corporate shill]] for Omnicorp.]]

** Alternatively, rather than being paid under the table, Novak's show is outright owned and produced by Omnicorp (or another OCP subsidiary / partner), and is taking the company line.

[[WMG: OCP will privatize the police department just like in the original.]]

* They may have already, to some extent. Compare the police department when Murphy goes there in the beginning of the film to what we see later. When Murphy geos there after the shootout at the restaurant, it looks like a regular office, later on, when he's exposing the contacts Vallon was using, it looks much more high tech. It's likely [=OmniCorp=] put some serious cash into the place. [[FridgeBrilliance They would have to]] since it's going to be Murphy's primary base of operations and he has some special needs.

Alex Murphy gets his wounded like Jake Sully only Alex can not leave his "Avatar". His first time in his new body, he also gets to "escape" from the lab and go running outside. Alex also turns against his corrupt MegaCorp in a militant way and removes the corrupt leadership with lethal results (in this case, when Sellers holds his family hostage).

[[WMG: The story is a spin on the film Avatar]]

[[WMG: The story is a spin on the film [[Film/{{Avatar}}]]

Detroit looks cleaner than the original. It has also shown Murphy wasn't the first Mechanical enforcer on the market. The name of his wife and kid are not the same as the original or the miniseries that followed it. Odds are this Alex Murphy is Alex Murphy the 2nd.

* They may have already, to some extent. Compare the police department when Murphy goes there in the beginning of the film to what we see later. In the first, it looks like a regular office, later on it looks much more high tech. It's likely [=OmniCorp=] put some serious cash into the place. [[FridgeBrilliance They would have to]] since it's going to be Murphy's primary base of operations and he has some special needs.

[[WMG: This takes place Decades after the original RoboCop.]]

[[WMG: This takes place after the original RoboCop.]]
Detroit looks cleaner than the original. It has also shown Murphy wasn't the first Mechanical enforcer on the market.

* They may have already, to some extent. Compare the police department when Murphy goes there in the beginning of the film to what we see later. In the first, it looks like a regular office, later on it looks much more high tech. It's likely [=OmniCorp=] put some serious cash into the place. [[FridgeBrilliance They would have to]] since it's going to be Murphy's primary base of operations and he has some special needs.

* Omnicorp is American, but its parent company is a tech and industrial giant from China. That certainly would give it a extra level of irony, making America's safety and military might a matter of foreign business. Plus, it would explain why Omnicorp had R&D in China.
** Why would their testing facility be in Japan then?
*** The movie didn't indicate a Japanese location AFAIK.
**** Maddox says that without his say so that Murphy should start learning Chinese because he won't be leaving, which is about as good as saying "It's in China".

* They may have already, to some extent. Compare the police department when Murphy goes there in the beginning of the film to what we see later. In the first, it looks like a regular office, later on it looks much more high tech. It's likely [=OmniCorp=] put some serious cash into the place.
** [[FridgeBrilliance They would pretty much have to]] since it's going to be Murphy's primary base of operations and he has some special needs.

* They may have already, to some extent. Compare the police department when Murphy goes there in the beginning of the film to what we see later. In the first, it looks like a regular office, later on it looks much more high tech. It's likely [=OmniCorp=] put some serious cash into the place.

With the rampant corruption exposed by Murphy, it shouldn't be too hard to convince public officials to let OCP buy the department under the guise of a benevolent attempt to clean it up.

With the rampant corruption exposed by Murphy, it shouldn't be too hard to convince public officials to let OCP buy the department.

* Omnicorp is American, but its parent company is a tech and industrial giant from China. That certainly would give it a extra level of irony, making America's safety and military might a matter of foreign business. Plus, it would explain why Omnicorp had R&D in China.

* Omnicorp is American, but it's parent company is a tech and industrial giant from China. That certainly would give it a extra level of irony, making America's safety and military might a matter of foreign business. Plus, it would explain why Omnicorp had R&D in China.

* This isn't too much of a stretch, but Novak's incredible pro-bot bias, particularly in the scene where he has the CEO at the studio and the anti-bot senator on hologram, speak of such horrible bias, that it doesn't take a whole heck of a lot to imagine Omnicorp is probably covertly (at the very least) paying Novak a great deal to be a sockpuppet for them.