History YMMV / RoboCop

* HarsherInHindsight: Robocop depicted a futuristic Detroit as a bankrupt, crime-ridden city. Sadly, since this movie has come out, present day Detroit has become bankrupt and overrun by crime.

* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Film/Robocop1987'' is an undisputed action/sci-fi classic, and set a benchmark that future ''Robocop'' media would struggle to meet.

* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Film/Robocop1987'' is an undisputed action/sci-fi classic, and set a benchmark few fans will argue that any future ''Robocop'' media successfully met.

* FanNickname: Robocrap for the proposed remake.

* CompleteMonster: [[Monster/RoboCop1987 Now with a page]].

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones]]; [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]]; [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]]; [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries Felix Weber]]; Mr. Brink; and in a case of sharing one with [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} another franchise]], [[ComicBook/RoboCopVersusTheTerminator SkyNet]]. Scroll down for Mr. Brink and see the respective pages for details on the others.

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones]]; [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]]; [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]]; [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries Felix Weber]], Mr. Brink, and in a case of sharing one with [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} another franchise]], [[ComicBook/RoboCopVersusTheTerminator SkyNet]]. Scroll down for Mr. Brink and see the respective pages for details on the others.

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones]]; [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]]; [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]]; [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries Felix Weber]], Mr. Brink, and in a sharing of sharing one with [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} another franchise]], [[ComicBook/RoboCopVersusTheTerminator SkyNet]]. Scorll down for Mr. Brink and see those pages for details on the others.

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones]]; [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]]; [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]]; [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries Felix Weber]], Mr. Brink, and in a sharing of sharing one with [[Franchise/{{Terminator}}
another franchise]], [[ComicBook/RoboCopVersusTheTerminator SkyNet]]. Scorll down for Mr. Brink and see those pages for details on the others.

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones]]; [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]]; [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]]; [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries Felix Weber]]. See those pages for details.

* CompleteMonster: [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones]]; [[Film/RoboCop2 Cain]]; [[Film/RoboCop3 Paul McDaggett]]. See the pages for details.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''[=RoboCop=]'' meets ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' in both premise ([=RoboCop=] going around the world, fighting an international criminal organization) and literally (Robo having a lot more gadgets built into him than normal, including some nonsensical ones for a cyborg designed to enforce the law to have).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Don't let the cartoon graphics fool you, the program contains a lot of content that simply is not meant for kids, including BodyHorror and a moment of literal SceneryNudity.

* DorkAge: The attempts to aim the franchise towards children, ''Film/RoboCop3'', ''Series/RoboCopTheSeries'', and ''[=RoboCop=]: Alpha Commando'' were not well-received by the fandom, because of their exact purpose: toning down what'd been a very adult-set of films to little kids. Despite the attempts made by ''Series/RoboCopPrimeDirectives'' and [[Film/RoboCop2014 the reboot]], the franchise hasn't recovered.

* DorkAge: The attempts to aim the franchise towards children, ''Film/RoboCop3'', ''Series/RoboCopTheSeries'', and ''[=RoboCop=]: Alpha Commando'' were not well-received by the fandom, because of their exact purpose: toning down what'd been a very adult-set of films to little kids. Despite the attempts made by ''Series/RoboCopPrimeDirectives'' and [[Film/RoboCop2014 the reboot]], the franchise haven't recovered.

* HarsherInHindsight: Robocop depicted a futuristic Detroit as a bankrupt, crime rampant city. Sadly, since this movie has come out, present day Detroit has become bankrupt and overrun by crime.

* InternetBacklash: It only took a single trailer to cause massive backlash against the remake. The biggest complaints have been the fact that [[{{Bowdlerise}} it's rated PG-13]] (considering a lot of the appeal of the series is BloodyHilarious and BlackComedy), Robocop has been given a black-colored redesign (the film following the incredibly immature "black colored equals cool" idea), and the fact that the satire that forms such a big part of the series seems completely absent, with the whole story having been made into a cliché that appeals to the LowestCommonDenominator.

* {{Sequelitis}}: ''2'' and to a greater extent, ''3''.

* {{Flanderization}}: The Old Man of OCP is, in the first film, something of an occasionally [[CloudCuckooLander eccentric]] CEO of the company who reacts to the butchering of one of his employees with a ''"I'm '''very''' disappointed."'' but is otherwise presented as a if not benevolent then decent enough individual who wants to make Detriot better and plans to do so by not only redeveloping Old Detriot into Delta City, but also funding public services and the like. He's not good, but he's certainly not ''evil''. The next films have him as an outright CorruptCorporateExecutive who is complacent in the butchering of several police officers for the [=RoboCop=] 2 project, and who throws one of his employees to the wolves when it doesn't work out, and he only gets worse from there.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: People are [[BrokenBase split]] on the 'Go-Motion' animation of non-RoboCop robots (ED-209, [=RoboCain=] and the prototype robots at the beginning of film two). To some, they only look real whenever they remain still, but look clunky when they start to movie. But to [[NightmareFuel others]], this is justified because of their robotic nature.