History YMMV / RoboCop2

** "Bad ''language'', makes for bad ''feelings''." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Robocop says this to kids who swear at him due to being reprogrammed with multiple conflicting, PR-friendly directives. This one made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' as a response to ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' asking "There still a man under all that shit?"[[/labelnote]]
** "Behaaave yourselves!" can be used to break up flame wars and the like.

** "Bad ''language'', makes for bad ''feelings''." This one made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' as a response to ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' asking "There still a man under all that shit?"

** "Bad ''language'', makes for bad ''feelings''." This one made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' as a response to ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' asking "Is there still a man underneath all that shit?"

** "Bad ''language'', makes for bad ''feelings''." This one made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' as a response to ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' swearing.

** "Bad ''language'', makes for bad ''feelings''." This one made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' as a response to ComicBook/Spawn swearing.

** "Bad ''language'', makes for bad ''feelings''." This one made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' as a response to Spawn swearing.

* MemeticMutation: '''Behaaave yourselves!''' can be used to break up flame wars and the like.

** Uring the arcade scene, some of the Creator/DataEast logos applied to the cabinets don't hide the original companies all that well.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A lot of people were confused or even annoyed when it came to [[spoiler:the death of Hob. He acts like a dying child--which of course he is--and Robocop obviously treats him with some measure of implied sympathy, particularly since he was murdered by his old boss Cain. The problem is that Hob is a ''really, really evil'' dying child, who was involved in Murphy's dismantling, shoots two police officers and we've spent the movie watching him establish himself as an extremely ruthless ManipulativeBastard and aspirant drug lord. Basically the problem is, if he wasn't a kid, the audience probably would have been ''cheering''.]] It has also been said, according to some fans, that [[spoiler:Hob brought his death on himself. Hob was the one who made the decision to leave Cain for dead, which likely factored into Robo-Cain killing Hob, and there was the glee he took in damaging Robocop and trying to garrote Officer Lewis (even taunting her about it: "You're looking a little out of breath, bitch)]].

** When Duffy is submitted to ColdBloodedTorture, his chest where is heart is supposed to be gets cut open first, resulting in a lot of blood spurting and Duffy screaming in horror and pain. This is more unsettling when in 2014 Duffy's actor Stephen Lee passed away from a heart attack.

* UncannyValley:
** The CGI head used for Cain after he gets his new body.
** The twitching Robocop puppet after he's dismembered.

* CompleteMonster: [[AxCrazy Cain]], the psychotic Nuke cult leader, has a long list of crimes. These including blowing up a drug treatment center just because they try to cure people of their addiction to Nuke; using his protege, a young boy named Hob, as a as a [[ChildSoldiers soldier]] in his gang; eviscerating one of his [[DirtyCop drug-buying cops]] after [=RoboCop=] has forced him to reveal the location of one of the labs making Nuke, an action which Hob and Cain's girlfriend Angie are both ForcedToWatch and [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified by]]; shooting before removing from his limo an illegal immigrant worker from the drug lab, pleading not to be turned over the police; and, along with his gang, dismembering [=RoboCop=]. When he's turned into [=RoboCop=] 2, in exchange for a big container of Nuke, Cain charges his former gang's hideout and kills almost everyone there except the Mayor, who manages to escape. Cain twists Angie's head around and fatally shoots Hob, leaving him for dead. Cain later without provocation tries to kill [=RoboCop=] to settle the score, with numerous civilians and police officers getting killed during the final battle.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Some of the stop motion effects on [=RoboCop=] 2 AKA [=RoboCain=] haven't aged well, especially when Murphy is grappling with him.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Hob. While lots of people will simply dismiss his death as deserved and be confused or offended that his death is played as a tragedy keep in mind that Hob is 12, seems to have no family other than his gang, has [[AxCrazy Cain]] as a father figure, and is routinely exposed to humanity at its worst, is it really any wonder that he behaves the way he does? It's also implied in several scenes that he's not nearly as bad as he seems and a lot has to do with him merely trying to survive his situation. When he abandons Cain to his death it could be because he doesn't care or it could be because he hates Cain for years of abuse and is happy to see him gone. He is also visibly horrified and ForcedToWatch another human being being vivisected in front of him. He has to constantly prove that he has value to his gang or be abandoned or worse and that activity always involves crime or doing terrible things. As much as people might dislike Hob, it's almost certain he never had a say in the circumstances he was brought up in and never had the choice to be anything else.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A lot of people were confused or even annoyed when it came to [[spoiler: the death of Hob. He acts like a dying child--which of course he is--and Robocop obviously treats him with some measure of implied sympathy, particularly since he was murdered by his old boss Cain. The problem is that Hob is a ''really, really evil'' dying child, who was involved in Murphy's dismantling, shoots two police officers and we've spent the movie watching him establish himself as an extremely ruthless ManipulativeBastard and aspirant drug lord. Basically the problem is, if he wasn't a kid, the audience probably would have been ''cheering''.]] It has also been said, according to some fans, that [[spoiler: Hob brought his death on himself. Hob was the one who made the decision to leave Cain for dead, which likely factored into Robo-Cain killing Hob, and there was the glee he took in damaging Robocop and trying to garrote Officer Lewis (even taunting her about it: "You're looking a little out of breath, bitch)]].

** The 3D model on [=RoboCain's=] screen holds up quite well, and evokes UncannyValley very effectively. It was done by laser-scanning actor Tom Noonan's face in real time as he made the expressions.
** The animatronic face of Peter Weller on the disassembled [=RoboCop=] wincing in pain is very convincing.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Faxx, you honestly thought it was a good idea to put the mind of the city's greatest drug dealer and a serial killer into the body of a nearly unstoppable robot, all under the pretense that that you think he's under your control as long as he doesn't reach his controls? And her arrogance got countless lives lost in the process.
*** You'd think a psychiatrist would stop and think beyond "step 1: what sort of personality could survive being transplanted into a cyborg?" to reach and logically answer "step 2: is this the sort of personality we would ''want'' running around in a combat-grade cyborg?"
*** She even seems to go out of her way to make Cain's transformation as traumatic as possible: basically kills him via asphyxiation by turning off his life support (cue rapid brain damage due to oxygen loss), and doesn't bother having Cain's jar moved as she confers with a surgeon ''holding the remains of Cain's head in front of Cain's eyes''. Faxx chose a drug-addicted murderer for Robocop 2's candidate and did it in the most horrifying manner, and somehow didn't think Cain wouldn't go berserk at first opportunity.
*** Given that she's completely unheard of by the 3rd movie clearly states that she committed career suicide and no doubt serving time for her actions.
** Whose bright idea was it to hand the Old Man a canister of ''real'' Nuke to show off in front of the press? In his defense, he probably didn't ''know'' that the brain in [=RoboCop=] 2 was that of the former Nuke-worshipping drug-lord, Cain, though since he did approve of her putting brains of deranged criminals into Cyborgs he still should have been aware of the danger that would result from it. For that matter, how could the Old Man be the only one in the company to let Dr. Faxx's sex appeal make him forget that sticking psychopath's brains in cyborg bodies is an ''obviously bad idea''? Everyone else she brought it up with, from her primary surgeon/programmer to Mr. Johnson, the Old Man's 2nd in command, immediately saw this was a stupid idea.
** On that point, giving [=RoboCain=] a loaded [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] isn't exactly a smart move either. Then again, given that the same thing happened with the ED-209 in the first film, [[IncompetenceInc it's in character for OCP to do so]].
** Handing Robocop back to the city. Yeah, it's probably to make a statement, but he's clearly functional enough to be rebuilt.
** Murphy wouldn't have nearly as much trouble with Hob if he just carried a nonlethal weapon like most real-life cops do anyway.

** The Argument that Hob and Angie make to the mayor, that ignoring them will allow them to market a cheap, and safe version of Nuke, sounds similar to the argument of decriminalizing drugs, Marijuana in particular.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Cain]], the psychotic Nuke cult leader, has a long list of crimes. These including blowing up a drug treatment center just because they try to cure people of their addiction to Nuke; eviscerating one of his [[DirtyCop drug-buying cops]] after [=RoboCop=] has forced him to reveal the location of one of the labs making Nuke, an action which his accomplices, Hob and girlfriend Angie are both ForcedToWatch and [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified by]]; willingly using [[ChildSoldiers children as soldiers]] in his gang; shooting before removing from his limo an illegal immigrant worker from the drug lab, pleading not to be turned over the police; and, along with his gang, dismembering [=RoboCop=]. When he's turned into [=RoboCop=] 2, in exchange for a big container of Nuke, he charges his former gang's hideout and kills almost everyone there except the Mayor, who manages to escape. He twists Angie's head around and fatally shoots Hob, a young boy who was in his employ, leaving him for dead. He later without provocation tries to kill [=RoboCop=] to settle the score, with numerous civilians and police officers getting killed during the final battle.

* VindicatedByHistory: While still not as well regarded as the first movie, its nowadays considered a decent film and a ''lot'' better than the ''other'' sequels. It helps that the film still had memorable one-liners from Robocop that made it into ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' for RoboCop's GuestFighter role. The film also introduced the memorable [=RoboCain=] with their creepy awesome (for its time) stop-motion animation.

* VindicatedByHistory: While still not as well regarded as the first movie, its nowadays considered a decent film and a ''lot'' better than the ''other'' sequels.

* SoBleakItsBoring: The main issue most people who didn't like the film had with it. It was one of the reasons Creator/PeterWeller did not return for the third movie (along with how uncomfortable the suit was). A few scenes showing Robocop's humanity were also cut from the final film. In particular, many critics (including Creator/RogerEbert) were offended by the character of Hob, thinking that putting a murderous SirSwearsALot 12 year old in an R-rated movie was taking things too far; not to mention, an even greater level of violence compared to the first film and the frequent, explicit hard drug use (albeit of a fictional drug).

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The main issue most people who didn't like the film had with it. It was one of the reasons Creator/PeterWeller did not return for the third movie (along with how uncomfortable the suit was). A few scenes showing Robocop's humanity were also cut from the final film. In particular, many critics (including Creator/RogerEbert) were offended by the character of Hob, thinking that putting a murderous SirSwearsALot 12 year old in an R-rated movie was taking things too far; not to mention, an even greater level of violence compared to the first film and the frequent, explicit hard drug use (albeit of a fictional drug).

* FetishRetardant: [[Film/AustinPowers Fabiana Udenio]] in a bikini is awesome, but not when covered in green and blue goo (Sunblock 5000).

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: A lot of people were confused or even annoyed when it came to [[spoiler: the death of Hob. He acts like a dying child--which of course he is--and Robocop obviously treats him with some measure of implied sympathy, particularly since he was murdered by his old boss Cain. The problem is that Hob is a ''really, really evil'' dying child, who was involved in Murphy's dismantling, shoots two police officers and we've spent the movie watching him establish himself as an extremely ruthless ManipulativeBastard and aspirant drug lord. Basically the problem is, if he wasn't a kid, the audience probably would have been ''cheering''.]] It has also been said, according to some fans, that [[spoiler: Hob brought his death on himself. Hob was the one who made the decision to leave Cain for dead, which likely factored into Robo-Cain killing Hob, and there was the glee he took in damaging Robocop and trying to garrote Officer Lewis (even taunting her about it: "You're looking a little out of breath, bitch)]].\\\
Though it could be argued that [[spoiler: Hob being a child makes him more sympathetic in spite of his sociopathic tendencies because, unlike an adult, it's implied that [[DrivenToVillainy Hob had little choice in being a gangster.]] Hob was by all indications most likely an orphan and when your father figure is someone like [[AxCrazy Cain]] it's hard to see how Hob could have turned out any other way (Hob was in fact deeply troubled and disgusted by Officer Duffy being vivisected and Cain [[ForcedToWatch held his face toward the screaming man being cut up).]] Keep in mind to that Hob is still a child and hasn't experienced anything beyond his violent upbringing which means it's all he know so even when they have to leave Cain and he still acts like a criminal, it's because it's all he has to fall back on.]]

** When Duffy is submitted to ColdBloodedTorture, his chest where is heart is supposed to be gets cut open first, resulting in a lot of blood spurting and Duffy screaming in horror and pain. This is more unsettling when in 2014 Duffy's actor Stephen Lee passed away form a heart attack.

** When Duffy is submitted to ColdBloodedTorture, his chest where is heart is supposed to be get cut up first, resulting in a lot of blood spurting and Duffy screaming in horror and pain. This is more unsettling when in 2014 Duffy's actor Stephen Lee passed away form a heart attack.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The proud debuts of the failed [=RoboCop=] 2 candidates.