History YMMV / RoboCop2

** [=RoboCop=] essentially performs a spine-rip Fatality on [[spoiler:[=RoboCain=]]]. ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', added [=RoboCop=] as a GuestFighter.

** [=RoboCop=] essentially performs a spine-rip Fatality on [[spoiler:[=RoboCain=]]]. ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [=RoboCop=] added [=RoboCop=] as a GuestFighter.

** [=RoboCop=] performs a spine-rip Fatality on [[spoiler:[=RoboCain=]]] essentially. Creator/MidwayGames would then create ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1992'' in 1992 and this move was given to Sub-Zero as one of his signature finishers, causing notable controversy at the time. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [=RoboCop=] was then added as a GuestFighter!

* UnintentionallySyimpathetic: Mayor Kuzak is presented in a mocking fashion as an ineffectual liberal politician out of touch with the realities of his office. However, everything he says about OCP's EvilPlan is 100% correct and he's absolutely right to be furious with them.

** [=RoboCop=] performs a spine-rip Fatality on [[spoiler:[=RoboCain=]]] essentially. Creator/MidwayGames would then create ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' in 1992 and this move was given to Sub-Zero as one of his signature finishers, causing notable controversy at the time. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [=RoboCop=] was then added as a GuestFighter!

* LoveToHate: Cain is one of the creepiest villains in the series. He likes to kill minions just for being loose ends who have outlived their usefulness, and is utterly sadistic to those who rat on him. Creator/TomNoonan really makes the character his own, with his emotionless delivery and confident gait like he's one step ahead of his enemies. When he gets transformed into a giant cyborg, Robocop confronts him for a climatic battle and makes him pay, even getting his hands on his spinal cord and brain.

* LoveToHate: Cain is one of the creepiest villains in the series. He likes to kill minions just for being loose ends who have outlived their usefulness, and is utterly sadistic to those who rat on him. Creator/TomNoonan really makes the character his own, with his emotionless delivery and confident gait like he's one step ahead of his enemies. When he gets transformed into a giant cyborg, Robocop confronts him for a climatic battle and makes him pay for his depravity.

* 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")]].

* LoveToHate: Cain in ''Film/RoboCop2'' is one of the creepiest villains in the series. He likes to kill minions just for being loose ends who have outlived their usefulness, and is utterly sadistic to those who rat on him. Creator/TomNoonan really makes the character his own, with his emotionless delivery and confident gait like he's one step ahead of his enemies. When he gets transformed into a giant cyborg, Robocop confronts him for a climatic battle and makes him pay for his depravity.

* 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 drug-buying cops after [[Characters/RoboCopTheCharacter 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.

** 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.

** [=RoboCop=] performs a spine-rip Fatality on [[spoiler:[=RoboCain=]]] essentially. Creator/MidwayGames would then create ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' in 1992 and this move was given to Sub-Zero as one of his signature finishers, causing notable controversy at the time. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [=RoboCop=] was added as a GuestFighter!

** [=RoboCop=] performs a spine-rip Fatality on [[spoiler:[=RoboCain=]] essentially. Creator/MidwayGames would then create ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' in 1992 and this move was given to Sub-Zero as one of his signature finishers, causing notable controversy at the time. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', [=RoboCop=] was added as a GuestFighter!

* ContestedSequel: Hardly anyone would say that ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' is as good as the original, but there is a debate on whatever it can be an entertaining film in its own right or not. All things considered, it's still better regarded than ''Film/RoboCop3''.

** Why did [=RoboCain=] [[spoiler: kill his love interest]]? Was he offended by what she said about getting used to him being a robot, or does he have an epiphany that his human life is irreversibly over and do his deed out of despair over his situation of having just his brain left, locked up inside a mecha?

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: 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.

** [[Creator/TomNoonan Tom Noonan's]] Cain as the leader of his Nuke cult who has armed mooks was unintentionally prophetic of Creator/JosephDKucan staring in his own iconic role of Kane in the game ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn''. Kane has a fanatical cult devoted to the ecologically destructive resource Tiberium and Kane has a fondness towards nuclear weapons and creating a paradise on earth through Titanium infestation. Both figures also are respectively balding or bald.

** Cain as the leader of his Nuke cult who has armed mooks was unintentionally prophetic of Creator/JosephDKucan staring in his own iconic role of Kane in the game ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn''. Kane has a fanatical cult devoted to the ecologically destructive resource Tiberium and Kane has a fondness towards nuclear weapons and creating a paradise on earth through Titanium infestation.

* JerkassWoobie: While Hob is as bad as most of the adults in the gang bar [[CompleteMonster Cain]], he's also 12 years old. It's likely that he's an orphan and has no choice but to rely on the gang as his family. He also has [[AxCrazy Cain]] as a father figure which doesn't really give a kid the most stability or safety growing up. Given his behavior and the way he carries himself and the fact that he's a victim of circumstances beyond his control it's hard no to see that he's a product of his environment and never had the chance to be anything else.

** The Magnavolt ad became prophetic in a way as 30 years after the film, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic left many cars stationary and prime targets for theft or catalytic converter theft. Fortunately, electronic immobilizers are the typical sane solution to preventing theft of the entire car.

* RealismInducedHorror: Cain's drug lab operation brings to mind HumanTraffickers as he presumably uses EthnicMenialLabor with some form of coercion, a scenario that is very real. The fact that he also raised Hob to be a child soldier is also in the realm of reality.

* 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 and nightmarish Cain with their tendency to have a blank expression even as he watches someone get tortured to death. He gets transformed into [=RoboCain=] and does battle with [=RoboCop=] and his robotic body has creepy awesome (for its time) stop-motion animation to match Cain's menace.

* 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 and nightmarish Cain with their tendency to have a blank expression even as he watches someone get tortured to death. He gets into [=RoboCain=] and does battle with [=RoboCop=] and their robotic body has 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. 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.