History YMMV / RoboCopPrimeDirectives

* FridgeHorror: In the climax, [[spoiler:Cable sacrifices his life to save the entire human race from extinction at the hands of Legion by destroying SAINT with an EMP.]] This would be a touching RedemptionEqualsDeath moment... except the EMP bomb also simultaneously knocks out ''all of Old Detroit's power'', a city shown to run mostly on technology. We even hear the screams of the city from a distance in the ending, but any damage or casualties is reduced to a sardonic "they'll probably blame me for this" by SAINT's creator.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Most of the effects are pretty lame, but special mention goes to a scene in "Crash and Burn" where [=RoboCable=]'s butt-plate is barely attached (it must have come loose when they were wrestling in the zen pond).
* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans reacted negatively to Page Fletcher as Murphy. Among the reasons were the fact that he was shorter than most of the other cast members or even the other actors to play the role (whereas both Creator/PeterWeller and Creator/RobertJohnBurke were tall and Richard Eden as of average height) and how Fletcher moved in the suit.

* DorkAge: It was intended by the creators to pull the franchise out of the one it's been in with ''Film/RoboCop3'', ''[[Series/RoboCopTheSeries The Series]]'', and ''[[Franchise/RoboCop Alpha Commando]]'', but many fans felt that despite the return to the dark tone of the first two movies, it didn't help.

** [[MadScientist Dr. David Kaydick]] is an ex-OCP scientist who, fired for his grotesque experiments on human subjects, went into hiding in the slums of Old Detroit. Possessed of a burning rage against OCP for hindering his research, Kaydick fostered a family with a woman named Ann, keeping her as an abused slave for years with an electric neurochip before she finally fled and keeping their daughter Jordan for his own purposes. Kaydick forces Murphy's old partner, Cable, into his service with the same electric chip to torture him into submission while revealing he's used Jordan as an incubator for his magnum opus, the [[SyntheticPlague Legion "bio-tech" virus]], through which Kaydick intends to unleash to destroy all life on the planet with Delta City as its breakout point. Massacring and brutalizing all those who get in his way either with his own hands or through Cable, Kaydick finally uploads Legion into Delta City's SAINT network before opting to murder everyone else threatening his plans--including Jordan--while laughing and deriding Ann as "just a woman" when she finally confronts him. Seeing it as his right to kill millions of people [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for being spurned from his immoral research]], Kaydick is one of the cruelest people to threaten even the polluted setting of Old Detroit.

** At various points in the series, the line "The world only makes sense when you force it to", is quoted, which originates from ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. This is presumably done in tribute to Frank Miller, who wrote that comic and also drafts of ''[=RoboCop=] 2'' and ''3'', along with several [=RoboCop=] comic books. Peter Weller, the original [=RoboCop=], would eventually voice the originator of that quote in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns the animated adaptation]].
** Film/RoboCop2014 took some flack for featuring an all-black suit that seemed to make Robocop look more like Batman, and also for making fun of the original gray, saying it looked outdated. This series provides a black-suited Robocop that is also meant to be a replacement for the gray-suited one, albeit one that adheres closer to the original design.

* HilariousinHindsight:

** At various points in the series, the line "The world only makes sense when you force it to", is quoted, which originates from Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns. This is presumably done in tribute to Frank Miller, who wrote that comic and also drafts of Robocop 2 and 3, along with the several Robocop comic books. Peter Weller, the original Robocop, would eventually voice the originator of that quote in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns the animated adaptation]].

** [[MadScientist Dr. David Kaydick]] is an ex-OCP scientist who, fired for his grotesque experiments on human subjects, went into hiding in the slums of Old Detroit. Possessed of a burning rage against OCP for hindering his research, Kaydick fostered a family with a woman named Ann, keeping her as an abused slave with years with an electric neurochip before she finally fled and keeping their daughter Jordan for his own purposes. Kaydick forces Murphy's old partner, Cable, into his service with the same electric chip to torture him into submission while revealing he's used Jordan as an incubator for his magnum opus, the [[SyntheticPlague Legion "bio-tech" virus]], through which Kaydick intends to unleash to destroy all life on the planet with Delta City as its breakout point. Massacring and brutalizing all those who get in his way either with his own hands or through Cable, Kaydick finally uploads Legion into Delta City's SAINT network before opting to murder everyone else threatening his plans--including Jordan--while laughing and deriding Ann as "just a woman" when she finally confronts him. Seeing it as his right to kill millions of people [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for being spurned from his immoral research]], Kaydick is one of the cruelest people to threaten even the polluted setting of Old Detroit.

* DorkAge: It was intended by the creators to pull the franchise the one it's been in with ''Film/RoboCop3'', ''[[Series/RoboCopTheSeries The Series]]'', and ''[[Franchise/RoboCop Alpha Commando]]'', but many fans felt that despite the return to the dark tone of the first two movies, it didn't help.

* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans reacted negatively to Page Fletcher as Murphy. Among the reasons were the fact that he was shorter than most of other cast members or even other actors to play the role (whereas both Creator/PeterWeller and Creator/RobertJohnBurke were tall and Richard Eden as of average height) and how Fletcher moved in the suit.

* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans reacted negatively to Page Fletcher as Murphy. Among the reasons were the fact that he was shorter than most of other cast members or even other actors to play the role (whereas both Creator/PeterWeller and Creator/RobertJohnBukre were tall and Richard Eden as of average height) and how Fletcher moved in the suit.

* Narm: How both Page Fletcher and Maurice Dean Wint moved in the suits were seen as many fans as ridiculous.
* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans reacted negatively to Page Fletcher as Murphy. Among the reasons were the fact that he was shorter than most of other cast members (whereas both Creator/PeterWeller and Creator/RobertJohnBurke were tall and Richard Eden as of average height) and how Fletcher moved in the suit.