Line #112 Film/RoboCop3


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2	[[caption-width-right:273:''[[{{Tagline}} Back on line. Back on duty.]]'']]
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4	The second and last sequel in the original ''Franchise/RoboCop'' film franchise, released in 1993.
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6	OCP is working to finish what they've been trying to do in the first two movies -- tear down Detroit, a city they deem as "beyond saving", and rebuild it as Delta City. As usual, it comes down to Murphy vs. OCP. [=RoboCop=] ([[TheOtherDarrin now played]] by Creator/RobertJohnBurke) finds himself working to keep OCP from forcibly removing citizens to make way for "a better Detroit," and along the way, he gets a JetPack and fights [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot ninjas]].
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8	!!This film has the examples of:
9	* EightiesHair: Lewis is sporting a seriously big bouffant hairstyle in this one, which really contrasts with the relatively shorter hair she had in the previous two movies.
10	* ATeamFiring: Despite the amount of bullets exchanged in the climax, only a few people are shown to get shot.
11	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Otomo's katana cuts through anything.
12	* ActionInsuranceGag: The protagonist says something to this effect when shooting at a hotel [=McDagget=] and the Rehabs are staying in.
13	* AllThereInTheManual: The comic adaptation does have few details not seen in the movie, including the CEO being Bob Morton's dad, the Rehabs were setting up base in Metro West during Nikko's visit, and [[spoiler:none of Murphy's fellow officers bought that he killed Lewis and realized it was the Rehabs who did it]].
14	* ArmCannon: [=RoboCop=] can now detach one of his forearms and attach a combination machine gun, [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]], and rocket launcher when he knows he's facing a serious firefight. Or when he's just plain pissed off.
15	* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: After the police force calls it quits, [=McDaggett=] hires the Splatterpunks to aid the Rehab forces.
16	* AnAsskickingChristmas: The film takes place during the Chistmas season, as several places are decorated for Christmas, including the rebel base having a Christmas tree and the donut shop is not only decorated, but "Here Comes Santa Claus" is playing over the speakers when the guy attempting to rob it walks in.
17	* AssholeVictim: The driver of the sports car at the beginning.
18	* AteHisGun: Flex tells Johnson that suicide by jumping off a building is too showy, saying that he'd eat a bullet instead. He lives up to that promise.
19	* AttackItsWeakPoint: The Splatterpunks get the idea to shoot [=RoboCop=] in the mouth, reasoning he's weak there. One protests ("cyborg eat bullets") but the other adds that they'll set him on fire, too. They manage to set him on fire, but don't get to try the other part. Not that it would have worked, since Robocop's face is only a superficial layer of skin stretched over a metal skeleton. It's doubtful a bullet would have caused any damage even if they had got it straight down his throat.
20	* BestialityIsDepraved:
21	-->'''Lawyer''': This is entrapment! My client was visiting close personal friends in that motel.\
22	'''Sgt. Reed''': Buddy, your client's "close personal friends" were a non-union video crew and a German shepherd!
23	* BigBad: Paul [=McDaggett=], the man in charge of the Rehab operation.
24	* BigDamnHeroes: The citizens' resistance is about to be overwhelmed against the mercenaries, until [=RoboCop=] comes screaming out the sky with his jetpack on to provide air support.
25	* BigNo: The Otomos programmed a "thermal failsafe device", and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. When they were destroyed, McDagget is furious about this; however, RoboCop exhaust from the jet pack burns McDagget's shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it.
26	* BlatantLies: The OCP's TV ad about the Rehabs peacefully relocating the poor doesn't correspond in any way what the Rehabs are doing for real on the streets. In fact, it's far from helpful and very violent.
27	** Nikko has a conversation with Robocop, mentioning that if the rebels can hold off the Rehabs for a couple more days, they won't be able to make her family move and she can be reunited with her parents. Sadly, her parents had already been reported deceased. Robocop attempts to comfort her, saying that as long as she remembers her parents, they aren't really gone.
28	* BulletCatch: [=RoboCop=] does this, with a bullet that was inches from hitting Lewis.
29	* BulletholeDoor:
30	** The main character, a cyborg weighing hundreds of kilograms and who has repeatedly proven himself able to smash through walls with no damage, wants to enter the room of a baddie. Instead of smashing right through the flimsy wooden door, he feels it necessary to waste many dozens of bullets (all [[BottomlessMagazines without reloading]]) in shooting out his silhouette in the door, through which he then enters the room.
31	** Earlier in the movie, [=RoboCop=] does the same thing to the roof of his car using his new weapon arm. He apparently felt it more dramatic to punch through the roof rather than ''open the door''. That or the weapon arm blocked the door handle.
32	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: By the climax, [=McDaggett=] has clearly forgotten all about [[spoiler:killing Anne Lewis]]. When [=Robocop=] tells him he's under arrest, he nonchalantly asks "What's the charge?" (Indeed, what he's currently doing isn't illegal, because he has the authority to do it. Then the hero tells him it's for murder, the event he, having a computer for a brain, is incapable of forgetting.)
33	* CallBack:
34	** Lewis is introduced chewing gum and blowing bubbles, much like [[Film/RoboCop1987 the original film]]. Likewise, Reed is introduced dealing with a criminal and his lawyer, and getting annoyed with them.
35	** Robo startles Lewis by popping out the dataspike on his hand, much like he did to another officer in the original.
36	** The scene where Robo is rebuilt after being injured by a grenade is almost identical to his "birth" scene in the original, right down to the engineers in both films accidentally screwing up and then presenting him with a new part.
37	** The scene where Robo interrogates [=McDaggett=]'s lieutenant is identical to the Boddicker drug lab interrogation scene in the original, right down to the same camera angles.
38	** Robo confronts a pair of Rehabs harassing a young girl via a shot where a large shadow is seen on a wall, much like his confrontation of the two thugs attempting to rape a woman in the original. Unlike the original, these guys get to keep their testicles.
39	** When Reed answers a phone call, he tells the person on the other end that the cops are not on strike, which they were threatening to do in the first film and went ahead with in the second..
40	* CaptainObvious: The cops notice a battered yellow van after they have informed by dispatch to look for one.
41	-->'''Random Officer:''' Hey, that's a battered yellow van!\
42	'''Lewis:''' No shit, Sherlock!
43	* ChekhovsGun: [=RoboCop=]'s jetpack, stolen by the resistance from a warehouse group simply because it looked expensive. Later explained exactly what it was by Dr. Lazarus. As well as the little kid with a portable hacking computer. Directive 4 rears its head again, too... until the rebels delete it.
44	* CleanCut: Otomo quiets an annoyed gas pump owner by cutting the signal to his establishment in this fashion.
45	* ClearMyName: [[spoiler:OCP publicly blames Murphy for killing Lewis]], so Murphy has to unveil the truth to repair his reputation.
46	* ClickHello: Some clueless thug tries to rob a doughnut store. After hearing a dozen clicks, he turns and sees that [[DonutMessWithACop the entire store is filled with cops]]. The cashier quips, "What's it like being a rocket scientist?"
47	* ContinuityNod:
48	** The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" television host is seen in a brief cameo, while an OCP officer named Cecil (who attempted to stop the officers from destroying Robo in the OCP parking garage during [[Film/RoboCop1987 the first film]]) returns as an officer who walks out on OCP and helps Sergeant Reed during the Splatterpunk attack in Old Detroit.
49	** The guy whose sports car gets demolished in the pile-up with two squad cars bitches about how he'd just traded in his [=SUX=] for it, referencing a RunningGag car commercial from the original film.
50	* CopKiller: [[spoiler:[=McDaggett=] kills Lewis after she tells him she and Murphy aren't budging]].
51	* CopKillerManhunt: [[spoiler:Murphy goes after [=McDaggett=] for Lewis's death once he's repaired]].
52	* CorporateSamurai:
53	** Omni Consumer Products (and its new shareholders the Kanemitsu Corporation) hire a band of mercenaries to force out the inhabitants of Old Detroit. To combat this, the regular folks form an underground resistance.
54	** Otomo is a more literal example.
55	* CorporateWarfare: The movie has Omni Consumer Products (and its new shareholders the Kanemitsu Corporation) hire a band of mercenaries to force out the inhabitants of Old Detroit. To combat this, the regular folks form a underground resistance. And just to make sure their investment pays off, Kanemitsu sends robot ninjas to aid their hired guns.
56	* DidIMentionItsChristmas: The story begins around the time of Christmas, as an armed robber enters into a doughnut shop with some Christmas decorations put up and the song "Here Comes Santa Claus" playing in the background -- and the doughnut shop is full of cops. Some small Christmas trees pop up here and there in the underground facility where the evicted homeless people flee to.
57	* DonutMessWithACop: [[StupidCrooks A man]] tries to hold up a donut shop, only to have [[EveryoneIsArmed several cops]] [[LaserSight aim their guns at him]]. The man then drops his gun and the clerk behind the counter quips, "[[DeadpanSnarker So what's it like]] being [[ThisAintRocketSurgery a rocket scientist]]?"
58	* DrivenToSuicide: OCP's current state has caused three suicides on its premises, and two more happen during the film.
59	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The Old Man (played by Creator/DanOHerlihy) disappears in the interim between films, and no one seems to reflect on the fact that he's been replaced by The CEO. While it's likely that he faced criminal charges after what happened in [[Film/RoboCop2 the previous film]], there's no discussion of his fate besides a reference by Johnson that he was "expendable".
60	* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Robo stops chasing Bertha and her group to save Lewis and some follow officers from the Splatterpunks.
61	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the Rehabs are uncomfortable with the careless, undisciplined Splatterpunks they've allied with.
62	* EveryoneHasStandards: The police's role is to maintain law and order. However, when the OCP order them to forcibly relocate the poor people of Cadillac Heights, they refuse and quit in disgust, joining the resistance.
63	* EveryoneIsArmed: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUqdIFUbxE truly stupid crook]] picks the wrong [[DonutMessWithACop doughnut shop]] to attempt to rob.
64	-->'''Cashier:''' [''as every laser sight in the shop centers on the crook''] What's it like being a rocket scientist?
65	%%* EvilBrit: [=McDaggett=] definitely qualifies.
66	* {{Facepalm}}: Reed does this when the lawyer from the scene where "Bestiality is Depraved", when the lawyer asks if the arresting officer saw the video crew's union cards and the client yelling "Y-yeah!"
67	* FatalFamilyPhoto: Murphy asks if Anne has a family, with her reminding him she has a brother that never calls her. [[spoiler:She tragically dies a couple of scenes later.]]
68	* {{Fingore}}: Otomo slices off [=RoboCop=]'s fingers in their first meeting, [[AnArmAndALeg then the arm]].
69	* FlashedBadgeHijack: [=RoboCop=] commandeers a gaudy pimpmobile [[CarChase to chase]] after [=McDaggett=].
70	* FollowTheChaos: When [=RoboCop=] goes off looking for revenge, the rest of the rebels reason they could just drive around town listening for explosions if they want to find him.
71	* FrameUp: OCP publicly blames [[spoiler:[=McDaggett=]'s murder of Lewis on Murphy to discredit him.]]
72	* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Robo's friends call him Murphy, but the OCP executive can call him [=RoboCop=].
73	%%* GenderBlenderName: Nikko.
74	* GiveMeAReason: This great line:
75	-->'''Paul [=McDaggett=]''': How may I help you, officer?\
76	'''[=RoboCop=]''': By resisting arrest.\
77	'''Paul [=McDaggett=]''': Don't count on it, chum.
78	* GoThroughMe: [=McDaggett=] tries to raid the church filled with civilians. After [=RoboCop=] tells them to back off, Lewis pulls out her gun and declares "If you want to get in there, you gonna have to shoot through us." [[spoiler:[=McDaggett=] "gladly" and promptly blasts her with a burst of machinegun fire, followed by firing a grenade in [=RoboCop=]'s torso who was standing beside her]].
79	* GreatOffscreenWar: The Amazon War mentioned throughout the franchise gets mentioned again as the Rehabs are former soldiers/mercenaries who'd served in the conflict and it's a still active one, going by the headline of ''USA Today'' Lewis is reading when she's introduced.
80	* HackTheTrafficLights: Moreno does this to the traffic lights by making them all green to ditch Lewis and two other officers, who're chasing them after the Rebels loot the police armory.
81	* HackYourEnemy: Little hacker girl Nikko deters ED-209's demands for compliance by hacking it to be "as loyal as a puppy".
82	%%* HollywoodHacking: Nikko's specialty.
83	* HonorBeforeReason: Oddly enough, Otomo [[spoiler: the android]] seems to adhere to this. He could have killed [=RoboCop=] effortlessly several times, but the first time waits until Robo turns to face him, and the second time waits until he's on his feet again.
84	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: McDagget had the Otomos programmed a thermal failsafe device, and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. This helped RoboCop exhaust from the jet pack burns [=McDagget's=] shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it. Killed by his own weapons that was meant to destroy RoboCop.
85	* IdiotBall:
86	** Anne Lewis has the ball when she chooses to go out with [=RoboCop=] after finishing her shift, but turns down another officer's offer of body armor.
87	** During the FinalBattle, [=RoboCop=] gets blindsided and knocked down by two [[KillerRobot Otomos,]] and [=McDaggett=] threatens to shoot Nikko and Lazarus if he tries to get up. He then sees that Nikko is doing something on her computer, and instead of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting her,]] like he had ''just threatened to do'', he just says "what are you doing?" a couple of times, giving her time to [[spoiler: hack into the Otomos and make them destroy each other.]]
88	** [=McDagget=] had the Otomos programmed a "thermal failsafe device", and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. This helped RoboCop exhaust from the jet pack burns [=McDagget's=] shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it.
89	* IncompetenceInc: By this film, OCP have fallen into such dire straits that they've been bought out by a Japanese MegaCorp.
90	* InfernalRetaliation: Two Splatterpunks freak out when they set [=RoboCop=] on fire and he just keeps coming after them.
91	* InsigniaRipOffRitual: The Detroit cops in a police station are ordered by an OCP company director to expel by force some civilian from their houses (so that OCP can level the block for redevelopment). One of the older veterans refuses, yanks off his badge and throws it on the floor. The whole unit then walks past the director, each throwing their badge down. The director then used the prisoners and criminals to perform the task, along with its own para-military unit.
92	-->'''Johnson:''' Now, sergeant... 15 years on the force is quite an investment. Your job, your pension. Maybe instead of worrying about these squatter people, you might think about your own family.\
93	'''Sgt. Reed''' I am. I'm thinking I have to go home and face them.
94	* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: The Omni Consumer Products MegaCorp gets bought out by Japanese Kanemitsu corporation.
95	* JetPack: Murphy gets his hands on a prototype jet pack to aid him in foiling bad guys.
96	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Although the Kanemitsu Corporation [[KarmaHoudini walks away unscathed]], this film is all about OCP's warranty expiring, with its stocks already in a death spiral before the movie even begins and then hitting rock bottom by the third act when the people find out what OCP is actually doing instead of "relocation" [[spoiler:and then a significant chunk of the company headquarters gets atomized by the Otomos' self-destruct. Johnson also gets a lot of egg on his face when the Detroit Police quits when he tries to strong-arm them into helping the Rehabs (although whether or not he remains employed is left up in the air), the Old Man discovered he was not indispensable to OCP between films, and the new CEO is fired by Mr. Kanemitsu.]]
97	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Otomo carries a katana which is sharp enough to cleanly cleave through steel (a gas station's pole, Murphy's fingers [[spoiler:and the two Otomos that appear in the final act decapitate each other with a single stroke after showcasing that they can withstand a full burst of machine gun fire to the face]]). This, and the fact the katana's user is an android with impressive skill, makes Otomo a significant danger to Robocop.
98	* KillThePoor: The Rehabs are perfectly okay with doing this for the sake of strong-arming the people of Detroit. At first it's implied it's just stuff they can lie about like "being shot while trying to escape Rehab camps" ([[spoiler:like they did to Nikko's parents]]), but by the final act [=McDaggett=] no longer gives a shit about keeping it covert and he sends his troops and the Splatterpunks assisting them to Cadillac Heights with orders to TakeNoPrisoners.
99	* KinderAndCleaner: ''[=RoboCop=] 3'' dialed down on the profanity and gore, in contrast to its predecessors.
100	* LaResistance: The Old Detroit citizens who refuse to let OCP have their way.
101	* LaserSight: A criminal enters a cafe/doughnut shop, unaware that the old cliche about doughnut shops being a standard hangout for cops actually applies to this establishment. As soon as he pulls out his piece and demands money from the cashier, there is what could be called a ''ClickHello'' on steroids, followed by three laser sights pointed at the poor sap's face. DonutMessWithACop!
102	--> ''What's it like, [[ThisAintRocketSurgery being a rocket scientist?]]''
103	* LastStand: The climax of the movie involves the resistance and the Detroit Police going against the Rehabs and the Splatterpunks.
104	* LighterAndSofter: The extreme violence, profanity, gore, and drug use of the first two films is toned down in order to appeal to children. Also, a lot of the foul language that would have been there in the previous films is replaced by some odd or outright bizarre slang. For example, one of the two thugs who plans to set [=RoboCop=] alight insults the other by calling him "hypo head". Hypo head indeed.
105	* LoopholeAbuse: [=RoboCop's=] Directive 4 prevents him from firing on Rehab officers. It doesn't stop him from shooting their vehicles, though. It doesn't amount to much, since [=McDaggett=] knows [=RoboCop=] can't shoot his men and there simply aren't enough vehicles to blow up.
106	* ManipulativeEditing: In an attempt to turn the public against [=RoboCop=], the news says that [=RoboCop=] shot a church full of nuns, with a video of him walking by a dead nun.
107	* MeaningfulName:
108	** Otomo means "attendant" or "companion". This makes sense, since one of the reasons Japan wants to [[spoiler: develop robots is to care for their growing population of elderly]]. On the other hand, it could also be a StealthPun, [[spoiler: "Otomo-tan"... automaton]].
109	** It's surely no accident that the cybernetics expert who brought Murphy back from near-death is named Dr. Lazarus.
110	* MenOfSherwood: The army of cops and rebels resisting the villains at the end take a few losses to a tank before Robocop blows it up, but mostly come out intact.
111	* MoneyToThrowAway: [=McDaggett=] diffuses the car chase by throwing money in the air, forcing [=RoboCop=] to stop so he doesn't drive over the kids collecting the money.
112	%%* TheMole: [[spoiler:Coontz.]]
113	%%* MotherlyScientist: Dr. Lazarus.
114	* MutualKill: Or at least mutual deactivation, for the pair of Otomos in the final fight scene.
115	* OffWithHisHead: Nikko hacks the two Otomos to decapitate each other.
116	* OffscreenKarma: The Old Man doesn't appear in the movie, instead being replaced by the CEO, and it's implied by Johnson that he was forced out.
117	* OhCrap:
118	** The donut shop robber's reaction when cops pull guns on him.
119	** The pimp upon realizing he just tried to threaten [=RoboCop=] with a switchblade.
120	** Seitz gets out a [[ReactiveContinuousScream long scream]] when the tank's alarm beeping warns him that Robocop is targeting him with a smart bomb before he is killed.
121	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Related to what was revealed about the CEO in the comic adaptation under "All There in the Manual", he appears in this film -- years after the death of his son, [[Film/RoboCop1987 Bob Morton]].
122	* PietaPlagiarism: [=RoboCop=] carries the dying [[spoiler:Anne Lewis]] into a church in this fashion, and sets her down on the altar.
123	* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: The movie has OCP try to take over the city by force, firing the police and bringing its own private security force in.
124	* PuttingOnTheReich:
125	** The Rehab forces wear grey uniforms, and their oppressive tactics are reminiscient of Nazis.
126	** OCP have been characterized as Nazis for quite a while, actually. OCP's flag/emblem in ''Film/RoboCop2'' is the flag of Nazi Germany, but the Swastika's replaced by the OCP emblem.
127	** Bertha outright calls OCP Nazis in her very first scene.
128	* TheQuincyPunk: The Splatterpunks, a gang of dirty and violent sons-of-bitches.
129	* RecruitTheMuggles: Sgt. Reed deputizes the entire city of Detroit and leads them into battle against the OCP rehabs.
130	* ResignInProtest: The entire police force resigns rather than force people from their homes.
131	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After the Rehab assault on the resistance safehouse, Seltz asks [=McDaggett=] about [[spoiler:Coontz, who was killed during the raid]], with [=McDaggett=] not caring he'd died, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness ostensibly because he didn't want to pay the latter for being a turncoat]].
132	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Otomo is essentially a Samurai Terminator that shows very little signs that it is a robot.
133	* SassyBlackWoman: Bertha, who also serves as both the RebelLeader of the resistance and MamaBear for Nikko.
134	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
135	** The lady newscaster of ''[=MediaBreak=]'' finally quits when the absurd lies she's told to tell on the air get ''too'' absurd, with the breaking point being accusations that [=RoboCop=] slaughtered a convent full of nuns.
136	** The CEO, Johnson, and even [=McDaggett=]'s fellow Rehabs book it after the two Otomos show up to fight Murphy.
137	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Used on one of the VHS releases, seen above.
138	* SelfDestruct: When the two Otomo robots decapitate each other in the climax, [=McDagget=] tells everyone that they come with a "thermal failsafe device", and that everything within 20 yards will be "atomized" within seconds. [=RoboCop=] rolls into his jet pack, grabs Marie and Nikko, and flies them to safety as the top half of the OCP Building explodes. To put the icing on the cake, the exhaust from the jet pack burns [=McDagget's=] shins, preventing him from getting to a console in a futile attempt to stop it.
139	* SetAMookToKillAMook: A pair of androids attack Robo in the finale, so Nikko hacks their systems and sics them on each other.
140	* ShootingSuperman: Two Splatterpunks attempt to avert this with a well placed shot to [=RoboCop=]'s mouth, but they are too freaked out to go through with it. Rest of the bad guys in the film play it straight.
141	* ShoutOut: In addition to the meaning behind Otomo's name (see MeaningfulName above), he's most likely named after Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo, the author of ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
142	* StateSec: The Rehabs. Supposedly helping the Detroit Police fight crime, the Rehabs are vicious paramilitary troops.
143	* StupidCrooks: The guy who tried to rob a late night doughnut shop. Even putting aside the stereotype, he missed the half a dozen or so cop cars in the parking lot.
144	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Lewis is killed by [=McDaggett=]. However, this is because her actress, Creator/NancyAllen asked the producers to write her character out of the franchise]].
145	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: When OCP decides to take Cadillac Heights by force, Johnson tries to enlist [=RoboCop's=] precinct to assist. The entire precinct resigns, and instead join the resistance to defend Cadillac Heights.
146	-->'''Johnson:''' Now, Sergeant... fifteen years on the force is quite an investment. Your job, your pension... Maybe instead of worrying about these squatter people, you might think about your OWN family.\
147	'''Sgt. Reed:''' I am. (''removes his badge, drops it on the floor at Johnson's feet'') I'm thinking I have to go home and face them.
148	* TankGoodness: Things start to look bleak for the civilian resistance in the climax as the Rehab forces employ a tank in the fight. Luckily, [=RoboCop=] arrives soon after.
149	* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: The film ends with [=RoboCop=] getting this way with what's left of OCP.
150	-->'''[=RoboCop=]''': My friends call me Murphy. You call me [=RoboCop=].
151	* ThisAintRocketSurgery: Sarcastically employed. A thug tries to rob a donut shop but forgets about [[DonutMessWithACop the stereotypical customer of late-night donut shops]] and gets several dozen {{laser sight}} dots painted on him. The store clerk smugly puts icing on the donut by asking the hood, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUqdIFUbxE "What's it like, being a rocket scientist?"]]
152	* ToBeLawfulOrGood: When [=RoboCop=] and Lewis are surrounded by Rehab troopers, Murphy weighs up his four prime directives, which are two for two in favour of both the Rehabs and the innocent civilians hiding in the church. He decides to side with the civilians, but his fourth directive prevents him from shooting [=McDaggett=], so he's forced to shoot one of the Rehab troopers' vehicles to cover the civilians' escape.
153	* TookALevelInJerkass: This time it's Johnson's turn. He was more neutral in the first two films, but this time he's a bit more villainous. Though his pressure on [=RoboCop's=] precinct prompts them to resign in protest.
154	* TrashTheSet: At the end of the movie, the OCP building in Detroit is blown up via a massive explosion, as a way to symbolize the end of the film trilogy (and the corporation's rule).
155	* TurnInYourBadge: The entire Detroit police force turn in their badges in refusal of OCP's practices.
156	* {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler:Coontz]], who decides to betray the resistance so that he can aid the Rehab forces for cash. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness It doesn't end]] [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves well for him]].
157	* VerbalBackspace: The pimp who suffers the FlashedBadgeHijack, after seeing who is doing the hijacking.
158	* VideoPhone: They appear in use by the citizens of old Detroit in the movie's near-future setting.
159	* VillainousGentrification: While it was a looming threat for the citizens of Detroit in the first two films, OCP's desire to create Delta City at any cost finally takes center stage in this movie and the Rehabs have no problem kicking people out of their homes and killing them, first in secret ("[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything shot while trying to escape relocation camp]]") and then in open battle at the film's climax, to clear the way.
160	* VillainRespect: At the end of the movie, when the Japanese [[CorruptCorporateExecutive executive]] meets [=RoboCop=] in person, he bows in traditional Japanese style as a mark of acknowledgement of Robo's ability to defeat the Japanese android he'd fought earlier.
161	* WarForFunAndProfit: [=OCP=] and the Kinematsu Corporation bring in [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Rhabs]] fresh from off their contract in [[GreatOffscreenWar the Amazon War]] to enforce the mass evictions that Detroit Police Department refuses to perform in order to begin construction on Delta City. Eventually Sgt. Reves leads the mass exodus from the Detroit P.D. to support Cadillac Heights, and the Rehabs [[HiredGuns hire the Splatter Punks]] to wipe out the last of resistance, including former cops.
162	* WeaponizedExhaust: [=RoboCop=] dooms [=McDaggett=] to his fate by burning his legs with the exhaust of his JetPack, leaving him helpless in the soon to explode building.
163	* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: This happens to ''[=MediaBreak=]'' when the female anchor gets fed up with the blatant falsehoods she's being forced to peddle and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abruptly quits]]. Her co-anchor shrugs before the camera cuts away.
164	* {{Zeerust}}: A special case, as many of the TV's are widescreen CRT's.
165	* ZerothLawRebellion: The movie has an example when OCP henchmen kill a cop. [=RoboCop=]'s aforementioned RestrainingBolt now conflicts directly with both his directive to enforce the law, and the fact that cyborg or not, he's still a cop, and cop killers get no mercy. [=RoboCop=] overcomes and deletes the RestrainingBolt.
166	----
167	->'''OCP CEO''': Well, I gotta hand it to ya... What do they call you? Murphy, is it?\

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