Line #17 NightmareFuel/RoboCop2


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4	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJIjNs_s2NI The Prototypes of RoboCop 2]]. It builds up with triumphant music, showing a clunky looking brown cyborg which reveals the human face inside the body [[note]]Craig Davies, the visual effects designer responsible for both stop-motion figures designed the first one as a diving bell with a head inside, so that's meant to be the "volunteer's" head in a mechanical body, the face seen in the demonstration being Davies' rear-projected face[[/note]] -- which then flinches his face in anger, complete with ''sparks'', realizing that he's lost his humanity, and then proceeds to ''gun down the scientists near him'', all while only able to say what's been programmed into him -- "You are under arrest. Stop or I'll shoot." -- with the words getting weaker with each sentence, until the prototype ''[[DrivenToSuicide shoots himself in the head]].'' And after that, we get the other prototype, which looks much sleeker and more friendly -- but then it removes its helmet, revealing ''a fleshy skull with wires coming out of it'', before screaming in pain and crashing to the ground, presumably dead. Unlike Murphy, these would-be [=RoboCops=] failed because they weren't prepared to give up their lives and humanity for the line of duty. That, and the insane amount of psychological stress of [[AndIMustScream being slaves to a corporation for the rest of their operational lives.]] The jerky stop-motion animation of the prototypes doubles the creep factor, and combined with the [[SoundtrackDissonance completely ironic, triumphant music]] only makes the scene even more creepy than it already is. [[note]]This also implies that Johnson is not as ruthless as his predecessor Bob Morton, who pre-screened the entire department at the start of the project and deliberately put the best candidates in harm's way.[[/note]] Then the Old Man just quietly complains that he wasted $90 million on this project, [[SkewedPriorities as if that's more important than his products killing their users]].
5	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIAW2ZAfrWo RoboCain]], the [=RoboCop=] 2 prototype that did work -- ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too well]]'', in fact. A hulking, nearly unstoppable arsenal of lethal weapons combined with the mind of a drug-abusing serial killer that breaks free of its corporate controller to wreak havoc makes for a genuine threat. The amazing stop motion effects done to create this metal monstrosity only enhance the fear factor. Also, there's Cain's "Screen Face", complete with an almost agonized CGI head featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E4_K_tAmC8 here]]. It's especially scary when he suddenly gets pissed off.
6	** Then there is Cain's brain (complete with staring eyeballs!). As part of putting the brain into the [=RoboCop=] 2 prototype, they surgically remove his entire brain, spinal column, and eyeballs, and suspend it inside a tube of liquid. Cain can only stare with his sight, [[AndIMustScream seeing everything that's happening even in this state]] (not that he doesn't deserve it, given what he himself did to Duffy below earlier, but still – why should these people get away with it?). Note that seeing "everything that's happening" includes seeing ''his own cored-out, decapitated head'' being held up by one of the scientists as he describes how his brain was extracted to Faxx. It's no ''wonder'' he became even more insane than before once his brain was put into the death bot.
7	** Cain’s death. Robocop tears out Cain’s brain and starts to smash it into to ensure Cain dies for good. Cain then starts to scream in clear pain and agony as he can’t [[AndIMustScream do anything but watch Robocop smash his brain into pieces.]] And after the deed is done, we get to see Cain die for good as his face on the monitor disappears with him screaming all the way.
8	* Duffy, a dirty cop, is [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique beaten up]] by [=RoboCop=] and forced to give up Cain's location. For his troubles, while outside the hospital with Hob, another of Cain's guys knocks Duffy out. He wakes up tied to a hospital bed. In the room are Cain, his girlfriend Angie, Hob who is all of fourteen years old, and a sad-faced man who's getting his scalpels ready to vivisect him.
9	-->'''Dirty Doctor:''' Maybe you oughta have the kid leave.\
10	'''Cain:''' Why?
11	** Cain's "Why?" doesn't even sound rhetorical; he genuinely doesn't understand why Hob shouldn't be present. He's a fundamentally broken, sick individual who couldn't grasp the concepts of innocence or empathy even if he wanted to.
12	** And then there's the fact that Angie and Hob both look terrified when the torturer makes the first cuts, we see some blood, and we hear Duffy screaming. That screaming can give you chills:
13	--->'''Angie:''' You said you were just going to scare him!\
14	'''Cain:''' ''[coldly]'' Doesn't he look scared?
15	** The idea of Duffy getting his chest sliced open with lots of HighPressureBlood spurting and him scream [[HarsherInHindsight is now more unnerving considering Duffy's actor Stephen Lee would pass away from a heart attack in 2014]].
16	* [=RoboCop=]'s limbless torso, after the bad guys tore him apart. He still moves and tries to speak, but could only manage a low moan. Just watch the scene when OCP is assessing the damages. To add more fuel to the scene at hand, seeing [=RoboCop=]'s face contorted in writhing anguish and pain is both this and heavy levels of TearJerker.
17	* The scene where Dr. Faxx shuts off Cain's life support, so OCP can harness his brain for [=RoboCop=] 2. Made even worse by the fact that ''Cain'', of all people, is ''visibly'' terrified and [[AndIMustScream can't even express it]].
18	-->'''Dr. Faxx''': Night.
19	** The look on her face as she watches him die isn't one of boredom or triumph or even disgust. It's one of absolute intrigue.
20	** There's also the fact that, after Faxx made Cain into [=RoboCop=] 2, she smiles after Cain survived Lewis smashing an APC into him -- even though Cain murdered several people.
21	* ''Hob!'' The poster child for TeensAreMonsters, Hob is a 14-year old ChildSoldier and TheDragon for Cain, who takes over his operation after Cain is seemingly killed (not knowing that Cain's been converted into Robocop 2), and does a disturbingly good job of running a drug ring. However, rather than making him a complete sociopath, the movie implies that Hob wasn't always this way - this is the result of a child growing up on the lawless streets of a decaying Detroit, and considering that his main role model and parental figure is a psychotic, sadistic drug lord, it's unlikely he'd ever have turned out any other way. Hob's inclusion in the film was one of the biggest criticisms when it came out, with many critics considering it to be disturbing and tasteless.
22	* The ad for Sunblock 5000. The girl states that the ozone layer is now gone and that a mere ''twenty seconds'' in the California sun is too much now for unprotected skin. Unless, of course, one applies an whole ''pint'' of Sunblock 5000, which is blue, to their entire body. Oh, and there's a Surgeon General's warning that it will, not can, will cause skin cancer, the very thing you're trying to avoid by using the damn stuff in the first place. May double as NightmareRetardant as removing the Ozone would [[ApocalypseHow render the entire planet sterile]], so it can't even be true.

Context NightmareFuel / RoboCop2