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Boddicker's Gang
In general
A ruthless gang of OCP-backed criminals.
- Create Your Own Hero: Boddicker and his gang kill Alex Murphy—which bites them in the ass when Robert Morton and OCP use what's left of Murphy to create RoboCop.
- For the Evulz: It's their main motivation, with money just being a nice bonus.
- Hate Sinks: Every member qualifies. Boddicker takes great joy in his sadism and is a Bad Boss, Emil is willing to kill a gas station employee simply for being a college student (even while he's cooperating), and all of them (especially Joe) enjoy every single bit of inflicting as much pain as possible upon Murphy before his death. All in all, their downfall at the end of the movie is them getting their just desserts.
- Large Ham: All of them are incredibly over the top in the best way.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Nash and Mihn are the only ones who don't fit this.
- Boddicker himself has two of his most famous lines: first telling the ladies with Morton, "Bitches, leave," and then telling Sal he'd "shove enough of this factory up his stupid wop ass." Oddly, he doesn't refer to Robo as "it."
- Joe calls Emil a "faggot" twice.
- Emil himself makes a crack about Prison Rape after he escapes from prison during the police strike.
- Villainous Friendship: About as close to being friends as a bunch of Ax-Crazy murderers can get.
Clarence Boddicker
"See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. So I don't like cops."
Played by Kurtwood SmithThe secondary antagonist of the first movie. He is the crime boss of Old Detroit.
- Arch-Enemy: Out of all of Robocop's foes, Clarence Boddicker is the one with whom it's the most personal. With good reason, as he and his gang were the ones who killed Alex Murphy, inadvertently bringing about his rebirth as Robocop. Murphy's hatred for the man and his desire for revenge is so strong that it sparks the return of his memories and humanity, and overrides his programming to uphold the law, almost resulting in Boddicker getting beaten to death during the raid on the drug factory and leading to his demise at the steel mill in the climax.
- Ax-Crazy: As his execution of Murphy and Bob Morton shows, he's a violent sadist fond of torture and murder.
- Bad Boss: Asks an injured lackey, "Can you fly, Bobby?" before throwing him at a pursuing police car.
- Badass Normal: No special cybernetics or crazy drugs in his system, yet still capable of posing a threat to RoboCop through ruthlessness, equipment, and no small amount of guile.
- Bald of Evil: He's balding and a sadistic monster.
- BFG: He and his gang obtain Cobra Assault Cannons from Dick Jones to (try) to destroy RoboCop.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Jones. Boddicker is the much-more immediate threat due to personally being in the field with his goons killing people, and it's his actions that result in Murphy becoming Robocop in the first place.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Doesn't even try to hide the fact he is a despicable excuse for a human being; in fact, Boddicker revels in it.Clarence: See, I got this problem. Cops don't like me. So I don't like cops.
- Cop Killer: He's essentially a serial killer of cops, wanted in connection to the death of at least 32 of them before killing Alex. Boddicker openly tells Alex that cops don't like him, so he doesn't like them.
- Deadpan Snarker: He makes some dismissive, nasty yet witty comments.
- Destination Defenestration: When he's cornered by RoboCop at the drug factory and is read his Miranda rights, he gets thrown through several windows until he confesses his plot.
- Diabolical Mastermind: As a crime boss in Old Detroit, he has connections with companies and some law enforcers and is pretty much untouched by law.
- Dirty Coward: Clarence's arrogance and cruelty vanish when Robocop backs him into a corner, especially the second time, and he quickly devolves into a pleading wreck who will say anything to save his skin. But a good chunk of this display is an act to lure his adversary into a position where Nash can drop hundreds of pounds of steel upon him.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: He has African-American Joe Cox, Asian-American Steve Minh, and Emil Antonowsky, who may have some Slavic ancestry, in his gang.
- Evil Gloating: "Are you a good cop, hotshot? You gotta be some kind of great cop, coming in here all by yourself!"
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He's not above the occasional violence-based pun.
- Evil Is Hammy: Unlike Alex Murphy and the other good guys, he is quite loud.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has Kurtwood Smith's impressive vocals and is as bad as they come.
- Evil Wears Black: He wears almost nothing but black and grey—clearly, a bad dude.
- Faux Affably Evil: He tries to sound polite to his opponents, even when he threatens to kill them. He treats his gang members like friends but won't hesitate to eliminate them as well if it suits his needs.
- For the Evulz: This is Clarence's main motivation for almost everything he does.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Typically seen with his glasses. And there is the whole "based on Heinrich Himmler" thing...
- Hand Cannon: Carries a Desert Eagle with a massive silencer.
- Hate Sink: While every member qualifies, Boddicker especially stands out. He has the main protagonist brutally killed via a long and drawn-out firing squad, treats his own gang as expendable, is a hitman for a Corrupt Corporate Executive, has an extensive record of killing police officers, and takes joy in his heinous acts. His death, while not the most painfully slow (that would be Emil) or quick and overkill (that would be Leon), is all the more fitting.
- Hero Killer: Murphy is just the latest in a long string of victims. He nearly does it again against Robo in their second fight, but thankfully Robo manages to finally end his life.
- It's Personal with the Dragon: While Boddicker is technically part of a Big Bad Duumvirate, he technically works for Dick Jones to advance himself. However, Jones and Murphy don't have any personal animosity towards each other, with Jones hating RoboCop's creator, Bob Morton, for endangering his position in the company and wanting RoboCop dead only because he threatens his ED-209 project. By contrast, Murphy only regains his sense of identity through his desire for vengeance against Boddicker for killing him, and their fight in the climax is much more personal than Murphy going after Jones, which is more akin to just taking down another criminal.
- Karmic Death: Opens his protracted torture of a helpless Murphy at the steel mill by blowing his right hand off with a shotgun. At the end of the film at the same mill, Murphy is once more rendered seemingly helpless and at Clarence's mercy but having use of his right hand lets Murphy finally kill him.
- Knee Capping: Does this to Bob Morton at Dick Jones' orders, keeping him alive long enough to show him Jones' final message and futilely struggle to defuse a grenade that he plants in his house.
- Large Ham: Very enthusiastic and expressive. You can tell Kurtwood Smith had a lot of fun in the role. The TV Asahi Japanese dub raised this angle
up to eleven, courtesy of the late Nobuo Tanaka, aka DIO in the 90s OVAs. Meanwhile, in English:"Ooh, guns guns guuuuuns! Come on Sal! The Tigers are playing... tonight: And I never miss a game!" - Laughably Evil: He can actually be pretty funny at times.
- The Leader: Of the crooks that kill Alex Murphy.
- List of Transgressions: He's got a very large rap sheet, with numerous homicides both confirmed and suspected of, as well as several charges of assault, armed robbery, narcotics distribution, and rape.
- No Honor Among Thieves: He throws his incompetent minion Bobby at Murphy and Lewis's car to slow them down.
- No Indoor Voice: Especially when he is very happy or angry.
- Oh, Crap!: When he realizes that Robo is trying to kill him the second time, not arrest him.
- Pet Rat: He's a crime boss who does "odd jobs" (read: theft, drug running and assassinations) for Dick Jones, the number two guy at OCP. Jones gets obstacles to his position eliminated while Boddicker gains new opportunities to expand his criminal empire with Jones's connections in exchange.
- Pet the Dog: Subverted. He stops Emil from killing Murphy, but only to give him a far more torturous death.
- In a more straightforward example, when he enters OCP VP Robert Morton's home to home (at the behest of Dick Jones) to murder him, he just as easily could have murdered the two "escorts" Morton was with as simply telling them (rudely) to leave. Especially when you consider either of them might have identified him as Morton's murder. But it's possible Boddicker actually felt some miniscule measure of mercy for two (basically) innocent bystanders, and probable he knew his connections would prevent anything close to an actual indictment to come to pass.
- Pin-Pulling Teeth: He does this with the grenade he uses to finish off Bob Morton. Although since it seems to be designed differently from normal grenades, it might be a type with a pin especially easy to pull.
- Pragmatic Villainy: When he arrives to assassinate Bob Morton, the target is in the company of two hookers. Clarence simply orders them, "Bitches, leave!" and lets them flee the scene unharmed, showing his violence is not completely wanton.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: He attempts this with "Sayonara, RoboCop!" after beating and stabbing him with a metal rod, but unfortunately for Boddicker, the process of saying it puts his throat within range of Robocop's computer spike...
- Psycho for Hire: Dick Jones enlists a ruthless crime lord to do his bidding.
- Putting on the Reich: His costuming (wiry glasses, overcoat, leather gloves) were inspired by Heinrich Himmler, reinforcing the idea of him as intelligent but highly sadistic and evil.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He doesn't rape anyone onscreen, but one of the many many charges on his rap sheet is rape, hammering home just how much of a scumbag he is.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: During his first confrontation with RoboCop, Clarence turns his brutalization (and possible murder) into a lawful arrest by pointing out that he works for Dick Jones, who runs OCP and the cops by extension, so, since RoboCop is a cop, their personal, derivative allegiance to Dick Jones must defuse the conflict. RoboCop does stop upon hearing it, but only because Murphy ultimately chooses to uphold the law and abide by his program.
- Sadist: His joy in inflicting pain and causing carnage is clear in every scene and line he speaks.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Initially plans to walk out of his deal with Dick Jones when Dick asks him to kill RoboCop. Then Dick tempts him with the promise of the business he can have when Delta City's construction begins.
- Slashed Throat: How he dies, courtesy of Murphy ramming his data spike into his throat and violently ripping it out in a spray of blood.
- The Sociopath: To him, other people are just toys to be played with and disposed of once they break.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: One of the less hammy villains in the movie, though still a veritable fountain of meme-tastic, scenery-chewing one-liners.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Is still alive in the animated series and reappears in a couple of episodes to continue antagonizing Robocop.
- Tom the Dark Lord: It takes a special kind of evil to be a middle-aged, bespectacled, skinny man with a receding hairline named Clarence and remain intimidating. Boddicker is that man.
- Villainous Breakdown: After Robo throws him through a few windows, he starts pleading with him not to kill him because he (Boddicker) works for OCP higher-up Dick Jones.
- Villainous Valor: He's a selfish, greedy man, a career criminal and a sociopathic murderer. But if you offer him enough of a reward, he will even risk his neck to try and kill Robocop.
- Villains Want Mercy: While he's still too proud to beg for it, he desperately starts trying to appeal to Murphy's sense of duty both times and loses the upper hand to Robo. It only saves him the first time.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Downplayed- while he definitely is willing to kill females as much as he is others, he does allow the two prostitutes with Morton to leave the premises instead of killing them.
- You Have Failed Me: A combination of this and You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. When one of his goons ends up burning the money during a bank robbery by blowing the doors and gets his legs shot during a shoot-out between the cops and their getaway van, Boddicker decides to use his incompetent and useless henchman as a way to keep the cop car from pursuing. "Can you fly, Bobby?"
Emil M. Antonowsky
"I know you! You're dead! We killed you! We killed you! WE KILLED YOU!!"
Played by Paul McCraneOne of Clarence's thugs.
- Asshole Victim: Let's be honest, even if Emil's moments before death are brutal and nightmarish, his lack of redeeming qualities means no one will feel bad for his death.
- Ax-Crazy: Just as insane as his boss, but more impulsive, as seen when he threatens to kill an employee at the gas station simply for laughs.
- Body Horror: Trying to run over RoboCop with a truck, he instead crashes into a tanker of toxic waste, which drenches him and melts him alive, completely disfiguring him.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: His body starts rapidly deteriorating after getting drenched in toxic waste. His subsequently getting run over by Boddicker's car was effectively a Mercy Kill. Though despite being really grisly, he definitely deserved it.
- Deadly Dodging: With RoboCop as the dodger. Emil attempts to run over Murphy, but he sidesteps and causes Emil to crash into a tank of toxic waste which melts him alive.
- Death by Disfigurement: Emil gets disfigured by toxic waste but is still alive and well-aware he is agonizing. Boddicker running over his car finally does the trick.
- The Driver: Acts as the group's getaway driver during their introductory scene.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He cruelly teases the gas station attendant, who turns out to be a college kid studying plane geometry, with this quip: "I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you can outsmart a bullet?!"
- Evil Is Petty: Threatening to shoot the gas station's employee simply for being at college and doing homework easily qualifies as this.
- Faux Affably Evil: Easily demonstrated when he threatens the gas station's employee. He laughs at the employee being at college and threatens the man to shoot him dead with a Slasher Smile... which he soon drops for his actual personality.Emil: Hey man, what'cha reading in there? (The book reads "Plane Geometry") Hahahahahaha... you're a college boy or something, huh? (the employee nods) I bet you think you're pretty smart, huh? Think you can outsmart a bullet? What do you say we find out, huh? (his smile falters) I'm talking to you! What do you say? Huh? Huh?! I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Is infuriated when Murphy accidentally shoots the gang's stolen TV.Emil: Your ass is mine.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Wears a leather jacket and rides a motorcycle.
- Hollywood Acid: Involved in a horrible accident leading to his famous "melting man" scene.
- Humanoid Abomination: His last moments were completely unpleasant, to say the least. Once the toxic waste disfigures Emil, all that remains is the sad husk of a man walking away in his last moments.
- I'm Melting!: During the gang's final showdown with RoboCop, his truck crashes into a large vat of green goo labeled with a radioactive sign... and it really did not agree with his squishy bits. His body melts as a result.
- Irony: Earlier, he offers Dougie a cigarette which the latter declines, warning him that they'll kill him. Emil mockingly brushes him off, asking if he “wants to live forever?”. Later on in the movie, he gets the slowest and most painful death out of all of Clarence’s gang members.
- Jerkass: Even for a sadistic henchman, he's really obnoxious.
- Ludicrous Gibs: His entire body explodes once Boddicker runs over his melted, disfigured body that gets reduced to green slime; all that can be seen from that is his head flying over Boddicker's car.
- Made of Plasticine: The acidic toxic waste weakens his bones to the point he goes splat when hit by Boddicker's car.
- Mood-Swinger: Goes from calm to laughing to crazy and violent at the gas station when threatening the employee.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He tells RoboCop "We killed you!", which helps Murphy learn he used to be a man with a loving wife and son (his past was meant to be covered up a secret from him by Morton).
- Not Quite Dead: Although the scene where Robo fires at him and he crashes his motorcycle looks like he's dying, he shows up later alive (though he still has a gash on his face). Then he dies a much, much more horrible death.
- Predecessor Villain: In a way. During Rogue City, OCP manufactures a false identity for one of their operatives (and the game's Big Bad) tailored to press Robocop's Trauma Buttons: "Wendell Antonowsky", who runs around pretending to be Emil's brother out for revenge.
- Prison Rape: Seems to be averted. He claims not to have been raped while in prison.
- Skewed Priorities: Is infuriated when Murphy shoots Dougy... because he shoots the stolen TV in the process.
- Villainous Breakdown: His terrified disbelief when he first sees RoboCop.Emil: I know you. You're dead... We killed you! We killed you!! WE KILLED YOU!!!
Leon Nash
"I got him, Clarence! I got him!"
Played by Ray WiseOne of Clarence's thugs.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He looks legitimately horrified seeing his buddy Emil graphically dissolved. Considering he didn't flinch at the gruesome execution of Alex Murphy, that says a lot.
- Evil Gloating: After dropping a ton of scrap metal on Robo and incapacitating him, he yells and cheers, which leads to Killed Mid-Sentence below.
- Groin Attack: He tries to knee Robo in the balls. Too bad RoboCop is a cyborg.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His own grenade launcher is turned on him by Lewis.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Lewis fires his own grenade launcher at him and blows him up.Leon: I got him, Clarence! I got hi- (BOOM)
- Number Two: Acts like this for Clarence, being more level-headed and reliable overall than Joe or Emil.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When a melting Emil comes to him for help, Nash freaks out (in all fairness, it's hard to blame him), yells "Don't touch me, man!" and runs away.
- Shooting Superman: Punching RoboCop.
- Stuff Blowing Up: His fate, what with being on the receiving end of a rocket launcher and all.
- Villain Ball: He opts to dump a load of scrapped metal onto Murphy (which doesn't do much) instead of just firing at him from a safe distance using the powerful rocket launcher gun his gang got for the job.
Joe P. Cox
"Good night, sweet prince. Hahahahahahahaha!"
Played by Jesse D GoinsOne of Clarence's thugs.
- Black Dude Dies First: Zig-zagged. He is not the first of the gang to die overall, as Bobby dies (with help from Clarence) in the initial confrontation with Murphy and Lewis, and Steve Minh dies previously during the shootout with Robo at the cocaine factory. However, he is the first of Clarence's gang to die in their final confrontation with RoboCop.
- Camping a Crapper: Subverted. He is caught relieving himself by Lewis but manages to knock her out and escape unharmed.
- Cool Car: When released from prison, he gets a 6000 SUX.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: During their final showdown with Robocop, Boddicker's gang all get memorable deaths except for Joe, who just gets shot in the chest at the beginning and quickly forgotten about. Originally it was planned that he would be knocked over a railing and impaled on a fence (not unlike how he threw Lewis over a railing), but it was cut to tighten up the sequence. He does go over a railing and get taken out of the fight during the cocaine factory sequence, however.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He finds every aspect of the gang's execution of Murphy hilarious.
- Evil Laugh: Every time he laughs is when he's done something bad or is about to do it.
- Good Night, Sweet Prince: He says this to Murphy as he lies dying.
- Human Shield: Leon uses him as one in the climax.
- The Hyena: He is recognizable for his high-pitched crazy laugh, which he lets out in most scenes he appears in.
- Kick the Dog: After blasting off Murphy's hand, arm, and countless shots to his chest, Joe reacts to Murphy's loud cries of pain with a mocking 'Does it hurt, does it hurt?' question before cackling loudly.
- Large Ham: Always laughing loudly and acting all camp.
- Mood-Swinger: Goes from being upset that Boddicker blows up his new stolen car to thrilled about the Cobra Assault Cannon that did it.
- My Eyes Are Up Here: Invoked. Cox is making water when Lewis comes upon him. Rather than zip himself up before turning around and putting his hands up, he opts to give Lewis "the full monty," knowing she'll be distracted, giving him the opening he needs to take her out.
- Odd Name Out: The only member of Clarence's gang to not have a cutesy French name (after the death of Bobby, Dougy, and Steve, at least).
- Scary Black Man: A black member of a ruthless crime gang known for deranged laughter and being trigger-happy.
- Signature Laugh: Again, his laughter is probably his most notable trait.
- Token Minority: As mentioned, he’s the only black member of Clarence’s gang.
Steve Minh
"Oh, fuck you!"
Played by Calvin Jung
Another of Clarence's thugs.
- "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: All together now, "Oh, fuck you!"
- Flat Character: Minh is the one in the gang that gets the least characterization.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Normally carried around a Mossberg 500 Cruiser shotgun.
- Those Two Guys: Often paired with or seen with Cox.
- Token Minority: He's the only Asian gang member.
Bobby
Played by Freddie Hice
A thug who was put in charge of breaking open bank vaults to get the cash.
- Car Fu: He gets rammed by Murphy and Lewis's car when Clarence orders he be literally thrown under the bus and most likely dies from the collision.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted when there's another character called Bob Morton.
- We Hardly Knew You: The most short-lived member of Clarence's gang. We learn that he cannot fly, crash-landing on Murphy and Lewis's car and likely left for dead.
- You Have Failed Me: Clarence is outraged that Bobby burnt the cash with bombs. While beating up Bobby for the burnt money, Emil alerted him about a car of cops closing in on them, and the cops shot Bobby in his legs. With Bobby dying from blood loss, Clarence found Bobby to be a burden to carry around and had his crew throw Bobby at the cops to slow them down.
Dougy
Played by Neil SummersAnother of Clarence's thugs.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Literally, as he and Emil seem to be fans of the horrible in-universe sitcom "It's Not My Problem."
- Flat Character: His character makes so little an impression that he's often forgotten about in write-ups of the film. Makes sense since Summers's works primarily as a stuntman, and his character is only in two scenes.
- Forgettable Character: None of the members of Clarence's gang even acknowledge his death. He's also the only gang member whose name is not mentioned onscreen.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: He's only in two scenes and uses a Remington 870 shotgun in both (or tries to the second time before being ventilated by Murphy).
- Smoking Is Not Cool: Believes so and tries to warn Emil about the dangers of smoking.
- Too Dumb to Live: When Murphy tells him, "Don't move," he reaches for his gun and gets shot.
Nuke Cult
In General
A Religion of Evil and criminal organization centered around Cain.
- Getting High on Their Own Supply: Hob was the only one of the main trio not getting high on Nuke himself.
- Cain takes shots of Nuke during his scenes as a human, and he can immediately tell that his chemist used the wrong ingredients after taking a hit from the latest batch. This bites Cain in the ass later, as his addiction keeps him in agonizing withdrawal pains even after being transferred to the RoboCop 2 chassis, forcing him to play along with orders to get his fix.
- Like the rest of the gang, Angie's also a Nuke user. Hob uses her addiction to stop her from rescuing Cain from the hospital and instead help him take over.
Cain / RoboCop 2
"The people want paradise. They will have it."
The main antagonist of the second movie and the distributor of a street drug called "Nuke."
- Addled Addict: Cain's Nuke addiction doesn't seem to slow him down at first. As a cyborg, his withdrawals are excruciating, and OCP uses the drug to control him. Ultimately, his need for Nuke gets him killed—Murphy exploits it to finish him off.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear exactly what Cain is like when sober and how much of his villainy results from his Nuke addition. We only see Cain in his Nuke-addicted state throughout the film and learn that he served in an Amazon War and got court-martialed for an unknown charge.
- And I Must Scream: His still-alive brain (with eyeballs attached) is put in a jar after OCP doctors remove it from his body. It's implied that seeing his own hollowed-out severed head is what causes Cain to really snap.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: RoboCain's Assault Cannon is effectively an armor-piercing shotgun. RoboCop prioritizes taking it out with his Auto-9 after suffering chest damage and being knocked off his feet from the force of its projectiles.
- Ax-Crazy: He was a psychotic killer before he became a cyborg. After that, he gets worse.
- Back from the Dead: As RoboCop 2 aka RoboCain.
- Berserk Button: Snitching is one major thing Cain despises. Duffy gets special treatment for it after RoboCop makes him crack and reveal the location of Cain's hideout.
- Big Bad: Of RoboCop 2. He is even called RoboCop 2 in-universe during the press release, so the film's title is his alias when he becomes a cyborg. However, he doesn't live up to his name, being used by Dr. Faxx as an indestructible assassin, and acts as a full-on RoboCrook once he sets himself free of his restraining bolt.
- Brain in a Jar: His organic components are basically limited to the brain, eyes, and spinal cord.
- Break the Badass: His transformation into a cyborg on top of being enslaved by a Nuke addiction, and Dr. Faxx marks the point where he goes through a major mental meltdown.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: A two-fold example of both a human criminal and killer cyborg:
- Unlike Dick Jones from the original, a Corrupt Corporate Executive of OCP, Cain is an anarchistic drug lord who doesn't work for OCP until his robotic rebirth. While Dick Jones seeks to move up in the company, Cain is motivated by a god complex and to lord over Detroit. And while Dick Jones is pushing the "Delta City" project to bulldoze Old Detroit, Cain wants to keep Detroit as a hellhole for the Nuke Cult.
- Unlike Clarence Boddicker, Cain is highly irrational due to Getting High on Their Own Supply. While Clarence is business-minded but still revels in gratuitous violence, Cain is largely a Non-Action Big Bad who lets his gang do the fighting for him until his transformation into RoboCain and has a vague notion of turning Detroit into a "paradise." Finally, while Clarence is an associate of a Big Bad at OCP, Cain becomes an unwilling slave in a prototype by Dr. Faxx.
- As RoboCain, he fills the same role as ED-209, a hulking robot who challenges Robocop. But while ED 209 is a Chicken Walker with limited mobility, RoboCain is humanoid, far less clumsy, and more heavily armed. ED 209 has faulty programming, while Cain goes haywire because he has the mind of a psychopathic criminal. Also, while ED 209 remains a lumbering weapon to OCP, RoboCain proves uncontrollable and rampages against the company.
- Cop Killer: He had Duffy gutted for ratting him out.
- Dark Messiah: What he sees himself as. Cain promises that his drugs will bring humanity to "paradise."Cain, when Murphy is at his mercy: Jesus... had days like these.
- Deader than Dead: Let's see... getting his life support taken off, his brain used to control RoboCop 2, then having said brain ripped out and smashed to pieces by RoboCop. That's about as dead as you get!
- Decomposite Character: Cain originally started in Frank Miller's original script for RoboCop 2 as a drug-addled merc/Rehab officer named Kong, who'd be severely injured fighting Murphy and turned into RoboCop 2. While Cain would keep many of these elements, the Rehab/merc aspect would be recycled for RoboCop 3's Paul McDaggett.
- Drugs Are Bad: Cain's Nuke addiction is presumably not doing his mental stability any favors, while the withdrawal pains are agonizing. Once transformed into RoboCain, Dr. Faxx exploits the latter by withholding his Nuke fix until he complies with OCP orders.
- Establishing Character Moment: When escaping from Robocop and Lewis busting one of his Nuke lab operations, he finds a Chinese woman in his limousine, pleading to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested; he proceeds to draw a handgun and kill her without flinching, pushing her body out of the limo without missing a beat, establishing Cain as having a gross Lack of Empathy.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Cain isn't necessarily committed to becoming a cyborg and shows great fright when Dr. Faxx lies about him dying and kills his life support for his surgery transplant. Cain presumably starts to regret his predicament once he learns he's a pawn of OCP and won't get his Nuke fix unless he follows orders. Once RoboCain steals the remote, controlling his weapons to arm his guns and destroy the remote, he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against OCP and everything in sight.
- Evil Counterpart: To RoboCop. He even strikes Robo's iconic firing pose while firing on civilians during the press conference, seemingly to taunt his counterpart.
- Evil Is Bigger: As RoboCop 2, he's almost Mini-Mecha sized and almost twice as large as the more human-like Robocop.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Turns out putting the brain of a psychopathic criminal mastermind inside a war-machine robot isn't the best of ideas.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: When Faxx looks him up, it's revealed he served in the Amazon War and was court-martialed on an unknown charge. He escaped from his prison and moved to Detroit to set up shop.
- Full-Conversion Cyborg: When he's critically injured and captured, OCP uses the opportunity to convert him to a cyborg against his will (temporarily rendering him a Brain in a Jar while he goes through drug withdrawal, which doesn't help his mood), banking on using his Nuke addiction to keep him under control. Go fig, placing a brain with a severe drug addiction, a God Complex, a sadistic sense of humor, and zero empathy into a massive, heavily armed robotic body is a bad idea, and Cain goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against OCP and the police the second he has a chance.
- Gatling Good: Mounts a minigun on one of his arms.
- Glass Cannon: Not RoboCain himself (who is merely staggered by multiple anti-tank rounds that could one-shot an ED-209), but his Assault Cannon is literally this due to being vulnerable to small arms fire. The cannon has enough stopping power to knock RoboCop off his feet and damage his torso armor, so it could cause major damage to any target without significant protection. However, ordinary 9mm Parabellum bullets are enough to destroy the cannon in relatively few rounds.
- Gone Horribly Right: Doctor Faxx reasoned that to endure the psychological trauma of being turned into another RoboCop, they should start with someone with a mind that doesn't value their own humanity that much to begin with. It worked. Congratulations, now you have a military-grade combat robot with the mind of a violent psychopath.
- Hate Sink: Kane's actions throughout the film firmly serve to establish him as an unlikable sociopath. In his establishing scene where he escapes a Nuke lab being raided by RoboCop, he opens a back door to his limo and finds a Chinese Ethnic Menial Labor lady pleading to not let the police arrest her. He proceeds to pull out his side arm and shoot her without flinching, pushing her body out the other door very disrespectfully. He is also raising the kid Hob as a child soldier to do his bidding, and even forces him to watch a torture murder that clearly, deeply disturbs him.
- Hypocrite: He fancies himself as a messiah and talks to Murphy about him being persecuted (implied by him saying, "Jesus had days like this...") and "forgives" Murphy for trying to shoot him. However, Cain has already been shown killing someone in cold blood on screen, and not long after capturing and releasing RoboCop with his mechanical limbs detached, has someone tortured to death with mock surgery and looks on the scene in blank apathy while forcing Hob (a child) to watch the brutality.
- Informed Attribute: Cain is an Amazon War veteran which implies that he has experience on the battlefield, however, his exact role is left ambiguous as he does very little fighting until his transformation into RoboCain. His street drug Nuke suggests he has some medical knowledge, but we don't get any canon verification on his history here.
- Ironic Echo: His recreation as RoboCain and ultimate defeat are prefaced respectively with "[Good]night." from Dr. Faxx and "Goodbye." from Alex Murphy.
- The Juggernaut: As RoboCop 2. He was built to be superior to the original, and on that front, it succeeded. He is better armored, with Murphy spending the entire climax trying to kill him and only succeeding by removing the brain from his robot body and smashing it.
- Junkie Prophet: How he views himself.
- Karmic Transformation: Similar to what he ordered done to torture Duffy, Cain is forced to endure having his body disassembled, his spine and brain extracted and suspended in life-supporting fluid. He is at the mercy of Dr. Faxx, a person who has a god complex of her own and who tries to control him by using his Nuke addiction against him. Given Nuke's narcotic traits, the withdrawal pains are presumably agonizing and torturous, and Cain is forced alive on his life support.
- Kick the Dog: Cain likes to be sadistic or ruthless for little to no apparent gain besides the fact that he loathes snitching. When he finds a Chinese Ethnic Menial Labor worker in his limo pleading not to allow the cops to arrest her, he robotically pulls out his personal side arm and shoots-and-dumps her out the other door of the limo, presumably to eliminate a possible snitch. He also has his Torture Technician vivisect Duffy to death for snitching to RoboCop (under duress) and forces Hob to watch.
- Laser-Guided Karma: His smug Villain Ball choice of damaging and dumping Murphy in front of the protesting cops to rub it on their faces instead of throwing him into a furnace and being 100% sure he's out of the picture will end up biting him in the ass once Murphy gets rebuilt and severely cripples him after a chase, which will then lead into his transformation into RoboCain, and eventually to his death.
- Lean and Mean: As Cain, he's tall, thin, and creepily evil.
- Lightning Bruiser: Despite his huge size, immense firepower, and heavily armored chassis, RoboCop 2 is capable of surprising speed and is even fast enough to run up an elevator shaft.
- Immune to Bullets: Even more so than the original Robocop. In the first film, sustained concentrated fire from multiple SWAT teams armed with military-grade weaponry was able to at least seriously injure Murphy (granted, Murphy was unable to shoot back and had to take it for a solid minute). The same amount of firepower directed against Cain just mildly annoys him. Even the Cobra Assault Cannon, a weapon that can destroy an ED-209, can't even put a dent in RoboCain.
- Made of Iron: As RoboCop 2, he's so heavily armored that he can shrug off shots from the Cobra Assault Cannon, which two-hit killed ED-209 in the first film.
- Name of Cain: Naturally.
- No-Sell: As RoboCop 2, EVERYTHING. Gunfire, the Cobra Assault Cannon, explosions, falling off a skyscraper, nothing damages his robot body. His organic parts are a different story...
- Oh, Crap!:
- Even though he can barely move or make a sound, this is clearly his reaction when Doctor Faxx switches off his life support.
- His screenhead has this reaction when he sees that Murphy has ripped his brain and spine out and is about to splatter them on the pavement.
- Power Fist: His less-lethal option is a pneumatic ram.
- Restraining Bolt: After the fiasco that was ED-209, OCP at least has the sense to have RoboCop 2's weapon systems controlled by an external remote control. However, RoboCop 2 just steals the remote from them, activates his guns, and then smashes the remote (apparently OCP never bothered to make more than one).
- Robotic Psychopath: Being made a cyborg against his will didn't stop him from being Ax-Crazy.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: RoboCain's shoulder-mounted armor-piercing Assault Cannon has a shotgun-like spread and projects considerable stopping power even against the otherwise implacable RoboCop. It can blast away huge chunks of the auditorium seats, leaving visible damage on RoboCop and knocking RoboCop off his feet from the force. It's enough of a threat that RoboCop prioritizes targeting and destroying it.
- Sinister Shades: He wears sunglasses in most of his human appearances.
- Softspoken Sadist: He's got a much cooler, quieter demeanor than most of the other criminals in the series.
- The Speechless: Post-RoboCop 2 transformation, Cain never speaks a word on-screen, even when he deploys his TV screen to show his face. The most he does is make various growls and screeches.
- Superior Successor: RoboCop 2 is this to both the original RoboCop and to the ED-209s, being much more heavily armed and armored than either while retaining Robocop's human-level reasoning abilities. Too bad he's also a Nuke-addicted maniac with the brain of a sociopathic crime lord. His operating system also has a graphical interface similar to Apple's Macintosh System, compared to Robocop's simpler green command-line display.
- Top-Heavy Guy: RoboCop 2's chest is huge, but its legs and lower body are comparatively thin. This does nothing to hinder its toughness or structural stability, however.
- TV Head Robot: After becoming RoboCop 2, though instead of being a constant feature, it's only deployed when he wants to show his face.
- Walking Arsenal: RoboCop 2 has an insane amount of heavy weaponry incorporated into his body, including a minigun with an absurd amount of stored ammo, a shoulder-mounted cannon shotgun, an extendable pneumatic battering ram for a fist, and a plasma cutting arm. The design philosophy while building him was There's No Kill like Overkill.
- Weapon-Based Characterization: Cain's personal sidearm is a Walther PPK, a common sidearm for officers of Nazi Germany and favored by Adolf Hitler himself. In the very first scene where Cain draws it, he has an ice-cold expression and uses it to shoot trice one of his Chinese ethnic laborers who has taken refuge in his limo. She begs him to take her with him so she doesn't get arrested.
- Villainous Breakdown: RoboCain's final moments involve watching helplessly as Murphy smashes his brain and spine to mush on the pavement and his TV face glitching and spazzing out in horror and pain as it happens.
- Villainous Legacy: His Nuke Cult's legacy wouldn't be forgotten as in Robo Cop Rogue City, the drug Nuke is still alive and well on the streets and the fall of Cain's gang left an Evil Power Vacuum.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: His first act as RoboCop 2 is to massacre every member of his former gang. Granted, this was done under a directive sent by OCP, but his complete lack of resistance to this particular order compared to later ones suggests this was something Cain was thinking of doing anyway, as he no longer needs his gang as the unstoppable killing machine he's now become.
Hob Mills
"Can't shoot a kid, can you, fucker?"
Played by Gabriel DamonA young hoodlum who serves as Cain's apprentice in RoboCop 2.
- Alas, Poor Villain: His death is played quite tragically, for as evil as he was, we get a glimpse of the child he could have been under better circumstances. He makes some form of amending by revealing Cain to be RoboCop 2, and all he asks in return is for RoboCop not to leave him while he dies.
- All There in the Manual: His surname is provided in the novelization.
- At Least I Admit It: He reasons that the Nuke cult is better than cigarette and fast food companies because they don't advertise a product they know is no good for you (Higher Understanding Through Drugs notwithstanding) as fun and/or cool.
- Badass Adorable: A gloomy, evil version. A kid he may be, but he's got what it takes to pull his weight in the crime-ridden hellhole that is Detroit. Cain's thugs and clients clearly know better than crossing him.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Hob dons a classy suit as he takes over the gang, by which time his badass credentials are quite established.
- Cop Killer: Not successful, but one of his earliest acts is to try to garrote Lewis, and he comes close to succeeding.
- Cute Bruiser: Despite his age and size, Hob is a good shot and proves adept in a brawl against trained adults.
- Death Equals Redemption: In a way. As Hob lays dying, he no longer bears ill will against Robo, and revealing who his killer is provides a clue on how to fight him.
- The Dragon: To Cain.
- Dragon Ascendant: Takes over Cain's gang after his apparent demise. But despite coming close to getting his drugs legal, his rule is cut short by his former boss, who just Came Back Strong.
- Enfant Terrible: He's as bad as any of the adult members of Cain's gang.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Hob is horrified when Cain has Officer Duffy eviscerated.
- Evil Orphan: A hardened, pre-pubescent criminal with no parent around. Though some believe that Hob is Cain's son.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Looks like a cute blond, blue-eyed kid but is nasty as they come.
- Forced to Watch: Less in the usual "I want you to suffer along with him" manner, and more "You need to learn to get used to this kind of stuff" when Cain has Duffy tortured in front of him.
- Improbable Infant Survival:
- First played straight as RoboCop can't bring himself to shoot Hob, allowing Hob to shoot him in the head and escape.Hob: Can't shoot a kid can you FUCKER!!!
- Subverted next, as Lewis has no problem beating him up when he tries to strangle her.
- Finally dangerously averted when RoboCop 2 enters the picture.
- First played straight as RoboCop can't bring himself to shoot Hob, allowing Hob to shoot him in the head and escape.
- Kids Are Cruel:
- Played straight when the thugs are dismantling Murphy. "They say he's got a brain, I wanna see it."
- Averted when Cain has Duffy butchered in the most horrible way imaginable. Hob is revulsed and can't bear to watch.
- Nerves of Steel: Not cowed by adults the slightest, nor by the very intimidating RoboCop. Even before his death, despite being visibly terrified, he remains level-headed enough to hide and almost manages to escape.
- Only Sane Man: The sole member of Cain's gang who is not a fanatical psycho or a barely functioning addict. Which might be why the others obey him. Justified as he never took any drug.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Wants to run his business without troubles nor pointless violence. His offers to help Mayor Kuzak pay off the city's debts to OCP in exchange for legalizing Nuke are almost reasonable.
- Sadist: This little prick enjoys dishing out the pain too much. Though some things are still too horrible for him.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Hob has zero qualms about high tailing away, leaving Cain to die.Hob: Fuck Cain!
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Can't utter a sentence without an expletive.
- The Starscream: While he isn't shown actively plotting against Cain, Hob was disgusted with Cain having Duffy gutted and took advantage of the fact that, unlike Angie, he wasn't using Nuke to force her to abandon Cain after he's hospitalized and take over the operation. He also ends up killed for this when Cain becomes RoboCop 2.
- Straight Edge Evil: Hob's the only one of the main three who's not using Nuke himself, which he uses against Angie to take over the Nuke gang after Cain is hospitalized.
- Teen Genius: Pretty smart and an effective drug trafficker despite being fourteen at most.
- Tragic Dropout: Implied. RoboCop is bewildered upon entering a busy arcade when he and Lewis try to catch Hob and other gang members.RoboCop: Isn't this a school day?
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Seeing a boy his age acting like a vicious, unhinged criminal is unsettling, to say the least.
- Villain Song: Actually gets one on the soundtrack."The Kid Goes Wild," by Babylon A.D.
Angie
Played by Galyn Görg
Cain's girlfriend and a Nuke addict.
- Addled Addict: Is forced to choose between Cain and her drug addiction. She chooses the latter.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is similar to "angel," and she is the girlfriend of a cult leader with messianic delusions.
- Robosexual: Her reaction to seeing Cain's new body is to fondle one of its claws and hesitantly say that they may still make it work as a couple. It just puts her at grappling range when Cain goes berserk (because he wants Nuke, maybe because of her betrayal, maybe because of sexual frustration, or maybe all of the above), grabbing her by the head and either crushing it or snapping her neck.
Catzo
Played by Michael Medeiros
A follower of Cain and a member of the Nuke Cult.
- Elvis Impersonator: Presumably, Catzo based his appearance on Elvis, as deleted scenes of the second film reveal Elvis is worshipped as a god, and his skeleton is seen among the treasures of the Nuke Cult.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Always appears in a suit.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Catzo's fate is unknown in the final cut of the film with other media based on the second film giving different deaths.
Gilette
Played by George Cheung
Another follower of Cain and a member of the Nuke Cult.
- Token Minority: The Nuke Cult's only Asian member.
Frank
Other Criminals
Sal
Played by Lee De Broux
An Italian-American crime boss in Old Detroit. He ran a small-time drug operation out of his cocaine factory.
- Bald of Evil: Not a single hair on the top of his head.
- Fat Bastard: Kind of chubby and runs a cocaine factory.
- Indirect Kiss: A rather unusual example, Boddicker stuck his fingers into Sal's wine glass to sniff it; Sal saw no problem with it and just drank straight out of it right after.
Frankie
Played by Allan Graf
A bodyguard of Sal.
Chet
Played by Tommy Rosales
A criminal who was robbing a gun store alongside his group in the opening of RoboCop 2.
