Funny / RoboCop: Rogue City

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• Soot's Establishing Character Moment is hilarious Black Comedy as he interrupts a broadcast and lectures the audience in a perfect way to establish what a Wretched Hive that Old Detroit is, executing a police officer via overdose, while making a business offer to the New Guy. It Crosses the Line Twice multiple times.
  • Soot also is immune to intimidation from Robocop when he's personally threatened but destroy his stuff? Then he'll roll on the New Guy.
  • Soot will explain the lyrics to his punk music song that basically just repeats how Drugs Are Good and Nuke is awesome. Double points in that he's being carried by Robocop at the time. Also the concert was on playback.
  • If you have leveled up Detection by that point you can find a note that tells the combination of the safe in at the back of Soot’s room in the Old Slaughterhouse, which is the date of his birthday. Once opened Soot will ask how you knew his birthday, then complain about how you never got him a gift.
• When dealing with a drug dealer named Maurice, Robocop can fail horribly to keep him from jumping off a building.
  Robocop: I estimate you have a 9% chance of survival.
  Maurice: That's like nine out of ten times I'll survive! [jumps to his death]
  • In the same side investigation, Maurice is a criminal who stole the stockpile from three drug dealers and then went around selling from it at half the price the dealers charge. When Robocop finds him the drug dealers have also caught up with him and are about to kill him. But not before two of the dealers give a (perfectly valid) economics lecture to the thief about how selling at such a low price is bad for their business because customers will now be far less accepting of their normal prices, with one of them exclaiming that it's why anti-trust laws exist^note This mirrors the practice of large businesses muscling into a market by selling at a loss to drive the smaller competition to bankruptcy when they cannot afford to match their price and take the same losses, until they become the sole supplier left and can then jack the prices back up, operating as an effective monopoly. For extra humor, they genuinely seem more offended by this than his stealing their drugs.
  • Before the confrontation above, Robocop calls the dealer in order to set up a meeting to bust him. The funny part is that he tries to play the part of a new customer looking for Nuke, but since his robotic way of speech can’t change the dealer figures out it’s him over the phone and proceeds to rant about the guys who have been vandalizing phone booths since it’s making him lose customers, until the other dealers come for his head, upon which he quickly leaves his address for Robocop to find them.
  • What does stop Maurice from jumping is telling him that in prison, he’ll get to do all the laundry he wants^note You learn early on in the investigation that he really likes doing laundry. Later on in the prison riot, you can find him again in, you guessed it, the laundry room, completely oblivious to the riot going on and more concerned with making sure Robocop doesn’t mess with the settings on the machine.
• One of the overheard conversations can be a homeless man lecturing another about the great economic opportunities of Delta City and the best way to invest one's money to take advantage of them. The other homeless man points out that, well, they're homeless so why do they care? Another hobo then points out that the lecturer (who prefaced his advice by calling himself a financial expert) is homeless himself, so obviously his expertise isn't worth all that much.
• Robocop can deal with a bunch of teenagers making noise around a local business by smashing their boombox.
• During "Who Killed Casey Carmel", an otherwise serious quest, you can find one of the suspects covered in tanning oil that is apparently so toxic that he needs immediate hospitalization. Robocop gets him to confess everything and who the real killer is by promising him to get it off of him. This is all an homage to one of the mockumentary commercials of Robocop 2.
  • The homeless guy who witnessed the murder is unfortunately unreliable as a witness since he believes that an alien did it. Talking to him more reveals that he is a wholesale Shout-Out to They Live!.
• Robocop will be interrupted in his search for Soot, a Cop Killer, drug kingpin, and terrorist, to go find the Mayor's niece's 6000 SUX.
• How the game introduces landmines to the player: when chasing the Street Vultures further into their turf, Robocop spooks one of them into falling onto a mine.
• During the bank mission, you can see one of the ED-209s try to use the stairs, to the usual results.
• Max Becker celebrates becoming the acting head of OCP by ordering six hookers to come into his office by saying, "Bitches, come!" Notably, there's a small funeral service going on for the Old Man downstairs at the same time.
  • For added hilarity, that specific line is actually a Shout-Out to the infamous "bitches, leave!" from the first movie.
• Max Becker when confronted by the New Guy with his control over the UEDs notices that Wendell only is interested in Robocop, so he makes a hasty exit stage left like a cartoon character.
• Robocop can tackles a variety of public service missions. One of them involves taking Ulysses on field training. The mission is to find a cat lost in a basement. In true Robocop fashion, even this mission becomes a shootout as thugs decide to pick that very moment to raid the building. Leading to Ulysses taking a bullet to the arm in his cat retrieval mission.
  • When meeting the old lady missing her cat, Robocop will constantly interrupt her to explain what to say and do to Ulysses, until he takes over saying he already knows what do from reading the police manual.
  • While tracking the cat in the basement Robocop gives Ulysses advice on how to act in a situation like this. What makes it funny is how Robocop consistently words himself like they are after a fugitive from the law, saying things like "The fugitive has left a trail." when finding paw prints and advicing Ulysses to move slow and conserve his energy while searching in case the "fugitive" makes a break for it and he has to run after it.
• One of the first side missions in the police station is to help Officer Chessman man the front desk. The first person that comes to him wants the people in his neighborhood to stop getting on his case when walking his dog. He brags that his dog is the best looking on the block and likes to call attention to it by yelling out its name, the problem is he named it… Fire. You can make him pay a fine or let him off a warning but he will just shrug either of them off with smile.
  • The second person that comes to him wants the reward money for information on a certain wanted criminal. Turns out the criminal is himself so he asks if he still gets the money since he is turning himself in. You can either tell him he will get a reduced sentence or just a flat no, before you have him taken away. Additionally, it seems no one noticed him enter the precinct despite his wanted poster being all around the lobby. (This may be based on a popular hoax meme...or the actual instance in 2021, where a woman commented on a police Facebook post about how she was wanted. Or the instance in 2014. Or...)
• After Becker dies in the climax, we find that his funeral was only attended by a man called "Funeral Bob", who goes to as many funerals as possible and this is his milestone 1000th funeral. The fact that Funeral Bob, rather than Becker's death seems to be the true focus of the news story just sells it.
• Pickles sometimes gets himself in trouble with the law on purpose, just so he can get free food and lodging for a few days inside the police station holding cells. Robocop can either call him a freeloader or very resourceful.
• When entering a convenience store, you can hear the owner say "But it's not worth a dollar, it's worth $13.45!"
• One side mission has a group of repeat offenders attempting to destroy the courthouse under the logic straining belief that doing so will erase their criminal records, while also demanding a 6000 SUX and a plane to Acapulco (which is currently a war zone). Once inside we can hear an argument between the supposed mastermind of the operation and his thugs when outside the main courtroom, turns out the mastermind is unsurprisingly incompetent and his thugs point out how he wasn’t making his demands clear to them or the cops and also questions him on why they would need a luxury car if they want a plane as well.
  • After dealing with the hostiles, one female hostage (should she survive) will ask Robocop to call her boss to confirm that she was taken hostage for the third time this week.
• During the prison riot, Robocop can find a note that contains a complaint by an inmate named Jimmy ‘The Bulldog’ Leak. His complaint? Mandatory baking classes.
  • Apparently some inmates are really good as the prison warden had a plate of muffins in his office from one of their classes.
• When looking for information on Soot at the arcade, the one person who will spill the beans on what the arcade owner’s business is really like is a teenager high on Nuke who believes Robocop is his TV hero T.J. Lazer.
  • Depending on what skill tree you have leveled up, the conversation outside the arcade owner’s office can end in different ways. Other than breaching the door, Robocop can either point out that one of the Torch Heads in the office is an impersonator which leads to an argument before they shoot and kill each other or you can trick them into giving themselves up by saying there is gas leaking into the office.
• During the bomb disposal scene in the bank heist mission, if you have a high enough level on Engineering Robocop can tell Officer Washington that the order of cutting the two 12V wires is irrelevant, which makes Wash ask why did you ask him about them if you already knew that? Robocop responds by saying it is so that Wash learns something from this.
  • Also Officer Washington is not a bomb disposing expert, so he has to look through the police manual for its chapter on bomb disposing.
  • Officer Washington first wants to contact the bomb squad, but Robocop tells him that there's not enough time for that, which leads to Washington consulting the manual. What does the manual say to do? "Call qualified personnel." Washington's subdued reaction of "Oh no" really sells the moment.
  • When disposing the Street Vultures’ bomb under the Detroit Bridge, Officer Washington’s reaction to it is basically Oh, No... Not Again! at the thought of helping with this, but fortunately for him Robocop manages it by himself just fine.
• During the raid on the Street Vultures’ territory, you can rescue a captured Torch Head, who then proceeds to believe that he summoned and is now in control of Robocop. To try and confirm this he orders Robocop to blink, which he can’t see due to Robocop’s helmet.
• When helping Ben the mechanic find out what was wrong with a car he had in his auto shop, Robocop will point out that there is an electric current inside the cooling tank and recommends grounding it to help fix the problem, though he thinks Ben already knew about it. Ben's response however indicates that he missed it, but covers up by saying he would never miss such a thing.
• When helping Samantha Ortiz in the OCP Building, you will find a note from the head of security about the problem with people forgetting access codes (including the head of security himself), so he made a new policy where the access codes are included on newly made posters around the doors that use them, which is makes it easier for Robocop to sneak into the security room.
• Once the meeting with the Old Man in his old apartment in Old Detroit is finished, Robocop has the option of either going out the way he came in or falling off an opening through the balcony since Robo doesn’t take fall damage. Doing the latter will have the Old Man lightly remark "look at him go" and Robo will land next to a pair of bodyguards he met at the entrance, with one reacting shocked and saying "Holy Shit!", while the other cooly remarks that Robocop might not be a pile of junk after all.
• One public trust side mission has Robocop do the ‘robot dance’ at the request of a child. It seems he really can't help if he's fresh.
• During the "Who Killed Simon Page" side mission, once Robocop discovers the panic room installed in Simon Page's office and is where Agatha Crane disappeared to, Robo can either hack the through the passcode if leveled up sufficiently in Engineering... or he can just look at Simon's computer which she left on with the code to the panic room from an email Simon received about it.
  • When Agatha is cornered and pulls a gun, Robocop can try to reason with her…or he can point out that her gun isn’t even loaded.
• When Max Becker unveils the UEDs to fight Robocop, Officer Washington reveals that if their heads are shot off they start attacking their fellow drones due to a glitch that Becker never bothered to fix. OCP cutting corners yet again.
  • When Becker's ranting about how important it is that he's able to control people like Robocop, he tries flipping the remote he's holding in the air...only to clumsily fail at catching it.
• At the weapons expo, Becker suggests for Robocop to smile. He immediately regrets it when Robo complies and tells him to stop.
  • During the public unveiling of the UEDs at the expo, when Becker allows for questions, it is made clear that the crowd was Just Here for Robocop and his opinions on the police strike and the mayoral election with no questions about the UEDs or that Becker is now the acting CEO of OCP.
• The penultimate mission has The New Guy constantly switching between taunting Robocop through the loudspeakers to panicking about him getting closer to his position when the mercenaries and UEDs fail to stop him over the hacked communications network.
• The leadup to the penultimate mission has Robo move through a container town built for Delta City's construction workers, which features amenities like a tattoo parlor, bars and prostitutes. While the conditions there are utterly horrifying, the sight of a prostitute in her usual outfit wearing a bright-yellow hardhat is just darkly hilarious.