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Heroes

Alex J. Murphy / RoboCop

Once a police officer named Alex Murphy, he became the eponymous Cyborg police officer after being shot to death by Clarence Boddicker and his gang during his first day at the job on Detroit's Metro West precint.

Played by Peter Weller (1-2), Robert John Burke (3)

Anne Lewis

Originally Murphy's partner, and first on the scene after his fatal shooting. Remains assigned to work with him after his cyberization.

Played by Nancy Allen

Sergeant Warren Reed

Played by Robert Doqui

  • A Father to His Men: Reed cares about every cop in his precinct. When Bob Morton reprimands Lewis, Reed sticks up for her. While he was initially protesting OCP bringing in Robocop, upon the second movie he shows just as much concern for him as he would a fellow officer. Even demanding OCP fix him when Cain chops him up.
  • Badass in Charge: In Robocop3, the man proved it when OCP threatened to take away his pension if he didn't move people out of their homes.
  • Da Chief
  • Insignia Rip Off Ritual: see Turn In Your Badge.
  • Last Stand: Against OCP at the end of Robocop 3.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure
  • Turn in Your Badge: Shown in Robocop 3.

Villains

Clarence Boddicker

A central antagonist of the first movie. He is a crime boss of Old Detroit.

Played by Kurtwood Smith

Dick Jones

The second main antagonist of the first movie, next to Clarence. He is a corrupt vice president of OCP.

Played by Ronny Cox

  • Big Bad Duumvirate: With Boddicker.
  • The Chessmaster
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive
  • Dragon-in-Chief: To The Old Man.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: He may have added Directive 4, but that went out the window once he gets fired.
  • Hypocrisy: Cites Murphy as a thing and a violent mechanical psychopath when he has no problem employing psychopaths while being less of a man in his own right.
  • Straw Hypocrite: Citing the mottos of the Mega Corp he works at while having none of these qualities himself. Although to be fair, it is OCP we're talking about. They suck at upholding their own creed.
    • Courage, Jones predictably hid behind the Old man as a hostage when his maleficence had been exposed to the board near the end. Strength, had someone else murder a fellow employee because he upstaged his cheap marketing scam. Conviction? The product he'd tried to sell for military application was purposely flawed and unviable, more prone to gunning down its own faction or hapless citizens then actually performing to design parameters.
  • Villainous Breakdown: All throughout the movie, he's been quite the sleaze, but once Robo plays back his confession, he tries to bargain his way out by holding the Old Man hostage.
  • Villain with Good Publicity

The Old Man

Head of OCP in the first two movies.

Played by Daniel O'Herlihy

  • Characterization Marches On / Flanderization: In the first movie he shows no serious moral failings, refusing to sell a half-finished, potentially dangerous product and being appalled by his underling's criminal dealings. In the second film he's cheerfully doing everything he opposed in the first.
    • Not really; he's not at all bothered by poor Kenny's death, he's more concerned that this malfunction will set them back millions in construction permits and the PR nightmare it will be; he's just not overtly EVIL unlike Dick.
  • Large Ham
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: No one ever calls him anything other than "The Old Man."
  • Smug Snake
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He honestly seems to think his plans for Detroit are for the good of the city as well as his corporation.

Bob Morton

A young up-and-coming executive at the helm of the 'Robocop' project.

Played by Miguel Ferrer

Enforcement Droid series 209 (ED-209)

A battling droid created by Dick Jones.

Voiced by Jon Davison

  • Achilles' Heel: Never let him go near a staircase.
  • Awesome but Impractical: His design is just straight-up awesome looking, but as a rushed-out product, his numerous design flaws give him essentially zero practical applications. Except, oddly enough, as a children's toy in Real Life.
  • Catch Phrase: "Please put down your weapon, you have 20 seconds to comply."
  • Fan Nickname: Eddy
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
  • Mecha Mook
  • Take That: ED-209's design was partially meant as a jab at then contemporary American car design. Designer Craig Davies claimed he invisioned futuristic designers making the robot look good in order to make it marketable before they made it work well, “just like an American car.” This lead to stuff like the over-designed hydraulics system and the vulnerable radiator grill at the front.

Emil M. Antonowsky

One of Clarence's thugs.

Played by Paul McCrane

Leon Nash

One of Clarence's thugs.

Played by Ray Wise

Cain

The main antagonist of the second movie, and the distributor of a street drug called "Nuke."

Played by Tom Noonan

Hob

A young hoodlum who serves as Cain's apprentice in Robocop 2.

Played by Gabriel Damon

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