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=== The films: ===
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Inverted in the second movie - Belinda Bauer stars as psychologist Dr. Faxx, and later went on to become a qualified psychologist herself.
* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: ''Seriously'' Inverted. It's rare that a movie is given an an X-rating (the 80s version of NC-17) for violence alone, but the director claimed he had to edit the first film ''eight times'' to avoid that happening. Still, the original version has been released on DVD since then.
* [[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: Part of the reason why Paul Verhoeven did the first film. He initially rejected the opportunity to direct it when he read the script and thought it was silly and stupid. He changed his mind when his wife convinced him that there were more layers to the story than he initially thought, and because the writers pointed out the amount of [[Gorn]] there was, to which he responded "Well, I've never seen the hero [[Fingore|get his hand blown off]]!"
* [[Fake American]]: Dr. Faxx in the second movie is played by Australian Belinda Bauer. See also [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]
** What's Dr. Romano from [[ER]] doing working as a street thug in future Detroit? {{spoiler|Getting splattered after a toxic waste bath, that's what!}}
** Clarence Boddicker is [[That '70s Show|Red Forman]] and his gang includes the aforementioned ''ER'' doctor and [[Reaper|The Devil]].
** Attentive fans of 80s comic books will also notice [[ROM Spaceknight|ROM]].
** RoboCop himself in the first two films is both [[Buckaroo Banzai]] and [[24|Christopher Henderson]]. In the third film, he's [[Thinner|Billy Halleck]]/[[Generation Kill|James Mattis]].
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** The anti-OCP movement in the third movie was led by [[The Shield|Claudette Wyms]] and consisted of [[Malcolm in the Middle|Commandant Spangler]], [[The Rock|The President of]] [[Armageddon|The United States]], and [[News Radio|Jimmy James]], {{spoiler|the last of whom turned out to be [[The Mole]].}}
** Hob, Cain's child henchman in the second movie, is played by [[The Land Before Time|Littlefoot]].
** Mario Machado and Leeza Gibbons were the newsanchors in the first two movies. Machado
** [[Austin Powers|Alotta Fagina]] is in an ad for sunblock.
** Robo's partner, Lewis, is [[Carrie|Chris Hargensen]].
** Combining this with [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] - In the first film [[Goof Troop|Goofy]] is a reporter and a young (and uncredited) [[Sailor Moon|Sailor Mars]] makes a cameo.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Prior to playing Dick Jones, Ronny Cox played nice guys. However, Dick Jones also set up a new type for him, as proven by [[Stargate SG-1|Senator Robert Kinsey]] and [[Total Recall|Vilos Cohaagen]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Show Within a Show]] ''I'd Buy That for a Dollar'' is a homage to the idiot's TV-derived catchphrase from the dystopic SF novel ''The Marching Morons'', updated for inflation. Originally: "I'd buy that for a quarter!" <ref>The star of the show, Bixby Snyder, is possibly a homage to [[Benny Hill]]. Or a parody. In a supposedly-filmed scene, there's one final newscast where the newsreaders announce that Snyder has been arrested for receiving sexual
** In ''2'', Caine is overseeing the development of new versions of nuke, one of which is named Blue Velvet, likely after the song. But just maybe because the chemist working on it is named [[Blue Velvet|Frank.]]
* [[Throw It In]]
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