RoboCop: Prime Directives: Difference between revisions

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In the intervening years after the events of the first film, Delta City has become fully owned and operated by OCP, while Robocop/Alex Murphy (Fletcher) has remained in service for over a decade. Murphy's also showing his age, and is scheduled to be retired by OCP because his parts are out of warranty. In addition, his now-grown son James has become an OCP executive, and his old partner John Cable has returned to the city to become the company's new security commander. By the end of the first episode, Robo is forced to kill Cable, who is subsequently reborn as Robocable, the second prototype for the once-defunct Robocop program. Murphy teams up with an anarchist group led by Ann R. Key ([[Twenty Four|Leslie Hope]]) to stop Cable, OCP (which are now hunting both Murphy and Robo-Cable) and David Kaydick, Ann's ex-husband and a disgraced OCP scientist who plans to use an organic virus to destroy everyone in Delta City.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: In-universe with Murphy being reprogrammed by The Trust to kill John Cable (as part of an plan to make him the new enforcer for the company).

* [[Fingore]]: The OCP special force commander's hand when Robo-Cable blows it to pieces with his gun.

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Murphy killing Bone Machine by stabbing him repeatedly with his datajack (also serves as a [[Call Back]] to the way he killed Boddicker in the original), {{spoiler|Damian}} getting a laser drilled through the back of his head and Robocable destroying the OCP commander's head with a sledgehammer, among many others.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Robocable, who wields two Auto-9's.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Robocable's comment to the OCP soldier who almost destroyed him earlier in the series: "Now '''I''' own your black ass."

** In "Meltdown", Murphy remembers a phrase Cable once told him, "[[The Dark Knight Returns|The world only makes sense when you force it to]]." The quote returns as the coda for the third episode, "Resurrection".

* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: John and Sara Cable tried several times to have a child, and when she finally did give birth, the baby was stillborn.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: A prominent social and political commentator who is staunchly against Robocop goes by the name Archie Nemesis on his broadcasts.

** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Ann R. Key]]

* [[Mind Control Device]]: Kaydick uses a variant on Robocable, and uses it to make him follow his commands.

* [[Obstructive Code of Conduct]]: Played with. Murphy still has his original directives, but is unknowingly given a directive to kill John Cable as well (which he must carry out). At the end of the miniseries, Robocable purges the original directives from Murphy's software.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Murphy has put up with a lot of crap over the last decade, but do not, under any circumstances, threaten his son or there will be ''hell to pay''.

* [[Please Wake Up]]: Jordan to her mother several times over the course of the final three episodes.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Like her predecessor, The Old Woman is generally supportive of Robo and the Delta City Police Department, and denies Damian's request to send a team to destroy Robo.

* [[Smug Snake]]: OCP's top brass, Damian Lowe and Sara Cable. James Murphy starts out as this, but once he talks to his father and learns what really happened, he becomes incredibly helpful.