History Film / RoboCop2

* EyeScream: Two prostitutes beat and rob a guy who just had robbed an old lady, and he gets a heel in his eye.

* CallBack: The gang taking [=RoboCop=] apart is reminiscent to the death (via dismemberment) of Murphy in the original film.

* BombWhistle: Accompanies Cain and [=RoboCop=] when they fall from the OCP building.

* ContinuityNod: Murphy brings one of the Cobra Rifles used on him from the first to his confrontation with [=RoboCain=], though it does not cause much damage.
* CreatorCameo: Film's writer Creator/FrankMiller plays a chemist named...[[TheDanza Frank]]. [[DeathByCameo Who is blown up]].

* DisastrousDemonstration: [=RoboCop=] 2 goes berserk at a press event after the Old Man unwisely waves a canister of Cain's favorite drug around on front of it.

** A prototype of [=RoboCop=] 2 removes his face-plate and helmet... and reveals to be nothing more than a bloody, screaming skull, which immediately collapses to the ground.
** [=RoboCain=]'s screen-for-a-face also pulls this on his former girlfriend Angie.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The dirty doctor who vivisects Officer Duffy to death for squealing is wise enough to suggest to Cain that the very young Hob should leave the room because it would be too intense for him. Angie and Hob also look very much horrified at the sound of Duffy's screaming.

* FalseReassurance: Cain assures his cronies that he's only going to scare Officer Duffy with torture. When the TortureTechnician starts doing his thing for real, he replies to their shock that Duffy ''[[ExactWords is]]'' scared.

* SaveTheDayTurnAway: The movie begins with OCP's legal team forcing Murphy to turn away from his wife and kid. Murphy doesn't want to give up on trying to connect with them, but his family are freaked out by his visits to their home - and are threatening to sue OCP - so Murphy [[ThatManIsDead lies to his wife]] and convinces them that he isn't really her husband reborn as a warrior of living steel, but a robot built in honor of Murphy's memory.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The dirty doctor who vivisects Officer Duffy to death for squealing is wise enough to suggest to Cain that the very young Hob should leave the room because it would be too intense for him.

** A prototype of [=RoboCop=] 2 removes his face-plate and helmet... and reveals to be nothing more than a bloody, screaming skull, which then collapses.

* FalseReassurance: Cain assures his cronies that he's only going to scare Duffy with torture. When the TortureTechnician starts doing his thing for real, he replies to their shock that Duffy ''[[ExactWords is]]'' scraed.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Several times in the movie, we simply got strong hints as to how awful the violence being done was, such as [[spoiler:a doctor showing us Cain's agonized face after the skull holding it was sliced away]]. Used to ''great'' effect when [[spoiler:Murphy is stripped down by Cain and his goons;]] we don't see what it looks like until they're done, but we see the process involving jackhammers, sledgehammers, and their own casual view of the process ''all from Murphy's perspective.'' It is a dark inversion of his "rebirth" in the first movie, and references the visuals of that scene.

* KidsAreCruel: [[TeenageWasteland Almost all kids shown]] on screen are little monsters who enjoy violence and law-breaking. Yet [=Robocop=]'s conscience won't allow him to target a child.
* KilledMidSentence: The Surgeon General's death in the beginning of the movie: gunned down in the middle of a speech about the spread of Nuke, ironically by a Nuke addict

* MotorcycleJousting: Alex Murphy has a joust with Cain: Murphy on a motorcycle, Cain in an armored car.

* OnlySaneMan: OCP Executive Johnson . He's the only one who realizes that loading [=RoboCop=] down with a senselessly complex command program will cripple him and he's one of two men who '''does''' see the problem with giving a mass-murdering drug lord an indestructible robot body.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Dr. Faxx. She manages to sound broadly American only a handful of times. The rest she swings between vaguely English, Irish, even German and French on a few occasions. What nationality is the actress? Australian.

** The multitudinous additional directives they added include:[[note]]DIRECTIVE 233: Restrain hostile feelings. - DIRECTIVE 234: Promote positive attitude. - DIRECTIVE 235: Suppress aggressiveness. - DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values. - DIRECTIVE 238: Avoid destructive behavior. - DIRECTIVE 239: Be accessible. - DIRECTIVE 240: Participate in group activities. - DIRECTIVE 241: Avoid interpersonal conflicts. - DIRECTIVE 242: Avoid premature value judgments. - DIRECTIVE 243: Pool opinions before expressing yourself. - DIRECTIVE 244: Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility. - DIRECTIVE 245: If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't talk. - DIRECTIVE 246: Don't rush traffic lights. - DIRECTIVE 247: Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or other cars. - DIRECTIVE 248: Don't say that you are always prompt when you are not. - DIRECTIVE 249: Don't be oversensitive to the hostility and negativity of others. - DIRECTIVE 250: Don't walk across a ballroom floor swinging your arms. - DIRECTIVE 254: Encourage awareness. - DIRECTIVE 256: Discourage harsh language. - DIRECTIVE 258: Commend sincere efforts. - DIRECTIVE 261: Talk things out. - DIRECTIVE 262: [[TakeThat Avoid Orion meetings]]. - DIRECTIVE 266: Smile. - DIRECTIVE 267: Keep an open mind. - DIRECTIVE 268: Encourage participation. - DIRECTIVE 273: Avoid stereotyping. - DIRECTIVE 278: Seek non-violent solutions.[[/note]]

* KidsAreCruel: [[TeenageWasteland Almost all kids shown]] on screen are little monsters who enjoy violence and law-breaking. Yet Murphy's conscience won't allow him to target a child.

* BitingTheHandHumour: After [=RoboCop=] has been reprogrammed, one of his directives is to "avoid Orion meetings."

'''[=RoboCop=]''': Your husband is dead. I don't know you.

* ThatManIsDead: In a more complex way, [=RoboCop=] tells Murphy's wife that Murphy is dead and they gave [=RoboCop=] Murphy's face as a way of honoring the fallen officer. Sadly, we know he's still in there somewhere because he lies to his wife to order to let her go. He may not be dead, but he is no longer her husband.

[=RoboCop=]: Your husband is dead. I don't know you.

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: In the first movie, Old Man, the CEO of Omni Consumer Products, is merely an amoral old man who really doesn't do anything outright villainous, but shows little empathy for others. Now, he's a flat-out CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* SuperWindowJump: [=RoboCop=] plays chicken with Cain by putting his hijacked motorcycle agains his van, and uses the ensuing crash to jump through its windshield.

* CondemnedContestant: Cain's brain is putin [=RoboCop=] against his will after he taken in [=RoboCop=].

** Cain, reduced to a brain and two floating eyeballs, [[AndIMustScream forced to silently watch]] as the doctors casually chat over his disembodied, empty head with its slack face contorted in a rictus of horror. If he wasn't already insane, that would have done it.

* BrainInAJar: Cain, at least temporarily, while they're preparing his robot body. He, though, still has his [[EyeScream Eyes]] attached to his brain. As a result, he sees his own face that's been cut off of his body, with the surgeon casually holding it like a coffee cup. All of these are just trope filled giving examples of BodyHorror.

Meanwhile, OCP has failed to replicate their success creating the first [=RoboCop=]. After several failed attempts, an unscrupulous executive in OCP hypothesizes that the mind of a criminal with a strong desire for power and immortality could survive the procedure. When [=RoboCop=] finally takes Cain down, OCP immediately sticks Cain's brain in "[=RoboCop=] 2" and counts on his addiction to Nuke as a RestrainingBolt (you get no points on guessing how long he stays loyal.) Now [=RoboCop=] must face his EvilCounterpart -- who is far more heavily armed than himself.

* ScaramangaSpecial: Hob's lunchbox submachine gun. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARES_FMG It's real]].

* BitingTheHandHumour: After Robocop has been reprogrammed, one of his directives is to "avoid Orion meetings."

* CallBack: The gang taking Robocop apart is reminiscent to the death (via dismemberment) of Murphy in the original film.

* NeckLift: When Cain (in his Robocop 2 body) meets Angie in the warehouse, he grabs her head and performs a NeckSnap, then lifts her off the ground and holds her in the air.
* NeverMyFault: At the end of the film, after Robocop's intended successor has killed and injured peple, Johnson from OCP suggests blaming Dr. Faxx. It's a twisted example in that it actually ''was'' her fault, but OCP brought her in and her superiors turned a blind eye to what she was doing while her subordinates were too afraid to challenge her. Although, to be fair to Johnson, he ''did'' argue against Faxx' plans. It was more the CEO of OCP, known only as the Old Man, who needed the blame to be shifted, and then for legal reasons.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: How Lewis and Robocop's primary technician promptly realize something is very wrong after Robocop is rebuilt; Robocop says he's "touched", remarks on it being "a beautiful day" and he calls the captain by his first name; all things Murphy would never do.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Robocop is revamped to be a more politically-correct role model by having over two hundred directives installed in his brain to teach "pro-social" messages (as defined by a committee). It drives him effectively insane and unable to do any real policework.

* ShootTheHostageTaker: During a raid on a drug lab, a criminal takes a baby hostage. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzOlSQouV2E#t=0m29s Robocop uses a ricochet shot off a metal door to shoot the hostage taker in the head.]]

-->'''RoboCop:''' I won't leave you. ''[takes Hob's hand]''

-->'''Ellen Murphy''': [sees Robocop without his helmet] Alex, is it really you?\\

* TrashcanBonfire: There some on the streets of Detroit as Robocop approaches Cain's first drug factory.

* StayWithMeUntilIDie: The boy Hob is mortally wounded by Cain's attack. RoboCop finds him and says he's going to call for medical help, but:

* NeckSnap: Cain breaks Angie's neck when they meet after he is turned into cyborg.

* CreatorCameo: Film's writer Creator/FrankMiller plays a chemist named...[[TheDanza Frank]].

* {{Determinator}}: After numerous [[EpicFail Epic Fails]] at attempting to build a second law enforcement cyborg, Faxx speculates that it was Murphy's intense devotion to duty that's keeping him from eating a bullet.

* AntagonistTitle: Technically this given that the antagonist has the same name as the film.

The plot involves the spread of a new drug called Nuke, considered ''the'' most addictive narcotic in history, as the police department is on strike. [=RoboCop=] struggles to stem the flow by going after Cain, a drug kingpin with [[DarkMessiah a messiah complex]].

* {{Telethon}}: Mayor Kuzak organizes a telethon to raise money to save Detroit from bankruptcy.

* MotorcycleJousting: Alex Murphy has a joust with Cain in ''[=RoboCop=] 2'': Murphy on a motorcycle, Cain in an armored car.

* PuttingOnTheReich: The OCP banners are red with a white circle, black company logo inside it. Clarence Boddicker wears glasses resembling those worn by Heinrich Himmler -- a deliberate move according to WordOfGod. The company's private army wear totalitarian longcoats and caps.

* BodyHorror: The failed attempts to build a NewAndImproved cyborg.