History Film / RoboCop2

* CarFu: Lewis hits [=RoboCaine=] with an light armored vehicle to stop his rampage. [[NoSell It doesn't work.]]

* RareGuns: The movie features Pauza P50 rifles (as itself and in guise of Cobra Assault Cannon). Only 36 of these rifles were made and now it's comletely forgotten. Quite a contrast from internationally successful and still-produced Barret M82.

* FreudianThreat: Of sorts, and a particularly nasty one. Near the beginning of the movie the OCP exec bullies Murphy into renouncing his attempt to reconnect with his family by pointing out that he no longer has a penis, and would be unable to satisfy his wife.

** Played straight earlier on when Cain's gang incapacitate Robocop by firing a grappling claw into his chest armour and them running electricity down its cable.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Catzo simply disappears from the movie after the police raid on the Nuke lab. At least one script version included a death scene where Robocop knocks him into an entire vat of the drug and he dies in a euphoric overdose. The novelization instead has Lewis shoot him during the raid.

* ContinuitySnarl: Reed's first name. After Faxx's tampered with his programming, Murphy addresses Reed as "Warren". However, in the first movie, when Bob Morton asks who Reed is, Johnson tells him he's "Sgt. John Reed". Of course, as the overload of directives has Robo halfway to nuts and botching age-old sayings, it's possible he just used the wrong name.

* RealityEnsues:
** [=OCP=] has been trying to make a [=RoboCop=] 2 for some time (five months, as the Old Man tells Johnson) by the time the events of the movie take place. However, every time they try to do so, the resurrected cyborg turns suicidal upon realizing what they've become. Turns out, Alex Murphy was a one-in-a-million shot who had an overwhelming dedication to uphold the law, and being a devout Irish-Catholic, a complete aversion to suicide. The average person won't take being turned into a cyborg after dying very well.
** [=RoboCop=] does a flying tackle into Cain during their MotorcycleJousting, causing the armored car to flip on its side. Next we see of him, Cain is so badly injured that they assume he'll die on the table. It's rather unlikely it was the flip that did all that damage.

* AdaptationalWimp: What ultimately happened in the actual version here compared to [[ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop Frank Miller's original script]], as Murphy was much more resistant to the additional directives Love programs in him than he was in the actual movie.

* InfantImmortality: Averted with Hob, the youngest member of Cain's cult, who gets gunned down behind a truck door while trying to hide from [=RoboCain=].

* RealityEnsues: [=RoboCop=] does a flying tackle into Cain during their MotorcycleJousting, causing the armored car to flip on its side. Next we see of him, Cain is so badly injured that they assume he'll die on the table. It's rather unlikely it was the flip that did all that damage.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [=OCP=] has been trying to make a [=RoboCop=] 2 for some time by the time the events of the movie take place. However, every time they try to do so, the resurrected cyborg turns suicidal upon realizing what they've become. Turns out, Alex Murphy was a one-in-a-million shot who had an overwhelming dedication to uphold the law, and being a devout Irish-Catholic, a complete aversion to suicide. The average person won't take being turned into a cyborg after dying very well.

* DeathByAdaptation: In the novelization, [[spoiler: Catzo, a.k.a. "Elvis Guy", is killed in a knife fight with Lewis during the big raid]]. The scene was filmed but cut from the movie, resulting in the character in question becoming a case of WhatHappenedToTheMouse in the film itself.

* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: [=Robocop=] stops some kids from playing with an open fire hydrant. He attempts to dispatch some old adages of homespun wisdom, but botches several of the sayings. It's worth noting that he's been reprogrammed with so many conflicting directives that he can barely think straight.

* BottomlessMagazines: Bizarrely averted in one scene, considering the film plays it terribly straight otherwise. When Hob first tries to use his fold-out machine gun on Lewis, she knocks him back and he squeezes the trigger. In less than two seconds, empty clip. Doubly bizarre because Hob manages at least ten seconds of sustained automatic fire with the same gun during the raid later.
** On the other hand, it's entirely possible she caught him with a nearly-empty magazine. It functions as a handy way to establish that Hob doesn't just carry around a gun for show; he actually uses it frequently enough for the magazine to occasionally run low at inconvenient times.

** Cain, at least temporarily, while they're preparing his robot body. He still has his [[EyeScream Eyes]] attached to his brain, allowing him to see [[BodyHorror his own face that's been cut off of his body]], with the surgeon casually holding it like a coffee cup.

** There's also a junior baseball team that is robbing an electronics store. Lewis is momentarily nonplussed when she realizes the criminals are ''a bunch of twelve year olds''

* RestrainingBolt: Cain's addiction to Nuke.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Catzo simply disappears from the movie after the police raid on the Nuke lab. At least one script version included a death scene where Robocop knocks him into an entire vat of the drug and he dies in a euphoric overdose. The novelization instead has Lewis shoot him in during the raid.

* CarFu: Lois hits [=RoboCaine=] with an light armored vehicle to stop his rampage. [[NoSell It doesn't work.]]

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: In the first movie, the Old Man, the CEO of Omni Consumer Products, is merely the head of an amoral company who really doesn't do anything outright villainous. Indeed, he's something of a genuine idealist, as he chides Dick Jones for his callous disregard for the office worker ED-209 killed and his motivation for erecting "Delta City" genuinely seems to be out of a desire to give people jobs and security in the CrapsackWorld around them. Now, he's a flat-out CorruptCorporateExecutive, playing every trope in that particular book, who is somehow stupid enough to not figure out that there's no way putting a psychopath's brain in a super-cyborg body is going to end well. However, the fan site ''RoboCop Archive'' does point out [[https://youtu.be/CE667_oaRxM in a video]] on their Website/YouTube channel the Old Man was only seen twice at board room meetings in the first place, as opposed to multiple times behind closed door here.

* FantasticDrug: Nuke, which users have cult-like devotion to it.

** Hob's "lunbox" [=SMG=] is [[http://www.guns.com/2013/02/08/foldable-submachine-guns/ a real weapon.]]

* ArcWords: And ones that [[TemptingFate tempt fate]] at that, being the phrase "making Made In America mean something again", both used by Cain and his Nuke cult and the Old Man. Anytime those words or any conversation based around those words are uttered, something terrible usually happens that goes to show that whatever situation that unfolds [[MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting is as shoddy and disfunctional as all jokes about American craftiness go]], and justified in that both enterprises are long term undermining and self destructive practices, with flooding civilization with drugs to make addicts of all people out of in Cain's case, and causing unhelpful gentrification and sterilization of the everyday man with Delta City in the Old Man's.

* CallBack: The gang taking [=RoboCop=] apart is reminiscent of Murphy's death in the original film.

* When Murphy confronts Cain in the Civic Centrum, he is armed with a Cobra Assault Cannon, featured in the first film. Good thinking, since it took out the ED-209 in two shots.