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UUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!

  • The Prototypes of RoboCop 2. It builds up with triumphant music, showing a clunky looking brown cyborg which reveals the human face inside the body note  — which then flinches his face in anger, complete with sparks, realizing that he's lost his humanity, and then proceeds to gun down the scientists near him, all while only able to say what's been programmed into him — "You are under arrest. Stop or I'll shoot." — with the words getting weaker with each sentence, until the prototype shoots himself in the head. And after that, we get the other prototype, which looks much sleeker and more friendly — but then it removes its helmet, revealing a fleshy skull with wires coming out of it, before screaming in pain and crashing to the ground, presumably dead. Unlike Murphy, these would-be RoboCops failed because they weren't prepared to give up their lives and humanity for the line of duty. That, and the insane amount of psychological stress of being slaves to a corporation for the rest of their operational lives. The jerky stop-motion animation of the prototypes doubles the creep factor, and combined with the completely ironic, triumphant music only makes the scene even more creepy than it already is. note  Then the Old Man just quietly complains that he wasted $90 million on this project, as if that's more important than his products killing their users.
  • RoboCain, the RoboCop 2 prototype that did work — too well, in fact. A hulking, nearly unstoppable arsenal of lethal weapons combined with the mind of a drug-abusing serial killer that breaks free of its corporate controller to wreak havoc makes for a genuine threat. The amazing stop motion effects done to create this metal monstrosity only enhance the fear factor. Also, there's Cain's "Screen Face", complete with an almost agonized CGI head featured here. It's especially scary when he suddenly gets pissed off.
    • Then there is Cain's brain (complete with staring eyeballs!). As part of putting the brain into the RoboCop 2 prototype, they surgically remove his entire brain, spinal column, and eyeballs, and suspend it inside a tube of liquid. Cain can only stare with his sight, seeing everything that's happening even in this state (not that he doesn't deserve it, given what he himself did to Duffy below earlier, but still – why should these people get away with it?). Note that seeing "everything that's happening" includes seeing his own cored-out, decapitated head being held up by one of the scientists as he describes how his brain was extracted to Faxx. It's no wonder he became even more insane than before once his brain was put into the death bot.
    • Cain’s death. Robocop tears out Cain’s brain and starts to smash it into to ensure Cain dies for good. Cain then starts to scream in clear pain and agony as he can’t do anything but watch Robocop smash his brain into pieces. And after the deed is done, we get to see Cain die for good as his face on the monitor disappears with him screaming all the way.
  • Duffy, a dirty cop, is beaten up by RoboCop and forced to give up Cain's location. For his troubles, while outside the hospital with Hob, another of Cain's guys knocks Duffy out. He wakes up tied to a hospital bed. In the room are Cain, his girlfriend Angie, Hob who is all of fourteen years old, and a sad-faced man who's getting his scalpels ready to vivisect him.
    Dirty Doctor: Maybe you oughta have the kid leave.
    Cain: Why?
    • Cain's "Why?" doesn't even sound rhetorical; he genuinely doesn't understand why Hob shouldn't be present. He's a fundamentally broken, sick individual who couldn't grasp the concepts of innocence or empathy even if he wanted to.
    • And then there's the fact that Angie and Hob both look terrified when the torturer makes the first cuts, we see some blood, and we hear Duffy screaming. That screaming can give you chills:
      Angie: You said you were just going to scare him!
      Cain: [coldly] Doesn't he look scared?
    • The idea of Duffy getting his chest sliced open with lots of High-Pressure Blood spurting and him scream is now more unnerving considering Duffy's actor Stephen Lee would pass away from a heart attack in 2014.
  • RoboCop's limbless torso, after the bad guys tore him apart. He still moves and tries to speak, but could only manage a low moan. Just watch the scene when OCP is assessing the damages. To add more fuel to the scene at hand, seeing RoboCop's face contorted in writhing anguish and pain is both this and heavy levels of Tear Jerker.
  • The scene where Dr. Faxx shuts off Cain's life support, so OCP can harness his brain for RoboCop 2. Made even worse by the fact that Cain, of all people, is visibly terrified and can't even express it.
    Dr. Faxx: Night.
    • The look on her face as she watches him die isn't one of boredom or triumph or even disgust. It's one of absolute intrigue.
    • There's also the fact that, after Faxx made Cain into RoboCop 2, she smiles after Cain survived Lewis smashing an APC into him — even though Cain murdered several people.
  • Hob! The poster child for Teens Are Monsters, Hob is a 14-year old Child Soldier and The Dragon for Cain, who takes over his operation after Cain is seemingly killed (not knowing that Cain's been converted into Robocop 2), and does a disturbingly good job of running a drug ring. However, rather than making him a complete sociopath, the movie implies that Hob wasn't always this way - this is the result of a child growing up on the lawless streets of a decaying Detroit, and considering that his main role model and parental figure is a psychotic, sadistic drug lord, it's unlikely he'd ever have turned out any other way. Hob's inclusion in the film was one of the biggest criticisms when it came out, with many critics considering it to be disturbing and tasteless.
  • The ad for Sunblock 5000. The girl states that the ozone layer is now gone and that a mere twenty seconds in the California sun is too much now for unprotected skin. Unless, of course, one applies an whole pint of Sunblock 5000, which is blue, to their entire body. Oh, and there's a Surgeon General's warning that it will, not can, will cause skin cancer, the very thing you're trying to avoid by using the damn stuff in the first place. May double as Nightmare Retardant as removing the Ozone would render the entire planet sterile, so it can't even be true.

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