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RoboCop is an American cyberpunk action media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products. Thus equipped, Murphy ...
Murphy is a devout Irish Catholic and a mild-mannered family man, living with his wife, Ellen (Nancy in the television series, Clara in the 2014 remake), and his son, Jimmy (James Daniel "Jimmy" Murphy in RoboCop: The Series (see ep. 06, "Zone Five"), David in the 2014 remake). [46]
[10] [65] The scene of RoboCop returning to Murphy's home is compared to finding the Garden of Eden or a similar paradise. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] Brooks Landon describes the film as typical of the cyberpunk genre because it does not treat RoboCop as better or worse than average humans (just different), and asks the audience to consider him a new life form.
While RoboCop was initially an American property, Orion Pictures received a $500,000 cash infusion for TV licensing rights by Canada's Skyvision Entertainment in May 1993. . Orion Pictures had originally planned to make a fourth RoboCop film, but decided to license a television series instead due to the bankruptcy of the studio and the negative reception to RoboCop 3 (1993).
RoboCop Versus The Terminator: Gallery Edition (Oversized black & white edition of Dark Horse series, hardcover, July 2014) RoboCop Vol 3: Last Stand Part Two (collects issues #5-8, Dec. 2014) RoboCop: Dead Or Alive Volume One (collects issues #1-4, Aug. 2015) RoboCop: Dead Or Alive Volume Two (collects issues #5-8, Feb. 2016) The Complete ...
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Based on the original movie, the series features cyborg cop Alex Murphy (RoboCop), who fights to save the city of Old Detroit from assorted rogue elements, and on occasion, fighting to reclaim aspects of his humanity and maintain his usefulness in the eyes of the "Old Man", Chairman of Omni Consumer Products.
Christopher Murphy, 33, of Salina, was confirmed as the shooter in a gunfight that left two police officers and Murphy dead, according to Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick.