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RoboCop 2

RoboCop 2 is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand RoboCop 2 rather than just read about it. In short: RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Frank Miller and Walon Green. It stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan, and Gabriel Damon.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

RoboCop 2 is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Frank Miller and Walon Green. It stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan, and Gabriel Damon. It is the sequel to the 1987 film RoboCop, the second installment in the RoboCop franchise and the last to feature Weller as RoboCop until he returned in Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), RoboCop: Rogue City (2023) and other media. It is the last film Kershner directed before his death in 2010. Set in a dystopian Detroit, the plot follows RoboCop (Weller) as he becomes embroiled in a scheme made by Omni Consumer Products to bankrupt and take over the city, while also fighting the spread of a street drug called "Nuke" and its gang of dealers led by Cain (Noonan). The film was shot in Houston. The film received mixed reviews upon its release and earned a moderate box-office return, grossing $45 million domestically, compared to the previous film's $53 million gross on a significantly smaller production budget. It was nominated for three Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Performance by a Younger Actor (for Damon), and Best Special Effects (for Phil Tippett, Rob Bottin, and Peter Kuran). A sequel, RoboCop 3, was released in 1993. Miller returned to write the comic-book sequel RoboCop Versus the Terminator in 1992 and Steven Grant adapted his original screenplays for the second and third films into the comics Frank Miller's RoboCop from 2003 to 2006 and 2013 to 2014.

Plot Detroit is facing bankruptcy after failing to pay off its debts to conglomerate Omni Consumer Products (OCP). The OCP chairman intends to have the city default on its debt, then foreclose on all public property, so they may move ahead with their radical urban development project, Delta City. To rally public opinion behind the project, OCP deliberately underfunds the Detroit Police Department to cause a rise in street crime. A new drug, Nuke, is sweeping the city, driven by crime boss Cain and his lieutenant, a teenaged boy named Hob. RoboCop remains on duty with his partner Anne Lewis and continues to be plagued by memories of his life as Alex Murphy. He locates the home of his widow and son, and begins watching them until she brings litigation against OCP, but when she meets him face-to-face and is responsive to him, RoboCop claims not to know her and that her husband is dead. OCP attempts to develop a "RoboCop 2" using the brains of legally dead police officers, intending to mass produce them to replace human officers, but all subjects kill themselves upon activation. Psychologist Juliette Faxx suggests that the error is the test subjects, and that Murphy was a success because of his strict Catholic upbringing and moral code, preventing him from committing suicide and reinforcing his devotion to his duty. Faxx begins screening suitable candidates for the project, but instead of police officers, she secretly considers death row inmates who desire power and immortality. RoboCop raids a construction site used by Cain's gang, but he is ambushed and dismembered, and the pieces are dumped in front of the precinct. RoboCop is repaired, but Faxx intentionally reprograms him with more than 300 new directives that severely impede his ability to perform his duties, so that her project can be selected. RoboCop eventually clears these by shocking himself with a high-voltage transformer and rebooting his system. He rallies the police to assist in raiding Cain's hideout. After a battle and chase, Cain is wounded, arrested, and falls into a coma. Hob escapes and takes control of his empire. Believing she can control Cain via his Nuke addiction, Faxx selects him for the RoboCop 2 project and disconnects his life support. His brain is removed and implanted in a new cyborg body. Hob contacts the mayor and offers to cover the city's debt to OCP in exchange for leniency towards their drugs syndicate. OCP sends RoboCop 2 to stop the deal. At the meeting, RoboCop 2 kills everyone present except for the mayor, who escapes alive, and Hob. RoboCop arrives and is told by a fatally wounded Hob that Cain is now RoboCop 2 and was responsible for the killings. At an unveiling ceremony for RoboCop 2 and Delta City, RoboCop 2 goes out of control and berserk when the OCP chairman holds up a canister of Nuke. RoboCop arrives, and along with the police, ineffectually battles RoboCop 2 as it attacks civilians. Lewis uses an armored car and Nuke to distract it, while RoboCop climbs on its back, rips out its brain, and smashes it on the street, deactivating the machine. The OCP chairman uses Faxx as the scapegoat for the failure of RoboCop 2 and for the civilian and police casualties it caused. Lewis complains that OCP will once again avoid accountability, but RoboCop insists they must be patient because, "we're only human".

Cast

Production

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Illustrations

RoboCop 2: Gabriel Damon as the gun-wielding, kid drug-dealer Hob in RoboCop 2. Several critics, such as Roger Ebert, condemned the use of a killer child as "beneath contempt."[55] — Gabriel Damon as the gun-wielding, kid drug-dealer Hob in RoboCop 2. Several critics, such as Roger Ebert, condemned the use of a killer child as "beneath contempt."[55]

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with RoboCop 2

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what RoboCop 2 claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to RoboCop 2 before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about RoboCop 2 ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of RoboCop 2

In research: RoboCop 2 appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses RoboCop 2 in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: RoboCop 2 is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1990 American films, 1990 English-language films, 1990 films, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for RoboCop 2 outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study RoboCop 2 in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does RoboCop 2 matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study RoboCop 2?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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