The History of the Robocop Cartoon: Rated R & Sold to Kids
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Discover the captivating journey behind the controversial Robocop Cartoon in this eye-opening video! Delve into the intriguing history of how a Rated R franchise made its way into the hands of kids.
We delve into the intriguing reasons why Robocop was chosen as a character for a children's cartoon, examining the strategies employed by the creators to make it accessible while maintaining its edgy essence.
Whether you're a die-hard Robocop fan, a lover of animation, or simply fascinated by the intriguing juxtaposition of mature themes in a kids' show, this video is a must-watch! Join us on this riveting journey through the history of the Robocop Cartoon, where a Rated R property was sold to kids and how it helped make Pryde of the X-Men a reality.
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You are correct.... "Pryde of the X-men" is an absolutely stellar X-Men episode. The best!
Robocop the animated complete series was released on dvd in the early 2000s in the uk by Maximum entertainment with the Jetix logo on it to. I have the boxset to
Fried chicken Robocop is my hero.
The 80s were so weird for kids. We watched cartoons like He-Man and GI Joe - where nobody was killed, while watching movies like Robocop and Gremlins.
No one died in Robocop or Gremlins. My mom says they were just sleeping. You're not saying my MOM is wrong, are you?
@@michaelshort4339, she's right, and the gremlin in the microwave was just cold from being outside, so he was warmed up a little bit.
The only difference is that kids watch PG-13 movies now, where the deaths aren't as graphic. If anything, it makes life look even more cheap.
@@caucasoidape8838 Yeah, PG-13 movies are like '50s movies where people getting shot just throw their hands up and bloodlessly fall down. It's all so clean and overly pleasant.
The only difference is that they cut away a lot faster in PG-13, lol.
Can't forget to mention where we watched two years of the TV cartoon Transformers where nobody got more than slightly hurt and then the animated movie where there's sooooo many deaths of all the characters we spent two years getting to know.
Amazon owns Robocop now? Damn real life OCP won.
Well, Amazon is the current parent company of MGM since one year ago.
Always a pleasure to watch the "What the Hell Fried Chicken" commercial starring Robocop and featuring the soundtrack to the third _Back to the Future_ movie.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing!
I have to admit I was so distracted by the visuals I totally missed the old west-style music in the background. Yep, that does sound like back to the future 3 alright.
To this day I still say “yo I’m about to eat” before every meal
If you haven't already, check out his appearance in pro wrestling! 😂😂😂
@@timothylewis2527
Yeah but that was also during the time when they had an in character Leslie Nielsen as his character from naked gun searching for the undertaker. WWF in the 90s was wild.
I did not realize there were two distinct Robocop cartoon series until now. It's wild to me that such a dark and violent movie would get the cartoon treatment not just once but twice.
It’s part of the mass culture. Kids get their own age appropriate version of the phenomenon.
@@NoelComiXyeah. Throw in Rambo. Or how r rated movies got toys, video games.
Oh and the 2nd cartoon is an ABSOLUTELY amazing trainwreck of a mess. RoboCop is basically turned into a sassy sarcastic superhero who basically functions like Inspector Gadget. Tons of gadgets including a glue cannon, inflatable balloons, extendable arms, and retractable rocket powered roller blades.
I wish I was making this up.
You would think Aliens would work well, since they could get away with showing violence towards the creatures.
Ha ha, in that case Ninja Turtles says high. The original comics were never as kid friendly as the animated series would end up portraying them but alas, here we are
I’ve always been fascinated by companies taking a Rated R product making a cartoon or toylike aimed at kids
There was a line of toys based off of Aliens back in the day. They knew parents were letting Millennials (like me) watch those movies
Don't you mean you've always been "facinated"?😂
I feel that the best known, yet overlooked R-rated product that was tuned into a family friendly cartoon is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Rambo The Force Of Freedom!
Technically, all you have to do is just cut the blood, cursing, and sex and you have a kid friendly production😂
Several years ago I bought the Robocop (2014) bluray at a Dollartree store. It wasn't until I got home that I realized the irony and laughed my ass off.
Why didn't you like it. It had the original theme music in the very beginning of it. The storyline made better sense than the original. And the original suits were displayed as prototypes. It had everything that a good remake should have. Why was it laughable?
@@jbalien20 My dude, read that comment 3 or 4 more times.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@jbalien20he bought itfor a dollar......
@@jbalien20
That era of Rated R properties getting kids toys is still so fascinating to me. Robocop, Aliens, Terminator, all getting kids' toys is wild.
Rambo. At least the three you mentioned involved monsters or robots. Kills will always be drawn to weird sci-fi stuff. Rambo is a Vietnam vet with PTSD that kills dozens and dozens of people. How in the world is that a childrens property?
Yep, and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" got a board game, which I got from KB Toys (pretty much Toys R Us, but smaller)
Those aliens toys were so cool tho.
aliens / predator toyline was the main reason for going to KB, let me tell you, good grief.
It was amazing lol
Kids were sneaking in to watch the original in '87 & we LOVED it. I know cause I was one of them. By the time Robocop 2 came out, the execs KNEW they had a young audience, & sadly geared both Robocop 3 & the series to kids.
I remember going to the theater to see Robocop when I was 12. The lady wouldn't sell tickets to myself and my friend, so I asked her for tickets to Masters of The Universe. She sold us tickets to that and we went into the theater showing Robocop. We were young. I remember my friend exclaiming: " they showed tits", when they showed a woman's breasts during the locker room scene.
Kinda the same thing what happened to the Sony PlayStation. It was originally marketed towards The Gamers who grew up with the NES, that all changed when people's little brothers became interested in having the PlayStation. And Spyro was born.
First grade. I got in trouble by a classmate for walking like I was Robocop and scaring her. I was making weird noises trying to sound like him
I still remember to this day.
Man, I love how the idea to shorten the episode count lead to Pryde of the X-Men being made. I still have my VHS of that pilot!
Wolverine's voice......that is all.
@@NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy When their time comes, whoever made that call will be judged accordingly.
X-Men! X-Men! Yesterday! Yesterday!
I guess the lyric is "X-Men! X-Men! Save the day! Save the day!" but it just doesn't sound like that to me. It sounds like "yesterday." I just cannot hear "save the day"
I really like the pilot. It's beautifully animated, it's decently written for what it was, and it was very cool to see an X-Men cartoon. We didn't have all the cartoons, movies, etc. yet. This would have been amazing back then. It worked out of course, and I am very happy with the show we got, but I would have also liked to have this. If we could have had both it would have been so dope
crikey, I'ma wolverine!
Me too😄
"I'LL BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!"
I have very seldom, if ever, quoted this film. Just today I said this to someone. Now this drops
That for I'll dollar buy a!
*I’d
I agree
"Big Money! Big Prizes! Iiii Love It."
😄👍
Now more than ever, our kids need the lessons taught by robocop
Cops needs lessons taught by Robocop.
That capitalism commodifies human life? Yes.
@@jaxxbohol6475 Cops will never admit that they exist to serve and protect the ruling class.
@@BonusEggs4Sale Right on, Robocop isn't the 'redpill' movie people think it is...
Think that ship has sailed, gone 'round the world, and returned with a load of exotic spices, chief. Besides, last thing I need is a property with historically anti-corporate messaging being revived only to read complaints that the franchise has become "woke."
80's were such a better time for cartoons, toys and movies. U could get away with so much and as a child it was an amazing time
Pryde of the X-Men has such gorgeous animation. The voice acting was fun save for old lady White Queen. Plus it got that amazing arcade game, unlike the other X-Men shows. But to think that quaity came from the budget of an episode of RoboCop is something else!
Wolverine being Australian was kind of weird too (though strangely prescient, as it turns out).
I always preferred Cal Dodd's Wolverine. Pretty sure they used him in all those Marvel vs Capcom games.
Also, that X-Men arcade game is certified chef's kiss.
welcome.... to die!!!!!!
@@RedWizard0 Yeah. The X-men arcade game pretty much made every other beat-em-up obsolete. It had two really great innovations: (1) you could damage enemies that had fallen on the ground; you didn't to wait for them to stand up again and (2) special moves were huge screen-clearing effects rather than minor power attacks.
and I would argue that the theme is almost as good as X-men (1992)
Not just Robocop cartoon, here in Brazil I watched Robocop MOVIE several times on TV during afternoons. We had no Parental guidelines or finding appropriate times for violent shows at all.
I'm just picturing some mugger running into an off-duty robocop now.
Here in Mexico they used to put the Robocop trilogy on the kids channel at the same hour they would other days put Back to the Future or Home Alone.
Xuxa used to show her goodies.
They used to play Robocop on TV here in America. It was edited a lot though.
Here in Argentina cable channels show the Robocop movies all the time in the afternoom, their only edit is to cut the scenes with the topless prostitutes, but they leave all the shootouts uncut. Murphy getting his hand blown, the guy melting, all of it.
The scene in the Robocop re-make where it is just the remaining biological parts of Alex Murphy has always stuck with me. So much so that it retroactively changed my perception of the original Robocop and just how little of the man remains and how much is machine.
In Robocop 2 they show the insides of a cyborg with cain, wicked rad and gruesome :D
@@krono5el You mean the one that kills itself cause it's in pain?
@@kingcaesar3693 I think that's a different one (that screams and pulls of the headpiece?) With Cain, they just show his brain and eyeballs floating in a jar.
I still haven't seen the whole movie, and I suspect it's mostly crap, but I do come back and watch that scene every once in a while when I need a dose of hardcore squick.
In the original robocop there's barely anything biological left of Murphy. It can even be argued that the humanity he regains is just a faulty computer program that thinks it is human.
This generation of cartoons was so cool. Just random stuff was thrown at the wall hoping it would stick.
Companies taking an almost R rated movie to make toys for children is the most Robocop's script point ever.
Robocop is one of those movies that just gets better with age...
In the 80s we kids loved hijacking adult franchises and making the sequels dumbed down to our level lol. But I will stand by 'Ghostbusters 2 is great'.
But if you were a kid in the 80s it's hard not to feel a little spoiled by how hard we were pandered to. Those Reaganomics boom times before the bust were a childhood extravaganza of entertainment choices.
Agreed! The 80s 30 min toy commercials certainly did their job on us, as evident of all of us collectors. But having a family and my only vice is collecting I think we had it great!
Kids now don't have anything that keep their attention and get into adult things WAY TOO FAST.
Ghostbusters 2 was good until the line:
On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood!
Then it was awesome :D
@@mattyt1961 Viggo was like a rad Conan villain who wandered into the wrong movie.
@@lukasketner the guy that played him done a really good role in ‘In the mouth of madness’ the guy was a underrated actor
@@michaelfarquhar9355 There's a few mini RUclips documentaries about him: Wilhelm Von Homburg.
I dug the Kenner action figures. Played with them a ton & the vehicles. It was the first time we got any figures that had anything to do with the Robocop movie.
There certainly needs to be a push for Saturday Morning Cartoons to come back.
There is an incredible amount of support from people who loved the tradition (like myself).
I felt exactly the same way, and then I realized Saturday Morning Cartoons can exist. You just need to wake up on Saturday morning and play cartoons on the streaming service of your choice.
@@StevenRohrer523 That isn't similar to the tradition that was established in the past. It needs to be a more social experience or won't ever be established again.
@@StevenRohrer523 I realize that I am probably at least 20 years older than you, but in the 80s and 90s, watching commercials and waiting for your favorite show to come on was normal.
Yeah, fucking Bush. Killing them for "Education."
The problem with that is most kids don’t even watch tv anymore , it’s all streaming and RUclips now
I remember the action figures came with cap-gun caps included, they even branded them as "Robocaps"
THANK YOU for pointing out the quality of Pryde of the X-Men! The animation still holds up today IMO.
That pilot has better animation than any episode of the later Fox series.
Still have it on VHS.
I never thought about it as a kid but it IS insane that so many hyper violent 80's movies got made into kids properties.
I did, I was just commenting to my kid about it the other day about how horror icons were being sold in the kids section in toy stores and she said 'wtf??' hahaha.
Not enough people talk about that time Robocop teamed up wtih Sting to fight the Four Horsemen.
You wouldn't think Robocop would be a great wrestler... and well you'd be right. He did rescue Sting from that cage, though.
Apparently the Robocop suit WCW had on hand wasn’t to the same quality as the movie costume, hence why Robo only did the cage thing.
"Alex Murphy *VOLUNTEERS* to be the first in series of human cyborg relations"
I remember he didn't have a choice on that one considering he's half dead lol
What a time to be a kid. Getting R rated properties turned into kid shows like Robocop, Rambo, Conan and Highlander. That would be like if they turned John Wick into a cartoon today. Which let's be honest, we would all end up watching.
There is nothing unique about John Wick.
A guy in a suit and tie shoots up people in a movie. Ho hum….. it’s basically Jackie Chan and James Bond amalgamated.
You gotta love (hate) just how badly people missed the point of the original. They have the Nukem commercial that makes fun of this!
That just hit me too. The movie critiqued this EXACT kind of thing. Kinda hilarious in a sad way
Dan nailed it, we collectively do not get subtext. Ya gotta laugh.
ye, Same with Starship Troopers or Full Metal Jacket, loved by those that are beeing made fun off because they can't see past the very graphical violence
People can understand the message AND enjoy the explosions and one-liners.
"Can you fly, Bobby?"
@@omega1985 Like the Lorax Mazda commercials.
I saw Robocop in 1987 at age 7 and was utterly traumatized for life by the toxic waste man. (I was also very confused as to why Bob Morton was sniffing sugar off that one girl’s chest 😂) I knew 100% that was a movie for adults that I probably shouldn’t have watched. Nightmares aside, I still loved the character of Robocop and bought all the toys. Yet hilariously, since I knew the movie was such an ultra violent adult thing, even at age 8 or 9 I thought it was stupid they made a cartoon out of it. I knew the cartoon would not be anything like the movie, so I never watched it! I’m not saying that I was sophisticated as a child, but I am saying that I was more aware than toy company executives gave me credit for!
Lol I'm 43. My mom took me to see it in the theater when I was 7. Also scarred me for life. The board room ED 209 kill, Murphy's murder, and the Emil scene all absolutely wrecked me.
But somehow it became one of my all time favorite films.
Welcome to another episode of "Things that never happened"
They have an awesome FPS game coming for Robocop soon.
It was meh to me. Didnt like it, didnt not like it.
RoboCop was bad arse, but the plot really was a bit boring.
@HitchensImmortal , I agree with you about the boardroom scene with ED209. The rest of the movie features cops and crooks killing each other so that conflict makes sense. The guy in the boardroom didn't do anything wrong and was still killed due to technology malfunctioning, and that was pretty traumatic.
I think the kid-targeted merchandising of a lot of non-G movies from the 1980s was inevitable because so many of those movies had premises that kids were going to find cool.
As somebody who grew up in this time i can say this. The vast majority of us never watched the movies themselces but wed see the comercials and would often act them out during recess or at a friends house. The whole "you be a robo cop and ill be a robber" sort of thing. Companies probably picked up on kids doing this and how they would make cool action figures and went with it.
This is a trend that NEEDS to come back. Could you imagine a John Wick cartoon or a Fast and Furious cartoon made by Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network?
"Bigfoot AND the Muscle Machines" can you imagine... oh that's legitimately a combo cartoon?!
Man do I miss the 80's
That was such a strange time where you could see R rated movies being turned into animated shows and having a toy line to go with it no less.
As an 80's kid I can tell you, RoboCop was about a cool robotic cop with a really cool gun. No kid ever saw RoboCop as anything else.
Yes we did.
@@kbar3612 Only after you grew up, and some snotty liberal arts major pointed it out to you.
I'm with you, but hey maybe overtly we didn't but subliminally we did?
Not to mention it was Anti corporate and against fascism.... I mean wasn't the entire story about him fighting the corporation that made him and fighting with the people against them and the politicians wanting to gentrify parts of the city ? this cartoon was just polished up in order to sell toys
either @kbar3612 had an unusual childhood, or his memory has been corrupted by growing up. But for most kids, we did not pick up on the messaging.
Your devotion to Pryde of the X-Men is special. Did Wolverine have an Australian accent in that, or am I memory-hallucinating?
He did. And in his other 80s appearance in the Spider-Man cartoon.
Decades predating Hugh Jackman LOL
Yeah it totally stands out when he calls Toad “Dingo” in that one scene!
The Aussie accent attempted by Neil Ross didn't come out right.
I think it was trying to mimic something in the vein of Crocodile Dundee badly.
The conventional police were the side that was positively portrayed in Robocop. Replacing them with machines and/or corporate mercenaries was what was being frowned upon. Robocop himself worked out because the man they used was a cop to begin with - they as much as blatantly state this in the second one when they say that Murphy's sense of honor and duty probably kept him sane when all subsequent test subjects (which were losers in live) went mad.
I met the voice actor of Robocop in this cartoon, Robert Bockstael at a con last summer and he told me that he got to do a movie with Peter Weller and he told him he voiced Robocop in the cartoon adaptation, Peter and Robert hit it off really well and Peter invited Robert to hang out with him in his trailer and have a smoke.
Nobody missed the subtext of Robocop at the time, it's just that most people didn't care. It's the same subtext that punk, industrial, and countless other genres of music beat into the ground at the time and not at all original.
Dude I LOVED Robocop as a kid. I had no business watching that movie as many times as I did. But, back in the good ol' days, every movie we rented from the video store, my dad would make copies of them with a 2nd VCR. So we had everything. Robocop 1 and 2 on a single tape. It was great. You could even put 3 movies on 1 tape if you didn't mind the picture being shit. And we didn't back then. Wasn't til DVD showed up that we realized how ugly VHS was.... but the Robocop cartoon? Never got into it. I feel like it was below my kid standards for animation quality.
My step-dad did the same thing,rent the movies,record off the 2nd vcr,by the time I moved out at 18 in 1998 he had WELL over 20,000 movies!I spent the 1st half of my life watching movies that way!
I miss my copy which had all the commercial breaks for ABC Home Movie
@@ArkhamsAngel13 Yeah, we had several crates full of tapes. I still remember the last movie I tried to copy--Dogma--but it had that copy-protection on it so the picture would go back and forth from normal to almost too dark.
@@joeblankenship377 funny,because now it's even harder to acquire a copy of "dogma",I recently watched some list that mentioned it.
The thing about Robocop is that its central message in the first movie is a broken aesop - its supposed to be an indictment of corporations, but a corporation created a product that protected innocent citizens, arrested criminals and kept people safe better than the already existing police. The argument that corporations should not take over public duties is not helped by this.
we're still in Ronald's world really. No meaningful change to the economic and political systems since the '80s. A shift of power from workers and voters to corporations, with seemingly no end in sight. It was a great time for pop culture, but ultimately it's led us here; much closer to having actual robot cops, and the social decline satirized in the movie.
Reagan was great
I was going to come here to type this!!!
@@Keverything99 If your goal was to eliminate the middle class then he was definitely your guy.
@toddjones1480 To be fair, that was already in motion in the early 70's. Nixon, Ford, and Carter really got the ball rolling on the shrinking middle class.
I agree with the last part but where not in the Reagan era anymore corporations and the government are in bed together and with the current administration too. Where also loving in a very satirized time that we made fun of back then and stuff back in the 80s or 90s we’re a far better time for the country and the world.
i remember watching Alpha Commando a lot, and making the obvious comparisons that he became like a counterpart to Inspector Gadget with all the fancy gear coming out of his body for that series. kinda made me want to see a crossover between the 2 of them
Ah, classic '80's. When R rated franchises were openly marketed to children and nobody batted an eye.
thanks reagan
It was pretty controversial even back then, I definitely remember parents complaining about it (parents hate everything cool)
Those were the good ole' days. Now a days, entertainment is nothing but smug arrogant characters, lecturing people with propaganda messaging, which is even more harmful for society as a whole.
I'll always remember the scene in 2014 Robocop where their removing all the plating from his body to show him how little of himself was left. All I could think was "Its got a bush? What the hellll"
i was 8 years old in 1987 when robocop came out.
i am the youngest of 4 cousins and my mom took all of us to see robocop.
all of us thought it was cool to see a big robot cop shoot up bad guys, but none of us- especially my mom- had noooooo idea this movie was gonna be as graphic as it was!
it never scared any of us or freaked us out. we all had the time of our lives and LOVED the movie!
5:39 "Oh, what the hell, fried chicken"
5:45 "Can I get a dessert?"
5:54 "Yo, I'm about to eat!"
Cartoons in the 90's may have been made kid-friendly from their more violent movie counterparts but they're still better than anything coming out today.
I think part of the reason all these R-rated properties were adapted to kids shows was the rise of home video. A 7 year old could never see Robocop at the cinema, but a parent or older sibling can rent it and let them see it that way.
I didn't see it in the movie theater. I saw it on HBO.
They would play the current movies six or so months after the premier.
So l must have watched that film and others ten times over the summer. 😆
I love ending the montage of violence with that classic "I warned you" clip.
Loved robocop as a parody of 80s vigilante violence like Bronson death wish, Dirty Harry, Rambo and all the knockoffs tough guy like Steven Seagal. Mocking corporate overreach, media and policing was apparent to me because I read comic books. My mom actually thought it was a kids movie. Robot cop. Gotta be positive. When the kids started repeating Clarance saying, ‘just give me my Effing phone call.’ I told her it’s Robocop…. LMAO. Great video.
I remember watching this show as a kid. I even had the Robocop action figure that shot caps.
I had that one too. Was the best
Same man I had the ed209 that had the caps I still have it😂
One of my favorite cartoons from that era of R-rated movies being turned into kids products. Loved watching the Marvel Action Hour, this was my favorite cartoon in the lineup. Still love the intro and how they used Robo's movement sounds form the film in it.
Nobody:
Kenner, when given the slightest chance to make another toy line based on an R rated movie: yes
Quality commercial break. Robocop saying "What the Hell Fried Chicken" has been living rent-free in my head since I saw that ad years and years ago.
I loved this movie from the first time I saw it at age 9, in the theater.
I didn’t care for the childish cartoon, or the sequels or the tv shows or the failed reboot.
The craziest shit was Frank Miller's Robocop vs Terminator. It gets so bizarre. Anyway, I was a big fan of ED209. I think on the show they renamed it ED260. I had one of the toys, it was awesome. I wanted a pet ED209.
I wish the streets of Albuquerque had ED209s patrolling.
That was Frank Miller? Didn't know that! I only knew it as the Mega Drive (Genesis) game.
7:35 😂 That's got to be the best version of this bit.
"Adults don't understand subtext" had me rolling. 😄
I'd like the 1980's Robocop Movies over the 2014 Robocop Reboot, Because I'd like the Original Robocop Movie better, because it had not only the funny tv commercials that were in the Movie but also the F-Bombs that 1980's Robocop was best known for.
Robocop is a treasure,we need more robocop less cartoonnetwork bs
If it wasn't for these adult power fantasies we wouldn't ever had the KILLDOZER day, the IRL success the stablishment hates you to know about
One of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in a movie, was when they go in the corporate office and there's an aquarium with a guy's brain, eyes and nervous system being preserved. He's looking around not knowing what's going on.
This makes me want to see a modern satirical take on the 80’s cartoon based on violent movie trend. Like imagine a Saturday morning cartoon based on Saw? Every episode the cops have to solve Jigsaw’s wacky traps and rescue somebody form his hijinks. Fifty shades of grey as some sort of teen romance drama? Deadpool and his amazing friends? 🤔
i'm just going to assume that korean fried chicken commercial was written for the movie
If Amazon does move forward with a Robocop movie and/or series. I'll be very disappointed if it doesn't have meta commentary on big corporations eating smaller companies.
With the villain being a thinly veiled Jeff Bezos, who makes his employees pee in bottles...
@Goh Takeshita Obviously, the "main" evil company should be called OCP.
But I would like to see an equally evil rival called "Rain Forest".
LOL!
I didn’t even know there was a second series at all. Never fails coming here and learning more about a show I liked.
Fun fact: for some odd legal reason, the live action shows were filmed in Toronto with the animated shows also having a largely Canadian cast. In fact, Blu Mankuma starred in both the original live action series and _Alpha Commando_ with his characters being analogous to one another.
The Robocop franchise consists of one really great movie and nothing else. Prove me wrong.
Paul Verhoven’s explicitly antifascist movies are so often misunderstood by both fans and even their own sequels. Well idk about Showgirls. What was that one about again?
That 1988 Robocop Arcade game is THE BOMB.
I love this little nugget about robocop: for Alex Murphy, being a Catholic was a factor in his selection for the operation. He would be extremely unlikely to end himself. I can't recall if it's outright stated or if it's pulled from the meta or Easter eggs
The bad guys basically crucified him, and just like Jesus he rose from the dead which is how Verhoeven explains it.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
I think that of all the variant stories of RoboCop, my favorite was the Marvel Comics. They got interesting mid run. Liked the art in a lot of them, too.
I've always loved those too! A few years ago my ex-girlfriend secretly found and collected all the issues and gave them to me on my birthday. It was one of the sweetest things anybody has ever done for me
Those Robocop Marvel comics got really fun once they just started telling their own stories independent of the movie universe.
This should work in reverse. I want to see a nearly R-rated Darkwing Duck come to the big screen.
"Let's Get Dangerous!"
9:17 I know that was sarcasm, but honestly, the animation for that single X-Men pilot is amazing. Also the only animated version that has Colossus as a member of the main team. Not a side character, or written out for *reasons*
I dont remember seeing this on TV... But for some reason it was recommended here on RUclips and its complete!
Honestly I was enjoying the series! The violence is pretty good for a kids show hehe
04:02-04:43.....why 80's kids are so messed up basically.
That montage of people dying thru out various movies then tying it to a kids cartoon was so funny...genius lol
After being mortality wounded in the line of duty, Officer Murphy is outfitted by O.C.P. with bulletproof, titanium robotic farts and the computer-enhanced motor and sensory capabilities. He has become the ultimate supercop: ROBOCOP!
Awesome episode! Was starting to feel let down by a lack of footage of the nuclear waste guy getting liquidated by that car, but then Japanese Robocop picked up a refrigerator and made me forget all about it.
I'd buy that for a dollar!!
the writing is in korean
The reoccurring gags were on point in this episode. Hats off to you, good sir.
I watched Robocop as a kid and turned out fine. No way I am going to trust a guy shilling expensive body wash.
I'm still floored by the extra shiny japanese Robocop assaulting kitchens to the Back to the Future 3 theme...
Nothing like pushing toys based on violent R-rated films to young impressionable children
God, I miss the 80s...😂
There was even a lot of that in the early 90s
We could watch this stuff for weeks, and turn out just fine.
I still have no idea what the film ratings mean, because my parents didnt give a fuk! Watched whatever R-rated goodness the video store had
Robot cop is much more nuanced than "things I don't like are bad". Robocop is not an anti police movie. It ask questions about the role of law enforcement in society but it also laments the rise of violent crime, public insecurity, and man's feral nature, the cycle of revenge and how quickly corruption fills a power vacuum.
It directly links violent crime to the human cost of capitalism, not passively laments its rise.
@@BonusEggs4Sale I think you're just seeing what you want to see. The cause isn't "capitalism" or anything so simple-minded it's mans feral and avaricious nature. Boddicker works with OCP but only to serve his own ends. They use him and he uses them. The message I see is that man's dark side isn't limited to those on the out skirts of society. Power corrupts but that isn't the root of it...the root of it is man himself. The main question of the film is how institutions rain in this corruptions without being co-opted by it if the source of corruption is within us all.
Lol you are trying REALLY hard to sound “smart”.
@@BonusEggs4Sale Ok Commie, capitalism gets the scapegoat when corporations had gone bad. Communism modifies capitalism where the Government is the corporation. Getting service for free such as Google, will turn us into a corporate slave, the fact we use Google as primary email making us think twice what we say online. Free stuff from the government makes you a government slave you will keep voting for a corrupts party that gives you free stuff all the time. .
I love how I can rely on the vintage commercial to be immediately followed by RUclips ads 😂
I kinda love that the score to Back to the Future III was used in foreign Robocop commercials.
Robocop the cartoon made me the man I am today. 💪
I actually got the ED-260 figure as a kid. I can still smell the gunpowder from the caps. What a time to be alive. "Here's your almost unstoppable killing machine toy!"
Loved all the "R rated" cartoons & figures when I was younger, Rambo, Robocop, Aliens, Terminator.
Yeah, these days cartoons just espouse the hard opposite of these things. And try to get kids into other bad things. Very rare when you get something that is just purely entertainment for kid with ZERO malicious subtext
Nothing wrong teaching kids to hate on right wing ideology. Fascism is always a terrible idea!
@@freakyzed8467 Maybe teaching kids that going too far one way or the other is a BAD THING. Because the left especially hasn’t had a great track record lately either.
@@XghostXfaceX2how so? How has this nebulous 'left' not had a good track record? What left exists in America? We have the broad center, which just seems to go thru their day and wants to be left alone, and a radicalized right which wants to take rights away from everyone who isn't them. Some of the broad center pushes back against that. If you wanna bring up 'liberal cities' then I will gladly counter with actual data showing cities are STILL safer to live in compared to rural America, which all the crime and violence data we have supports. If you wanna bring up BLM I will point to the fact that the VAST majority of all those protests were complete peaceful and those that weren't always had Proud Boys or Patriot Prayer elements there causing grief and violence themselves. You know, the guys who are actually being tried and convicted? Like in the real world and not on Fox News, which recently got smacked with a MASSIVE round of lawsuits. Those lawsuits where it was exposed how they knowingly lied OVER AND OVER to their sheep like audience. Yeah, the USA has all the issues you can expect from late stage capitalism, but Republicans are the ones aggravating everything, while Dems are just trying to manage the decline.
Wow terrific episode here! So many great gags. I also noticed that you said “Robert Cop” at the end. Was that a gag or not? You know that’s a Bootleg toy right? It’s a really famous Bootleg toy even! It looks so weird it totally does! Your jokes had me laughing a whole lot as usual!
"The furniture of law enforcement."
Skip making the last Robocop episode for an X-Men pilot.
I'd definitely buy that for a dollar. 💵
This just might be your best yet! Very well done!! 🖤
People always wanted not only what was new in the 1980s but movies that provoked thought.
Another cool thing was that even tho Robocop 2 made fun of steering committees, 1980s movies had little to do with them. The writers ✍️ were free to put their ideas 💡 to paper and the audience either liked them or they didn’t.
Since the mid 1990s there are at least 10 steering committees that review, and demand every movie be edited, watered down, and pc corrected so as not to offend anyone from the ultra-hypersensitive crowd.
Basically middle aged prudes from 35-65, dictate the final draft of movie.
What really sucks is how Hollywood is trying to go after that 1.3 billion market population in China 🇨🇳 so they engage in self censorship, on top of steering committees. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I thought C.O.P.S. was a better RoboCop cartoon than the actual one.
COPS was like Hanna Barberra trying to do GI Joe.
The bad guys were not even credible and the COPS themselves were full of themselves.
Agreed.
@0:52 now I know what a lonely serial killer sounds like 🤣
Feels so weird to see Secret Galaxy using movie clips and _not_ have to squint at the screen.