RoboCop/Awesome

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RoboCop

• "You have 20 seconds to comply." Though what follows proves to be one of the finest practical effect moments captured in an action film, it's a Red Shirt who dies and Nightmare Fuel that results.
• Murphy, reborn as an Invincible Warrior of Living Steel known as RoboCop, bravely marches into Boddicker's crack factory and sends every drug-pushing monster in it to Hell where they belonged with his Mighty Beretta Auto 9. It may also count as a typical example of Five Rounds Rapid.
  • Right after this, Murphy's memories start to surface as he (violently) apprehends Boddicker, the most vivid being that of his death. He hauls Boddicker back to the station, shoves him at the officer on duty, says, "Book him!", and turns to leave. When asked what the charge is, he turns and says, in what is probably one of the best delivered (and most ironic) lines ever: "He's a cop killer."
    • Murphy's apprehension of Boddicker is awesome in itself. He reads him his Miranda Rights, while sending him flying through windows.
  • Just how awesome was this scene? The directors played the movie for some real life police, and thought they would be horrified by this scene. Instead the officers cheered, saying this is how Miranda rights should be read.
• Even before he became Robocop, Alex proved he had an iron will by taking twenty-something rounds of shotgun shells to the chest and refusing to go down.
• After Dick Jones sends out the ED-209 to finish Robo off once and for all, the bigger machine smacks him around like a piece of cardboard. As the security robot gets closer, the camera zooms into Robo's face, where the audience can see through his broken visor, and his eye is wide open in surprise, as the music swells. As ED-209 levels its weapon at him, Robo lifts the arm with all his strength, forcing the bigger machine to fire on its other arm, and partially disabling it as the music reaches a triumphant crescendo.
• When RoboCop uses one of the Cobra Assault Cannons to effortlessly annihilate a ED-209 when a previous ED had given him so much trouble.
• When the Old Man shouts "Dick, you're FIRED!!", thus freeing RoboCop from the restraining Directive 4 and allowing him to finally kill the bastard.

Robo: Thank you. (shoots Jones, blowing him out the window)

• • And another, immediately afterward:

Old Man: (brushing himself off) Nice shooting, son. What's your name?
Robo: (stops, turns - warmly smiling) Murphy.

• Robocop is apparently defeated and defenceless at Clarence Boddicker's feet, while he prepares to land a finishing blow with a metal rod, exclaiming "Sayanora, Robocop!". Robocop instead springs the spike used as a computer jack out from his hand, and stabs Boddicker in the neck, killing him.
• "Your move, creep."

RoboCop 2

• The opening of the second RoboCop film with Robo proving how Nigh Invulnerable he really is by surviving through a rocket launcher attack to his car and stepping out like nothing was wrong.
• OCP overload Robocop with over two hundred directives, thanks to The Mole. The second his partner goes after his scientific carers and they suggest electrocuting him might remove them he risks his life to do just that, in front of the police force who are on strike, reuniting the police force to save him before he leads them on an assault on Cain.
• The final confrontation between Cain and RoboCop. Even if you hate that sequel you have to shield to the stop motion of awesome.

RoboCop 3

• RoboCop is wanted for arrest, so he marches into the police station. Then calmly asks where the Rehabs are in the station... then says to get the fire department. He then goes to the Rehabs office and processes to annihilate (in a family friendly way) everything in his path with his gunarm, using his flamethrower to burn down most of the office and an ammo supply. Then he grabbed a fallen Rehab, and asks where McDagget is. Though short, it showed that Robo was still an badass even in a family friendly film.
• All of Detroit's police force turn over their badges and just walk away instead of going with OCP's actions.

Johnson: Maybe instead of thinking about these squatters, think about your own family.
Sergeant: I am. (he takes off and his drops badge on ground) I'm thinking I have to go home and face them. (entire precinct follows suit and drops their badges as they leave.)

• • They don't just turn in their badges, next time we see them, they directly go to the slums, and deputize any of the battle-capable squatters into helping them protect the area.

Sergeant: Folks, in about forty five minutes, the Rehabs are coming to blow you out of your neighborhood. I want you to take your kids, and everyone that shouldn't be fighting to the basement. The rest of you are hereby deputized by the Detroit Police Department. Its time to show how real cops kick ass. (cocks shotgun)

• And when they are about to be overrun by OCP's goons, including their armored car, Robocop has his moment when he swoops in from the sky with his jetpack, destroying the car with one missile and eliminating all opposition as a one cyborg aerial cavalry.

Score

• The first movie's soundtrack was written by none other than Basil Poledouris, who is best known for his work on the score for Conan the Barbarian. And it was awesome.
• Also, from the same film, "Showdown", the track that plays during the awesome climax. (Note: On the Intrada release of the complete score, this track has the far better title "Looking For Me" after our hero's first line to the villains in said climax.)
• The RoboCop 2 main theme is totally different - due to it being written by a different composer, Leonard Rosenman - and has a distinctly epic and fitting flair, suitably reminiscent of classic Westerns.
  • The above is the definition of Your Mileage May Vary. Many fans dislike the second film's score.
• Though RoboCop 3 was bad, at least Basil returned to do the scoring and made the film at least watchable.
• What's more, there's this. It's not official, but it's pretty cool. The same guy also did songs for Terminator and Aliens.

TV series/mini-series