Robocop

First appearing in the 1987 movie under the same name, the titular character is a crime fighting cyborg. Originally a sincere and devout police officer, Alex Murphy was slaughtered beyond recognition during a raid on a crime gang. He was shot repeatedly with shotguns and was executed by a gun shot to his head.After his funeral,whatever remains of his brain and his face is removed from his corpse and is used by the corporation, Omni Consumer Products to create a law enforcing,part man,part machine to take care of the violent crimes prevalent in the city of Detroit. The reason why Murphy was selected for the Robocop Program was that he was fiercely sincere to his duty and that he had a top psychological positive profile while compared to many of his fellow police officers.He was able to survive and adapt to his new state of existence due to the above reasons and also due to the fact he rejected suicide being an Irish Catholic. His body is largely mechanical and electronic. His armored body is composed of some sort of Titanium bond Kevlar which makes him resilient to bullets and bombs. He can even survive falls from large heights with such powerful armor.He also has a thermal vision mode and a zooming capacity for accurate aiming and tracking. He has 4 directives which he has to follow. All the directives are pre programmed. The directives make sure that he follows the law as an police officer. However the 4th directive is a classified one and Robocop is unaware of it until the situation corresponding to the directive takes place. The directive makes sure that he does not take action against any OCP executive. This part played an important role in the first movie. His signature weapon is the Auto-9 – a 9mm Handgun stored in a mechanical holster in his leg. Despite being largely machine, Robocop retains memories of his past life as Alex Murphy and even considers himself still human, refering his name to others as Murphy. The cyborg later on appeared in two movie sequels (1990 and 1993 respectively), an animated series, television series and even in comic books ever to ‘Serve the Justice’, to ‘Protect the Innocent’ and to ‘Uphold the Law’.

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