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Robocop: The Animated Series

VHS Vault1988Public Domain
Poster for Robocop: The Animated Series

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RoboCop: The Animated Series is an American animated series produced in the 1980s and is based on the character and events of the movie RoboCop. The show made a number of changes to the RoboCop universe to make it more appropriate for younger viewers, including replacing bullets with laser weapons and shifting the series to a more science fiction setting. In this series, RoboCop had a red light in the middle of his visor (which occasionally panned the whole visor). 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. Many episodes see RoboCop's reputation put to the test or soured by interventions from Dr. McNamara, the creator of ED-260, the upgradable version of the Enforcement Droid Series 209 and the top competitor for the financial backing of OCP. He continually develops other mechanical menaces that threaten RoboCop. In the police force, RoboCop is befriended by Officer Anne Lewis, but is also picked on and lambasted by th…

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robocop, vhs, animated series, animation, cartoon, 1980s, 1988

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