ROBOCRAP 2

ROBOCOP 2 (1990)
dir: Irvin Kershner

ROBOCRAP 2
MAD #298, October 1990
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres

The city of Detroit has become even worse than in the first movie with the Omni Corporation taking over the city and the police force on strike. The only law enforcement is RoboCop/Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and his partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), and criminals are scared of him and his inability to err.

In the lower left is Hob (Gabriel Damon), who isn't used in this parody. He plays a major part in the movie as one of the leaders in the drug gang, used by them because they know RoboCop is programmed to not shoot minors.

If Detroit defaults on their loan from Omni, it will take over the city and build a new one, because of a contract that was signed by Mayor Kuzak (Wendell Pugh).

I'm not sure what the basketball reference is here. It's funny they reference Batman here considering Frank Miller, author of Dark Knight, wrote the screenplay. Ford Pintos were recalled because they were known to explode on impact.

Murphy is parked outside of his widowed wife's home watching his former family, she's threatening to sue the Omni Corporation, and they're looking for ways to get rid of him. Cain (Tom Noonan), leader of a drug gang, has invented a drug called Nuke, and has lured RoboCop to their warehouse, and disassembled him.

This was before Michael Moore was well known enough to make fat jokes and liberal jokes about but well-known enough for being intrusive. The gang has now dropped the severed Robocop at the steps of the Omni Corporation, where they try to put him back together, but Dr. Juliette Faxx (Belinda Bauer) has plans for creating a new, improved RoboCop, or RoboCop 2, if you will, which she pitches to the head of Omni (Dan O'Herlihy).

A section is left out here where RoboCop is deliberately reprogammed to mess up.

Cain is injured in an accident trying to defeat RoboCop, and doctor Faxx uses his body to develop RoboCop 2.

More is left out as the drug gang buys back the city on the condition the city leaves them alone, Robocop 2 is introduced to the public and uses Nuke as fuel but gets addicted which makes it go awry. The dependency ultimately kills RoboCop 2. MAD probably used up its five-page limit with “made of metal” jokes so it couldn't get to parodying crucial scenes.

The British version had its own cover.

So did Germany as usual. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the reigning action star there as well, so the joke easily translates unlike some of the cover gags on foreign editions.

And Brazil

ROBO COP-OUT, TOO
Cracked #259. December 1990
a: Frank Borth

The omitted scenes from MAD are taken care of here.