A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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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.
Detroit is full of crime and the police force and has handed responsibilities over to Omni Consumer Products (OCP). OCP President Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) demonstrates a new robot officer at a board meeting, which ends up killing one of the executives.
Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer), an executive on the rise, also has an idea for a robot cop, but it needs to be a cyborg. RoboCop is called different names here. Meanwhile, at a warehouse, Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) and his partner Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) are attempting to pursue crimelord Clarance Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his accompiles but Murphy is killed in action.
OCP uses Officer Murphy to create their RoboCop. Scene are shot from his point of view of his being built, then he's ready to join the police force and they're getting ready to strike. (A union going on strike because their jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence. Like that would ever happen.) The RoboCop is programmed with three prime directives: 1) serve the public trust 2) protect the innocent 3) uphold the law. He turns out to be a perfect shot. After that is a montage of him stopping a series of crimes.
This parody has an appearance by Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.
RoboCop stops a disgruntled Congressman who thinks an election was rigged against him. (A riot because a politician thinks an election was rigged. Like that would ever happen.). While on patrol, he arrests Emil (Paul McCrane), who recognizes that he was Murphy. Later he runs into Anne Lewis, who also recognizes that he was Murphy. He puts two and two together, and because he has a video recording of his beat and a database of everyone, ambushes the station and loads the information he has into the main computer, finding out about his past.
Dick Jones was unhappy that Bob Morton upstaged him at their board meeting with a better idea for a cop and has Clarence Boddicker kill him. They turn out to be partners where OCP is developing a new city where Clarence will get to be crimelord. Murphy and Lewis are back in the warehouse where he was shot and she is rehabilitating him, realigning him and feeding him his diet of baby food. Clarence and his men (Ray Wise, Jesse D. Goins, Calvin Jung) are out to kill him because he knows too much. In the chase Emil is run over and his car hits a can of toxic waste.
Nancy Allen was also in Dressed To Kill
Emil comes crawling for help but nobody wants to touch him. The gang attempts to kill RoboCop/Murphy but he manages to overcome all attempts. He crashes OCP's board meeting telling them the jig is up for Dick Jones and has the evidence, but he can't do anything because of the secret fourth prime directive—he can't do anything to an employee of OCP. But as soon as Jones is fired, RoboCop immediately defenestrates him.
Ronny Cox was also in St. Elsewhere, which we'll get to in a couple months.
The Mexican version had their own cover.
As did the German edition.
ROBOCOP-OUT
Cracked #233, January 1988
w: John Arcudi
a: Mark Pacella
John Arcudi wrote for the actual RoboCop comic as well.
Yet another Eddie Murphy/Beverly Hills Cop reference.
CYBORGS UNLIMITED
Cracked #234, March 1988
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
RoboCop spawned sequels, toys, comics, and cartoons, but sometimes they didn't quite get the satirical aspect.
