Officer Alex James Murphy cruises through the crumbling streets of Detroit in a broken-down cop car — sirens blaring, shards of glass and metal whipping off the vehicle as it careens through oncoming traffic. Chaos and crime have overwhelmed the city due to a police strike actively encouraged by the department’s corporate owners. The only person, or more accurately, the only thing, that can save Detroit from total annihilation is Murphy, better known as RoboCop ever since scientists salvaged his brain and face from a dying corpse and grafted them onto a lethal, law-enforcing cyborg body.
This is not a scene from the original RoboCop or even from RoboCop 2, although it shares some similarities with the dystopian sci-fi sequel released on June 22, 1990. Rather, it’s a sequence pulled from the first issue of Frank Miller’s RoboCop, a comic book published over a decade later in an attempt to resurrect the legendary comic creator’s original RoboCop 2 screenplay.
