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• The point-of-view shots from RoboCop include references to MS-DOS, while the point-of-view shots from RoboCop 2 feature a Apple MacIntosh-style interface, with a skull instead of the Apple logo.
  
  
• RoboCop's new directives are (in numerical order): - DIRECTIVE 233: Restrain hostile feelings. - DIRECTIVE 234: Promote positive attitude. - DIRECTIVE 235: Suppress aggressiveness. - DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values. - DIRECTIVE 238: Avoid destructive behavior. - DIRECTIVE 239: Be accessible. - DIRECTIVE 240: Participate in group activities. - DIRECTIVE 241: Avoid interpersonal conflicts. - DIRECTIVE 242: Avoid premature value judgments. - DIRECTIVE 243: Pool opinions before expressing yourself. - DIRECTIVE 244: Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility. - DIRECTIVE 245: If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't talk. - DIRECTIVE 246: Don't rush traffic lights. - DIRECTIVE 247: Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or other cars. - DIRECTIVE 248: Don't say that you are always prompt when you are not. - DIRECTIVE 249: Don't be oversensitive to the hostility and negativity of others. - DIRECTIVE 250: Don't walk across a ballroom floor swinging your arms. - DIRECTIVE 254: Encourage awareness. - DIRECTIVE 256: Discourage harsh language. - DIRECTIVE 258: Commend sincere efforts. - DIRECTIVE 261: Talk things out. - DIRECTIVE 262: Avoid Orion meetings. - DIRECTIVE 266: Smile. - DIRECTIVE 267: Keep an open mind. - DIRECTIVE 268: Encourage participation. - DIRECTIVE 273: Avoid stereotyping. - DIRECTIVE 278: Seek non-violent solutions.
  
  
• A directive which is only seen briefly in the scene where they are having trouble uploading the new directives into RoboCop is 'Directive 262: Avoid Orion Meetings'. Orion Pictures was the production and distribution company of RoboCop 2 (1990).
  
  
• In the scene where RoboCop was being reprogrammed by Dr. Faxx, the following hex numbers scroll quickly up the screen: "50 45 54 45 20 4B 55 52 41 4E 20 49 53 20 41 20 47 52 45 41 54 20 47 55 59". Converted to ASCII text, it reads: "PETE KURAN IS A GREAT GUY". Peter Kuran was the special effects photographer.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Irvin Kershner] when Dr. Juliette Faxx is reviewing death row inmates' files on the computer, the first inmate image shown is that of Kershner.
  
  
• Cameo: [Frank Miller] (One of the screenwriters) Frank the chemist who makes the Nuke drug for Cain.
  
  
• When RoboCop is in the Arcade, the majority of the video games are created by Data East. Data East was the creator behind the RoboCop video games.
  
  
• RoboCop 2/Cain's metal body has the symbol for nuclear radiation attached to the chest. For most of the film, Cain produced & distributed the designer drug Nuke and as a cyborg he is dependent on it.
  
  
• While displaying RoboCop's new directives at the police station, the cable plugged into his head is actually a water supply coupling for a toilet.
  
  
• In the segment when the police are raiding the nuke lab, RoboCop recreates the infamous "scope shot" where he shoots a sniper in the eye through the snipers own scope. This is based upon the real life exploits of Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock.
  
  
• The press conference where Mayor Kuzak shouts at the media was filmed in front of the east entrance to the Houston City Hall building (901 Bagby, Houston, Texas). The grand finale was filmed at Wortham Center in the Theater District in Houston. In several scenes, the white building which was seen in the background was the Alley Theatre; CGI imagery was used to create the visible damage during the final scenes.
  
  
• One of the buildings shown at OCP's demonstration of their plans for Detroit is the Bank of America building located at 700 Louisiana in downtown Houston (the orange building in three triangles).
  
  
• The leaking fire hydrant scene which was filmed on a street paved with red bricks was actually filmed on Andrews Street in the Freedmen's Town Historical District, located in Houston, Texas.
  
  
• Although the producers loved Frank Miller's original version of the script, they quickly realized it was unfilmable as written. The final screen version was heavily rewritten and bears only a superficial resemblance to Miller's story. In 2003, Miller's screenplay was adapted into a comic book series titled, appropriately, "Frank Miller's RoboCop".
  
  
• The folding submachine guns used by the bad guys (specifically the character Hob) are based on the 9mm M21 Sub Machine Gun (designed by Dave Boatman), which itself is an updated version of the Ares FMG (Folding Machine Gun) developed by Eugene Stoner.
  
  
• Tim Hunter, who was set to direct but quit the project over "creative differences" during pre-production and was replaced by Irvin Kershner.
  
  
• The role played by Patricia Charbonneau was originally written as a man.
  
  
• Norwegian director Nils Gaup was offered the project but turned it down.
  
  
• Alan Moore was originally offered the chance to write the film, but turned it down.
  
  
• The tiny "container" that held the drug Nuke was actually a saline re-moisturizer for contact lens wearers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The solution was dyed red and, in some shots, had a small needle sticking out after someone removes the covering.
  
  
• The opening sequence of the film, where RoboCop foils the gun shop robbery, was used as the early teaser trailer for the movie.
  
  
• The special-effects were generated with an Commodore Amiga computer.
  
  
• The Chinese woman in Cain's limousine was saying in Mandarin: 'Take me with you, if not the police will catch me'.
  
  
• The scene in which RoboCop opens fire around the head of someone who is smoking, after which he says 'Thank you for not smoking', was actually licensed and run as a public service announcement ahead of several different films in many non-smoking movie theaters during the summer movie season that year.
  
  
• In the shootout scene at the Nuke lab in the beginning of the film, RoboCop stops to reload his gun. This is one of the few times in the series where he is seen reloading his weapon.
  
  
• The pilot episode for "RoboCop" (1994) came from the first draft for RoboCop 2 (1990) written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.
  
  
• The OCP flags that appear throughout the movie are essentially Nazi flags with an OCP logo instead of the swastika.
  
  
• 'Peter Weller' previously starred in Shakedown (1988) which came out a year after Robocop, where he played a New York City public district attorney. That film, Weller was defending a suspect of selling drugs and shooting an undercover police officer who happens to be corrupt. In this film, Weller as Robocop is battling a drug lord Cain, who as an officer of the law is almost killed under his orders (completely taken apart in pieces) and is also battling a corrupt group of OCP officers and executives.
  
  
• 'Peter Weller' and Patricia Charbonneau had previously co-starred in the film Shakedown (1988), where they both played lawyers and lovers. They are reunited in this film as the titular character and a doctor, which was 'Jill Hennesey''s character in the third film. If Weller had returned to do the third Robocop film, it may have been possible that Charbonneau may have returned as well and develop the storyline between the characters as partially seen in the third film between Hennesey and 'Robert John Burke', who took over for Weller.
  
  

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