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Peter Weller, Detroit’s early-1990s sports era, Ronnie Cox, and Miguel Ferrer receive apex support; other candidates are rejected or debated.

Tom Cruise as RoboCop

Martin Scorsese

Philip Seymour Hoffman is cast as a scene-stealing laboratory worker or Mr. Kinney.

ED-209’s live ammunition and stairs, Murphy’s tactics and family gaps, RoboCop’s exposed jaw, and Boddicker walking freely into OCP

A video game, rather than another sequel or remake

The imagined Gus Johnson call of RoboCop’s alley rescue

Sound effects

The panel asks when the story occurs and whether Bob Morton engineered Murphy’s transfer; the transfer theory is treated as answerable.

The Nuke ’Em home game and RoboCop’s mask

You can kill someone but cannot take their humanity; weapons demonstrations should use blanks.