Alex J. Murphy
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| Alex J. Murphy | |
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| Appearances | |
| Franchise(s): | Comics |
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| First Appearance: | RoboCop vs. The Terminator |
| Last Appearance: | RoboCop vs. The Terminator |
| Details | |
| Alias: | RoboCop |
| Gender Program: | Male |
| Status: | Unknown |
| Series: | Prototype OCP Crime Prevention Unit; Later modified Series 800 |
| Model: | Crime Prevention Unit 001 |
| Features: | Bulky Human Brain Internal Weapon Storage Reinforced Armor |
| Occupation: | Police Officer |
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Officer Murphy
Mild-mannered Police Officer Alex Murphy was serving with the Detroit Police Department when its funding and administration was taken over by the private corporation Omni Consumer Products. Murphy was a devout Irish Catholic and a family man, living with his wife, Ellen, and his son, Jimmy. To provide a good role model for his son, Murphy began practicing the gun twirl move of his son's hero, a cop named T.J. Lazer portrayed on a television show. Murphy’s psychological profile stated that he was top of his class at the police academy and possessed a fierce sense of duty (which helped him adapt to his RoboCop body). This dedication explained why Murphy didn’t exhibit the negative attitudes and statements shared by his fellow officers when he was transferred to the Metro West Precinct, the most violent area of Old Detroit. The police dissatisfaction was a result of OCP’s free-enterprise marketing and efficiency, mismanagement, which lead to the deaths of many police officers in the precinct.
Murphy was partnered with Officer Anne Lewis, a veteran of Old Detroit. During a pursuit and subsequent raid against a crime lord named Clarence Boddicker in a steel mill, Murphy was severely wounded by gunfire from Boddicker’s gang; their combat shotguns firing armor peircing shells, his entire right arm was completely destroyed, and his organs were completely shredded. While surrounded by the gang and asked for his opinion of Boddicker, Murphy defiantly maintained his sense of duty and ideals of justice by stating, “Buddy, I think you’re slime.” While Lewis was incapacitated, Boddicker executed Murphy with a gunshot to the head. Murphy was transported to the hospital emergency room where he died and his remains were used by OCP in the construction of RoboCop.
The RoboCop Program
OCP held a contract to fund and run the Detroit Police Department. Security Concepts was the division that provided oversight for the police. In order to supplement the police force that was overwhelmed with crime, Security Concepts began developing robotic law enforcement units. Executive Robert Morton developed the RoboCop program. Morton and his team restructured the police force and placed prime candidates with high aptitude and experience in law enforcement into high crime areas where death in the line of duty was highly probable. Once a death occurred, the deceased officer would be used in the construction of a cyborg law enforcement unit. This unit would be afforded the fastest reflexes made possible by modern technology, a memory assisted by an on-board computer, and programmed with a lifetime experience in on-the-street law enforcement. Murphy was used to become the prototype RoboCop and designated OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001.
Hunted by Skynet
A Resistance Soldier was sent back in time with the mission to destroy RoboCop under the belief that Skynet was actually a deranged form of Murphy following an identity crisis. During a brief confrontation the group was attacked by a group of Series 800 terminators. Murphy soon learned that he was a key component of the Skynet program and that his neural network gave Skynet the ability to develop artificial intelligence. Rather than be an agent of destruction, Murphy opted instead to terminate himself. While visiting his grave a final time he is attacked by a modified infiltrator resembling a child and another that looks like a dog. Murphy is disabled and his program scanned into Skynet.
Future War
After 25 years of lurking in the shadows of Skynet's programming, Murphy began an attack upon a Skynet program and took control over an automated production facility during a human attack. Utilizing his new found control he built himself a modified Series 800 body resembling his former self. Later he would do the same again, but would construct an entire legion of terminators carrying his face and based on his neural pattern. With their new allies the Resistance launched an attack on a Skynet outpost while Murphy made plans to go back in time and stop Skynet once and for all out of fears he had begun to lose his humanity after years trapped in the mind of Skynet's evil.
Upon the appearance of the strange blob in the present, the people are confused and then terrified as the metal robocop tears forth from the mass of flesh and immediately blasts off into space. He finds the earliest incarnation of skynet, a spy satellite, and destroys it. Disappearing from time, Murphy awakens in his present in Detroit with a feeling of deja vu while on patrol.
Behind the scenes
- RoboCop has been portrayed by Peter Weller, Robert John Burke, Richard Eden, and Page Fletcher.
- A scene was planned for RoboCop 2 where Murphy's face would be peeled away from the RoboCop body structure revealing a T-800 skull beneath.[1]
Appearances
- RoboCop vs. The Terminator (All incarnations)
References
- ↑ RoboCop 2 DVD Commentary.
