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Published: 2015-01-07 22:45:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 3407; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 7
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Well, I looked everywhere on the Internet and it seems that I'm the only person on planet Earth who noticed some curious similarities between Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop and Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. Look:=Both seem to be set in some kind of dystopian alternate '80s.
=Both feature criminal gangs.
=Both have the protagonist being followed by these satirical news broadcasts.
=In one scene from RoboCop he attacks an armed madman by punching through a wall and grabbing him, this is VERY similar to what Batman does to a mutant thug in The Dark Knight Returns. What makes this even weirder is that in RoboCop the name of the madman RoboCop stops is "Miller"... Make of that what you wish.
=Both have the hero fighting against the leader of a criminal gang in the mud.
And this is just a minor thing but it's still very interesting: in the animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns Batman was voiced by Peter Weller.
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Actually, I just found this looking through the internet for such posts. Yeah, Robocop reeks of TDKR elements. I never got around to reading TDKR till just recently, and I'm in Book Two now. I already saw the animated movie, some time ago, in fact. But I kept getting deja vu (having watched Robocop in my youth) of Robocop elements in TDKR. And when Batman broke through the wall, I had to find out which one came first. Turns out it was TDKR by a year. Which means Robocop would have been scripted and filming, more than likely at the point TDKR hit newstands. Just waiting for Batman to say "Drop it...dead or alive, you're coming with me." LOL
Interesting note: Frank Miller wrote Robocop 2 and 3. And was pissed at how they turned out in production.
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LOL, goes to show how very little people to nobody on the internet came out thinking this thing.
I know Miller wrote the sequels and I greatly disliked them. I even looked up Miller's comic and I didn't like what I saw; Lewis was sexualized with her clothes ripped off, has a needless romance with Murphy (two things I appreciated the original movie for NOT doing) and the villain had almost zero motivations for her actions. Personally "RoboCop" was a movie and a story that really didn't need sequels to begin with so it was kinda dead from the getgo in my opinion.
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Holy shit...! O.O; This feels like there is just too much similar stuff for this to just be a coincidence. Really awesome to see these observations of your's - my mind just got blown. X3 Can't believe I haven't noticed it myself.
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That is quite an observation; good eye, buddy!
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