![]() ![]() And following the polarizing second installment, RoboCop 3 was just a year away from release - the perfect time to juice interest in the franchise.Ĭoming off the massive success of 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the Terminator franchise was at its cultural peak. Though the title characters would meet in comic books and video games, and not on the big screen, the crossover was calibrated for maximum credibility, with Frank Miller - who wrote both RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3 - tapped to write the story.įor an audience wary of the impending RoboCop 3 - which was dumping the ultra-violence of the first two films in an (ultimately successful) effort to land a PG-13 rating - Miller's vision sounded perfect. Terminator series in May 1992 - first as a four-issue comic series, and later as a bunch of video games adapted from them, for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, and Game Gear. The series found a fairly clever way to unite the histories of both franchises. ![]() In this continuity, scientists draw on the same technology that originally brought RoboCop into existence to develop Skynet, the program that eventually leads to the dystopian apocalypse of Terminator. RoboCop - whose creation makes him "part man, part machine" - has both technological access to the machines and an empathetic connection with the humans. In the end, RoboCop sides with the "man" part of the man/machine equation, teaming up with the human resistance in Terminator's futuristic dystopia. It's here that the fight between RoboCop and Terminator hits its first real snag. The juxtaposition between the two characters became common in the first place because they have so much in common: cutting-edge technology, proficiency with firearms, dry robotic wit, and an uncanny knack for killing pretty much anything that gets in the way.
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