RoboCop 2

Following the events of the first film, Detroit is facing bankruptcy after failing to pay off its debts to conglomerate Omni Consumer Products (OCP). The OCP chairman intends to have the city default on its debt, then foreclose on all public property, so they may move ahead with their radical urban development project, Delta City. To rally public opinion behind the project, OCP deliberately underfunds the Detroit Police Department to cause a rise in street crime. A new drug, Nuke, is sweeping the city, driven by crime boss Cain and his lieutenant, a teenaged boy named Hob.

RoboCop remains on duty with his partner Anne Lewis and continues to be plagued by memories of his life as Alex Murphy. He locates the home of his widow and son and begins watching them until she brings litigation against OCP, but when she meets him face-to-face and is responsive to him, RoboCop claims not to know her and that her husband is dead. OCP attempts to develop a "RoboCop 2" using the brains of legally dead police officers, intending to mass produce them to replace human officers, but all subjects kill themselves upon activation. Psychologist Juliette Faxx suggests that the error is the test subjects, and that Murphy was a success because of his strict Catholic upbringing and moral code, preventing him from committing suicide and reinforcing his devotion to his duty.

Faxx begins screening suitable candidates for the project, but instead of police officers, she secretly considers death row inmates who desire power and immortality. RoboCop raids a construction site used by Cain's gang, but he is ambushed and dismembered, and the pieces are dumped in front of the precinct. RoboCop is repaired, but Faxx intentionally reprograms him with more than 300 new directives that severely impede his ability to perform his duties, so that her project can be selected. RoboCop eventually clears these by shocking himself with a high-voltage transformer and rebooting his system.

He rallies the police to assist in raiding Cain's hideout. After a battle and chase, Cain is wounded, arrested, and falls into a coma. Hob escapes and takes control of his empire. Believing she can control Cain via his Nuke addiction, Faxx selects him for the RoboCop 2 project and disconnects his life support.

His brain is removed and implanted in a new cyborg body. Hob contacts the mayor and offers to cover the city's debt to OCP in exchange for leniency towards their drugs syndicate. OCP sends RoboCop 2 to stop the deal. At the meeting, RoboCop 2 kills everyone present except for the mayor, who escapes alive, and Hob.

RoboCop arrives and is told by a fatally wounded Hob that Cain is now RoboCop 2 and was responsible for the killings. At an unveiling ceremony for RoboCop 2 and Delta City, RoboCop 2 goes out of control and berserk when the OCP chairman holds up a canister of Nuke. RoboCop arrives, and along with the police, ineffectually battles RoboCop 2 as it attacks civilians. Lewis uses an armored car and Nuke to distract it, while RoboCop climbs on its back, rips out its brain, and smashes it on the street, deactivating the machine.

The OCP chairman uses Faxx as the scapegoat for the failure of RoboCop 2 and for the civilian and police casualties it caused. Lewis complains that OCP will once again avoid accountability, but RoboCop insists they must be patient because, "we're only human".