why is robocop's mouth exposed and why don't bad guys shoot him there?

[jidong216]

seems like a poor design choice

[The Fireman]

Because we wanted to see the actors face in the movies.

[Broken Knight]

cause his mouth is not really important it's basically a face with heavy armor over it and his brain is where the heavier armor is

[rorem]

its shown in the movie that its hard metal underneath. he's basically a robot head witha skin mask glued on

[yari]

It's so he can give kisses to Lewis and Sgt Reed

[Teratus]

His only vital spots are heavily armoured so even if he got shot in the lower half of his face it's unlikely he'd suffer serious damage, or even feel it tbh.

You'd need to get through his helmet or his chest plate to actually damage something organic that could permanently injure him.. heart, brain etc.

[Brudokeg]

youd think hed get shot in the jaw/teeth atleast once over the span of 3 movies and a game

[Toola]

because it make it more human. People need to feel a connection with the people they talk with, they need to feel safe. Him having a mouth with big supple puffed lips make it look like under all that metal, there is still a human. and they used it's real face to avoid an uncanny effect that we get today with robots with silicone faces.

If robocop was just an executionner, they would need him to be scary at all time, but most of his time is spend talking to civilian, trying to calm them to get answer to his question, and if they were always terrorised of him, it wouldn't go far.

[Pretentieux]

it was the 80's

[Teratus]

Originally posted by Toola:

because it make it more human. People need to feel a connection with the people they talk with, they need to feel safe. Him having a mouth with big supple puffed lips make it look like under all that metal, there is still a human. and they used it's real face to avoid an uncanny effect that we get today with robots with silicone faces.

If robocop was just an executionner, they would need him to be scary at all time, but most of his time is spend talking to civilian, trying to calm them to get answer to his question, and if they were always terrorised of him, it wouldn't go far.

It's ironic really since most people still treat him like a machine, even the people who built him.

The game even addresses this early by mentioning his psychological needs have been severely neglected.. and that comes moments after another individual calls him a machine.

His human side is constantly diminished to just another system, often looked at as the cause of his imperfections and glitches etc.
It's only really his fellow cops who actually see the man inside the machine for the most part, and they're pretty much the only ones to call him by his dead name.

[Evil White Republican]

cyborgs eat bullets

[mankrip]

His jaw is made of metal and covered with skin, see it from the back when he's without the helmet. There's no bone to break, so shooting it is futile.

[Teratus]

Isn't the skin also fake?.. can't remember exactly but in the first movie there was a part where his wife touches his face and he says that they made it to honour Murphy..
Always thought that his face was manufactured to look like Murphy because of that scene, not that they actually put his real face over the metal head frame.

Then again if it was fake.. why keep the bullethole where he was shot..

[Alain Connu]

Originally posted by Teratus:

Isn't the skin also fake?.. can't remember exactly but in the first movie there was a part where his wife touches his face and he says that they made it to honour Murphy..
Always thought that his face was manufactured to look like Murphy because of that scene, not that they actually put his real face over the metal head frame.

Then again if it was fake.. why keep the bullethole where he was shot..

it wasn't fake,he just said this to push her away. he does have his face changed in robocop 3 due to him getting engulfed in flames early on,though. (but that was just a plot-point to explain why he wasn't looking like peter weller at the time, which refused to reprise his role for the 3rd one.)

[Tryyton]

time to finally watch the movie/s i'd say...

this game doesn't make too much sense without knowing the first 2 movies imo.

Originally posted by Alain Connu:

it wasn't fake,he just said this to push her away. he does have his face changed in robocop 3 due to him getting engulfed in flames early on,though. (but that was just a plot-point to explain why he wasn't looking like peter weller at the time, which refused to reprise his role for the 3rd one.)

the 3rd doesn't exist anymore, this game is part 3 now imo. so we can all forget about the other trash that came after the first 2 movies.

[Mors]

Originally posted by jidong216:

seems like a poor design choice

1) The visor makes Robocop a mystique character, and the jaw area makes him humane.
He doesn't really have any other body part that makes him look humane.
The few scenes in the movies where he has face exposed because helmet is removed, he looks awful.
But the visor and human skin jaw makes him a modern Zorro.

2) And there is a such thing as that YOU DO NOT AIM HEAD.
You shoot to the body. Even the snipers shoots to the body, not to head if there is change to do so. When a soldier goes prone, the head is the prominent target area, so that is when you aim to the head.
The body is large mass and multiple times larger target area than your head.
And having a jaw exposed makes a very small target area, compared to head and to the torso.

3) Shooting someone to mouth area doesn't mean you kill them. Even the world best sniper was wounded by being shot to face with explosive bullet and he survived, what now jaw was disfigured.

4) And it is always good point that why doesn't he have a armored face plate? Well... It would be pure machine then at that point to talk to citizens and try to be non-robotic.
And that would remove the hero element from the robocop.