RoboCop франшизасының ED-209 роботы

Fictional robot in the RoboCop franchise

The Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED 209 (pronounced Ed Two Oh Nine), is a fictional heavily armed robot that appears in the RoboCop franchise. It serves as a foil for RoboCop, as well as a source of comic relief due to its lack of intelligence and tendency towards clumsy malfunctions.

The Enforcement Droid Series 209, or ED 209 (pronounced Ed Two Oh Nine), is a heavily armed robot, sporting twin cannons on its left and right sides, a large, oblong visor much like a cockpit (despite the robot piloting itself) and legs with backwards facing knees. It serves as a foil for RoboCop, due to its lack of intelligence and tendency towards clumsy malfunctions. For instance, during a boardroom demonstration by Dick Jones of ED 209's "disarm and arrest" procedure with a board executive named Kinney as the test subject, in which Kinney is given a pistol and told to point it at ED 209, ED 209 fails to recognize that Kinney has dropped his weapon and blasts him to death in over the top fashion with its automatic cannons. Later, it is shown that ED 209 cannot climb or descend stairs as it tumbles trying to chase RoboCop. The ED 209 is featured in every RoboCop major motion picture, while it is missing from the series' direct to video releases, and the television series features an ED with a different model number.

ED 260, an upgraded version of the Enforcement Droid Series 209 first appeared the episode "Crime Wave" of the 1988 animated series RoboCop (voiced by Allen Stewart Coates), serving as a recurring character throughout the series as its creator attempts to sabotage RoboCop.

The ED 209 is also used as a boss in RoboCop computer and video games, and the video game RoboCop versus The Terminator. In the 2003 RoboCop game for the Xbox, the ED 209 appeared at several points as a boss or boss like enemy. The game also featured an upgraded design based on the 209, called the ED 1000. ED 209 appears as a traversal emote in Fortnite Battle Royale. In Mortal Kombat 11, ED 209 appears in RoboCop's fatal blow, one of his intros, and his fatality called "Dead or Alive". Additionally, ED 209 appears as both an ally and a boss in the 2023 game RoboCop: Rogue City.

There were two ED 209s in the comic RoboCop versus The Terminator (though it is mentioned that there are 200 of them deployed), assisting RoboCop in shooting down a trio of Terminators bent on killing Flo. However, their limited intelligence remained a problem. In one instance, when ordered by RoboCop to "scan for cybernetic activity," the ED 209s immediately registered RoboCop as a target and opened fire, hitting each other by accident before apologising to Robocop. They would then help in shooting the Terminators, managing to double team and destroy one of the Terminators. In Marvel's 1990 RoboCop comic, OCP Vice President Donald Johnson orders the creation of the ED 309.

Tippett developed preliminary sketches of ED 209 to budget for its development and hired Davies to design the full scale model and construct it with Paula Lucchesi. Verhoeven wanted ED 209 to look mean and believed Davies' early designs lacked a "killer" aesthetic. Davies was influenced by killer whales and a United States Air Force Corsair Jet. He approached the design with modern American aesthetics and corporate design policy that he believed prioritized looks over functionality, including excessive and impractical components. He did not add eyes because they would make ED 209 more sympathetic. Davies made an scale model from which he made a mold that was cut into cross sections and sketched on graph paper to measure when scaling the design up for the full size model that was carved in wood. Molds were made from the wood model and mainly constructed from fiberglass and held together by a separate wood frame. The finished model took four months to build at a cost of $25,000, stood 7 feet (2 m) tall, and weighed The 100 hour working weeks took their toll, and Davies decided to make ED 209's feet minimal in detail as he did not think they would be shown on camera. The model was fully articulated but its movement was rarely shown on screen. It served as a reference point for actors in scenes. Despite reports, the model was not destroyed during filming and was sent out on promotional tours after. Davies spent a further four months to build two miniature replicas that were made as light as possible so that the armature need not be bulky. 55 shots were to be completed in three months, and two models allowed scenes to be shot simultaneously to save time. Tippett led the stop motion animation of ED 209.