Clarence Boddicker

"I don't wanna fuck with you Sal, but I got the connections. I got the sales organization... I got the muscle to shove enough of this factory so far up your stupid wop ass, that you'll shit snow for a year!"

- Clarence Boddicker

Clarence Boddicker is the secondary main antagonist in the 1987 film RoboCop, and a minor antagonist in the animated TV series RoboCop: The Animated Series. He was a sadistic and corrupt hitman whose criminal record was quite lengthy and included charges of rape, grand theft and murder.

He was portrayed by Kurtwood Smith.

Personality
"Can you fly, Bobby?"

- Clarence Boddicker preparing to throw Bobby out of the moving car.

Boddicker takes advantage of the future corrupt Detroit, Michigan police force and becomes a shameless cop-killer and sadistic criminal, where he went on a bloody citywide rampage where he robbed banks and caused misery for anyone that got in his way. Boddicker was also the hitman of the corrupt businessman Dick Jones, who owns the police force.

He is a weaselly man with a snide voice and particular hatred for the police, and has assembled a rough band of equally sadistic thugs to do his bidding for the corrupt and powerful people he associates with. Boddicker is perfectly willing to do or say anything to save his own life, including setting up his own partners into a deathtrap. Boddicker also often snorted alcohol to get a buzz, something never before seen in film.

According to this rap sheet halfway in the film, he is a prime suspect for multiple rapes, drug trafficking and possession, as well as murders of at least 32 officers, a number of whom he subjected to torture via firearms.

RoboCop
Early in the film, Clarence and his thugs were are fleeing from a bank robbery only to have two police officers chasing them all the way to an old steel mill in sector 3D. Alex Murphy, one of the two police officers, boldly tries to take on the gang, only to be ambushed. Then Clarence and his group subject him to a brief but very agonising torture, in which Murphy is partially mutilated alive with a firearm and then brutally gunned down to death.

Alex Murphy's corpse is reused by OCP to undergo heavy surgery and become the cyborg "Robocop", and upon discovering the truth about his human past, Robocop becomes intent on bringing Boddicker and his men to justice by any means necessary. Robocop manages to track down and arrest him. However, Robocop underestimates not only how well-connected Clarence Boddicker is with the monopolistic OCP, but also the power that organization has on the titular cyborg, as shown in his failed attempt to arrest Dick Jones, which almost results in a system shutdown.

Death
Clarence and his men have a final showdown with Robocop at an old steel mill where they combat RoboCop with anti-tank cannons, and Clarence directs his rage at Robocop, taking a length of jagged metal and leaping over to him, battering the cyborg, then plunging the bar through Robocop's breastplate. Leaning in for the kill, he gets too close to Robocop and the cyborg lunges, stabbing him through the neck with his data spike on the arm Clarence shot off when he was human. The wound severs a major artery, causing powerful spurts of blood to come shooting forth in time with Clarence's elevated heartbeat, which reduce in intensity as Clarence falls into the rust filled waters and die.

RoboCop: The Animated Series
Clarence Boddicker appears in the opening sequence of every episode of the TV series. As in the film, he is the one who "killed" Alex Murphy, causing him to made into RoboCop. He's also the primary antagonist of the last episode of the show, and therefore the final antagonist of the series.