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Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.
~ ED-209 ordering OCP employee Kinney to put down his weapon.
You now have fifteen seconds to comply. You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9... You have five seconds to comply. Four, three, two, one. I am now authorized to use physical force.
~ ED-209 goes berserk and proceeds to brutally kill Kinney by blasting him into bloody chunks of meat.

The Enforcement Droid: Series 209, or ED-209, was a supporting antagonist of the 1987 sci-fi action film RoboCop. It was a fully-automated "peacekeeping machine" created by Omni Consumer Products intended for urban pacification, making its debut as a single entity. Although the robot would eventually be produced into series, it made its most prominent role in the first RoboCop movie when being summoned by its creator Dick Jones to destroy RoboCop in order to cover-up his illegitimate activities.

It was voiced by Jon Davison.

History[]

The Future of Law Enforcement[]

Fellow executives, it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the future of law enforcement... ED-209!
~ Dick Jones introducing ED-209 to his fellow executives and their chairman The Old Man.

The ED-209 project was conceived by OCP vice president Richard 'Dick' Jones to further OCP's dream project of Delta City. ED-209 was first seen in OCP conference room for a demonstration when executives were gathered for the Delta City project and making enforcers needed to maintain order of Delta City. ED-209 was one such enforcer project. But during its first demonstration, ED-209 malfunctioned disastrously; unable to recognize its target having dropped his weapon in surrender, ED-209 continued to press the test subject, named Kinney, to put down his weapon while aiming at Kinney for the kill. Still failing to recognize Kinney having dropped his weapon, ED-209 keeps counting down to the last few seconds, meanwhile sending the entire conference room into panic. After counting away the last five seconds, ED-209 blasts Kinney to death with live ammunition, reducing the unfortunate executive to bloody chunks of meat. Its technicians struggled in vain to gain control over the machine, having to pull plugs to finally shut it down, but it was too late for Kinney. Because of the Kinney tragedy, the RoboCop program was given the green-light.

ED-209 was seen later when RoboCop arrived at Jones' office located at the OCP building to arrest the vice president for aiding and abetting nefarious crime boss Clarence Boddicker. Just as RoboCop proceeded to arrest Jones, his cybernetic system went into spasm, his classified Fourth Directive program preventing him from arresting OCP members. As RoboCop struggled with his malfunctioning programming, Jones deployed ED-209. It proceeded to blast RoboCop with its automatic cannons, sending the cyborg flying. As the damaged RoboCop continued to struggle with his malfunctioning program, ED-209 closes in on the cyborg, smacked RoboCop with an uppercut from its left arm and once again sent him flying. ED-209 then attempted to kill RoboCop up close in an execution style, but RoboCop forced its blasting right arm into its left, destroying it and causing ED-209 to shudder with spasm. But it quickly recovers, and makes an attempt to shoot down the fleeing RoboCop with rockets, but RoboCop dodged them all. As Jones called Hedgecock for reinforcement, ED-209 relentlessly pursued RoboCop with cannons blazing. Eventually RoboCop reached a flight of stairs. When ED-209 got to the steps to continue the pursuit, it tumbled down the steps as the machine's huge feet couldn't support it on the stairs' small steps and it fell on its back, unable to get back up. RoboCop took the opportunity and escaped.

Destruction[]

You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle.
~ ED-209 to RoboCop who returned to OCP, which turned out to be its last words.

ED-209 was seen for the last time when RoboCop, after having done away with Boddicker's gang, returns to the OCP building to expose Jones as a criminal. ED-209, with its damaged left arm repaired, was guarding the entrance of OCP building. Upon spotting RoboCop (unable to acknowledge the cyborg from their previous fight) ED-209 walked up to the cyborg, citing that he parked illegally on the private property and demanded that the car be removed within 20 seconds. But RoboCop simply took out a high-powered hand-held assault cannon he took from Clarence Boddicker, whom RoboCop also killed, and used the cannon to destroy ED-209's entire upper body with two shots. As RoboCop continued his way inside the OCP building, ED-209, now reduced to a body-less pair of legs, staggered and collapsed in a twitching heap of scrap.

Aftermath[]

ED-209 units make cameo appearances in later RoboCop sequels and other installments, with its flawed intelligence system still plaguing the models throughout sequels: An Attorney General named Marcos later approved the ED-209 series for deployment in five American cities (including Detroit). Not surprisingly there were widespread complaints of malfunction, with one unit getting its foot stuck in a manhole. Even so, the ED-209 series stayed in service even when OCP was taken over by the Kanemitsu Corporation. They are rarely seen on the streets, and usually used as guards near OCP buildings.

Technical specifications[]

Arsenal[]

ED-209 is armed with three heavy-calibered (presumed to be two-digit millimeters) autocannons, two on the right platform, one on the left platform with an autoshotgun and a rocket launcher capable of firing three rockets. Its high-powered autocannons can ravage RoboCop's titanium-chrome armor (which can easily bounce off small caliber bullets). It is also totally immune to small calibered bullets (from 9mm to 7.62mm), as it was unaffected by hand gun bullets during its demonstration. It also has additional combat programming enabling it to melee attack at closer ranges. Fighting ED-209 on its terms is possible, but only when there is a major firepower as support.

Drawbacks[]

Despite its huge size, heavy armor and immense power, ED-209's logic circuit is flawed and it is its constant weak point. It cannot process information as quickly as a human brain and this can be used against it. In spite of this, no attempt was made to improve its flawed logic system.

ED-209 also suffers from a manual override weakness that enables any sufficiently skilled hacker to access its command system and take complete control of the robot. In RoboCop 3 one such hacker named Nikko Halloran, manages to achieve this: Nikko was able to access the ED-209 command system interface, from that point on she is able to issue commands directly to the droid, thereby taking full control of it and having it turning against its allies.

EDS-260[]

Enforcement Droid Series 260 (or ED-260) is more a advanced version of the 209 series. It was designed by Dr. McNamara.

ED-209 in Games and in Other Appearances[]

In spite of being a dimwitted robot receiving poor treatments in movies, ED-209 in RoboCop-related games is treated considerably better: in games ED-209 appears frequently as bosses with huge firepower to dish out. In Data East's RoboCop arcade game, ED-209 appears as the recurring boss, gets equipped with more weapons (homing missiles, mortars and even Cobra Assault Cannon shots, etc.) in addition to its autocannons as the stage progresses, not to mention getting upgraded armors before facing RoboCop in the final stage. In the RoboCop 2 arcade game, ED-209 still appears, but here it is relegated to a middle stage mini-boss (RoboCain takes the position of the final boss). In the NES version of the first RoboCop game, ED-209 appears only twice in the game as a boss and is only equipped with autocannons, missing the mini-rockets shown in the movies. But as in the movie, its autocannons can inflict huge damage on RoboCop, and in its second appearance as the final boss, its durability is drastically increased; without the Cobra Assault Cannon it will be extremely difficult to defeat. In Robocop Vs. The Terminator, the ED-209 appears as the game's fifth boss encountered, fought at the end of the OCP Office Complex. Here, it is based near identical to its first movie appearance: It enters battle by stomping slowly, then starts the battle by firing at Robocop with its autocannons the moment he is near. When its cannon is shot off, it will fall to the ground and can be acquired by Robocop for use (referencing how he used the autocannon against ED-209 in the first movie). The ED-209 will then fire missiles one at a time which track slightly. Once its head is damaged, it falls apart, but its legs continue to move, becoming a hazard to touch until its destruction.

In Sega's strategic arcade game named Gain Ground, a combat robot that is undeniably identical to ED-209 in appearance appears as the game's final boss.

The first Metal Gear in the Metal Gear franchise, named TX-55, is heavily based on ED-209 in design.

An ED-209 appears in Mortal Kombat 11 as part of one of RoboCop's intros and appeared in one of his fatalities where it was seen shooting its opponent with its machine guns.

Trivia[]

  • In behind-the-scene interview, director of the first Robocop Paul Verhoeven requested creators and designers of ED-209 to appear as cute as possible.
  • It's theorized that had Dick Jones gotten his way, the ED-209 models would have destroyed the city, thus turning Detroit into a police state with Jones ruling as a dictator.

Navigation[]

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OCP
Old Man | Richard Jones | Lieutenant Hedgecock | ED-209 | Juliette Faxx | Second CEO | Daniel O'Hara | Felix Weber | David Kaydick | Wendell Antonowsky

Boddicker's Gang
Clarence Boddicker | Emil Antonowsky | Leon Nash | Joe Cox | Steve Minh | Bobby | Dougy

Nuke Cult
Cain/RoboCop 2 | Angie | Hob | Catzo

Urban Rehabilitators
Paul McDaggett | Ōtomo | Coontz | Margaret Love | Carl Seltz

OmniCorp
Raymond Sellars | Rick Mattox | Tom Pope | Liz Kline

Others
Antoine Vallon | Thomas King | The Scrambler | Bone Machine | Ron Miller | John Killian | Mr. Brink

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