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[Robocop 1987/Robocop 2014] How might things in the original 1987 Robocop timeline have played out differently if OCP had allowed Murphy to retain his identity, memories, personality and family connections like he did in the 2014 timeline?
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Assuming Murphy still gets injured badly enough to justify a total body prosthesis, this version of Robocop isn't going to look too different. They wouldn't have wiped his mind, so they wouldn't have needed to place directives in his head. Dick Jones never gets to mess with Robo's programming.

Let's say the process still leaves Robo with short-term amnesia. He can remember his family (and they visit him at his place in police headquarters) so right away the cops accept him as one of their own, back from the dead. He partners up with Officer Lewis again. Robo is a little less cold toward the near-rape victim and Lewis is there to offer support but otherwise the first few nights of patrol go much the same as in the original movie. 

Bob Morton is less of an asshole in this timeline. He has better control over his mouth so the washroom confrontation with Dick Jones never happens. Dick doesn't send Clarence Boddicker after him and Bob spends an uneventful night at home.

Robo starts to remember who killed him and he begins taking down Clarence's gang as in the original film. In a panic, Clarence confesses his connection to Dick Jones and Robo goes to OCP Tower to arrest the executive. Dick sics the ED-209 on Robocop but the fight is much more even this time. No longer crippled by Dick's directive, Robo is able to defeat the ED-209. But then the cops arrive. Unwilling to fight back against his fellow police officers, Robo crawls away and escapes with Officer Lewis.

Dick starts to get desperate. He kidnaps Murphy's family and forces Robo to go on a rampage during the police strike. He damages a lot of property but doesn't hurt anyone. Bob Morton becomes suspicious and does a little detective work. With the help of some Detroit cops (who he actually befriended in this timeline) Bob is able to rescue Murphy's family. Unfortunately, he is unable to contact Robocop.

Robocop takes his rampage to the abandoned factory complex, where he kills Clarence and his gang as in the original movie. Before dying, Clarence is able to relay one last order from Dick Jones: Robocop must kill the chairman of OCP.

Robocop enters the boardroom as before. He is about to murder the old man when Bob runs in. Murphy's family is safe! Dick was coercing Robo! Dick Jones tries to pretend that he's innocent, but Robo plugs into the TV screens and replays certain clips. Dick takes the old man hostage. He knows that Robo has no problem killing him so he sticks close to the old man.

"Hold very still, sir," Robocop says, and then shoots through the chairman's legs, hitting Dick in the dick. The old man moves faster than he's ever moved and Robo is free to go dakka dakka on Dick Jones. The film ends much like the original.

Without the mind-wipe it's much easier to produce cyborg cops. Robocop 2 never happens and Delta City gets built without any problems.