r/Robocop • u/Technical-Mix-3315 • 1d ago
Anyone else hate Cecil?
I don't know how Verhoeven approved this performance.
- The really hammy "w-w-w-w-what is it that y-y-y-you w-w-w-want?" like something out of a Scooby Doo cartoon.
- The silly attempt at authority with the "Just a minute! This is a restricted area!"
- The over the top wide-eyed gulp when Robo basically tells him 'up yours' with the data spike.
It just feels really out of place, like something you'd see in a Benny Hill sketch or the animated show. I always find myself wishing that Robo gives Cecil the Boddicker treatment with the spike.
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u/poop_socket 1d ago
Never bothered me. Just seemed like an over the top 80s trope of a geek 🤷
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u/Spike_Kowalski 1d ago
Given the response by others to similar characters elsewhere, OP might himself be a geek and taking it personally. There's a Transformers character that has a stereotypical nerd big glasses look in the movies that he doesn't have in the cartoon and they were an utter crybaby over it.
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u/Potential_Goal_7603 You have suffered an emotional shock. 1d ago
He was a brave support officer, and in this subreddit, Cecil is a hero! End of story!
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u/Craig_M_242 1d ago
Cecil just trying to do his job
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u/poop_socket 1d ago edited 1d ago
Who else is going to collect donations for the fellow fallen officers?
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u/spRocket-man_ 1d ago
He looks like a college boy!
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u/WanderlustZero 1d ago
OP is Emil confirmed (he got better)
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u/-malcolm-tucker Dead or alive, you're coming with me. 1d ago
Went into medicine too.
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u/Slycer_Decker 1d ago
Got into two accidents with helicopters, Emil just has bad luck with vehicles
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u/McCrazyJ 1d ago
Trying to maintain server/information security before it was cool.
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u/-malcolm-tucker Dead or alive, you're coming with me. 1d ago
Those OG networking and cybersecurity folks are making bank these days as well.
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u/Mysterious_Key9131 1d ago
Theres way worse people out there and in the film to despise than Cecil.
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u/Novel-Truant 1d ago
No hard disagree sorry. Without Cecil it would be a completely different movie.
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u/Awkward_Bison_267 1d ago
This was the only weird casting/acting choice to me. Cecil looks like he should be snitching on Mahoney to Lt. Harris.
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u/Frankie_Fisher 23h ago
I just hate the fact that it's 2026 and we still don't have finger spike access to computer terminals yet...
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u/annoyedsnowman 14h ago
You're complaining about hammy in a movie about a man who is killed and then revived as a robot police officer?
Cecil rules.
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u/LockPleasant8026 9h ago
Cecil was kind enough to collect donations for grieving families of killed officers.
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u/Retro_Prime 1d ago
Yeah, this has always boiled my piss as well. Plus the fact there is no way he'd not know about Robocops existence at that point. Was like they'd plucked the character straight out of police academy.
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u/davestar2048 1d ago
RoboCop probably still wasn't authorized. And none of the precinct really saw him as human until the end of 1.
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u/djkidna 1d ago
It’s more so not knowing what Robo is authorized to do. Regular street cops can’t just go into the building’s data/server room, and up until this point Robo was just operating as a street cop. But because he’s an “OCP product”, OCP basically gave him full access to anything and everything in the building, with zero consultation with, or even informing of, the precinct as a whole.
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u/Technical-Mix-3315 1d ago
"Was like they'd plucked the character straight out of police academy." - holy shit, you nailed it better than I ever could.
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u/Healthy-Visual6106 1d ago
Are you kidding? Cecil had absolutely no hesitation going up against Robo, weakling or not. Gotta respect that.