RoboCop: The Animated Series greater range of movement than in the films. The Old Detroit of the series is also considerably more technologically advanced: lasers replace handguns and robots are commonplace, Dr. Tyler (who appears in the original film) is the creator of the RoboCop Program, not Bob Morton, and also serves as one of Murphy's confidants as well as his caregiver, along with Dr. Roosevelt. Clarence Boddicker and his gang, the men responsible for Alex's Murphy's death prior to him becoming RoboCop, died in the film. Here they remain at large and battle RoboCop again in "Menace of the Mind". In 1991, three
RoboCop 1000 Movies Ever Made". AMC Filmsite.org and Film.com rated it as one of the best films of 1987. The film was on the ballot for two of the American Film Institute's "100 Series" lists. These included "100 Years…100 Thrills", a list of America's most heart-pounding films, and AFI's "Ten Top Ten", a list of the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres. "RoboCop" was a candidate in the science fiction category. At its release, British director Ken Russell said that this was the best science fiction film since Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). In a 2013 interview, Edward Neumeier