RoboCop (franchise) RoboCop (franchise) RoboCop is an American superhero cyberpunk media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is mortally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named Robocop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products. Thus equipped, Murphy battles both violent crime in a severely decayed city and the blatantly corrupt machinations within OCP. The franchise began in 1987 with the film "RoboCop". "RoboCop 2" followed in 1990, and "RoboCop 3" in 1993. There have also been various television series, video game and comic book tie-ins.
The Robocop Kraus up with The World/Inferno Friendship Society and The Independents once more for a US tour and followed that up with another tour across Japan in 2002. 2003 saw the release of their third album "Living With Other People" on L'Âge d'or. After Hans Christian Fuss replaced Johannes Uschalt on drums, The Robocop Kraus began recording their fourth studio album "They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus" in February 2005 at Grōndahl Studios with Pelle Gunnerfeldt. They released "They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus" in Germany on June 20, 2005 followed by a European wide release on September 5, 2005.