Potrayer & Role Host Discovery: Alex Murphy

RoboCop is a fictional Detroit Cybernetic police officer designated as OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001 in the film series of the same name. The character begins as a human being named Alexander James Murphy, who is killed in the line of duty by a vicious crime gang. Subsequently, Murphy is transformed into the cyborg entity RoboCop by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP).

History

Backstory

Police officer Alex Murphy is serving with the Detroit Police Department when its funding and administration is taken over by the private corporation Consumer Products.

Alexander James Murphy is a devout Irish Catholic and a mild-mannered family man, living with his wife, Ellen (Nancy in the television series, Clara in the 2014 remake), and his son, Jimmy (James Daniel "Jimmy" Murphy in RoboCop: The Series (see ep. 06, "Zone Five"), David in the 2014 remake). Murphy starts mimicking his son's television hero, T.J. Lazer, by twirling his gun whenever he took down a criminal. Murphy's psychological profile states that he was top of his class at the police academy and possesses a fierce sense of duty.

Publication Information

Host : Alex Murphy
Real name : Alexander James Murphy
Nickname(s) : RoboCop "Murph"
Species : Human (cyborg)
Gender : Male
Occupation : Detroit Cybernetic Police Officer
Title : OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001
Police Partner : Officer Anne Lewis
Family : Russell Murphy (father)
Spouse(s) : Ellen Murphy (1987, deceased), Nancy Murphy (1994), Clara Murphy (2014)
Children : James Daniel Murphy (David Murphy in the 2014 film)

This dedication explains why Murphy exhibits none of the negative attitudes and statements shared by his fellow officers when he is transferred to the Metro West Precinct, the most violent area of Old Detroit. The police dissatisfaction is the result of OCP's (deliberate) mismanagement, and penny-pinching, which led to the deaths of many police officers in the precinct.

Police File

Alex Murphy's police file (from the first RoboCop film) reads as follows:

File Record : OD5839484E09
Name : Murphy, Alex J.
Address : 548 Primrose Ln, Detroit, MI
Grade : 1 00 33

DECEASED