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"Kill Human" Part 4
Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human #4
Dynamite
Entertainment
Written by Rob Williams
Illustrated by P.J. Holden
Colored by Inlight Studio
Lettered by Simon Bowland
Cover B by Tom Feister
2011 |
Robocop must make a fatal judgment.
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complete summary of the mini-series at the Terminator Wiki
Notes from the Terminator chronology
This story takes place in an unidentified future year some
time after the first RoboCop film, in an alternate
universe from that seen in either the main RoboCop
or Terminator franchises.
It is also a different universe from the one seen in the
previous cross-over of Terminator and RoboCop,
RoboCop vs. the Terminator.
Didja Know?
Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human was a 4-issue
mini-series published by Dynamite Entertainment in 2011.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Robocop/Alex Murphy
Dick Jones
Lauren Amendola (in flashback only, deceased)
Uncle Bob (protector Terminator from
Judgment Day)
Sarah Connor
John Connor (dies in this issue)
Skynet (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
On page 1, UAVs are flying over Robocop's naval convoy,
providing protection. UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle.
Dick Jones tells Robocop that the acid they're using to
dissolve the Terminator parts is "a specialized, hi-tech
version of aqua regia acid." Aqua regia is a mixture of
nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, used to dissolve noble metals such
as gold and platinum, but does not dissolve all metals. Of
course, Jones says this is a specialized,
hi-tech version.
In panels 3-5 on page 7, the stolen plane flown by the
T-1000 appears to be flying in reverse as it closes in on the
naval convoy!
On pages 8-9, the stolen plane is painted with the logo of
Lightstorm Air. This is a fictitious air service, but the
name is a nod to
James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment.
On page 14, Robocop dons a battlesuit that is sort of a
wearable version of ED-209 armor. |
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On page 17, the Uncle Bob protector Terminator has been
"reactivated" by Jones to aid in the battle against the
T-1000. But there's no explanation given about how Jones was
able to reactivate it when Robocop had said in
"Kill Human" Part 3 that
it's CPU had been destroyed by the Skynet virus he used
against it. Possibly, Jones could have installed a new CPU,
but would the Terminator still be "Uncle Bob"? Would it
still have "protect John Connor" as it's primary directive?
On page 20, the T-1000 kills John Connor.
Robocop allows John and Jones to die in the aqua regia
chamber because it will take the T-1000 and T-800 with it,
saying on page 21, "The room has to stay sealed, Dick.
The acid will eventually disintegrate the Terminators and
this ship will sink to the bottom of the ocean. And Skynet
will never exist. The human race will be saved." But,
the two Terminators were already once destroyed in the
Judgment Day
timeline and Skynet was built anyway! This may be an
indication that Robocop had been pre-programmed by Skynet in
the future to come back to this time and bring about John's
death, which he does!
The story ends with Robocop trapped in the sinking ship and
wondering himself if Skynet had let him go in the future ("Kill
Human" Part 2) and allowed him to travel back in time
because it somehow knew he would eventually kill John
Connor.
Unanswered Questions
Did Skynet program Robocop to bring about the death of John
Connor? To me, that seems the most viable explanation for
Robocop's callous behavior towards individual human life in
this series.
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