My Fox - Detroit needs RoboCop...That was the premise of a 1987 movie in which RoboCop, a terminally wounded cop turned cyborg, protected a crime-ridden city. Now what started out as a tweet to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has turned into a social media movement that suggests a statue of RoboCop is just what the city needs.
Serious toss up here, which cities pride and joy statue is more pathetic, The Rocky Statue in Philadelphia, or the proposed Robocop statue in Detroit?
Let's get one thing clear here from the get-go. They're both terribly pathetic. When your city's pride and identity is based off a fictional movie character, well, your city pretty much sucks. You're openly stating that no one of any level of greatness has chosen to live in, and impact your city in recent time, you're that undesirable of a place to live.
That said, the Rocky statue is more pathetic. A city that supports 4 major sports teams had to resort to a fictional sports character to invoke peoples pride in their city. Phili isn't exactly Cleveland, either. They've had some championship teams, and some real sports stars pass through their city. It's absolutely bewildering to an outsider how a city can bond with a fictional sports character over some of the greats that have played in Phili.
Detroit's proposal for a statue of a fictional robot may be absolutely retarded, but it's no where near as delusional as Phili's Rocky statue. No one growing up in Detroit is going to confuse Robocop for an actual cop that patrolled the cities mean streets, but I can certainly imagine the confusion Rocky causes grade school kids trying to figure out why there'd be a statue down town of a sports figure that never existed.
