Omni Consumer Products

Omni Consumer Products is a business that features in the RoboCop universe.

History

Original

Omni Consumer Products (OCP) was depicted as a megacorporation with divisions affecting nearly every level of consumer need, society, and government. Their products range from consumer products to military weaponry and private space travel. Their projects included the RoboCop, the ED-209, and the RoboCop 2 cyborg. OCP owns and operates a privatized Detroit Police Department and have been known to employ criminals to achieve their goals. At its peak, OCP's influence spread further than the confines of Detroit, given their military-grade technology, shareholders not based in Detroit, and their ownership of a paramilitary mercenary division that worked alongside the U.S. military during the Amazon War.

OCP, throughout its depictions in the RoboCop films, has sought to fully privatize Detroit, Michigan into Delta City, a manufactured municipality governed by a corporatocracy, with fully privatized services — such as police — and with residents exercising their representative citizenship through the purchase of shares of OCP stock. They also serve as part of the military-industrial complex; according to OCP executive Richard "Dick" Jones, "We practically are the military." Jones observes in RoboCop that OCP has "gambled in markets traditionally regarded as non-profit: hospitals, prisons, space exploration. I say good business is where you find it."

After RoboCop failed to arrest Dick Jones due to his Directive 4, he escapes ED-209 into the OCP parking complex. But he was confronted by Lt. Hedgecock, who has betrayed the Detroit Police Department and taken control of the SWAT to follow Dick Jones' orders to destroy him. Before they open fire RoboCop's comrades Kaplan, Jerry, Ramirez, Manson and Starkweather protest and tried to stop him, but Lt. Hedgecock tells them that they have orders to destroy him causing them to walk off in disgust. Lt. Hedgecock ignores them and orders his team to open fire at Robocop who then escapes into Parking level 3. Anne Lewis, RoboCop's partner arrives, having been alerted by Kaplan and the others to Lt. Hedgecock's treachery, helps him board on her police car. Lt. Hedgecock sees her having defied her orders to destroy her partner, and orders his team to open fire at her, causing Lewis to realize that Lt. Hedgecock is a traitor, and immediately flees the scene.

After Clarence Boddicker's death, RoboCop returns to the OCP to confront Dick Jones again, destroying the ED-209 guarding the building with a Cobra assault cannon. RoboCop shows the executives Jones' treachery, ordering Lt. Hedgecock to destroy him and Bob Morton's death, prompting Jones to take the Old Man hostage. But the Old Man fires Jones for murdering Bob Morton and ordering Lt. Hedgecock to destroy RoboCop, allowing RoboCop to kill him. Jones then fell out of the window to his death and his orders on the Detroit Police to destroy him are put to an end. The Old Man thanks RoboCop and asks what his name is, to which RoboCop replied by saying 'Murphy'.

OCP was effectively bankrupt, struggling under massive debt. The company continued its attempts to capitalize on the success of their first cyborg, though the original RoboCop, Alex Murphy, proved difficult to control. Seeking a more compliant alternative, OCP initiated the development of the 'RoboCop 2' program, led by the driven, if ethically compromised, Dr. Juliette Faxx. OCP experienced numerous failures in their attempts to create a second cyborg law enforcement officer, with test subjects consistently going insane and committing suicide after awakening. Faxx eventually identified the flaw as the subjects’ inability to handle their humanity being stripped away, leading her to propose the use of a psychopathic drug dealer and cult leader named Cain as the ideal candidate. Simultaneously, OCP became entangled in a complex municipal bond scheme as they sought to take over the entire city of Detroit. The corporation deliberately forced the city into default by withholding necessary funding for police pensions and city services, planning to foreclose on the municipality and seize all its assets. OCP intended to rebuild Detroit as their own corporate-controlled utopia, Delta City. This plan culminated in a chaotic confrontation during a press conference where the newly activated, unstable 'RoboCop 2' went berserk, attacking OCP executives and the public. Ultimately, OCP's grand ambitions were temporarily thwarted, though the company managed to survive the immediate crisis, likely at the cost of further public trust and stability.

It was later bought by a Japanese Zaibatsu where it became a subsidiary of the Kanemitsu corporation where OCP was charged with the destruction of old Detroit and the construction of Delta City. A private military group of mercenaries called the Rehabs were used as as police force that were under the command of Paul McDaggett where they were to force the eviction of citizens. Despite their efforts, this plan failed when McDagget was killed by RoboCop who had allied himself with the people and turned against OCP. The brutal policies of the company were then brought to light with many of its majority shareholders selling their stock that forced the company towards bankruptcy.

Overview

In appearance, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) was a powerful corporation that existed on the Earth. The company held interests in virtually every sector of industry, including defense, healthcare, urban planning, and security technology. OCP's primary objective was the pursuit of profit through massive, often ruthlessly executed, urban renewal and military contracts. Their most ambitious and defining project was the privatization of law enforcement in a crime-ridden, near-dystopian Detroit.

OCP was the conceptualizer and contractor behind the "Delta City" vision, a future corporate-run metropolis built upon the ruins of Old Detroit. The company operated with a veneer of legality and public service, but internally, its executives were driven by greed, willing to engage in corporate espionage, bribery, and even the calculated murder of their own employees to ensure project success and silence liabilities. They saw human employees as expendable assets, perfectly illustrated by their experimental ED-209 enforcement droid and the subsequent RoboCop program, which merged technology with the remains of a murdered officer, Alex Murphy, purely for product development.

Products made by the company included:

• EM-208 :
• ED-209 : Enforcement Droid, Series 209
• RoboCop :
• RoboCop 2 :
• S.A.I.N.T. : Sentient Artificial Intelligence NeuralNet Terminus

Their corporate headquarters was located in Detroit, Michigan.

Employees

• Old Man :
• Richard Jones : a male member of the Board who served as Senior President. He overrsaw the catastrophic failure of the ED-209 enforcement droid and desperately sought to undermine his rival, Bob Morton, who developed the more successful RoboCop program. He secretly colluded with and employed the violent crime lord Clarence Boddicker to maintain chaos in Detroit, justifying OCP's total takeover of municipal services
• Robert Morton : a flashy, ambitious junior executive who managed the highly successful "RoboCop Program" within OCP's Security Concepts division. While Jones’s ED-209 project spectacularly failed during a demonstration by killing a fellow executive, Morton seized the opportunity to pitch his cybernetics project to the CEO, The Old Man. His presentation earned him the green light and a senior vice president title, quickly generating intense jealousy from Jones.
• Donald Johnson :
• Juliette Faxx :
• Jeff Fleck :
• Marie Lazarus :
• Diana Powers :

Notes

• Omni Consumer Products was created by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner where it featured in the setting of the RoboCop universe.
• In the RoboCop (2014) remake, the company was re-named as the OmniCorp.

In other media

Television

• In RoboCop: The Animated Series, Omni Consumer Products appeared in the animated series with it being headed by the Chairman who was called the Old Man. Among the products created by the company included the automated tank AV7 and the OCP Exosuit. One of its chief scientists and employees was Dr. McNamara who created the more advanced ED-260.

Appearances

• RoboCop:
• RoboCop II:

External Link

• RoboCop Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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