We can glean two things from this photo. 1) Detroit really looks like a hell hole. 2) What’s up, Zardoz?

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No matter what happens, Cain can take solace in knowing he wasn’t quite as bad as the disgraced movie politicians listed below… as far as we know.

Greg Stillson – The Dead Zone

When clairvoyant weirdo Johnny Smith shakes hands with U.S. Senatorial candidate Greg Stillson, he gets a chilling view of the future. Stillson will go on to become President of the United States and later President of Blowing Shit Up With Nuclear Bombs. After the vision, it becomes clear to Smith that he must assassinate him. He makes his attempt at a rally, but misses. However, a spooked Stillson shows his true colors by grabbing a nearby baby to use as a human shield. That’s worse than 1000 Howard Deans.

Adam Sutler – V For Vendetta

If you’re going to head an ultra-Right Wing fascist regime, the last thing you need is a vigilante rising up to challenge you. That’s exactly what happens to Adam Sutler. He creates a police state by violently removing minorities, gays, non-Christians, and the handicapped from the UK. In the end, he is betrayed and murdered in front of his nemesis. It’s a fitting end. Otherwise he’d be reaping the paycheck from Viagra sponsorships.

Hollywood has visited the state recently with the productions for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Real Steel, Red Dawn, and Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler. With Snyder’s new budget plan, tax incentives will be essentially done away with completely.

“The Avengers” decision is an early – and high-profile – example of incentive supporters’ fears becoming reality.

“They were all set to come here,” said Chris Baum of Film Detroit, a division of the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau. When producers couldn’t get confirmation that they would still qualify for the incentives, they decided to pull out of the state, Baum said.

Tom Moisides got his call on Saturday morning: His services as a location scout for “The Avengers” would no longer be needed.

That’s a shame. A production as large as The Avengers coming to town could really help boost the local economy and help Detroit with its current campaign to change its image. Also, it already looks like the Hulk showed up and beat the shit out of everything. They wouldn’t have even needed to hire an Art Department. (via Superhero Hype)

A group of sci-fi fans, artists, and business leaders have pledged they will raise the $80,000 needed for the statue with hopes to erect it at the outdoor media center Imagination Station. Supporters have started the Build a Statue of Robocop in Detroit Facebook page, created the website DetroitNeedsRobocop.com, as well as a Kickstarter campaign.

How serious are the supporters, though? Is this something they truly want or are they blinded by the kitsch appeal? I would say they are because $80,000 seems really steep. You could probably pay Peter Weller half of that to show up in costume and hang around. Or if money is even tighter than that, you can definitely get the guy from Robocop 3. (Detroit Free Press)

Sadly, the Motor City will not be getting a statue honoring their favorite son, Robocop. In response to a tweet suggesting the city erect a statue of the robotic cop a la Philadelphia‘s Rocky Balboa, Detroit mayor Dave Bing quickly shot down the suggestion with his own tweet, “There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop. Thank you for the suggestion.”

What a bummer. He hardly even considered it. I guess we’ll just have to depend on the Internet to create a Robocop statue out of Legos. It’s bound to happen if it hasn’t already. (Jalopnik)