Starting next week, Kentucky Fried Chicken will feature RoboCop as its latest Colonel as part of its ongoing marketing campaign featuring a rotating actor filling the role of its Colonel mascot.

The sci-fi icon from the classic 1987 film has been tasked with safeguarding the fast food chain's secret original recipe for fried chicken. The ads, which show the Detroit cyborg police officer protecting the recipe in a nuclear-proof bunker, will begin to air on February 24 nationwide.

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"More than 30 years after his debut, we commissioned RoboCop with a new directive – to act as protector and preserve a copy of our secret recipe by transporting it to a nuclear proof location," explained KFC Chief United States Marketing Officer Andrea Zahumensky. "Now, if you happen to survive the apocalypse, you can still enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken. Makes perfect sense, right?”

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Featuring everyone from Game of Thrones' The Mountain to Reba McEntire, KFC's popular ad campaign has led to many offbeat figures filling the mascot role. Interestingly, this isn't the first time that RoboCop has helped market fried chicken, after appearing in a Korean fried chicken commercial in the 80s.

As the 1987 tagline for the original film once declared to audiences: Part man, part machine. All Colonel.