Roger Murtaugh

Roger Murtaugh is a Homicide detective with the LAPD and one of the two (later, three) main protagonists of the Lethal Weapon film series along with his best friend/partner Sgt. Martin Riggs and their close friend/sidekick Leo Getz.
In all four films of the series, he is portrayed by Danny Glover, who also played Mike Harrigan in Predator 2, Barbatus in Antz, Miles in Barnyard and Winston in Alpha and Omega. In the TV show Murtaugh is played by Damon Wayans, who also played Jimmy Dix in The Last Boy Scout, Benson Winifred Payne in Major Payne and Michael Richard Kyle in My Wife and Kids!.
He is well known for his catchphrases: "I'm too old for this s**t" and "It's been revoked!" both of which are common staples of both Glover and the character, and have been parodied in numerous other films. 
==Lethal Weapon (1987)==
Murtaugh is a elderly homicide detective who turns 50 and celebrates with his family and discovers a woman named Amanda Hunsaker committed suicide by jumping on a car and investigates her apartment and finds drugs as evidence. He later gets partnered with Martin Riggs, a suicidal detective as they both try to stop General McCallister. They both did not get along first as Murtaugh disliked his crazy and suicidal tendencies and confronted him about it, but became good friends throughout the film and the whole series. When he, Riggs, and his teenage daughter, Rianne get captured, he gets interrogated by McCallister asking him about the next shipment of heroin by having salt put in his wound. He and Rianne later gets freed by Riggs and he stops McCallister by shooting the driver and making the bombs explode from inside, killing McCallister. He later arrives at his house and watches the fight between Riggs and Mr. Joshua and later kills him, along with Riggs when he grabs a police man's gun. In the end, he has dinner with his family and Riggs.
==Lethal Weapon 2==
Murtaugh is targeted by a South African drug cartel fronted by ruthless diplomat Arjen Rudd and his second-in-command Pieter Vorstedt, who has Murtaugh and his wife tied up and gagged in their own home. He portrays a man named Alphonse who wants to emigrate to South Africa to help overthrow apartheid to assist Riggs in his plan Following this, Murtaugh fights off two attackers in his home with a nail gun and rescues Federal witness Leo Getz from the cartel. He joins Riggs in killing the members and Arjen Rudd and Pieter Vorstedt when it was revealed Pieter killed his wife and even killes Rika van den Haas. He shoots Rudd in the head after he shoots at Riggs, saying the catchphrase "It's been revoked." after Rudd reminds him of diplomatic immunity. Riggs shows his humorous side by pranking Murtaugh repeatedly.
==Lethal Weapon 3==
Murtaugh and Riggs mishandle a ticking car bomb, which destroys a building. Both get demoted to patrolman as a result, but get promoted back to Sergeants after foiling an armored car robbery and reveal a gun running cartel, which is being ran by a former cop named Jack Travis. While investigating this cartel, Murtaugh murders a fifteen-year old boy, which the boy was revealed to be Darryl Smithers, the best friend of his son Nick. He eventually becomes overcome by guilt and turns to alcoholism and depression until Riggs snaps him out of it. Murtaugh later assists Riggs and Internal Affairs officer Lorna Cole into destroying the cartel.
==Lethal Weapon 4==
Murtaugh and Riggs are first seen trying to take down a man wearing armor and burning stuff with a flamethrower. While dealing with the armor maniac, Murtaugh reveals to Riggs that Lorna is having a baby and Riggs reveals he's gone to be a grandfather. Riggs then tells Murtaugh to flip his arms like a bird while in his underwear so Riggs can distract the armor maniac and cause the armor maniac to fly towards a gas station and explodes. 
Murtaugh and Riggs are both promoted to Captain, particularly because of all the past damage they have done in solving their cases, which caused the Police Department to lose their insurance carrier. They are promoted instead of demoted or fired because they are veteran officers, and since firing them isn't really an option for the department.
By becoming captains, it is assumed that they would cause less trouble, but are later returned to the rank of Sergeant after the later events of the film after the city had been self-insured. Rianne is pregnant and is secretly to Lee Butters, but she chose not to tell him until after the baby was born. However, Riggs unintentionally tells Murtaugh after Lorna tells him the secret. Murtaugh accidentally kills the younger brother o Wah Sin g Ku, the leader of the triads and the three engage in a brutal hand-to-hand combat. When Riggs nearly drowns after the struggle between him and the crime lord, Riggs grabs a submerged AK-47 and shoots the crime lord, killing him in the process. 
Riggs swims back up to the surface, only to be back underwater after being pinned under a broken piece of the pier. Murtaugh dives in and saves his life. In the end, Murtaugh accepts his daughter's marriage to Lee Butters and his baby granddaughter. Now before joining in a family photo with Riggs, Leo, Lorna, Rigs and Lorna's newborn child, Murtaugh's family, newborn daughter, and of course Captain Murphy. 
== Weapons ==
In all four films, Murtaugh's main sidearm is a Smith & Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum revolver. 
==Trivia==
*Despite popular misconceptions, Roger Murtaugh never actually says "I'm getting too old for this shit" in this movie. He simply says, "I'm too old for this shit." He does, however, say he's "getting too old for this shit" in the sequels.
*Murtaugh is fifty years old in the first Lethal Weapon, but Glover was only forty years old in 1986.
*In the pilot episode, Murtaugh is said to have recently celebrated his 50th birthday, Damon Wayans turned 56 the month the pilot aired.
*Roger Murtaugh wasn't written with any ethnicity in mind, Danny Glover was suggested by Marion Dougherty after seeing him in The Color Purple.
*Danny Glover played against Gary Busey again in Predator 2, where Glover played a cop again. And Gary Busey played an ex-special forces soldier again.
*Damon Wayans was the deuteragonist of The Last Boy Scout. Both The Last Boy Scout and the original Lethal Weapon film were written by Shane Black, meaning this is the second time Damon Wayans has played a Shane Black character.
*In the final episode of season 1, Riggs referred to Murtaugh as being bulletproof several times. In 1996, Wayans starred alongside Adam Sandler in a movie called, Bulletproof.
*When Murtaugh meets Michael Hunsaker at the bank, he looks at a photograph of them both during their service in Vietnam. In the photo Hunsaker is wearing the shoulder patch of the 82nd Airborne and Murtaugh the patch of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.
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