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* As if the fact that Jóhann Jóhannsson's work on the soundtrack being discarded wasn't enough, he passed away just a few months after the film's release, on February 9, 2018.

-->'''Freysa''': You imagined it was you? Oh. You did. You did. We ''all'' wish it was us. That's why we believe!

-->'''Deckard''': Sometimes, to love someone, you've got to be a stranger.

* Ana's situation. She is in a GildedCage, a glass room where she can create anything she wishes...but she can never leave it due to [[IllGirl her condition]]. She states that her adoptive parents were slated to go off-world, but abandoned her when they discovered her condition. She spends her time manufacturing fake memories for Replicants, which means she works for slimeballs like Wallace, albeit as a contractor.

* The brief scene with Gaff in the retirement home. Here's this, stylish, enigmatic, and unflappable blade runner grown old and infirm, dressed in drab pyjamas, and with seemingly no family to look after him when he can no longer do it himself. A sobering reminder that for all that humans live longer, they are just as vulnerable to the passage of time as replicants.]

* The brief scene with Gaff in the retirement home. Here's this, stylish, enigmatic, and unflappable blade runner grown old and infirm, dressed in drab pyjamas, and with seemingly no family to look after him when he can no longer do it himself. A sobering reminder that for all that humans live longer, [[NotSoDifferent they are just as vulnerable to the passage of time as replicants.]]

* K dies of the wounds he got fighting Luv, but not before reuniting Deckard with his daughter. The fact that the 'Tears in The Rain' track used during Roy Batty's final soliloquy starts playing during the scene (thus making it the only time during the film that music from the original movie is played) makes the moment all the more powerful.

* The brief scene with Gaff in the retirement home. Here's this, stylish, enigmatic, and unflappable blade runner grown old and infirm, and with seemingly no family to look after him when he can no longer do it himself. A sobering reminder that for all that humans live longer, [[NotSoDifferent they are just as vulnerable to the passage of time as replicants.]]

** His reaction again, when he is told that his real memories never belonged to him and that he really is an ordinary Replicant after all. K hangs his head in silence; prior to that exact moment the belief that he was born instead of made was a terrifying threat to his existence, but upon discovering it was false all along destroyed a sense of meaning he was ''completely unaware'' he wanted -- '''just as much as every other Replicant'''.

** Really, Rick Deckard in this movie is a pretty tragic character. Since the first movie, he lost the woman he loves to childbirth, he had to abandon his daughter at birth to protect her from people like Joshi and Wallace, who would hunt her down and [[DeadlyEuphemism retire her]] [[TheyWouldCutYouUp or worse]], and he has spent the better part of the last thirty years in self-isolation in a GhostTown. By the time K finds him in Las Vegas, [[SourOutsideSadInside he has grown even more bitter and cynical than he used to be, because of all that he has lost]].

** Really, Rick Deckard in this movie is a pretty tragic character. Since the first movie, he lost the woman he loves to childbirth, he had to abandon his daughter at birth to protect her from people like Joshi and Wallace, who would hunt her down and ''[[DeadlyEuphemism retire her]]'' [[TheyWouldCutYouUp or worse]], and he has spent the better part of the last thirty years in self-isolation in a GhostTown. By the time K finds him in Las Vegas, [[SourOutsideSadInside he has grown even more bitter and cynical than he used to be, because of all that he has lost]].

** Really, Rick Deckard in this movie is a pretty tragic character. Since the first movie, he lost the woman he loves to childbirth, he had to abandon his daughter at birth so that she would not be hunted down and murdered by people like Joshi and Wallace and he has spent the better part of the last thirty years in self-isolation in a GhostTown. By the time K finds him in Las Vegas, [[SourOutsideSadInside he has grown even more bitter and cynical than he used to be, because of all that he has lost]].