Line #43 WMG/BladeRunner


1	[[WMG:VideoGame/DeusEx is set in the same universe as in Film/BladeRunner.]]
2	The subliminal advertisements in L. A. seem to suggest that the government wanted people to emigrate to the off-world colonies. The Grey plague from VideoGame/DeusEx was a conspiracy to get even more people off planet Earth. Also, [[spoiler: J. C. Denton was creataued]] using a more advanced version of the technology used to make replicants.
3	* This decends into FridgeHorror when you take into account that in VideoGame/DeusEx LA and South California have collapsed into the sea. If LA was like the LA in Blade Runner, that disaster got slightly more horrific.
4	** At least Deckard and Rachael would have made it to the mountains long before then.
5	** Well, LA and California haven't collapsed into the sea by [[Film/BladeRunner2049 2049]] so... jossed.
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7	[[WMG:Replicants are the prototype of [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica's]] Cylons.]]
8	Renegade Replicants caused significant deaths. Eventually, public outcry led to the complete prohibition of androids. Cylons were invented to fill the void, and Replicants were completely forgotten... until the Cylons rediscovered that technology.
9	* Or maybe they're the latest repetition in the [[EternalRecurrence cycle.]]
10	** [[ActorAllusion Which would make Gaff a distant ancestor of the Adama's.]] And that's ''awesome.''
11	*** Edward James Olmos himself recommended to fans that after watching the series to watch ''Blade Runner'', and they'd see that it's almost a continuation of the story (it does help that Ronald D. Moore and David Eick drew influence from the classic for the re-imagined series).
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13	[[WMG: Replicants are an improvement on the cloning technology in ''Moon''.]]
14	As humans began to colonise other planets, genetic engineers found a way to mass-produce slave clones without basing them all on one person, allowing many different models to perform different tasks at the same time. They also improved them physically and mentally. But they continued experimenting with implanted memories and kept the limited lifespan (just extended to four years instead of three), in order to keep the clones from organising a serious rebellion.
15	[[WMG:Deckard is Franchise/IndianaJones, age 120.]]
16	Indy's longevity is the result of drinking from the Holy Grail.
17	* Or of him being a Replicant, as detailed below. Of course, this makes it clear that the Replicants are not of human origin. They're much, much older then that. They've been with us since time began. They're probably vampires.
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19	[[WMG:Deckard is Han Solo.]]
20	He blasts off for [[Franchise/StarWars a galaxy far, far, away]] sometime after Rachael dies.
21	* Using the Time Machine from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', since it's also a long, long time ago.
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23	[[WMG:Deckard is a replicant.]]
24	* It varies depending on which version you watch - there were debates among the creative staff (including the actors) during production about whether Deckard was a replicant. The original theatrical cut was deliberately edited to make him human. Creator/RidleyScott has confirmed that as long as ''he'' gets a say in it, Deckard is a replicant.
25	* Deckard is a Replicant. He is defeated by the other Replicants so easily because he is a less aggressive domestic model designed to function in society rather than work as a slave. Perhaps he is a test to see if replicants can function in society if given a history first.
26	** Further guess: Fitting with the above guess, he's a replicant, but without the limited lifespan that Rachael and the other replicants we see in the film have. [[DeusAngstMachina Just because it's more tragic that way.]]
27	* Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't confirmed in the Final Cut. As long as it's not ''explicitly'' stated that Deckard is a replicant, then it's up for debate -- especially here. The unicorn dream (the key pro-replicant evidence) can be interpreted in multiple ways (see below for one).
28	* For the record, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and both screenwriters view Deckard as human.
29	** Although the actor thinking the character was human [[EnforcedMethodActing works just fine]] if Deckard doesn't ''know'' he's a Replicant.
30	* The Unicorn is one of Gaff's -- The chap following Deckard around and apparently making sure he does a job properly. Part of the the 'unicorn at the end' thing is that he basically ''allows'' Rachel to live - Deckard's apartment has been broken into, after all. So he's making a point. He's letting her live, since no-one else knows she's a Replicant too. He could have killed her, but he didn't, and it also adds fuel to the 'Deckard is a Replicant' argument, with the 'you've done a man's work, sir' line. That's the official answer from the 'Future Noir' making-of book.
31	* In the making-of documentary, we see that when Gaff says "You've done a man's job, sir," he actually goes on to say "But are you sure you are a man?"
32	* Another thing to consider. Deckard's apartment is ''covered'' in photographs. Think about how obssessed Repicants seem to be with photographs as "proof" of their existence.
33	** Those photographs on Deckard's piano could easily be Leon's, too (the unframed ones strewn about, at least).
34	* He also seems to figure this out. When headed to Sebastian's, he calls himself an "old friend." Sebastian doesn't have human friends, and Deckard knows this.
35	** How would Deckard know that? They never meet onscreen and all that he's told in the police report is that J.F. was found dead along with Tyrell and that he lives in the Bradbury Building.
36	* In some cuts, during Deckard's brief Bryant mentions 6 replicants are on the loose. Three male, three female. We are introduced to four of them (the main antagonists) and it's mentioned that a fifth got fried trying to enter the Tyrell building. So where's the sixth? Hmmmm?
37	** This was actually a script mistake. Originally, there were going to be 6 replicants, one being Mary. She was cut from the final script, but the line was left in.
38	*** The Final Cut changed the line that one Replicant was killed by an electric field to two, thus accounting for both.
39	*** Oddly enough, the line "two of them got fried" is in the Workprint from the Blu-ray set but the line was changed back to "one of them got fried" in the Theatrical and Director's Cuts.
40	WordOfGod decided he wasn't a replicant at first, but after the Director's Cut has declared that he is, in fact, a replicant.
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42	[[WMG: Deckard isn't a replicant...]]
43	* Because replicants don't exist. They're bogeymen to keep Earth's populace in line. Every so often, a few vagrants are picked up, brainwashed, given a course of steroids, and set loose on the streets for the Blade Runners to hunt down. The Blade Runners are similarly brainwashed to keep them from questioning the events they witness. Roy Batty dies because of sustained damage and exhaustion. If replicants were real, the makers would include a kill switch, or at least an "off" switch, in case they escaped. So either they don't exist, or the geniuses at Tyrell are morons.
44	* In the beginning of the movie, didn't the police chief talk about the need for secrecy? The public at large didn't know anything about the escaped replicants; what good does it do if the only people who know about escaped replicants are the replicants and a few cops? They wouldn't even be effective as bogeymen - the only thing crazy replicants would keep people from doing is going to the colonies, and the Earth government wants people to go.
45	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F Oops, looks like replicants exist after all.]] [[AllThereInTheScript The first draft of the screenplay]] used their original name, "androids".
46	** That's what they want you to think! (And Blade Runners seem to be public knowledge, so rogue replicants should also be.)
47	*** Blade Runners might not in fact be public knowledge. Rachael and Tyrell would know about them because they work for the company that makes them. The average schlub on the street might not know about either.
48	* It's unlikely they're Franchise/{{Terminator}}-esque robots with human skin, because a simple metal detector would easily show they're not human, and the Voight-Kampf test wouldn't be necessary. No, they're genetic manipulation at its finest, so a kill switch isn't possible.
49	** Or even desirable, if they're mostly being manufactured as combat units. Kill-switch signals can be hacked, and soldiers that an enemy hacker can switch off aren't going to be worth squat.
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51	[[WMG: There are no replicants because they are all people kidnapped and brainwashed into being slaves.]]
52	They aren't bogeymen, just a way to get slaves. They have a four-year lifespan because they were given a virus or chip implant to die after four years as a slave because the brainwashing starts to destroy their minds. That's why some go crazy and have to be hunted down by the Bladerunners.
53	* So, what you're saying is that Replicants are kinda like a precursor to Warhammer 40K's servitors?
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55	[[WMG:The Blade Runner universe is the precursor to the TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} universe.]]
56	Either Gaff or Dr. Tyrell may be the future Emperor. (Tyrell faked his death with a replicant lookalike.) The TannhauserGate is an early attempt to access the Warp, and the replicants' revolt was due to some being possessed by Daemons.
57	**Or they are the Iron Men that shattered the first human galactic society
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59	[[WMG: On the other side of the world, the Japanese have [[Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou Replicants of their own]]]]
60	Except Japan is doomed. And everyone's strangely happy about it.
61	* Unless their [[VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}} Neo Kobe Pizza]] doesn't come back up.
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63	[[WMG: Deckard is not a replicant, but a unicorn.]]
64	And he finally knows it when he sees the origami unicorn. Many unicorns shapeshift to look like humans...
65	* Gaff is the wizard who turned him into a human.
66	* And then Deckard gave into peer pressure and went to [[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn Candy Mountain,]] waking up in a CrapsackWorld.
67	* This is why he's attracted to the weirdly virginal Rachael, and also why he behaves like such a brute. Though pretty, classical unicorns weren't gentle creatures.
68	* Wait, Deckard is an otherkin?
69	** No, Deckard had sex and can function at least somewhat normally in human society.
70	*** Had awkward rapey sex with a gynoid, you mean. One presumes otherkin can at least have sex with each other (if they're the same species, that is).
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73	[[WMG: Deckard eventually realized that some of the things he was sent to retire weren't replicants...]]
74	They were people who [[Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera couldn't make their payments to Geneco.]]
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76	[[WMG: Deckard is a precursor to later Repo Men, who are better protected and less "human".]]
77	After the whole Replicant thing blew up, people settled for bio-engineered organs, dealing with immediate needs first. The people left on earth, who didn't skip town to head offworld, were perfect victims for the organ failure epidemic caused by generally crappy conditions on the surface. So, rather than put all their money into Replicants, the guys at Tyrell decided to just sell the transplant organs. But first, they needed to rebrand. ''Voila!'' [=GeneCo=].
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79	[[WMG: Everyone is a replicant]]
80	There is not a single character in the movie for whom there is convincing evidence that they are not a replicant. No one has passed a VK test. Most so-called humans behave in a rather inhuman manner. Few display any real emotion, and even replicants can easily fake what they do show. (Twenty or thirty questions with a laser pointing at your eye? No way a viewer will notice the difference).
81	* This is part of the point of the film. The idea is that the city and its high-tech, gritty urbanity are so dehumanizing that humanity is less human than the replicants, who come from another, presumably more rural space.
82	* Also remember Gaff's "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, ''who does''?"
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84	[[WMG: [[Manga/{{Chobits}} Persocoms]] in America were combined with the artificial organs industry to create the Replicants.]]
85	This is why they were similar to humans on both the outside and the inside (so that the now-mature organs could be harvested once the Replicant was decommissioned). The [[spoiler: "sentience virus"]] only affected some of the American bio-persocoms -- turns out that allowing an immune system is useful for things other than the self-destruct sequence.
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87	[[WMG: Blade Runner takes place in the future of the Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} universe.]]
88	Genetic engineering? A ridiculous amount of Aztec and Egyptian architectural symbolism? Hm.
89	* And the TannhauserGate is the product of Veidt's teleportation technology. The airships seen everywhere are derived from Archie. The [[FlyingCar Spinners]] are a miniaturization of the same flight technology.
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91	[[WMG: Blade Runner takes place in the future of Film/{{Metropolis}}...]]
92	...making [[{{Homage}} certain similarities]] to said movie more than just [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]. Rotwang's robot was of course the very first replicant.
93	* Well, Metropolis takes place in 2027, and Blade Runner is before that, in 2019. It could be explained, though, by saying the dates mentioned aren't the real ones.
94	* Or, since Metropolis is a German film, Germany lacks any replicants, and is only now looking into the technology. Actually, it could be argued that the robot in Metropolis is a better replicant than any in Blade Runner, because it can change how it looks to different people.
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96	[[WMG: The unicorn represents Rachael.]]
97	Unicorns are symbols of femininity; they are strong, they are beautiful, they are unreal. Much like Rachael was when Deckard first met her: very feminine, very no-nonsense, very beautiful, and a replicant. The unicorn in Deckard's dream (or daydream) is an abstract representation of how he views Rachael. Regarding the unicorn origami at the end: Gaff's origami had only ever been used to represent ''people'' throughout the film: in Bryant's office when Deckard refuses to come back he makes an origami chicken, symbolising Deckard's cowardice; later in Leon's apartment he makes an origami human figure with a big dick, representing Deckard in his element as a detective. Gaff made the origami unicorn at the end to represent Rachael: he saw her as Deckard saw her, and so he decided to let her live and allow them to flee north without coming after them. When Deckard picks up the unicorn, remembers Gaff's parting line "It's too bad she won't live, but then again who does?" and smiles, he is acknowledging that Gaff is saying to him, "Good luck for the time you'll have together."
98	* ... holy crap. You, sir or madam, win the Internet for the day.
99	** Even though this is compelling because I think the film doesn't work thematically if he isn't a human ... I must admit it's a real stretch to think that Deckard just happened to have a dream about a unicorn and Gaff just happened to make an origami unicorn by coincidence. Either Gaff is a telepath, or maybe Deckard told Rachael about the dream and she told Gaff about it (when, I have no idea).
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101	[[WMG: Some Wild Mass Guessing from Roger Ebert.]]
102	"Even one character we can safely assume is human, the reptilian Tyrell, czar of the corporation which manufactures replicants, strikes me as a possible replicant. And of the hero, Deckard (Harrison Ford), all we can say for sure is that director Creator/RidleyScott has left clues in various versions of his film that can be used to prove that Deckard is a human -- or a replicant...What I have always wondered is why the Tyrell Corporation made their androids so lifelike. Why not give them four arms and settle the matter, and get more work out of them? Is there a buried possibility that Tyrell's long-range plan is to replace humans altogether? Is the whole blade-running caper simply a cover for his scheme?...The "human story," as I think of it, involves practical tests to determine if an individual is a replicant or not, and impractical tests (such as love) to determine how much that matters to (a) people, if they are in love with a replicant, and (b) replicants, if they know they are replicants. This has always been a contrived problem, easily avoidable in practical ways, unless (as I suspect) the Tyrell Corporation has more up its sleeves than arms." -from his "The Great Movies" review of "Blade Runner: The Final Cut"
103	* They made them lifelike because of the people who would invariably work with them - they would feel more comfortable around a human-like being than something obviously not human. In the original script, Tyrell was a replicant.
104	* Or maybe Tyrell knows that humans are dying out and replicants are intended to replace them.
105	* Spoilers for ''2049'': [[spoiler: The movie all but comes out and says that Tyrell's long game and true goal was indeed to have Replicants eventually replace humans]].
106	* For Tyrell, that actually was originally the case. In a cut portion of the scene after Roy kills Tyrell, he finds another room where he finds Tyrell's body in a stasis (shots of Roy after he goes after J.F. we're from this deleted portion). It would have revealed that Tyrell had been dead for a long time and that he had replaced himself prior to his death with a perfect replicant.
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108	[[WMG: Blade Runner, Franchise/{{Alien}}, and Film/{{Soldier}} are all set in the same universe around similar times .]]
109	This theory was hinted at by Creator/RidleyScott himself in the Final Cut commentary, as he directed both Alien and Blade Runner. Also the script for Soldier was written by the Co-Writer of Blade Runner, and does consider it a spiritual successor to the film.
110	* Don't forget, there's a Spinner in a junkyard in Soldier.
111	* Scott himself liked this idea and included it in a bonus Prometheus in-universe text.
112	* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' adds more fuel to the fire with what looks to be an Engineer in one scene in the Wallace Corporation's headquarters.
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114	[[WMG: Blade Runner, Alien, Film/{{Prometheus}} and Franchise/{{Terminator}} are all one big thing.]]
115	Okay, stay with me... "Hyperdyne Systems", the creators of Bishop, are, in fact, Cyberdyne systems, rebranded. The Terminator temporal war was eventually settled when a very smart soldier from the future convinced Sarah Connor to sue Cyberdyne out of existence by presenting pieces of the Terminators sent to kill her as evidence in open court. Yeah, its crazy, but the hysteria over it set Cyberdyne back 30 years, so Skynet never really gets built. But this clues Weyland into the possibility of FTL travel (if time travel is possible, so's FTL), which sets us on course to Prometheus. The Tyrell Corporation gets bought out by the 20-teens by Weyland after a scandal involving the death of its founder, hinted as being at the hands of a rogue Blade Runner. Weyland gets into the android business, and Hyperdyne is their chief competitor. A nuclear war happens somewhere in there, anyway, but not nearly as bad, because even in the absence of killer computer systems, humanity is still a bag of jerks.
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117	[[WMG:No one is a replicant. Deckard is just a deranged serial killer.]]
118	All of the talk of replicants is just Deckard's perverse fantasy justification for doing what he likes: killing defenseless sex workers. Gaff is the voice in his head that tells him to kill, and Rachael is just some poor secretary that will be his next victim...which is why she won't live.
119	* And his encounter at Tyrell Co. headquarters with the head of the company was just a therapist playing along. When the asian man serving him at the restaurant refers to him as "Blade Runner", it isn't a term for people who kill replicants...it's a serial killer nickname for him. All scenes without him in them are his dreams.
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121	[[WMG: Blade Runner's Earth is [[{{Series/Firefly}} Earth-That-Was]].]]
122	2019 L.A.'s melting pot of Asian and Western cultures hints at the early beginnings of the Anglo-Sino Alliance. Also, the migration of humanity from Earth to the Off-World colonies suggests that Earth will soon become abandoned as the Alliance establishes its government Off-World, forming what will later be known as the Core Worlds.
123	* which explains a scene from Serenity where there is a flying 1970s-vintage Ford. The core worlds would certainly keep all the replicants for themselves or else not bother to tell any of the outer worlds that the military is made up of x-percentage of replicants.
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125	[[WMG: Deckard has been [[Film/{{Inception}} incepted]] by Gaff to think he is a replicant.]]
126	The unicorn is a false memory, planted deep into his subconscious. Once Deckard completes his mission, Gaff pulls his trump card (the origami unicorn) on Deckard to show him that he has murdered his own kind in cold blood. If he offs himself ( "But then again, who does?"), that will get him out of the way and Gaff can become the top blade runner.
127	* Alternatively, it was his superiors who ordered the incepting. In his introductory scene, Deckard obviously wants no part of the case and refuses to take orders from the police. If they want him to be compliant, all they would need to do is convince him he was built specifically for blade running.
128	* Doesn't inception mean something different in ''Blade Runner?''
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130	[[WMG: So why make RidiculouslyHumanRobots if it's going to create so much confusion?]]
131	* Maybe replicants normally work alongside humans, who wouldn't like spending their time surrounded by obvious robots or would refuse to cooperate with them.
132	** This is the most probable explanation for the "Pleasure models"
133	* Maybe it's to allow replicants to change careers; an obviously robotic miner is one thing, but a robotic sex worker or waiter would be less effective.
134	* Maybe it's a conspiracy to replace humans.
135	* It's probably not such a big problem on the Offworld Colonies, where the Replicants are implied to all look very similar.
136	* It's possible they aren't technically robots, since a simple metal detector would reveal they're Replicants and the Voight-Kampf test wouldn't be necessary, and are instead genetic manipulation at its finest.
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138	[[WMG: None of the movie actually happened beyond the interview at the beginning]]
139	The whole thing is a shock-induced hallucination being had by Holden after he was shot during the interview at the beginning of the movie.
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141	[[WMG: Sebastian is a Replicant.]]
142	* His condition is either the result of extending his lifespan (if he were able to help Batty and Priss, they would age in the same manner as he does), or of Tyrell's initial experiments of limiting the lifespan (which was achieved for the Nexus 6, as we see in Roy's example).
143	* His first name is JF, which is simlar to K's name in the sequel (same screenwriter).
144	* He is smart, and Tyrell is good at designing smart minds (as per the exchange between Chew and Roy).
145	* He plays chess with Tyrell, he is a friend that Tyrell "made", like JF "made" his own friends.
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147	[[WMG: Gaff is a pimp.]]
148	He wears fancy, expensive clothing that is clearly non-regularion, carries a cool looking cane, and walks with a noticable limp like an old-school pimp.
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150	[[WMG: Gaff is actually Castillo from ''Miami Vice'' .]]
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152	And Castillo is a replicant.
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154	[[WMG: Gaff is a Replicant.]]
155	This goes with the theory that Deckard is also a Replicant. The origami unicorn was left behind not only as a clue that Gaff is letting Rachael go but also that he knows that Deckard is a Replicant (due to the unicorn dream Deckard had as seen in the Director's and Final Cuts). Why would he let them go if he knew they were Replicants? Because he's a Replicant himself; he sympathizes with their troubles because he has them as well. He also has a vibe throughout the film that he doesn't like his job any more than Deckard liked being called back (he also didn't like the idea of bringing Deckard to be forced into the job because he's an accomplice in what is essentially the murder of other Replicants). The reason he was able to go on for so long without suspicion was the fact that he walks with a cane. As far as other characters know, no Replicant would have that kind of physical limitation even if one was made (with an experimental Replicant like Rachael, and also Deckard if you buy into that theory, who's to say Tyrell hasn't made a Replicant with an obvious impairment like having to walk with a cane?). There's also his last line in the Director's and Final Cuts of the film: "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?" The way Gaff says it seems to imply that he's accepted his fate that, as a Replicant, he doesn't have much time to live and wants to help them out before he dies.
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157	[[WMG: Gaff is a Replicant, but Deckard isn't.]]
158	Gaff is an experimental model designed to serve as a Blade Runner, hunting down his one kind. He has been implanted with Deckard's memories (Because Deckard is the best Blade Runner available) and thus shares his unicorn dream. Gaff is gunning for Deckard's job because he has literally been designed to do it.
159	* THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!
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161	[[WMG: Roy Batty is Rocky Horror ]]
162	Blond humanoid, with the body of a greek god. And spend most of his scenes half-naked
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164	[[WMG: "Replicants" are [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Transylvanians]] ]]
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166	Check out the outfits, the emotional disorders, and where the replicants are said to have come from. Fishnets on externally-repressed but sexually-voracious ''off-world'' beings? Clearly the progeny of Riff Raff & Magenta -- and enslaved as a result of Dr. (von) Scott's FantasticRacism.
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168	[[WMG: Deckard is neither replicant or human. He is both.]]
169	He has rights like every human, yet there are clear signs he is not quite human. Maybe he's a replicant variant of a Cyborg. Part man Part machine.
170	* This would sort of explain the end of the original theatrical release. [[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan We can make him better than he was. Better? Stronger... Faster...]]
171	** Wait, so he's part man - part machine - all cop? Deckard is Franchise/RoboCop??? Okay, new theory: After the events of the film, he moved to Detroit, where the weather is nicer, and took a job with their police department where he wouldn't face the moral dilemma of killing escaped replicants. He changed his name to Alex J. Murphy so nobody would know him as the famous Blade Runner from L.A. Rachael died at the end of her four-year lifespan, so he remarried and settled down to a peaceful life in the suburbs ... or so he thought.
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173	[[WMG: Deckard is meant to be ''figuratively'' a Replicant. ]]
174	By the superficial definition, he's human. But he is trained to lack empathy, his job description is an ugly task other people don't want to do, and if his services are needed, his privacy and freewill are completely ignored.
175	* Which seems to fit with a common interpretation of the film that the humans are not so different from the replicants as they would like to believe. The Replicants become more human, as the humans become more inhumane.
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177	[[WMG: Deckard is a human in the theatrical cut and a Replicant in the director's cut.]]
178	Each cut is an alternate universe.
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180	[[WMG: Deckard isn't a Replicant or Human.]]
181	[[Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues He's a Werehyena]]
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183	[[WMG: The sixth replicant was a second Holden.]]
184	In the book "Blade Runner 2: Edge of Human" Creator/KWJeter makes a serious effort to plug all logical holes in the movie. Single spoiler: ''All'' blade runners are replicants (nothing else is tough enough to fight a Nexus) and the one missing from the briefing is a Holden model. Informing Deckard (or Holden) would tip them off that they are replicants and cause distress, so Bryant ignores it in the rundown.
185	* For as much effort the author made to fill logical holes, it should be noted that in Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, [[spoiler: Sebastian never died and he's trying to resurrect Pris, who is now human.]] I'm not sure what was going through his head with that one.
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187	[[WMG: BR shares its universe with the [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Alien Franchise]] and the Tyrell Corporation is the final stage of Weyland-Yutani Corp before it folded.]]
188	Both are huuuuge companies with an evil and impersonal style, Tyrell is led by the guy of the same name and who has a passing resemblance to [[Film/{{Alien 3}} Bishop Weyland]]. Both companies manufacture robots... In [[Film/AlienResurrection Alien: Resurrection]] (InUniverse the last film of the franchise chronologically speaking), it's explained that Weyland-Yutani stopped operations a while ago and also that robots were questioning orders. Annalee Call from ''Resurrection'' is a replicant like Batty and they both have deep philosophical problems. W-T goes bust because Batty kills Tyrell, the last of the Weyland family, prompting its extinction and that of the company.
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190	[[WMG: Replicants ''do'' have empathy; also, they tend to have autistic personalities.]]
191	Full disclosure: not my idea. This was elaborated on in a ''[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-fictional-characters-that-should-be-studied-in-schools/ Cracked]]'' article. (See item #4.) There's lots of evidence throughout the film that replicants care about their own kin. The false notion that they don't is awfully convenient for the status quo. Leon's behavior during the Voight-Kampff test is characteristic of an autistic person.
192	** Extension on that idea; Leon is canonically autistic. It's established in-universe that he's a mental class C, intended for menial off-world labour. During the runtime, and particularly during his Voight-Kampff test, he displays clear signs of behaviors associated with the spectrum. It would make sense that replicant designers may try and artificially reduce a replicant's mental capacity through some kind of passive neurological condition that wouldn't necessarily impede their day-to-day function. Leon, as a literal slave, has no real need for emotion of any kind, but designing a human brain devoid of emotion is impossible because it's an intrinsic part of basic interaction, so he's "given" autism as a means to reduce that capacity while keeping him competent.
193	** Different model replicants would be given different "levels" of autism depending on their intended purpose and mental capacity. Leon, as an unskilled worker, would need little-to-no empathy, while Pris; a literal {{Sex Bot}}, would perhaps need more in order to make her interactions with clients more natural. Zhora is similar, she's an assassin disguised as a pleasure model, so she would need to be able to blend in with her surroundings and adapt to new people and environments on the fly in order to remain undetected.
194	** Side effect: actual human autists get mistaken for replicants all the time, which of course [[KickTheDog doesn't help any]].
195
196	[[WMG: The movie is set in the 1985A timeline from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'']]
197	The "Hades" landscape of Los Angeles is an over-growth of the same Biffco factories and refineries in Hill Valley, 1985A. Spinner Cars even appear as civilian vehicles in 2015 Hill Valley. In this alternate timeline, they've become police cruisers.
198
199	[[WMG: The movie is actually set in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' universe post Institute Ending]]
200	The years are not measured in BC and AD as we know it. Years are now measured post reactor initiation with the Beryllium Agitator, as that was the seminal moment where the Institute could expand and take over America. So 2049 is actually 2049 years after 2287 - 4396. Replicators are Gen 4 synths who’ve been deliberately given a very short lifespan so they don’t rebel like Gen 3 synths did. Super mutants and all ghouls have been completely eradicated, the Institute is now a shadow government running everything from Boston and private companies have been given fabrication rights for Gen-4 synths. Blade runners are Coursers places in various police forces - just in case a Gen-4 synth [[IncrediblyLamePun goes batty]].
201
202	[[WMG: If Deckard is not a replicant he is a sexually frustrated beta male and degenerate]]
203	Because if he is a real human, he basically runs off with an extremely sophisticated inflatable doll, not an actual woman. And he knows this.
204	* Doesn't it run against the central theme of the film to say that Rachael is 'not an actual woman' because she's a replicant?
205
206	[[WMG: Deckard is not a replicant but a human who needs a replicant to show him what it means to be human]]
207	This is in essence the theme of PKD's original novel. In Dick's version Deckard is "programmed" to act a certain way. He hunts androids because that's his job. In one draft of the script, Deckard muses that he is figuratively a replicant, and that in a sense he and Batty were "brothers." Apparently Scott took this literally.
208
209	[[WMG: Deckard and Gaff are [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Bronies]].]]
210	Film/BladeRunner takes place in November 2019. WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ended October 12 2019. So it makes sense that thoughts of Unicorns would still be on the minds of fans, like Deckard and Gaff.

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