Thanks to how heavily influential this film was to the Cyberpunk, neo-noir and Science Fiction genres, alongside its Cult Classic Status, it's not surprising that various forms of media owe a lot to this film and give it several Shout Outs in any shape or formnote .
Anime & Manga
- The whole Used Future-meets-Film Noir aesthetic of the Cowboy Bebop series takes a lot after Blade Runner.
- The tenth episode opening of the second OVA for Patlabor The New Files is a shout out to Blade Runner, with Ota as Deckard.
- Psycho-Pass has the entire idea of of being able to sniff out criminals with specific readings and tests and numbers is similar to the tests in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and naturally it brings up Blade Runner. With Choe Gu-Sung recalling that the novel was the basis for "an old movie".
- Alongside that, the Public Safety Bureau's tower is exactly like the Police Headquarters in the aforementioned film. It's very noticeable in its overhead shots. Which is quite appropriate as they have a special police unit that is tasked with a white-haired suspect that has the intent of disrupting the social order.
- Bubblegum Crisis is pretty heavily and blatantly inspired by Blade Runner. For one thing, it's Hero Protagonist Priss is named after the replicant Pris and she even has a band called Priss and the Replicants.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: According to author Hirohiko Araki, recurring antagonist DIO is designed after Roy Batty.
Comic Books
- Paperinik New Adventures has Tyrell Duckard, a Ridiculously Human Android from the 23rd century and a rouge member of the Time Police. In case the name didn't tip you off about his inspiration, he is frequently seen dressed in a Badass Longcoat clearly patterned after Rick Deckard's.
Fan Works
- In the Gunslinger Girl OC character fic Pactio by Kikaloo, Michele Pagani can't help thinking of Tyrell's "More real than real" when his new cyborg Kara does a Luminescent Blush.
- Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. The off-world colonies advert is playing in the Advert-Overloaded Future scene in "Village of the Spammed".
Films
- Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts. Decker's Hand Cannon appears in Night Shift
Live-Action TV
- Andor: Many of the opening shots on Morlana Four as Cassian walks through the rain in the Red Light District play a clear visual homage to Blade Runner.
- Battlestar Galactica (2003). Human-looking Cylons are dubbed "skinjobs". The COP pistol used by Leon makes an appearance as well.
- RedDwarf: Back to Earth mini-series is a Whole-Plot Reference to the movie, with the main characters seeking out their creator to give them more life (by renewing the show), even directly homaging specific scenes, such as Zhora's death.
Roleplay
- The opening scene in Mall Fight 8 is a direct reference to Blade Runner
Video Games
- ANNO: Mutationem: The "A Dangerous Day" collectible movie poster is an exact homage of Blade Runner's poster.
- Deep Rock Galactic: Some of the Rival Nemesis's death lines are taken from Roy Batty's monologue.
- The "Deck4rd" in Enter the Gungeon is an expy of Rick Deckard's handgun
, whose item description references the position of Blade Runner:Following the tragic Ten Days' War, a majority of the Hegemony's Shock Troops were decommissioned. A small number of the combat robots escaped however, and they were pursued relentlessly by special forces. This explosive hand cannon belonged to one such detective who tracked his prey to the Gungeon.- Its pickup text, "Unicorn of Handguns", references the unicorn that keeps cropping up in Deckard's dreams.
- The Deck4rd has a Synergy with the Origuni gun which fires miniature paper airplanes, a reference to Officer Gaff's origami hobby.
- The Fallout franchise has been heavily influenced by Blade Runner and they are more than happy to throw a lot of references towards it.
- The .223 pistol in Fallout and 2 is another expy of Deckard's sidearm. It returns in New Vegas as "That Gun".
- The entirety of "The Replicated Man" sidequest in Fallout 3 is a Homage to Blade Runner.
- In Fallout 4, one of the many names that Cogsworth can actually call out is Deckard. Alongside that, Nick Valentine and X6-88 have some similarities with Rick Deckard, specifically in what they are, what their jobs are and how they act on said jobs. There's also a S.A.F.E. Test that is very reminiscent of the the Voight-Kampff test and has the same purpose of detecting Artificial Humans.
- Due to being a love letter to 80's movies, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has one for Blade Runner. Where dying scientists can claim that there are "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Uranus."
- One of Solomon Richards' films in Grand Theft Auto V is a Space Opera titled "The Shoulder of Orion" - a reference to Roy Batty's famous monologue.
- Submachine: Future Loop Foundation opens with the words "All memories are lost in time, like tears in rain".
- TimeSplitters 2: The NeoTokyo Level from the music using the End Credits riff to the floating police cars is one giant shout out to the movie.
Web Animation
- In Season 15 of Red vs. Blue, movie buff Jax, quotes Blade Runner when he and Dylan are trying to let themselves tag along with the Reds and Blues.
Webcomics
- In Darths & Droids, General Grievous' death comes complete with a complete quote of Roy Batty's final speech.
- In FreeFall, 1694 Florence uses a questionnaire with a rather well-known question. Also Mr. Kornada's robot "Clippy" speaks dialogue spoken by Deckard word for word.
Western Animation
- In the Regular Show episode "Out of Commission", the cart's final words seems to be taken from Roy's speech.
- In the 101 Dalmatian Street episode "Walkies on the Wild Side", according to story launch notes, the art style for the scene when Dylan and the Canal Crew get food is based on My Neighbor Totoro and Blade Runner.
- In the Rick and Morty episode "The ABC's of Beth" and "The Rickchurian Mortydate", Rick and Beth describe the possibility of Beth's clone rampaging as "Going Blade Runner".
- In the Bob's Burgers episode "Some Like It Bot Part 1: (Eighth) Grade Runner," Tina vents her frustrations about being bullied at school by writing an erotic friend fiction based on Blade Runner, with herself as the rogue replicants, Jimmy Jr. as Deckard, and Zeke as Gaff.
