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** The scene where Joi hires Mariette to "sync" her movements to have sex with K is played just as creepy, disconcerting, and dehumanizing for all concerned as you'd think it is, rather than being titillating. Given that none of the participants (except Mariette, maybe) are human, this was likely on purpose.
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* CoolGuns: Several. Rick Deckard still has his old iconic [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/(Blade_Runner)_-_LAPD_2019_Blaster LAPD two-trigger blaster]], while K wields a more [[http://www.figures.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DSCN8700.jpg modernized police version]] and Luv gets a [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/b/bf/BR20491.jpeg snub-nosed double-barrelled blaster]] for assassinations.
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* BreakTheCutie: K is put through the wringer over the course of the movie, gaining and losing the hope of being the lost Replicant child, losing his girlfriend, coming to believe that their entire relationship was fake, and possibly even dying at the end.
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* StealthInsult: Beneath their replicant austerity, K and Luv engage in a bit of PassiveAggressiveKombat during their conversation in the data archives. After an unsubtle (and clearly unwelcome) romantic advance from Luv at the end, K merely ends the exchange with "Please thank Mr. Wallace for your time." It makes sense in the context that Luv is an employee of Wallace on the clock, so her time is also his time, but it can also be read as an intentionally dehumanizing remark. A reminder that Luv is a tool, not a person, and isn't entitled to K's gratitude.
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** The birth records contain entries for a girl and a boy with identical genomes, and the girl was said to have died of "Galatians syndrome". Galatians is the book of the New Testament where St. Paul says Jewish law doesn't apply to Gentiles who convert to Christianity. [[spoiler:The records were falsified by the Replicant resistance, who want to prove that laws restricting Replicants don't apply to a child born of a Replicant.]]
** When Dr. Ana Stelline is introduced, she is in her own forest world (it is probably the only time in the movie green fills such a large part of the screen, making it feel jarring and unexpected), focusing on morphing a beetle (considered by some to be a reference to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' by Kafka and heavily dissected by Nabokov, two recurring literary author references found in the script). The real people outside cannot see anymore forests because all the forests died, yet she can still create an artificial forest in her enclosure. [[spoiler: At the ending, when the real world outside snows, Stelline is creating her own snow inside her enclosure. As K, an artificially created human experiences the real snow, Stelline, a human born of an artificial replicant, experiences the real things through her own artificial creations.]]
*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, [[https://youtu.be/9glkD8biCXs?t=20 where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's]].]]
** K finds a colony of living bees in a nuclear wasteland on an even more wasted earth where all the flowers died. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/movies/denis-villeneuve-interview-blade-runner-2049.html The director]] stated that bees symbolize hope in a dying world, living on. [[spoiler: They also have many parallels to replicants, given that they live in individual cells and an entire colony is born from one mother like all replicants having a single source.]]
** When Gaff presents the sheep origami to K, Gaff is playing a game of Nine Men's Morris. During the scene, Gaff wears white and K wears black, representing the two sides, and white is losing, and it mirrors the games of chess in the original ''Blade Runner''.
** A lone dead tree on Sapper Morton's farm held up by wires represents both life and death. Trees are very rare in 2049, and this lone dead tree is a beacon of the remnants of life in the dystopic world. It is where the dead pregnant replicant was buried, and where K begins his investigations that would eventually lead him onto a road of self-discovery.
** The inexplicable and gigantic erotic statues of naked women in Las Vegas symbolize hedonism to the extreme. Their current desolation in a wasteland mirrors how human excess had drowned itself with waste.
** Deckard keeps a dog that he doesn't know if is real or not. Considering that the pollution has gotten so bad it apparently wiped out most non-human animals as well, including dogs, Deckard's dog symbolizes the AmbiguouslyHuman nature of the replicants and their status in a world where humanity has declined.
** [[spoiler:When K decides to save Deckard, he's standing in the rain. It's a sort of baptism, and he becomes a new man. Then he saves Deckard by drowning Luv, symbolically killing someone who represents his old self, a slave to the system. Both he and Deckard emerge from the water as new men. They're also possibly free because it might ''look'' like Deckard died.]]
** [[spoiler:Given Wallace's messianic vision, it's ironic that [[LouisCypher he tries to tempt Deckard into helping him]].]]
** The birth records contain entries for a girl and a boy with identical genomes, and the girl was said to have died of "Galatians syndrome". Galatians is the book of the New Testament where St. Paul says Jewish law doesn't apply to Gentiles who convert to Christianity. [[spoiler:The records were falsified by the Replicant resistance, who want to prove that laws restricting Replicants don't apply to a child born of a Replicant.]]
** When Dr. Ana Stelline is introduced, she is in her own forest world (it is probably the only time in the movie green fills such a large part of the screen, making it feel jarring and unexpected), focusing on morphing a beetle (considered by some to be a reference to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' by Kafka and heavily dissected by Nabokov, two recurring literary author references found in the script). The real people outside cannot see anymore forests because all the forests died, yet she can still create an artificial forest in her enclosure. [[spoiler: At the ending, when the real world outside snows, Stelline is creating her own snow inside her enclosure. As K, an artificially created human experiences the real snow, Stelline, a human born of an artificial replicant, experiences the real things through her own artificial creations.]]
*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, [[https://youtu.be/9glkD8biCXs?t=20 where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's]].]]
** K finds a colony of living bees in a nuclear wasteland on an even more wasted earth where all the flowers died. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/movies/denis-villeneuve-interview-blade-runner-2049.html The director]] stated that bees symbolize hope in a dying world, living on. [[spoiler: They also have many parallels to replicants, given that they live in individual cells and an entire colony is born from one mother like all replicants having a single source.]]
** When Gaff presents the sheep origami to K, Gaff is playing a game of Nine Men's Morris. During the scene, Gaff wears white and K wears black, representing the two sides, and white is losing, and it mirrors the games of chess in the original ''Blade Runner''.
** A lone dead tree on Sapper Morton's farm held up by wires represents both life and death. Trees are very rare in 2049, and this lone dead tree is a beacon of the remnants of life in the dystopic world. It is where the dead pregnant replicant was buried, and where K begins his investigations that would eventually lead him onto a road of self-discovery.
** The inexplicable and gigantic erotic statues of naked women in Las Vegas symbolize hedonism to the extreme. Their current desolation in a wasteland mirrors how human excess had drowned itself with waste.
** Deckard keeps a dog that he doesn't know if is real or not. Considering that the pollution has gotten so bad it apparently wiped out most non-human animals as well, including dogs, Deckard's dog symbolizes the AmbiguouslyHuman nature of the replicants and their status in a world where humanity has declined.
** [[spoiler:When K decides to save Deckard, he's standing in the rain. It's a sort of baptism, and he becomes a new man. Then he saves Deckard by drowning Luv, symbolically killing someone who represents his old self, a slave to the system. Both he and Deckard emerge from the water as new men. They're also possibly free because it might ''look'' like Deckard died.]]
** [[spoiler:Given Wallace's messianic vision, it's ironic that [[LouisCypher he tries to tempt Deckard into helping him]].]]
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** The birth records contain entries for a girl and a boy with identical genomes, andRuleOfSymbolism: [[RuleOfSymbolism/BladeRunner On the girl was said to have died of "Galatians syndrome". Galatians is the book of the New Testament where St. Paul says Jewish law doesn't apply to Gentiles who convert to Christianity. [[spoiler:The records were falsified by the Replicant resistance, who want to prove that laws restricting Replicants don't apply to a child born of a Replicant.]]
** When Dr. Ana Stelline is introduced, she is in her own forest world (it is probably the only time in the movie green fills such a large part of the screen, making it feel jarring and unexpected), focusing on morphing a beetle (considered by some to be a reference to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' by Kafka and heavily dissected by Nabokov, two recurring literary author references found in the script). The real people outside cannot see anymore forests because all the forests died, yet she can still create an artificial forest in her enclosure. [[spoiler: At the ending, when the real world outside snows, Stelline is creating her own snow inside her enclosure. As K, an artificially created human experiences the real snow, Stelline, a human born of an artificial replicant, experiences the real things through her own artificial creations.]]
*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, [[https://youtu.be/9glkD8biCXs?t=20 where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's]].]]
** K finds a colony of living bees in a nuclear wasteland on an even more wasted earth where all the flowers died. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/movies/denis-villeneuve-interview-blade-runner-2049.html The director]] stated that bees symbolize hope in a dying world, living on. [[spoiler: They also have many parallels to replicants, given that they live in individual cells and an entire colony is born from one mother like all replicants having a single source.]]
** When Gaff presents the sheep origami to K, Gaff is playing a game of Nine Men's Morris. During the scene, Gaff wears white and K wears black, representing the two sides, and white is losing, and it mirrors the games of chess in the original ''Blade Runner''.
** A lone dead tree on Sapper Morton's farm held up by wires represents both life and death. Trees are very rare in 2049, and this lone dead tree is a beacon of the remnants of life in the dystopic world. It is where the dead pregnant replicant was buried, and where K begins his investigations that would eventually lead him onto a road of self-discovery.
** The inexplicable and gigantic erotic statues of naked women in Las Vegas symbolize hedonism to the extreme. Their current desolation in a wasteland mirrors how human excess had drowned itself with waste.
** Deckard keeps a dog that he doesn't know if is real or not. Considering that the pollution has gotten so bad it apparently wiped out most non-human animals as well, including dogs, Deckard's dog symbolizes the AmbiguouslyHuman nature of the replicants and their status in a world where humanity has declined.
** [[spoiler:When K decides to save Deckard, he's standing in the rain. It's a sort of baptism, and he becomes a new man. Then he saves Deckard by drowning Luv, symbolically killing someone who represents his old self, a slave to the system. Both he and Deckard emerge from the water as new men. They're also possibly free because it might ''look'' like Deckard died.]]
** [[spoiler:Given Wallace's messianic vision, it's ironic that [[LouisCypher he tries to tempt Deckard into helping him]].]]franchise page]].
** The birth records contain entries for a girl and a boy with identical genomes, and
** When Dr. Ana Stelline is introduced, she is in her own forest world (it is probably the only time in the movie green fills such a large part of the screen, making it feel jarring and unexpected), focusing on morphing a beetle (considered by some to be a reference to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' by Kafka and heavily dissected by Nabokov, two recurring literary author references found in the script). The real people outside cannot see anymore forests because all the forests died, yet she can still create an artificial forest in her enclosure. [[spoiler: At the ending, when the real world outside snows, Stelline is creating her own snow inside her enclosure. As K, an artificially created human experiences the real snow, Stelline, a human born of an artificial replicant, experiences the real things through her own artificial creations.]]
*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, [[https://youtu.be/9glkD8biCXs?t=20 where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's]].]]
** K finds a colony of living bees in a nuclear wasteland on an even more wasted earth where all the flowers died. [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/movies/denis-villeneuve-interview-blade-runner-2049.html The director]] stated that bees symbolize hope in a dying world, living on. [[spoiler: They also have many parallels to replicants, given that they live in individual cells and an entire colony is born from one mother like all replicants having a single source.]]
** When Gaff presents the sheep origami to K, Gaff is playing a game of Nine Men's Morris. During the scene, Gaff wears white and K wears black, representing the two sides, and white is losing, and it mirrors the games of chess in the original ''Blade Runner''.
** A lone dead tree on Sapper Morton's farm held up by wires represents both life and death. Trees are very rare in 2049, and this lone dead tree is a beacon of the remnants of life in the dystopic world. It is where the dead pregnant replicant was buried, and where K begins his investigations that would eventually lead him onto a road of self-discovery.
** The inexplicable and gigantic erotic statues of naked women in Las Vegas symbolize hedonism to the extreme. Their current desolation in a wasteland mirrors how human excess had drowned itself with waste.
** Deckard keeps a dog that he doesn't know if is real or not. Considering that the pollution has gotten so bad it apparently wiped out most non-human animals as well, including dogs, Deckard's dog symbolizes the AmbiguouslyHuman nature of the replicants and their status in a world where humanity has declined.
** [[spoiler:When K decides to save Deckard, he's standing in the rain. It's a sort of baptism, and he becomes a new man. Then he saves Deckard by drowning Luv, symbolically killing someone who represents his old self, a slave to the system. Both he and Deckard emerge from the water as new men. They're also possibly free because it might ''look'' like Deckard died.]]
** [[spoiler:Given Wallace's messianic vision, it's ironic that [[LouisCypher he tries to tempt Deckard into helping him]].]]
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** [[spoiler: The Replicant resistance movement]] hides out in a building partially flooded with ankle-deep water.
** [[spoiler: K's encounter with the giant, pink, naked Joi and his subsequent decision to take action and realize himself]] is set in the biggest rain in the entire film.
** [[spoiler: K [[BigDamnHeroes rescues Deckard from Wallace's convoy]]]] [[BattleInTheRain while it's pouring rain outside]], and Deckard's spinner lands half-submerged in the ocean. The battle between Luv and K takes place as the two of them are fighting the pounding ocean waves over the crashed vehicle, while Deckard is drowning in the flooding spinner. [[spoiler: K wins by drowning Luv in the ocean waves, and while K and Deckard swim to safety and emerge from the water, Luv does not.]]
** [[spoiler: K's encounter with the giant, pink, naked Joi and his subsequent decision to take action and realize himself]] is set in the biggest rain in the entire film.
** [[spoiler: K [[BigDamnHeroes rescues Deckard from Wallace's convoy]]]] [[BattleInTheRain while it's pouring rain outside]], and Deckard's spinner lands half-submerged in the ocean. The battle between Luv and K takes place as the two of them are fighting the pounding ocean waves over the crashed vehicle, while Deckard is drowning in the flooding spinner. [[spoiler: K wins by drowning Luv in the ocean waves, and while K and Deckard swim to safety and emerge from the water, Luv does not.]]
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** [[spoiler: K [[BigDamnHeroes rescues Deckard from Wallace'sconvoy]]]] convoy]] [[BattleInTheRain while it's pouring rain outside]], and Deckard's spinner lands half-submerged in the ocean. The battle between Luv and K takes place as the two of them are fighting the pounding ocean waves over the crashed vehicle, while Deckard is drowning in the flooding spinner. [[spoiler: K wins by drowning Luv in the ocean waves, and while K and Deckard swim to safety and emerge from the water, Luv does not.]]
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** [[spoiler: K [[BigDamnHeroes rescues Deckard from Wallace's
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** Wallace calls Luv "the best angel of all." [[spoiler: The last thing she sees is K with (the lights of the crashed spinner making) a halo around his head.]]
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** Wallace calls Luv "the best angel of all." [[spoiler: The last thing she sees is K with (the lights of the crashed spinner making) a halo around his head.head, above her. He's a better "angel" than her. Or, perhaps, closer to God, or Jesus. Especially with his oncoming sacrifice.]]
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** K asks Deckard if his dog is real or not. Deckard doesn't know, much like in the first movie about Tyrell's owl, Zhora's snake [[spoiler:or himself]].
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** K asks Deckard if his dog is real or not. Deckard doesn't know, much like in the first movie about Tyrell's owl, Zhora's snake [[spoiler:or himself]].
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''Blade Runner 2049'' is a 2017 neo-noir ScienceFiction film, and the sequel to 1982's ''Film/BladeRunner''. The film was directed by Creator/DenisVilleneuve, written by Hampton Fancher and Micheal Green and co-produced by Creator/RidleyScott (who also contributed to the script). The cast includes Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/JaredLeto, Creator/AnaDeArmas, Creator/HarrisonFord (reprising his role from the first film), Creator/SylviaHoeks, Creator/RobinWright, Carla Juri, Creator/DaveBautista, Creator/DavidDastmalchian, Wood Harris, Barkhad Abdi, Creator/MackenzieDavis and Lennie James. Music/HansZimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch composed the soundtrack.
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''Blade Runner 2049'' is a 2017 neo-noir ScienceFiction film, and the sequel to 1982's ''Film/BladeRunner''. The film was directed by Creator/DenisVilleneuve, written by Hampton Fancher and Micheal Green and co-produced by Creator/RidleyScott (who also contributed to the script). The cast includes Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/JaredLeto, Creator/AnaDeArmas, Creator/HarrisonFord (reprising his role from the first film), Creator/SylviaHoeks, Creator/RobinWright, Carla Juri, Creator/DaveBautista, Creator/DavidDastmalchian, Wood Harris, Creator/WoodHarris, Barkhad Abdi, Creator/MackenzieDavis and Lennie James. Music/HansZimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch composed the soundtrack.
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** Joi names K Joe. As in [[Literature/TheTrial Joseph K.]]
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** Joi names K Joe. As in [[Literature/TheTrial [[Film/TheTrial Joseph K.]]
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* AlternativeTuringTest: ''2049'' features an updated version of the VK test from the previous movie, where Replicants are berated with rapid-fire questions from an unseen interrogator watching them through a camera. Interestingly, the baseline test appears to have the opposite purpose of the VK test from the first movie - while the Voight-Kampff was intended to measure whether humans were too robotic, the baseline seems to test whether Replicants (like [[spoiler:Officer K]]) are becoming too human.
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* AlternativeTuringTest: ''2049'' features an updated version of the VK test from the previous movie, where Replicants are berated with rapid-fire questions from an unseen interrogator watching them through a camera. Interestingly, the baseline test appears to have the opposite purpose of the VK test from the first movie - while the Voight-Kampff was intended to measure whether humans were too robotic, the baseline seems to test whether Replicants (like [[spoiler:Officer K]]) Officer K) are becoming too human.
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** The movie doesn't actually reveal if Deckard is a LongLived Replicant or not, instead going for TheUnreveal when the question is brought up, in order to preserve the mystery present in the original film, and to avoid upsetting screenwriter Hampton Fancher and Ford, both of whom have declared that they saw the character as human[[note]]Fancher insists that the interpretation of Deckard-as-Replicant came up with Scott mid-production, was not planned at the start and baffled every one of Scott's colleagues. Fancher feels that it should never become part of the film or on-screen action so as to satisfy both parties, leaving it entirely to the audience who wants to see Deckard-as-Replicant to decide how to see the film.[[/note]]; furthermore, this is actually alluded to in the movie itself, as when [[spoiler:Wallace presents the copy of Rachael to Deckard, he contemplates whether or not Deckard was born naturally or if he's a Replicant]]. When K interviews [[spoiler:a retired Gaff]] about Deckard, that character obliquely muses that Deckard's a replicant, but it's clearly just reiterating views expressed in the original.
** On a thematic level, the movie is ambiguous as to whether or not Joi is a sentient being, and whether or not she can be called human. She is a [[ProjectedMan holographic woman]] controlled by an A.I. Contrasting the replicants, who are portrayed as unambiguously "human", whether or not Joi fits the definition of "human" is played with throughout the movie. She appears intelligent, emotional, and sentient. Like the replicants, she is an artificial object apparently infused with humanity, and her behavior is definitely much more human-like compared to the hologram recordings of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. [[spoiler:However, as the building-sized naked Joi hologram shows, the intelligence, emotions, and sapient behavior might be all be a manufactured illusion, and her love for K might just be a part of the program.]] The "hologram sex scene" between Joi, Mariette, and K also thematically suggests that Joi might be merely following the forms of human behavior while lacking the actual substance to be a human being.
** On a thematic level, the movie is ambiguous as to whether or not Joi is a sentient being, and whether or not she can be called human. She is a [[ProjectedMan holographic woman]] controlled by an A.I. Contrasting the replicants, who are portrayed as unambiguously "human", whether or not Joi fits the definition of "human" is played with throughout the movie. She appears intelligent, emotional, and sentient. Like the replicants, she is an artificial object apparently infused with humanity, and her behavior is definitely much more human-like compared to the hologram recordings of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. [[spoiler:However, as the building-sized naked Joi hologram shows, the intelligence, emotions, and sapient behavior might be all be a manufactured illusion, and her love for K might just be a part of the program.]] The "hologram sex scene" between Joi, Mariette, and K also thematically suggests that Joi might be merely following the forms of human behavior while lacking the actual substance to be a human being.
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** The movie doesn't actually reveal if Deckard is a LongLived Replicant or not, instead going for TheUnreveal when the question is brought up, in order to preserve the mystery present in the original film, and to avoid upsetting screenwriter Hampton Fancher and Ford, both of whom have declared that they saw the character as human[[note]]Fancher insists that the interpretation of Deckard-as-Replicant came up with Scott mid-production, was not planned at the start and baffled every one of Scott's colleagues. Fancher feels that it should never become part of the film or on-screen action so as to satisfy both parties, leaving it entirely to the audience who wants to see Deckard-as-Replicant to decide how to see the film.[[/note]]; furthermore, this is actually alluded to in the movie itself, as when [[spoiler:Wallace presents the copy of Rachael to Deckard, he contemplates whether or not Deckard was born naturally or if he's a Replicant]]. When K interviews [[spoiler:a retired Gaff]] about Deckard, that character obliquely muses that Deckard's a replicant, Replicant, but it's clearly just reiterating views expressed in the original.
** On a thematic level, the movie is ambiguous as to whether or not Joi is a sentient being, and whether or not she can be called human. She is a [[ProjectedMan holographic woman]] controlled by an A.I. Contrasting thereplicants, Replicants, who are portrayed as unambiguously "human", whether or not Joi fits the definition of "human" is played with throughout the movie. She appears intelligent, emotional, and sentient. Like the replicants, Replicants, she is an artificial object apparently infused with humanity, and her behavior is definitely much more human-like compared to the hologram recordings of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. [[spoiler:However, as the building-sized naked Joi hologram shows, the intelligence, emotions, and sapient behavior might be all be a manufactured illusion, and her love for K might just be a part of the program.]] The "hologram sex scene" between Joi, Mariette, and K also thematically suggests that Joi might be merely following the forms of human behavior while lacking the actual substance to be a human being.
** On a thematic level, the movie is ambiguous as to whether or not Joi is a sentient being, and whether or not she can be called human. She is a [[ProjectedMan holographic woman]] controlled by an A.I. Contrasting the
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* ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay: Ana gets interrupted by K while doing photography in an artificial forest on her holodeck.
* BigBlackout: The "Black Out" was an unprecedented electricity blackout that affected Los Angeles for ten days in May 2022. It also wipes out all electronic data.
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* CassetteFuturism: An interesting example. CRT monitors are still used in 2049, whilst computers and other machines look bulky, clunky, monochrome and analogued. On the other hand, advanced holographic A.I. are present. But even then, those holograms resemble a grainy, neon, used projection requiring physical buttons to operate rather than the high-tech, flashy and minimalist touch-screen graphics of other Sci-Fi franchises.
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* CassetteFuturism: An interesting example.example thanks to ZeerustCanon. CRT monitors are still used in 2049, whilst computers and other machines look bulky, clunky, monochrome and analogued. On the other hand, advanced holographic A.I. are present. But even then, those holograms resemble a grainy, neon, used projection requiring physical buttons to operate rather than the high-tech, flashy and minimalist touch-screen graphics of other Sci-Fi franchises.
* DoubleTap: K does this every time that he fires his gun.
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* DoubleTap: K does this every time that he fires his gun.
* ExtinctInTheFuture: Like the previous film, nearly all animals besides insects and grubs have gone extinct. When Doc Badger offers to exchange the wooden horse for a "real" horse, he explains that it will Wallace's best stuff, ie a replicant horse. The protagonist runs into a single stray dog in the desolate wilderness, but its owner isn't even sure if it's artificial or not. Trees are also extremely rare, to the point that Mariette doesn't know what one is when she sees a picture of it.
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* ExtinctInTheFuture: Like the previous film, nearly all animals besides insects and grubs have gone extinct. When Doc Badger offers to exchange the wooden horse for a "real" horse, he explains that it will Wallace's best stuff, ie a replicant horse. The protagonist runs into a single stray dog in the desolate wilderness, but its owner isn't even sure if it's artificial or not. Trees are also extremely rare, to the point that Mariette doesn't know what one is when she sees a picture of it.
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** [[spoiler:Lieutenant Joshi is attacked in her office by Luv, who crushes a glass in her hand and forces it into a fist. Despite this, Joshi barely flinches, and when Luv announces her intention to kill her, she calmly tells her to do what she has to do.]]
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* FirstTimeFeeling: After becoming non-stationary, Joi [[HappyRain enjoys the touch of rain drops]] on her skin on the rooftop.
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* GunshipRescue: [[spoiler: K's rescue of Deckard in the climax.]] A variation in that the people he's attacking ''also'' are in gunships.
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** When K gets shot down and captured by rebels at the scrapyard, Luv sends an airship that kills all rebels [[PlotArmor except for K]].
** [[spoiler: K's rescue of Deckard in the climax.]] A variation in that the people he's attacking ''also'' are in gunships.
** When K gets shot down and captured by rebels at the scrapyard, Luv sends an airship that kills all rebels [[PlotArmor except for K]].
** [[spoiler: K's rescue of Deckard in the climax.]] A variation in that the people he's attacking ''also'' are in gunships.
* KissOfDeath: Two of them, as an homage to the Kiss of Death from Roy Batty to [[spoiler:Eldon Tyrell]] in the original film:
** Wallace kisses the newly dispatched, still-naked female replicant after slicing her belly open.
** Subverted during the climactic battle between Luv and K with [[spoiler:Luv kissing K]] after stabbing him in the side, assuming him to die soon after.
** Wallace kisses the newly dispatched, still-naked female replicant after slicing her belly open.
** Subverted during the climactic battle between Luv and K with [[spoiler:Luv kissing K]] after stabbing him in the side, assuming him to die soon after.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: The birthday and ArcNumber on the wooden horse is 06-10-21. Read it in European order, and the date becomes October 6th, the day the movie is released and the metaphorical "birth day" of K.]]
* NonResidentialResidence: [[spoiler:An older Deckard]] has the ''entirety'' of Las Vegas at his disposal after it was abandoned following a dirty bombing. In practical terms, it means he lives in the upper floors of a hotel, and uses a barroom as his living space.
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* NonResidentialResidence: [[spoiler:An older Deckard]] has the ''entirety'' of Las Vegas at his disposal after it was abandoned following a dirty bombing. In practical terms, it means he lives in the upper floors of a hotel, and uses a barroom as his living space.
* OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture: K's handgun is quite boxy compared to contemporary models.
* PortalStatuePairs: K comes across a pair of huge nude women statues at the entrance of Las Vegas.
* PortalStatuePairs: K comes across a pair of huge nude women statues at the entrance of Las Vegas.
* SignificantReferenceDate: [[spoiler: The birthday and ArcNumber on the wooden horse is 06-10-21. Read it in European order, and the date becomes October 6th, the day the movie is released and the metaphorical "birth day" of K.]]
* ThemeNaming: In-universe. Joi calls K "Joe" as he desperately wants his own name, which is very similar to her name.
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* ThemeNaming: In-universe. Joi calls K "Joe" as he desperately wants TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: Coco catches Luv in the morgue stealing Rachael's remains while wearing black leather gloves contrasting her white coat making it clear she's doing something she does not want to be traced back to her. She distracts him by lying about her presence having gone through the proper channels and presenting him with paperwork before killing him by cracking his own name, which is very similar neck from behind and leaving him to choke on his blood. She then tortures and murders Joshi in her name.office in a later scene wearing the same gloves and coat. Luv ditches the coat for a black jacket as part of her battle outfit in the movie's third act.
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* TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: Coco catches Luv in the morgue stealing Rachael's remains while wearing black leather gloves contrasting her white coat making it clear she's doing something she does not want to be traced back to her. She distracts him by lying about her presence having gone through the proper channels and presenting him with paperwork before killing him by cracking his neck from behind and leaving him to choke on his blood. She then tortures and murders Joshi in her office in a later scene wearing the same gloves and coat. Luv ditches the coat for a black jacket as part of her battle outfit in the movie's third act.
* TitleIn: New locations are announced via on-screen text.
* TrackingDevice: The prostitute Mariette sneaks a tracker into K's jacket which helps the Replicant resistance movement to pull a BedouinRescueService on K after he gets LeftForDead by Luv in the ruins of Las Vegas.
* TrackingDevice: The prostitute Mariette sneaks a tracker into K's jacket which helps the Replicant resistance movement to pull a BedouinRescueService on K after he gets LeftForDead by Luv in the ruins of Las Vegas.
* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: One of the signs of Wallace's wealth is not only how his corporate headquarters dwarfs the old Tyrell Corporation HQ that sits in its shadow but how spartan and empty it is, with giant rooms staffed by a single employee (or replicant) and walls covered in ludicrously expensive real wood paneling.
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* WorldOfSymbolism: Much like the original, this film is stacked top-to-bottom with repeated motifs, symbols, images, and [[https://medium.com/@_tomchristie/inside-the-kaleidoscope-mirrored-heart-of-blade-runner-2049-62ee229acc14 literary allusions]].
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* WorldOfSymbolism: Much like the original, this film is stacked top-to-bottom with repeated motifs, symbols, images, and [[https://medium.com/@_tomchristie/inside-the-kaleidoscope-mirrored-heart-of-blade-runner-2049-62ee229acc14 literary allusions]].
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* TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: Coco catches Luv in the morgue stealing Rachael's remains while wearing black leather gloves contrasting her white coat making it clear she's doing something she does not want to be traced back to her. She distracts him by lying about her presence having gone through the proper channels and presenting him with paperwork before killing him by cracking his neck from behind and leaving him to choke on his blood. She then tortures and murders Joshi in her office in a later scene wearing the same gloves and coat. Luv ditches the coat for a black jacket as part of her battle outfit in the movie's third act.
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** Played very subtly with the photograph of Freya holding the baby [[spoiler:Anna]]. There's nothing specifically wrong about the picture, but something about it just seems off... [[FridgeHorror until one realizes that what makes it stand out is that the people and objects that are shown are standing in direct sunlight, which is not seen once in the entire setting at the time the movie takes place.]]
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* CassetteFuturism: CRT monitors are still used in 2049.
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* CassetteFuturism: An interesting example. CRT monitors are still used in 2049.2049, whilst computers and other machines look bulky, clunky, monochrome and analogued. On the other hand, advanced holographic A.I. are present. But even then, those holograms resemble a grainy, neon, used projection requiring physical buttons to operate rather than the high-tech, flashy and minimalist touch-screen graphics of other Sci-Fi franchises.
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*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's.]]
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*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, [[https://youtu.be/9glkD8biCXs?t=20 where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's.Kay's]].]]
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Pollution and climate conditions weren't all that great in the first film. They've both been [[UpToEleven dialed up to eleven]] by this time frame. For example, climate change has risen sea levels so far inland that Los Angeles' coast is where ''Mulholland Drive'' currently exists in RealLife, and that's ''with'' the construction of an artificial sea wall.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Pollution and climate conditions weren't all that great in the first film. They've both been [[UpToEleven dialed up to eleven]] eleven by this time frame. For example, climate change has risen sea levels so far inland that Los Angeles' coast is where ''Mulholland Drive'' currently exists in RealLife, and that's ''with'' the construction of an artificial sea wall.
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* HotterAndSexier: While the original was by no means a ''chaste'' film, actual nudity was confined to a brief shot or two of Zhora's breasts while she was changing. This film has multiple scenes of naked Replicants - albeit in a [[FanDisservice distinctly unerotic]] context - and plentiful female nudity, including two scenes of [[UpToEleven skyscraper-sized]] [[note]]The first example being the gigantic erotic statues in Las Vegas outside Deckard's hideout, and the second being the gigantic hot-pink hologram of Joi that appears to K[[/note]] naked women.
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* HotterAndSexier: While the original was by no means a ''chaste'' film, actual nudity was confined to a brief shot or two of Zhora's breasts while she was changing. This film has multiple scenes of naked Replicants - albeit in a [[FanDisservice distinctly unerotic]] context - and plentiful female nudity, including two scenes of [[UpToEleven skyscraper-sized]] skyscraper-sized [[note]]The first example being the gigantic erotic statues in Las Vegas outside Deckard's hideout, and the second being the gigantic hot-pink hologram of Joi that appears to K[[/note]] naked women.
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* UncannyValley:
** Wallace in general [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/08/22/4019561C00000578-4485554-First_peak_Jared_Leto_is_featured_as_well_as_he_is_shown_towerin-m-107_1494280150724.jpg just looks off]], mostly because of the glowing chip on his neck a la Frankenstein's bolts and his blind, scarred eyes. At times, his bizarre, stilted delivery and slow, mechanical movements make him seem more like a robot than any of the Replicants (which is almost certainly intentional.)
** The CGI on [[spoiler:Wallace's version of Rachel]] is one of the best replications of a photorealistic human face in film to date, but it's still not perfect. Then again, considering the purpose of that scene, it's almost certainly at least partially intentional, and arguably works to the movie's advantage.
** Joi's pure hologram averts this completely, but when she synchronizes with Mariette's body, the process is just imperfect enough to look at least slightly off. It's most notable on the hands because hers and Mariette's fingers rarely synchronize at all, which results in someone with twenty fingers caressing K. Face synchronization also falters slightly from time to time, leading to a strange hybrid look composed of both women's features. Given that it'd be way easier to film it with just Joi, this is probably deliberate.
** Joi's ad hologram is an intentional example, with her completely dark eyes.
** Played very subtly with the photograph of Freya holding the baby [[spoiler:Anna]]. There's nothing specifically wrong about the picture, but something about it just seems off... [[FridgeHorror until one realizes that what makes it stand out is that the people and objects that are shown are standing in direct sunlight, which is not seen once in the entire setting at the time the movie takes place.]]
** Wallace in general [[http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/08/22/4019561C00000578-4485554-First_peak_Jared_Leto_is_featured_as_well_as_he_is_shown_towerin-m-107_1494280150724.jpg just looks off]], mostly because of the glowing chip on his neck a la Frankenstein's bolts and his blind, scarred eyes. At times, his bizarre, stilted delivery and slow, mechanical movements make him seem more like a robot than any of the Replicants (which is almost certainly intentional.)
** The CGI on [[spoiler:Wallace's version of Rachel]] is one of the best replications of a photorealistic human face in film to date, but it's still not perfect. Then again, considering the purpose of that scene, it's almost certainly at least partially intentional, and arguably works to the movie's advantage.
** Joi's pure hologram averts this completely, but when she synchronizes with Mariette's body, the process is just imperfect enough to look at least slightly off. It's most notable on the hands because hers and Mariette's fingers rarely synchronize at all, which results in someone with twenty fingers caressing K. Face synchronization also falters slightly from time to time, leading to a strange hybrid look composed of both women's features. Given that it'd be way easier to film it with just Joi, this is probably deliberate.
** Joi's ad hologram is an intentional example, with her completely dark eyes.
** Played very subtly with the photograph of Freya holding the baby [[spoiler:Anna]]. There's nothing specifically wrong about the picture, but something about it just seems off... [[FridgeHorror until one realizes that what makes it stand out is that the people and objects that are shown are standing in direct sunlight, which is not seen once in the entire setting at the time the movie takes place.]]
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*** [[https://youtu.be/urtmPb4tUgQ?t=654 Also in that scene]]; [[spoiler:when we see K from Ana's perspective as she views his memory, her reflection is on top of him. When we see her from his perspective, he's a shadow looking over her shoulder. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Turns out]] she put her memories into him, and he's a reflection, a shadow, only viewing those memories secondhand. There's also shots in the scene while they're both standing, where Ana's reflection is literally "inside" Kay's.]]
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*** Similarly, the first time we see Sapper Morton, he's examining a pool of some kind of liquid.
** [[spoiler:The orphanage K visits is set in an abandoned, partially stripped ship.]]
** Ironically, the ''lack'' of moisture is important for one setting. [[spoiler:Deckard is hiding from the rest of the world in Vegas, which is abandoned and covered in sand. He's also shown drinking alcohol, says he probably has the largest whiskey collection in the world, and presumably eats honey from his bees instead of proper water-based drinks.]]
** Ironically, the ''lack'' of moisture is important for one setting. [[spoiler:Deckard is hiding from the rest of the world in Vegas, which is abandoned and covered in sand. He's also shown drinking alcohol, says he probably has the largest whiskey collection in the world, and presumably eats honey from his bees instead of proper water-based drinks.]]
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* AsYouKnow: Though it was before his time, it's safe to assume K already knew what happened during the Black Out without needing Wallace's file clerk to fill him in.
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** When K drowns [[spoiler:Luv]], the camera focuses on her wide-open, [[DiesWideOpen staring eyes.]]
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** When K drowns [[spoiler:Luv]], [[spoiler:drowns Luv, the camera focuses on her wide-open, [[DiesWideOpen staring eyes.]]]]]]
** The movie opens with K [[spoiler:sleeping. It ends with him lying down for his possibly-''eternal'' sleep.]]
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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Unlike many instances of this trope, the corpse isn't even dismembered - [[spoiler:Luv just holds Joshi]] up so the system can scan the entire head. This time still captures the usual utilitarian disrespect for the deceased, as the body is just dropped and the head bangs against the desk afterward.
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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Unlike many instances of this trope, the corpse isn't even dismembered - [[spoiler:Luv just holds Joshi]] Joshi up so the system can scan the entire head. This time still captures the usual utilitarian disrespect for the deceased, as the body is just dropped and the head bangs against the desk afterward.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Subverted. [[spoiler: The Replicant child of Rachael and Deckard being the one to [[HiredToHuntYourself discover her remains]] on Sapper's farm ''would'' be this...if K was [[RedHerring actually the child.]] ]]
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** The giant naked ad campaign version of the Joi hologram, despite still being played by a gorgeous Creator/AnaDeArmas, has overtones of this, with its off-putting all-black eyes and echoing voice. Adding to this is that [[spoiler:she shows up shortly after K's version of Joi dies, and clumsily flirts with K. Her dialogue also echoes several of K's model's turns of phrase, casting doubt on the legitimacy of their relationship]].
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** The giant naked ad campaign version of the Joi hologram, despite still being played by a gorgeous Creator/AnaDeArmas, has overtones of this, with its off-putting all-black eyes and echoing voice.voice and unnatural skin and hair colors. Adding to this is that [[spoiler:she shows up shortly after K's version of Joi dies, and clumsily flirts with K. Her dialogue also echoes several of K's model's turns of phrase, casting doubt on the legitimacy of their relationship]].
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* FlyingCar: The signature spinners return with greater presence and grittier 2040s tech. K is assigned an LAPD spinner that serves as his primary mode of transport, and now comes standard with an unmanned weaponized probe as are some of the Wallace Corporation spinners. [[spoiler:A classic LAPD spinner closely modeled after the design of the original movie[[note]]and suggested by [[FreezeFrameBonus its car number]] to be the very one Gaff operated in the original movie[[/note]] also makes a brief cameo as Deckard's getaway vehicle in Las Vegas before it is preemptively destroyed in a missile strike by Luv's men.]]
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* FlyingCar: The signature spinners return with greater presence and grittier 2040s tech. K is assigned an LAPD spinner that serves as his primary mode of transport, and now comes standard with an unmanned weaponized probe probe, as are some of the Wallace Corporation spinners. [[spoiler:A classic LAPD spinner closely modeled after the design of the original movie[[note]]and suggested by [[FreezeFrameBonus its car number]] to be the very one Gaff operated in the original movie[[/note]] also makes a brief cameo as Deckard's getaway vehicle in Las Vegas before it is preemptively destroyed in a missile strike by Luv's men.]]
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** [[spoiler:When K decides to save Deckard, he's standing in the rain. It's a sort of baptism, and he becomes a new man. Then he saves Deckard by drowning Luv, symbolically killing someone who represents his old self, a slave to the system. Both he and Deckard emerge from the water as new men. They're also possibly free because it might ''look'' like Deckard died.]]
** [[spoiler:Given Wallace's messianic vision, it's ironic that [[LouisCypher he tries to tempt Deckard into helping him]].]]
** [[spoiler:Given Wallace's messianic vision, it's ironic that [[LouisCypher he tries to tempt Deckard into helping him]].]]
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* AdultFear: Not being able to be with your wife when she gives birth to your child [[spoiler: and your wife dying]], and then not being able to find that child after a horrible disaster.
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* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: K and Luv are both Nexus-9 Replicants but differ in their fighting styles. K is heavier and primarily uses grappling, punching, or crushing blows, while Luv is more skilled and fights with [[KickChick acrobatic kicks]] and flashier kung-fu style moves (as well as her [[KnifeNut knives]].) This is highlighted in the final battle, where [[spoiler: Luv beats the shit out of him and stabs him several times but he eventually wins by holding her underwater, and his superior physical strength and weight means she's unable to escape and eventually drowns. ]]
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* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: K and Luv are both Nexus-9 Replicants but differ in their fighting styles. K is heavier and primarily uses grappling, punching, or crushing blows, while Luv is more skilled and fights with [[KickChick acrobatic kicks]] and flashier kung-fu style moves (as well as her [[KnifeNut knives]].knives.) This is highlighted in the final battle, where [[spoiler: Luv beats the shit out of him and stabs him several times but he eventually wins by holding her underwater, and his superior physical strength and weight means she's unable to escape and eventually drowns. ]]
