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* MassOhCrap: Once the EMP is detonated, everyone in Los Angeles gets this reaction when they see what's happening (Spinners losing power and falling out of the air helplessly, the advertisement blimps smashing into the electronic billboards, a Spinner careening right into a busy downtown area).
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* GentleGiant: Sapper Morton in a nutshell.
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* GentleGiant: Sapper Morton in a nutshell. A tall and bulky Replicant who goes out of his way to help a mother and her daughter. He also brings something to read to the daughter.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Let's just say Niander Wallace's ways to convince the government committee to legalize the production of Replicants again are unethical.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Let's just say Niander Wallace's ways to convince of convincing the government committee to legalize the production of Replicants again are unethical.
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Deliberately subverted. Niander Wallace demonstrates that the Nexus-9 models are superior to the Nexus-6 line by ordering his Replicant assistant (who follows his orders implicitly) to make a choice to demonstrate his loyalty -- kill Wallace or kill himself. The Replicant grabs a shard of glass, and when Wallace tells him to make a choice ("Do this now."), slashes his own throat without hesitation.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Let's just say Niander Wallace's ways to convince the government committee to legalize the production of Replicants again are unethical.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Deliberately subverted.Niander Wallace demonstrates that the Nexus-9 models are superior to the Nexus-6 line by ordering his Replicant assistant (who follows his orders implicitly) to make a choice to demonstrate his loyalty -- kill Wallace or kill himself. The Replicant grabs a shard of glass, and when Wallace tells him to make a choice ("Do this now."), slashes his own throat without hesitation.
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The second short, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton ([[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]) as he protects a mother and daughter from thugs.
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* SuperStrength: All Nexus-9 replicants have the capability of being stronger than the normal human, as shown in ''2036: Nexus Dawn'' where Wallace orders his Nexus-9 replicant to crush a glass which it does like it was nothing. Sapper Morton tosses around a couple of thugs like they were rag dolls in ''2048: Nowhere to Run''.
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* SuperStrength: All Nexus-9 replicants have the capability of being stronger than the normal human, as shown in ''2036: Nexus Dawn'' where Wallace orders his Nexus-9 replicant to crush a glass which it does like it was nothing. Nexus-8 are no slouch either, as Sapper Morton tosses is seen tossing around a couple of thugs like they were rag dolls in ''2048: Nowhere to Run''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Anime/TheAnimatrix''. Short tie-in {{Anime}} film expanding the universe of an American dystopian science fiction franchise involving a conflict between humans and rogue [=AIs=], with the artistic contribution of Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe .
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Anime/TheAnimatrix''. Short tie-in {{Anime}} film expanding the universe of an American dystopian science fiction franchise involving a conflict between humans and rogue [=AIs=], with [=AIs=]. Both benefited from the artistic contribution of Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe .Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe.
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* NeckSnap: What Sapper does to the last thug.
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* FromBadToWorse: The ''Black Out 2022'' short shows two Replicants (along with a human sympathizer) detonating a nuclear bomb in the upper atmosphere above the U.S. continental West Coast, causing an EMP that shuts off all the power in the city and results in mass casualties. Things don't get much better in the years afterwards, with the world nearly falling into starvation before Wallace creates genetically-modified food products to keep the populace fed. By the time ''2049'' begins, climate change is so rampant that the world's ecosystem is nearly destroyed, ocean levels rising significantly and incidents of ''heavy snow'' in Los Angeles.
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* SheFu: Like Pris before her, Trixie is an impressive physical combatant, and effortlessly dismantles most of the team that tries to stop her and Iggy at the backup site by herself. [[spoiler:Also like Pris, she gets killed by a well-timed bullet as she's flying through the air.]]
* ShoutOut: Trixie shares visual and physical similarities with several of the Replicants from the original film. Her main combat style (acrobatic, and using her thighs to incapacitate someone before launching them into the air) is reminiscent of Pris. Towards the end of the short, she glimpses [[RuleOfSymbolism a dove flying through the air outside the backup site]], a clear reference to Roy Batty. [[spoiler:When she dies, she smashes into a sheet of glass, just like Zhora.]]
* ShoutOut: Trixie shares visual and physical similarities with several of the Replicants from the original film. Her main combat style (acrobatic, and using her thighs to incapacitate someone before launching them into the air) is reminiscent of Pris. Towards the end of the short, she glimpses [[RuleOfSymbolism a dove flying through the air outside the backup site]], a clear reference to Roy Batty. [[spoiler:When she dies, she smashes into a sheet of glass, just like Zhora.]]
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* SheFu: Like Pris before her, Trixie is an impressive physical combatant, and effortlessly dismantles most of the team that tries to stop her and Iggy at the backup site by herself. [[spoiler:Also like Pris, she gets killed by a well-timed bullet as she's flying through the air.]]
* ShoutOut: Trixie shares visual and physical similarities with several of the Replicants from the original film. Her main combat style (acrobatic, and using her thighs to incapacitate someone before launching them into the air) is reminiscent of Pris. Towards the end of the short, she glimpses [[RuleOfSymbolism a dove flying through the air outside the backup site]], a clear reference to Roy Batty. [[spoiler:When she dies, she smashes into a sheet of glass, just like Zhora.]]
* ShoutOut: Trixie shares visual and physical similarities with several of the Replicants from the original film. Her main combat style (acrobatic, and using her thighs to incapacitate someone before launching them into the air) is reminiscent of Pris. Towards the end of the short, she glimpses [[RuleOfSymbolism a dove flying through the air outside the backup site]], a clear reference to Roy Batty. [[spoiler:When she dies, she smashes into a sheet of glass, just like Zhora.]]
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* SuperStrength: All Nexus-9 replicants have the capability of being stronger than the normal human, as shown in ''2036: Nexus Dawn'' where Wallace orders his Nexus-9 replicant to crush a glass which it does like it was nothing. Sapper Morton tosses around a couple of thugs like they were rag dolls in ''2048: Nowhere to Run''.
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* SheFu: Like Pris before her, Trixie is an impressive physical combatant, and effortlessly dismantles most of the team that tries to stop her and Iggy at the backup site by herself. [[spoiler:Also like Pris, she gets killed by a well-timed bullet as she's flying through the air.]]
* ShoutOut: Trixie shares visual and physical similarities with several of the Replicants from the original film. Her main combat style (acrobatic, and using her thighs to incapacitate someone before launching them into the air) is reminiscent of Pris. Towards the end of the short, she glimpses [[RuleOfSymbolism a dove flying through the air outside the backup site]], a clear reference to Roy Batty. [[spoiler:When she dies, she smashes into a sheet of glass, just like Zhora.]]
* ShoutOut: Trixie shares visual and physical similarities with several of the Replicants from the original film. Her main combat style (acrobatic, and using her thighs to incapacitate someone before launching them into the air) is reminiscent of Pris. Towards the end of the short, she glimpses [[RuleOfSymbolism a dove flying through the air outside the backup site]], a clear reference to Roy Batty. [[spoiler:When she dies, she smashes into a sheet of glass, just like Zhora.]]
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Deliberately subverted. Wallace demonstrates that the Nexus-9 models are superior to the Nexus-6 line by ordering his Replicant assistant (who follows his orders implicitly) to make a choice to demonstrate his loyalty -- kill Wallace or kill himself. The Replicant grabs a shard of glas, and when Wallace tells him to make his choice ("Do this now."), the Replicant slashes his own throat without hesitation.
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Deliberately subverted. Niander Wallace demonstrates that the Nexus-9 models are superior to the Nexus-6 line by ordering his Replicant assistant (who follows his orders implicitly) to make a choice to demonstrate his loyalty -- kill Wallace or kill himself. The Replicant grabs a shard of glas, glass, and when Wallace tells him to make his a choice ("Do this now."), the Replicant slashes his own throat without hesitation.hesitation.
* UndyingLoyalty: Nexus-9 Replicants were conceived by Wallace to be totally subservient, making them less prone to emotions and rebellion than the previous lines.
* UndyingLoyalty: Nexus-9 Replicants were conceived by Wallace to be totally subservient, making them less prone to emotions and rebellion than the previous lines.
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* NoSell: One of the thugs harassing the mother and daughter stabs Sapper in the arm with a knife. Sapper simply stands up and stares at him for a moment, leading the latter to realize [[OhCrap how screwed he is]] before Sapper effortlessly beats him down.
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* DamselInDistress: Subverted. Trixie is seemingly a helpless female Replicant who needs to be rescued from a group of humans by Iggy. The next scene shows that she is anything ''but'' a damsel, hanging out of a Spinner vehicle one-handed, dropping onto a moving tanker and effortlessly disabling the driver by throwing him out [[MurderousThighs with her thighs]].
* FreezeFrameBonus: Sapper Morton's biographical information can be glimpsed on a computer readout near the very beginning. This also gives some more information about him -- namely, that he's a [[TheMedic combat-medic]] and agricultural-oriented Replicant from the Nexus-8 line.
* FromBadToWorse: The ''Black Out 2022'' short shows two Replicants (along with a human sympathizer) detonating a nuclear bomb in the upper atmosphere above the U.S. continental West Coast, causing an EMP that shuts off all the power in the city and results in mass casualties. Things don't get much better in the years afterwards, with the world nearly falling into starvation before Wallace creates genetically-modified food products to keep the populace fed. By the time ''2049'' begins, climate change is so rampant that the world's ecosystem is nearly destroyed, ocean levels rising significantly and incidents of ''heavy snow'' in Los Angeles.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Sapper Morton's biographical information can be glimpsed on a computer readout near the very beginning. This also gives some more information about him -- namely, that he's a [[TheMedic combat-medic]] and agricultural-oriented Replicant from the Nexus-8 line.
* FromBadToWorse: The ''Black Out 2022'' short shows two Replicants (along with a human sympathizer) detonating a nuclear bomb in the upper atmosphere above the U.S. continental West Coast, causing an EMP that shuts off all the power in the city and results in mass casualties. Things don't get much better in the years afterwards, with the world nearly falling into starvation before Wallace creates genetically-modified food products to keep the populace fed. By the time ''2049'' begins, climate change is so rampant that the world's ecosystem is nearly destroyed, ocean levels rising significantly and incidents of ''heavy snow'' in Los Angeles.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Niander Wallace demonstrated how obedient his new Nexus-9 line is by ordering the Replicant he brought to make a choice between his (Wallace's) life or the Replicant's. The latter then stabs his own throat with a shard of glass.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Niander ICannotSelfTerminate: Deliberately subverted. Wallace demonstrated how obedient his new demonstrates that the Nexus-9 models are superior to the Nexus-6 line is by ordering the his Replicant he brought assistant (who follows his orders implicitly) to make a choice between to demonstrate his (Wallace's) life loyalty -- kill Wallace or kill himself. The Replicant grabs a shard of glas, and when Wallace tells him to make his choice ("Do this now."), the Replicant's. The latter then stabs Replicant slashes his own throat with a shard of glass.without hesitation.
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** ''Nexus Dawn'': Takes place 14 years after ''Black Out''. Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'' follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'' follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
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** ''Nexus ''2036: Nexus Dawn'': Takes place 14 years after ''Black Out''. Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
**''Nowhere ''2048: Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'' follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
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Three short films released in 2017 for the promotion of ''Film/BladeRunner2049''. They serve as tie-ins taking place in the ''Franchise/BladeRunner'' universe between the [[Film/BladeRunner first ''Film/BladeRunner'' film film]] and ''2049''.
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** ''Black Out 2022'' is an anime {{Interquel}} that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in the sequel -- a pair of Replicants and a human sympathizer seek to "even the odds" against Replicants by detonating a nuclear bomb above the West Coast, which causes an EMP surge that knocks out the city's power and eventually causes Replicants to be placed under prohibition.
** ''Nexus Dawn'': Taking place 14 years after ''Black Out'', Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'', the short follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
** ''Nexus Dawn'': Taking place 14 years after ''Black Out'', Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'', the short follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
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** ''Black Out 2022'' is an anime {{Interquel}} that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in the sequel ''2049'' -- a pair of Replicants and a human sympathizer seek to "even the odds" against Replicants by detonating a nuclear bomb above the West Coast, which causes an EMP surge that knocks out the city's power and eventually causes Replicants to be placed under prohibition.
** ''Nexus Dawn'':Taking Takes place 14 years after ''Black Out'', Out''. Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before''2049'', the short ''2049'' follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Niander Wallace demonstrated how obedient his new Nexus-9 line is by ordering the Replicant he brought to make a choice between his (Wallace's) life or the Replicant's. The latter then stabs his own throat with a shard of glass.
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* OneWomanArmy: Trixie can mow down an entire group of soldiers with combat moves.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Ridley Scott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace (Creator/JaredLeto) as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Ridley Scott[[/labelnote]] Creator/RidleyScott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace (Creator/JaredLeto) as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Ridley Scott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
The second short, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton as he protects a mother and daughter from thugs.
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''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Ridley Scott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace (Creator/JaredLeto) as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
The second short, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton ([[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]) as he protects a mother and daughter from thugs.
The second short, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton ([[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]]) as he protects a mother and daughter from thugs.
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Three 2017 short films released for the promotion of ''Film/BladeRunner2049''. They serve as tie-ins taking place between the first ''Film/BladeRunner'' film and ''2049''.
''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ Blade Runner Black Out 2022]]'', is an anime short directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe that follows two Replicants, Iggy and Trixie, as well as a human, Ren, as they team up to cause a blackout to fight against anti-Replicant violence.
''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Ridley Scott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
The second short, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton as he protects a mother and daughter from thugs.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The shorts help to establish key events that take place between the original film and ''2049'':
** ''Black Out 2022'' is an anime {{Interquel}} that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in the sequel -- a pair of Replicants and a human sympathizer seek to "even the odds" against Replicants by detonating a nuclear bomb above the West Coast, which causes an EMP surge that knocks out the city's power and eventually causes Replicants to be placed under prohibition.
** ''Nexus Dawn'': Taking place 14 years after ''Black Out'', Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'', the short follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
** The ''[[http://roadto2049.bladerunnermovie.com/ Road to 2049]]'' website fills in some key details that aren't addressed by the shorts -- namely, that the population almost starved to death until Niander Wallace developed genetically-modified food products, which the populace relies on by the time ''2049'' begins.
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Three 2017 short films released for the promotion of ''Film/BladeRunner2049''. They serve as tie-ins taking place between the first ''Film/BladeRunner'' film and ''2049''.
''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ Blade Runner Black Out 2022]]'', is an anime short directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe that follows two Replicants, Iggy and Trixie, as well as a human, Ren, as they team up to cause a blackout to fight against anti-Replicant violence.
''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Ridley Scott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
The second short, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton as he protects a mother and daughter from thugs.
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!!Tropes for these shorts:
* AllThereInTheManual: The shorts help to establish key events that take place between the original film and ''2049'':
** ''Black Out 2022'' is an anime {{Interquel}} that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in the sequel -- a pair of Replicants and a human sympathizer seek to "even the odds" against Replicants by detonating a nuclear bomb above the West Coast, which causes an EMP surge that knocks out the city's power and eventually causes Replicants to be placed under prohibition.
** ''Nexus Dawn'': Taking place 14 years after ''Black Out'', Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly osubservient Nexus-9 model.
** ''Nowhere to Run'': Set shortly before ''2049'', the short follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
** The ''[[http://roadto2049.bladerunnermovie.com/ Road to 2049]]'' website fills in some key details that aren't addressed by the shorts -- namely, that the population almost starved to death until Niander Wallace developed genetically-modified food products, which the populace relies on by the time ''2049'' begins.
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