History Film / BladeRunnerShorts

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ 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.

Shinichiro Watanabe later produced ''Anime/BladeRunnerBlackLotus''.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Creator/RidleyScott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace (Creator/JaredLeto) as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to a group of lawmakers (Creator/BenedictWong, Ned Dennehy, Ania Marson, Ade Sapara) in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9Os8cP_gg 2048: Nowhere to Run]]'', also directed by Scott, follows Sapper Morton (Creator/DaveBautista) as he protects a mother and her daughter from thugs.

* ''[[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 her daughter from thugs.

Ken Watanabe later produced ''Anime/BladeRunnerBlackLotus''.

* NeckSnap: What Sapper does to the last thug.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ 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. Watanabe later produced ''Anime/BladeRunnerBlackLotus''.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of Creator/RidleyScott[[/labelnote]] introduces Niander Wallace (Creator/JaredLeto) as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to a group of lawmakers (Creator/BenedictWong, Ned Dennehy, Ania Marson, Ade Sapara) in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted.

''[[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 her daughter from thugs.

* UndyingLoyalty: Nexus-9 Replicants were conceived by Wallace to be totally subservient, making them less prone to emotions and rebellion than the previous lines.

** ''Black Out 2022'' is an anime that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in ''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.

* FromBadToWorse: The 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 LA 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.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ 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=rrZk9sSgRyQ 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.

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!!Tropes shared by the three shorts:

!!Tropes specific to each short:

** ''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.

Three short films released in 2017 in the wake of ''Film/BladeRunner2049''. They serve as tie-ins taking place in the ''Franchise/BladeRunner'' universe between the [[Film/BladeRunner first film]] and ''2049''.

* AllThereInTheManual: The shorts help to establish key events that take place between the original film and ''2049'':

''[[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.

* TheCameo: Gaff appears in the short, voiced by his actor in the films, Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos.

* EvilVsEvil: The short is essentially about three terrorists wanting to "even the odds" for Replicants against the xenophobic human race that enslaved and brutalized them. The EMP from the nuclear missile the three wiped out all data stored on magnetic drives, shut off all the power in Las Vegas, and possibly killed hundreds.

* TheCameo: Gaff (the character played by Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos in the first film) appears in the short.

''[[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.

* 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=]. Both benefited from the artistic contribution of Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe.

* TheCameo: [[Series/MythBusters Adam Savage]] played a merchant.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ 2036: Nexus Dawn]]'', directed by Luke Scott [[labelnote:Note]]the son of 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.

* 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 is seen tossing around a couple of thugs like rag dolls in ''2048: Nowhere to Run''.

* 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 glass, and when Wallace tells him to make a choice ("Do this now."), slashes his own throat without hesitation.

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]] and ''2049''.