![]() ![]() Whether replicants can finally end the cycle of speciest oppression can only be unraveled in future installments of the franchise.Origen: ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 | Film | The Guardian The best sci-fi films hold up a mirror to the age in which they are made. Although replicants are free to roam Earth after this, they are further disenfranchised due to their genetic coding, making it difficult for them to resist or break through their programming, as seen in the case of Luv in 2049, who struggles to reconcile real emotions from precoded ones. ![]() However, in 2025, Niander Wallace solved Earth’s food crisis and produced a new line of Nexus-9 replicants, who are wired to be subservient to human will, which, on approval, lifts the prohibition and the former status of illegality. Post the events of Blade Runner, 2022 marked the inception of The Blackout, which entailed the destruction of replicant registers and financial institutions on Earth, leading to dwindling food supplies and a prohibition of replicant manufacture. The human supremacy movement reached its peak with the use of replicant Blade Runner models to hunt down their own kind, as seen in the case of K in Blade Runner 2049. ![]() In order to eliminate those who rebelled against humans, special police units, or Blade Runners, were assigned to hunt down, as witnessed in the case of Dave Holden, who is seen administering the Voight-Kampff test on Leon Kowalski, and is shot by him. In fact, empathy, or its lack thereof, became the defining factor in identifying rogue replicants on Earth via the Voight-Kampff test, as exemplified in the scene in which Deckard performs the test on Rachael. On declaring all or any replicant existence post inception as illegal, humans took it a step further by denying them legal rights or protection, as replicants, also pejoratively referred to as “skin jobs” were not viewed as beings deserving of empathy. ![]()
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