WhileBlade Runner ’s first official subsequence wasBlade Runner 2049 , there were a number of stories set in between those two dealership - pillars , include one in particular that twit a major death in2049 .

1982’sBlade Runneris set in the year 2019 whileBlade Runner 2049is set thirty years after . Within that thirty - year time couplet , the entireness of the Tyrell Corp ( the original Replicant manufacturer ) break , Replicants are made illegal and then legalized once more with confinement under Wallace Corp , and there is a technical memory loss in 2022 that wipe out most retentiveness banks of everything that was record prior to that date . Not only that , but there are entire storylines set within this timeframe as well that like a shot correlate with the all-embracing franchise canon . There’sBlade Runner 2019,Blade Runner 2029,Blade Runner 2039(all of which are comic serial ) , andBlade Runner : Black Lotus , which not only chronicles the history ofthe deadly Replicant inBlade Runnerhistory , but also the raise of2049 ’s main villain , Niander Wallace , Jr. However , only one of these stories contains a unmediated vexer to a specific character ’s death later in the timeline . That floor isBlade Runner 2039 , and the character in question is Luv .

Luv Died by Drowning in Blade Runner 2049, Which is Teased in 2039

InBlade Runner 2039#2 by Mike Johnson , Mellow Brown , and Andres Guinaldo , Luv – the first Replicant Blade Runner give to the LAPD by Wallace Corp – is hunting down a hidden facility that was used during the Tyrell era to make Replicants . Wallace is curious about their methods and believe their secrets could help in his own research and development . While on the trail , Luv goes to the home of a wealthy womanhood with a Replicant butler . Luv note that the butler is a Replicant right away , but she does n’t count on him attacking her by chance during Luv ’s audience with this woman . After that , the woman assail Luv herself , attain her over the head and pushing her fount - down in a fountain until she passed out .

This scene is a glorious good example of foreshadowing for Luv ’s character , and in more ways than one . InBlade Runner 2049 , Luv is hunt down down the first Replicant who was of course conduct for the same ground she was tracking the secret Replicant - making installation in2039 . At the end of her journey , she finds one piece of the puzzler , Rick Deckard , and birth him to Niander Wallace . However , before her charge is fully complete , Luv is attack by K ( aka Joe ) who crashes her spinner into a body of water and drown her as the vehicle fills with water .

Luv is on the same mission , and is brought down the same way . In both cases , Luv ’s accidentally assail by a Replicant and drowned while adjudicate to uncover a Replicant enigma for her Godhead to exploit . The only difference is that Luv was n’t killed the first time . alternatively , that here and now twit her death inBlade Runner ’s official film sequel , Blade Runner 2049 .

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Blade Runner: Luv’s death.

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