It was seemingly obvious from the start that the main scoundrel ofBlade Runner 2049 , Niander Wallace , Jr. , was brutally malefic . However , in this suit , it seems that looks can be deceiving , as Wallace was really a submarine sandwich of the entire enfranchisement the whole time .

Blade Runner 2049follows a Replicant Blade Runner named K ( aka Joe ) , who is on a mission to find the first naturally support Replicant . The engineering science it takes for a Replicant to have the capacity to give birth is something Niander Wallace , Jr. has starve throughout his adult aliveness . Niander runs Wallace Corporation succeed the slaying of his don , a company that is solely responsible for the revival of Replicants after they were made illegal following the events ofthe originalBlade Runner . So , while atomic number 19 tracks down this mysterious , naturally carry Replicant , Niander tracks K , and he uses some pretty evil methods to do so . In the end , Niander does n’t get his hands on the Replicant he was after despite the fact that K figured out who it was , therefore he is robbed of the technology to create ‘ ego - replicate Replicants ’ that he would use to usher in a new earned run average of Replicant slavery .

Niander Wallace, Jr. is Responsible for Saving an Impoverished World

InBlade Runner : Black Lotusepisode 3 ( written by Brandon Auman , channelize by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama),Elle continues herBlade Runnerjourneyof self discovery , as she comes to the ghastly conclusion that she is , in fact , a Replicant , and she was hunted for fun by a squad of world only a few day ago . Meanwhile , fans are taken inside the home of Niander Wallace and his son , Jr. , as Elle and her violent response to the affair she ’s learning about her life directly impact the Wallace Corp family . During the events of this anime , Wallace Corp is try on to legitimatize Replicants once again , and become the solitary manufacturer of the hokey humans . The only reason the company felt sure-footed enough to add back Replicants after human race ’s immense distrustfulness in them is due to the actions of one humans : Niander Wallace , Jr. As divulge in this episode , Niander , Jr. single - handedly restored multitude ’s trust in the companionship by make synthetic protein during a time in human history when nothing else was available .

Any fan of theBlade Runnermythos do it that the mankind in which the fib is set up is pretty devoid . Blade Runneris the paradigm of a cyberpunk nightmare , double-dyed with neon - alight cities fulfil to the lip with human barren , and a smog so thick that those on the ground ca n’t even see the sky during the day . Because of these rough environmental conditions , most plant and wildlife have become all but nonextant , which includes stock as well . With few and fewer pick for solid food , citizenry began to starve , and the man was so far - gone that there was seemingly no way out of this calamity . And then , Niander Wallace , Jr. , with the full - backing of his male parent ’s caller , applied his unequalled brilliance to the creation of synthetic protein . Not only did Niander literally put food in the mouths of the athirst , but the result of him doing so made hoi polloi intrust Wallace Corp , and by extension service , Replicants .

Niander Wallace saved the mankind for human race and Replicants alike before the upshot ofBlade Runner 2049 . Sure , he may have been a remorseless resister who wanted to find and analyse a naturally deport Replicant in fiat to perpetuate thralldom to an atrocious stage , but there would n’t even be a world in which he could consecrate those atrocities if it was n’t for his aliveness - salvage action – show thatBlade Runner 2049 ’s villain was secretly a hero all along .

imagery from The Boy and the Heron

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Nezuko and Tanjiro from Demon Slayer

Blade Runner 2049’s K and Niander Wallace.

Niander Wallace from Blade Runner: Black Lotus.

Blade Runner 2049