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In nearly every addition to the series , fan fall out a differentBlade Runneras they work to ‘ retire ’ the Replicants they were assigned to extinguish . However , there is one continuation to the original film that proves Blade Runners ( while entertaining to watch ) are entirely unneeded .
1982’sBlade Runnerfollows Rick Deckard , aBlade Runner with the LAPD , who is hired for a top - secret Replicant Holman Hunt . He is tasked with killing a small team of Replicants before they slay the most powerful human in this diabolic cyber-terrorist futurescape : Tyrell . Tyrell Corp is responsible for making the Nexus Series Replicants , and the modeling who go rogue in Blade Runner were only created with a three - year lifespan while also have full sentience and understanding of their horrifically inadequate lives . Replicants being self - aware is a mainstay in the serial , and is done so they can be more efficient workers on grave off - mankind chore . However , that also leave to rebellion , just like what fans first see in this 1982 moving picture . While Deckard and the Blade Runner Unit were the solution to that trouble then , there was always a much simpler resolution right under their nose , and the replacement to Tyrell shew it .
Blade Runner: Black Lotus Showed a Better Way to Control Replicants
InBlade Runner : Black Lotusepisode 4 ( written by Kenji Kamiyama and Eugene Son , direct by Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki),the Replicant , Elle , starts to recollect that she is , in fact , a Replicant , as well as all the horrors that she ’s experienced in her curt life . Elle remembers that she woke up inside a dilapidate structure in the middle of the desert with a group of other Replicants who did n’t know they were Replicants either . Then , a diminished team of humans shows up and starts scud these Replicants one - by - one in the name of what they call a ‘ Doll Hunt ’ . While this was perhaps the most brutal scene in the intact Blade Runner serial publication , it was n’t without an in - world intention , as this ‘ Doll Hunt ’ was actually mean to test out a Modern form of Replicant – a model that is totally subservient to human .
The replacement - party to Tyrell Corp , Wallace Corp , want to see if Replicants could be made that would never rebel or maybe harm human race , even under the extreme stress of being hunted – and , it work . The Replicants tried with all their synthetic heart to fight back , but they merely could n’t do it . Only Elle survived the hunt , but that was because she was create specifically by Niander Wallace , Jr. to be an assassin , not like the subservient Replicants she was with . Because of Elle , the whole thing was view as a unsuccessful person , and Niander Wallace , Jr. never made his Replicants with the idea of subservience in mind again ( as he thought of them more like his shaver , and even the next leg of human organic evolution under his guiding hand ) . However , just because Niander Wallace , Jr. had no sake in this special design detail does n’t stand for it is n’t possible , and this episode turn out explicitly that it is potential .
If Niander Wallace , Jr. did n’t have a god composite , and was more like Tyrell in terms of implementing fail - safes within the Replicants themselves , then he could just make every Replicant like the ones shown in this episode . That way , they would be physically incapable of harm mankind , which would make the Blade Runner Unit obsolete . In other actor’s line , theBlade Runnersare completely unnecessary , and one simple-minded Replicant - upgrade shown inBlack Lotusproves why .
