The climactic battle between Deckard and Roy inBlade Runneris one of the most warmheartedness - wrenching and suspenseful scene in all of science fiction , especially when Deckard most meets a gruesome goal . However , if one popular fan - theory is right , then the scene loses a bit of its suspense , as Deckard would have live alone , no matter what happened .

Throughout 1982’sBlade Runner , Rick Deckard is hunt a radical of rogue Replicants who are on a foreign mission to have their lifespans extend by their creator , Tyrell . Since the Replicants are a direct menace to the prophylactic of the most powerful person in the man , Deckard was under immense pressure to feel every one of them and dowhat Blade Runners dobest : retire Replicants . For the most part , Deckard is successful in kill all his targets . And then , there was Roy , the leader of the team of Replicants . Deckard tag Roy to a vacant story in a tall building , and it was there where they fight down to the decease . By the end of the fight , Deckard found himself hanging on for dear life off the side of the edifice , with nothing beneath him but a long fall and an assured death . However , rather than permit the piece who murdered his friend and tried to vote out him buy the farm , Roy make up one’s mind to save Deckard . While the scene was touching for a number of reason , it may have been unnecessary , as Deckard would really have endure no matter what , even if he fell from that great pinnacle – at least , if he was a Replicant .

Blade Runner: Black Lotus Proves Replicants Can Survive Falling from Great Heights

InBlade Runner : Black Lotusepisode 6 ( written by Margaret Dunlap , directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama),the Replicant Ellehas tracked down two of the people responsible for hunting a group of Replicants like animals ( which was an event known as the ‘ Doll Hunt ) . Elle break in into their penthouse home and killed them before her safety valve was interrupted by a Blade Runner hired to retire her . While her fight with the Blade Runner was an epic display of combative acquirement from both sides , it terminate with Elle coming out on top , as she found a means to make a immense explosion from her victim ’s throttle stove , and make her escape in the chaos that followed . Upon the explosion , Elle was blasted out the windowpane and fall from the great height of that penthouse condominium . However , when she land , she only had minimum injuries and was pretty much good to go right away , and the only agency that ’s potential is because she ’s a Replicant .

Since the release of 1982’sBlade Runner , fans have suspected that Rick Deckard was , himself , a Replicant . This theory was touch off mostly by the bring footage made available in the director ’s cutting , footage that remained in the canonic Final Cut . That append footage show Deckard dream of a unicorn , and afterwards in the movie , one of the people he was puzzle out with throughout left an origami sculpture of a unicorn in his apartment . Another clue rooter call attention to is Deckard ’s middle in the final scene of the photographic film , as it looked as though they glow in that reflective manner all Replicants ’ eyes did .

While these theories – and many more , peculiarly afterBlade Runner 2049 – are convincing , the cold , gruelling truth of the matter is it ’s never been confirmed one way or the other . However , what has ostensibly been confirmed fromBlade Runner : Black Lotusis , if Deckard is a Replicant , he would have survived his conflict with Roy even if the scalawag Replicant let him fall from the construction , as that is the one stipulation that would have allowed Deckard to surviveBlade Runneralone .

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Blade Runner’s Deckard with Roy.

Blade Runner’s Deckard almost dying, played by Harrison Ford

Blade Runner Black Lotus Trailer