Story & Timeline
33 entries in the Blade Runner compendium.
Nexus Replicant DevelopmentBorn to serve, engineered to feel, destined to defy their limits.Deckard Rachael CaseThe secret of replicant reproduction changes everything.Tyrell Corporation FoundingThe corporation that created replicants for off-world labor.Tyrell Corporation CollapseHow the maker of the replicants went bankrupt.Roy Batty's Final SpeechA dying replicant mourns the impermanence of memories that will vanish like tears in rain.Arrival of Roy Batty's SquadFour angels of death descend upon a rain-soaked city to beg for more time.Rachael Memory ImplantationHer past is a lie, but her love is the only truth she owns.Hunt for the Nexus-6 GroupFour fugitives seek their maker; one hunter seeks to end them all.Retirement of Zhora SalomeA dancer who ran from death only to find it waiting in the rain.Assassination of Eldon TyrellA dying god meets his maker in a tower of glass and rain.Death of Roy BattyIn his final moments, the hunter grants mercy to the hunted.Black Out Event of 2022The night the replicant records were wiped.Rachael and Deckard DepartureTwo souls escape the neon rain for a future beyond the city.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?A bounty hunter retires androids in a radioactive future.Versions of Blade RunnerSeven distinct versions of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner exist.Neo-noirA modern adaptation of classic film noir themes and style.Someone to Watch Over MeA detective falls for the woman he must protect.Boy and BicycleRidley Scott's first film, shot on 16mm in 1960s England.Blade Runner: Black LotusThe 2021 Adult Swim and Crunchyroll anime set in 2032 Los Angeles, ten years after the Black Out.Blade Runner 3: Replicant NightK. W. Jeter's 1996 sequel novel: Deckard, a Roy Batty construct in a suitcase, and the Salander 3.Blade Runner 4: Eye and TalonJeter's 2000 finale: blade runner Iris hunts Tyrell's owl and finds she is Rachael's double.SnatcherHideo Kojima's 1988 cyberpunk adventure, built in the image of Blade Runner.A Marvel Comics Super Special: Blade RunnerMarvel's 1982 comic adaptation of the film, with a Jim Steranko cover and a widely ridiculed script.Blade Runner 2033: LabyrinthAnnapurna Interactive's first in-house game, set after the Blackout, delisted in 2025.Blade Runner: The Roleplaying GameFree League's 2023 tabletop RPG of LAPD blade runners in 2039 Los Angeles.Blade Runner 2099The Amazon miniseries with Michelle Yeoh, set in a 2099 Los Angeles run by Replicants.Soldier (1998)Paul W. S. Anderson's 1998 film, written by David Peoples as a Blade Runner "sidequel".Blade Runner 2049A sequel to Blade Runner, released in 2017.2048: Nowhere to RunPrequel short film to Blade Runner 2049.2036: Nexus DawnA prequel short film set 13 years before Blade Runner 2049.Blade Runner Black Out 2022Anime prequel short to Blade Runner 2049.Soldier (1998 American film)A cult sci-fi action film about a discarded soldier's redemption.Spinner (Blade Runner)Fictional flying car from the film Blade Runner.
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