Cyberpunk
What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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I mean isn't he supposed to be a synth himself? Could easily make him not decay the same.
In universe lore is that synthetics are pre programmed to die. They live very short lives. That's like, the whole plot of the first blade runner.
"the lore" also states Rachael didn't have a programmed obsolescence and since Deckard as a replicant is all but confirmed these days with even Ford on board we can assume Deckard didn't either.
It was never openly stated. Whatever they write on that matter will certainly be a retcon. There's no canonical reason for Deckard to not die just as any other synth. He was just a glorified executioner after all. It is like putting WiFi on a letter opener. Sure, it could be done, but what's the point? There's no in universe reason for that to happen.
That doesn't change the conspiracy theorey?
I mean the woman who he runs away with is a replicamt, and special made. Who's to say hes not an illegal one?
Wouldn't that make sense why the replicants in the first movie hunted him? To get them to live longer.... Like him perhaps?