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No image of Roy Batty?

Considering that Rutger Hauer's character 'Roy Batty' is one of the most famous replicants in movie history, if not perhaps even the most famous, shouldn't there consequently also be an image of his character in the article?

Okama-San (talk) 17:13, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gant & the Unicorn

Walter Görlitz, with regard to this reversion, I'll clarify my reasoning, and can you clarify yours please?

I removed the entire section because it hinges on the assumption that Gant may know that Deckard is a replicant: "that Gaff leaves an origami unicorn at Deckard's house may imply that he knows of Deckard's implanted dream". Not only is this completely unsourced, but your reversion reinserted the {{OR|date=June 2019}} tag. The relevance of the unicorn and the rest of the paragraph hinges on this assumption that Gaff has some extra knowledge of Deckard - which is not backed up by any part of the film in any format.

There is no doubt that Gaff calls out "It's too bad she won't live... then again, who does?", but what is the relevance to Deckard being a replicant? There is nothing to support this claim, and in reality my summary that it's just as likely (and just as unsourced) that Gaff himself is a replicant therefore has knowledge of such things.

The inclusion of the Unicorns and dreams is in the film, but the leap that this proves in some way that he's a replicant is unsourced supposition. Chaheel Riens (talk) 10:19, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. I was arguing that plots are verifiable by their existence on the media. MOS:PLOTSOURCE: "The plot summary for a work, on a page about that work, does not need to be sourced with in-line citations, as it is generally assumed that the work itself is the primary source for the plot summary." We cannot assume what it means, but that it happens does not need to be sourced. The difference between cuts has no bearing on replicants. The "may imply that he knows of Deckard's implanted dream" phrase is what you object to, not the lack of sourcing. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:07, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Was Deckard a replicant?

Is this section even relevant? This article is about replicants in the Blade Runner universe, the question of whether a particular character seems far too specific for an encyclopedia entry.--Roybatty675 (talk) 03:41, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Since there is a debate about whether he was or was not, I see it as relevant. I did not add it though. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:29, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Replicant → Replicant (Blade Runner)
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– There doesn't appear to be a primary topic between the Blade Runner race and the film Replicant (film), which appears unrelated to Blade Runner and has gotten consistently high pageviews over a long period. Even if the word was in fact coined by Blade Runner, being the origin of a term does not definitively make it the primary topic. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:05, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]