All in all, the world of sword runner is a rather grim reality, especially for a small group of Copywriters, who find themselves at the end of the most gruesome scene in franchise history – a scene that has gotten a lot worse with a important details.
Blade Runner is a franchise brimming with violence and an overall nasty tone. The world itself reeks of trash and filth, with neon-lit cities engulfed in near-constant downpours and fog so thick that people can’t even see the sky. in the morning. Not only that, but the entire modern society in this universe is based on slavery, with the Copyists providing free labor to their human lords. What’s worse is that the Copyists are fully sentient and completely self-aware. This is done to increase their productivity and minimize human supervision, but it also gives them the ability to make their own choices. Unfortunately, if any of the Copiers step out of line, they will be killed almost instantly by the Blade Runners (despite the fact that the Blade Runners are secretly siding with the Copiers). Essentially, a Duplicator’s life is a tough one, where they can choose between a life in chains or being buried early. But, for a particular group, they are not even allowed such a choice.
Some Blade Runner clones were made to be hunted (and remembered)
In Blade Runner: Black Lotus episode 4 (written by Eugene Son and Kenji Kamiyama, and directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama), fans get to know the full plot of the Mysterious Clone Elle. Previously, Elle wasn’t even sure if she was a Copier, despite clear signs that she was one. She believes she’s simply a girl with amnesia, as she can’t remember anything that happened to her other than waking up in the back of a self-driving truck. In this episode, though, she remembers everything — and it’s horrible. Apparently, Elle and several other Duplicates were specifically created to be human-like prey for a prominent group of members of the hunted society. These Duplicates are not given any mission or reason to exist other than to be killed almost immediately after being ‘born’. However, despite that, they all have detailed memories of their non-existent lives.
All Copiers have their memories implanted as they are made to make their perception seem more real. However, the only reason why they needed a higher level of sentience was so that they could better perform their duties as slaves of the world. As a result, these Hunting Copiers were treated with unbelievably cruel treatment. There’s no reason these Copiers need to have a memory of being a husband, wife, or parent before being shot by privileged members of the elite. While it could be argued that these memories make them fight harder to stay alive, which would then make them harder prey to hunt, there’s not much incentive for someone to survive. is to see the people around them murdered. The only thing that gives the Repicant memories is to fill their last moments on Earth with sadness, loss, and regret. Plus, to make matters worse, these Duplicators are powerless to fight back, so their survival instincts mean little by the time they decide to defend themselves.
Overall, this scene is extremely dark and easily seen as the scariest in the series sword runner franchise, and this gruesome scene is made so much worse by giving these Copiers — who, again, were created with the sole purpose of being hunted — memories of the details of their ‘life’ before being murdered in cold blood.