![blade runner 2049 art blade runner 2049 art](https://govettbrewster.com/media/cache/e9/35/e9350dfa61d1d124a761844eebd234b4.png)
In the first Blade Runner, a haunting test has been formulated in order to suss out who's human and who's not by highlighting the uncanny valley of a replicant's not-quite-right emotional responses (they are, to quote their corporate manufacturers, "more human than human").īy the year 2049, in the sequel, all K needs to do is check for a serial number embedded in the sclera of every replicant's left eyeball. The prime mindfuck of the Blade Runner universe is that replicants are so close in every way to humans that - superhuman strength aside - there's no way to immediately tell them apart.
![blade runner 2049 art blade runner 2049 art](https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/007/974/302/large/victor-martinez-env-extcitystreet-01-v03c-150512-vm.jpg)
K is part of a new, more obedient line of replicants, synthetic beings primarily invented to bear the brunt of the dangerous labor of space colonization, the fruits of which are then enjoyed by humans who get to start anew in nicer off-world climes. Unlike Deckard, whose origins were famously left ambiguous in Ridley Scott's 1982 film, K knows his nature exactly: He's a replicant himself, and the targets he retires are his own kind - though older, wayward models who've attempted to escape the subservient existences for which they were created. Like Deckard, K is a loner who likes a long coat, and whose job is to kill - though no one in this dystopian universe calls it that, preferring the euphemism "retire." K, like Deckard, is a blade runner, a professional hunter of replicants.
![blade runner 2049 art blade runner 2049 art](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.680165829.3948/farp,small,wall_texture,product,750x1000.u1.jpg)
Blade Runner 2049’s melancholy hero K, played by Ryan Gosling, has some things in common with his predecessor Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), protagonist of the original Blade Runner.