replicant

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replicant

(ˈrɛplɪkənt)
n
an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
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were biological, similar to the concepts of replicants or androids, nowadays the word is used for a programmable machine that operates automatically.
Two dispensable replicants created for dangerous missions, with no sense of identity, programmed to die before they can develop it.
Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah and more, Blade Runner follows detective Rick Deckard, who must continue as Replicant Hunter following the escape of four Replicants from colonies who've returned to earth.
COMEDY Comic Potential In a TV studio of the future, where soap opera actors have been replaced by android replicants, juvenile "actoid" JC-333 (Jacie) is about to awaken to a whole new world of romance, excitement...
The replicants that we encounter in the first Blade Runner film are self-aware and seek age-old answers to the problems of identity and purpose despite the fact that they are born of technology, artificial.
In Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982), the role of replicants, designed to fulfil a range of industrial functions in both the off-world colonies and on Earth, seems more accepted; nonetheless, humans in this film still cover their bases with the androids' built-in obsolescence and also the work of the titular blade runners, specialised police officers who are tasked with capturing rogue replicants.
You can quibble with aspects of it and people being people (as opposed to replicants) surely will.
Blade Runner 2049, 15, PS19.99 Officer KD6-3.7 (Ryan Gosling) part of a new breed of grizzled blade runners, who "retire" genetically engineered replicants that live among the weary population.
Officer KD6-3.7 (Ryan Gosling) is part of a new breed of grizzled blade runners, who "retire" genetically engineered replicants that live among the weary population.
His mission remains the same as Harrison Ford's Deckard's was back then: Track down and 'retire' any renegade humanoid androids (aka Replicants).
Ryan Gosling as K The laconic hero is officer KD6-3.7 (Ryan Gosling), one of a new breed of grizzled blade runners, who "retire" genetically engineered replicants that live among the weary population.
Set 30 years after the events of the first film, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling) is a Blade Runner with a mission to track down and 'retire' out-of-date replicants (artificial humans built through genetic engineering).
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