Blade Runner

Why did Roy just die? He didn’t receive any grievous bodily harm which was enough to kill a replicant. And his natural date of death should have been 08/01/20, since his incept date was 08/01/16, so he didn’t die of natural causes

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cause he saw C-beams n shit you wouldnt understand

lol you can just download what he seen

Because it was time to die. Did you WATCH the movie?

Well it's meant to be him expiring in the film so its likely they goofed on the incept date.

If I had to give some bullshit smoothing over for it, it might be that the extreme wear of his body through his experiences may have accelerated his expiration.

It's also entirely possible that knowing he couldn't expand his own lifespan he chose to simply die in that moment because there was nothing more he could do. Though that wouldn't explain the nail through the hands.

>Roy Batty is 2 years into his lifespan right now
Holy shit.

I assume it was because he ran out of time.

>he chose to simply die in that moment
I don’t think the Tyrell Corporation would build replicants with the ability to do that. The replicants could simply mass suicide in protest of only being able to live for 4 years, which would obviously be bad for business. Also, I’ve always thought that the nail through the hand was an allegory for Christ

If he can do that why not just choose to be alive for longer?

>, I’ve always thought that the nail through the hand was an allegory for Christ

It was that but it also had a plot reason. Roy's expiry begining to occur is signalled by his hand locking up/twisting in a rigor mortis esque fashion. It happens when they visit the Chinese organ builder, and he sort of fights it off. By the time he's battling Deckard it's clearly getting harder to fight, as his hand begins to retract/twist and it seemed to me that putting the nail through his hand was meant to spike his adrenaline/keep him alert and alive so that he didn't shut down. Clearly a temporary solution.


Because it was genetically impossible for him to live longer. It's not genetically impossible for him to die.

They never fully explain how the four year lifespan works, but from Roy's conversation with Tyrell it sounds like it's some type of virus embedded in their DNA that triggers after a set amount of time. Maybe it triggers during 3 year and slowly kills them over time to the point that they die off easily right at the turn of year 4? Roy was probably suffering symptoms for a while but was being given medicine or something by the military to keep him healthy, which is what triggered his existential crisis in the first place and set the events of the film in motion. So after running away, he doesn't have the military's medical support anymore and is slowly just withering away.

He starts getting sick in the movie as it goes by. He’s sweating like crazy when he meets Tyrell, he’s not well as the film goes on.

I don't think the expiration date is exactly 4 years but around the estimated time they are expected to expire, since they use engineered organic viruses to kill the replicants.
It's like when you prognose cancer and you can only guess the estimated time for one to succumb from it, by the factors that are being found in once body.

>its likely they goofed on the incept date
To be fair, November 2019 is only a few months away from 8th of January 2020 (his expiration date). Since he’s a biological being his lifespan can’t be given an exact length, “4 years” is more of a rough estimate

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What about them beams tho, crazy shit aint it

Peace nigga

Chewie shot him with the bowcaster, I heard it hurts.

This, OP is a brainlet

I am the OP

Replicants aren't robots, they don't have a ticking bomb inside them. Iguess they decay after 4 years within a small timeframe. He should have died early january 2020 but did in late 2019.

>I watched SNEED BEAMS...