Assignment #3

Who said what? This quote on this graphic can seem very confusing, as you can see Harrison Ford’s character in Blade Runner, Rick Deckard, saying the iconic line delivered by Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, with it being quoted by Major Motoko Kusanagi, the main character in the Japanese cyberpunk anime series, Ghost in the Shell. All of these characters share similar characteristics. One being that they are all iconic characters in the cyberpunk, tech-noir genre. Also, they are all lone-wolf, hard-shell main characters of these pieces of media, navigating their own complex, dystopian worlds. Haunted by their traumatic pasts, the lines between right and wrong are blurred, making them question their own actions or motivations. They tend to have a cynical outlook, enforcing their ‘lone-wolf’ persona in order to protect their own feelings and to not relive the trauma that got them to be how they are in the first place. These characters are one of the many archetypes in cyperpunk/tech-noir media.