FCBD 2021: Blade Runner: Origins
2009
A short story from the Free Comic Book Day 2021 special, set alongside Blade Runner: Origins: LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux and the case of a Tyrell Corporation bioengineer found dead.
If you’re here it’s either because you watched the movies and want to discover the other media or want to watch and read everything at once. If you don’t want to read the comics, just uncheck them, they are bonus content. This guide is spoiler free like the others.
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The Calendar
The saga happens in "our" world so we’ll count in years like we do.
Canonicity
The first movie is an adaptation of the 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, and this book has sequels, prequels and various adaptations. Here we only follow the canon around this movie and its sequel.
What’s left out and why?2 entries
- Novels and novelizations
- Novels and novelizations: not canon
- Games
- Games: not canon, not available anymore, VR only or no global story
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The Tyrell Era
Blade Runner: Origins
2009
Los Angeles, 2009. LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux is sent to look into the apparent suicide of a Tyrell Corporation bioengineer. The case quickly stops looking like a suicide, and puts him on the trail of an experimental replicant that went missing the same night. This is the story of the first Blade Runner.
FCBD 2020: Blade Runner 2019
2000-2013
A short Free Comic Book Day story about the childhood of Aahna “Ash” Ashina: a sick girl raised by her grandmother in Los Angeles after her mother left for the Off-world colonies, years before she becomes a Blade Runner.
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus
2015
Tokyo, 2015. Stix and Mead, two veterans of the Kalanthia war, set up as private detectives while they hunt the comrade who abandoned them on the battlefield. A missing-person case drops them in the middle of a patent war between the Yakuza, the Tyrell Corporation and a rival corporation.
Blade Runner 2019
2019
Los Angeles, 2019. Detective Aahna “Ash” Ashina, one of the first Blade Runners, is hired to find the missing wife and daughter of a powerful businessman. The deeper she digs, the more the case forces her to choose between her client, her career and the people she was sent to find.
Blade Runner
2019
⚠️ Final Cut version!!!
The Blackout
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
2022
FCBD 2021: Blade Runner 2029
2029
A short story from the Free Comic Book Day 2021 special, set alongside Blade Runner 2029: Ash is back on the streets of Los Angeles, seven years after the Blackout.
Blade Runner 2029
2029
Los Angeles, 2029. Replicants are banned and the Tyrell Corporation is bankrupt. Back on the job as a Blade Runner, Ash investigates replicants said to be working on the Sepulveda Sea Wall, and crosses the path of one she failed to retire years earlier — who is now raising an army.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2032
Blade Runner: Black Lotus - Leaving L.A.
2032
Picks up right after the finale of the animated show: Elle leaves Los Angeles behind and tries to build herself a new life.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus - Las Vegas
2032
Elle finds a community of replicants living in Las Vegas, while a squad of mercenaries working for Niander Wallace closes in on her.
The Wallace Era
Blade Runner: 2036 Nexus Dawn
2036
Blade Runner 2039
2039
Los Angeles, 2039. Niander Wallace’s new replicants obey without question, and one of them, Luv, is now a Blade Runner hunting older models. Someone from Ash’s first case comes back to the city to ask for her help. The conclusion of Ash’s story, begun in Blade Runner 2019.
Blade Runner: 2048 Nowhere to Run
2048
Blade Runner 2049
2049