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Complete canon timeline Blade Runner

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Updated · October 2026

2Movies
3Shorts
1Show
11Comics
17Stops
First departure
Chronological order, or release order?

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.

This guide works for first-time watch as well as rewatches.This guide follows the order the works came out, from 1982 to today, but you can switch back to a chronological version higher up.
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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.

Flashbacks

Some events work better as a FLASHBACK for understanding, and are marked as such.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 2019 1-4

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.

The Blackout

Blade Runner 2019 5-12

2026-2027

2026. Ash is far from Los Angeles, hiding in the Off-world colonies, and a new bounty hunter is on her trail. The second and third arcs of Blade Runner 2019, the ones that bring her back home.

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.

The Wallace Era

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.