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…In the third episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS called “The Witness”, a woman who just gets off her shift at a strip club witnesses a brutal murder across from the hotel she’s staying at. When the murderer spots her, a game of cat-and-mouse begins through the streets of a surreal city. For the Witness’s makeup, apply makeup messily on your face and sparkly purple paint liberally on your arms….

…In Alita: Battle Angel, Alita (Rosa Salazar) is a disembodied “core” who wakes up with no memory in a post-apocalyptic world. Dr. Ido finds her and gives her a new cybernetic body, turning her into a cyborg, and they soon discover her extraordinary past….

…In Blade Runner 2049, Joi (Ana de Armas) is a purchasable hologram companion. One of these is the love interest of Officer K. She is projected into the environment, but able to travel with her user through an upgrade….

…In Blade Runner 2049, Mariette (Mackenzie Davis) is a female Nexus-8 replicant who works as a prostitute. She catches the interest of Officer K one evening, and so his virtual companion Joi hires her to spend the night with K while Joi synchronizes herself to Mariette’s body. Turns out there’s more to Mariette….

…In Blade Runner, Zhora Salome (Joanna Cassidy) is a replicant much like Pris. She works as an exotic dancer, performing with an artificial snake and matching snake tattoo on her neck, but has to make a run for it when Rick Deckard trackers her down….

…Shotaro Kaneda is the leader of the Capsules biker gang and the main protagonist of the Akira manga and anime franchise. He is former best friends with Tetsuo Shima, who he must turn against when the latter goes mad with power….

…In The Matrix, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) is a crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar. She is Neo’s love interest, and is many times even more bad-ass than he is….

Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer) is a replicant – an android – built for the sole purpose of fighting in places seen as too dangerous for humans, much like Pris, Zhora, and Rachael. Unfortunately for him, soldier replicants only have a four-year lifespan. It is this injustice that brings him back to Earth and pushes him to try any means necessary to extend his life. He’s one of sci-fi’s most enduring antiheroes and is almost more a fan favorite…

…In The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer by day and a hacker by night. After he encounters another hacker named Trinity, he soon goes down the rabbit hole, with Agent Smith in hot pursuit….

…timeless and critically-acclaimed anime from 1988 in which a biker gang in cyberpunk Neo-Tokyo clashes with a secret government telekinesis program. One of the bikers, Tetsuo, is granted unstoppable telekinetic abilities after accidentally colliding with one of the program’s ESPers. Finally powerful for the first time in his life, Tetsuo begins to lose his grip on reality as he abuses his newfound powers and they begin to grow out of his control….