cyberpunk
Alita: Battle Angel
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.
Mariette from Blade Runner 2049
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.
Shotaro Kaneda
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.
Zhora from Blade Runner
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.
Motoko Kusanagi
In Ghost in the Shell, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) is field commander of Public Security Section 9. She is highly intelligent, known for her deductive, military, and hacking skills, not to mention physically powerful due to her full-body prosthesis.
Neo
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.