| Roy Batty | |
|---|---|
| Blade Runner Replicant character | |
| Portrayed by | Rutger Hauer |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Model | NEXUS-6 N6MAA10816 |
Roy Batty is the leader of the renegade Nexus-6 replicants and the main antagonist of the film. He is very intelligent, fast, and skilled at combat, and yet still learning how to deal with developing emotions. With an A Physical Level (superhuman strength & endurance) and an A Mental Level (genius level intellect), he is probably the most dangerous of all the fugitive replicants. He is a combat model, used off-world for military service. He and five other replicants come to Earth, hoping to find a way to lengthen their life span. He is able to use J.F. Sebastian to get a meeting with Tyrell, the head founder of the company and his creator. Tyrell refers to him as his "prodigal son", and tells him his life can not be extended, but that he should revel in the life he has as he has done and seen things others could only dream of. Following this, he kills Tyrell and Sebastian.
Deckard retires the remaining replicants and is hunted by a dying Roy. Trying to escape, Deckard ends up dangling from a building and saved from the fall by Roy. As he dies, Roy tells Deckard about the things he saw in his life and how all those memories would be gone forever. He then smiles, saying, "Time... to die." and passes away.
In the original novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, his name was spelled "Roy Baty," and was the leader of the eight androids (or "andys" as they are often referred to) who killed their human owners so that they could escape their life of slavery on Mars. Roy was married to Irmgard Baty, another android. Roy's relationship with Pris (who was his lover in the film) in the novel is only that of friendship.
In the novel Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, Batty is one of a series of replicants based on a mercenary of the same name. The template for these replicants suffered from "neural malformation," which made them unable to experience fear. This, it is suggested, might be one of the reasons replicants of this particular series were so difficult to kill.
Played by Rutger Hauer.
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Famous quotes by roy batty:
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the Tennhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.”
—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, final words before dying—as an android he had a built-in life span that expired (1982)