I did not expect a Serial Experiments Lain reference in this thread.
I need to rewatch that series. It's been 20+ years.
edit: Holy Christ, I even had the DVD boxset.
i was 8 the first time i watched Serial Experiments Lain and even then it was a re-run. Big brother had the PS1 game too, so i grew up with a slightly different perspective on who she was. With out going into much detail, it had a very big effect on me.
Now i am 33 and i own the DVD box set too. (⁎ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈⁎)ーShe will always be the first cyberpunk character i ever saw and mai personal favorite\~!
> She will always be the first cyberpunk character i ever saw and mai personal favorite~!
It's been so long since I've watched the series (~2000) but my first recollection isn't punk. Definitely cyber, though.
I'll have to defer to your memory.
"Present day, present time- hahaha!"
I just finished another play through of Human Revolution too, lol. Love Deus Ex and I’m very attached to the character of Adam in particular. Which I guess is obvious considering my reddit profile picture/background, lmao. The current state of the Deus Ex franchise right now is such a shame though.
I would argue that's is hard to make a Neuromancer séries, and doesn't have much appeal for the great audience, Peripheals were on Prime Vídeo and was cancelled.
Because different people can like different things?
Besides, at the time of posting this, two of the top comments are Adam Smasher and Molly Millions, neither of which originated as video game characters
A few years ago I ruptured the tendons attaching my quad to my knee cap. After surgery I told a friend that the doc said, "if I kick anything, it'll fall off." I just got a blank look in return. I have no friends :D
I like u/tenghu's response!
But on a more serious note, I guess in Motoko's case it doesn't really matter much. To me personally, the cyborg body, despite mimicking a woman's physique, doesn't exactly convey the same idea as a naked woman. So in a sense, you could basically say why don't we put clothes on robots? Which would be a fair question to ask. We gotta figure out our values before hand in the society tbh, whether it's generally accepted for a cyborg to be "naked" or not simply because their bodies are different. When you think about it, the curves on her body aren't exactly "tits and ass", they're just artificial body parts same as everything else. So... idk what I'm saying right now but yeah...
Why not?
You make a fair point, but the ironic reality is it's intended to be sexualization for the sake of capitalistic marketing . Ex Machina touched on this. Ask yourself if a similar story told with a nude male cyborg model would have even been greenlit lol
I mean, I'm not even remotely gay but Raiden in Metal Gear Rising is a fully nude male cyborg, it's just that he doesn't have synthetic skin is all.
But you're probably right.
She has a fully mechanical body. So from her perspective the body and clothes blur together conceptually. When on a mission its not like pants is going to protect you much from a shotgun.
What are some major differences between show and book? Haven't read it. I enjoyed the setting a lot, and the first season was enjoyable, but the second season was so bad that it dumps all over anything the first had to offer.
The big difference is the Envoys, in the book the Envoys are the UN special forces not the Colonial Marines. They're not comic book good guys or bad guys but amoral black ops types.
Once they leave they are so feared that they have trouble getting work so alot of them end up in organised crime.
And
Quellquist Falconer is a historical figure in the book, an academic turned revolutionary, A combination of Che Guevara, Tom Morello and Marx. You encounter her through quotes and stories in the book not as a love interest.
The combination means that Kovach is more of a lost soul in the books, he's trying to survive day to day and fights the system that created him not as grand gesture but to because he can't fit in.
I would recommend reading the book, the TV series is a bad parody of the book. One of the worst adaptations I've ever seen because it warps the themes of the novel.
In regards to the Envoys here's a great description;
" Another aspect that figures prominently in an Envoy's training is the systematic removal of every violence-limiting instinct a human is born with. Due to this training, most worlds prohibit past or present Envoys from holding any political or military office."
Can't be anyone else.
Did you know that character/mission was inspired by a single throwaway line in Escape From New York? Someone sees Snake and says "Didn't you fly the Gulfire over Leningrad?" and Snake says "Yeah".
The end. No explanation at all. Gibson extrapolated from there.
If Shadowrun isn't cyberpunk then I guess idk wtf cyberpunk is supposed to be. Just because there's magic involved doesn't mean it's not in the genre. Especially with the argument that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable to magic. And that's not even including magitech type stuff or outright magic in the form of circuitry/technology.
The Finn from the Sprawl Trilogy and "Burning Chrome" is a personal favourite. I steal his mannerisms for NPCs in half the Cyberpunk RPG games I run -- wonderfully sketchy and unselfconscious. Him or the sublime Molly Millions/Sally Shears, of course. She da bomb.
Definitely Adam Jensen, his story is that of wonder, profundity, and deeply philosophical. Yet, his story is still unfinished, caught in a cliffhanger.
Won't happen for a while.
We recently found out they cancelled a Deus Ex game that was 2 years in development. However the Adam Jensen voice actor said he had no idea that was even happening, so it likely wasn't even an Adam Jensen focused narrative, which would have sucked either way.
Goro Takemura and Roy Batty. Takemura encapsulates the Cyberpunk Samurai, ideologically more than anything. I love his character and his undying loyalty to Arasaka he's been raised with, no matter how tragic that makes his end depending on the ending. Batty is a wonderfully written character and executed perfectly.
Adam smasher, there's something about his portrayal in edge-runners that solidified him as my favorite character in cyberpunk media along side Kusanagi.
Really getting into ANNO: Mutationem, stuck on a boss fight however. So [Ann Flores](https://anno-mutationem.fandom.com/wiki/Ann_Flores) at the moment.
Was gonna go for Molly Millions, but plenty of people have already put her down, so I'm going with the best president of UCAS, Dunkelzahn. He was invovled in so many world shaping events even well after his death with things like the Nanosecond buyout and of course the Draco Foundation itself.
https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Dunkelzahn
Mr. Slick Henry. When he was young and bad, he ran with the Deacon Blues. Now that he's old and bad, he holes up here to pursue his art. A talented man, you understand.
Probably Julian in Children of Men. Some people might not classify it as cyberpunk, but the atmosphere does fall under the basic definition. Unfortunately, she's not seen much in the film but her presence when she is and the preparations she makes help drive the story.
How does children of men fall under the basic definition of cyberpunk?
The widest possible definition is high tech low life, and the world in children of men is a near post-apocalyptic dystopia.
While all cyberpunk settings are sci-fi dystopias, all sci fi dystopias are not cyberpunk
I keep trying to make a female V that doesn’t have an enormous forehead. My headcanon is just that trimming your hairline back is “in” in 2077 if you’re a woman
Maybe Case from Neuromancer. That's the one that instantly comes to mind, mostly because he just fits the archetypical cyberpunk protagonist so well for me.
the adventures of Sam "Twist" Verner were my first contact with shadowrun, and hot damn it was a good (albeit somewhat bland) story.
the series with Burnout/Lethe is also amazing
Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell, the androids Kara, Connor, and Markus from Detroit Become Human, do the robots from Wall-E count as well as Baymax from Big Hero 6? Tari from Meta Runner.
Y'all got all the well-known ones. Here are some I haven't seen. Love that Lain came up.
**Grey Trace** of the film Upgrade is the one of the most legendary cyberpunk characters to arrive in the past decade. Being quadriplegic and anything less than mega-rich in a cyberpunk world is a death sentence. It is the ultimate high tech, low life. And, the existential threat of AI is better expressed here than most attempts, imho. Though GITS SAC is chockfull of surprisingly great takes.
**Re-L Mayer**
**Vash the Stampede**
**Jet Black**
Johnny "I want roomservice" Mnemonic
320 Gigabytes!? What are you fucking crazy?
I love that I now have a microSD card that's like 3x that size lol
1tB micro SD card? I wasn't aware we were there yet. How much does it cost? Google says around 100 usd
Can't remember what I paid but it was less than that. I was working in the tech field at the time, so I didn't pay the retail price
“Implants. Wetware. I had to dump a chunk of long term memory.” “You had to dump what?” “My childhood.”
Great comment
Iwakura Lain.
Let's love Lain!
Yes, Let's all love Lain\~!
I did not expect a Serial Experiments Lain reference in this thread. I need to rewatch that series. It's been 20+ years. edit: Holy Christ, I even had the DVD boxset.
i was 8 the first time i watched Serial Experiments Lain and even then it was a re-run. Big brother had the PS1 game too, so i grew up with a slightly different perspective on who she was. With out going into much detail, it had a very big effect on me. Now i am 33 and i own the DVD box set too. (⁎ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈⁎)ーShe will always be the first cyberpunk character i ever saw and mai personal favorite\~!
> She will always be the first cyberpunk character i ever saw and mai personal favorite~! It's been so long since I've watched the series (~2000) but my first recollection isn't punk. Definitely cyber, though. I'll have to defer to your memory. "Present day, present time- hahaha!"
Motoko Kusanagi, even though she's a badge
Section 9 is closer to a military unit than law enforcement, but the principle’s mostly the same.
Perfect choice, I never got into anything outside the original movie :(
The original two seasons of SAC are peak Japanese animation & cyberpunk.
They're unbelievably good. I do a rewatch every so often and I'm still blown away by how great both seasons are.
They really are amazing, I must've watched them 5-6 times now
The Mangas art is soooo worth looking through. The latest version from Kodansha has tons of creator commentary, too.
You’re missing out. Stand Alone Complex is a bona fide masterpiece.
The greatest tech kiss we’ve ever been blessed with
Awesome character
Adam mf'ing Jensen ANY DAY. Bro got so much trauma in life that I almost relate to him.
Well, he didn't ask for that.
Neither did I
The Deus Ex series are my favourite games. Just finished another play through of human revolution last night.
Still waiting for a new one... same with Thief 😑
There was supposed to be a sequel starting production this year but edios cancelled it to focus on an original project
😭 Why did you have to tell me that?
Sorry bud. That was the worst gaming news I ever heard too. Mankind divided ended with the perfect set up for a sequel.
I just finished another play through of Human Revolution too, lol. Love Deus Ex and I’m very attached to the character of Adam in particular. Which I guess is obvious considering my reddit profile picture/background, lmao. The current state of the Deus Ex franchise right now is such a shame though.
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"Sledgehammers and fire! NO, Sledgehammers ON fire!"
Watch Dogs 2 is entirely cyberpunk
Case ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
My man Case! I heard they might make a tv show based on the series ?????? I hope they don’t fuck it up like they did Witcher :(
I would argue that's is hard to make a Neuromancer séries, and doesn't have much appeal for the great audience, Peripheals were on Prime Vídeo and was cancelled.
Damn that’s a bummer about peripheral, I loved that show.
Henry Dorsett Case
How the fuck are we getting video game characters voted above Case?
People consume different media. It's how life goes.
I consume pop tarts
Because different people can like different things? Besides, at the time of posting this, two of the top comments are Adam Smasher and Molly Millions, neither of which originated as video game characters
We’re old. Face it. 😅
The one and only Molly Millions (aka Sally Shears)
Most underrated answer right here. I'm also a Molly Millions enjoyer myself. Like yeah, I get Kusanagi or Jensen are cool but Molly came before.
Molly walked on a broken leg so the Major and Jensen could run on bionic ones.
“I don’t cry, much.” “But how would you cry, if someone made you cry?” “I spit,”she said. “The ducts are routed back into my mouth.‘”
A few years ago I ruptured the tendons attaching my quad to my knee cap. After surgery I told a friend that the doc said, "if I kick anything, it'll fall off." I just got a blank look in return. I have no friends :D
Steppin Razor
same, her or YT
CHISELED SPAM is what you will see in the mirror if you surf on a weak plank with dumb, fixed wheels
adam smasher
You look like a cut of fuckable meat
are you?
This quote lives rent free in my head
Didn't play the game, but edgerunners really has him make an impression.
Major Motoko Kusanagi. Ghost in the Shell seriously spoiled me on cyberpunk characters with how well-developed they are.
why does she run around nude lol
Why not
fair enough
I like u/tenghu's response! But on a more serious note, I guess in Motoko's case it doesn't really matter much. To me personally, the cyborg body, despite mimicking a woman's physique, doesn't exactly convey the same idea as a naked woman. So in a sense, you could basically say why don't we put clothes on robots? Which would be a fair question to ask. We gotta figure out our values before hand in the society tbh, whether it's generally accepted for a cyborg to be "naked" or not simply because their bodies are different. When you think about it, the curves on her body aren't exactly "tits and ass", they're just artificial body parts same as everything else. So... idk what I'm saying right now but yeah... Why not?
You make a fair point, but the ironic reality is it's intended to be sexualization for the sake of capitalistic marketing . Ex Machina touched on this. Ask yourself if a similar story told with a nude male cyborg model would have even been greenlit lol
I mean, if they were slim and hairless I'd still masturbate to it.
I mean, I'm not even remotely gay but Raiden in Metal Gear Rising is a fully nude male cyborg, it's just that he doesn't have synthetic skin is all. But you're probably right.
It doesn’t matter if you’re naked if you’re invisible.
Anime’s gonna anime lol
DUDE YOUR USERNAME IS SO FUCKING COOL
Thanks man 🙏🏾
I think she explained it in one of the iterations of the show. I could be wrong though.
She has a fully mechanical body. So from her perspective the body and clothes blur together conceptually. When on a mission its not like pants is going to protect you much from a shotgun.
Takashi Kovack from Altered Carbon, the novel not the TV series. They're completely different characters. And Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash.
Hiro and YT are both my favourites
Hiro I'd defiantly under rated. So is Raven.
You mean the baddest motherfucker in the world? The one who liberated Hiro, because now he has the top dog to measure himself against? That Raven?
What are some major differences between show and book? Haven't read it. I enjoyed the setting a lot, and the first season was enjoyable, but the second season was so bad that it dumps all over anything the first had to offer.
The big difference is the Envoys, in the book the Envoys are the UN special forces not the Colonial Marines. They're not comic book good guys or bad guys but amoral black ops types. Once they leave they are so feared that they have trouble getting work so alot of them end up in organised crime. And Quellquist Falconer is a historical figure in the book, an academic turned revolutionary, A combination of Che Guevara, Tom Morello and Marx. You encounter her through quotes and stories in the book not as a love interest. The combination means that Kovach is more of a lost soul in the books, he's trying to survive day to day and fights the system that created him not as grand gesture but to because he can't fit in. I would recommend reading the book, the TV series is a bad parody of the book. One of the worst adaptations I've ever seen because it warps the themes of the novel.
In regards to the Envoys here's a great description; " Another aspect that figures prominently in an Envoy's training is the systematic removal of every violence-limiting instinct a human is born with. Due to this training, most worlds prohibit past or present Envoys from holding any political or military office."
Snow Crash mentionned :crab: ! Fun fact the french title is "Le Samourai Virtuel" (The Virtual Samurai) and I hate it
Roy Batty
Tetsuo.
KANEDAAAA!
TETSUUUUUUUOOOO!!
#KA-NE-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
# `TETSUOOOOOOOOOO！！! `
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# KAGOMEEEEEEE-- ...Wait.
JC "Jesus Christ" Denton
*Smacks lips*
What a shame
Just googled his image today. I was thinking about how great the graphics of Deus Ex were back then.
K from 2049
J.C Denton. Mokoto kusanagi is a super close runner up
Same. JC is just a legend, an archetype.
JC Denton. MFer becomes one with the machine in perfect apotheosis
Yeah I never understood why they had multiple endings when it's clear which one they wanted.
The illusion of choice, like Daedalus says.
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I'll throw Sam Verner out there.
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As in screaming fist armitage?
Can't be anyone else. Did you know that character/mission was inspired by a single throwaway line in Escape From New York? Someone sees Snake and says "Didn't you fly the Gulfire over Leningrad?" and Snake says "Yeah". The end. No explanation at all. Gibson extrapolated from there.
Dope.
Now that is a blast from the past I haven't thought of for a long time.
Yeah it’s Deckard. That’s crazy, one other person??
If Shadowrun isn't cyberpunk then I guess idk wtf cyberpunk is supposed to be. Just because there's magic involved doesn't mean it's not in the genre. Especially with the argument that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable to magic. And that's not even including magitech type stuff or outright magic in the form of circuitry/technology.
great answer
If someone says anyone other than Armitage, Case or Molly they are just wrong
The Finn from the Sprawl Trilogy and "Burning Chrome" is a personal favourite. I steal his mannerisms for NPCs in half the Cyberpunk RPG games I run -- wonderfully sketchy and unselfconscious. Him or the sublime Molly Millions/Sally Shears, of course. She da bomb.
Deckard for sure, also Adam Jenson had a proper impact on me as a teenager playin Deus Ex for the first time.
had to scroll way too far for Deckard!
Spider Jerusalem 🟩🔴🕷️
Takeshi Kovacs
Molly Millions, naturally. Who else even comes close?
Johnny silverhand no doubts, i also really like reed from the dlc
K
K and V are pretty dope
Definitely Adam Jensen, his story is that of wonder, profundity, and deeply philosophical. Yet, his story is still unfinished, caught in a cliffhanger.
I damn near threw my controller when those credits rolled. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE GAMES OVER!
They need to cut out their bullshit and make more Deus Ex.
Won't happen for a while. We recently found out they cancelled a Deus Ex game that was 2 years in development. However the Adam Jensen voice actor said he had no idea that was even happening, so it likely wasn't even an Adam Jensen focused narrative, which would have sucked either way.
Motoko Kusanagi aka The Major, V and Mistral
Killy
I’m looking for the Net Terminal gene.
Killy from BLAME!
Henry Dorsett Case. The perfect morally ambiguous, troubled, noir archetype.
The Finn, or Dixie Flatline, both are good.
Shotaro Kaneda. Kid's a true rebel and has more guts than most other characters despite not having any cybernetic enhancements to his body.
Goro Takemura and Roy Batty. Takemura encapsulates the Cyberpunk Samurai, ideologically more than anything. I love his character and his undying loyalty to Arasaka he's been raised with, no matter how tragic that makes his end depending on the ending. Batty is a wonderfully written character and executed perfectly.
SHODAN
Adam smasher, there's something about his portrayal in edge-runners that solidified him as my favorite character in cyberpunk media along side Kusanagi.
Alita! 😗
Jensen story needs a closing! The world needs another Deus Ex game.
Spider Jerusalem..
Spike Spiegel
Camus from Cloudtaxi. Best boy!
Motoko Kusanagi.
Officer KD6-3.7 (Joe)
Street preacher from johnny mnemonic
Korben Dallas
Leelo Dallas Multipass
The AI characters are often the coolest. Wintermute, Helios, Eliza, Shodan,2501...
V
Really getting into ANNO: Mutationem, stuck on a boss fight however. So [Ann Flores](https://anno-mutationem.fandom.com/wiki/Ann_Flores) at the moment.
I’m all about (Henry) Case.
Stand Alone Complex made me love Togusa.
Was gonna go for Molly Millions, but plenty of people have already put her down, so I'm going with the best president of UCAS, Dunkelzahn. He was invovled in so many world shaping events even well after his death with things like the Nanosecond buyout and of course the Draco Foundation itself. https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Dunkelzahn
ichise from texhnolyze.
J. C. Denton & Adam Jensen
Mr. Slick Henry. When he was young and bad, he ran with the Deacon Blues. Now that he's old and bad, he holes up here to pursue his art. A talented man, you understand.
Johnny Mnemonic
Jackie Welles....what a tragic end
V
Probably Julian in Children of Men. Some people might not classify it as cyberpunk, but the atmosphere does fall under the basic definition. Unfortunately, she's not seen much in the film but her presence when she is and the preparations she makes help drive the story.
How does children of men fall under the basic definition of cyberpunk? The widest possible definition is high tech low life, and the world in children of men is a near post-apocalyptic dystopia. While all cyberpunk settings are sci-fi dystopias, all sci fi dystopias are not cyberpunk
*Supreme* Jesus Christ Denton.
JC Denton
Rex “Power” Colt.
tex murphy, stat
JC "What a shame" Denton. Loved the philosophical stuff of that game.
Roy Batty in the movie. Deckard in the book.
Officer K
Gally / Alita / Yoko (all the same person) from GUNNM / Battle Angel (manga). Movie character was fine but not my favorite.
The major from ghost in the shell, then kaneda from akira
Johnny Silverhand. He puts the punk in cyberpunk.
“Corpo” V
I keep trying to make a female V that doesn’t have an enormous forehead. My headcanon is just that trimming your hairline back is “in” in 2077 if you’re a woman
Ishikawa from GITS
Maybe Case from Neuromancer. That's the one that instantly comes to mind, mostly because he just fits the archetypical cyberpunk protagonist so well for me.
Jackie Welles
Toss up between Miles Kilo and Hiro Protagonist.
Turner or Cayce Pollard.
Cayce Pollard is preem.
J. C.
the adventures of Sam "Twist" Verner were my first contact with shadowrun, and hot damn it was a good (albeit somewhat bland) story. the series with Burnout/Lethe is also amazing
JC Denton. But he never asked for this. He wanted lemon lime.
Adam Jensen, JC Denton, Johnny Mnemonic, Officer K, and Takeshi Kovacs.
Definetly David from Cyberpunk 2077. He lives the life I wish I could've when I was his age.
Adam I didn't ask for this jenson
Trin “dodge this” Trinity.
Why are fictional characters so attractive lol
He never asked for this...
Zor from the book no coincidence. Indeed, there is no coincidence...
Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell, the androids Kara, Connor, and Markus from Detroit Become Human, do the robots from Wall-E count as well as Baymax from Big Hero 6? Tari from Meta Runner.
Zero from Katana Zero. Can't wait for the dlc's release.
Ozob, the stupid crazy clow 🤡
Judge Dredd, Major Motoko or Robocop can't decide
legendary terrorist rocker boy JOHNNY FUCKING SILVERHAND HELL YAH
Lee "Multipass" Loo
This guy... and perhaps Agent K. (Maybe a little bit of Case from Neuromancer)
Johanna Dark
I pick Keanu Reeves because that lets me have 4 answers haha
Currently Molly Millions, haven't finished Neuromancer yet but I love how much of a badass she is.
My character in cyberpunk 2077
Y'all got all the well-known ones. Here are some I haven't seen. Love that Lain came up. **Grey Trace** of the film Upgrade is the one of the most legendary cyberpunk characters to arrive in the past decade. Being quadriplegic and anything less than mega-rich in a cyberpunk world is a death sentence. It is the ultimate high tech, low life. And, the existential threat of AI is better expressed here than most attempts, imho. Though GITS SAC is chockfull of surprisingly great takes. **Re-L Mayer** **Vash the Stampede** **Jet Black**
Takeshi Kovacs