Roy Batty

Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer) is the main antagonist in Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner.

He is a replicant (androids identical to human beings made by Tyrell Corporation to serve people) from the Nexus 6 generation. He belongs to a group of six Nexus 6 replicants which rebelled into an outworld colony and took over a spaceship after killing its passengers. After the incident replicants were banned on Earth, where a special police unit, known as Blade Runner, was appointed to discover and kill them.

Roy has both mental and physical level A, which means he is extremely intelligent and physically skilled, and is the leader of his group, which has come back to Eartb to meet its creator, Mr. Tyrell, to ask him for more life (in order to prevent replicants from developing their own emotions they were given lifespans of only 4 years). Roy kills Mr. Tyrell when he says he cannot fulfill this request.

When he meets agent Rick Deckard (a Blade Runner), he breaks two of Deckard's right hand fingers to avenge the death of two of his comrades at the agent's hands and prevent him from using his gun, the Detective Special 2019, and starts a cat-and-mouse game with him. But during this hunting Roy suddenly realizes that his life is coming to an end, and moments later saves Deckard from falling to his death, meaning he has come to understand the true meaning of life, and after a brief but eloquent farewell speech, he calmly passes away.