Warning! SPOILERS for Blade Runner: Black Lotus episodes 1 & 2
The first two episodes of Blade Runner: Black Lotus seem to have retconned the backstory of Niander Wallace, Jr., the tech magnate played by Jared Leto in Blade Runner 2049, while changing the history of replicant slaves on Earth. It had previously been suggested in some of the prequel material setting up Blade Runner 2049 that replicants were completely illegal until Niander Wallace, Jr. convinced a group of politicians to legalize
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