's Night City is full of references to other media, with its own version of the Batmobile found within a cave, to one of the fastest bikes in the game, the Yaiba Kusanagi CT-3X, which is also known as the motorbike from. Some details, however, open up a multiversal can of worms, mainly surrounding the works of actor Keanu Reeves, who also portrays Rockerboy Johnny Silverhand in the game.
Silverhand is one of the main characters in the game, despite having died 54 years prior to V's story. The deceased rockstar rebel's engram is on the prototype version of the Relic embedded in V's head, which is gradually killing them. Through flashbacks and conversations with Silverhand, players learn more about his backstory, goals, enemies, and alliances, many of whom return to assist V or cause trouble in 's narrative. Silverhand will also appear to comment on actions throughout the game, and even assume control of V's body at certain points.
When entering a cooling installation on Scoffield Street in The Glen, Heywood, players will find the body of a suited man, and will be able to pick up a skill shard for Blades, and what is presumably the final conversation this man had. As pointed out by Redditor copolii, upon reading the shard, it's clear that this moment was pulled from the classic 1999 sci-fi action movie,, only with a slight change of the characters' names. Instead of Thomas Anderson (aka. Neo) and Morpheus, 's versions are called John Anderson and ORPH3U5.
The moment in question is when Morpheus tries to navigate Neo through his office building to escape the Agents who are hunting him. It leads to a moment in which he is told to climb out of a window and onto a narrow ledge to scale the outside of the skyscraper to reach the roof and get to freedom. A gust of wind blows and Neo's fear takes over, with him telling Morpheus he can't do it and ultimately getting captured. 's version clearly plays out a bit differently, with John Anderson climbing onto the ledge and
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