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* [[Television Geography]]: The film's climax ostensibly takes place in and atop the Bradbury Building, but during the sequence where Deckard climbs up to the roof, he is obviously climbing up the side of one of the Rosslyn Hotel buildings several blocks away, as evidenced by the blue orbs on the roofline, as well as the increased height of the building itself (the Bradbury having only five floors in real life). Possibly justified in that most of the old buildings in Future L.A. seem to have been given major vertical extensions, and the fact that it is a very cool-looking roof line.

* [[Thigh-High Boots]]: Zhora wears them during her chase/fight with Deckard.

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]:

** Rachael initially believed herself to be human, based on memories duplicated from Tyrell's niece (named Sarah in the novels).

** Depending on the version, {{spoiler|Deckard}} is hinted to various degrees to be a replicant with false memories himself, something that was overtly teased in the novelization. The film's director [[Ridley Scott]] says he is, while Harrison Ford and both of the film's writers say he is not. That particular argument is [[Internet Backdraft|a good way to make enemies]] in the fandom. It's ''that'' divisive.

** Interestingly, the climactic confrontation between Deckard and Roy Batty takes place in the Bradbury Building -- which was also the setting of "Demon With a Glass Hand", the classic [[Tomato in the Mirror]] episode of ''[[The Outer Limits]]''. This probably was ''not'' accidental.

** Additional behind-the-scenes material on the DVDs reveals that the movie script contained a scene in which {{spoiler|Roy Batty, after killing Tyrell, enters a lab adjacent to Tyrell's penthouse apartment and finds out that the ''real'' scientist Tyrell died years ago; Roy Batty finds a cloning chamber and evidence that the "Tyrell" he killed was also merely a replicant, programmed with Tyrell's memories.}}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Tyrell, Tyrell, Tyrell. When your angry, vengeful creation is confronting you and demanding you perform a medical procedure on him, the correct answer is not to explain why that procedure would be fatal, it's to ''perform it anyway''. Possibly justified in that his idolization of Roy as his ultimate creation may have been stronger than his self-preservation.

* [[Trashcan Bonfire]]: Sometimes visible in the mean streets where Deckard works.