1982

Conan the Barbarian

Because of their physical similarity to humans a replicant must be detected by its lack of emotional responses and empathy to questions posed in a Voight-Kampff machine test. A derogatory term for replicant is "skin-job" (in the original release, the Deckard voiceover explicitly states this--in the subsequent releases without the voiceover, the viewer must infer this).

As of 2019, the latest model of replicant, almost indistinguishable from humans. In fact, the Tyrell Corporation advertises this model as "More human than human." If replicants are given memories (and thus think that they are indeed human), the VK test almost fails--Rachel was exposed on the very last question.

In the film, the character Chew is revealed as the Tyrell Corporation employee who designed the eyes for Nexus-6 replicants Roy and Leon. They both hunt him down and demand to know how to enter Tyrell's inner sanctum.

Roy Batty, perhaps the most perfect of this series, and the one who led the rebellion of replicants back to Earth, said he had done "Questionable things." His creator, Tyrell, replied that he had done "extraodinary things."

Like all replicants, they had a limited lifespan, the Nexus-6 being genetically designed to have a very short lifespan of just a few years. Batty and the other replicants returned to Earth to seek more life, but Tyrell said he was unable to alter the genetic make-up of the series.

As he sat dying with Deckard on a rooftop, Batty said of the uniqueness of the Nexus-6 Series and their ability to go where no humans had gone, and do things no human had done.

 The Thing

U.S. Outpost #31, Antarctica, 1982

—Twelve men are commissioned to gather physical and natural science data.

It is the dead of winter.

With six months of darkness ahead of them, they uncover the find of the century.

Of a thousand centuries.