Tyrell Corporation

The Tyrell Corporation is a fictional megacorporation from the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner".

Based in Los Angeles in the year 2019, Tyrell is named after its founder Dr. Eldon Tyrell and is a high-tech biocorp primarily concerned with the production of life-like androids called replicants. Tyrell's slogan is "More human than human". The headquarters for the corporation is over 700-stories tall. The Tyrell corporation is the only outfit making Nexus-6 replicants which are so human-like that the only way L.A.P.D Blade Runner Units can indentify them is to sit suspects down and go through an exhausting empathy test called the "Voight-Kampff Scale."

The Tyrell Corporation was also involved in the exporting of replicant labor to the outer space colonies for situations deemed too dangerous and degrading for regular humans such as military operations, high risk industrial work, prostitution and slave labor. One could call it interstellar commerce or just growing an army of slaves. Four of Tyrell's creations return to Earth seeking him to extend their four year life spans. When their fearless leader Roy Batty confronts him in his private chambers at the top of the Tyrell complex he demands from Tyrell a life extending DNA strand. Tyrell says this is impossible due to replicants being entirely organic life forms, in a fit of rage Roy kills Tyrell by crushing his skull.

The future of the Tyrell Corporation and its leadership after the events of "Blade Runner" are unknown.

The Tyrell Corporation served as the inspiration for the Genom Corporation from the cult anime series "Bubblegum Crisis". Indeed, the series itself serves as an extended homage to "Blade Runner".

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