There are few live-service games that are willing to shake up their identity quite so frequently as Fortnite. While Fortnite will likely always retain its cartoon-y visuals and lighthearted, family-friendly essence, with every new Season, it undergoes some pretty significant changes. Points of interest are often swapped out and destroyed on a whim, weapons are vaulted and unvaulted frequently, and brand-new mechanics are added way more often than they maybe should be. The latest Season update, titled "Mega," sees Fortnite step into the world of cyberpunk, with a new neon-soaked aesthetic covering the game from head to toe. But with this new aesthetic also comes the possibility of new crossovers.
The cyberpunk genre has been around since the 1960s, and while it's never been the most popular form of Sci-Fi, it's managed to stick around for over six decades now. In those years, a good few popular cyberpunk franchises have emerged, and while a handful could make for good crossover content, there's one that absolutely needs to come to Fortnite during its Mega Season.
Fortnite's New Cyberpunk Aesthetic Lends Itself to a Blade Runner Crossover
It takes very little research to determine that Fortnite loves its Sci-Fi franchise crossovers. While Marvel, DC, and Star Wars are all common points of inspiration for Fortnite crossovers, these are also some of the biggest franchises in the world, and their place in the game makes complete sense. However, Fortnite's Sci-Fi crossovers don't stop at just those franchises that are still popular. Both the Alien and the Predator franchises have seen Fortnite crossovers, and though they are still around, they're not nearly as relevant as they once were. Hopefully, this paves the way for another popular, yet lesser-known Sci-Fi franchise crossover.
With Fortnite's Mega Season fully adopting a cyberpunk aesthetic, with gigantic neon billboards, futuristic cars, and drifting motorbikes, it's the perfect time for a Blade Runner crossover. First released in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is one of the most influential Sci-Fi movies of all time, and is still widely considered to be the greatest cyberpunk movie ever made, along with its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049.
Though Blade Runner isn't the most popular Sci-Fi franchise, with Blade Runner 2049 being an infamous box-office disappointment despite its phenomenal quality, it feels very strange to see Fortnite take so much inspiration from the series to design Mega City and not include at least a nod to it. Much like Alien and Predator before it, there's plenty of room to include new crossover skins in Fortnite, and Blade Runner has a good few options to choose from.
Of course, the most obvious pick for a Blade Runner x Fortnite crossover skin would be Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard. The titular bounty hunter tasked with wiping out rogue androids, Rick Deckard is the face of the Blade Runner franchise, and Harrison Ford's continued popularity over the years leads him to being the perfect choice for a Blade Runner Fortnite skin. Fortnite could even include two different styles for the skin, encompassing both his appearance in the original Blade Runner, and his older look in Blade Runner 2049. If Fortnite wanted to dive even deeper into the world of Blade Runner for a crossover cosmetic pack, then an additional skin based on Ryan Gosling's Officer K would also be great to see. Along with the skins, a few other Blade Runner-themed cosmetics could be thrown in for good measure, such as a glider based on the series' iconic Spinner flying cars.
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