

V gets shot in the head by Dex, and though they get better thanks to the Relic, pretty much every ending implies that they die, more or less explicitly.Jackie bleeds out in Delamain's back seat after being shot by Arasaka security when everything goes straight to hell.T-Bug gets brain-fried when Arasaka netrunners catch her in the subnet.

After the second braindance, Judy says that looking at the heist crew, all she sees are " walking, talking corpses," and indeed, apart from her, everyone involved in the Relic theft dies, sooner or later:.Swap a convenience store for a hotel and this is V and Dex after Konpeki Plaza. In the first braindance, a small-time thief robs a convenience store, only to be shot dead by another thief who instructed him on the job.The Pacifica-based Voodoo Boyz were at this point Evelyn's employers for the recon mission about the Relic. During their introduction, Dexter tells V that when he started prodding around to find info on Evelyn Parker, "some brothers from Pacifica" told him to drop it or else.This is precisely what Dex does, up to and including dropping V's body in the municipal landfill. Speaking with Jackie by the megabuilding entrance, V has the option to say that fixers "catch a client, find the cheapest gonk to do the job, then drop the corpse at a landfill".In Act 2, this very parade, and Hanako's presence in it, becomes the focus of Takemura's questline. When riding down the elevator to meet Jackie at the start of Act 1, a news broadcast starts playing, talking about an Arasaka-sponsored parade, with Hanako as the guest of honor, set to come through Night City.The six-month timeskip opens with Jackie bumping into a man wearing a Samurai T-shirt the band's frontman becomes a major character in Act 2.

The "Star" ending has them leave Night City while smuggling the Basilisk (the namesake of which is a mythical reptile-like creature and a species of lizard ) and a huge load of spoils stolen from Arasaka out of it.

Not only does the Arasaka ending involve making a deal with them, but the ending itself corresponds to the Devil tarot. Additionally, during the prologue, Jackie refers to Corpo V working with Arasaka as " Un pacto con el Diablo" ( "A deal with the Devil"). The "Devil" ending sees V working with high-ranking Arasaka officials only to get digitized into Mikoshi or sent back to Earth. Corpo sees V work with a higher-ranking Arasaka official only to get screwed over by him and tossed out.The "Sun" and "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" endings see V hanging out in the Afterlife before talking to a shady fixer and going on a job he gives them. Street Kid starts with V hanging out in El Coyote Cojo before talking to a shady fixer and going on a job he gives them.Each of the prologues Book Ends one of the epilogues:.In the endings where you let Alt run loose in the Mikoshi, she absorbs the engrams created by the Soulkiller she pioneered.In the "Devil" ending, Saburo's digitized psyche devours Yorinobu's as he takes over his son's body.The street junkie V passes by in the Street Kid prologue mutters "the cybernetic god will devour his children!", which comes to pass in most endings.
