The Rebel Who Cheated Death - Johnny Silverhand | Cyberpunk 2077 Lore 

After hearing his legend, do you think Silverhand is a hero? Let me know all your thoughts down below and I hope you all enjoyed. I will be moving into a few other IPs in my upcoming videos. So hope to see you all there and have a great week chooms!

I always love how Johnny respects V's ability to choose for themselves. If they want V to do something, they give their own opinion whenever possible but if V decides to choose to do the opposite or something Johnny doesn't like, the worst he does is berate V for their choice. Despite the fact that if he wanted to he can take control of V but he only ever does it to save V themselves or asking for permission to do so beforehand. Just goes to show how much he values freedom and the human capacity to choose. Rock on you rebel legend.

"Ah yes "the hand" killed all of those officers and maxtac operatives" - V

One of my favorite character ever in a video game, i wish we had more expansions just to spend more time with Johnny

"Never fade away"

I think the Engram Johnny is like “The Hand” was for Johnny but instead for V, everything bad that V does they blame on Johnny; Johnny did the same for “The Hand”. Johnny’s appearance is also identical to what he wore in Never Fade Away as seen in Red; I think that’s why the Never Fade Away in 2077 is the clearest memory even considering the obvious changes, probably because before his death he swore he wouldn’t make the same mistake as he did in 2013 again.

Is it possible that part of Johnny's inaccurate memories are due to the relic losing integrity during the heist. Before Jackie slots the relic he states that it's integrity was at 86% and dropping. Something I think about with each playthrough but I never see it mentioned.

We need a cyberpunk2077 prequel when we're playing as Johnny or Morgan Blackhand.

That whole Angel/Alt story is so interesting to me. I'd lose it if we meet Angel in Orion (since they didn't put her or any references to her in 2077). I don't know how much source material there is on Alt, but I'd love a lore video on her!

Not lacking we locked in this time

Se we are currently living through silver hands childhood given what's happening to America rn

I didn’t even know he got split in half by Adam smasher that’s some crazy stuff

ITS AMAZING TO SEE YOU GO FROM A FEW SUBSCRIBERS TO NOW 20k KEEP IT UP MAN BEEN YOUR NUMBER 1 FAN SINCE THE START LOVE YOU BRO

banger vid as always choom cant wait for more

Always a banger when the video drops

Wow I think this is your best video yet! I love it!

Layedback you need to do a live stream with the new updates shits pretty fuckin dope!! 🤘

So technically if we didn't take the shard from jackie. Then jackie would be alive with johnny inside of him. And we could of prolonged jackies Death

Great video chum 🫡

Great Video

I’d love to see your take on David Martinez

The Metal Gear 4 theme when you’re talking about soldiers and shit was a nice touch.

That Metal Gear Solid soundtrack fit very well 👌

Loved this video. Fantastic. Resolves most plotoles and offers to look at inconsistencies. I watched the whole thing. I gotta say, I'm sorry for leaving so many comments. I'm usually am in the comments complaining about the 2020-2077 inconsistencies waaaay too often. Gotta ask, would you be willing to possibly look into and maybe do a very short video on Silverhand's music and album career? For example, Silverhand's debut solo album A Cool Metal Fire has been essentially wiped off the wiki after 2077's release, and a bunch of songs from that album have kind of made their way onto other albums. You can only really find the track listing in one of the old sourcebooks now. A cool Metal Fire marked the debut of "Chippin In," and "Never Fade Away", which now isn't possible since "Chippin In" is now a Samurai album, and Never Fade Away is now Silverhand's possibly debut album that was released in 2009, and includes the track "Never Fade Away". I bring this up because a lot of this super niche album info is completely unknown, and inconsistencies only become known if you have a sourcebook and you compare it to the game. It also makes you wonder if the duplicate songs are retconned, re-releases, re-recorded, or reintrepretations. So there would be 3 Chippin In's, one Samurai, one solo, and one by Kerry, and 2 Never Fade Away's. One released in 2009, and one released in 2013. Makes you wonder which one was about Alt, and which one was the "Sixteen and sixteen hundred" version.

hey, man, I enjoyed the video when I play cyberpunk I always play with the intention that Johnny isn't such a good person he has good intentions to begin with but the more I dive into his intentions the more I realise that he will do anything to execute those intentions.the beginning of the game I can't really trust them and all I know is you won't revenge doesn't give a shit about saving V life.is only by talking and doing their optional side quest to actually get to know Johnny that I get to see the humanitarian in him he actually has feelings and emotions .I still do think he manipulates the player by giving every good option the chance to break into arasaka .ultimately still getting what he wants in the end

I love your theory at the end. Brought a tear to my eye, thinking that, at least in one iteration, maybe Johnny and Angel actually could have had a happy ending

I love how printing money to subsidize something is what caused the biggest collapse in the cyberpunk universe and its literally what the us gov did in the 2020

I always felt like the differences in Johnny's memories were just hallucinations. With an Engram trapped in a reality of its own making, it's divorced from actual reality. One's own internal model is kept in check by constant updates from experience through sensory devices, and memory is much in the same way. How many times have you remembered something, only to be reminded by someone else who was also there that things did not exactly happen that way? Memory is a very strange and very malleable thing. And with Johnny's obvious personality flaws and mental issues, it's no surprise that his hallucinations turned out to be what they are.

Hell yeah choom love the video! Great actual back story of the Rockerboy Silverhand and holy shit didn't realize how many new chooms subscribed to your channel! Cool shit keep it up! 🤘

Can’t wait for the new Cyber game with all the new game technology out now. Been playing The Finals a lot lately. If we could get the destruction and graphics of the finals in a new Cyberpunk game…. I’d just die.

I love listening to your lore videos, always relaxing. But c'mon choom, you know as well as I that Night City is the main character, she's in every story and she always wins.

Johnny's life is definitely complicated with the relic but glad you could piece it all together 😅

This was actually an interesting fact to know that the malorian is actually a cyberlink weapon made specifically for johnnies cyberarm, I did not know about it. I wish we could apply it somehow in the game, although pre 2.0 malorian was also very op, being able to also penetrate and richoshate

I love the addition of a piano version of halo reach’s music, really fits tbh

I knew it! The Malorian was supposed to be in the left silver hand! Such a huge bug in the game.

I wouldn't call life as an AI Doom.

Johnny Silverhand is a character I relate to in real life. Not because of his actions or not. As a metalhead myself, and seeing his hate for corporate powers and being a damaged individual himself because LiFe... I feel his pain. So, he is my favorite character ever honestly, along side Panam Palmer of course ❤

Choom! Fucking amazing video!! Please please please keep it up

The reason the nomads dont settle down is because if the do and bulid nomad city, the courps will move in because theres money to be made.

I like that snake eater song at the end

This is awesome and Johnny is my favorite character in cyber punk. I wasn’t good at the game, but he was my favorite character nonetheless

I hope they come out with a visual of all the events within Johnny’s life until his final death. As well as the years after his death when he was actually turned into an engram (and all the other versions of his engrams) with an end that eludes to the beginning of 2077’s story.

Hell yeah new update gotta see the difference now!!! 🤘

johnny silverhand is a good guy u can see it from having a high friendship with him.

This is insane lore for the next Cyberpunk.

they should make a series kind of like net runners except way longer explaining his origin and life

Grayson recounts what smasher told him when you reach him on the Ebunike. They bring Johnnys body to Saburo to interrogate, scorch him with Soulkiller and take his body out to the oil fields to bury. I'd think that this would be closest to what actually happened to Johnny?

I have always worked under the assumption that Soulkiller is a progression of the tech that allows BD recordings and given the prominence that BD editing is given in 2077, it's reasonable to assume that what you see is a warped version of Johnny even without rad damage.

Johnny silverhand is such a great character

Chooms cdpr has their lead of development talking about how about how it's in the making!!! Roughly 12 hours ago hell yeah! 🎉❤ 🤘

Great video. Best video game companion ever.

Next video idea maybe you should talk about how night city was built over another city called morro bay and how they demolished state parks for mega high rises and parking lots😂😂

"Bryan, College Station" is that were he was born ? Texas A&M town.

Am I tripping balls or am I hearing the MGS theme during the Nicaragua invasion?

I hear that metal gear solid background theme Sir.

good video, but when Shaitan video? there is no way that the wiki encompasses ALL the lore on him. especially since he plays a fairly important role in the AHQ bombing.

Johnny getting sold by his dad for a pack of cigarettes. "Good stuff"

So johnny was a beserker?

So beat the game for now like the 60th time lol but Alts poem at the end and for those who are wondering here's the rest of it No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous- Almost, at times, the Fool. Meaning you're not the ultimate warrior but you don't need to be you've learned to adapt us your skills and some yes you make mistakes and still the fool. You're slowing the progress of a corrupt political machine one that was thought to be invulnerable you being the fool yet seeing the corruptness of the corporations knowing all odds are against you still try to put a stop to this being a fool still thinking it'll save your life ....there's more to this but gotta start with the basics first and see how many people actually paid attention to corrupt Cunninghams poem ....

johnny is only a legend in his re-telling of the story. there is nothing in night city that shows that johnny was/is a legend. only one shop of samurai merch

31:45 it's an oversight by the devs it basically saying you fell out last time I have you this time it made no since to incorporate that scene in the game if it wasn't alluding to him falling out of the heli the first time. you're stretching that waaaay too far man they should have had a scene where smasher is basically giving V/Johhny a hard time and there is a point where he may get killed by smasher again and in comes rogue to save Johnny from smasher and that quote "not this time" would have fit better.

It took a long time to understand Johnny, but now I know why he calls Kerry a P-word. He was a high functioning cyberpsycho but good intentions, poor execution

What a dude

I always thought Kerry was the singer of samurai

Temperance is the best ending

Still think that V is a bio construkt housing a AI based on morgan blackhand. he or she lives as a sleeper agent. Spider murphy gets hold of information of this V while laying low, Sends jackie in to reprogram the AI, by making a dilema where the AI have to chose logic or feelings. And as V chosen feelings, by becoming friends with Jackie, the next mission is set, where to bring back silverhand and alt. to find bartmoss. I mean most characters have a unique voice in this game, except two. Spider murphy and misty, why aren't their voices unique? because it's the same. Misty is also subtly conditioning us through out the game, with what path to walk. She acts like a storefront, though she is in the middle of everything. might be some flaw to this, i haven't found it though.

Wow!! You are very good at lore. But this exceeds them all. I have a much better picture of Johnny and how he is portrayed in CP2077 as well as the source material and its author Maximum Mike Pondsmith. I still view Johnny more as a tragic character than a heroic one. But I can sympathize with him more and very glad he has such a large part in the game.

Real

this easily coulda been a 15 minute video

If Johnnys gun is left handed why isn’t he usin it in his left hand

With this aspect we can assume this V engram is a copy of the real johnny Ingram. That explains why alt so cold to johnny cuz he not the real silverhand.

Kinda wish you would have warned us about the endings being given away in this. I was listening to stuff for johnny and then boom spoiler

I believe they get hnds on his engram. But not original. This is copy of a copy. And they torture and mold his memories as test to true purpose of relic.

There are no heroes in Night City. Wrong city. Wrong people.

Vs new theme......O Fortuna......😂(if you know you know)

Ummm... colombia equador and those countries you mentioned ARE NOT CENTRAL AMERICA... wtf... that's south america.

His Dad sold him for cigarettes?

Please keep mgs out of this.😊

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No, Jackie didn’t just “give” the relic to V and drop in his hand, Jackie actually slotted the chip into V’s head with his own fingers. Nice try, though. I know everyone loves Jackie, but V never would’ve taken the job if Jackie didn’t hype it up so much, if Jackie hadn’t been so careless with the chip, and if Jackie hadn’t have slotted the chip later into V’s head, then none of this woulda happened. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I think Jackie was NOT our friend. The “friendship” in the Nomad story started out with Jackie telling V that his original plan was to ditch V, or maybe worse. But it’s only after V points out that Jackie owes him for the risky transport that Jackie starts the whole “hey we got chemistry, lets be chooms” and ever since then, Jackie had been bad luck. And in the corpo beginning, Jackie is nothing more to V than some muscle to have around, an acquaintance. Jackie sits silently and simply watches while V is basically mugged by his corpo handlers, and only after V loses his status does Jackie swoop in and act like they’re “brothers”. And what little time we spend with Jackie until the heist goes tits up - I’m sorry but I never saw him as a friend, there was very little chemistry. The only chemistry I felt was when I attended his memorial with his mother. She was a better friend to V than Jackie was, from what they showed us. So yeah, Jackie was an evil SOB.

me and johnny share the same birthplace…minor flex 🥱

barely made it on time !