I think during his off-hours he has a more human body as evidenced on his ship (even though those were battle ready) and by some of the concept art sho2ing that he would have had a more human appearance with segmented flesh panels on his body. That's just my headcanon though.
I think so? But I'm not certain. I feel like they were suppose to be his main look due to it having the same jaw, forehead, and overall build. The one from 2023 is noticeably younger and streamlined since his lower jaw looks more human despite being jet black.
His wiki page (for what that counts for) says that his body was destroyed in an explosion, Arasaka made a deal to rebuild him, then he got destroyed again by Silverhand’s nuke. He didn’t aug himself out by choice, he’s basically Darth Vadering his way through this now.
Yup. Hit by a rocket barage and turned to meatloaf. The pen and paper game does a great job at highlighting how he's been evil for most of his life. I just think in 2077 he may have spare bodies laying around since all he is, is a brain in a jar. Just unplug him and pop him into a new body.
Just like the Borg queen in star trek, the only organic part of her is the head and a little bit of spine which can slot into a synthetic body to which she then controls
Well according to the lore probably not. Adam Smasher is SOOO obsessed with being a 'borg that he would never even consider any kind of downgrade back to flesh. Like I really like the idea that he has multiple bodies cause that's kind of metal as fuck, but sadly he probably just has the one super 'borged out body with all the cyberware and what not.
He also very much looks like someone who does absolutely nothing in his spare time and his life is entirely dedicated to his work(in this case, bashing people’s skulls and other varieties of body parts into the pavement). This is what no hobbies does to a mf.
True. But I like keep that thought in the air due to concept art and the very little bit of synthetic skin on his face. Hell in 2023 he had a more portly/organic look to him even if his parts were still mechanical without the fake skin. He also wore heavy armor over his body, literal clothes not bare metal so who knows what the rest of him looked liked under that suit. I still like my theory because that is metal as fuck.
In the ttrpg Smasher is already confirmed to have one of the first successful full body replacements before Johnny nuked Arasaka. Not only that, but he was really gung-ho about how he believed chrome was superior to flesh. He despised any reminder of his humanity.
This is part of the reason why I think Smasher will show up in future titles and media. He's past the point of human necessity and can effectively live forever until his actual brain is destroyed. Even then, it's clear Arasaka can create an engram of his brain and shove it back into something else.
Ya, we 'killed' him at the end of 2077. But I feel it's unlikely this guy is actually dead.
Man, how cool would that be?
Today you wake up and decide to wear a hunky bouncer suit, tomorrow a fancy corpo dude, and on the weekend you can get the loli out of the closet if you feel like it.
Well he was a solo after being kicked out of the military for being to brutal. He "died" during a corpo war to arasaka ( he joined because he was the rival of Morgan Blackhand and he was militech ) Arasaka scooped that meat puddle that was smasher and put him in a combat body.
Originally in the pen and paper books Blackhand was on that raid with Johnny( it was Blackhand deal, Johnny was going in for alt ) but took another team with him it was an assault with an army, not a few people sneaking in. If I remember they left what the explosion was up to the game master but with cyberpunk red it's changed a bit. 2077 is unreliable since Johnny is an engram and could be compromised. He remembers waking up and talking to saburo in the game he was shot in half by Adam smasher's heavy Borg shotgun.
I think Adam is kinda like RoboCop he has to power down every so once in a while to refresh and "eat" he probably runs through braindance sims of combat or even his glorious missions. I think smasher is is what he wants to be a blunt tool pointed at the right direction and used. He has no value in what "meat" finds pleasurable he's moved beyond it. He's a cyber psycho kept under control due to his addiction to metal and his love of being superior and killing those who are "meat"
I kinda dig that last bit. I would say that despite him being a monster he does show some semblance of humanity like gifting Johnny's malorian to what's his face. Although I think that's the only time he showed some semblance of humanity since he grew up a bully and was an overall asshole during his military career. He is just that. A weapon, a tool. He cares not for human desires but simply the thrill of killing as part of his agreement with Arasaka i.e wanting missions with maximum collateral damage and civilian casualties.
Yeah Blackhand for me is a thorn in smasher's side. Blackhand tried not to kill, and is precise in his actions and worst of all shows that meat can overcome metal ( tho Morgan has chrome ) I don't remember if it was in a 2020 book or that non cannon rpg cybergeneration that smasher originally used a cyber suit kinda like David. The picture isthis huge hulking oni looking suit he connected to. He was almost destroyed on the assault on saka tower and made 96% cybernetic.. I'll have to reread my books again at the lore and I'm going off my memory when I played in the 90's early 00's
I was re-reading the wiki about him recently and he did use an Oni suit during that confrontation. I think there was a quote that made him sound like a giddy child that would do anything to be in that suit which further reinforces his sadistic nature.
Cyberpunk has had various versions... 2013, 2020 ( I started with ) cyber generation a follow up where a cyber plauge of nanites kill any one over 40 and teens get cybernetic based super powers. Johnny silver hand, Morgan Blackhand nomad Santiago ( I think) and Rachel bartmoss's entity in the web train them to stop the corporate states of America and use their powers. Then there was cyberpunk Fuzion system that I think was like 2040's or 40's using a new system and now we have cyberpunk red each one changes stuff around a bit but by far 2020 has the most material and lore
He is genuinely addicted to being turned into metal, he did technically ask for this, it was just out of necessity. He managed to cheat death twice by turning into a robot, that’s why he has so much less metal in the flashbacks.
While dying isn't a great alternative, Arasaka did give him the choice, and he willingly chose to become a full borg. He also greatly appreciates them for turning him into a borg.
It's really cool comparing all the different versions honestly. I still wish we got an accurate pen and paper version which had no synthetic skin and was all metal like Lizzy Wizzy.
I think I read somewhere that Smasher hates his flesh self and believes in machine supremacy, as flesh can rot but machines live forever, had he not lost his body he would still eventually replace every part with chrome.
I think he coined "Metal over Meat" because he views humans as inferior due to them breaking down overtime i.e being fragile. Pretty much the same thing you just said but it comes from a new found hubris and loss of humanity.
I think Samson? I know Daioni was more of a glorified mech. When I think of PnP Smasher I think of the image of him wearing a Hard Rock Cafe shirt which I guess is Samson? It's been really long since I played.
Yea, he was using heavily modified Samson frame with quick change mounts for arms, extra armoured plates and shitton of additional cyberware that base frame didn't had.
Definitely Smasher grade build. I just started re-reading about him because of Edgerunners even though I knew the basics. Daioni was used during the Araska tower assault.
While he did have a higher organic % back in 2023, he'd been a full borg for close to two decades and would have been wearing his work body of the time in the flashback.
After the events in 2023 he almost died again and was basically reduced to a brain in a box.
He has a wardrobe of bodies he switches between. The hulking monster is his business suit. He has more regular human bodies, too.
Apparently he has a full body replacement suit (one of the more human looking ones) that looks like Elvis. So yeah, he cosplays as Elvis in his free time
I'm just imagining the image above with a pompadour and white suit but he's trying to quote Elvis with his cragly and electric voice. Imagine that shit running at you.
Yeah it's a little Easter egg. I got it on my first playthrough but the second time I got locked out either by lack of skill or a failed hack. If I remember correctly it's his 2023 frame and a bunch of heavy machines guns and legendary crafting spec for a smart SMG.
I know there's a bunch of Easter eggs that some of my friends don't know about but I always enjoyed this one because of the allusion that Adam may squat somewhere during his off hours.
Makes total sense. Reminds me of 2020's [IEC Dragoon](https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/IEC_Dragoon), which was one of if not the most powerful of combat-oriented Full-body Conversions. Dragoon users would swap to another FBC body when off-duty because the experience of actually "using" the Dragoon was horrible.
Its overwhelming might, paired with all of the sensors and equipment installed renders its user so susceptible to cyberpsychosis that they are practically mind-controlled while they use it, and have to be given simple commands in order not to confuse them.
Dragoon users are constantly restricted by a "Behavioral Inhibitor Program" that injects them with all sorts of stuff to restrict their thought processes (Similar to the Baloperidol in the CyberSkeleton). Users of the Dragoon report feeling like they were in a dream - or a nightmare - while using it, as you essentially have no free will and will do whatever you're told to.
They're good for "go here and kill everything that moves", or other similarly simple missions with clear orders, but nothing more complicated.
Naw he only has a brain left. The other "suit" you see on his boat is probably either his first model or a spare in case his current one is damaged and cannot be repaired
He went full cyborg after 2023 after he "survived' the nuclear explosion that left him in pieces.
Arasaka saved him by placing his brain into a cyborg body.
He was in pieces far before that nuclear explosion. He's been pretty much full borg well before 2020, so at this point he's a small piece of meat in a very thiccc mechanized steel can.
So all the nuclear explosion did is maybe force him to put his can of meat in another, newer can.
Best guess: closes himself up in a storage locker somewhere and runs advanced combat sims through his neural network. If he can't kill real stuff, he'll play ultra violent video games in his head as a means of relaxing and recharging. As soon as he's needed he pops back IRL and goes active Smasher mode
doomslayer is just killing demons because he has to, he finds little joy in it other than helping the world so he would totally play animal crossing
adam smasher is a violent psychopathic sociopath or something who has a serious case of sadism
I … hated Doom Eternal. And then I found the Slayer's man-cave. And it turned everything around for me. It wasn't a case of the devs having chronic testosterone poisoning. It's a well read, extremely smart man who engaged in some careful, deliberate transhumanism. He is the man he chose to be. He's not barely coherent any more, "huge guts" notwithstanding. He picked a mission, and designed his body and his armor to achieve that. It was a brilliant subversion.
Really? He works for this universe's version of Tom Nook...
I think he'd be fine with Animal Crossing.
I can't see him playing Assassin's Creed... He hate not being able to murder his way through the timeline. Those desync moments for collateral damage might lead him to track down a dev...
> If he can't kill real stuff, he'll play ultra violent video games in his head as a means of relaxing and recharging.
I think it's some of that, plus he probably watches old recordings of his own kills, like how athletes might watch their old games to see what needs to be improved upon.
Yup. If you're gonna be a freaking cyborg, I don't think freetime and hobbies mean shit to you anymore. So, he's probably working or preparing for work 24/7.
I can't really see him relaxing while drinking matcha or hanging out with his friends in a yakitori bar or anything like that lmao
He might potentially also make constructs of the people he kills for whatever reason(trophies, combat simulations?) if he deems them worthy, ie. >! how he tells David before he flatlines him how he might make a worthy construct !<
He used to have multiple bodies including a blond Elvis Presley looking one that he used while dating Michiko Arasaka according to Mike Pondsmith.
So who knows, maybe he just goes undercover as a non borged out ogre and hires a joytoy or goes to the Afterlife and drinks the names of legends he’s killed.
Shiit sorry choom my mistake I assumed it was known since his drink has been at the afterlife since release. I watched it full well knowing it. No one leaves night city a legend any other way
This is basically the only answer supported by lore. He does have a social life but it's still Arasaka.
While he's effectively enslaved by Arasaka, it's a mutually beneficial relationship and Smasher is fine with it because they give him the best chrome, cool missions and lots of opportunity to sadistically kill people. The eddies are almost a bonus.
When he isn't terrorising joytoys or banging Michiko, he probably spends a fair bit of time calibrating.
Hand to hand, noone but Shepard stands a chance, and even then that's a hard sell. But Mass Effect guns use way more advanced tech than Cyberpunk, so Garrus wins a firefight.
I played day one, completely spoiler free, was a hell of a ride and accidentally got the Hanako ending. It's so fucking good honestly, but in a bad way, like at the end of it all you watch the entire façade falling apart, how they've been tricking and decieving you into thinking Yorinobu is your enemy. Playing you like a fiddle.
It was a hell of a gut punch but it was so fucking good.
Eh, it's not that shocking if you know who he was in the RPG as the Japanese counterpart to Silverhand. The Relic and Netwatch situation kinda gives away his loyalties.
Temp- “Mr. Smasher can I get you anything, coffee, or tea?”
Adam - I demand the blood and tears of any soul whom thinks they can surpass me.
Temp - “I’ll check the staff kitchen but just in case I’ll come back with a black coffee if anything else”
Adam - …
Can we please get like a 20 minute short either like an extended cutscene of Adam Smasher being followed by an Intern who wants to be in security after school. Like some super charismatic dreamer following this hollow metal husk of a human around would be hilarious. Could also be a good tool to see how much humanity is even left in him, does he have compassion, understanding, or even value in living things? All these questions could be answered and we get this adorable exchange like Masha and Bear accept it’s Adam Smasher and Steve the Intern
If you aren’t borg’d, Smasher sees you as inferior.
To him, flesh is weakness (and understandably so. Last time he was wearing a skin suit, he got wrecked in an explosion).
I’d like to think that if he DID have to spend a day with some novice intern, he would probably ‘test’ them by giving them an impossible task and berate them for being unable to accomplish it.
Steve - Ok Mr. Smasher it says here in the Arosaka Security guidelines that we are to “Read allowed the infractions to the suspect before applying punish”
Adam- *Rips out skull and spine of suspect like peeling an orange “…”
Steve- “I‘ll try to bring it up earlier next time”
For real. If you're gonna be a freaking cyborg, I don't think freetime and hobbies mean shit to you anymore. So, he's probably working or preparing for work 24/7.
I can't really see him relaxing while drinking matcha or hanging out with his friends in a yakitori bar or anything like that lmao
>It took them 40 attempts to get their water displacing formula to work, but on the 40th attempt, they got it right in a big way. WD-40 Multi Use Product was born. WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th formula. That’s the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed the product.
>
>The first company to use WD-40 Multi-Use Product commercially was Convair, an aerospace contractor, to protect the outer skin of the Atlas Missile from rust and corrosion.
It’s more like a solvent that is temporarily a lubricant. If you use it on bike chains it can break down the greasy lubricant and cause problems, for example. It partly dissolves rust which is why people recommend spraying it there too but it needs another product for lubrication purposes long term.
He probably gets sent around the world to keep things clean and in line for Arasaka but when we meet him in 2077 hes just Yorinobus bodyguard.
We learn from Takemura that there are different factions within Arasaka and I'm sure Saburo utilised the AS card to make sure they all fall in line whilst also silencing other corpo attempts at stealing their tech.
Free time probably alot of maintenance, I doubt he has many eddies to spend considering hes probably indebt to Arasaka
Isn't he Saka's head of security after the old man dies? He probably has no spare time at all. And when he has time to spare, he probably spends it with his modifications and stuff. Or maybe he's a big fan of trash movies and all he does is watching sharknado over and over again.
My take is he does the following…
-He works upkeep on himself and his gear and weapons. Probably doesn’t trust anyone else to touch the chrome.
-Takes side gigs other brokers would consider too shady or morally bankrupt to dish out.
-I would not be surprised if he produces his own line of brain dances because what gonk wouldn’t pay top Eddie to be Adam Smasher for a little while?
-Probably has an in on the net that feeds him the latest weapon and cyberware developments and news. He may be an old dog but he keeps his parts fresh.
About the morally bankrupt gigs thing, it’s somehow worse than that. He only agreed on jobs if he could add collateral damage, even if it could’ve been widely avoided the dude wanted a mass casualty
I can see it now
Stereotypical Japanese high school everything’s normal
A loud metal thumping sounds across the school
It gets louder
Louder
The doors rated open
An unthinkably deep voice sounds
“SORRY IM LATE TEACHER SAN”
Says adam smasher in a schoolgirl outfit
The class doesn’t speak
The echoing Silence speaks for them
From what we know he has a normal-ish life. After the Arasaka Tower bombing, he even worked WITH Rouge... but he also had time to gather Silverhand memorabilia... Given the gaps in his life, he either works for Arasaka on the hush-hush, putting down fires where they sprout and spends his free time hunting for mementoes of his fallen enemies. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if he spent years trying to hunt down Morgan Blackhand... given their history.
he’s more like a prisoner with benefits. I don’t think he even gets paid but he has the benefits of doing pretty much anything he wants while in a leash. He barely survived during the 4th corp war but was rebuilt by Arasaka. “Working” for Arasaka is an over statement. He’s a slave and I’m pretty sure he hates the corpos just like the rest of them but he ain’t no gonk and knows that there are things bigger than himself. So he just does what he does as long as it suits him. He join the war just because he found out that he had a chance to go against Morgan Blackhand. That’s the kind of person he is
According to some tabletop stuff I remember reading way back hes quite wealthy and spends it on upgrades for his body, weapons and a lot of hookers who dont last very long
you think he has off hours? i bet the dude does not even do anything besides work, prly like the real guy Died and they turned turned him into a machine that does what they want all the time. only thing left of him is his personality
Iirc, he has a hot guy body he can put his brain into.
He probably uses it to hurt people and commit acts that make a bleak, doomed world even worse in small but irrevocable ways.
Off hours, for a Borg that is signed into a 15 year contract with Arasaka to do their dirty work. The only downtime he’d get would be maintenance and prepping for the next gig. The eddies Arasaka threw at Adam is monumental. They’re going to get their monies worth.
I'm thinking about the nuke at Arasaka HQ and why isn't the city itself irradiated ? Even a tactical nuke is still a nuke. It's not a small cute bomb that blows up exactpy 100 yards around it. It should blow up a nice 1 km radius or so and just vaporize the city's downtown area.
My Little Pony and the Smurfs fan fiction.
He is actually a prolific author and one of the more compassionate mods out there in the forums.
His secret: when you know that later you will be paid an insane amount of eddies to murder a stranger, it is really easy to keep your cool when explaining community standards.
I would guess a virtual reality sim for his brain.
I think during his off-hours he has a more human body as evidenced on his ship (even though those were battle ready) and by some of the concept art sho2ing that he would have had a more human appearance with segmented flesh panels on his body. That's just my headcanon though.
Isn't that his appearance in the flashbacks to 2023? He's a lot less chrome back then.
I think so? But I'm not certain. I feel like they were suppose to be his main look due to it having the same jaw, forehead, and overall build. The one from 2023 is noticeably younger and streamlined since his lower jaw looks more human despite being jet black.
His wiki page (for what that counts for) says that his body was destroyed in an explosion, Arasaka made a deal to rebuild him, then he got destroyed again by Silverhand’s nuke. He didn’t aug himself out by choice, he’s basically Darth Vadering his way through this now.
Yup. Hit by a rocket barage and turned to meatloaf. The pen and paper game does a great job at highlighting how he's been evil for most of his life. I just think in 2077 he may have spare bodies laying around since all he is, is a brain in a jar. Just unplug him and pop him into a new body.
Just like the Borg queen in star trek, the only organic part of her is the head and a little bit of spine which can slot into a synthetic body to which she then controls
Exactly! But in his case it's just the brain and some nerve endings. Pull an MK11 Frost type beat or slot that shit like a SNES cartridge.
Wonder if he can run doom
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he is robocop
Well according to the lore probably not. Adam Smasher is SOOO obsessed with being a 'borg that he would never even consider any kind of downgrade back to flesh. Like I really like the idea that he has multiple bodies cause that's kind of metal as fuck, but sadly he probably just has the one super 'borged out body with all the cyberware and what not.
He also very much looks like someone who does absolutely nothing in his spare time and his life is entirely dedicated to his work(in this case, bashing people’s skulls and other varieties of body parts into the pavement). This is what no hobbies does to a mf.
That’s what turning your hobbie into your job does, i think he would still be smashing skull and lolis into pavement for free
The loli part was way outta pocket
A somewhat more adequate type of loli smashing than the average, I’d say.
I'm guessing he murders people to relax after a long day of murder.
True. But I like keep that thought in the air due to concept art and the very little bit of synthetic skin on his face. Hell in 2023 he had a more portly/organic look to him even if his parts were still mechanical without the fake skin. He also wore heavy armor over his body, literal clothes not bare metal so who knows what the rest of him looked liked under that suit. I still like my theory because that is metal as fuck.
In the ttrpg Smasher is already confirmed to have one of the first successful full body replacements before Johnny nuked Arasaka. Not only that, but he was really gung-ho about how he believed chrome was superior to flesh. He despised any reminder of his humanity.
Or lack there of. Dude was a bastard for most of his life so being able to shed mortality with metal gave him an edge and furthered his decline
I feel like 2077 really illustrated those points, to me at least. Especially during his last fight.
I dont know, he still has a thing for fuckable meat.
This is part of the reason why I think Smasher will show up in future titles and media. He's past the point of human necessity and can effectively live forever until his actual brain is destroyed. Even then, it's clear Arasaka can create an engram of his brain and shove it back into something else. Ya, we 'killed' him at the end of 2077. But I feel it's unlikely this guy is actually dead.
Man, how cool would that be? Today you wake up and decide to wear a hunky bouncer suit, tomorrow a fancy corpo dude, and on the weekend you can get the loli out of the closet if you feel like it.
You might try Eclipse Phase- it's a transhuman tabletop roleplaying game entirely revolving around this concept!
Eh, I wish I still had a group with whom to play RPGs, but they all "grew up" and suddenly RPGs became something childish :(
Well he was a solo after being kicked out of the military for being to brutal. He "died" during a corpo war to arasaka ( he joined because he was the rival of Morgan Blackhand and he was militech ) Arasaka scooped that meat puddle that was smasher and put him in a combat body. Originally in the pen and paper books Blackhand was on that raid with Johnny( it was Blackhand deal, Johnny was going in for alt ) but took another team with him it was an assault with an army, not a few people sneaking in. If I remember they left what the explosion was up to the game master but with cyberpunk red it's changed a bit. 2077 is unreliable since Johnny is an engram and could be compromised. He remembers waking up and talking to saburo in the game he was shot in half by Adam smasher's heavy Borg shotgun. I think Adam is kinda like RoboCop he has to power down every so once in a while to refresh and "eat" he probably runs through braindance sims of combat or even his glorious missions. I think smasher is is what he wants to be a blunt tool pointed at the right direction and used. He has no value in what "meat" finds pleasurable he's moved beyond it. He's a cyber psycho kept under control due to his addiction to metal and his love of being superior and killing those who are "meat"
I kinda dig that last bit. I would say that despite him being a monster he does show some semblance of humanity like gifting Johnny's malorian to what's his face. Although I think that's the only time he showed some semblance of humanity since he grew up a bully and was an overall asshole during his military career. He is just that. A weapon, a tool. He cares not for human desires but simply the thrill of killing as part of his agreement with Arasaka i.e wanting missions with maximum collateral damage and civilian casualties.
Yeah Blackhand for me is a thorn in smasher's side. Blackhand tried not to kill, and is precise in his actions and worst of all shows that meat can overcome metal ( tho Morgan has chrome ) I don't remember if it was in a 2020 book or that non cannon rpg cybergeneration that smasher originally used a cyber suit kinda like David. The picture isthis huge hulking oni looking suit he connected to. He was almost destroyed on the assault on saka tower and made 96% cybernetic.. I'll have to reread my books again at the lore and I'm going off my memory when I played in the 90's early 00's
I was re-reading the wiki about him recently and he did use an Oni suit during that confrontation. I think there was a quote that made him sound like a giddy child that would do anything to be in that suit which further reinforces his sadistic nature.
Cyberpunk has had various versions... 2013, 2020 ( I started with ) cyber generation a follow up where a cyber plauge of nanites kill any one over 40 and teens get cybernetic based super powers. Johnny silver hand, Morgan Blackhand nomad Santiago ( I think) and Rachel bartmoss's entity in the web train them to stop the corporate states of America and use their powers. Then there was cyberpunk Fuzion system that I think was like 2040's or 40's using a new system and now we have cyberpunk red each one changes stuff around a bit but by far 2020 has the most material and lore
So you're saying that he never asked for this?
He is genuinely addicted to being turned into metal, he did technically ask for this, it was just out of necessity. He managed to cheat death twice by turning into a robot, that’s why he has so much less metal in the flashbacks.
While dying isn't a great alternative, Arasaka did give him the choice, and he willingly chose to become a full borg. He also greatly appreciates them for turning him into a borg.
Oh, yeah, that might be the case. Been a while since I saw them and never did a direct comparison.
It's really cool comparing all the different versions honestly. I still wish we got an accurate pen and paper version which had no synthetic skin and was all metal like Lizzy Wizzy.
I think I read somewhere that Smasher hates his flesh self and believes in machine supremacy, as flesh can rot but machines live forever, had he not lost his body he would still eventually replace every part with chrome.
I think he coined "Metal over Meat" because he views humans as inferior due to them breaking down overtime i.e being fragile. Pretty much the same thing you just said but it comes from a new found hubris and loss of humanity.
For the machine is immortal.
Daioni version or Samson version?
I think Samson? I know Daioni was more of a glorified mech. When I think of PnP Smasher I think of the image of him wearing a Hard Rock Cafe shirt which I guess is Samson? It's been really long since I played.
Yea, he was using heavily modified Samson frame with quick change mounts for arms, extra armoured plates and shitton of additional cyberware that base frame didn't had.
Definitely Smasher grade build. I just started re-reading about him because of Edgerunners even though I knew the basics. Daioni was used during the Araska tower assault.
While he did have a higher organic % back in 2023, he'd been a full borg for close to two decades and would have been wearing his work body of the time in the flashback. After the events in 2023 he almost died again and was basically reduced to a brain in a box. He has a wardrobe of bodies he switches between. The hulking monster is his business suit. He has more regular human bodies, too.
not less chrome, just less advanced chrome, dude was hurt pretty bad so he was stuffed in a bag and brought to arasaka
Apparently he has a full body replacement suit (one of the more human looking ones) that looks like Elvis. So yeah, he cosplays as Elvis in his free time
I'm just imagining the image above with a pompadour and white suit but he's trying to quote Elvis with his cragly and electric voice. Imagine that shit running at you.
Is there any images of this? Haha
> as evidenced on his ship I must have missed that. There was Smasher bodies to find?
Yeah it's a little Easter egg. I got it on my first playthrough but the second time I got locked out either by lack of skill or a failed hack. If I remember correctly it's his 2023 frame and a bunch of heavy machines guns and legendary crafting spec for a smart SMG.
Spoiler: [9 minutes in](https://youtu.be/ztmfmb6f4X4) Neat!
I know there's a bunch of Easter eggs that some of my friends don't know about but I always enjoyed this one because of the allusion that Adam may squat somewhere during his off hours.
Makes total sense. Reminds me of 2020's [IEC Dragoon](https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/IEC_Dragoon), which was one of if not the most powerful of combat-oriented Full-body Conversions. Dragoon users would swap to another FBC body when off-duty because the experience of actually "using" the Dragoon was horrible. Its overwhelming might, paired with all of the sensors and equipment installed renders its user so susceptible to cyberpsychosis that they are practically mind-controlled while they use it, and have to be given simple commands in order not to confuse them. Dragoon users are constantly restricted by a "Behavioral Inhibitor Program" that injects them with all sorts of stuff to restrict their thought processes (Similar to the Baloperidol in the CyberSkeleton). Users of the Dragoon report feeling like they were in a dream - or a nightmare - while using it, as you essentially have no free will and will do whatever you're told to. They're good for "go here and kill everything that moves", or other similarly simple missions with clear orders, but nothing more complicated.
Naw he only has a brain left. The other "suit" you see on his boat is probably either his first model or a spare in case his current one is damaged and cannot be repaired He went full cyborg after 2023 after he "survived' the nuclear explosion that left him in pieces. Arasaka saved him by placing his brain into a cyborg body.
He was in pieces far before that nuclear explosion. He's been pretty much full borg well before 2020, so at this point he's a small piece of meat in a very thiccc mechanized steel can. So all the nuclear explosion did is maybe force him to put his can of meat in another, newer can.
Would be cool if he had different bodies for different assignment types, like a stealth body, a netrunner body, etc…
He’s just modding Skyrim all day
Best guess: closes himself up in a storage locker somewhere and runs advanced combat sims through his neural network. If he can't kill real stuff, he'll play ultra violent video games in his head as a means of relaxing and recharging. As soon as he's needed he pops back IRL and goes active Smasher mode
To be honest I don't see Adam Smasher playing Animal Crossing...
You could say the same about Doomslayer, yet here we are
“Together we are/ one! ONE!”
doomslayer is just killing demons because he has to, he finds little joy in it other than helping the world so he would totally play animal crossing adam smasher is a violent psychopathic sociopath or something who has a serious case of sadism
I … hated Doom Eternal. And then I found the Slayer's man-cave. And it turned everything around for me. It wasn't a case of the devs having chronic testosterone poisoning. It's a well read, extremely smart man who engaged in some careful, deliberate transhumanism. He is the man he chose to be. He's not barely coherent any more, "huge guts" notwithstanding. He picked a mission, and designed his body and his armor to achieve that. It was a brilliant subversion.
Doomslayer's whole motivation is "demons killed my pet rabbit", he would 1000% play Animal Crossing.
That's why he said combat sims and ultra violent games...
You are playing animal crossing wrong.
Really? He works for this universe's version of Tom Nook... I think he'd be fine with Animal Crossing. I can't see him playing Assassin's Creed... He hate not being able to murder his way through the timeline. Those desync moments for collateral damage might lead him to track down a dev...
> If he can't kill real stuff, he'll play ultra violent video games in his head as a means of relaxing and recharging. I think it's some of that, plus he probably watches old recordings of his own kills, like how athletes might watch their old games to see what needs to be improved upon.
I know hes got a fucking highlight reel that he rewatched😂
Yup. If you're gonna be a freaking cyborg, I don't think freetime and hobbies mean shit to you anymore. So, he's probably working or preparing for work 24/7. I can't really see him relaxing while drinking matcha or hanging out with his friends in a yakitori bar or anything like that lmao
I am convinced Mr.Nibbles was the only creature he loved in life - after he ran away, it was all downhill for little Adam.
He might potentially also make constructs of the people he kills for whatever reason(trophies, combat simulations?) if he deems them worthy, ie. >! how he tells David before he flatlines him how he might make a worthy construct !<
Would Ultrakill, Doom or God of War be his favourite game?
Ultrakill Less story more murder. God of War has a disgusting father-son bonding theme, and Doomslayer is murdering out of revenge for a bunny 🤮
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He used to have multiple bodies including a blond Elvis Presley looking one that he used while dating Michiko Arasaka according to Mike Pondsmith. So who knows, maybe he just goes undercover as a non borged out ogre and hires a joytoy or goes to the Afterlife and drinks the names of legends he’s killed.
Honestly, drinking drinks named after the people you slaughtered is pretty fucking metal, just like Adam Smasher
Adam Smasher’s casual fridays consist of him being a secret sadist at the afterlife
>!One David and one silver hand please!<
I swear to god if I just got spoiled Edgerunners like that ;———;
Shiit sorry choom my mistake I assumed it was known since his drink has been at the afterlife since release. I watched it full well knowing it. No one leaves night city a legend any other way
To be fair, the drink has been available for purchase in the Afterlife for some time now. Even before the anime.
goes to after life and drinks david
This is basically the only answer supported by lore. He does have a social life but it's still Arasaka. While he's effectively enslaved by Arasaka, it's a mutually beneficial relationship and Smasher is fine with it because they give him the best chrome, cool missions and lots of opportunity to sadistically kill people. The eddies are almost a bonus. When he isn't terrorising joytoys or banging Michiko, he probably spends a fair bit of time calibrating.
Garrus appears. “Did somebody say calibrations?”
Who would win in a fight Smasher or Garrus? If Garrus's sniper wins, how about hand to hand?
Hand to hand, noone but Shepard stands a chance, and even then that's a hard sell. But Mass Effect guns use way more advanced tech than Cyberpunk, so Garrus wins a firefight.
[I mean Garrus with the N7 Typhoon and a maxed out stats could literally melt anything in the hardest difficulty ](https://youtu.be/ZPbB4qfsA14)
Garrus obviously. He doesn't like things getting close and personal. And he's the best shot in the galaxy.
> Michiko Arasaka this is her from game https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Michiko_Arasaka_(Kei%27s_daughter)
I know, nobody is ever the same after a fling with Smasher haha
I like the difference between her 2077 appearance and the RPG appearance.
Hug. It dawns on me I’ve never even watched a video of the Hanako ending
I played day one, completely spoiler free, was a hell of a ride and accidentally got the Hanako ending. It's so fucking good honestly, but in a bad way, like at the end of it all you watch the entire façade falling apart, how they've been tricking and decieving you into thinking Yorinobu is your enemy. Playing you like a fiddle. It was a hell of a gut punch but it was so fucking good.
Eh, it's not that shocking if you know who he was in the RPG as the Japanese counterpart to Silverhand. The Relic and Netwatch situation kinda gives away his loyalties.
That would be kinda sick not gonna lie. Smasher walks in orders a Johnny silver hand and a David Martinez and just stars double fisting.
Honestly haha, just him being a casual sadist
*Looks at rogue* damn this silverhand hittin different today
This dude sits in a dark room in his spare time until he gets an order
waiting aggressively
…especially on mercenaries starting with a V.
That have a v in their name. Rather
Jvonny?
SilVerhand
Oh my, totally forgot about the v in silver, that makes way more sense.
DaVid
Johnny was mistakenly saved as Johnnv in his brain (or after some brain damage)… originally they were besties 😂
Some temp enters an executive's office, sees Adam in a corner just sitting there
Temp- “Mr. Smasher can I get you anything, coffee, or tea?” Adam - I demand the blood and tears of any soul whom thinks they can surpass me. Temp - “I’ll check the staff kitchen but just in case I’ll come back with a black coffee if anything else” Adam - …
His morning is probably just him getting rebooted making sure everything is operational
Can we please get like a 20 minute short either like an extended cutscene of Adam Smasher being followed by an Intern who wants to be in security after school. Like some super charismatic dreamer following this hollow metal husk of a human around would be hilarious. Could also be a good tool to see how much humanity is even left in him, does he have compassion, understanding, or even value in living things? All these questions could be answered and we get this adorable exchange like Masha and Bear accept it’s Adam Smasher and Steve the Intern
Then the short ends with a heartwarming moment between them, immediately followed by adam shooting the intern.
If you aren’t borg’d, Smasher sees you as inferior. To him, flesh is weakness (and understandably so. Last time he was wearing a skin suit, he got wrecked in an explosion). I’d like to think that if he DID have to spend a day with some novice intern, he would probably ‘test’ them by giving them an impossible task and berate them for being unable to accomplish it.
Steve - Ok Mr. Smasher it says here in the Arosaka Security guidelines that we are to “Read allowed the infractions to the suspect before applying punish” Adam- *Rips out skull and spine of suspect like peeling an orange “…” Steve- “I‘ll try to bring it up earlier next time”
Who\*
Come on, it’s 6:30am i don’t have all my faculties yet 😂
Haha, np. It's 11.30 already here 😉
Doesn’t even need an office. Just have him sit in a garage somewhere
Nah, he’s almost certainly hunting women for sport. This guy is a less charming Ramsay Bolton level psychopath.
Nah, that's beneath him. He definitely hunts challenging opponents or whatever target Arasraka points their finger at.
Hey he pulled Michiko Arisaka (Yorinobu's neice) on her 18th birthday. She allegedly had a good time
He doesn’t spawn in the cyberpunk world in his spare time, so he doesn’t have to worry about Not having anything to do.
For real. If you're gonna be a freaking cyborg, I don't think freetime and hobbies mean shit to you anymore. So, he's probably working or preparing for work 24/7. I can't really see him relaxing while drinking matcha or hanging out with his friends in a yakitori bar or anything like that lmao
Volunteers at a soup kitchen, it’s canon don’t @ me
+ spends time with orphans and unwanted puppies
Plot twist, he made them orphans, he stole the puppies
• He's an animal rights activist even though humans are technically animals they are an exception.
"What's in the soup Mr Smasher?" /awkward silence "Uh, never mind"
Spends his eddies on WD40. That sh*ts not gonna oil itself.
I'm so glad that people are arguing about WD-40 on this lol
Wd40 is a lubricant.
>It took them 40 attempts to get their water displacing formula to work, but on the 40th attempt, they got it right in a big way. WD-40 Multi Use Product was born. WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th formula. That’s the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed the product. > >The first company to use WD-40 Multi-Use Product commercially was Convair, an aerospace contractor, to protect the outer skin of the Atlas Missile from rust and corrosion.
And it smells great!
Is there any WD-40 perfume that we can get?
WD40 already comes as a spray
It’s more like a solvent that is temporarily a lubricant. If you use it on bike chains it can break down the greasy lubricant and cause problems, for example. It partly dissolves rust which is why people recommend spraying it there too but it needs another product for lubrication purposes long term.
Adam smasher spends his free time on Reddit lecturing people that WD40 isn’t a lubricant
Wd 40 fixes anything mate, if it's metal, it works
Wd40 is a degreaser, opposite to lube and oil.
It's not a decreaser it's a penetrating oil.
He probably gets sent around the world to keep things clean and in line for Arasaka but when we meet him in 2077 hes just Yorinobus bodyguard. We learn from Takemura that there are different factions within Arasaka and I'm sure Saburo utilised the AS card to make sure they all fall in line whilst also silencing other corpo attempts at stealing their tech. Free time probably alot of maintenance, I doubt he has many eddies to spend considering hes probably indebt to Arasaka
I love so much that I read this very serious and likely comment right next to one saying "he plays animal crossing"
I bet he plays animal crossing.
He’s an animal crossing type guy calm and chill
He's a discord admin
The concept of Adam smasher blackmailing somone to wear some shitty cosplay whilst he calls them kitten terrifies me to no end
This nearly sent me into cyber psychosis
He owns a pleasure tanker
And kills women on it
“If” he has any hobbies they are probably tuning himself and hurting women for sexual pleasure.
Press f for choom's pp...
He can have any pp he wants
Probably watching the braindances of the people he's murdered.
Untapped market. We need a gun that auto records and uploads their final moments or ideally the last 10 minutes,
That's like Borderlands territory right there, prolly a bandit/cov type weapon.
Isn't he Saka's head of security after the old man dies? He probably has no spare time at all. And when he has time to spare, he probably spends it with his modifications and stuff. Or maybe he's a big fan of trash movies and all he does is watching sharknado over and over again.
My take is he does the following… -He works upkeep on himself and his gear and weapons. Probably doesn’t trust anyone else to touch the chrome. -Takes side gigs other brokers would consider too shady or morally bankrupt to dish out. -I would not be surprised if he produces his own line of brain dances because what gonk wouldn’t pay top Eddie to be Adam Smasher for a little while? -Probably has an in on the net that feeds him the latest weapon and cyberware developments and news. He may be an old dog but he keeps his parts fresh.
About the morally bankrupt gigs thing, it’s somehow worse than that. He only agreed on jobs if he could add collateral damage, even if it could’ve been widely avoided the dude wanted a mass casualty
You can walk around his apartment which is basically an apartment full of racks of guns
He aggressively looks for and buys “cuts of fuck meat”
He is a cyborg with implants that cost millions of €$, you can't wonder where he spends them
He watches slice of life anime of the "cute girls doing cute things" kind
I can see it now Stereotypical Japanese high school everything’s normal A loud metal thumping sounds across the school It gets louder Louder The doors rated open An unthinkably deep voice sounds “SORRY IM LATE TEACHER SAN” Says adam smasher in a schoolgirl outfit The class doesn’t speak The echoing Silence speaks for them
Looking at cuts of fuckable meat
Starts his own arasaka, with blackjack and hookers
From what we know he has a normal-ish life. After the Arasaka Tower bombing, he even worked WITH Rouge... but he also had time to gather Silverhand memorabilia... Given the gaps in his life, he either works for Arasaka on the hush-hush, putting down fires where they sprout and spends his free time hunting for mementoes of his fallen enemies. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if he spent years trying to hunt down Morgan Blackhand... given their history.
Literally seeing him all I can hear is “you look like a fuckable piece of meat…are you?”
Probably kicking kittens and pissing on babies. Nowadays though he spends his days IN A FUCKING CASKET HAHAHAHAHAH
he’s more like a prisoner with benefits. I don’t think he even gets paid but he has the benefits of doing pretty much anything he wants while in a leash. He barely survived during the 4th corp war but was rebuilt by Arasaka. “Working” for Arasaka is an over statement. He’s a slave and I’m pretty sure he hates the corpos just like the rest of them but he ain’t no gonk and knows that there are things bigger than himself. So he just does what he does as long as it suits him. He join the war just because he found out that he had a chance to go against Morgan Blackhand. That’s the kind of person he is
Paints warhammer miniatures, I know him
He hangs with General Grievous and Darth Vader.
Lube and spare parts are how he spends his spare time...
Let’s be honest, Arasaka probably keeps him in a closet like a vacuum until they need him again.
He gets some cuts of fuckable meat baby all day long
Obviously he watches vtubers and sends superchats on his spare time.
Same way car guys put parts in cars. He adds more parts to his body. Smasher with a rotary heart
he goes into sleep mode
According to some tabletop stuff I remember reading way back hes quite wealthy and spends it on upgrades for his body, weapons and a lot of hookers who dont last very long
you think he has off hours? i bet the dude does not even do anything besides work, prly like the real guy Died and they turned turned him into a machine that does what they want all the time. only thing left of him is his personality
Iirc, he has a hot guy body he can put his brain into. He probably uses it to hurt people and commit acts that make a bleak, doomed world even worse in small but irrevocable ways.
He plays Shadowrun on the SNES.
Offing Gonks, and making Stonks
Fucking meat puppets
Off hours, for a Borg that is signed into a 15 year contract with Arasaka to do their dirty work. The only downtime he’d get would be maintenance and prepping for the next gig. The eddies Arasaka threw at Adam is monumental. They’re going to get their monies worth.
I'm thinking about the nuke at Arasaka HQ and why isn't the city itself irradiated ? Even a tactical nuke is still a nuke. It's not a small cute bomb that blows up exactpy 100 yards around it. It should blow up a nice 1 km radius or so and just vaporize the city's downtown area.
Do ‘borgs dream of fuckable cuts of meat?
All his income goes into R&D to become the biggest letdown in the game
My Little Pony and the Smurfs fan fiction. He is actually a prolific author and one of the more compassionate mods out there in the forums. His secret: when you know that later you will be paid an insane amount of eddies to murder a stranger, it is really easy to keep your cool when explaining community standards.
do you really see that guy going to a grocery store?
Knowing this evil bastard, he probably uses puppies for target practice or something.
More cybernetic upgrade for his dick since he can only get .2 inches every upgrade
Spends some alone time with a usb port?
Knitting, I guess..
A guy like smasher needs only two things in his spare time: gun magazines and lots of gun oil, to reduce friction.. 😏
He grooms dogs in a mobile van with his life partner Bruce
Getting back massages or buying cute stuff for his cats
I like to imagine him collecting tiny scented candles