Adam have higher level tech and just overal better, Robocop gear is, while good, break down alot, and some time he get just straight up trash or one time used stuff, i'll say Robocop gonna put up a fight with how tanky he is, but that about it.
This dude came into the scene bored, called the MC a child, Goomba stomped best girl, gut punched a UBER driver, tore a virus out his head, caused the MC to literally fall apart in front of him, and in the end, he said that he had some fun... Finally, an Adam Smasher I can respect.
In most anime when a villain talks s**t about the main character they're punished for their arrogance and hubris. Adam isn't underestimating his opponent here, Adam really is just that strong.
@@Ankylosaurus_mangiventrisi mean if David answer differently it might change the outcome but who knows. Atleast they did justice to show how legendary Adam Smasher is. p.s: RIP Rebecca she literally died just because she's standing on the wrong spot
@@Awpic Adam Smasher's 🤖💀 definitely isn't *talking some bull$h1t* all around ya, but instead *he's accurately describing about how inferior you (and the Edgerunners) are when compared to him* right...😎 So definitely, this is *one of the BEST villain ever written* ya, bro...😉👍
@@Gfish17 It's not about any singular implant, it's about how far you can go overall without going insane. Almost every combatant worth knowing in the setting has a sandy or a kerry. Smasher is special because RAW he has no Empathy value and doesn't face drawbacks from cybernetics, which is why he's been a fullborg organ pod for decades without going cyberpsycho. David was a kid who got cocky because he didn't drown in a wading pool and thought it would be smart to free-dive in an oceanic trench.
@@ikillstupidcomments Adam Smasher is and has been a cyberpsycho tho. Like Pondsmith said: He is a high functioning cyberpsycho with a job where people want him to kill people.
Adam Smasher VA was really good in the videogame. But here...HE NAILS IT, I can feel how much he enjoys hurting people and being better than everyone else. Props to Alec Newman!
Everyone did great with their characters, I see a lot of people didn’t like the ripper doc but I loved how he sounded and he seemed to me very Pacifica sounding.
Oh yeah now I got it but nonetheless that’s what gives the character personality. But I understand now. 😂 as soon as I started reading that in the docs voice it clicked.
Funnily enough, Lucy was the most built different of the Edgerunner gang. Trained in a special facility and all, with constant exposure and training in her day-to-day life. Even then, Adam Smasher just out-badassed the entire hacking mechanic.
i pretty sure Adam could isolate himself from any network intrusions. He kept the ports open just to fuck with cyber runners stupid enough to connect with his brain.
@@Siegberg91I mean in game you cannot hack someone who's "offline" from the net, and laughed my ass when the realizatiom just came to me that if you don't want to get cyberbullied just turn off the phone
@yRaven. Not since the 2.1 patch. I gave him 7 stacks of cyberware malfunction, and he had the absolute disrespect to fire up the sandevistan and pop my head like a grape. Looking back at videos of 2.0 and older Smasher, he was a joke compared to now.
“Smasher, get to work! Kill him already!” “Who the fuck are you?” God that was such a good line. Faraday has tried for this entire show to become a big shot in the corpo world and he just gets destroyed in a single sentence.
"You think you're special because you're scrappy? Don't make me laugh!" In a world where we love to see the underdogs win in a story, Adam Smasher is here to remind us that underdogs get put down.
@@Awpic And so, what do you meant here ya? Is Adam Smasher's 🤖💀 used to be an underdog before he was known as the "Legend of the Night City 🌃" right, Awpic?
To me Smasher has the vibe of someone that's played a game to is end, unlocked all the perks, all the gear, and now they're curb stomping all opposition for what little entertainment it's worth, and to him David is a well crafted mid-level boss fight, not really a challenge but it was a fun little diversion while it lasted.
@@bikashit V is a dude/chick who had a chance to alos beat the game and level up. Also helps they have a superweapon A.I augmenting their abilities. Also end game V is an entire league ahead of Smasher.
@@richfoster4369 smashers backstory will give you chills. He was truly a demonic phsyco. Before going full chrome he and his gang were responsible for torture and mutilations of innocent people while being a massive drug addict and would violently rape women
I think I can safely say that once someone makes a mod which drastically buffs Adam Smasher’s fight, complete with aggressive phases that makes him unhackable (or at least makes hacking him less effective/more difficult) and with another certain “rudimentary implant”, everyone’s gonna want a piece of this absolute menace.
Honestly, David and Smasher standing off at 0:35 was my favourite part. He actually had the courage to stand up to a NC legend who has never been bested. Mad respect for my man David.
@@bigbywolf5031 So then, Bigby Wolf 🐺 Does the *one Adam Smasher's 💀🤖 actually lost quite a few times through his life* yet, especially to *Morgan Blackhand* for examples right then...🤔🙄? What do you think about it right then?
@@EraChanZ Ah-finally. Blind rage. overstepped what he's really capable of. In the end he's just a kid who got some cool tech. From the start Arasaka has been playing with him like a toy and he never saw it.
That's basically me. I clear out as many side quests and NCPD missions as possible as soon as they become available so my V gets power leveled to the point that story quests are childplay. Like fighting Oda at lvl50
The thing that make me respect Adam Smasher is that although he has become full cyborg and sees it as future of humanity , he has never become a slave of technology. We can peek into his ideology when he talked about David's mech and how he uses his Sandevistan. He seems to aware of the consequence of over reliance on advance device and weaponry , and his true strength comes from the extensive experience as a solo merc and his monstrous psyche. Adam Smasher is like an old outlaw that fully embrace the future but still believe in the old way of doing things , and is insanely good at it , his chrome does not control him , he has dominance over them.
Ehhh I disagree. Smasher has zero humanity. He see’s people as meat. He see’s any and all values that bind people as weakness. He’s an actual psychopath. Whether thats his manifestation of cyber psychosis or it makes him immune to it is up for debate
A part of me wishes he took that offer but we would have never gotten the best line in all of anime. “whatever choom, like I give a shit” I will forever live by those words.
Ooof now that would be something, oh and what if during that season he somehow reunites with Lucy as a borged out David. Then he now has to try and escape the trenches of being an Arasaka war dog to be with Lucy once and for all.
I loved Smasher in Edgerunners. Throughout the show, David and his friends are built up as these unstoppable badasses, hardened mercs and beasts through and through. Then Smasher shows up and in about 5 minutes completely crushes all of them, not even flinching at anything they have to offer. He literally beats all of them in their own specialties. Outguns Becca, no sells Lucy's hacks, matches David's Sandy and outchromes him, and would've cut Falco's escape with Lucy short if not for David interfering. An absolute monster through and through
He is showing the crowd that at the end of the day they are just punks playing with big boy toys. The pinacle of cybernetic enhancements packed from head to toe with the best modds military has to offer. God I love his character especially in the context of the show and how he leaves us with cold feet.
@@blueperseverance3912, he sure did. I hope we see more Edgerunners in the future, whether in the upcoming DLC, or a second season. Either way, Adam Smasher truly is, an absolute beast.
The "A rudimentary implant" line is pure fire imo The MC thought he was tough shit with his signature chrome, while the Big Bad sees it as nothing more than a costco bargain sale item
Adam's borg suit can flip tanks, shrug off anti tank rockets, and out run the fastest cars even though its over a ton. A few times normal gravity is nothing for it.
he does, you can see him start to get the after images david is just going so fucking crazy with the sandy that it was LITERALLY about to destroy his mind and make him crazy if not for lucy after. david was in 3 places at once there
@@citizenvulpes4562 it is how the sandy works though, the way david was overclocking it there was on a fast track to fry his brain through overstimulation
I love how the series finale basically had Adam Smasher humble this man David. He went on the whole series acting like he was special and different from all the others who had special chrome implants, but when Smasher finally came on the scene and told him his Sandevistan was just a basic common implant, David’s true reality finally set in. Rarely do I respect villains as much as this one! 👌🏾
@@Automation6350 well not nessary i mean who needs it to beat you if they can just be like V go in there and destroy your existence like its a breakfist on sunday morning
I mean in the game, they're basically speed up versions too since time stops for you when you do breach protocol, so yeah very accurate to the game lol.
@@futuza considering modern computers are making true/false decisions at basically 12 billion times a second, it makes sense that cyberpunk ones are going so fast that time isn't a factor.
My favorite line of his is describing David's suit as having "anti-gravity training wheels". Most people would see that thing and be intimidated, scrambling for a way to beat it, but Adam has enough combat experience to immediately see a crutch he can sweep from under his enemy.
I also loved when he said “a rudimentary implant” about the Sandevistan. David’s most powerful thing in his arsenal and Adam just sees it as a minor buff.
Well he was originally designated to wield the Cyber Skeleton so I'd imagine he's had time to look over it. Probably why it went into alternative testing. Adam probably wanted nothing to do with it. It's very powerful sure but the glaring weakness is the anti grav that holds it up. A skilled opponent disables those and like David you really can't do much without it
Also he didn’t immediately exploit said weakness. He could have clapped David from the start, used his Sandy to get the jump on him. But instead, he sparred with David, respected his determination, and ultimately in the end, I believe he respected David himself.
I don't know why, but I was laughing so hard when I saw Adam go down the elevator. I understand he doesn't use his implants unless he needs to. But the fact he's the Most cybernetic person in the Cyberpunk universe and he takes an Elevator during a fight is just a hilarious concept for me
because its probably easier to take the elevator when your target is the size of a car and id like to think smasher gets bored so he thinks of ways to make himself laugh
I love the portrayal of Adam in the anime Not just what he does and says, but his visual design He’s pure black, with red highlights and a bleached bone „skull” as his face His design screams „evil irredemable bad guy” and that’s what he should be
@@daneyal7162 Indeed it is, Dan Eyal...💀 The ending of both "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" anime and "Rogue One" movie are certainly is not a *happy ending* right...😭😭😭
@@ramon4184 well david was actually built different he had like an 8 in the humanity score he just wasnt high like v or adam well actually adam is a cyber psycho so really only v could handle what david did and actually in lore its better to just go full robot than do what david did
What I love about Smasher? He's the perfect embodiment of neutral evil with a ton of skills that help him maintain balance. Most of the character's in the show and game have committed some kind of horrible act or many, but Adam owns his darkness like armor. He never wastes words, never insult's beyond what is needed, but he never pulls his punches even for a second. Once your an enemy to him your a chance for him to have some fun lol.
“But Adam owns his darkness like armor.” I’m about to make Adam 4x more scarier, The reason he hasn’t went cyberpsycho but can absolutely slaughter people (Committing war crimes and such) is because he literally does not feel remorse. Throughout his entire murderous, horrible life, He has not felt a SLIVER of trauma.
@@Steve.Maverick because it usually puts him in situations where he can have a blast. Arasaka never has a shortage of enemies to be dealt with. Meaning his endless bloodiest is always satiated if even temporarily.
The fact that he beat the main team by himself, and even wiping the floor with David (with a body that has anti gravitational gear) and simply saying “I had *some* fun” shows how badass he is
Adam Smasher: 1.5 tons and 11ft of armored and weaponized hatred backed by Arasaka"s billions. Add on 70 plus years of cybernetic experience in warfare and his obsession with having the best possible defenses against quick-hacking and this kind of massacre of the protagonists is what you get. I'd love to see more of this Smasher in the future over the abysmal joke in 2077.
Hoping he's updated at some point to be a lot harder. Imagine a level where Adam Smasher chases you through the Arasaka building, and you have to hide and rely on sneak attacks against him or something.
"You can't even stand without your anti-grav crutches.." My favorite line, dude just systematically takes David apart, then watches him collapse into a heap
And then came the nail in the coffin “you think you’re special ‘cause you’re so scrappy?! Don’t make me laugh!!” How many others like David had he dealt with in his decades of warfare and service as arasaka’s murder machine? How many woild be wannabes thiught they were on his level only to be reminded that in the pecking order,he was tha apex predator
I love how they set David up to be this really special guy who can handle all these implants and modifications, when in reality Adam seems to be the only one capable of going full chrome and remaining somewhat sane. Would love to have more backstory on him in a sequel or something.
Hilariously David's way is the stupid way because it FAR more damaging to you mind and humanity to constantly be chopping yourself up, in comparison going Full-Cyborg not only is less destructive on the psyche...but you actually get a discount when taking in upgrades (making them far less damaging to your Humanity Score). ...also your wrong about Adam, there is actually a small, usually pretty chill, community of Full-Body Cyborgs in Night City (unless they got smart and left after the nuke). He also doesn't even have the most destructive (both mentally and combatively) Cyborg suite: The Dragoon.
I love how smasher doesn't really have an ego. He just knows how good he is. He's got no problem complimenting his appointments but mostly he's just bored.
Imma say it now, I think he's one of those rouge AIs put in a robot or droid by Arasaka, then they make up the story about him being a man that went full chrome. This is if it isn't canon already. EDIT: I guess he is a man, though the rouge ai seems more terrifying to me in an in-universe sense.
@@sonofjack6286 Arasaka has one of the best counterintelligence crews in the world, they have top dogs when it comes to hacking, so its not far off to just say they have the best countermeasures for ICE's and hacking in general.
Gotta love how Adam respected David enough to offer giving him a new life as a construct like himself. Goes to show he isn’t some ego-central villain, but instead a mercenary who’s willing to admit potential in people.
Well, I think Ramon is right. A construct is an ai copy of your mind/consciousness, which Arasaka could benefit from. While I like to think it could’ve happened and Lucy somehow rescues him through the net, being a construct is a void, in which your right to die is stolen from you.
I like this Smasher waaaaaay better than in-game. His voice in the show is both cooler, and his movements go hand-in-hand with how badass he's supposed to be
@@Nempo13 Which *full capabilities* you said right here ya, Cory Myers? Is it the *Sandevistan implant* or maybe, it can be referring to the *Cyber-Skeleton* 💀 right...?
I love the detail at 1:59 when Lucy is trying to hack Smasher, and you can briefly see a kind of cyber-outline of his which looks like some skeletal monster. Just goes to show how much of a monstrous killing machine he is, both on the inside and out.
I just have to point out, David never fell over the edge until death. Sure he was going on and off cyberpsychosis state, but even without immunosuppressants he still managed to pull his sanity in check. He was an edgerunner through and through.
What are you talking about. at the end David could barley even function. Dude could hardly move after he ran out of suppressants. Adam smasher even said so himself before he ripped the skeleton apart. That’s the only reason David did not put up a fight. Remember, the cyber skeleton can create a gravity waves that can smash an armored vehicle. If David was actually special he would have killed Adam smasher with his last gravity wave. I think once Lucy left alive David gave up because his only purpose here was to save her and he succeeded. Plus he was going to go psycho after this anyway. The only reason he lasted this long was because the vestiges of his mind went into over dive so he could get Lucy out of here.
@@zongetsuma7444I never said he was special. I said he remained an edgerunner, when everyone said he couldn't be one, up until his very end because he held on to his sanity.
1:55 honestly this i think is his most badass scene, like how you can see his netrunner avatar is like a demon and how he so easily just rips away the attempts to hack him.
it was a nice touch from trigger,as normally in the rpg and in the video game,his level of cybernetics makes him more vunerable to hacking,so having that skill is a requirement and necessity,but here it makes sense he'd be aware of that and have the necessary precautions and of coure his icon being so monstrous is a reflection of his personality and how much of a monster he knows people think of him as,and just how detached he is from his own humanity
@@Sketchfan i always thought that was the sickest scene as well. the demon thing being also represented as literally what's inside of him was a nice touch
The rare circumstance where the villian has plot armor because they've gotta fight some gonk named V in a year. And dear god did he put that plot armor to use
Heroes: We have the power of friendship on our side. Adam Smasher: I've built a wall a mile high and ten miles long with the skulls of every person who said that to me.
Although a massive tragedy, I love how this anime embraces realism. David is an extremely talented and a lovable guy but he has nowhere near the fighting experience of Adam. Adam knew the drawbacks of the Cyberskeleton and references to it twice in the anime as well. Adam was having fun while David's crew got annihilated. Lucy was correct the entire time - David will die if he donned the skeleton, and the circumstances made his crew lose their lives along with him as well. :(
Yea the moment he took the skeleton he was already dead. Buying his time with immune suppressors moving reaction of his body for a augment he cant handle. Doctor told him that was his last visit. David was rare human but Adam is 1% of 1%. He had very little chance to make it in a first place. Without parents, young and alone, with body that is perfect for experiments makes him just the best target in this world for anyone with money and ambition. There was very few options he could make
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 V, the true main character. In my case I turned my character into the ultimate revolver wielding gunslinger. I didn’t need crazy implants to rip through head after head with my revolver. Oh I ran out of ammo, no problem I also have one that locks on, and look I have another tech version that shoots through walls. Cyberpunk may be a buggy piece of shit but in terms of story, gameplay, and the customizability to play however tf you want, it’s legendary.
Lucy, who has been secretly trained by arasaka to become a top tier netrunner since childhood: *hacks Adam Smasher Adam Smasher: nope. V, a merc: *hacks Adam Smasher Adam Smasher: *Explodes Well I guess V is just built different
i mean at that point V has one god tier AI onside who probably switched Smashers countermeasures off, Adam might have a suite to beat Lucy but Alt just laughs in AI
To be fair it's a dick move in games whenever you reach the final boss just for them to tell you that your playstyle can't be used. Imagine if we reached Smasher and they tell you that you can't use melee attacks against him. My build would of been ruined.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal." - Adam Smasher
@@YezModdy he would already qualified to be a dreadnaught but which Legion? would he join or which chapter?? I'd say he had probably be an iron hand Marine since they're all for cybernetic upgrades and beside the point This is just me but my favorite Legion (Night Lord#1!!)
@@thelitmango6333 He's not reliant on the tech. For all his 'insanity', he maintains a very truthful outlook that anyday he's going to die because either he gets cast aside, or his own luck finally runs out on him. It makes sense too. David's demise wasn't because of Adam, it was because his own body and tech was failing him at the worst possible moment. Something Adam probably has seen thousands of times over his career. It wouldn't suprise me if some of his targets died on their own and he had to report as such to his superiors.
1:55 legit my favorite moment, i just love the idea that adam smasher is now so far gone, so inhuman, that even his look changed in the virtual world. It's as if his soul itself became a full on monster that only causes suffering around him. The man (or devil) doesn't even flinch when he is getting hacked, and simply pulls the virus out of him by hand!
@@hammurabii.3173 Yeah i have to admit those moment might have also needed more screen time, but i believe it wouldn't have necessary worked in this story since it would have diverged the focus on another form of evil. Here i think the idea was to mostly focus on how the city itself can ruin someones life just because you don't have enough money to feed it. But yeah, i would be glad if they made another show focusing on "the net" and the "ai vs human" conflict. It could offer a lot of possibilities
That wasn't him. Smasher always has a couple 'Saka spiders riding shotgun, actively countering net attacks against him. Smasher himself is actually incredibly vulnerable to getting hacked.
@@Awpic Have multiple series where the MC and their crew all meet their demise via Adam Smasher. Would be amazing and help build up what defeating him in the game means.
@@Scantor I love that actually cuz to me before the anime, the sense of defeating smasher was the revenge for Johnny. Cuz we all know what Adam did to Johnny. Now we all wanna kill him cuz of becca lol.
Adam Smasher has a very simple weakness that is very hard to exploitable, lack of maintenance, since its canon he is full borg, he cannot afford to lose its patron support due to his high end implants, no ripper doc can perform adequate maintenance on him, only the company he works for can accommodate his needs. It is fair to say, for Adam Smasher to fall out of grace is to fall into disrepair.
This would a a problem if Adam Smasher actually cared about any of that. He's got a simple agreement with Arasaka, which both parties are happy to: Arasaka handles his servicing, and he gets to go kill people for them. Adam enjoys the killing, and Arasaka have no shortage of suitably tough rivals and threats who they would like eliminated. He's just too useful to ever get rid of, and he's got enough self-control to keep his killing sprees to approved business activities.
It is a weakness but not all that serious. Even if he did lost support of Arasaka that would only mean that he would have to mor accessible frames. And while it will lower his firepower his accumulated wealth will let him afford the best of the best on the market and with his decades of experience it would be enough to steel keep title of the strongest.
@@АртемМалякшин there's not really that many places capable of dealing with him... I'm a Shadowrun player not Cyberpunk, but they are very similar. Going full cyborg with Delta grade cyberware is not something that PCs have access to... that's a State sponsored weapon of war & even then only one of the Great Powers has the capacity and financing for such. Powerful countries & AAA Corporations can maintain them pouring ridiculous amount of resources into doing so since the edge of having him makes it worthwhile.
@@Awpic i loved when he blocked the attack hitting douglus aka he black guy as he knows he will just be annoyed with getting yelled at later. he kept him alive also because it was his job to keep him alive and he did it
I’m glad Adam was given his proper due. All the main cast is fighting for their lives, and Smasher is just treating the battle like it’s another day at the office.
@@Awpic Indeed, Awpic: It feels like how Darth Vader's *slaughering-up some poor Rebel soldiers who's been delivering the Death Star plan to Princess Leia Organa for keeping it safe* at the end of "Rogue One" movie right...💀
NGL, in the game they should add a new star, in the next update, for the cop pursuits where they all flee and just send in Adam Smasher ; and of course in said update he’s buffed to hell and treated as a boss battle- if you happen to beat him he does a ‘tactical retreat’ of some kind (so that he doesn’t outright die, keeping the story mode intact), and then all of the stars/wanted level get reset. Of course this should also buff the regular cops and whoever so it doesn’t become an easy farm for loot. But still. A nifty idea, I think, to give him some more presence.
Well, they could always add Arasaka and MiliTech into the game their own “police force” of sorts; give them their own system to be lore-accurate. Idk. Feels like Smasher should have *something* in-game.
@@ilovemonkeyos I agree that Smasher should've had more involvement in the game, I definitely think his fight should be reworked entirely. Something like him not using his enhancements all that much for the first 30% of his health or so, then starting to use his implants. I feel like he should respond with say, a Sandevistan if you use one so that you match speeds with him.
One thing i love is that him saying "im special" mirrors david perfectly, yet where david was cocky. He genuinely seems to be special, he would have been a protagonist in a different show.
1:28 This little punch is one of my favorite moments. Adam moved his fist like 10 inches, punched Falco hard enough to knock his arm off, and didn't even LOOK at him, much less stop moving. Like swatting a fly. Absolute menace.
@@Scazoid So then, his fist 👊 *moved like a friggin' piston* huh? That's gonna hurt so much for Falco getting punched-up by the one Adam Smasher 💀🤖 like that...
I love when he shoots David in the gut when David is freaking out about Faraday being rescued by Trauma Team, a cheap shot but one ignores Adam Smasher right in front of you at one's own peril.
This is the same monster who tanked a nuke and _survived._ The same monster who uses a power armor conversion as his main body, one that would drive anybody else insane, if they lived in it for _decades._
1:31 my favorite part of the entire fight. david gets a hard dose of reality when he's told that his silver bullet is nothing more than a gimmick in comparison to the absolute death machine that is Smasher.
I see it more like a 'you must be this tall to ride' item. Like to Smasher a Sandevistan is the absolute minimum gear required to be even considered a decent fighter.
I thought David was unstoppable once he installed the Cyberskeleton. But as soon as I saw that those corpos called in Adam Smasher, I knew he wasn’t going to make it.
@@Awpic Adam is the type who has so much actual combat experience that he can just glance at the blueprints / techs and immediately knows how to counter it. Gotta say, Arasaka knows how to pick Chief of Security.
Dude, I absolutely LOVE villains like this. I'm so tired of how every single villain these days needs to have a tragic anime-style backstory, where all they need is the power of love and friendship to fix them. Screw that, just make my villain a soulless, coldhearted bastard. Make them like an animal, or a predator. Nobodys asks why a lion hunts, *it just does.* It doesn't think like a normal person. To me, that's scary. Can't be calmed or reasoned with. Matter of fact, he's chill. You're not even human to them, just a hunk of meat. I fucking love that.
Still can't believe the people at Trigger who played thru this game, fought sloppy slow Adam in the game and be like "you know what, we'll make him badass"
Adam Smasher isn't an ordinary villain that doesn't shit talk to you about your capabilities. He's basically telling you are nothing but inferior right in your goddamn face. That's like Gordon Ramsay brutally criticizing you for making a bad dish.
A reminder that in the Lore, Morgan Blackhand had minimal cybernetics, was considered the best Solo in Night City, and fought Adam Smasher (who was like 90% 'borg) to a standstill.
He had a good amount of Cybernetics tho. He had a sandevistan, cyberoptics, rippers, hydraulic rams, muscle and bone lace, emp blockers, nanosurgeons, smartgun and vehicle links, a neural processor, a cybernetic arm etc. He was about as chromed up as your average edgerunner, what made him special was his insane combat skills and ability to strategize efficiently.
Important reminder that Smasher was in a Daioni frame at the time and had just killed Shaitan, who was another fullborg. If you need context a Dragoon frame(Smasher in the anime/videogame) is to a Daioni what a soldier is to a tank.
Dude just wiped the floor and showed them what it truly takes to be a Legend. Its not some punk, but someone who truly belongs to the top of the food chain.
@@Awpic Adam Smasher 💀🤖 is definitely not some garden variety punk who's boasting about "who rules this city 🏙️?", but instead he's like an *apex predator who's truly belongs and reigns to the top of the food chain/pecking order* yet...🦁👑
@@Awpic Well played ya, Awpic: Adam Smasher's 💀🤖 have *figuratively (AND literally) taking everything's that David Martinez's loves dearly in a matter of minutes* while trash-talking was *pretty SAVAGE to behold* ...💀
What got me off guard was the hacking part, he's fully aware to actually tear off anyone's hacking attempt, whats more terrifying is his digital appearance, resembles that of a monster Edit: Never expected on a LOT of likes (vO_O)
When you realize Adam Smasher is an Avengers level threat. Also the balls they had to build up Giancarlo Esposito as the major villain, and in the last minutes of this anime Adam Smasher shows up and just straight up spits "who the fuck are you?"
Maybe to The Avengers without super-powers (though Black Panther could still rip through his armor like it was tissue paper thanks to his vibranium claws).
@@silvertoddler8326 Only if their lineup only had Black Widow, Cap, Hawkeye, Bucky, and The Falcon. Smasher may be a fearsome opponent to your average Edgerunner, but he's a big fish in a small pond compared to other enhanced beings. Hell, Ant Man or Wasp would ruin his day just by shrinking down inside his armor and pulling wires until he can't even blink.
@@legomaniac213 the accumulation of all his cybernetics combined I feel personally in my own opinion he would mop the floor with all of them including Thanos and his army, his use of the sandevistan alone should not be underestimated. I even feel as Darth Vader would find himself overwhelmed with the experienced full borg. He’s wildly op
@@silvertoddler8326 I admittedly don't know much about the world of Cyberpunk, but I find that very hard to believe. Smasher would be going up against: a rage monster capable of breaking planets, a reality warping witch, a literal God of Thunder, and a genius who was building tech way beyond what Arasaka's best engineers could even dream up back when he was in high school. Even Spider-Man could take him down after a somewhat difficult fight.
Smasher is absolutely terrifying. A killer robot is frightening, but at the end of the day, it’s just a machine doing what it’s programmed to do, just as a calculator does math equations. In Smasher’s case, there’s just enough human flesh left on his upper head at this point to remind anyone looking at him that behind all of the chrome and implants, there is a conscious mind behind the death and destruction he inflicts. Part of me thinks that Smasher is purposely leaving that one small part of his body unmodified so that he will always be remembered; if he chose to become fully mechanized in appearance, people would stop thinking of him as a man and his legacy wouldn’t be as notorious.
Well i think that skin on his face is to help him from going insane cause in the ttrpg you can get skin if your full borg. I believe all he really is, is a brain and spine.
@@evanloner4983 nah, Smasher’s already insane, even before going full Borg, he just embraced it, and it’s the reason he has control over himself unlike other cyberpsychos.
I like that despite seeing David gain a reputation for himself, upgrading his body, and becoming a hit in NC, Smasher destroyed all that and put him in his place. It takes a lot to become a Night City Legend, and Smasher takes more than a lot.
@@titel9870 are you sure that was about the sandevistan or the actual Anti grave cyber skeleton David is wearing. That thing, Adam Smasher basically called it a toy,
the fact that Johnny Silverhand was even a challenge for Adam says so much more about Johnny than I'd anticipated.. I was always kinda pissed at how weak he must've been to just get killed off by this generic cyborg baddie... But this puts it all in some serious heavyweight perspective
Was Silverhand a challenge? Johnny was zeroed by Smasher in the tower. Johnny escaping to the roof, only to be killed by smasher on the rooftop didn't actually happen. AIt alludes to this, as does past cyberpunk lore. Smasher killed Johnny first time around inside the tower.
i mean back in 2023 smasher had a lot less superchrome and silverhand was carryin that Malorian monstrosity pretending to be a pistol,,, Smasher still won the fights forcing silverhand to run for it
That's just Silverhand's biased narration. Smasher in the heist is actually after Blackhand. In actuality Silverhand was just immediately cleaved in half by one shot of Smasher's shotgun.
@@Awpic truly hope so, then again v is literally the strongest person period so like, he might not adam just needs an actual good moveset and multiple phases and then we chillin, v just kills him in 3 seconds flat endgame
@@undeadhound3402 Well for the most part you do. His weapon is even more violent in game. Except for the big fall and the Sandevistan (it would be just weird to figth a sandevistan in the game) you face every part of his arsenal shown in the anime.
Whenever people mention V beating Smasher, it feels like whenever those annoying fanboys bring up their favorite OC character and proclaim that they're the strongest character in the series that they belong to. It's so annoying lol. V is not a seperate character, V is supposed to be you.
It'd be really easy to make this sort of character either be a cold machine or a raging psycho, but Adam's actually a very nice balance of the two. It is all business, and he's ruthlessly efficient, but he clearly loves his job, and is using it to turn as many people into scrap/meat piles as possible.
It seems that one Adam Smasher 💀🤖 was in fact a very nice balance between a *cold, Terminator-esque killer machine* and a *raging (cyber)psychopath* as you been said on your comment here ya, Raptor Man...
more like how vader is represented in new hope, he is tall dark mechanical man with a synthsized voice that kills named characters like nothing but isn't the top bad guy as he receives orders from his higher ups.
More like General Grievous. He was an unstoppable killing machine who could easily take down multiple Jedi simultaneously when introduced, but got nerfed to hell in the show and movie. Adam is nigh unstoppable in the lore and anime, but nerfed to hell in the game.
For anyone that's curious, the only person that Smasher was never able to best in his Entire life Was Morgan Blackhand who is known as a Solo among Solo's with only a few Cyber upgrades and all Human Skill. Put into perspective as how Talented and Skilled Morgan was when compared to Smasher since all his marks or bounty's were brought in alive for extra pay.
@@Awpic well last I heard, in the events before Cyberpunk Edge Runners and 2077 Morgan Blackhand was fighting against Adam Smasher in a 1v1 duel before the mini Nuke bomb in Arasaka Tower went off. Morgan has been missing since but in 2077 there are shards that talk about a " Grizzle and Talented Solo." picking fights with the Lazarus Group Agents and winning. Some say it's Blackhand while others say that he's is picking when it is the best time to Come back to Night City. Other than that Blackhand was Mike Pondsmiths OC character on table top
"the only person that Smasher was never able to best in his Entire life Was Morgan Blackhand". And V, obviously. Not only was he not able to best him, but V literally shot him to pieces.
Adam Smasher is such a fucking gamer that I basically forgot about the main cast entirely as soon as he showed up on screen and viewed him as the protagonist
I like to imagine Smasher says "Who the fuck are you?" because he didn't really care about doing what he was sent there to do, kill the damn guy, he just wanted to rip David to pieces because he was the biggest guy in the room, and later got tunnel vision on killing Lucy and Falco after David bored him
Yeah, it really shows how far down on the food chain someone like Faraday really was. Your average Night City fixer isn't jack shit to these people that have influence on a global scale
@@nagger8216 Well then, Nagger: Faraday's definitely just little than a *measly-level Night City fixer* to those people that having an *influence on a global scale* 🌐 (and grander scheme of things as well...)
I love how the only reason Adam Smasher doesn’t lose his mind from all the chrome is because he’s already way more insane than any amount of cyberpsychosis could ever make him
iirc he /is/ a cyberpsycho, however he's been described as a "high functioning cyberpsycho". he has some control but still shows some tendencies of them, namely an incredible bloodlust
@@Temp5412 what I meant is that cyberpsychosis makes one lose all empathy and humanity. Adam was already a complete psychopath and therefore didn't have any empathy is him to begin with, hence his high functioning nature
![История Адама Смэшера и его [ужасная] реализация в игре (Cyberpunk lore)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bndZpVaguxo/mqdefault.jpg)
Robo cop vs Adam smasher who wins?
Adam smasher easily
methinks they would team up to destroy mexico bc mexicans smell bad and don't contribute anything to society
Probably Smasher. He’s got some advanced tech… and homicidal tendencies.
Lore accurate Adam Smasher
Adam have higher level tech and just overal better, Robocop gear is, while good, break down alot, and some time he get just straight up trash or one time used stuff, i'll say Robocop gonna put up a fight with how tanky he is, but that about it.
This dude came into the scene bored, called the MC a child, Goomba stomped best girl, gut punched a UBER driver, tore a virus out his head, caused the MC to literally fall apart in front of him, and in the end, he said that he had some fun...
Finally, an Adam Smasher I can respect.
AN ABSOLUTE BEAST.
kiwi is best girl
@@graemesmith6599 Lucy is best girl
She be so pretty
@@Awpic she really do
>Joins in last minutes of anime
>Obliterates main characters like it's tuesday
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves
Sounds like my dad.
Wow
vs game version :
>Door Keeper
>Dumb AI
>No sandevistan
>Gets reckt
Ya they definitely gotta fix him in game.
Its literally just Tuesday for him
In most anime when a villain talks s**t about the main character they're punished for their arrogance and hubris. Adam isn't underestimating his opponent here, Adam really is just that strong.
Gilgamesh
It's a guilty pleasure to Watch
Oh hell yeah it is.
@@etherealmako
In the end they all pay their price though. Gilgamesh & Adam Smasher both.
Reminds me of kaido
To be fair: "You could prove to be an interesting construct" is the height of compliment from Smasher.
Frankly, *any* compliment from Smasher would be the stuff of dreams for any Solo looking to make it big
Id love an alternate ending where David becomes Adam Smasher’s protege lol
@@Ankylosaurus_mangiventrisi mean if David answer differently it might change the outcome but who knows. Atleast they did justice to show how legendary Adam Smasher is.
p.s: RIP Rebecca she literally died just because she's standing on the wrong spot
Nah, that would be "I had fun after all" since A-Smasher wasn't interested in the fight first.
@@renhardhalimstupid bitch shouldve moved istg
Adam smasher is an example of a villain who describes his opponents. He isn’t talking shit, he is accurately describing how inferior you are to him.
And then goddamn well proves it
Nah Fück that he talking shit
@@Awpic
Well played ya, Awpic...😏😎
@@Awpic
Adam Smasher's 🤖💀 definitely isn't *talking some bull$h1t* all around ya, but instead *he's accurately describing about how inferior you (and the Edgerunners) are when compared to him* right...😎
So definitely, this is *one of the BEST villain ever written* ya, bro...😉👍
He’s like Gilgamesh from Fate he’s exactly what he says he is
"You have a Sandevistan?!"
"A rudimentary implant"
David's signature cyberwear was Adam's basic implant.
Yup fuckin cold 🥶
When you saved up all your eddies for one legendary cyberware
Why does he have one? It doesn’t make sense to me.
@@moonmoon2479 Adam Smasher iz a bodyguard fer Arasaka, he ought to have the best military grade offence n defence fer hiz gig
@@souravshirolkar9176 don’t you think this would be Kerizenkov? Which is the Sandevestan, but permanently.
Adam smasher is a type of villain that even power of friendship cannot defeat
but ness, mario, and sonic can tho
nah matter a fact marios enough
"It's over MC! I'm a fucking arsenal on legs"
"YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY FRIENDSHIP!"
(dies)
white space when?
basically aizen stop ichico theme
Indeed, the power of humanity is the only thing that can end him
"You have a sandevistan!?"
"A rudimentary implant"
A two sentence horror story
Rudimentary?
Then what kind of implant does smasher actually take seriously?
DaiOni.
@@Gfish17 It's not about any singular implant, it's about how far you can go overall without going insane. Almost every combatant worth knowing in the setting has a sandy or a kerry. Smasher is special because RAW he has no Empathy value and doesn't face drawbacks from cybernetics, which is why he's been a fullborg organ pod for decades without going cyberpsycho.
David was a kid who got cocky because he didn't drown in a wading pool and thought it would be smart to free-dive in an oceanic trench.
@@ikillstupidcomments people with empathy should be able to function with cyberware as much as Adam smasher.
@@ikillstupidcomments Adam Smasher is and has been a cyberpsycho tho.
Like Pondsmith said: He is a high functioning cyberpsycho with a job where people want him to kill people.
Adam Smasher is the kind of guy who will see other mercs getting bodied and say, "personally, I'd never let that happen to me."
OH MY GOD KEANU REEVES I LOVE YOU
And he would actually do it too, he ain’t just talking
"Ngl, had that been me..."
@@razor6827 everyone gets bodied at some point
@@razor6827 until v pulled up in 2077 and killed him in 5 seconds flat
Adam Smasher VA was really good in the videogame. But here...HE NAILS IT, I can feel how much he enjoys hurting people and being better than everyone else. Props to Alec Newman!
Everyone did great with their characters, I see a lot of people didn’t like the ripper doc but I loved how he sounded and he seemed to me very Pacifica sounding.
@@Awpic It'd some preem sh$t my chooms, people been borg’d out da minds. The type of stuff that makes you go Nova.
I had a nova stroke reading that but yes choom.
@@Awpic Now imagine reading the doc’s script
Oh yeah now I got it but nonetheless that’s what gives the character personality. But I understand now. 😂 as soon as I started reading that in the docs voice it clicked.
David stood no chance. God that ending, I love it. No plot armor. No ass pulls. Just the hero dying
He certainly ain’t like any other anime MCs
Well I mean he is
someone who thinks he's special vs someone who's actually special
It's not like it was close either. Adam Smasher demolished David.
But how exactly is thst good
Funnily enough, Lucy was the most built different of the Edgerunner gang. Trained in a special facility and all, with constant exposure and training in her day-to-day life. Even then, Adam Smasher just out-badassed the entire hacking mechanic.
i pretty sure Adam could isolate himself from any network intrusions. He kept the ports open just to fuck with cyber runners stupid enough to connect with his brain.
@@Siegberg91I mean in game you cannot hack someone who's "offline" from the net, and laughed my ass when the realizatiom just came to me that if you don't want to get cyberbullied just turn off the phone
@@Siegberg91 And them my girl V just insta kills him by uploading some hacks
@yRaven. Not since the 2.1 patch. I gave him 7 stacks of cyberware malfunction, and he had the absolute disrespect to fire up the sandevistan and pop my head like a grape. Looking back at videos of 2.0 and older Smasher, he was a joke compared to now.
He grabbed the Wi-Fi like it was a hardline and manually ripped her out! That’s just stupid badass! 😆
“Smasher, get to work! Kill him already!”
“Who the fuck are you?”
God that was such a good line. Faraday has tried for this entire show to become a big shot in the corpo world and he just gets destroyed in a single sentence.
Best line ever
You said [BIG SHOT] ?
@@GavXZY
And so, Gabriel: What the heck does that "Big Shot" is actually means in the first place right...🤔😗?
@@rahadianaryo5979reference to another game. It’s the same guy who made undertale. Unrelated.
@@rahadianaryo5979 means a big deal
"You think you're special because you're scrappy? Don't make me laugh!"
In a world where we love to see the underdogs win in a story, Adam Smasher is here to remind us that underdogs get put down.
Adam smasher is the underdog
@@Awpic
And so, what do you meant here ya? Is Adam Smasher's 🤖💀 used to be an underdog before he was known as the "Legend of the Night City 🌃" right, Awpic?
I tried to read that, but I’ll just say yes.
@@Awpic
Fine then, Awpic. And so, *which one comment are you tried to read* 📖🧐 here right?
English sir. I speak English.
In a way, David had earned at least a bit of respect from Adam for standing up to him to his very face.
Before David used that gravity thing on him, you can hear a hint of amusement from Adam that some punk-kid is trying to take him on.
The kids got balls
Adam definitely did at the end
bold and stupid
@@Awpic
02:33 😂😂😂
To me Smasher has the vibe of someone that's played a game to is end, unlocked all the perks, all the gear, and now they're curb stomping all opposition for what little entertainment it's worth, and to him David is a well crafted mid-level boss fight, not really a challenge but it was a fun little diversion while it lasted.
In other words David’s the player who’s bearly completed story mode, and Adam smasher is the online multiplayer veteran
Then what is v? A GOD
@@bikashit A vell bult End game V is yes I can Bully MAX TACK into infiny XD
@@bikashit I did play and build him like DOOM guy, so...
@@bikashit V is a dude/chick who had a chance to alos beat the game and level up. Also helps they have a superweapon A.I augmenting their abilities. Also end game V is an entire league ahead of Smasher.
"None leave the slaughterhouse, not alive!"
That's such a cold line
02:05
“You think you’re special cause you’re scrappy?! DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!!!”
"Who the fuck are you?!"
Cheesy ass line
The last one was better
It's a shame the battle between David and Adam was so short, but man what a blast it was.
Damian!?
Well adam always end the job fast
lol
Lmao what a blast to a head for david
Hell yea!
I love that he's so inhuman he just doesn't care about being subtle, he's just a blunt, straight speaking monster
Smasher is just a more dour and melancholic Sundowner
@@Frost5al smashers the original
@@richfoster4369 smashers backstory will give you chills. He was truly a demonic phsyco. Before going full chrome he and his gang were responsible for torture and mutilations of innocent people while being a massive drug addict and would violently rape women
@@ramon4184 I know, that’s why I said he’s the original, since mike poundsmith created him back in the 80s
I think I can safely say that once someone makes a mod which drastically buffs Adam Smasher’s fight, complete with aggressive phases that makes him unhackable (or at least makes hacking him less effective/more difficult) and with another certain “rudimentary implant”, everyone’s gonna want a piece of this absolute menace.
Honestly, David and Smasher standing off at 0:35 was my favourite part. He actually had the courage to stand up to a NC legend who has never been bested. Mad respect for my man David.
Dude even complimented him 0:40
Smasher lost quite a few times trough his life, expecially to blackhand
@@bigbywolf5031
So then, Bigby Wolf 🐺
Does the *one Adam Smasher's 💀🤖 actually lost quite a few times through his life* yet, especially to *Morgan Blackhand* for examples right then...🤔🙄? What do you think about it right then?
it was pure Hubris and ignorance though ; not much to be admired.
@@EraChanZ Ah-finally. Blind rage. overstepped what he's really capable of.
In the end he's just a kid who got some cool tech. From the start Arasaka has been playing with him like a toy and he never saw it.
Fighting the starter bosses after doing all the side quests: *NONE LEAVE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, NOT ALIVE*
That's basically me. I clear out as many side quests and NCPD missions as possible as soon as they become available so my V gets power leveled to the point that story quests are childplay.
Like fighting Oda at lvl50
@@phantomwraith1984
And so, Phantom Wraith: *How it feels fighting Sandayu Oda at level 50* right then?
And get critted by a little minion Add that comes out of nowhere: "Get distracted much?" Then, little minion Add just gets punted across the room.
@@Qardo YOU.... WHO. ARE YOU. TO CHALLENGE. *ME?*
That one grunt against me whom the enemy threatened to kill his entire family:
Me: *"YOU? WHO ARE YOU TO CHALLENGE ME?"*
The thing that make me respect Adam Smasher is that although he has become full cyborg and sees it as future of humanity , he has never become a slave of technology. We can peek into his ideology when he talked about David's mech and how he uses his Sandevistan. He seems to aware of the consequence of over reliance on advance device and weaponry , and his true strength comes from the extensive experience as a solo merc and his monstrous psyche. Adam Smasher is like an old outlaw that fully embrace the future but still believe in the old way of doing things , and is insanely good at it , his chrome does not control him , he has dominance over them.
On top of that he is literally build different. He's the one who is actually special.
Ehhh I disagree. Smasher has zero humanity. He see’s people as meat. He see’s any and all values that bind people as weakness. He’s an actual psychopath. Whether thats his manifestation of cyber psychosis or it makes him immune to it is up for debate
Damn. When you put it like that, I don't think a Toa from Bionicle can stand a chance against the likes of Smasher.
Hey don’t ever disgrace TOA KAITA like that. HE IS A BIONICLE GOD.
Terrifyingly special
I loved it when faraday was trying to boss smasher around and he simply replies "who the fuck are you?"
Best line ever
Love it
@@IIAndersII 😉👍
@@Awpic
And most definitely, *that five words alone* pretty much describes about *who's Faraday been dealing-up* with...💀
@@Awpic yes
"YOU THINK YOU'RE SPECIAL BECAUSE YOU'RE SCRAPPY?!"
Adam just be out here laughing at the standard-issue main character trope.
I think he said "YOU AIN'T NOTHING SPECIAL BUT SOME SCRAP HEAP."
@@gabuge2928 i thought he said "YOU THINK YOU'RE SPECIAL BECAUSE YOU'RE STRAPPING" like as in packing heat
Smasher is basically the "Rock falls, everyone dies" of the Cyberpunk TTRPG. And *boy howdy he lives up to it.*
Oh yeah, ever heard of V ? 😎
Oh yeah, ever heard of V ? 😎
Despite all the shit talk he gave David Adam still respected him enough to give him the offer
That was one of my favorite parts of the whole show.
A part of me wishes he took that offer but we would have never gotten the best line in all of anime. “whatever choom, like I give a shit” I will forever live by those words.
@@Awpic but imagine if he did say yes and season 2 takes us on his new perspective as a new arasaka dog
Ooof now that would be something, oh and what if during that season he somehow reunites with Lucy as a borged out David. Then he now has to try and escape the trenches of being an Arasaka war dog to be with Lucy once and for all.
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I loved Smasher in Edgerunners. Throughout the show, David and his friends are built up as these unstoppable badasses, hardened mercs and beasts through and through. Then Smasher shows up and in about 5 minutes completely crushes all of them, not even flinching at anything they have to offer. He literally beats all of them in their own specialties. Outguns Becca, no sells Lucy's hacks, matches David's Sandy and outchromes him, and would've cut Falco's escape with Lucy short if not for David interfering. An absolute monster through and through
Wish Smasher had his Sandy in 2077. Without it, his boss seemed more like a walk in the fucking park.
He is showing the crowd that at the end of the day they are just punks playing with big boy toys. The pinacle of cybernetic enhancements packed from head to toe with the best modds military has to offer. God I love his character especially in the context of the show and how he leaves us with cold feet.
@@blueperseverance3912, he sure did. I hope we see more Edgerunners in the future, whether in the upcoming DLC, or a second season. Either way, Adam Smasher truly is, an absolute beast.
And then V comes, and makes him eat lead.
@@shrekgod2778
Adam: "Just stop, V, please!!!!"
Adam Smasher talks smack and then backs it up with action.
A true badass.
A man of his word.
Like Cell.
@@MNS1942 cell:"I'm going to destroy the planet"
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Did he destroy the planet?
@@Woochita I don't mean he succeeded, did Adam succeed to kill V?
@@MNS1942 from my gameplay.....yes
The "A rudimentary implant" line is pure fire imo
The MC thought he was tough shit with his signature chrome, while the Big Bad sees it as nothing more than a costco bargain sale item
With smashers arasaka eye implants I wouldn't be surprised if he can see David in real time
2:11 That gravity thing crushed people into pancakes. But to Adam, all it does is annoy him.
Like a bug
He's disgusted by them bro calls them training wheels lmao
@@ramon4184
"Training wheel" huh 🤔? *So what's Adam Smasher 🤖💀 been said* right here ya, Ramon...😕?
@@rahadianaryo5979 He says that at the start of the video
Adam's borg suit can flip tanks, shrug off anti tank rockets, and out run the fastest cars even though its over a ton. A few times normal gravity is nothing for it.
I love how he’s so confident in himself that he doesn’t even use his Sandevestan the first time David uses his
With all his high end arasaka implants I wouldn't be surprised if he can see david in real time
he does, you can see him start to get the after images
david is just going so fucking crazy with the sandy that it was LITERALLY about to destroy his mind and make him crazy if not for lucy after.
david was in 3 places at once there
@@SylvisNuvara
Not really how cyberpsychosis works.
@@citizenvulpes4562 it is how the sandy works though, the way david was overclocking it there was on a fast track to fry his brain through overstimulation
@@SylvisNuvara
So then, that *he's actually frying-up his brain's through an overstimulation*
which are *caused by the Sandevistan itself* alright 🤔?
I love how the series finale basically had Adam Smasher humble this man David. He went on the whole series acting like he was special and different from all the others who had special chrome implants, but when Smasher finally came on the scene and told him his Sandevistan was just a basic common implant, David’s true reality finally set in.
Rarely do I respect villains as much as this one! 👌🏾
I seriously can’t believe that the boy thought he was special because he had a sandevastain like seriously doesn’t everyone have one?
@@Automation6350 well not nessary i mean who needs it to beat you if they can just be like V go in there and destroy your existence like its a breakfist on sunday morning
Well just wasnt special enough shouldve better seen V than he would know what a cheater is.
@@Automation6350 David did own that tho
@@Automation6350 His Sandevistan was military grade - not amazing, but far better than most cyberwear in Night City.
I like how Lucy's hacking panels are just sped up versions of the in-game hacking puzzles.
Damn I never noticed she be speed running breach protocol
I mean in the game, they're basically speed up versions too since time stops for you when you do breach protocol, so yeah very accurate to the game lol.
@@futuza considering modern computers are making true/false decisions at basically 12 billion times a second, it makes sense that cyberpunk ones are going so fast that time isn't a factor.
My favorite line of his is describing David's suit as having "anti-gravity training wheels". Most people would see that thing and be intimidated, scrambling for a way to beat it, but Adam has enough combat experience to immediately see a crutch he can sweep from under his enemy.
I also loved when he said “a rudimentary implant” about the Sandevistan. David’s most powerful thing in his arsenal and Adam just sees it as a minor buff.
He ain’t afraid
Well he was originally designated to wield the Cyber Skeleton so I'd imagine he's had time to look over it. Probably why it went into alternative testing. Adam probably wanted nothing to do with it. It's very powerful sure but the glaring weakness is the anti grav that holds it up. A skilled opponent disables those and like David you really can't do much without it
@@Bowiiihowdy yep, the moment Adam took out the Anti grav from David, David got his ass kicked.
Also he didn’t immediately exploit said weakness. He could have clapped David from the start, used his Sandy to get the jump on him.
But instead, he sparred with David, respected his determination, and ultimately in the end, I believe he respected David himself.
I don't know why, but I was laughing so hard when I saw Adam go down the elevator. I understand he doesn't use his implants unless he needs to. But the fact he's the Most cybernetic person in the Cyberpunk universe and he takes an Elevator during a fight is just a hilarious concept for me
because its probably easier to take the elevator when your target is the size of a car and id like to think smasher gets bored so he thinks of ways to make himself laugh
He definitely has fun
He already got in his cardio for the day, hes a killer but he won't kill his own gainz
Dude was vibing
imagine if the elevator was going slower and there was elevator music
> enters fight
> calls everyone weak
> kills MC
> leaves
absolute unit
I remember someone was like this in invincible
@@kormannn1Battlebeast
**V and Johnny want to know Adam Smasher's location**
You forgot one thing
-kills the most fan favorite girl
> has no clue who the series antagonist is and treats him like a joke
I love the portrayal of Adam in the anime
Not just what he does and says, but his visual design
He’s pure black, with red highlights and a bleached bone „skull” as his face
His design screams „evil irredemable bad guy” and that’s what he should be
Dude's been a murdering psychopath for like 70 years at this point. He knows what he's about.
"None leave the slaughter house, *not alive!"*
What a great line, fits both the character and the scene perfectly.
This line lives rent free in my head
@@WaterFlame3030
And most definitely, *that seven-words line* is pretty much fitting for *Adam Smasher's 💀🤖 character* yet, WaterFlame303...👍
Almost like Darth Vader at the end of Rogue One...which is ironic, since Smasher looks to me like a fusion of Vader and Boba Fett.
@@daneyal7162
Indeed it is, Dan Eyal...💀
The ending of both "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" anime and "Rogue One" movie are certainly is not a *happy ending* right...😭😭😭
It instantly reminded me of Darth Vader lol
"You think you're special because you're scrappy?"
Smasher just roasted so many anime protagonists with that line
It's true in david's case lol dude thought he was special till he crossed paths with smasher
Yeah but I can imagine this anime protagonist even without the power friendship even though I know you're joking but still
Or alternatively if it's v
@@ramon4184 well david was actually built different he had like an 8 in the humanity score he just wasnt high like v or adam well actually adam is a cyber psycho so really only v could handle what david did and actually in lore its better to just go full robot than do what david did
What I love about Smasher? He's the perfect embodiment of neutral evil with a ton of skills that help him maintain balance. Most of the character's in the show and game have committed some kind of horrible act or many, but Adam owns his darkness like armor. He never wastes words, never insult's beyond what is needed, but he never pulls his punches even for a second. Once your an enemy to him your a chance for him to have some fun lol.
“But Adam owns his darkness like armor.”
I’m about to make Adam 4x more scarier,
The reason he hasn’t went cyberpsycho but can absolutely slaughter people (Committing war crimes and such) is because he literally does not feel remorse.
Throughout his entire murderous, horrible life,
He has not felt a SLIVER of trauma.
@@Tucker619 I mean probably for a minute when he got blown in half
@@Tucker619 Smasher specifically signed up for contracts that would guarantee civilian casualties
Adam is just a robot though, nothing more. Nothing deep or meaningful.
Programmed to do what he’s told.
@@Steve.Maverick because it usually puts him in situations where he can have a blast. Arasaka never has a shortage of enemies to be dealt with. Meaning his endless bloodiest is always satiated if even temporarily.
The fact that he beat the main team by himself, and even wiping the floor with David (with a body that has anti gravitational gear) and simply saying “I had *some* fun” shows how badass he is
Goomba stomping Rebecca just because she was in the way. Guy is living life likes its a video game and he's got cheat codes
@@barrylyndon5552goomba stomped 🤣🤣 I was expecting to see a HIGH SCORE appear
Makes you wonder what his definition for A LOT OF fun is.
Adam Smasher: 1.5 tons and 11ft of armored and weaponized hatred backed by Arasaka"s billions. Add on 70 plus years of cybernetic experience in warfare and his obsession with having the best possible defenses against quick-hacking and this kind of massacre of the protagonists is what you get. I'd love to see more of this Smasher in the future over the abysmal joke in 2077.
Alot like Darth Vader if you ask me.
He’s a bad bad man.
Hoping he's updated at some point to be a lot harder. Imagine a level where Adam Smasher chases you through the Arasaka building, and you have to hide and rely on sneak attacks against him or something.
@@originaljoke-y5f It's just an idea. I don't really care what they do. I just want Adam Smasher to be harder.
So basically an Astartes but mostly metal instead of 19/21 organ implants and a crap ton of muscle.
"You can't even stand without your anti-grav crutches.."
My favorite line, dude just systematically takes David apart, then watches him collapse into a heap
02:19
02:29 Adam Smasher 💀🤖: "Don't *make me, LAUGH* ...💀💢!" **absolutely wrecking down David Martinez and the Cyberskeleton in process...💥**
He deconstructs David while he's deconstructing David.
@@rahadianaryo5979 why do you keep terrorising everyone in this comment section by speaking unnecessary emojis
And then came the nail in the coffin “you think you’re special ‘cause you’re so scrappy?! Don’t make me laugh!!” How many others like David had he dealt with in his decades of warfare and service as arasaka’s murder machine? How many woild be wannabes thiught they were on his level only to be reminded that in the pecking order,he was tha apex predator
I love how they set David up to be this really special guy who can handle all these implants and modifications, when in reality Adam seems to be the only one capable of going full chrome and remaining somewhat sane. Would love to have more backstory on him in a sequel or something.
Hilariously David's way is the stupid way because it FAR more damaging to you mind and humanity to constantly be chopping yourself up, in comparison going Full-Cyborg not only is less destructive on the psyche...but you actually get a discount when taking in upgrades (making them far less damaging to your Humanity Score).
...also your wrong about Adam, there is actually a small, usually pretty chill, community of Full-Body Cyborgs in Night City (unless they got smart and left after the nuke). He also doesn't even have the most destructive (both mentally and combatively) Cyborg suite: The Dragoon.
Well, Adam is "Functioning Cyberpsycho" as described by the creator of Cyberpunk
Smasher can handle the chrome because he's already a standard issue pyscho.
Adams trick is that he was already a psychopath
Adam isn’t in danger of going Cyberpsycho cause he never had any humanity to lose.
I love how smasher doesn't really have an ego. He just knows how good he is. He's got no problem complimenting his appointments but mostly he's just bored.
"Who are you to challenge me?" Is a clear sign of pride
I love the part where Lucy tries to hack Adam and he just gets shown to be a fucking demon and rips the hack
Edit: GYATT THESE LIKES
YES
Imma say it now, I think he's one of those rouge AIs put in a robot or droid by Arasaka, then they make up the story about him being a man that went full chrome. This is if it isn't canon already.
EDIT: I guess he is a man, though the rouge ai seems more terrifying to me in an in-universe sense.
@@sonofjack6286 play the cyberpunk game
@@sonofjack6286 he is 4% organic, I think all that’s left is some of his brain
@@sonofjack6286 Arasaka has one of the best counterintelligence crews in the world, they have top dogs when it comes to hacking, so its not far off to just say they have the best countermeasures for ICE's and hacking in general.
Gotta love how Adam respected David enough to offer giving him a new life as a construct like himself. Goes to show he isn’t some ego-central villain, but instead a mercenary who’s willing to admit potential in people.
You're trying to find humanity and some compassion in a character that never had any and wasn't written that way
@@ramon4184 No he's not, he's just stating what happened
Well, I think Ramon is right. A construct is an ai copy of your mind/consciousness, which Arasaka could benefit from. While I like to think it could’ve happened and Lucy somehow rescues him through the net, being a construct is a void, in which your right to die is stolen from you.
I agree
@@ramon4184you good bruh
I like this Smasher waaaaaay better than in-game. His voice in the show is both cooler, and his movements go hand-in-hand with how badass he's supposed to be
I hope he gets updated
@@Awpic
He better
The game ain’t a high bar to pass lol
At that point David couldn't use his full capabilities either.
@@Nempo13
Which *full capabilities* you said right here ya, Cory Myers? Is it the *Sandevistan implant* or maybe, it can be referring to the *Cyber-Skeleton* 💀 right...?
2:24 Smasher T-poses to assert his dominance.
Ah yes, his ultimate move.
Ahh I see he pulled a Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 😂
ahh just like in the game
I love the detail at 1:59 when Lucy is trying to hack Smasher, and you can briefly see a kind of cyber-outline of his which looks like some skeletal monster. Just goes to show how much of a monstrous killing machine he is, both on the inside and out.
He doesn't even see himself as human, which makes him all the more terrifying.
On the outside, he's a monster. On the inside, he's WORSE.
@@idoganor100 because he isn't one. he's all robot with a human brain
@@hemireborn6450 If that, what if he's one of those rouge AIs from the Deep Wep transplanted into a robot?
@@sonofjack6286 he said that he's 96% robot. the only human part of him is his brain
I just have to point out, David never fell over the edge until death. Sure he was going on and off cyberpsychosis state, but even without immunosuppressants he still managed to pull his sanity in check. He was an edgerunner through and through.
What are you talking about. at the end David could barley even function. Dude could hardly move after he ran out of suppressants. Adam smasher even said so himself before he ripped the skeleton apart. That’s the only reason David did not put up a fight. Remember, the cyber skeleton can create a gravity waves that can smash an armored vehicle. If David was actually special he would have killed Adam smasher with his last gravity wave. I think once Lucy left alive David gave up because his only purpose here was to save her and he succeeded. Plus he was going to go psycho after this anyway. The only reason he lasted this long was because the vestiges of his mind went into over dive so he could get Lucy out of here.
@@zongetsuma7444I never said he was special. I said he remained an edgerunner, when everyone said he couldn't be one, up until his very end because he held on to his sanity.
David... ah yes, I kept his jacket in my 2nd Cyberpunk gameplay.
adam solos
@@zongetsuma7444 but he never actually fell into Cyberpsychosis
1:55 honestly this i think is his most badass scene, like how you can see his netrunner avatar is like a demon and how he so easily just rips away the attempts to hack him.
Absolute chills 🥶
it was a nice touch from trigger,as normally in the rpg and in the video game,his level of cybernetics makes him more vunerable to hacking,so having that skill is a requirement and necessity,but here it makes sense he'd be aware of that and have the necessary precautions and of coure his icon being so monstrous is a reflection of his personality and how much of a monster he knows people think of him as,and just how detached he is from his own humanity
@@Sketchfan i always thought that was the sickest scene as well. the demon thing being also represented as literally what's inside of him was a nice touch
The rare circumstance where the villian has plot armor because they've gotta fight some gonk named V in a year. And dear god did he put that plot armor to use
"We're having a moment!"
"You were. You were having a moment."
“Now you’re just part of the pavement.”
@@Awpic bruhhh why😭😭
Heroes: We have the power of friendship on our side.
Adam Smasher: I've built a wall a mile high and ten miles long with the skulls of every person who said that to me.
Not gonna lie that's pretty badass
It's a very friendly wall!
"I'll add yours next!"
That is honestly a cold ass line
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
Although a massive tragedy, I love how this anime embraces realism. David is an extremely talented and a lovable guy but he has nowhere near the fighting experience of Adam. Adam knew the drawbacks of the Cyberskeleton and references to it twice in the anime as well. Adam was having fun while David's crew got annihilated. Lucy was correct the entire time - David will die if he donned the skeleton, and the circumstances made his crew lose their lives along with him as well. :(
He would have died regardless honestly
Yea the moment he took the skeleton he was already dead.
Buying his time with immune suppressors moving reaction of his body for a augment he cant handle. Doctor told him that was his last visit.
David was rare human but Adam is 1% of 1%.
He had very little chance to make it in a first place.
Without parents, young and alone, with body that is perfect for experiments makes him just the best target in this world for anyone with money and ambition.
There was very few options he could make
It's kool though. Eventually some college sounding girl or some ny accent Italian dude named V got revenge for us : )
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 V, the true main character. In my case I turned my character into the ultimate revolver wielding gunslinger. I didn’t need crazy implants to rip through head after head with my revolver. Oh I ran out of ammo, no problem I also have one that locks on, and look I have another tech version that shoots through walls. Cyberpunk may be a buggy piece of shit but in terms of story, gameplay, and the customizability to play however tf you want, it’s legendary.
@@Uni-t2u If they had just laid low, I think they would’ve survived. Lucy shouldn’t have let him get so chromed up during the timeskip.
1:11 mc and lucy: classic movie wall-sliding.
Adam: Eh, elevator will be fine.
i have no doubt if he just fell down the building instead, hed still land all those shots whilst falling down
What kind of elevator manages to descend at the speed of gravity? May as well too slide down.
@@pilipolvoron2699 in star wars, they have elevators that accelerate even
@@pilipolvoron2699probably the best elevator you can make.
If it were faster you could seemingly ‘float up’.
Lucy, who has been secretly trained by arasaka to become a top tier netrunner since childhood: *hacks Adam Smasher
Adam Smasher: nope.
V, a merc: *hacks Adam Smasher
Adam Smasher: *Explodes
Well I guess V is just built different
Dam Silverhand
i mean at that point V has one god tier AI onside who probably switched Smashers countermeasures off, Adam might have a suite to beat Lucy but Alt just laughs in AI
lore-wise, v is basically a terminator by the time he reaches smasher, so yeah he really is built different
@@sodadrink8363 exactly V is a god of cyberpunk lol
To be fair it's a dick move in games whenever you reach the final boss just for them to tell you that your playstyle can't be used.
Imagine if we reached Smasher and they tell you that you can't use melee attacks against him. My build would of been ruined.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal."
- Adam Smasher
Unironically one of my favourite "Villains"
LOL Mr smasher would love 40K can rampage for all eternity and never run out of enemies or ammunition
@@church_world_domination9357 Yeah he could just join the Astartes
“Your flesh is a relic, a mere vessel.”
-The Second Renaissance
@@YezModdy he would already qualified to be a dreadnaught but which Legion? would he join or which chapter?? I'd say he had probably be an iron hand Marine since they're all for cybernetic upgrades and beside the point This is just me but my favorite Legion (Night Lord#1!!)
He’s not the kind of guy that has super powers, he’s the kind of guy that hits you like a 18 wheeler, and runs back over you when you get back up
That’s a pretty good comparison
Some have said his mother was a train
super advanced cybernetic implants and his whole body being modified isn't a super power?
@@thelitmango6333 He's not reliant on the tech. For all his 'insanity', he maintains a very truthful outlook that anyday he's going to die because either he gets cast aside, or his own luck finally runs out on him.
It makes sense too. David's demise wasn't because of Adam, it was because his own body and tech was failing him at the worst possible moment. Something Adam probably has seen thousands of times over his career. It wouldn't suprise me if some of his targets died on their own and he had to report as such to his superiors.
@@thelitmango6333 no, just a modification to his machinery, definitely not a super power
1:10
David and Lucy having a moment, sliding down the sude of a building, Tom Cruise style.
Adam Smasher: *Takes the ELEVATOR*
What a Legend
1:55 legit my favorite moment, i just love the idea that adam smasher is now so far gone, so inhuman, that even his look changed in the virtual world. It's as if his soul itself became a full on monster that only causes suffering around him.
The man (or devil) doesn't even flinch when he is getting hacked, and simply pulls the virus out of him by hand!
@@hammurabii.3173 Yeah i have to admit those moment might have also needed more screen time, but i believe it wouldn't have necessary worked in this story since it would have diverged the focus on another form of evil. Here i think the idea was to mostly focus on how the city itself can ruin someones life just because you don't have enough money to feed it.
But yeah, i would be glad if they made another show focusing on "the net" and the "ai vs human" conflict. It could offer a lot of possibilities
Smasher was never far gone mentally beaucse he was always a demonic phsyco.
You cant get psychosis
If you dont count youself as human
That wasn't him. Smasher always has a couple 'Saka spiders riding shotgun, actively countering net attacks against him. Smasher himself is actually incredibly vulnerable to getting hacked.
@@random90909494085038 it's not like he ripped the quickhack out litteraly or anything
I love adams voice fits his menacing personality so well
Same VA from the game
"You look like a cut of fuckable meat, are you?"
Reminds me of Megatron Transformers Animated voice
Without a doubt the coolest part of the entire anime. Just an absolute beast.
Absolutely. I hope there will be more of him if this ever returns with more stories of Night City.
@@Awpic Have multiple series where the MC and their crew all meet their demise via Adam Smasher. Would be amazing and help build up what defeating him in the game means.
@@Scantor I love that actually cuz to me before the anime, the sense of defeating smasher was the revenge for Johnny. Cuz we all know what Adam did to Johnny. Now we all wanna kill him cuz of becca lol.
yup
Adam Smasher has a very simple weakness that is very hard to exploitable, lack of maintenance, since its canon he is full borg, he cannot afford to lose its patron support due to his high end implants, no ripper doc can perform adequate maintenance on him, only the company he works for can accommodate his needs. It is fair to say, for Adam Smasher to fall out of grace is to fall into disrepair.
Well damn you broke him down to a science 😂
This would a a problem if Adam Smasher actually cared about any of that. He's got a simple agreement with Arasaka, which both parties are happy to: Arasaka handles his servicing, and he gets to go kill people for them. Adam enjoys the killing, and Arasaka have no shortage of suitably tough rivals and threats who they would like eliminated. He's just too useful to ever get rid of, and he's got enough self-control to keep his killing sprees to approved business activities.
It is a weakness but not all that serious.
Even if he did lost support of Arasaka that would only mean that he would have to mor accessible frames.
And while it will lower his firepower his accumulated wealth will let him afford the best of the best on the market and with his decades of experience it would be enough to steel keep title of the strongest.
@@АртемМалякшин there's not really that many places capable of dealing with him... I'm a Shadowrun player not Cyberpunk, but they are very similar. Going full cyborg with Delta grade cyberware is not something that PCs have access to... that's a State sponsored weapon of war & even then only one of the Great Powers has the capacity and financing for such. Powerful countries & AAA Corporations can maintain them pouring ridiculous amount of resources into doing so since the edge of having him makes it worthwhile.
I loved the part when he said "Its Borg'in time" and he killed two main characters and gave another a heart break in a 5 minute speedrun
Dude it was amazing
@@Awpic i loved when he blocked the attack hitting douglus aka he black guy as he knows he will just be annoyed with getting yelled at later. he kept him alive also because it was his job to keep him alive and he did it
Man he really borged the protagonists!
@@sovigndev5464
So who's the protagonist Adam Smasher's 🤖💀 been "borged" right there, sovigndev? Is it V or maybe, the *one David Martinez* yet?
I’m glad Adam was given his proper due.
All the main cast is fighting for their lives, and Smasher is just treating the battle like it’s another day at the office.
He was in no rush to end their lives at all, he’s like “finally something to do”
@@Awpic
Indeed, Awpic: It feels like how Darth Vader's *slaughering-up some poor Rebel soldiers who's been delivering the Death Star plan to Princess Leia Organa for keeping it safe* at the end of "Rogue One" movie right...💀
Not even that, I fear.
To Adam this must've been like going to the market to grab milk. At best, he was mildly amused.
Gotta love the absolute flex Adam throws by saying the Sandevistan is a “rudimentary implant”.
That was crazy, it’s practically nothing to him.
NGL, in the game they should add a new star, in the next update, for the cop pursuits where they all flee and just send in Adam Smasher ; and of course in said update he’s buffed to hell and treated as a boss battle- if you happen to beat him he does a ‘tactical retreat’ of some kind (so that he doesn’t outright die, keeping the story mode intact), and then all of the stars/wanted level get reset.
Of course this should also buff the regular cops and whoever so it doesn’t become an easy farm for loot. But still. A nifty idea, I think, to give him some more presence.
@@ilovemonkeyos Smasher is a dog for Arasaka, not MaxTac. It wouldn't make sense for him to be there.
Well, they could always add Arasaka and MiliTech into the game their own “police force” of sorts; give them their own system to be lore-accurate.
Idk. Feels like Smasher should have *something* in-game.
@@ilovemonkeyos I agree that Smasher should've had more involvement in the game, I definitely think his fight should be reworked entirely. Something like him not using his enhancements all that much for the first 30% of his health or so, then starting to use his implants. I feel like he should respond with say, a Sandevistan if you use one so that you match speeds with him.
One thing i love is that him saying "im special" mirrors david perfectly, yet where david was cocky. He genuinely seems to be special, he would have been a protagonist in a different show.
Yeah, Something like overlord
1:28 This little punch is one of my favorite moments. Adam moved his fist like 10 inches, punched Falco hard enough to knock his arm off, and didn't even LOOK at him, much less stop moving. Like swatting a fly.
Absolute menace.
His fist moved like a piston too
@@Scazoid
So then, his fist 👊 *moved like a friggin' piston* huh? That's gonna hurt so much for Falco getting punched-up by the one Adam Smasher 💀🤖 like that...
On the upside, Falco is one of only a handful of people to fight Adam Smasher and live.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj
And please don't forget the *one Morgan Blackhand* right...👍
Adam using the elevator made me realize he is not fool-hearty he is realistic af.
Mind you, he easily couldve, but didnt deem it necessary
He also interrupted the main love interest moment without giving a single fuck
I love when he shoots David in the gut when David is freaking out about Faraday being rescued by Trauma Team, a cheap shot but one ignores Adam Smasher right in front of you at one's own peril.
This is the same monster who tanked a nuke and _survived._ The same monster who uses a power armor conversion as his main body, one that would drive anybody else insane, if they lived in it for _decades._
It is exactly the same monster who got beaten with a dildo.
AN ABSOLUTE BEAST
My take has always been that Adam never went cyberpsycho because being full borg is how he sees himself perfected.
@@TonyTylerDraws Not how the disease works.
Bold of you to assume he is not insane...
1:31 my favorite part of the entire fight. david gets a hard dose of reality when he's told that his silver bullet is nothing more than a gimmick in comparison to the absolute death machine that is Smasher.
I see it more like a 'you must be this tall to ride' item.
Like to Smasher a Sandevistan is the absolute minimum gear required to be even considered a decent fighter.
I thought David was unstoppable once he installed the Cyberskeleton. But as soon as I saw that those corpos called in Adam Smasher, I knew he wasn’t going to make it.
it was especially terrifying that prototype was planned to be a new upgrade...and he still trashed it like it was nothing
@@Sketchfan it was absolutely nuts, he knew it was nothing against him.
@@Awpic Adam is the type who has so much actual combat experience that he can just glance at the blueprints / techs and immediately knows how to counter it. Gotta say, Arasaka knows how to pick Chief of Security.
@@LordSerion I wouldn't say he's that level of tech smart, but I get you otherwise.
@@GZilla311
Indeed ya, GZilla311...😎
Dude, I absolutely LOVE villains like this. I'm so tired of how every single villain these days needs to have a tragic anime-style backstory, where all they need is the power of love and friendship to fix them. Screw that, just make my villain a soulless, coldhearted bastard. Make them like an animal, or a predator. Nobodys asks why a lion hunts, *it just does.* It doesn't think like a normal person. To me, that's scary. Can't be calmed or reasoned with. Matter of fact, he's chill. You're not even human to them, just a hunk of meat. I fucking love that.
Well tbf Adam smasher was suicidal once that's mostly why he's the way he is now.
@@Deevious. That's not true. He was always a killer. Don't know where you got that from.
@@Big-Papa-Smurf yeah even before he got his implants bro was a fucking psycho
Fits so well how he talks about people. It’s like he is talking about livestock and he is the butcher.
" Nobodys asks why a lion hunts, it just does" Thats a raw ass line
Still can't believe the people at Trigger who played thru this game, fought sloppy slow Adam in the game and be like "you know what, we'll make him badass"
That is what he actually is like in the lore.
Imagine super speed Adam smasher in the game.
Now it’s a horror game.
People forget lore is a thing , people argue as to why V could kill Adam and not David , all in the lore
I can't believe people are constantly forgetting that the script was mostly written by CDPR writers.
"None leave the slaughterhouse... alive!" Adam Smasher Best line ever.
02:05 💀💀💀
Adam Smasher isn't an ordinary villain that doesn't shit talk to you about your capabilities. He's basically telling you are nothing but inferior right in your goddamn face. That's like Gordon Ramsay brutally criticizing you for making a bad dish.
and for this it is enough just to tell the truth 🗿
He’s a fucking mean one
an expert knows the quality of others work, mans was subpar
Gordon Ramsey but a threat to humanity
*looks at the remains of rebecca* ITS RAAAW!
the delivery of the line "dont make me laugh" is just so perfect. legit gives me chills
I KNOW ABSOLUTE CHILLS 🥶
props to his voice actor,captured every bit the essence of the bogeyman of night city.
also add the "Who The Fuck are you?!" towards Faraday hahaha
I was about to say the same thing, that lines delivery was so good
@@lancemagbanua5712 0:34
He’s like Vader in that hallway. He shoots through plot armor.
He is plot armour
A reminder that in the Lore, Morgan Blackhand had minimal cybernetics, was considered the best Solo in Night City, and fought Adam Smasher (who was like 90% 'borg) to a standstill.
Pretty impressive that a mostly meat man managed to fight a steroid infused Terminator to a draw
He had a good amount of Cybernetics tho. He had a sandevistan, cyberoptics, rippers, hydraulic rams, muscle and bone lace, emp blockers, nanosurgeons, smartgun and vehicle links, a neural processor, a cybernetic arm etc. He was about as chromed up as your average edgerunner, what made him special was his insane combat skills and ability to strategize efficiently.
@@cynicalmemester1694 you make it seem like its Melania vs let me solo her
Important reminder that Smasher was in a Daioni frame at the time and had just killed Shaitan, who was another fullborg. If you need context a Dragoon frame(Smasher in the anime/videogame) is to a Daioni what a soldier is to a tank.
Dude just wiped the floor and showed them what it truly takes to be a Legend. Its not some punk, but someone who truly belongs to the top of the food chain.
He is a true legend.
@@Awpic
And indeed he's truly is, Awpic...😏😎
@@Awpic
Adam Smasher 💀🤖 is definitely not some garden variety punk who's boasting about "who rules this city 🏙️?", but instead he's like an *apex predator who's truly belongs and reigns to the top of the food chain/pecking order* yet...🦁👑
@@rahadianaryo5979 Until he runs into the big dog. Morgan Blackhand. A Solo's Solo.
@@yolandria
So then, who the fudge is *Morgan Blackhand* ya, yolandria 🤔😗?
Not even the power of friendship could save David from this beast.
Adam smasher literally taking everything David loves in a matter of minutes while trash talking is just 💀
I know absolute savage. Like have some feelings bruh.
@@Awpic
Well played ya, Awpic: Adam Smasher's 💀🤖 have *figuratively (AND literally) taking everything's that David Martinez's loves dearly in a matter of minutes* while trash-talking was *pretty SAVAGE to behold* ...💀
Bro said “power of friendship? Nah id win.”
What got me off guard was the hacking part, he's fully aware to actually tear off anyone's hacking attempt, whats more terrifying is his digital appearance, resembles that of a monster
Edit: Never expected on a LOT of likes (vO_O)
Fr tho, dude might be a Digital Demon in a physical body at this point.
yeee
Meanwhile in game
He just stands there until he dies
Hahaha you’re not wrong. It was underwhelming for sure. Even on very hard.
@@VizualBandit Honestly, that sounds metal as f*ck. A Cyberdemon, for all intents and purposes. Night City's worst nightmare.
When you realize Adam Smasher is an Avengers level threat.
Also the balls they had to build up Giancarlo Esposito as the major villain, and in the last minutes of this anime Adam Smasher shows up and just straight up spits "who the fuck are you?"
Maybe to The Avengers without super-powers (though Black Panther could still rip through his armor like it was tissue paper thanks to his vibranium claws).
I feel like Smasher would destroy the Avengers
@@silvertoddler8326 Only if their lineup only had Black Widow, Cap, Hawkeye, Bucky, and The Falcon. Smasher may be a fearsome opponent to your average Edgerunner, but he's a big fish in a small pond compared to other enhanced beings. Hell, Ant Man or Wasp would ruin his day just by shrinking down inside his armor and pulling wires until he can't even blink.
@@legomaniac213 the accumulation of all his cybernetics combined I feel personally in my own opinion he would mop the floor with all of them including Thanos and his army, his use of the sandevistan alone should not be underestimated. I even feel as Darth Vader would find himself overwhelmed with the experienced full borg. He’s wildly op
@@silvertoddler8326 I admittedly don't know much about the world of Cyberpunk, but I find that very hard to believe. Smasher would be going up against: a rage monster capable of breaking planets, a reality warping witch, a literal God of Thunder, and a genius who was building tech way beyond what Arasaka's best engineers could even dream up back when he was in high school. Even Spider-Man could take him down after a somewhat difficult fight.
Smasher is absolutely terrifying. A killer robot is frightening, but at the end of the day, it’s just a machine doing what it’s programmed to do, just as a calculator does math equations. In Smasher’s case, there’s just enough human flesh left on his upper head at this point to remind anyone looking at him that behind all of the chrome and implants, there is a conscious mind behind the death and destruction he inflicts.
Part of me thinks that Smasher is purposely leaving that one small part of his body unmodified so that he will always be remembered; if he chose to become fully mechanized in appearance, people would stop thinking of him as a man and his legacy wouldn’t be as notorious.
Well i think that skin on his face is to help him from going insane cause in the ttrpg you can get skin if your full borg. I believe all he really is, is a brain and spine.
@@evanloner4983 nah, Smasher’s already insane, even before going full Borg, he just embraced it, and it’s the reason he has control over himself unlike other cyberpsychos.
Am I the only person who clicked on this video because of accidentally reading the name Adam Smasher as Adam Sandler?
@@The_Blue_Otaku
What do you meant here, JoJo 😕? Are you *reading the name "Adam Smasher 💀🤖" as Adam Sandler* right here...🙄?
@@rahadianaryo5979 No but when i first clicked on the video I thought it's title was "Adam Sandle is an absolute beast"
I like that despite seeing David gain a reputation for himself, upgrading his body, and becoming a hit in NC, Smasher destroyed all that and put him in his place.
It takes a lot to become a Night City Legend, and Smasher takes more than a lot.
The fact that he can do the same ability as David is horrifying
Edit:holy shit my first 1k
To add even more disrespect he even basically said that the ability wasn't anything special and basic asf
He’s probably got a whole lot more than just that.
@@titel9870 are you sure that was about the sandevistan or the actual Anti grave cyber skeleton David is wearing. That thing, Adam Smasher basically called it a toy,
yup
@@Awpic yes he said sandevistan was archaic or something like that
the fact that Johnny Silverhand was even a challenge for Adam says so much more about Johnny than I'd anticipated.. I was always kinda pissed at how weak he must've been to just get killed off by this generic cyborg baddie... But this puts it all in some serious heavyweight perspective
Yeah, a challenge back in the 2020's, I don't think Johnny Silverhand would stand a chance against present Adam Smasher.
Was Silverhand a challenge? Johnny was zeroed by Smasher in the tower. Johnny escaping to the roof, only to be killed by smasher on the rooftop didn't actually happen. AIt alludes to this, as does past cyberpunk lore. Smasher killed Johnny first time around inside the tower.
i mean back in 2023 smasher had a lot less superchrome and silverhand was carryin that Malorian monstrosity pretending to be a pistol,,, Smasher still won the fights forcing silverhand to run for it
@@profbawbag6604 We also need to remember that those flashbacks are told from Johnnys perspective. And he tends to exaggerate.
That's just Silverhand's biased narration. Smasher in the heist is actually after Blackhand. In actuality Silverhand was just immediately cleaved in half by one shot of Smasher's shotgun.
Adam is the personification of a player in late game doing an fresh new event. A second season should make him protagonist
I hope he gets updated in game to be stronger
@@Awpic Hype!!!
@@Awpic truly hope so, then again v is literally the strongest person period so like, he might not
adam just needs an actual good moveset and multiple phases and then we chillin, v just kills him in 3 seconds flat endgame
@@Vertix07911 It'd be cool to have an anime where we see 2077 from Smasher's perspective and the end is like edgerunners with V standing over Smasher
When you see this way of portraying Adam Smasher, it makes you realise how insanely powerful V actually is.
No, it just makes me wish I fought *this* Smasher.
@@undeadhound3402 Well for the most part you do. His weapon is even more violent in game. Except for the big fall and the Sandevistan (it would be just weird to figth a sandevistan in the game) you face every part of his arsenal shown in the anime.
@@undeadhound3402 Wish is slowly getting there, adam's got the sandy now
Whenever people mention V beating Smasher, it feels like whenever those annoying fanboys bring up their favorite OC character and proclaim that they're the strongest character in the series that they belong to. It's so annoying lol.
V is not a seperate character, V is supposed to be you.
@@cynicalmemester1694 But V its a lore character in the timeline and supposed to be the strongest in nc of all time.
It'd be really easy to make this sort of character either be a cold machine or a raging psycho, but Adam's actually a very nice balance of the two. It is all business, and he's ruthlessly efficient, but he clearly loves his job, and is using it to turn as many people into scrap/meat piles as possible.
In his own words, into "a cut of packaged meat 🍖" right then...
It seems that one Adam Smasher 💀🤖 was in fact a very nice balance between a *cold, Terminator-esque killer machine* and a *raging (cyber)psychopath* as you been said on your comment here ya, Raptor Man...
It’s literally in his contract, he *expects* collateral damage. No. He *demands* it. And he’s literally so effective that Arasaka lets him.
Adam Smasher is like cyberpunk's Darth Vader
That seems a lil far fetched but Adam smasher is certainly cyberpunks Adam Smasher.
more like how vader is represented in new hope,
he is tall dark mechanical man with a synthsized voice that kills named characters like nothing but isn't the top bad guy as he receives orders from his higher ups.
More like General Grievous. He was an unstoppable killing machine who could easily take down multiple Jedi simultaneously when introduced, but got nerfed to hell in the show and movie.
Adam is nigh unstoppable in the lore and anime, but nerfed to hell in the game.
@@RedneckSith Grievous had gimmicky cybernetics and a body that broke easily, he would've gone for the cyberskeleton. Smasher keeps it practical.
Man’s had tuberculosis
For anyone that's curious, the only person that Smasher was never able to best in his Entire life Was Morgan Blackhand who is known as a Solo among Solo's with only a few Cyber upgrades and all Human Skill. Put into perspective as how Talented and Skilled Morgan was when compared to Smasher since all his marks or bounty's were brought in alive for extra pay.
Still waiting to see this Morgan in true action
@@Awpic well last I heard, in the events before Cyberpunk Edge Runners and 2077 Morgan Blackhand was fighting against Adam Smasher in a 1v1 duel before the mini Nuke bomb in Arasaka Tower went off. Morgan has been missing since but in 2077 there are shards that talk about a " Grizzle and Talented Solo." picking fights with the Lazarus Group Agents and winning. Some say it's Blackhand while others say that he's is picking when it is the best time to Come back to Night City. Other than that Blackhand was Mike Pondsmiths OC character on table top
Yup he sure was. I love the table top rpg.
"the only person that Smasher was never able to best in his Entire life Was Morgan Blackhand".
And V, obviously. Not only was he not able to best him, but V literally shot him to pieces.
@@Erik-cl5ff in smasher’s defense, V literally solos the entire verse in theory 💀
He’s a villain yes, but he’s a fucking professional villain.
Adam Smasher is such a fucking gamer that I basically forgot about the main cast entirely as soon as he showed up on screen and viewed him as the protagonist
Same here, I saw Adam Smash Rebecca, and cheered. It’s Adam Smasher, and I love him as a villain
How to avoid getting depressed
Step 1: wipe your brain of the main cast
Step 2: see Adam smasher as the main character
Step 3: enjoy
gawk gawk gawk muh adam op smasher,.., ., .,@@schnicorr
I like to imagine Smasher says "Who the fuck are you?" because he didn't really care about doing what he was sent there to do, kill the damn guy, he just wanted to rip David to pieces because he was the biggest guy in the room, and later got tunnel vision on killing Lucy and Falco after David bored him
Honestly same but I couldn’t help but die of laughter when he said that
Yeah, it really shows how far down on the food chain someone like Faraday really was. Your average Night City fixer isn't jack shit to these people that have influence on a global scale
@@nagger8216
Well then, Nagger: Faraday's definitely just little than a *measly-level Night City fixer* to those people that having an *influence on a global scale* 🌐 (and grander scheme of things as well...)
I love how the only reason Adam Smasher doesn’t lose his mind from all the chrome is because he’s already way more insane than any amount of cyberpsychosis could ever make him
iirc he /is/ a cyberpsycho, however he's been described as a "high functioning cyberpsycho". he has some control but still shows some tendencies of them, namely an incredible bloodlust
@@Temp5412 what I meant is that cyberpsychosis makes one lose all empathy and humanity. Adam was already a complete psychopath and therefore didn't have any empathy is him to begin with, hence his high functioning nature
@@CompletelyNormalHuman I understand what you meant; I was just adding in a little extra info I remember seeing.
@@Temp5412 I know, just wanted to add onto it
Can't lose your humanity if you never had it
Can't go insane if you never had sanity.