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Johnny Silver (born John Silverman; April 16, 1918 – February 1, 2003) was an American actor and singer, best known for playing Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls.
Johnny Silver was born on 16 April 1918 in Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Guys and Dolls (1955), Spaceballs (1987) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). He was married to Gloria Manos. He died on 1 February 2003 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- January 1, 1
- Indiana, USA
- January 1, 1
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Johnny Silver was born on April 16, 1918 in Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Guys and Dolls (1955), Spaceballs (1987) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). He was married to Gloria Manos. He died on February 1, 2003 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- April 16, 1918
- February 1, 2003
- Overview
- Biography
- Database Entry (2077)
- Discography
- Ambitions
- Flashbacks
- Game Information (2077)
- Behind the Scenes
I saw corps ... transform Night City into a machine fueled by people's crushed spirits, broken dreams and emptied pockets. Corps've long controlled our lives, taken lots... and now they're after our souls! ... I've declared war not 'cause capitalism's a thorn in my side or outta nostalgia for an America gone by. This war's a people's war against a system that's spiralled outta our control.
– Johnny Silverhand during Tapeworm,
Johnny Silverhand, born Robert John Linder, was a famous and influential rockerboy and lead singer of the band Samurai before its breakup in 2008. A military veteran who defined the rockerboy movement as it is known today, Silverhand was the most prominent figure who fought against the corrupted NUSA government and megacorporations, often being described as a terrorist because of this. Despite being charismatic and quite the charmer, he was also known to be irrational, impulsive, and manipulative.
Silverhand got his nickname from the silvery bionic left arm he had implanted after losing his actual arm in the Second Central American War. Most probably one of the early victims of cyberpsychosis as a result, he then became very temperamental and "on the edge." He is described in one interview as having been driven by "dedication and ambitions, but at the end of the day, he doesn't care much for the people around him as long as they are used to accomplish his goals."[citation needed]
JOHNNY SILVERHAND
They say you can become a legendary rockerboy without all the sex and drugs, the manic depression, run-ins with the law and one toxic relationship after another. But Johnny Silverhand's old school.
Frontman for Samurai, charismatic visionary, rebel with a cause, sworn enemy of corporations (but especially Arasaka) and the mind behind the cult singles "Chippin' In" and "Never Fade Away" - currently residing in V's brain as a digitized tenant.
Silverhand met his demise during the attack on Arasaka Tower after getting shot by Adam Smasher and subsequently flatlined by Soulkiller. But some rockerboys never really die. Point in case - Silverhand's personality construct was kept in Arasaka's labs for decades before it landed on a prototype biochip call the Relic, which - following a series of unexpected events - ended up in V's brain. If you think spending eternity in a cyberspace prison is worse than sharing your headspace with a complete stranger, you'd be dead wrong. For an egomaniac and narcissist like Johnny, it's a living hell.
Albums
Silverhand released six albums between 2008 and 2020.
Dates Consistency
The release dates of some of these albums and songs is inconsistent within the Cyberpunk series. •Never Fade Away, Collector's Edition album (April 16, 2009) - As with "Chippin' In," the song "Never Fade Away" was written and composed by Silverhand for his 2013 Cool Metal Fire album.
Y'know they say time is the best teacher. Used to think that was true ... Blew 'Saka tower to smithereens, and it's still standing there. Just the same. Don't want people gettin' stuck in a rut, stuck in the past. want them to change. Them and the world.
– Johnny Silverhand to V, Cherry Blossom Market,
After leaving the military, Johnny Silverhand became determined to speak the truth of the corruption and oppression of many entities that held positions of power in the world. His music became an extension of his feelings for the public to hear, though none of it ever made him feel better. He made it his goal to spark rebellion in the people, opening their eyes to the reality of their oppression and galvanizing them to punch up against those he believed were their oppressors.
Johnny harbored a constant hatred for much the world around him: Night City, the NUSA, the police, corps, and most of all, Arasaka. He concentrated most of his anger and hatred on Arasaka, on two occasions carrying out attacks on Arasaka's HQ and becoming so obsessed with the megacorporation that his friends would criticize him for his extreme determination. To Johnny, Arasaka represented corporate colonialism at its worst, perceiving that megacorps would consume all the land and take complete control of people's lives, and he feared that humanity had already lost its freedom.
List
•The engram states that Johnny participated in the Second Central American War in Mexico, while in reality, Johnny was instead sent to Nicaragua. •Johnny's engram also states that his dog tags originally belonged to a soldier who sacrificed his life to save Johnny during the Central American War. Despite this, the tags have Johnny's original name, not that of his brother-in-arms. •The engram states that Johnny once thought about inviting Rogue to the cinema, but when V asks Rogue about it, she states it was her idea instead. •One flashback shows Johnny performing one last Samurai show on August 20th, 2023 before assaulting Arasaka Towers, despite the band having been disbanded since 2008. •Similarly, another flashback shows Johnny performing a show with Samurai on the night that Alt was kidnapped in 2013. •The 2023 flashback shows Johnny spearheading the assault on the towers and planting the mini-nuke before being defeated by Adam Smasher on the tower rooftop and later soulkilled by Saburo Arasaka. While Johnny did participate in the assault, he died during the event, having been ripped in half by a shotgun blast from Smasher. He was instead supposedly soulkilled by Spider Murphy moments before his death after the fatal encounter. •The individual who fought Adam Smasher on the rooftop was in fact Morgan Blackhand. Blackhand, however, is completely omitted from the engram's memories. Further, the assault was perpetrated by Militech themselves, along with the plan to plant the mini-nuke that was purported to have prematurely detonated.
Miscellaneous Items
•Vinyl Record •Johnny Silverhand - Never Fade Away
Shards
•Samurai: Swords Crossed •The Last Rockerboy: The Solo Career of Kerry Eurodyne •Kerry Eurodyne - "Second Conflict" - NEW ALBUM REVIEW •Eurodyne: The Unauthorized Biography •What Really Happened in Arasaka Tower?
Affinity
V's affinity with Johnny does not seem to have any major impact in the game. However, the secret ending can only be unlocked via specific dialogue choices during Chippin' In, which also increases affinity.
"Wake the fuck up, samurai." In the game, these words announce that Johnny Silverhand, legendary rockerboy, has smashed into our character's brain. At the Xbox E3 2019 press conference, the words announced that Keanu Reeves, a legend himself, had smashed into gamers' hearts as Johnny's voice actor and visual inspiration.
Johnny's face is pure Keanu, but the rest of his appearance is ripped straight from the pages of the Cyberpunk 2020 manuals. As we put it in our early character briefs, "Johnny is lean and wiry, with a lot of sex appeal. His entire body exudes a kind of built-up tension and nervous energy. Even when he seems laid back, you get the impression he could flip out at any moment for the most unexpected reason." He's self-confident in the extreme—to put it bluntly, he's a narcissist with a massive ego. Though he's only in his late 40s, he's seen and done and fucked it all already.
He's also stuck in V's head. Our head, that is, the head of a fledgling cyberpunk, an unproven rookie, someone who's still just figuring out who they really are—and he's not too happy about it. Johnny's therefore a protagonist that's also, in a way, an antagonist. He's a clashing, constant presence. So it's a good thing he's so damn likeable.
Early development trailers and gameplay demos showed Johnny Silverhand as a selectable childhood hero, which was the first iteration of the lifepath system. Among other options were Morgan Blackhand and Saburo Arasaka. During the gameplay reveal, there were hints that Silverhand had lived until the year 2076 before either supposedly dying or disappearing, with graffiti and radio broadcasts telling different stories of his demise.
During the E3 2018 trailer, several pieces of graffiti can be seen asking "Where's Johnny?", alluding to false reports of Silverhand's death. In the E3 gameplay reveal, V can be heard listening to Silverhand's version of the song, "Chippin' In," as well as wearing a Samurai jacket. This jacket is revealed in the game as a replica of Johnny's jacket.
At the Microsoft E3 2019 conference, Keanu Reeves was revealed as both the voice actor and model for Silverhand. Silverhand shows up at the end of the 2019 cinematic trailer to help V after V is left for dead in a landfill. In posterior interviews, it was revealed that Reeves had been approached to play Silverhand a year prior to the announcement.
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