Stay Safe & Sound Choom as Kazuliski asks the question: Who the F*** is Adam Smasher? This is the definitive deep dive into Adam Smasher Lore: Night City's Ultimate Boogeyman, Arasaka's Full-Borg enforcer from Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop (Solo of Fortune 2, Firestorm Shockwave) to Edgerunners and Cyberpunk 2077. Pre-chrome sociopath origins, Fourth Corporate War Tower raid vs Morgan Blackhand (DaiOni battlesuit, Shaitan biopod taunt), Michiko Arasaka romance, Ebunike docks blackmail (Gilchrist & Mallory via the Militech-Night Corp sabotage), explore the high-functioning cyberpsycho (Mike Pondsmith aka Maximum Mike: "job where they want him to kill"), the David Martinez annihilation in Cyberpunk Edgerunners ("Rudimentary implant," "Had some fun after all"), and finally Yorinobu head of security and V's Relic confrontation in CD PROJEKT RED's Cyberpunk 2077.
Adam Smasher - Cyberpunk Lore - Cyberpunk 2077 Lore - Chapters
00:00 - Adam Smasher Who Are You
04:23 - Pre-Chrome Origins New York Punk to Freelance Solo
11:41 - Arasaka & Full-Borg Conversion
16:08 - The Fourth Corporate War & Morgan Blackhand
30:28 - Michiko Arasaka Romance
37:08 - Cyberpunk Edgerunners & David Martinez
44:05 - Cyberpunk 2077 & V
47:12 - Adam Smasher the Definitive Cyberpunk Archetype
55:30 - Chippin' In
Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk 2077 & Cyberpunk Edgerunners Characters:
Adam Smasher
Saburo Arasaka
Yorinobu Arasaka
Johnny Silverhand
Morgan Blackhand
Shaitan
Spider Murphy
Lyle Thompson
Rogue Amendiares
Lucy Kushinada
Rebecca
David Martinez
Jackie Welles
Valerie - V
• Cyberpunk 2077 - CD PROJEKT RED
Thank you for Chippin' In, Choom! Want to be a Cyberpunk Edgerunner like Lucy Kushinada or a Night City legend like Morgan Blackhand or Adam Smasher? Dive into Preem Cyberpunk 2077 Lore from Kazuliski, Mike Pondsmith, Maximum Mike and CD PROJEKT RED.
• Cyberpunk 2077 Lore - Cyberpunk Lore
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Cyberpunk 2077 - Five Years Later - 5th Anniversary - CD PROJEKT RED - Kazuliski
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners - Adam Smasher - Who the F*** Are You?
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Cyberpunk 2077 Lore - Maximum Mike - Mike Pondsmith - Morro Rock - Kazuliski
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Cyberpunk 2077 - Safe & Sound - Cyberpunk TV & Cyberpunk Ads - Kazuliski
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References & Credits:
Mike Pondsmith (Maximum Mike) & Benjamin Wright
Cyberpunk 2020 - R.Talsorian Games, 1992
Solo of Fortune 2 - R.Talsorian Games, 1994
Firestorm Shockwave - R.Talsorian Games, 1997
Firestorm Stormfront - R.Talsorian Games, 1997
Cyberpunk 2077 - CD PROJEKT RED, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 - Adam Smasher - Paul Leonard-Morgan, 2020
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - STUDIO TRIGGER & CD PROJEKT RED
Adam Smasher holds a singular, almost mythic place in the Cyberpunk universe — Arasaka Corporation's ultimate enforcer, a full-body conversion cyborg whose 96% chrome frame and unrelenting sadism have made him Night City's most feared and enduring legend. This discussion, the most exhaustive examination available, reconstructs Smasher's complete chronology from his pre-chrome origins in late-20th-century New York to his climactic role in the 2077 assault on Arasaka Tower. Kazuliski dissects his psychological profile, pivotal conflicts across decades, persistent narrative discrepancies between tabletop canon and digital interpretations, and the unresolved enigmas surrounding his potential persistence through Arasaka's Soulkiller-derived engram technology. At its core, the analysis advances a central thesis: Smasher exemplifies Cyberpunk's defining dialectic between humanity and chrome, a "high-functioning cyberpsycho," as Pondsmith himself terms it, whose role as Arasaka's sanctioned executioner channels innate sociopathic impulses into a uniquely resilient form of controlled violence. Unlike the rampaging cyberpsychos hunted by MaxTac, victims of augmentation overwhelming fragile psyches, Smasher's pathology predates his chrome. His implants do not erode his humanity; they weaponize what little remained. This distinction not only explains his survival through nukes, corporate wars, and edgerunner assaults but also illuminates why V's Relic-fueled "fusion" with Johnny Silverhand enables an improbable victory in 2077: a temporary mimicry of Smasher's pre-existing mental fortitude, the very sociopathy that lets him wield 96% chrome without breaking. By the end, viewers will possess the complete framework for understanding Adam Smasher, not the meme final boss of 2077 or the unstoppable force of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, but the layered, meticulously crafted enigma Pondsmith and Wright forged across three decades of Cyberpunk evolution.
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