Funny / Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

"Wussup, choom? You need somethin'?"

You can't have a Trigger work without at least some humor, and Edgerunners doesn't fail to deliver.

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Warning: Spoilers Off applies to Funny Moments pages. Proceed at your own risk.

In General

• Some subtle moments exist with Kiwi's cybernetic jaw, with it basically being an implanted filter mask rather than anything resembling a mouth she smokes by carefully wedging her cigarettes in the vents, and takes all her drinks via bendy straw.
• Similarly, the ridiculous car physics of the game are on full display during every car scene. From David smashing a fancy car during his first lesson on driving to lorries going flying around corners, it captures the experience spot on.
• The many, many, many deaths of Trauma Team on the job, when not Nightmare Fuel, are a very dark form of Black Comedy as they show up with almost impeccably bad timing into a situation they really don't have any business being in. The capper is during the finale, in the middle of a standoff with David and Adam Smasher inside the Arasaka building, a Trauma Team crew arrive in the middle of the carnage to pick up a wounded Faraday, with absolutely predictable results.

Episode 1

• As it turns out, David was watching the cyberpsycho's rampage via an XBD provided to him by Doc. Doc then has him check out another Braindance - which turns out to be a porno, much to David's chagrin.
• David's usual commute to Arasaka Academy exposes him to some of the typical antics in Night City, from Trauma Team hovercrafts responding to emergencies, to random people holding each other at gunpoint, to gonked-out public masturbators literally beating off in broad daylight to smut Braindances.

Episode 2

• Katsuo calling out David for trying to start a fight with him in the middle of school. David doesn't give a shit.
  Katsuo: Are you gonked Martinez!? We're at school! The cameras! Have you lost your-(Gets socked hard in the face)
• How David learns the cost of using the Sandevistan multiple times. In the middle of Lucy speaking, he gets a nosebleed, loses consciousness and falls on his face down the steps they're on.
• Lucy's escape from the ambulance on the freeway with David on the stretcher after he passes out from overusing his implant, while undeniably cool (and attractive to David at first), once they come to a stop however, David has puked all over himself and the stretcher and Lucy is just looking on embarrassed a bit that she overdid their escape.
  • In the Japanese dub, Aoi Yuki gives Lucy a drawn out “Araaa~” reaction to the EMT pulling a gun.
• David's braindance with Lucy, and the music playing, is cut short by "You fell over the edge, punk". Said by Maine, who takes David's visor off and punches the kid so hard he bounces off the bed and into the ceiling.
  • Seconds before he gets decked, David takes a look at Lucy right next to him calmly taking a smoke. Realizing he just got screwed while Maine charges his fist.

Episode 3

• David spends the first three minutes of the episode held the leg by Maine like a rugsack. Maine contemplates flat-lining him and getting the Sandevistan ripped out of his body.
  Maine: Ya hear that!? Should rip the damn thing out myself! Maybe then you'll learn not to kelp shit that ain't yours, ya piss-sniffer!
  Lucy: Please don't get blood all over my room, alright?
• The rest of Maine's crew has no problem taking the piss out of their boss, especially when they learn that he already paid the supplier for the Sandy before getting it. (Which he says he could afford because she's trustworthy.)
  Dorio S'whatcha get for paying in advance.
  Pilar: Gonk move!
  Maine: Shut it!
• Maine bitch-slapping David during the interrogation.
  David: (To Lucy) You fucking lied to me-
  Maine: Shut up! (SLAP!)
  • Then he does it again when Maine introduces his crew to the kid.
  David: Name's David.
  Maine: (Slap!) Who asked?
• Rebecca's introduction: she "accidentally" spills a drink on an Arasaka limo driver, Maxim, to distract him so David can get the chip with nav data the crew needs. While Maxim is initially extremely cross, he quickly changes his tune when Rebecca gives him a sensual crotch grab. Just as they seem to put the incident behind them, Maxim notices his chip is gone, and calls Rebecca a bitch.
  Rebecca (teasingly): Why are you yelling at me? I'm sensitive, y'know~!
• The fact that David’s first time driving is a car chase, which Maine pressures him into over comms when Maxim shows up and catches him and Lucy locked in it. While Maxim is yelling (and shooting) at them and David is sweating bullets, Lucy simply stares at David while innocently pointing at the engine control button until he finally presses it.
  • She still takes the time rib into David while making their getaway.
  Lucy: Look at you, you’re practically a pro.
  David: You think so?
  Lucy: I mean, maybe, if autopilot wasn’t on.
  David: Whatever…
  • Lucy is perfectly calm throughout the ride, even when stopped by traffic with Tyger Claws on their tail (though probably because of how reinforced the car is). She drops it when David uses the Sandevistan to make a bunch of sharp turns to out-maneuver the Claws. By then she’s holding on the hedge of her seat.
  David: Hope you're buckled up!
  Lucy: Huh?
• Rebecca hands David a drink out of goodwill in their first meeting. David asks if it s carbonated or not, but she walks off without an answer. After telling off the Principal of Arasaka Academy on a phone call, David takes a sip and finds out.
  • David telling his former Principal that Arasaka Academy can kiss his ass.

Episode 4

• Maine's flirting with Dorio at The Afterlife in Episode 4, particularly the way he articulates his arm while trying to cop a feel, and that he and Dorio immediately get back into it after she socks him one.
  Maine: You an' me, let's go! To! Town...!
  Dorio: *Backfist*
  • And while they're getting it on, Maine receives a phone call... from David, who all-but-begs him for work. Maine does not stop kissing Dorio while telling David that he's got nothing lined up and that now is a really bad time.
• The entirety of David's visit to Rebecca and Pilar's place to deliver the latter some new golden hands.
  • Firstly, pictured above, Rebecca opens the door pointing a gun at David's face. And then just casually talks to David while chewing some gum while David is, understandably, terrified. That's apparently just how Rebecca answers doors, and seeing it's David makes her lower her guard, but not her weapon.
  • Upon receiving his shiny new hands, Pilar tells David that he's done with what he needs to do, then gives the two the finger as he tells Rebecca to tip him on his way out. Rebecca answers by shooting said finger and flipping him off in turn.^note Meanwhile, if one listens closely, Pilar is gushing about his hands being bulletproof after he's shot.
  Rebecca: HE'S YOUR ERRAND-BOY, FORK IT OVER YOURSELF, CHEAP-ASS!
  • Finally, Rebecca tips David five-hundred eddies for his troubles, which makes David gush at the amount of money he's just been given.
  Rebecca: David, you're fucking adorable, man. See you soon dimples.
• Maine calling Lucy to give David something to do, telling her to take responsibility since she was the one who picked him up. While also complaining about David repeatedly calling him for work to do and basically telling her to wear him out.
  Lucy: Assmunch.
  (Scene Transition)
  David: Fuck that guy...
  Lucy: I'll say, on my day off too.
• Maine teaching David how to drive in a rather unprofessional course. When Maine lets David have a go on his own, David crashes into a gas station. Maine's shades dropping a bit at the moment of the crash sells it.
  • The two immediately get swarmed by the cops. David's still on the wheel making their getaway with a cackling Maine's fist in his face.
• During the edgerunning montage in episode 4, Rebecca gets stopped by Emmerick Bronson at the door of The Afterlife, presumably because she's the smallest of the crew and still looks and dresses like a teenager. Cue a 4-v-1 standoff between Rebecca, Emmerick, and some other Afterlife bouncers. Only in Night City, right?
  • What's funnier is that they let the 17-year-old David, who's probably younger than Rebecca and definitely too young to be drinking in bars, through without any issues. Even he looks slightly bemused by this.
  • When David uses his Sandevistan to sneak Rebecca inside, it cuts to a shot of Rogue Amendiares— Queen of Fixers and the owner of The Afterlife— laughing at how the situation plays out. She waves them both on instead of calling Emmerick over, and Rebecca takes a moment to fangirl to David over who she is.
• In a very Black Comedy sort of way, while Rebecca is genuinely heartbroken over Pilar's death, she still can’t resist getting one last jab in at her brother by shooting off what’s left of Pilar’s head off his corpse while quipping that part of the reason she is so upset was because she wanted to kill Pilar herself first.
  • There's also Maine tackling her out of the way of the psycho's missile fire. He puts Becca in hold to keep her from charging back in, but she crawls out of it, yanks his shotgun and leaps back into the fight from atop Maine's head.
  • Seconds after Pilar dies, everyone in the crew is in shock. Except for Kiwi.
    Kiwi: [Casually] I got some Pilar on me...

Episode 5

• The episode immediately after David and Lucy have a Relationship Upgrade, Maine can tell right away there's something different about David.
  Maine: [grinning smugly, nudging him] You got laid didn't you? [still grinning, nudging David practically out of frame] You did.
  • In that same opening scene, Maine, David, and Kiwi start talking details surrounding the Tanaka gig all while Kiwi is casually bare-ass naked and sitting right beside the former two after coming out of her ice bath, much to David's shock and bewilderment.
  • As a Freeze-Frame Bonus, you can see David is trying his best to check out Kiwi's breasts without getting caught. While the dude might be head over heels for Lucy, he's still just a Hormone-Addled Teenager at the end of the day.

Episode 6

• In a likely case of Self-Deprecation, Maine complains about the NCPD appearing "out of thin air" during the hostage crisis with Tanaka.
  Maine: Fuck! It's like these pigs keep appearin' out of thin air for us! No end to 'em!
• In a bit of Black Comedy, Trauma Team makes an attempt to retreat when Tanaka dies, making their contract void, and one of them point blank telling a NPCD officer that Maine is their problem now. The officer understandably calls them out before getting blown in half mid-sentence by Maine, who tosses a grenade at Trauma Team's aircraft in the middle of them taking off.

Episode 7

• Rebecca growing increasingly annoyed with Julio making noises with the shotgun David gave him, until she finally snaps and just starts KICKING him non-stop until they reach their destination.
  Rebecca: KNOCK IT OFF!
  Julio: Watch the knees! Weak knees!
  Rebecca: "Boom, boom, boom!" WHAT ARE YOU, FIVE!?
• Overlaps with Nightmare Fuel, but the death of the rookie Julio on his first run stands out. The kid gets liquified by a tripmine, which would be absolutely horrifying if not for David and Rebecca's exasperated reactions making it seem like he stepped in dog crap. All this punctuated by one of his arms getting stuck to the the ceiling and dropping his gifted shotgun after a few seconds.
• Kiwi grousing to herself after the crew tell her to hack a target without so much as a polite request.
  Kiwi: (muttering to herself) "Please, Kiwi. Thank you, Kiwi."
• Crossing with Heartwarming, Rebecca showing off her arm implants in the vein of her brother; catching shotgun shells out of the air in one grab to reload and crawling on her hands with a bottle in between her knees.

Episode 9

• Kiwi's deadpan line after surviving a car crash.

  Kiwi: Bit my tongue off.

• Falco and Rebecca sassing each other.
  Rebecca: (about Falco and Kiwi) Granny and Grampsy are on the bench this round!
  Falco: Think your little chicken legs will reach the pedals?
  Rebecca: YO! (Beat) Fair.
• This exchange after David installs the Cyberskeleton and Rebecca injects him with immunosuppressants to keep him sane:
  Rebecca: Back to normal?
  David: Lucy, gonna go save her.
  Rebecca: No, guess not, sounds like your brain's fried.

Episode 10

• Slightly humorous interaction between Faraday and Adam Smasher, who acts annoyed and offended that this man is even trying to order him around like he's someone special. And it really just paints a perfect picture of how small a fish Faraday really is in the grand scheme of Arasaka's ocean.
  Faraday: Adam Smasher, hurry! Go on, kill the boy!
  Smasher: Who the fuck are you?
• The fact that Smasher kills Rebecca by quite literally smashing her to death and through the floor with his ass. He certainly lived up to his name.
  • One fan made merchandise out of this scene (an Adam Smasher mug and a Rebecca coaster), which was noticed by one of the anime's executive producers.
  • On Rebecca's part, her sheer and brazen lack of concern about the giant cyborg falling straight towards her- embodied by her choice of last words- is hilarious enough on its own to be worth mentioning:
  'Rebecca:' (currently shooting straight up at Smasher) We're having a moment here, FUCK YOU--! (is flattened)
• A retroactive one, but David has a drink named after him in the Afterlife when you play 2077, as is tradition in the bar for edgerunners who go out in a blaze of glory. Heartwarming... except one of the ingredients is NiCola. A carbonated beverage, which David notably had a distaste for. Even after his death, David just can't seem to catch a break.