Jack Deth is the main protagonist in the Trancers franchise, produced by Charles Band of Empire Pictures and later Full Moon Entertainment, from 1985–2013. The Trancers franchise started out as an homage to pulp detective novels, with noted similarities to other cult sci-fi movies, such as Blade Runner and The Terminator (the latter of which was released the previous year). In the series, time travel is initially made possible using a drug that sends the person into the consciousness of a relation, but expanded to include the pre-set co-ordinates of a time machine. Although parts 4 and 5 introduced other means of time travel between dimensions.