Illari Origin Story | Overwatch 2: Invasion 

I like how the channel only favorites the most generic comments.

how did this get pinned? not in a rude way, more confused tbh edit: im actually an idiot ☠️

@@ElRazur_ because she’s the voice actress not a random☠️

Gracias Andre por una hermosa interpretación de nuestra querida paisana

​@@Owleroshes the va.

They are child of the sun and she went supernova

nice, you watched the video!

Yeah I'm sorry this backstory is borderline laughably funny who made this 😭 gamer guys are so easily impressed

At the end I was like, "...coz you killed em all!" not impressed.

FR this is like the worst origin story XD I kill my people so im gonna leave them and play the hero , it kinda feel like that BRUH

Fr play of the game

Friendly normal hp

she went friendly fire,literal fire

😭😭

1:24 reminds me of a lot of scenes from fire force (for the initiated, it's a fantasy-steampunk (or is it nuclearpunk since they use nuclear?) manga in which they worship the sun god, but they also use nuclear plant to power their entire city, so what they worship is kinda accurate)

A very simple story which is kinda refreshing. We've been getting a lot of heavy hitters toward the setting lore of overwatch, so this is nice. She seems like she'll be good. 👍

i screen shotted it cause its funny

@@hamburbur9477 wow omgz you're so cool and quirky and unique

@@-Songbird ty😘🤪

I noticed just last night! A LW saved me and said that

little does she know she did in fact have to do it alone

I just teared up a bit reading this GOD im so unwell

What is LW?

@@Frmintdfr00tlife weaver

​@@1MAGedits😂😂😂

Yup, couldn't agree more

They absolutely are, but I just wish they would give more lore for what happens in the present universe and not everyone's backstory. There hasn't been much to move the story forward since the Zero Point cinematic and definitely wasn't anything before then.

@@Cybrtronlazrdawg we just got story missions set in present time.

@@heyheyhello3733 Sadly, they arent. The Null Sector Invasion already happend, one way to confirm this is ingame through the logs when you go into missions. There you'll see a recap of everything and see that the Null Sector Invasion actually already happened

I mean, theyre already dead, sooooo.... Does it reeeeaally matter now?

She didn't kill everyone, just the other Inti warriors in their headquarters who were gathered to watch her ceremony. The rest of her people lived in the city a little ways away (you can even see it in the scenes with her in the headquarter ruins). But even if she didn't kill her entire people, now she has to protect people who probably hate her for getting their family members who were other Inti warriors killed. Also you can see the city behind her in the very last scene.

​@@hootax8980 Just to clarify, inti is sun in quechua, so the name "inti warriors" is basically the children of the sun or whatever she said

I know right!

Eh bad idea, they might butcher it

boy, do I have news for you!

It would be great if that game had skill trees for a sense if progesssion too!

Yeah. Exactly one game. Not two.

the team that doesn't disappoint

gameplay-wise she's also pretty badass

Such surface lvl understanding of production

@@piusdoe8984yea it's right this thing is way to complex, it's a system, it's team work and a myriad of other things involved to make this happen

@@jujutsushiNever! NOT EVEN ONCE!

Lmaoooooo😭😭😭😭

Yeah. Like Darth Vader do 👍 lol

KIIILLLIIIINNGGG SPREEEEEEE

Hope she learns that she never did anything wrong and what happened wasn’t her fault

XD Same, I couldn't help but burst into laughter, thinking to myself, "Did she genuinely kill every single one of her friends and family without any apparent reason?". I was thinking this animation was like a villain arc for her wanting to wipe out the whole town.

That took a huge turn. I still got whiplash

u think about it her power was a curse all along

​@cultoosk nah she was just too overpowered and it's her people's fault for not knowing from the start she's a queen boss protagonist

Our currency is literally named "New Sun". Lmao

​@@dccopa13and the former currency was "Inti" which also means "sun" 🌞

Thank you for this.

I guess tht make sense on how some of her voiceline r also in Quechua, thts awesome. Never knew until now.

How do you pronounce Illari? She says her name at the end but it sounds different to how it's spelt.

Or about the melody she likes to hum. Maybe they get into a humming contest?

@@user-py1mf5su2h Ngl humming is the most basic thing they could have a voiceline for, when they literally have a thing in common which only they 2 in the world share (harnessing gravity and harnessing the sun)

@@ItzJupiter 6 months later, they literally have ZERO interactions lmao, no humming, no power of space, nothing. Kinda sad tbh

Yeah :( Really hoped for something but its alright.@@chara8074

Maybe she can make white holes 😅

I wish she wasn't so abrasive and had more than her guilt to contend with; something so nuclear as the power she holds would definitely feel much more of a constant weight on her shoulders than just the one time she lost control of it.

@@Brown95Pshe really just hit everyone with the power of the sun, honestly might be the strongest character r

​@@partystarter8041No one is on Sigma's level. It's not even close

@@caicarney5614 Sigma's too sigma

@@caicarney5614 I would say she is definitely in the top three. Sure, Sigma could destroy the whole planet if he became unstable, but having the power of the sun is also a huge deal, especially when compared to most heroes, who have no such supernatural abilities, but merely their weapons

@@seanewt7947 ooooooo I love this! Awesome theory!

@@seanewt7947no its because she had some like hidden power that nobody really understood the extent of so she could harvest more of the suns power than others

Thats also why her ultimate is reminiscent of that explosion

she literally didn't do anything she didn't do anything aside from be born weird

Bro at this point zenyatta teaching everyone

These gotta be bots I swear

@@sanxeaupe802why? It was actually a good story

@@81ue93 It was the most basic, elementary backstory possible. "I was given power and accidentally killed everyone." Wow, so unique.

@sanxeaupe802 not really. Just randomly got the notification, opened up immediately, watched the video and like the story... there it is

@@koglin1234Imagine whining for no reason at all. Get a job or better off, touch grass.

🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

I bet you can wait to see "more" of her

Gross, a furry.

@@RvsN-TacO😏

:3

The kind of power she has that could nuke a whole city through one "mistake" should also be an extra weight on her shoulders, and one that couldn't be so easily left behind after forgiving herself to boot.

She already firgsvd herself she said it doesn't matter anymore

@@Sen.100 Saying something doesn´t matter and forgiving aren´t the same. It could only mean that she doesn´t want to think about it anymore but still sees it as her mistake.

Just hanzo 2.0 but by nuking her home instead of almost killing her brother

@@Hoodini2253 You can´t compare those two because she didn´t intend to kill her people. Hanzo might didn´t want it but he chose to fight Genji in a battle of life and death.

Blast💀

So did her friends

She feels so complete to me

@@mosely25Me too. I bought her golden gun so fast bcuz I love her kit and had a feeling she would be my new main. Sadly they will prob nerf her into the ground cuz I have the worst luck.

@@Tyr_Gas loll i gotta get like u n play more comp And yah sadly they prob will. But shes wayyyy better to me than live weaver. Min i played him im was like "nope!" Not for me. I hope they dont nurf her but you're right prob will.

Sigma 💀💀💀

about that

in like 2 years time maybe. she gonna be an endgame character.

@@VanSanProductions about that

Got some bad news for you.

about that

Her voice lines are so mid 😢

@@Bcap222your voice lines are below mid 🙂

Wait until you see real Inca story

@@Bcap222 The character is litetally midest of al mids😂

@@ruychavez6242how you get that emoji ????

I think they rushed her out a little because she got leaked

​@@neurozoned probably

They had us speculating about Ramattra since 2019 with the Storm Rising mission in that year's Archive's event. I do like when a character is added and we already have some context for them. OW plot/story/worldbuilding has a ton of loose ends, and the game itself doesn't allow for much character development, so I'm not sure how far we will get to know about Illari. Especially considering her entire community is... dead, as we see in this Origin Story. I do wonder what else we can learn about her.

We'll be posting the illustrated stills on our ArtStation page soon... stay tuned! 🚀

Who are you

​@@Tstormerthey appear to be an art company of some sort based in the UK. Despite their claims, from their channel I can't find any proof at the time that show that they worked on Overwatch animations Edit: Found their external links, based on their posts they do appear to work on Overwatch animations, among animations for other games

Rofl. Not this.

You make my fav hearthstone skins

Honest mistake, happens all the time😅

She was watching itachi on her off time

play of the game type shi

I think Illari is from Arequipa, that's what I heard

Waaaay late response, but her bio says she’s from Runasapi, probably a new hidden city in Overwatch’s Peru

How much they paid you?

​@@XUIWnothing they are dope

kiriko....

Somos 2 manito 🎉🇵🇪

Viva peru 🎉🎉🎉

Viva El Peru, abrazos desde Brasil Hermano!!!

Felicidades Perú, tienen héroe de Overwatch antes que Argentina jajaja 🎉🎉🎉

​@@hellerdamon6101Tenemos a Messi en el Cod

Bro💀💀

Maybe it was forbidden to make more for there was no way to know yet if it could happen again.

In the voice lines it hint that because of the explosion, some of the blueprints and knowledge of the technology to create more was destroyed. Her voiclines also hint that when she became a nuke, she accidentally wiped out everyone in the room. Including the other warriors. So now she is the last one.

re 3rd question: she blew up the chamber that gives the sun tech(?) along with everyone else.

Well if we're to take the story at face value the technology is *highly* efficient solar energy which... well, _harnesses the power of the Sun._ It's not Dyson Swarm/Sphere levels of efficient, but definitely enough to do justice for that phrase. So, no, not magic. Just really, *really* efficient solar power technology- probably (if not most likely) merged with biotechnology for those with high compatibility. I guess that answers question 2. For question 3: Again, if we're taking the story at face value, I'm guessing she had too much potential? Maybe her compatibility for the Solar tech was too high and the settings weren't prepped properly because they overlooked something crucial (I don't think it's her fault, because people with survival's guilt blame themselves a lot, it's pretty sad). Anyway, lack of info ---> not enough (proper) prep time, the right settings, or caution on the scientists/engineers/whoever's side----> Transformer gives her the power (Play the He-Man music!), but compatibility is over 100%! "Oopsie, we weren't ready for tha-" ---> Cue the Chernobyl-style explosion fueled by too much solar energy in her ignition and - Presto! Breakthrough in science! Oh, everyone's dead except her... *Whoops!* 😳 (By the way, she left *no evidence?* no charred bodies at all? Impressive, in a dark way - which is morbidly funny due to the context.) Look on the bright side, newbie- everyone has a _certain_ weakness! Superman has Kryptonite, Batman has trauma, and you have Survival's Guilt! (You better hope the enemy can't defend themselves verbally as they do physically!) Not sure for the first question though. It could be the Overwatch universe's version of Wakanda for all we know.

​@@phoenixfyre365I also think it's remarkable that not a trace of a soul was left behind. She quite literally vaporized all of them. Impressive and also terrifying.

it's kind of destroyed now though...

@@Jone_V They may add it, and only reason I say may, is if they ever decide to pursue how her home got destroyed (maybe it wasn't her fault, etc.)

@@Jone_Vhey to be fair so is junker town

So about that Runasapi map...

what personality? 🤣

Sigma? Hello???

This backstory is anime protagonist cliche.

This clown here talking as if most of the roster wasn't top tier already.

⁠@@makianasilvait it’s cliche why do people like stories like this?

how is she optimistic? None of her lines have any energy or personality in them at all.

XD ☠

@@gamingbean6440she literally screams face the sunrise bruh i get hyped as

​@@gamingbean6440She is fighting because she hopes to live out the legacy of all those who died in her homeland. She's pained and stoic, but she's still internally optimistic. Optimistic doesn't mean lighthearted.

See I agree with the first person and I know someone is gonna get the wrong idea over this but there are actually three characters who seem to be like that (excluding Widowmaker who has a reason) but Sojourn, Sym and now Illari are just poor. They are so... boring. Design is ok at most but their personality, story and character are about as interesting as a blank piece of paper is to someone that can't draw. This one is probably the worst there is since her tragedy is just laughable. If it wasn't for Bap, Sombra or Lucio, I'd assume they were just filling their minds with this idea that darker skin tone characters should be more serious to say the least. Doomfist is a bit like that too but I think the difference is just that he has that "evil leader" feel nailed so perfectly. I have nothing against making characters like this but seeing them do it so often not just here but other games too is just getting old. At least make more dark skin tone female characters that have some kind of personality before adding this serious stuff so much.

She has a pretty sad voice line with mei about people dying

I like that she doesn't really connect to anyone. Because when they do connect to someone else the new character's personality always has to kinda fit with the character their connected too. Which almost always feels like it limits the character's gameplay and interactions.

@@omarririttenberg6038 true, but it will also be interesting to see how she fits. I definitely don't think she's gonna be all buddy buddy with Overwatch, but she'll probably have to work with them to defend her home from either Talon or Overwatch.

I agree, the new heroes are getting even more ridiculous in terms of their lore background. Her character feels out of place from the overwatch world and this origin story didn't help much connecting it. They are moving from futuristic science tech to fantasy and I am not sure I like that.

my dude, theyre literally using technology to harness the suns energy. Solar panels are not fantasy.@@davidpodeszwa7010

@@davidpodeszwa7010i mean illari is still tech based (fantasy tech but it’s still tech) the only ones who have true magic are genji, hanzo, and kiriko.

Espero que la situación allá se mejore, desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

what this meant to meant in english pls

How is life in Peru? I'm just interested from Russia. I love the countries of South America for their culture. Especially Peru and Bolivia.

Una explosión que mate a todos? No es cierto, espero se mejore su situación. Saludos!

@@user-ic6vq1gm1v our country is a living meme actually, but is not a funny meme tho.

Right 🤣

If I see someone instalock her I just leave the game and try again. But to be honest it's annoying how people do that

no limits

After a 15min queue optimally for optimal salt levels

Give it a week and it'll be easier to play her

I think the idea is that it allows her dps teammates to easily finish off the enemies. So she isn't supposed to be the one to activate the explosions, her team is. It depends on what you think counts as a support ability. It's similar to zen's discord orb, is that a supportive ability?

Uhh, no. There are far more interesting characters that have gone years without even appearing in a cinematic.

@@Owlerotrue literally can’t stand these people saying “she has the best backstory ever and personally too” 💀

No, give Mercy a short first!!

Nobody's backstory can compare to Sigma's it's not even close

@@iamwhoiam7887Ain’t no way mercy deserves the next animated short when sigma is around. He’s a far more interesting character.

"scared to hurt others" * literally uses her sun powers to hurt others *

@@Owlero Afraid to hurt more innocents to be precise.

That is why her ult is the only support ult that in a way is so different from other supports. She puts pressure on the enemy supports and enables friendly high burst damage dps. Plus she has the fastest healing in the game up to 120health per second(not counting bionade effect + any healing) showing how much she bursts in both healing and damage just like how energetic a star/the sun is

@@Owleroyeah that’s why she’s scared what do you not understand

Afraid to hurt others again, meanwhile she’s also the best support for teamwiping even by herself if given the right opportunity lmao. But all jokes aside, I do think Illari is a really great character. I was waiting for a hero like her, a support with hitscan and great damage potential while still having good heals. I say this as a Ana main, but I think I’ll pick her up too now!

Your people have solar super powers?

i love the lifeweaver one he just didnt have that tragic of a backstory which isnt always necessary

@@rainbowpuppet77 Not just that, I just don’t understand Lifeweaver’s concept at all. Biolight? So he makes plants out of hard light and that’s somehow supposed to fix nature? Are we supposed to believe that an animal eating holographic plants will get the same nutrients? What if the animal walks too far from the light generator? Will its stomach empty?

@@rainbowpuppet77 Brigitte is the least tragic character.

Wait so the guy who can make regenerative biomatter out of light is too weird to get but the girl who can harness sunlight to heal isn't to you? @@VirixPhilia

@@VirixPhiliashe killed everyone but it doesn’t matter anymore because I’m the last child of the sun??? Like what?

You didn’t even watch the video 🤔

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Be careful what you wish for, when we asked for that with tf2 we got Emesis Blue

I think she rather fits into lol than into ow lmao.

There's a huge gap between the artistic side of this franchise and everything else. The storytelling is a 10 but everything else is in the worse state ever.

The update is a step back. The character is a just a common w for the art and story board team.

Lizard Men of Warhammer Fantasy.

@@franciscorui Not a fan of Warhammer.

@@joesunday199 bozo to you then

@@franciscorui It's fine. Just not a series for me.