"A pity we did not teach them to speak better" Hanar take language very seriously. Hanar leaving the homeworld have to take special classes to learn not to take offense at improper grammar. They consider speech to be a gift from the Enkindlers. Without meaning to, Javik basically said the single most insulting thing he could have possibly said to that hanar. Poor jellyfish :-(
I always loved that Bioware chose to show us one of the last of their kind. He is probably as different to the Protheans before the reaper invasion than he is to the races of the new cycle. The kind of Protheans Liara had hoped to meet were long dead by the time Javik was born. He was born into a war that had already lasted generations. There was little left of the once great empire. And hope had been lost decades ago. All that was left for them was to fight for every world, every stretch of ground with the grim fatalism of people knowing their civilisation had ended. There were no philosophers left. No adventurers. No artists. No musicians. No explorers. No historians. No architects. Only warriors. He often comes across as dogmatic, even a bit of a joke. “Out of the airlock” he says. But then again he lived in a time that had little room for subtleties. And even his survival had only one purpose: vengeance. Always thought that choice was a stroke of genius.
Ya know I’d never thought about this, I presumed they were just a highly militarised society. I think given how brief the conflict with the reapers was in Shepards cycle it can be easily forgotten the Protheons fought for generations, that they hadn’t deactivated the relay on the citidal and that Shepard hadn’t blown up an entire system
What I find beautiful is his acceptance of manners of new cycle. Because Shepard gets results with diplomacy and equal standing despite their risks Javik sees his/her success as sign of greater power than anything Prothean Empire had in it's use. Idea of peace is frightening, but it is fear he accepts. It might give Protheans a chance to leave their mark on Milky Way itself. In my view he studied Prothean culture with Dr. T'Soni and truly became scholar Liara hoped Protheans would be. He would also regularly visit hanar homeworld just because they asked with such desperate politeness. Suffice to say living god Javik did shake hanar's religious beliefs very thoroughly.
something I really liked about Javik is how they designed him. They made him, humble in a sense. And when he talks, you feel like you're listening to a very old man speaking. But the thing is, he himself is not old. It's so, amazing his character design. If Bioware done one good thing right in ME3, it was the Prothean's.
+devinrrod 2 What game were you playing? He didn't think much of the other races in the current cycle, or how they all shared power, or that we didn't prepare properly for the Reapers. The list goes on. Not saying he was a bad character, I loved him. But he looked down on nearly everyone because of that. He would only boosts morale with words like this because of Shepard's influence. He knows it's what others want to hear, rather than something he believes himself.
Tails the discorduser not humble but..humbled in a way think about it from his view species when you were alive were basically still evolving and adapting and boom now they are near your people's level...so maybe he is humbled and arrogant at the same time
"At least I can find a blood donor..." "A problem I suspect is an issue for that skittering lizard man Thane as well, correct?" "Then allow me to clarify, I meant a *willing* blood donor" "Fair enough Commander"
Javik is easily one of the most intriguing characters in Mass Effect. I can't imagine how it must feel, to be the last of your species, and to stand amongst those who were mere primitives in your own time.
Imagine if Shepard lost, but somehow survived until the next cycle and helped Cats and those Tuchanka rats fight the reapers. That's sort of what Javik is going through.
Though it is super weird to me that this kind of development is supposed to have taken just 50k years. 50 million would make more sense. Shows people have no grasp of evolution and time.
@@heinzerhardt7047 Yyyeah it does take at least a few hundred thousands years to go from animal to industrialized civilization. At least it did for humans.
@Heinz Erhardt Yes, that bothers me too. It's one of my gripes with the ME setting as a whole. The writers just...don't seem to understand time-scales. For example: the human race has only been involved with Citadel Politics for 30 years by ME 1. First Contact War with the Turians happened during Shepard's childhood. That is a very **very** short amount of time for humans to have fully integrated into galactic society so thoroughly they have embassies on the Citadel, multiple colony-worlds, sprawling economic interests, a criminal enterprise complete with multiple, interspecies crine cartels and eventually a seat on the council. I know humanity rising to the top so fast is a big part of ME's lore, but 30 years to do all that seems too fast. It would've still been fast, but feasibly-so, had they made it 100 years (just look at the 20th Century for an example of how fast humans can develope in 100 years)
@@Hagashager Eh, I can buy humanity advancing so fast, as you say it's part of the tension other races have with us, and we're a very social and adaptable species, unlike some species whose rigidness holds them back. The worst thing is that apparently Reapers don't just harvest all intelligent life, but all sentient life. WHAT. It would take at least a hundred million years for sentient life to re-evolve, easily longer.
@@heinzerhardt7047 The thing is they only kill space faring races. So if a race is just bellow space flight, they will be spared. Meaning that there are races that literally just missed the extermination by a hundred years. So there are enough races to replace the dead ones every 50k years.
@@TheVergile Shame you cannot do that cause there is only one suit 😂 I would be very curious to see what Leviathan think of Protheans. Maybe they would go along well together, since both Protheans and Leviathan used to enslave other races to do their bidding.
Javik's actually had it pretty rough: Breed and born into war, fought all his life only to watch everyone die. And now he is the last of his kind... how does he not just crawl into a ball and cry. I know I probably would...
the commander is a capable warrior as well...for a human. who once lived in caves. Ya know I kinda thought Javik would go with a sexist remark but instead he threw the whole human species in there XD I love Javik.
I would guess the statues were the extinct 'Inusannon' race he mentions when you talk about meeting Vigil on Ilos, who were apparently from the cycle previous to the prothean empire. Would explain why everyone seems to get the creeps on that planet. It's an eerie place that's survived at least million years of reaper massacres.
"I remember when your kind were minnows in the ocean!" That is... not likely though, no? Evolution takes a lot longer than 50K years. At the time of the Prothean Empire, we looked exactly how we look now, just hairier and probably a little more muscled
Homo-Sapien-Sapiens (Modern Human) appeared roughly 44,000 years ago (give or take a few millenia). Javik's people likely saw Neanderthals who were the dominant human species just before we showed up.
1:29 I can't help but laugh at how it seems like the Hanar pissed himself from joy, so to speak. I also like how Javik stopped himself from saying primitives and instead using the word "young" for the other species.
J: "Ah yes, these storied halls held the hope and despair of my entire civilization" S: "Anyway so here's the food court, this where me and Wrex get plastered, this entire row of shops are my *favorite* shops in the citadel, there's the cell in C-sec HQ where I go after I get plastered with Wrex, and this where Garrus and I fell in love." J: "I'm beginning to understand that phrase Dr. T'Soni mentioned, something about never meeting your heroes"
Javik grew up in a Galaxy where The Prothean empire was almost at its end. Prothean society at it's peak is almost as much of a mystery to him as it is to the current Mass Effect Races that study it.
Javik should NOT have been a DLC. He should have been in the main game. Period. He was 100% the most interesting character in ME3 and his interactions with other members, especially Liara, were really important.
Hmmm...Javik made me start thinking. Imagine the Human race is on the verge of extinction from an unstoppable force, then suddenly waking up 50,000 years later to see animals like Apes and Dolphins driving cars, flying airplanes, building nations, etc. That would make me go "WTF" for a good long time... Just food for thought.
@TinnedWaffles That's right, none of them were sentient yet. However, Javik can sense their ancestry and genetics well enough to match species with what they were during his time, or something like that.
You can't blame Javik for his personality. Imagine being born in a nuclear winter with zombies with machine guns shooting at you killing all your friends and family and knowing that humanity is doomed and going to be extinct, with no communication between other countries not knowing what there plans are (like Javik said they had no contact with Ilos). The children growing up in that kind of environment would be pretty harsh.
Those pictures were based on the statues on Ilos. Javik said Ilos was built upon by the remnants of the cycle before the Protheans (the Inusannon). So perhaps those are what the Inusannon looked like, and everyone thought it was a Prothean because nobodies seen what they actually looked like until then.
the real question you should be asking is why the fuck does every alien speak damn english? I would've expected to overhear a conversation in some alien talk but instead I hear english!
Kim Karniol They all have translators in their omni-tools. There was a scene in Mass Effect 2 when Thane calls Shepard "siha", and she says "I'm sorry. My translator must have glitched"
SAME! Probably not going to get it in 4, but I'd like the title to be Mass Effect: Armageddon where it's all about the Protheans. Maybe gaming technology might be upgraded to where we can see the prothean's special ability better.
Leviathan and Javik, the most important, relevant elements of the story are fucking DLC! Go the hell, Bioware. This shit should of been part of the main game.
You know, for all the talk of the Protheans being so much more advanced than this cycle's races, it's not so true. By this point, the council races had reached the level of technology of the Protheans. Moreover, while both cycle's started the war on the back foot, the human's cycle had one advantage - they were able to stop Sovereign and the vanguard, meaning they held onto to the centre of power and communications while the Protheans were cut of from each other. The current cycle had far more hope than the Prothean's which actually just makes me sad for what the Protheans went through. Also, consider, from what we know of Javik, he was essentially the Shepard of the last cycle, one that wasn't so lucky.
+thekaboominator1 Our cycle was only able to accomplish these things because the Protheans disrupted the signal Sovereign gives to the Keepers during the last moments of their cycle.
Actually no, the Protheans designed and built their own beacons in the crucible. Even by Andromeda, the Council races had not achieved that. They are still more advanced.
thekaboominator1 The Protheans were still more advanced. They managed to build The Conduit, a one way mini-relay. They had essentially successfully reverse-engineered the most resistant to reverse-engineering Reaper tech. Their Empire had directed energy small-arms with no required logistics support and instant-transmission information points allowing for much faster learning. Not only that but they even managed to sever the link between the Keepers (of the Citadel) and the Reapers. But despite these incredible advances and having a hero figure in Javik, the Shepard of his cycle, they were unable to prevail because the right people weren’t in the right place at the right time. The current cycle only stopped the Reapers because the Prothean cycle overcompensated and the current cycle also just happened to have the right people in the right place at the right time. Have enough extinction cycles and eventually such a thing would happen.
The Mass Effect 3 ending has killed trillions of hopes fans had for the trilog-{{Paragon-Interrupt:I don't think that's going to work}} BUT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE NOW!
@SlayerDragon98 technically, Javik is a warrior/soldier type. It may be that he was in hibernation before the Protheans figured out what the Catalyst was or he was not informed since he wasn't a scientist.
They probably have similar atmoshperes (in terms of gases) and they proably adapt to the change in air pressure and stuff quickly I guess. And volud and quarians do wear suits, quarians for their aleergic reaction to anything and everything and volus to breathe.
That's actually the inspiration for the title of Javik's breakout single: "Threw It Out the Airlock." I figure by the time Mass Effect takes place, Lonely Island's music will be public domain. Sample: Ridin' in the Normandy with my so-called commander He shows me a geth platform Says it's a friend I said maaaaaaan, that ain't no friend That's a synthetic I threw it out the airloooooock
This is probably the best part of ME3, and I think Javik should have been a main, vital part to the game, not just some DLC bullshit. His character was so awesome.
@AnoukTutorials The lift grenades he comes with really helps against Reaper enemies. Brutes and Banshees especially; and his plague does constant damage to barriers and armor.
There was also a codex entry in ME1 regarding translators and the use of an inter-galatic trade language (I wonder if that is the one they use when they write??). But sadly that codex entry can only be found in one of the DLC´s:S
This is like the equivalent of a Roman Centurion waking up from cryostasis and seeing Rome some several thousand years later. Latin is not spoken anymore, but some of the Roman's greatest architectural achievements stood the test of time, such as, the Colosseum, the aqueducts, and so much more. If I was in a situation like that, like, me waking up several or three thousand years into the future, and I'm standing in Washington DC again, I don't know how I could take it. On one hand, I would be absolutely lost and depressed, as the country I once knew no longer exists, but the monuments and historical structures (i.e. White House) would remind me that not everything had been lost. On the other hand, my curiosity would be on overdrive; I like to know what happened while wondering what the future may hold up ahead.
Because the Collectors ARE Protheans. When the Reapers conquered the Protheans, they didn't wipe them out. They 'Repurposed' them through extreme genetic and cybernetic alteration and turned them into the Collectors. You learn all of this in ME2
„For many there may be no hope, the odds of surviving ar-„ „Psst, in our cycle we don‘t tell people the blunt truth“ „Oh ok then, you‘re all the weapons that will stop the reapers, have a great day“
“umm...okay...we saw great potential in all of your races. So...Asari...maybe waggle your ass at them? Salarians...maybe if they feast on your liver theyll feel full and sluggish and fight a bit worse? Now you, Hanar...” “yes, enkindler?” “...do that funny thing you do with your tentacles”
@@TheVergile tbf, I‘m not even sure the Salarians had any help from the Protheans. Unlike the other races, the games never explicitly seem to state that they did. Unless it‘s simply an oversight, this would make the Salarians tremendous badasses. Although it also doesn’t make sense why they would have a smaller military. No one in real life intentionally keeps a smaller military because their Spies are so good.
@wallofmindlessness48 Yeah but some of them were alive when Shepard went to Ilos in ME1.Then again,it has been some time since he was there last.Stil,i dont think it would hurt to check.Maybe they get lucky.
(continuing from previous post) Plus, there's the fact that Batarians seem to be less of an overall galactic force in the ME universe than the Romulans are in Trek; the only reason the Romulans don't directly participate more in galactic affairs is (seemingly) that they generally prefer to "mind their own affairs" (and just poke, prod and nudge from the shadows as they see fit, so if it goes south and fails, they can always deny their involvement).
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Well, Javik used the word "young" instead of primitive...that's a progress :)
A rousing speech... in front of an audience of three random bystanders.
Inspiring.
Well they would've spread the word that an actual Prothean told them they were fucked.
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"A pity we did not teach them to speak better"
Hanar take language very seriously. Hanar leaving the homeworld have to take special classes to learn not to take offense at improper grammar.
They consider speech to be a gift from the Enkindlers.
Without meaning to, Javik basically said the single most insulting thing he could have possibly said to that hanar.
Poor jellyfish :-(
Considering the protheans gave jellyfish the ability to speak, I'd say they got a grand gift.
he is just trolling
I dunno, maybe getting spit on by a deity made that Hanar cream their non existant pants, the galaxy's chock full of weird sex stuff.
The "without meaning to" is highly debateable.
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I always loved that Bioware chose to show us one of the last of their kind. He is probably as different to the Protheans before the reaper invasion than he is to the races of the new cycle.
The kind of Protheans Liara had hoped to meet were long dead by the time Javik was born. He was born into a war that had already lasted generations. There was little left of the once great empire. And hope had been lost decades ago. All that was left for them was to fight for every world, every stretch of ground with the grim fatalism of people knowing their civilisation had ended.
There were no philosophers left. No adventurers. No artists. No musicians. No explorers. No historians. No architects. Only warriors.
He often comes across as dogmatic, even a bit of a joke. “Out of the airlock” he says. But then again he lived in a time that had little room for subtleties. And even his survival had only one purpose: vengeance.
Always thought that choice was a stroke of genius.
Well stated.
Ya know I’d never thought about this, I presumed they were just a highly militarised society. I think given how brief the conflict with the reapers was in Shepards cycle it can be easily forgotten the Protheons fought for generations, that they hadn’t deactivated the relay on the citidal and that Shepard hadn’t blown up an entire system
What I find beautiful is his acceptance of manners of new cycle. Because Shepard gets results with diplomacy and equal standing despite their risks Javik sees his/her success as sign of greater power than anything Prothean Empire had in it's use. Idea of peace is frightening, but it is fear he accepts. It might give Protheans a chance to leave their mark on Milky Way itself. In my view he studied Prothean culture with Dr. T'Soni and truly became scholar Liara hoped Protheans would be. He would also regularly visit hanar homeworld just because they asked with such desperate politeness. Suffice to say living god Javik did shake hanar's religious beliefs very thoroughly.
I can only imagine the disappointment of finding your god and he turns out to be a bitter war vet.
Javik bullshiting mode: ON
+Khayavos We won, though :)
Ike Amadi was the perfect voice actor for this role.
Well it's not entirely bullshit he did say that his race cultivated certain races they saw a potential in
something I really liked about Javik is how they designed him. They made him, humble in a sense. And when he talks, you feel like you're listening to a very old man speaking. But the thing is, he himself is not old. It's so, amazing his character design. If Bioware done one good thing right in ME3, it was the Prothean's.
+devinrrod 2 humble? no fucking way he looks down at everyone
+devinrrod 2 What game were you playing? He didn't think much of the other races in the current cycle, or how they all shared power, or that we didn't prepare properly for the Reapers. The list goes on. Not saying he was a bad character, I loved him. But he looked down on nearly everyone because of that. He would only boosts morale with words like this because of Shepard's influence. He knows it's what others want to hear, rather than something he believes himself.
in other words,, he is the military version of fry from futurama.
Technically, he's 'old' to be 50.000 years old.
Tails the discorduser not humble but..humbled in a way think about it from his view species when you were alive were basically still evolving and adapting and boom now they are near your people's level...so maybe he is humbled and arrogant at the same time
Javik: "Who once lived in caves"
Sheperd: >:(
"At least I can find a blood donor..."
"A problem I suspect is an issue for that skittering lizard man Thane as well, correct?"
"Then allow me to clarify, I meant a *willing* blood donor"
"Fair enough Commander"
Javik is easily one of the most intriguing characters in Mass Effect. I can't imagine how it must feel, to be the last of your species, and to stand amongst those who were mere primitives in your own time.
at war with the reapers since he was born and lost, revive after 50000 years and realize he have to fight the reapers again.
Imagine if Shepard lost, but somehow survived until the next cycle and helped Cats and those Tuchanka rats fight the reapers.
That's sort of what Javik is going through.
Though it is super weird to me that this kind of development is supposed to have taken just 50k years. 50 million would make more sense. Shows people have no grasp of evolution and time.
@@heinzerhardt7047 Yyyeah it does take at least a few hundred thousands years to go from animal to industrialized civilization. At least it did for humans.
@Heinz Erhardt Yes, that bothers me too. It's one of my gripes with the ME setting as a whole. The writers just...don't seem to understand time-scales.
For example: the human race has only been involved with Citadel Politics for 30 years by ME 1. First Contact War with the Turians happened during Shepard's childhood.
That is a very **very** short amount of time for humans to have fully integrated into galactic society so thoroughly they have embassies on the Citadel, multiple colony-worlds, sprawling economic interests, a criminal enterprise complete with multiple, interspecies crine cartels and eventually a seat on the council.
I know humanity rising to the top so fast is a big part of ME's lore, but 30 years to do all that seems too fast. It would've still been fast, but feasibly-so, had they made it 100 years (just look at the 20th Century for an example of how fast humans can develope in 100 years)
@@Hagashager Eh, I can buy humanity advancing so fast, as you say it's part of the tension other races have with us, and we're a very social and adaptable species, unlike some species whose rigidness holds them back. The worst thing is that apparently Reapers don't just harvest all intelligent life, but all sentient life. WHAT. It would take at least a hundred million years for sentient life to re-evolve, easily longer.
@@heinzerhardt7047 The thing is they only kill space faring races. So if a race is just bellow space flight, they will be spared. Meaning that there are races that literally just missed the extermination by a hundred years. So there are enough races to replace the dead ones every 50k years.
I'd like to see Javik getting the 'living in caves' talk from an Inusannon or other even more ancient race...
"Commander Javik is a competent soldier, for a Prothean. Whose race once burrowed into their nests in the hills once larger predators appeared."
hey Javik, wanna go meet Leviathan with me?
@@TheVergile Shame you cannot do that cause there is only one suit 😂 I would be very curious to see what Leviathan think of Protheans. Maybe they would go along well together, since both Protheans and Leviathan used to enslave other races to do their bidding.
Asari: Commander Shepard it must be an honor having a Prothean fighting alongside you.
Shepard: For 10 bucks it better be fucking worth it.
Javik's actually had it pretty rough: Breed and born into war, fought all his life only to watch everyone die. And now he is the last of his kind... how does he not just crawl into a ball and cry. I know I probably would...
I love how the Hanar acts like a total school girl who just saw a rock star XD
I was watching this full screen and I actually instantly clicked my right mouse button when the paragon cutscene option popped up.
I like how offensive Javik could be. He doesn't do it on purpose, he merely lays down some "uncomfortable" facts. lol cool dude.
Javik is... Samuel. L Jackson? Cause that would definitely explain why he is such a master troll Prothean.
the commander is a capable warrior as well...for a human. who once lived in caves.
Ya know I kinda thought Javik would go with a sexist remark but instead he threw the whole human species in there XD I love Javik.
Javik doesn't discriminate, everyone is equally primitive to him
well, to him, several days ago, human are still living in caves...
When has he ever been sexist? Any comments about "mating rituals" or whatever are aimed at everyone being a primitive, he's not insulting the women.
And why would he. k E k
I would guess the statues were the extinct 'Inusannon' race he mentions when you talk about meeting Vigil on Ilos, who were apparently from the cycle previous to the prothean empire. Would explain why everyone seems to get the creeps on that planet. It's an eerie place that's survived at least million years of reaper massacres.
Imagine a 100.000 old guy coming from and humiliating Javik :D
i want to see this in the new mass effect game now :D
The inusannons😂
I would have loved to watch a conversation unfold between Javik and Dr. Mordin Solus at one point.
"I remember when your kind were minnows in the ocean!"
That is... not likely though, no? Evolution takes a lot longer than 50K years. At the time of the Prothean Empire, we looked exactly how we look now, just hairier and probably a little more muscled
Homo-Sapien-Sapiens (Modern Human) appeared roughly 44,000 years ago (give or take a few millenia). Javik's people likely saw Neanderthals who were the dominant human species just before we showed up.
geez i hope they somehow put him into the new mass effect game...insted of fucken DLC, i just wanna hear him school all of the crew again.
In my cycle, the games came out 100% complete and the dlcs were full expansion packs. Slightly cheaper than the game itself.
Sione Fonua In my cycle dlcs were entire games.
I'm surprised this is not a meme.
In my cycle, any DLC that came out was made AFTER the full game was out.
1:29 I can't help but laugh at how it seems like the Hanar pissed himself from joy, so to speak. I also like how Javik stopped himself from saying primitives and instead using the word "young" for the other species.
J: "Ah yes, these storied halls held the hope and despair of my entire civilization"
S: "Anyway so here's the food court, this where me and Wrex get plastered, this entire row of shops are my *favorite* shops in the citadel, there's the cell in C-sec HQ where I go after I get plastered with Wrex, and this where Garrus and I fell in love."
J: "I'm beginning to understand that phrase Dr. T'Soni mentioned, something about never meeting your heroes"
I was thinking what the from ashes dlc was, then I remembered ‘Wait, Javic wasn’t in the base game. He’s the dlc’
Javik grew up in a Galaxy where The Prothean empire was almost at its end. Prothean society at it's peak is almost as much of a mystery to him as it is to the current Mass Effect Races that study it.
Javik should NOT have been a DLC. He should have been in the main game. Period. He was 100% the most interesting character in ME3 and his interactions with other members, especially Liara, were really important.
I like to think that Hanar is the same evangelical preacher you encounter on the Citadel in the first game.
Hmmm...Javik made me start thinking. Imagine the Human race is on the verge of extinction from an unstoppable force, then suddenly waking up 50,000 years later to see animals like Apes and Dolphins driving cars, flying airplanes, building nations, etc. That would make me go "WTF" for a good long time...
Just food for thought.
I love Javik, he is my favorite get-off-my-spacelawn crazy angry grandpa ever.
Notice that the turian walks up and just sort of stands there. Doesn't say anything.
@TinnedWaffles That's right, none of them were sentient yet. However, Javik can sense their ancestry and genetics well enough to match species with what they were during his time, or something like that.
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That's very thoughtful, thanks for posting that. It really does contextualise how Javik must be feeling about his current situation.
You can't blame Javik for his personality. Imagine being born in a nuclear winter with zombies with machine guns shooting at you killing all your friends and family and knowing that humanity is doomed and going to be extinct, with no communication between other countries not knowing what there plans are (like Javik said they had no contact with Ilos). The children growing up in that kind of environment would be pretty harsh.
Those pictures were based on the statues on Ilos. Javik said Ilos was built upon by the remnants of the cycle before the Protheans (the Inusannon). So perhaps those are what the Inusannon looked like, and everyone thought it was a Prothean because nobodies seen what they actually looked like until then.
I'm sure his mind just keeps exploding as he walks around XD
Why does Javik have a slight African accent? Its interesting.
the real question you should be asking is why the fuck does every alien speak damn english? I would've expected to overhear a conversation in some alien talk but instead I hear english!
Kim Karniol
I found out why. Its because he is voiced by Ike Amadi, who is from Ghana.
Kim Karniol They all have translators in their omni-tools. There was a scene in Mass Effect 2 when Thane calls Shepard "siha", and she says "I'm sorry. My translator must have glitched"
Helps illustrate how 'alien' a race is by giving them unique accents when compared to other races.
I saw another comment it went along the lines of an African accent is used to convey an almost ancient feel to a character
I want a Mass Effect 4 where we play as either Javik or a Shepard that was forced to kill his team and was put in stasis for 50 000 years.
SAME! Probably not going to get it in 4, but I'd like the title to be Mass Effect: Armageddon where it's all about the Protheans. Maybe gaming technology might be upgraded to where we can see the prothean's special ability better.
I love the fact that nobody is freaking out saying "Oh my God a Prothean!"
Me too. They would freak if it weren't for the war for survival.
Asari: You are really a prothean?
Javik: No, this is my heloween suit ))0)
"Who once lived in caves." ...thanks for the endorsement, Javik. Really.
Yeah you know if your asari, turian, salarian or now human we share power otherwise we rule over the rest
"A pity we did not teach them to speak better". I lol'ed.
"Javik: Being a hipster before it was even invented."
seeing the paragon interrupt made my right index finger twitch like I was playing :P
Javik: A pity we did not teach them to speak better. ಠಠ_ಠಠ
does anybody notice that mass effect series always has epic inspiring speeches than the awkward small talk immediately after that kills the mood
I like how the turian is all like ''What the hell is happening! A prothean! I must be going insane!''
I love his accent. He's awesome.
Leviathan and Javik, the most important, relevant elements of the story are fucking DLC! Go the hell, Bioware. This shit should of been part of the main game.
Gimpler Da Happenin EA decides what's going to be dlc, not bioware.
2:03 Javik be like: Ah, yes... They are primitives...
You know, for all the talk of the Protheans being so much more advanced than this cycle's races, it's not so true. By this point, the council races had reached the level of technology of the Protheans. Moreover, while both cycle's started the war on the back foot, the human's cycle had one advantage - they were able to stop Sovereign and the vanguard, meaning they held onto to the centre of power and communications while the Protheans were cut of from each other. The current cycle had far more hope than the Prothean's which actually just makes me sad for what the Protheans went through. Also, consider, from what we know of Javik, he was essentially the Shepard of the last cycle, one that wasn't so lucky.
+thekaboominator1 Our cycle was only able to accomplish these things because the Protheans disrupted the signal Sovereign gives to the Keepers during the last moments of their cycle.
+Robert Mason Yeah and their last "fuck you" to the reapers was to out live the prothean cycle through Javik.
+Robert Mason Yeah and their last "fuck you" to the reapers was to out live the prothean cycle through Javik.
Actually no, the Protheans designed and built their own beacons in the crucible. Even by Andromeda, the Council races had not achieved that. They are still more advanced.
thekaboominator1
The Protheans were still more advanced. They managed to build The Conduit, a one way mini-relay. They had essentially successfully reverse-engineered the most resistant to reverse-engineering Reaper tech. Their Empire had directed energy small-arms with no required logistics support and instant-transmission information points allowing for much faster learning. Not only that but they even managed to sever the link between the Keepers (of the Citadel) and the Reapers. But despite these incredible advances and having a hero figure in Javik, the Shepard of his cycle, they were unable to prevail because the right people weren’t in the right place at the right time. The current cycle only stopped the Reapers because the Prothean cycle overcompensated and the current cycle also just happened to have the right people in the right place at the right time. Have enough extinction cycles and eventually such a thing would happen.
I'm Commander Javik, and this is my favourite floor on the Citadel even tough it was once made out of inferior alloys.
The Mass Effect 3 ending has killed trillions of hopes fans had for the trilog-{{Paragon-Interrupt:I don't think that's going to work}} BUT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE NOW!
Jaavik's Accent reminds me of the Jamican Accent.
Starsha Iscandar Voice actor is from Ghana 🇬🇭
i expected everyone to give a loud cheer after Javik's speech. "thank you. that meant a lot."
FUCKING ASARI
2:48 DAAAMN!!!
if the salarians can clone a kakliosaur i dont see why they cant clone javik
The most inspirational speech ever
One thing I like about Javik, hes all straight talk and no bullshit
@SlayerDragon98 technically, Javik is a warrior/soldier type. It may be that he was in hibernation before the Protheans figured out what the Catalyst was or he was not informed since he wasn't a scientist.
His speech is amazing! . I never thought Javik could be so nice with someone XD
Seeing a Hanar fanboy is adorable.
@SigmarusOne I think it's because he's got that memory shard. Someone (or a lot of people) collected the data and he can keep the information on hand.
by far the BEST voice in the galaxy
They probably have similar atmoshperes (in terms of gases) and they proably adapt to the change in air pressure and stuff quickly I guess. And volud and quarians do wear suits, quarians for their aleergic reaction to anything and everything and volus to breathe.
That's actually the inspiration for the title of Javik's breakout single: "Threw It Out the Airlock." I figure by the time Mass Effect takes place, Lonely Island's music will be public domain.
Sample: Ridin' in the Normandy with my so-called commander
He shows me a geth platform
Says it's a friend
I said maaaaaaan, that ain't no friend
That's a synthetic
I threw it out the airloooooock
You just know that whole time the Asari tourist was wanting to jump Javik's Prothean bones.
This is probably the best part of ME3, and I think Javik should have been a main, vital part to the game, not just some DLC bullshit. His character was so awesome.
holy crap
the jelly fish spoke, i never knew they could
Yeah actually I read that codex entry on the datapad app for the ipod touch. The app as far as I know contains almost every entry.
@AnoukTutorials The lift grenades he comes with really helps against Reaper enemies. Brutes and Banshees especially; and his plague does constant damage to barriers and armor.
mass effect logic: humans joins the galactic community. lets all speak english
cyborgs !!!!!!!
***** yea boy
Brother Eriksson Actually it's the omni-tool that does all the translating.
*****
Samuel Desrosiers you called. i answered
There was also a codex entry in ME1 regarding translators and the use of an inter-galatic trade language (I wonder if that is the one they use when they write??). But sadly that codex entry can only be found in one of the DLC´s:S
This is like the equivalent of a Roman Centurion waking up from cryostasis and seeing Rome some several thousand years later.
Latin is not spoken anymore, but some of the Roman's greatest architectural achievements stood the test of time, such as, the Colosseum, the aqueducts, and so much more. If I was in a situation like that, like, me waking up several or three thousand years into the future, and I'm standing in Washington DC again, I don't know how I could take it. On one hand, I would be absolutely lost and depressed, as the country I once knew no longer exists, but the monuments and historical structures (i.e. White House) would remind me that not everything had been lost. On the other hand, my curiosity would be on overdrive; I like to know what happened while wondering what the future may hold up ahead.
Javik, your so funny. ^_^
The Prothean's paragon just went up.
Nice to know Citadel has some tight security.
@JetAge96 well thats up to you. the games has 1000 different endings. so you can do what ever you do to end it by your own way
@bROLLY35 You need From Ashes DLC or Collector’s Edition. Then you’ll get an email to go check on Eden Prime.
there's laughter, and then there's whatever the fuck I just did
thank you
Because the Collectors ARE Protheans. When the Reapers conquered the Protheans, they didn't wipe them out. They 'Repurposed' them through extreme genetic and cybernetic alteration and turned them into the Collectors. You learn all of this in ME2
„For many there may be no hope, the odds of surviving ar-„
„Psst, in our cycle we don‘t tell people the blunt truth“
„Oh ok then, you‘re all the weapons that will stop the reapers, have a great day“
“umm...okay...we saw great potential in all of your races. So...Asari...maybe waggle your ass at them? Salarians...maybe if they feast on your liver theyll feel full and sluggish and fight a bit worse? Now you, Hanar...”
“yes, enkindler?”
“...do that funny thing you do with your tentacles”
@@TheVergile tbf, I‘m not even sure the Salarians had any help from the Protheans. Unlike the other races, the games never explicitly seem to state that they did.
Unless it‘s simply an oversight, this would make the Salarians tremendous badasses. Although it also doesn’t make sense why they would have a smaller military. No one in real life intentionally keeps a smaller military because their Spies are so good.
Javik says: "young"
Javik thinks: "primitives"
At 2:50 I SOOO wanted the Dialog wheel to come up and say "Once lived in Caves? Havent you played Minecraft?"
good insight, that's definitely the right comparison for our planet
Javik is badass...he is definitely a renegade squad member
in Javiks mind:
I SLEPT TOO LOOOOOONNG!
@joennot yeah its a dlc called From Ashes
@JetAge96 yes the endings yes, but ways to finnish it has 1000 ways to finnish, i mean the lines they speak... more options to choose to talk
@wallofmindlessness48 Yeah but some of them were alive when Shepard went to Ilos in ME1.Then again,it has been some time since he was there last.Stil,i dont think it would hurt to check.Maybe they get lucky.
we are alive and we will fight back!
@Starkiller011 I always thought that it was because of the Reapers manipulation to make a desirable galaxy for them to nom on.
@icon1914 it's specifically jamaican, from the broader category of african.
(continuing from previous post) Plus, there's the fact that Batarians seem to be less of an overall galactic force in the ME universe than the Romulans are in Trek; the only reason the Romulans don't directly participate more in galactic affairs is (seemingly) that they generally prefer to "mind their own affairs" (and just poke, prod and nudge from the shadows as they see fit, so if it goes south and fails, they can always deny their involvement).
It's the same guy who voiced the Imakandi from Samurai Jack :) So epic!
.........*single tear*