Mass Effect 3: Javik The Protheans First Encounter
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Mass Effect 3: Javik The Protheans First Encounter
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"they used to eat flies" dead
Ethan Jones
Liara:And are the salarians too
Javik: the lizard people evolved?
Liara: i though they where anfibians
Javik: they used to eat flie
XD XD XD he's surprised that the salarians evolved and i though they saw its potential in his cycle believeng they saw they where smart but instead the salarians used to eat flies XD XD XD
The Salarians now are one of the smartest races. So even Javik didn't see that potential at all 50.000 years ago.
"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters." Such a great line.
And so applicable to so many situations in life. Want to start a conflict because your honor demands it? Arguing because your honor demands you to be right? Stand in the graveyard of those who died for those same things and ask them if their honor mattered much in the end...
He was born during the final years of war, when life was ONLY abou survival, everything that could buy time no matyer how small, you took it regardless of moral implications. Everything is seen through a cold-hearted calculus. For Javik to go from the resigned-to-defeat warrior of a dead race thats only existence is to die to the Reaper's actually talk about what he might do after the War. That's character
Should be something the US should ask themselves.
“They used to eat flies”
@@Chirpysemperboy That's not really the kind of honor he's talking about though. He's talking about Shepard having hope of beating the Reapers while still having his dignity intact. He opposes this idea, because he knows the only way to beat the Reapers is by committing horrible acts that are anything but honorable. For example, sacrifice a billion people in one system so that you can regain your strength and save five billion in another system. The quote about the ghosts imply that the ghosts would've wanted Shepard to fight dirty if it meant saving them all, instead of playing by honorable rules that got them all killed.
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters.....the silence is your answer." That's a fucking great quote.
Shame it's not good enough to justify the means..
Silence can be peaceful.. Silence means nobody's around to complain. Death can be a relief, as it already is in the eyes of many.
it's true on one hand, but on the other I'm staring to think that most things he said came from despair and not from true knowledge. Just imagine you'd wake up from a 50k years nap and you find out that you're probably the last human beeing in the galaxy. Let's just say, it might be a bit depressing^^
It's funny how his behaviour changes depending on what you advice regarding the memory shard. If you tell him to give it a shot, he's going to commit suicide as soon as the reapers are defeated, if you tell him to NOT to relive those memories he tells you that he might probably write a book about prothean history with Liara later. Definitely one of the best characters in the whole ME franchise.
MCP/ChronicBuzz
Yeah i can't imagine it but in the other hand it could be kinda comfortable to see how some species whant to know about humans and are interested in your culture and lifeform
@@theliveing Depends on the means. Don’t be ridiculous in suggesting otherwise.
That's a quote spawned by someone who understands that the closer you are to the edge of the abyss, the more fervently you will grasp at its edge.
It's easy to fight fair and civil when its sport or play.
To take POW's when you outnumber, outgun, and easily overwhelm your foe.
To write off the dead when your have 100 to replace the one.
When every bullet's aim you fire must be perfect or you'll run out of ammo before enemies.
When your tactics must be savage and brutal because every comrades life is precious because there is only the few and you have no replacements.
These situations are what spawn tactics that under any other definition would be war-crimes.
Desperation breeds desperate measures. Always has.
Hahha...imagine if you suddenly found yourself in a very distant future....and you started talking with a very evolved and sentient version of pigs, Chimpanzees, dogs and octopuses ....I can only imagine how Javik must feel...
In our cycle we ate you, experimented on you, you were our best friends and fellow warriors, and we also ate you. But you best friend and fellow warrior, we didn't just use you for that, you were pack beast, alarm, sometimes we even wove your hair.
Not even close to an analogy
Humans asari and salarians werent "pigs and dogs" in the prothean time
They were more akin to cave men level intelligence
🤦♂️
@@kylestroup3077 And Salarian Liver served raw was .... what in your opinion? :D
@@kylestroup3077 Wrong. Javik do quote that his cuisine was extinct, aside for every single species that are now spacefaring, meaning that they ATE humans, turians and asari alike (I don't thik they ate quarians tho, Javik did mention that they were beautiful, so they would be kept as pets, maybe? )
@@AnimeShinigami13 Doggo: *Finds a human cryo pd and activates it*
Human *Stumbles out of pod* Wha? What happened?
Doggo: Oh, you're a live human! fascinating! Say, is it true thet we were pets when you kind were around?
Human: Uh? Wha? Yes, yes... you were the man's best friend for like 30.000 years or so...
Javik: Why were our warnings not headed?! Why did you not prepare for the Reapers?
Shepard: The council didn't believe me. They dismissed the claim.
Javik: Throw them out the airlock.
me, who chose to let the council die without hesitation: about that.
Am really curious as to what would happen if you could theoretically bring Javik before the Council and have him chew them the fuck out for not preparing for the Reapers (potentially including Udina if you found Javik early enough), especially after having one Reaper on their goddamn doorstep a few years prior.
@@thescribeinyellow3985 they still wouldn't have believed him because they would have no reference to what a Prothean looked like.
If they didn't listen then this council are fools, you should eat them.
@@30yovegan34 He could have communicated his knowledge through his Vulcan Mind Meld thing.
EA: Oh this looks like an important part of the trilogy, finding a species of the race that has been talked about since the first game. Truly a magnificent moment for every fan that has been playing since the first installment...... Make it DLC and make people pay for it.
Ha! That's why you wait until just three months ago to finally play through the trilogy and get almost all the DLC free or for very very cheap. I got the entire trilogy with all extra content for less than $60 all told on PC. It's all about the long game, baby.
Neal X I got all of the games essentially for 10 dollars or less
Same with outfits in ME2. Crew members doesn't have real alt outfits unless you pay for them. I know they have ones you cna unlock, but c'mon. Those are recolors so lazy Garrus have missile dmg on alt outfit.
@@OfficerHotpants It's not even "obvious sign". As one guy claimed he found "DLC" in game's code.
Actually there was term "ULC" in old times, which meant unlockable content, stuff being in game from beginning, but those were skins for guns or sth like that, they were adding to Collector's Edition so there was sense for it to exist in game from begining and it wasn't big deal for players (especially as we are talking about times CE cost like 25$ more than basic game, like 50-75$ not 125$)
If they did make you pay a DLC for that then this EA exec are fools, you should eat them.
I think that Javik is not particularly cynical. Such character traits must have been formed as a result of Protean’s ability to exchange information through touch: they could not hide anything from each other, so they were used to always tell the truth, no matter how unpleasant it was.
You couldn’t hide anything
So Protheans were... politically incorrect all the time?!
"Why weren't our warnings heeded!?"
In hindsight a question best targeted at the Council. While standing near an airlock.
With a Dinner table with Unusually large plates and Chain saw knifes
With the council having no way to escape
"they used to eat flies" + Liara's face as she walks away after that statement = LOOL
Salarians
If there where a krogan i bet he could say
Im going tell this to everyone in tuchanka hahaha
"Before that you (Asari) could count as high as your toes. We took pity".
"why didn't you prepare for the Reapers, human?!?!"
*looks at the Council* yeah, it sure is a mystery
And The Worst Part Of All This? The Council Knew About The Reaper Treat All Along Since Sovereign, And They Simply Do Nothing And Hide From The Public. If You Want Proves: th-cam.com/video/N4QkfPjJL4Y/w-d-xo.html Minute 1:55
@@Ivory5547 I get it if they simply didn't want to acknowledge it publicly so as to avoid mass panic/hysteria but they didn't even prepare their defences in secret just in case. I mean when u meet the council in ME3 they have the equivalent of the shocked Pikachu face
Council: "the Reapers are here? oh nooo, if only we had known they would be coming sooner"
Shepard: "....yeah, its almost as if a certain Spectre that you never listen to stopped an early Reaper attack by destroying a relay and has been warning you about them for year's!..."
Udina actually started acting like a somewhat competent person in ME3 and said exactly what I thought "the Council, you saved their lives. And for what? promises that come down to 'maybe later' if we dont act fast, 'maybe later' will be an epitaph on a grave of 11 billion"
Despite how advanced things were in Mass Effects current timeline, it kinda shows just how powerful the Protheans were. If they were able to fight against the reapers for centuries like Javik said, they must have had some beefy weapons against the reapers to last that long. Compared to the current cycle where everyone is barely holding on for like what? I don't actually know, a couple months in?
Liara did mention that it would take nearly a century to wipe out advanced civilization in the current cycle.
Liara did mention that it would take nearly a century to wipe out advanced civilization in the current cycle.
my theory is since the Protheans were a militaristic empire they were ready for war and have a lot of experience in that. Meanwhile our cycle a lot of the species are not militaristic, they use political power to get things done, only the krogans and turians were militaristic but were held back by the other species in the galaxy. At leas that's my theory on it
Fun fact: if you check the Spectre terminal on the citadel, there’s a report saying that the galaxy would only have enough resources to fight the Reapers for 2 years.
I think it’s implied that because of Sovereign weakening the galaxy with the rachni wars and then the geth, the current purge is going to go a lot faster than the last one. Although I think you’re definitely right about the Protheans being dangerous lol
"I am the anger of a dead people, demanding blood be spilled for the blood we lost."
Javik is the darkest friendly character you meet in the entire trilogy. So much pain, so much anger.
"They used to eat flies" LMAO
"They used to eat flies" That shit cracked me up. I'm just imagining mordin shoving a whole plate of flies into his mouth while crouching like golem
Duuuuude this entire trilogy was so ahead of its time. Everything and everyone is so fleshed out. The world was so alive.
I would say that it is a product of its time and not ahead of its time, this was the point when games started getting the mass corporate interest and funding, while also allowing developers having creative control instead of corporate bean counters started making demands, features being forced on the developers, stricter deadlines, a shift of focus from story towards multiplayer that has monetization systems in them
Except this was part of a DLC
nahh games now just suck and are lazy they put everything into looks n thats it
@@NumbaOne for what it’s worth that’s not entirely true deep rock galactic a very recent game is fantastic enough to regain hope in the gaming world even though I never lost hope in the first place
"If this single Prothean was sent into stasis, then he could be the foremost scientist of his time! Or perhaps their wisest counselor!"
Javik: *Turns out to be a relentless interstellar troll*
If that isn't worth preserving I don't know what is.
I love Javik's voice. It is filled with pain and detachment. Brilliant voice acting
Someone said this: "AFRICAN Space Romans in Samurai armor. : earlier in th ecomments (I could not reply) and you have to admit, the combination of cultures works somehow.
African is just the accent. but it does work, all humans came from Africa, all galactic civilization in the modern era came from protheans.
Not every prothean even has that accent in the cutscenes - like how not every human does.
Ironically, I am seeing this underneath the very comment you're referencing.
"The lizard people evolved???" Never gets old
"They've created World Government"
youngmasterpete The very first time you open his pod, he touches you, and then "reads" your memory or something. He is then able to speak human languages. The rest understand him because human languages are auto-translated through some nano-bot translator that makes spoken and written language automatically sound or look like your language. If you listen close enough, the "mechanical" echo you hear in voices like Garrus are the translators fault, which is why he sais "I never like hearing recordings of me, they don´t get the voice right."
Why aren't krogan, asari, and salarian like that then?
@@ryanbrown4053 what do you mean?
@@Chrinik I don't think the mechanical echo is from the translator, because if it was, all aliens would sound like that, not just some of the species.
@@ryanbrown4053 I remembered all of them having some slight distortion in the voice, it's just most noticable with Turians, Volus and Quarians , the latter two because they obviously speak through a mask all day.
The Krogans mostly deep and rough voices kinda hides it.
I also think I read it in the codex in ME1 somewhere.
But I could be wrong, at this point, this has been over half a decade ago since I played the games.
@@Chrinik Asari and Salarians don't have it at all (I don't think Krogan do either, but you could be right, just might be hidden underneath the gruffness), and as someone pointed out, Javik sounds like this even though he is speaking direct English due to his Prothean ability.
5:00 For someone who calls everyone primitive Javvik is ironically the most savage being in existence.
2:30 ... this is a child's science fair project. He got first prize at his school. It's the equivalent to your human's 'volcano'.
Imagine Shepherd and the crew with this realization hahahaha
11:59 lol Javik sounds surprised like "Are you serious?"
with an african accent.
Roman Culture
Samurai Fashion
African Voice.
Synthetic being: *Exists*
Javik: *THroW iT Out THe AiRlOcK!!!*
they used to eat flies lol
Salarians
This whole scene is BioWare at their peak.
Did you play renegade? Javik said you had anxiety, my character was told that although they were faced with insurmountable odds, they were not afraid, and that they felt like they could still win.
“The (uniqueness) may be your only hope”
Well well well, might I introduce you to *green ending?*
It's weird how species seem to somehow become less advanced as time goes by. The leviathans could mind control planets and built the reapers, protheans could take in information purely from their surroundings by touch, and other such examples
Probably because the species that evolve first do so because their planets give the best conditions for live. Otherwise it would have taken longer for life to evolve. So the first race ever must have had the best planets in the galaxy. This more or less assumes that the planets formed at the same time
how do you think grunt would take the news that even an "exemplar of vengence" wouldve given him a wide berth
He'd wear that like a badge of pride
So he's like space Captain America?
more like Doctor Who
hes alien samurai jack
Gotta get back, back to the past vanguard Javik!
EA didn't got enough shit from us for what they pulled back then.
Making javik a DLC character was almost worse than the ending of me3.
"I was a soldier. Skilled in one art-killing"
They were building a giant airlock, an airlock big enough to throw all the reapers out of
I love talking to him so much. The things he says, and his unique perspective. The Protheans were settled on Mars and watching humans for centuries. If you think about it, the Protheans were likely occasionally spotted in the night sky by human ancestors that had no idea what they were looking at.
I also love how he says they intentionally left the Sol system to try to encourage the Reapers into thinking humans weren't advanced enough, and it worked. The way he talks about Asari "Oh so the Asari have finally figured out writing?" Yeahhhh about that Javik. They've done more than that.
Renegade shepard is best shepard. Fucking headbutting krogans and "Give me a discount"
Is it just me or does the Prothean empire seem to be based off of Warhammer 40k's Craftworld Eldar? They both have exemplars embodying a single trait and have different paths that focus on one purpose. They used to have galaxy spanning empires. And they considered themselves superior to any other sentient species in existence.
And they fought precursor robots (C'Tan).
So the Prothean and the Eldar have similarities then?
After Shepard and Liara, Javik was my favorite character in the Mass Effect series. It was a real shame they could not find additional Protheans which could fill in the blanks about their past civilization.
Thanks and gratitude for keeping it outdoors my friend.
Javik needs to show up in Mass Effect Andromeda. We need a Prothean companion to watch our backs in battle.
He'd hate being in that game
Without going into why that's impossible, I don't think that's a good idea.
BEST. GAME. EVER.
Man I can't wait for the Legendary Edition.
Poor Liara...like finding out Santa Claus isn't real.
i find it odd that so many thousands of people chose to go with the bald commander shepard
Mah Boi Grunt getting massive props from a Prothein Warrior.
So Alien life exists. Natives of Earth seem to share this mutual understanding.
No he was speaking his own language but since Shep learned to think like a prothean via that green asari in ME1 he understand what they say.
Everybody speaking in his native language. But in the omnitool, everybody have a translate. Javik no because he is reading the people with touching and he learn the language.
One alien wakes up
People: "Hey dude, how to finish your thingy?"
Even if it was finished by Protheans. Does anybody think that I can tell future races how to built atomic bomb or sth just because my race invented it?
well i can, just put uranium 236 ona circle near critical mass, then you put the other half of the uranium in a barrel aiming at the core, when the explosives slams the other half into the core you get a nuclesr fission, and if you want a bigger bomb you use putonium with neuterium and tritium and voaila
@@Kevineitor199 Uranium 235 if old book's pic weren't worn off so I missed one line. And yes, I know. Plus I know you can add deuterium and tritium for bigger boom. But it's like saying that to go to the Moon you need to have spaceship and go ZIUUUUU up, aiming at Moon.
No, button be fair, if you WERE frozen for 50,000 years and humans were a war with a galaxy destroying machine race at the time and had also left behind the schematics to build a device intended to destroy them, I don't think it's an unfair assumption that whoever finds you, while also under threat from that same machine race, might expect or at least hope, that you were preserved because you knew more about it.
@Jason Alexander well... All I ca tell about e=mc2 is that it's energy=mass*fuckIforgot^2 I was really bad at physics.
It's like you asked a general how to produce nuclear bombs.
Before the actual shit ending we got, Javik was the catalyst and his death/sacrifice would’ve triggered the crucible
Why does he sound like he's from south Africa..?
He sounds Jamaican like someone said earlier: space jamaicains!!
starwarsfan117 Voice actor is Ike Amadi.. he's Nigerian.
+starwarsfan117 protheans are black people, as well as namekians in dragon ball.
+starwarsfan117 Actually it makes some sense because he's not using a translator hes actually speaking English, an accent would be expected.
Technically you're correct. The Protheans are actually Ancient Africans who have the most advanced civilization on Earth in ancient times.
It makes sense when you look at the Collectors.
“Here it comes..” Shepard already knew lmao
We had like one guy guarding Legion a geth, but a Prothean has like five guys with guns pointed at him.
He should get his own spinoff. Or some more DLC missions that explore more of his backstory. Missions he completed and battles he fought in his war with the Reapers. Plus his personal life, his family, etc. An origin story, like the one we got with the Illusive Man.
AFRICAN Space Romans in Samurai armor.
"Asari have finally mastered writing" XD
When Shepard talk to an intergalactic community from present and past , how the mention of “3 years “ is comprehendable
What a series this was truly epic writing ...but those last 10 minutes ...those last fckin 10 minutes 🤬
"THEY USED TO EAT FLIES"
That is the single most important discovery I've learnt from Javick
I know how to speak the Human's language because of the sensory ability that all Protheans possessed. I read the Commander's biological marker to learn his language while he I passed the memory of our final stand against the Reapers.
Our failure.
I love this scene
it was prothean that Javik was speaking in the flashbacks, but because of the Cipher Shepard can understand the prothean language, so it would be english to him.
1:44 Shepard: I know right on the same planet we found you, who knew if we just dug a little deeper we wouldn't have been through all the BS of oh the reapers aren't real your crazy it's a hoax.
Makes me more interested in the Yahg. Not cuz they are anything like the Protheans. Some speculated that the Yahg, who were not harvested, would rule over the next cycle.
Admiral Hackett: "Strangely, the Reapers have left Parnak (the Yahg homeworld) alone."
Shepard: "Can't blame them. The Yahg have teeth."
I am still pissed off to this day that EA or Bioware decided to lock a crucial story npc behind a freakin paywall. Naive me back then played the game without Javik and just left holes in the story progress, took me some time to realize that I was supposed to have a Prothean squadmate.... FU EA or Bioware or whoever the greedy fck who decided that paywall !
Javik on Thessia should've been mandatory, although i thought got a good with the me3 collectors edition , they got me good with andromedas collectors edition....
I think its possible that many organic civiliztions would have similarities and possibly similar designs and languages if translated but lets face until we make contact thats a a BIG if
"They used to eat flies..." 😂😂😂
Javik "Why are you gae?"
Shepard "who says I'm gay?"
Javik "You are a gae"
Shame he used to be DLC only. Javik is such a good character.
Contact protocol with a new species: "Assume hostility"
WHO WROTE THESE PROTOCOLS!?
First Contact War, probably.
This is the conversation i play for people when they ask about which ending i choose.
"they used to eat flies" lol
he's like the didact but sane and wise
Well, considering how smart Salarians are...there might be something to a fly diet
Jesus. Is this the Legendary Edition? Those graphics are immaculate.
This is the original game.
The LE is even better.
bro, this custom sherpard's neck is as wide as his head...
Idk but i have feeling the Prothean have somekind of fetish like us human too, to their lower creature, imagine some or atleast one of them have fetish to our furry ape like ancestor
But he was speaking English in the flashbacks, 50,000 years ago.
I forgot what a great character javik is
6:46: So they were the Romans of their age.
It's so funny how these people make these games to try to create an illusion the protheans have a heavy African accent
Not the Seekers! They're in my eyes! AHHHH!
It is thankyou shepard
“The lizard people evolved?”
“Actually I think they’re amphibians”
“…. They used to eat flies”
no he was Speaking Prothean but Shep Understood that by having the Prothean cipher 3 years ago at Feros(In MASS EFFECT 3 History)
Apologies Doctor First Contact protocol with a new alien species is to assume hostility
"The lizard people evolved?"
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@Autumn Leaf they used to eat flies
Commander Statham, is that you?
Imagine thousand years in future you see dogs, monke, or other sentient creature want your answer why the fk there are a lot meteor with thousand TNT power fall tp earth
Is that a Joe Rogan Shepard?
Part of me knows or has an idea why the crew was sort of a jerk to javik but I part of me would’ve been sympathetic to him,
I mean cmon it’s like bringing a ww2 vet to the year 5000
And parrots are in charge of jets and chameleons in charge of reconnaissance.
Look at me. I'm the Prothean now.
damn you got Vin Diesel Shepard galaxy is so fucked
Liaria wanted to bond w him sooo bad lol
Javik is ME3 Wrex for me. I’m always picking javik.
Reason why some people choose destroy ending
Where do you get a badass hoodie like this guy's Shepard has on?
I think it might be available the first chance you get to change your armor. I got the digital PS3 version and it was there.
Pre order bonus on PC
I'm Nicolas Cage and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
Protheans: Space Romans in Samurai armor.