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Conduit

Rowenna Valentina Coffey Divina - Conduit

Shield Healer

"Time to rise and shine, mga kapatid!"

Voiced by: Frankie Kevich (English)

Rowenna was born and raised in the middle of a war, and she bore witness to a heroic act by a Monarch Titan that won the war for Nexus, which was achieved by it self-destructing and taking its enemies with it. That one act stuck with her from a young age, and grew up believing in heroic acts of courage and sacrifice. She was always a ray of sunshine at home for her family, and was one of the only things keeping them going against the harsh reality of the government's coup. Another thing keeping them going was Rowenna's sister, Diwa, until she suffered a serious injury at work. Determined to give her family a better life, she stole the battery from the Titan that was kept atop the hill that it self destructed on as a symbol of hope. She used it to create a battle suit and qualified for the Apex Games. The battery's fallout, though, was emitting lethal radiation from it, effectively poisoning Rowenna as she used it, and Rowenna knows this. Even though her power source is slowly killing her, she is determined to provide for her family with the money from the Games.

Her vitals may not be the best they have ever been, but that won't stop her from covering her teammates with extra shields, providing for them just like she does for her family. Her tactical ability is Radiant Transfer, which gives herself and one other teammate temporary shields that stack on top of regular shields, allowing a quick fix in the middle of a fight until they can be replenished normally. Her passive ability is Savior's Speed, and it triggers whenever she looks at a teammate out of her tactical ability's range, allowing her to run faster than normal until she reaches them. Unfortunately, this ability does have a range too. Her ultimate ability, Energy Barricade, deploys a volley of jammers in a horizontal formation, creating an electric fence that will damage and slow any enemies that try to pass through.

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• Act of True Love: She is guaranteeing an early death for herself by fighting the way she is, just so she can give her family some income.
• Action Girl: She becomes this, no matter how unhealthy it is for her.
• Adorkable: She's a ray of sunshine with nerdy interests, including being a huge fan of the Apex Games and the Legends themselves. Her voice lines and quips are practically overflowing with this energy.
• Artistic License – Nuclear Physics: While she likely wouldn't be killed by it, the radiation coming from the Titan battery as described would almost definitely weaken her to the point of her being unable to move and act on par with the other Legends.
• Ascended Fangirl: In-Universe, she shows herself to be a huge fangirl of the Apex Games, and is elated to be fighting alongside the Legends that she's always admired. One of her banner poses shows her getting Seer's autograph, and during her debut season, she has lots of voice lines and interactions with other Legends that show she's a huge fan of them. According to one of her kill quips, she even has her own podcast where she talks about the Apex Games! She's so starstruck that her finisher even has her taking a selfie with the person she's about to kill, as if it's the most incredible moment of her life!
• Bilingual Bonus: She speaks a handful of words in Filipino, her native language. Examples include the Filipino words for "yes"^note "Oo" and "no"^note "Hindi", and calling the Legends "mga kapatid."^note Usually meaning "brethren," "brother," or "sister"
• Cool Big Sis: While she's not the oldest of her siblings, she clearly is this to her younger siblings. Conversely, she sees her own older sister Diwa this way, which is part of why she's so devastated to see her injured and helpless.
• Gamer Chick: She's a gamer, and often uses gaming terminology in her voice lines and quips.
• Genki Girl: She's so energetic and positive that she even makes Wattson look low-key by comparison. Doesn't hurt that she's often accompanied by sunshine and rainbow motifs.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: A family photo shown in her Stories from the Outlands trailer reveals her large family.
• Radiation-Induced Superpowers: Subverted. Her abilities come from her combat mech, which just so happens to be slowly killing her with the radiation coming off of it.
• Stepford Smiler: She was always this for her family, even before she joined the Apex Games.
• Volcanic Veins: A rare example of this trope where the glowing veins aren't a result of her powers themselves, but rather the harmful radiation coming from the battery giving her the powers.

Gibraltar

Makoa Gibraltar

Shielded Fortress

"Try to move me; it'll be fun."

Voiced by: Branscombe Richmond (English), Alexey Aptovtsev (Russian)

Gibraltar is a kindhearted giant with a wild side — one much more pronounced in his youth, when he was less interested in his family's volunteer work with the Search and Rescue Association of Solace. An ill-fated joyride with his boyfriend on his father's motorcycle got them caught in a mudslide, forcing his parents to come and save them — and getting his father's arm grievously wounded. With a new appreciation for the selfless work his parents do in SARAS, Gibraltar follows in their footsteps; to this end, he participates in the Apex Games likewise protect his fellow Legends, keeping them safe.

Gibraltar is a wall of a man who prioritizes shielding both himself and his squadmates from harm, helping out his squad while raining down hell on distant foes. His tactical ability deploys a Dome of Protection, forming a large shield that prevents any and all projectiles from passing through either side, and Gibraltar revives downed squadmates faster within as well. His passive ability is a Gun Shield that activates automatically when aiming down his gun's sights, defending against attacks from the front. Finally, his ultimate ability calls down a Defensive Bombardment on an area of the battlefield, dealing massive damage to any player unfortunate enough to be caught out in the open.

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• Amicable Exes: His ex-boyfriend, Nikolas, was forced to break up with him after taking the blame for stealing his father's motorcycle and getting sent to juvenile detention. After marrying a new partner and having a kid, he's since been interested in rekindling the flame with Gibraltar — at least as close friends, if nothing else.
• Armor Is Useless: Subverted. He runs as fast as the other legends despite his lack of mobility enhancing abilities, has the "Fortified" perk that makes him take fifteen percent reduced damage and is immune to being slowed by bullets. Having a gun shield that protects his front side is a big help for his survival as well.
• Badass Biker: His storyline mentioned he likes to ride his motorcycle. Many items - banner frame, gun charm, etc. - will reference his bike as well.
• Barrier Warrior: His tactical ability deploys a large dome shield that stops all projectiles from penetrating through while it lasts. This is useful for providing protection when his team needs to heal - especially out in the open - and for saving any of his teammates who were downed/killed.
  • In Season Three, several buffs were introduced that further improved this ability. All players within the dome (including enemies) used healing items twenty five percent faster and Gibraltar could revive a downed ally in only four seconds instead of five - complete with a unique animation that showed off his hammy nature. However, future seasons reduced the faster healing speed until it was removed entirely for gameplay balancing purposes.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Despite his jolly nature, Gibraltar is a serious contestant in the Apex Games. He joined to protect the other legends and won’t hesitate to extend this protection towards innocent people outside the Apex Games, as a group of mercenaries learned the hard way during the “Family Portrait” comic released during Season Seven and he’s more than willing to rip his opponents a new one if they push him too far. And even then, he’ll still be laughing the entire time as he’s getting ready to finish opponents off with wrestling moves.
• Big Fun: Gibraltar is one of the tallest, heaviest, and hammiest legends in the roster - yet is also amongst the friendliest of them with a joyful and outgoing attitude towards life.
• Blood Knight: Gibraltar enjoys a good fight and often challenges others to wrestle with him as referenced by his quote above.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He’s a heavyset man who is a potent tank for any team, plus a cheerful fellow who often refers to his teammates as "brothers" and many of his quips involve him laughing.
  Gibraltar (intro): "I'm like a rock. But rocks don't hit back. Hahahahaha!"
  Gibraltar (intro): "It's all in the attitude and I got a lot of it. Hahahahaha!"
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Players used to the barrier mechanics of the other Hero Shooters (particularly Overwatch) - in which barriers only block enemy fire - will oftentimes find themselves deploying their barrier dome out of reflex after taking damage at least once. Where this leads to trouble is said players forgetting this particular barrier blocks friendly attacks as well.
• Death from Above: Gibraltar’s ultimate ability, “Defensive Bombardment,” calls in an aerial ordnance strike on a targeted area. While it relies on RNG^note The explosives can land anywhere within twenty six meters of the chosen strike zone in terms of where the explosives land, it can deal massive damage to opponents who don’t find cover from above (or an “Interceptor Pylon” from fellow defense-oriented legend Wattson) in a short period of time.
• Deployable Cover: His “Dome of Protection” ability deploys its namesake on the ground and creates a temporary dome-shaped shield for his team to hide behind. During this time, teammates will have an easier time healing as well as reviving downed allies. And in the case of the latter, Gibraltar can do this one second faster than any of the other legends while under his own dome.
• Developer's Foresight: Gibraltar uses "brother" as a catch-all term for his teammates, including the nonbinary Bloodhound and most female Legends... except for Catalyst, a trans woman, for whom it would be a major faux pas to do likewise to. Whenever he addresses her directly, he calls her a "sister" instead.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Unlike most defense-oriented legend’s emphasis on staying back, hiding in buildings, or suppressing fire on enemy squads, Gibraltar’s idea of “defense” is taking the fight to his enemies - especially out in the open. He sports two passive abilities - one of them being the “Fortified” perk, reducing damage by fifteen percent and making him immune to the slowing effects of bullets - which makes him more difficult to kill and a complete nightmare to battle in a one-on-one fight. His other two abilities grant much needed protection and firepower when dealing with opponents out in open areas, but their usefulness is limited when fighting within buildings/structures - especially ones that have cover from the sky (which completely negates his ultimate ability). Finally, his big size and lack of fast speed makes him easier to hit compared to most legends, not to mention several of his abilities makes it easier for enemy snipers to find him; this has its pros and cons considering his role as a “tank” for his teammates.
  • “Gun Shield” protects Gibraltar from damage that hits the arm shield in front of him instead. It has fifty health and recharges every nine seconds when it’s damaged/destroyed. Furthermore, this passive can be turned off manually if he wants to avoid revealing his location to an enemy while he’s ADS (aiming down the sights) - which is helpful when he is trying to avoid enemy attention. However, all damage enemies do to the Gun Shield will count towards improving their EVO body shield upgrade progress, plus if the damage dealt exceeds the health of the Gun Shield it will bleed over the remaining damage towards harming Gibraltar himself.
  • “Dome of Protection” is Gibraltar’s bread-and-butter ability. He deploys a massive bright dome shield that prevents projectiles of any sort from penetrating through from both sides, lasts for twelve seconds before deactivating, has a cool down recharge time of thirty seconds, and while underneath it he can revive a downed ally within four seconds instead of the usual five (complete with a unique and hammy animation). This tactical ability grants his entire team crucial cover when a firefight breaks out - which is more noticeable while outside - but it also can warn enemy snipers of Gibraltar’s location as well as that of his teammates.
  • “Defensive Bombardment” summons an aerial ordnance bombardment near Gibraltar’s location that strikes a chosen location twenty four meters across, does so for six seconds after four and a half seconds have passed upon activation, takes two hundred-seventy seconds to recharge, deals forty damage per explosion that enemies are caught in, and inflicts the “shell shock” penalty effect on enemies (slows them, screws with their interface, and prevents them from sprinting until it wears off). This ultimate ability can be combined with his “Dome of Protection” to scare enemies away from advancing on his team as well as force enemies to flee from a fortified location that lacks top cover. However, it will do nothing against opponents who can hide within buildings/structures that have top cover, limiting its usefulness to the outdoors. Finally, Gibraltar himself can be harmed by this ability if he’s not careful.
• Family Honor: Gibraltar’s family was one the first people to land on Solace from the original IMC’s expeditions - many years before the main Apex Legends universe took place - and were the ones who started the S.A.R.A.S organization that is dedicated to helping people in trouble from varying disasters. He originally fled because he wanted fight in the Solace Civil War and believed his family to be cowards for staying out of the conflict to instead focus on S.A.R.A.S work, but after the accident that caused his father to lose his arm and sent his then boyfriend Nikolas to a corrupt juvenile delinquency center he decided to embrace the Gibraltar family legacy and joined S.A.R.A.S. Even to this day, he still frequents helping them out when he’s taking a break from the Apex Games, not to mention his fame in the bloodsport helps attract more people to join his family’s organization of volunteer peacekeepers and rescue operatives.
• Frankenstein's Monster: The aesthetics of his Season Three Halloween event skin.
• Friend to All Children: One of his backstory scenes showcased him rescuing a little girl.
• Gentle Giant: Gibraltar is a huge and powerful man, yet he is also a Nice Guy who dedicated his life to helping those in need. In fact, protecting his allies is one of the biggest reasons he joined the Apex Games, having lost several of his friends who participated in previous matches of the past before he joined.
• The Giant: Standing at a whopping 6'5" and weighing 256 lbs, Gibratar towers over a great deal of the legends. The only Legend known to be taller and heavier is Revenant, a robot who is made of steel.
• Good Is Not Dumb: During the Season Five “Broken Ghost” storyline, Gibraltar was the one who discovered Caustic was That Mole who informed Revenant about the legends’s plan. It’s hinted the reason why is because Gibraltar and the others learned from Caustic that Crypto joined the Apex Games to sabotage the Syndicate from within, but Caustic never mentioned how he found this out in the first place. From there, Gibraltar realized Caustic had been manipulating the situation in order to get rid of Loba, not to mention he sabotaged Crypto’s attempted bonding with Wattson because Caustic believed that friendship would hold back her contributions to scientific progress.
• Go Through Me: His playstyle in a nutshell, having been designed to protect his teammates and push on offense when needed to force enemies to focus on him first. He’s considered a “tank” for this reason in-game since crafty players who take the lead for their teams can force enemies to deal with him first, leaving his teammates to stay safe and cover his back.
• Heroic Lineage:
  • Gibraltar’s parents are S.A.R.A.S. volunteers who dedicate their lives to saving people in danger from varying disasters, his ancestors created the S.A.R.A.S organization many years before the main Apex Legends storyline began, and he grew up to be a man who dedicated his life to protecting other people.
  • One of his ancestors, Aleki Gibraltar, was one of the smartest men in the Outlands who gave his life in the past along with his other fellow scientists/engineers to ensure an experimental substance called branthium, which could be used as a potent source of energy, would end up in the hands of innocent people who were in serious danger of an energy crisis affecting the entire Outlands.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Gibraltar goes by his actual last name instead of a code name while participating in Apex Game matches.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: Gibraltar can harm himself with his own “Defensive Bombardment” ability if he’s not careful.
• Humble Hero: In the flavor texts of the "Tip of the Spear" loading screens:
  Gibraltar: "We all put passion in our matches and fight like each day depends on it; my work with S.A.R.A.S. taught me that. You need to love what you do, care about what you do, and believe in your ability to do what you do; my parents taught me that. Finally, brothas, trust in those around you, protect those around you, and never forget that no matter how big you are, the world is always bigger; the Apex Games taught me that."
• Item Amplifier: One of the Season Three updates introduced a buff for Gibraltar in regards to his “Dome of Protection” ability: anyone inside his barrier dome^note including enemies used healing items twenty five percent faster. It was subverted later on, however, when this was removed in Season Eight.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: He has quite a impressive chin and is a benevolent legend who does his best to protect his teammates.
• Large Ham: This is Gibraltar in a nutshell. One of his finishers, for instance, involves him doing dramatic wrestler poses after knocking down the enemy - complete with crushing them with his back due to landing on them.
• Light Is Good: Two of his abilities glow and he has several skins which presents him with lighter colors. Also, he is a heroic man who lives to protect others, both in the Apex Games as well as outside of them.
• Long-Range Fighter: While his kit isn't directly built around fighting from afar, his personal shield and dome (which will allow him to "peek-shoot") make him a surprisingly effective sniper compared to most of the other legends. This serves him well since many of his abilities work best when used outdoors.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Several of his abilities involve shields of some sort.
  • His “Gun Shield” passive covers most of his front while he aims his gun, though it can only take so much damage before it needs to recharge. It noticeably covers even more of his front side while he is crouching, which is an preferred strategy for players when they don’t need to move around much at the time while fighting.
  • His “Dome of Protection“ tactical ability is able to absorb all damage directed at it for as long as it lasts.
• Manly Gay: The only gay man in the main cast, but also one of the manliest by far.
• Meaningful Name: "Gibraltar" is the name of the a British Overseas Territory which is a gigantic four hundred-twenty six meter tall rock on the sea, a reference to the fact he’s The Big Guy who is difficult to defeat in a fight and watches over his teammates with great care. Also, his first name, Makoa, is a Hawaiian name meaning "bold man,” a solid way to explain a Boisterous Bruiser who is quite hammy.
• Mighty Glacier: Played with. Gibraltar moves as fast as the other legends under normal circumstances - despite being one of the biggest legends in the lineup - and yet has access to the “Fortified” passive as well as his own personal gun shield, plus an artillery strike which can deal massive damage. It appears at first he has all the strengths of this trope with none of the weaknesses. However...
  • Once the ring begins to close at level two most legends cannot outrun it, meaning Gibraltar has to try and stay within the ring at all times to avoid dying from it. He also has no mobility abilities which could help him reach the safe zone faster, putting him at greater risk.
  • His “Dome of Protection” ability encourages players to not run outside of it when there is hostile gunfire in the area, which can trap players in unfavorable conditions where they cannot run and/or escape with ease. This can turn ugly if the Ring is starting to move when Gibraltar’s team isn’t in the safe zone.
• Necessary Fail: Gibraltar recognized over time that his failure is what led him to becoming a better man. Fortunately, he gets some much needed closure from his ex-boyfriend Nikolas after the events of the Season Seven “Family Portrait” comic took place. While it didn’t result in Gibraltar resuming his old relationship with Nikolas, they at least parted on good terms and planned on making a simple coffee date to catch up on old times.
• Nice Guy: His motivation to join the Apex Games is primarily altruistic in nature - to protect his teammates so they won’t die like many of his friends did. He's also one of the more polite legends in kill quips - many of them are attempts to establish Friendly Rivalry or encourage his opponent to try harder next time.
  Gibraltar (to a kill target): "You just got it handed to you, brotha. Nice try."
  Gibraltar (to a kill target): "Thank you for the kill, brotha."
• No-Sell: His “Dome of Protection” ability can nullify all incoming damage while it is active; this affects players inside and outside the dome. Then during Season Two he also gained immunity to the slowing effects of bullets thanks to his “Fortified” passive. Finally, his ultimate ability is of no use against enemies who are located within building/structures that have top cover since the explosive ordnance starts out from the sky when it rains down.
• The Pollyanna: Downplayed, as Gibraltar mentioned that he feels down at times, but his life experiences helps him remain jolly. And that was felt by those around him.
  Gibraltar: "I hear all their nicknames. Jolly-Gib. Chuckles. Mr. Sunshine. They poke fun at my disposition, but Gibraltar has his bad days too. The secret to life ain’t happiness, brother. It’s knowing the unhappy times won’t last forever."
• Regenerating Shield, Static Health: While Gibraltar has to use shield batteries to recharge his body shield like everyone else, his “Gun Shield” passive regenerates back to fifty health every nine seconds.
• Right Man in the Wrong Place: Despite Gibraltar’s time in S.A.R.A.S. and his experience as a combatant in the Apex Games, he has no official training for dealing with situations involving urban warfare with armed mercenaries who have taken hostages, which happened during the “Family Portrait” comic in Season Seven. That didn’t stop him from stealing equipment from one of the comatose mercenaries, dressing up as them to infiltrate their ranks, then taking them by surprise in order to save Lifeline and Pathfinder’s life while giving Octane time to set up his own plan (that once again involved blowing up an explosive to send himself flying, this time to launch a piece of a statue as a giant improvised battery ram that actually worked by taking out all of the mercenaries in one fell swoop).
• Stout Strength: He’s a muscular and heavily built man, plus a Mighty Glacier to boot.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Gibraltar looks like a younger version of his older and deceased relative Aleki Gibraltar, who was one of the lead scientists/engineers that helped research a substance known as branthium, all in order to solve a major energy crisis the Outlands faced many years before the main Apex Legends storyline began - and helped build Pathfinder by contacting S.A.R.A.S to donate heat resistant metal that made him far more durable than the average MRVN unit, which would help them in the refinery process of handling branthium. He also gave his life with the other scientists/engineers to ensure the treacherous Dr. Reid and her hired Apex Predator mercenary team didn’t steal the branthium for themselves, instead teleporting it to different planets in the Outlands so that no one would suffer anymore due to a lack of energy powering their ways of life, plus to save Pathfinder’s life as well as created an explosion that killed all the Apex Predators in the laboratory (along with Dr. Reid).
• Surfer Dude: Gibraltar's skydive emote in Season Three features him using his shield as a surfing board to surf in mid-air. Furthermore, several of his banners as well as poses reference the sea in some ways, which are a direct nod to his Pacific Islander heritage.
• Survivor Guilt: Gibraltar was responsible for the motorcycle accident that almost got his boyfriend Nikolas and himself killed as well as severed one of Gibratar’s father’s arms off during the rescue attempt. Furthermore, when Nikolas willingly took the entire blame for the accident, Gibraltar had to live with the guilt that his cowardice scared him from setting the truth straight to the authorities, resulting in an innocent person being turned into a hardened criminal due to the corrupt detainees within the juvenile delinquency center influencing his decisions. Furthermore, Nikolas’s parents were the ones who sent him to the juvenile delinquency center due to believing his lies, wanting to “teach him a lesson” that may have strained their relationship.
  Gibraltar (from the “Apex Legends: Pathfinder’s Quest” book): “Nik’s parents wanted him to ‘learn his lesson’ and had him sent to a juvenile delinquency center. We lost touch. I tracked him down, years later. It was bad. Involved with the wrong people, relying on the wrong things to get through the day - that damn place turned a good kid with a heart of gold into a criminal with no hope. And now he had a baby. A little boy. He got the wrong future, because I was too scared to tell the truth. That kind of mistake eats you up, bruddah. How do you make up for that? How do you give back a lifetime?”
• Third-Person Person: Has many lines where he refers to himself in the third person.
• Too Awesome to Use: Gibraltar is generally balanced around having very potent abilities with long recharge times.
  • Gibraltar's Dome Shield has many uses, between creating breathing room to heal in at long-range engagements, allowing for tactically peeking in and out of it to minimize exposure while still dealing damage in close quarters, and picking up teammates faster when they get downed. But he can only really do one of these at a time, and with its fairly long recharge time that only starts when the dome fades and only having one charge at a time, if a Gibraltar player uses a Dome Shield unwisely, they'll really feel it when a better use for it appears later.
  • Defensive Bombardment flushes enemies out of open spaces, punishes them heavily if they can't avoid it, and can be used to protect Gibraltar's dome from close-range attackers. And as of Lifeline's Season 13 buff, his ult bears the longest cooldown in the game at an eyewatering 4 minutes and 30 seconds, a full minute longer than the second longest cooldowns in the game (Lifeline and Wraith's Ultimates).
• True Companions: Many of his voice lines state that he regards his squadmates as such. Also, the legends outside of the Apex Games are some of his best friends and he continues to watch over them to ensure nothing bad happens to them.
  Gibraltar (intro): "Alright, brotha. Gibraltar's coming for ya."
• Verbal Tic: He tends to call his allies "brotha" as well as “bruddah,” which are common Polynesian terms of endearment for acquaintances.

Lifeline

Ajay Che — Lifeline

Combat Medic

"Never quit. That's how you win."

Voiced by: Mela Lee (English), Daria Frolova (Russian)

Ajay Che, daughter of Chevrex leads Darion and Cherisse Che, left her family of rich war profiteers, unable to stand the thought of contributing to their schemes to make money off of those suffering in war. Desiring to try and undo the damage they've caused and the lives they've ended with their weapons, she has signed up with the Frontier Corps, a humanitarian effort that aids Frontier communities in need. But the Corps are low in funds, leading her to enlist with the Apex Games as well: dismissing the thought that she might be just like her parents by fighting others for profit, she competes to earn funds so that the Corps can continue patching people up when they're in a bad state.

Lifeline is a medic who can provide her allies with supplies while keeping them on their feet with her drone's array of healing abilities. Her tactical ability, D.O.C. Heal Drone, deploys her electronic companion to restore the health of any player who stands near it. Her passive ability is Combat Revive, which deploys D.O.C. again to revive downed allies autonomously, leaving Lifeline free to move around and fight while reviving her friends. Her ultimate ability calls down a Care Package to grant her team useful resources, from upgrades to their equipment to valuable healing items.

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• Abusive Parents: Her backstory and estrangement from them hinted at this, but was officially confirmed in the Season Seven "Family Portrait" comic. While her father, Darion, is somewhat reasonable - being mad at his daughter for joining a dangerous bloodsport and understandably peeved at his daughter constantly ripping on her parent’s business deals to the public - her mother, Cherisse, is outright venomous towards her own daughter. She even slut-shames Lifeline and threatened to financially gut the Frontier Corps if she didn’t accept a hug from her parents while pretending to smile for the public.
• Action Girl: Lifeline is a star competitor in the Apex Games and a combat medic who saves lives on her downtime with the Frontier Corps. This trope is downplayed in-universe since she prefers supporting her teammates rather than going after the kills herself, but she’s capable of killing enemies if the chips are down.
• All Drummers Are Animals: She's the drummer for an in-universe band "Flyer Liars", drumsticks are her heirloom weapon, a finisher and a banner pose both involve drumsticks, and some of her animations point towards her relishing a bit too much in the violence she causes.
• Animesque: Many of her cosmetic items and banners fit into this theme.
• The Artifact: Even though Season 9 removed her revive shield entirely, she still has a stat tracker for damage blocked by her revive shield.
• Auto Doc: Her D.O.C. usually does all of the healing on the battlefield rather than herself.
  "Was DOC, saved your life. I just wiped the mud off yuh."
• Bad Luck Mitigation Mechanic: Since her inclusion in the launch version, her Care Package has been buffed to always provide a weapon attachment upgrade and equipment upgrade for at least one member of her team.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lifeline is a nice person, but she has showcased an unstable side - as shown in Season Three's cinematic launch trailer, which included a sequence of her firing an Alternator firearm while laughing like a maniac.
  • In the Season Seven “Family Portrait” comic Lifeline helps take down hostile mercenaries with nothing more than her wit as well as borrowing Gibraltar’s melee weapon.
  • She also has no problems with executing downed opponents using her medical equipment.
  • In a Season Nine comic she discovers that Octane's father is behind the above-mentioned mercenary attack, and when she finds him, she threatens him with a Peacekeeper and tells him in no uncertain terms that she's going to kill him if he doesn't turn himself in.
• Birds of a Feather: Like her friend Octane, she's the heir of a rich organization who disfavors their job to participate in the Apex Games.
• Boring, but Practical: Her abilities aren't flashy, but they are very useful for keeping her teammates alive. If she isn't the first to go down, her team can win by attrition via being constantly revived and healed by her.
  • “Combat Revive“ is her passive; it allows her to drop her healing drone to revive an ally autonomously, allowing Lifeline to do other things like defend her team from incoming enemies or revive another downed teammate in the meantime. She is also able to open the extra item compartments on blue supply bins, providing her teammates and herself with more loot (excluding knockdown shields).
  • “D.O.C (Drone of Compassion) Heal Drone” will heal allies and herself up to one hundred-fifty health for twenty seconds after placement. It’s recommended to do this during an active fight so you can maximize its heal, especially when placed near an ally who is camping an area or one who is simultaneously recharging their shields. Doing so after a fight can be beneficial to save time and resources by not using syringes/medkits, but it's less useful since it forces your teammates to stay put for several seconds.
  • “Care Package” summons its namesake to the ground after fifteen seconds, and while it does have one of the longest cooldowns in the game (three hundred seconds), it’s useful for equipping your teammates with high quality gear - albeit it cannot drop legendary gear (except scopes) nor care package weapons like the Kraber. Just make sure it doesn’t get looted by an enemy squad, and watch out for nearby enemy teams who will use the opportunity to ambush your team since they can see the care package beacon light (though it will not appear on the mini map).
• Childhood Friends: With Octane; they grew up on Olympus together.
• Combat Medic: All of Lifeline's abilities have something to do with healing - even her Care Package, because one of the three items it holds is guaranteed to be a recovery item. Unlike typical healer archetypes in hero shooters however, all of Lifeline's abilities are hands-free once initially used: she can restore one teammate's health and revive the other while simultaneously laying down suppressive fire to ward enemies away from capitalizing on the situation.
• Crutch Character: Played With. Especially in comparison to Gibraltar who has several Support abilities tied to his Dome Shield, which scale better mid-late game:
  • Her D.O.C. Heal Drone and Supply Drops are useful early on when her squad can afford to remain in the same place for a while, but as players get better weapons/gear - and the play area becomes smaller as well as more intense - they become less effective. This is notable when her team needs to keep on the move in order to avoid getting flanked/ambushed in a small arena. Also, Gibraltar’s “Dome Shield” ability grants him a faster revive speed as well as giving all teammates within faster usage of healing items, making him a better choice in mid—late game scenarios.
  • However, her ability to revive teammates without taking herself out of the fight remains useful throughout the entire length of a game, and it comes complete with a one hundred-eighty degree protective shield which can be clutch in a raging firefight - not to mention she doesn’t need an active ability to do so. Furthermore, if she’s equipped with a legendary backpack, she can also revive them with extra shields and health, making her a good recipient of this particular item.
  • In addition, while her abilities are not as useful for healing during late game - given the smaller space and frequent firefights - they make her less reliant on healing items in the early game, and lets her save them for the final fights or to distribute to teammates in need.
• Cute Machines: Lineline’s D.O.C. Heal Drone is this in a nutshell. It looks like a small hovering robotic turtle which heals the wounds of damaged allies and Lifeline herself, and even behaves like a pet to her sometimes.
• Deadly Doctor: She can kill using her healing equipment. Two of her finishers utilize medical equipment - a syringe or electric defibrillator from her D.O.C. - to deal the final blow.
• Defector from Decadence: Her family is rich, but she left home when she learned how they had acquired that wealth - profiting from the Frontier Wars using shady methods. As revealed in the Season Seven “Family Portrait” comic, her parents aren’t too happy about Lifeline’s complete dismissal of her parent’s business.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Whenever her drone is referred to as "D.O.C. Drone", since "D.O.C." stands for "Drone of Compassion."
• Determinator: It takes strong willpower and determination to serve as a Combat Medic, especially in a Crapsack World that features a ruthless bloodsport as one of its main sources of entertainment. See her quote above for an example.
  Lifeline (intro): "Don't worry. It's easy. Bleed, patch, and keep moving."
  Lifeline (to a kill target): "Giving up is no thing I will do."
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Gender inverted and then subverted. With her parents' war profiteering, she's closer to the white sheep of the family, and the Family Portrait comic shows her meeting her parents for the first time in awhile. It seems like a heartwarming reunion at first, until her mother threatens her into hugging her back while even slut-shaming her own daughter.
• Fallen Hero: Once upon a time, Lifeline just wanted to do good in the galaxy by enlisting with the Frontier Corps in defiance of her war profiteering parents. Then Season 7 happened and she formally severed her connections with her parents following a terrorist attack they did nothing to stop, and in Season 9 she discovers that Octane's father was responsible for said attack. Season 12 is when things really went downhill for Lifeline. Octane ruins her attempts at exposing Duardo's imposter, they having a brutal falling-out because of it, and because of Torres's successful takeover, her mother is now the president of the Frontier Corps. How does the season end? With Lifeline approaching Mad Maggie in her cell and admitting that she was right. Though she doesn't descend into full-on villainy, she comes out of the season's events much more ruthless.
• Family of Choice: Lifeline confronts her mother and father, telling them that they may be her parents, but will never be her family. Instead, she seems to consider her fellow legends (Gibralter, Octane and Pathfinder in particular) her true family.
• Friend to All Children: During Fuse's grand entrance in the Season 8 launch trailer, Lifeline catches a Nessie plush and immediately hands it to a little girl standing behind her. Later, as soon as the arena is attacked, she is seen carrying the same kid to safety as the bullets start flying.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Ajay" is a fairly common Indian male name, but almost never given to girls.
• Good Is Not Nice: She isn't abusive or mean to other people by nature, but she's still willing to take a few people down in the Apex Games if that's what it takes to accomplish her goal of helping others with the Frontier Corps. In some of her finishers she uses a syringe to stab a downed opponent in the throat, or uses her health drone's defibrillator to fry them to death.
• Hypocrite: Although Lifeline isn’t proud of her parent’s business as death merchants selling weapons to anyone willing to pay the price, she actively earns “blood money” of her own defeating contestants in a bloodsport, the violent means of which causes her some distress. That said, there is a difference: the fights are premediated, about giving a show over fighting for ideals or power, and nobody truly dies in the Apex Games.
• I Am Not My Father: Lifeline, upon learning of what her family did to gain their wealth and profitable position, chose a path which is the complete opposite: using her money and fame as an Apex Games superstar to instead help people alongside the Frontier Corps.
• Iconic Item: Her Shock Sticks heirloom, though her D.O.C. Heal Drone could be considered this as well.
• Irony: In Season 8, she criticizes Fuse for solving problems with guns and violence without thinking about the after-effects. As of Season 12's ending, she's starting to see the appeal of the Salvonian way.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In the Season Seven “Family Portrait” comic Lifeline’s father is enraged at her for having joined the Apex Games. However, her father has every right to be worried that his daughter is participating in a dangerous bloodsport to begin with, and is a sign that he does actually care about his daughter’s well-being - he’s just getting frustrated with his daughter constantly ripping on the family business deals to the public. On that final note, while Lifeline looks down on her parent’s business involving people dying from their merchandise, she herself competes in a violent bloodsport where she regularly defeats and possibly kills people to win the matches, then using her winnings to fund the Frontier Corps. This is despite the fact it’s “blood money” she’s winning, which is no different from what her parents have earned selling weapons. Her mother, however, is less relatable in this regard.
• Last-Name Basis: Octane calls her "Che", whenever he's not calling her "Chica".
• Light Is Good: She is dressed in many outfits consisting of white and light blue, and she's a Nice Girl who joined the Apex Games for the sake of others rather than herself.
  • Her “Guardian Angel” skin, which is purchased as part of a collector pack from EA. She dresses up as an Angelic Beauty - minus the wings - which plays into her role as a healer and saver of lives quite well.
  • This is inverted, however, with her “From the Ashes” legendary skin, which was unlockable with the Season Three Battle Pass. She is featured as a demonic being with horns protruding out of her head in this case.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Earlier versions of her kit had a shield appear when she manually revived allies, a feature that moved onto D.O.C's auto-revive when she was granted it. It’s capable of blocking gunfire, grenades, and explosions, making it versatile in its means of protection - albeit it cannot stop enemies from advancing past it to gun down your revive target up close.
• Meaningful Name: "Lifeline" is a fitting name for a Combat Medic who can play a vital role in keeping her teammates alive. As for her real name, "Ajay" is an Indian masculine name which means "unconquered,” a reference to her steeled will and high confidence in herself.
• The Medic: Her primary role.
• Musical Assassin: Her Heirloom weapon, the Shock Sticks, are a pair of electrically-charged drum sticks.
• Nice Girl: Unlike many of the current legends, Lifeline's motivation to join the Apex Games is altruistic. She's also courteous in her kill quips with many of them being encouragement towards the opponent she just eliminated.
  Lifeline (to a kill target): "Next time... Next time you'll do better."
  Lifeline (to a kill target): "You gonna need to work a little bit harder next time."
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lifeline's passive allows her to revive teammates without needing to hold herself still for the duration, but it also leaves them completely defenseless while it's taking effect. Carelessly using it can easily get your fallen teammates killed as they get gunned down with minimal resistance.
• Not the Intended Use: Her Care Package has some utility features outside of the loot it provides.
  • It can be used to block off passages, though it can hinder your teammate’s ability to move as well if you’re not careful. In this same vein, it can also be used as makeshift cover against gunfire.
  • Just like how you need to be careful that enemies don’t ambush your team when a Lifeline Care Package is summoned, it can also be used to bait opponents into ambushes for the same reasons. The best time to do this is when the game spawns normal care packages. Enemies will be looking for good loot during that time, and a well-placed Lifeline Care Package can help your team ambush a distracted enemy squad - notably when they weren’t paying attention to the mini-map to make sure it was a normal care package which was being summoned.
  • If you're lucky, you could knockdown an enemy with it, too, provided they are camping a location. Keep in mind that failing to down the enemy means giving them a free Lifeline Care Package, so this shouldn’t be done under normal circumstances.
• Only in It for the Money: A rare benevolent example of this trope. She joined the Apex Games for the money, which she gives to her main employers the Frontier Corps - a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping people in need within the Frontier communities. While it’s morally questionable if supporting a humanitarian organization by giving it “blood money” is good, her motives are still altruistic by nature.
  Lifeline: "If you ask me, it doesn’t matter what side they were on. We all had our own part in the war. No one is truly innocent, so we all deserve help. Like I said, I don’t care about the title, but don’t let that fool you, I am here to win... for them. The Legends are out there... they just don’t know it yet."
• Only Sane Woman: Considering many of the legends are eccentric at best, and downright toxic at worst, she can end up playing this role sometimes with the squad she’s assigned to. This is best shown in Season Three's cinematic launch trailer, in which she got assigned onto the same squad as Mirage and Crypto, and acted as a mediator when her two squadmates began to argue.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: One of the smallest legends, but no less adept at combat.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Octane; they've been childhood friends, but Stories from the Outlands: Family Business shows that she was romantically interested in someone else while still friends with Octane, and Octane himself is Ambiguously Gay.
• Robot Buddy: Her D.O.C. Heal Drone behaves like this to her. Several of her banner poses involve her treating the drone as if it were her pet.
• Ship Tease: Not Lifeline herself, but her D.O.C. Heal Drone, which has been paired with Crypto’s surveillance drone. Respawn seems to have even acknowledged this pairing, since any time a limited time event involving duos is released, the two drones are paired with each other in the icon for selecting said mode.
  • Season Seven showcases both Lifeline and Octane resting peacefully with each other after defeating several hostile mercenaries in the “Family Portrait” comic. While many interpret this as two friends watching over each other, Lifeline is noticeably more affectionate towards Octane during this event compared to her normal berating and over-vigilant attitude towards him.
• Shoot the Medic First:
  • Given that her passive ability allows her to revive allies without removing herself from combat, it's usually wisest to down Lifeline first before converging on her teammates, especially towards the endgame where she'll often have a Legendary backpack that will cause the squadmates she revives to get up with even more health than normal.
  • On the other hand, if she's currently in the process of autoreviving someone, it may be wisest to kill that someone first. Being autorevived by D.O.C. makes the recipient supremely vulnerable: they're stationary, unable to move, unable to shoot back, and don't have their body shield nor knockdown shield to protect themselves. If the Lifeline can't react fast enough and cancel the autorevive to restore her ally's knockdown shield, an attacker can easily secure a kill and prevent Lifeline from resurrecting that person again.
• Skill Gate Characters: At low level play, Lifeline's ability to constantly bring up her teammates is amazing, but at higher levels, opponents are more aggressive, know methods to exploit her D.O.C. revive, and can more readily coordinate pushes to minimize the time she has to revive allies.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The grounded, level-headed straight woman to Octane's hyperactive and fast-talking wise guy.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maid: D.O.C. can provide automated first aid and has projected shields in the past, which are standard things that one might expect for a drone used for front-line medics. It can also crack safes in Season 12's story, Stories from the Outlands: Family Business has it overcharge a car engine (though this is arguably an extension of its defilibration), and Season 9's Twitter comics has Lifeline discover D.O.C. also has a voice recording function.
• Support Party Member: Downplayed. All of Lifeline's abilities are geared towards supporting teammates, but she can still fight opponents since her healing drone doesn't require her to stay near the teammate it’s healing. This fits her role well as a Combat Medic.
• Team Mom: She's been showing signs of being this to the other legends, like the time she acted as a mediator between Mirage and Crypto when the three got assigned onto the same squad during the Season Three cinematic launch trailer.
• Unwanted Assistance: Using Lifeline's auto-revive out in the open or while enemies are still near can be a recipe for disaster if opponents decide to capitalize on it. Being revived makes Lifeline's allies helpless during the animation, and if she isn't around to ward off enemies then it's far easier for them to secure a kill against the downed player.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Octane. While Lifeline makes it clear that she has little tolerance for Octane's reckless antics, she still genuinely cares about him, as evidenced when she drops everything to rescue Octane after he charges into a Prowler-infested King's Canyon by himself.

Loba

Loba Andrade

Translocating Thief

"What do you get for the girl who has everything? More."

Voiced by: Fryda Wolff (English), Tatyana Shitova (Russian)

Loba was the daughter of prominent thieves Marcos and Alanza Andrade, targets painted on their backs for the things they stole. She was only eight when a Simulacrum hitman killed off her parents, leaving her an orphan; though she was sent to multiple new families, her parents' blood ran through her as a tendency to steal whatever she had her eyes on. Eventually, she had attained infamy in the outlands for her skills as a thief and had it all: money, power, and social status. When Revenant's participation in the Apex Games brought back painful memories of her childhood, though, she was ready to throw it all away to join the Games: all she really wanted was revenge.

Loba is a thieving Legend with an eye for treasure that allows her to track down rare items and weapons, and is equipped with a variety of gadgets to help her get them. Her tactical ability, Burglar's Best Friend, lets her throw her jump drive bracelet at a distant point and teleports Loba there upon landing. Her passive ability, Eye for Quality reveals to Loba the location of high-tier loot through walls and other barriers. Her ultimate ability is Black Market Boutique, which plants her staff in the ground and turns it into a device that can teleport loot in the area directly into the pockets of whoever accesses it.

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• Animal Motifs: Wolves. They’re known to steal valuable things from other people; Loba fits the bill. She also has a wolf figurehead on her staff which was a gift from her late father.
• Anti-Villain: Loba is a notorious thief who also owns her own business in the black market, yet has a status amongst the socialites of the Outlands and may have avoided being arrested due to this. However, the tragedy she suffered as a child makes her a sympathetic figure, and she wants to destroy Revenant for good. The devs have also stated she enjoys helping people who are down on their luck, mainly because she remembers what it was like for her growing up. Furthermore, as she spends more time with her fellow legends, she has come to enjoy her time with many of them and is starting to soften up as a result.
• Arch-Nemesis: Loba hates Revenant for murdering her parents, and he hates her for hiding his organic head from him, thus preventing him from dying for good.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Loba’s number one goal in her life was to destroy Revenant for good as payback for murdering her parents, and entered the Apex Games to do just that after her first attempt to destroy him failed. As a result, Revenant cheerfully agreed during the Season Five “Broken Ghost” PVE missions that Loba should kill him. He doesn’t want to suffer anymore as an immortal simulacrum, but is unable to kill himself because his programming prevents him from harming his organic head - that is, his source code. He even decided to tag along with Loba, aiding her on her quest to find out where his organic head relocated after she botched her first attempt to destroy it, and his greatest wish is to watch as she puts a bullet through his organic head to end his misery. All Loba could do was act in shock, making her realize she was stuck with him until she completed her original goal, and is conflicted on whether or not she wants to destroy the head anymore because she feels it wouldn’t be satisfying to get revenge by killing someone who wants to die in the first place. It also doesn’t help matters that he’s still more than willing to torment Loba for his own amusement, and that helping her kill him is effectively preventing her from achieving the desirable revenge she wished for in the first place.
  Loba: (When entering the restaurant where her parents died while Bangalore is a teammate): “I said I didn't want to talk about it, but... the demonio. I'm going to get what I want by giving him what he wants. The thought of it makes me sick.”
  • Later during Season Seven, Loba decided to betray Revenant by instead sending his organic head “halfway to Gridiron” using a phase runner. She also taunted him by saying he now has all the time to the world to think due to his technical immortality... but that also means being shadowed by an Ax-Crazy murderer who effectively cannot die for good if she doesn’t have the means to track down his organic head once more.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: At the end of the Season Four cinematic launch trailer her face was covered in her father's blood. To this day, she continues to wear makeup around her eyes which references this.
• Broken Ace: Is infamous for being one of the most - if not the most - skilled thieves in the Outlands. However, her childhood came crashing down when Revenant assassinated her parents, and her kleptomania made her a trouble child growing up with different foster families. While she eventually became a self-made woman in the criminal underworld, she still suffers from her traumatic experience with Revenant in the past, and being forced to work with him on occasion in Apex Games matches only makes things worse for her mental well-being.
• Bullying a Dragon: During the Season Five “Broken Ghost” storyline, Loba taunted Caustic by letting him know she knew about his criminal history to get him to cooperate, which convinced him to cooperate with Revenant in order to take her down. It didn’t help matters she acted apathetic about Wattson almost dying in the Shadowfall alternate universe, which made Caustic snap in fury and choke Loba while threatening her with a Fate Worse than Death if any more harm came to Wattson.
  • Then there’s the matter of her actions in Season Seven. She betrayed Revenant after he trusted her to gain access to his organic head and destroy it so he can finally die for good, instead choosing to hide it from him using a phase runner. This means she will be stalked for the rest of her life by an undying Ax-Crazy murderer who plans on inflicting a Fate Worse than Death on her via targeting everyone and everything she cares about. Meanwhile, Caustic has come to realize her “guardian” has left her, and Hammond Robotics as well as the Syndicate wanted her to destroy Revenant, all of which means she has angered several powerful entities.
• Character Development: At first Loba only cared about her goal to destroy Revenant for good when she entered the Apex Games, but in the aftermath of the Season Five “Broken Ghost” storyline she has softened her personality a little with some of the legends. She became friends with Bangalore, is grudgingly working together with Revenant to help kill him off for good, and is friendly with Wattson due to the fact Loba feels bad about Wattson almost dying permanently in the Shadowfall universe while they were still looking for the artifacts which Hammond Robotics wanted. However, after betraying Revenant and seemingly getting rid of the only thing that could kill him off for good - something the other legends wanted Loba to do - it remains to be seen how friendly they will remain with her.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: Loba is a skilled thief who's described as "stylish and sophisticated". She seems to have a love for jewelry, and is living quite a luxurious life with her socialite status.
• Cleavage Window: Her default outfit sports one.
• Color Motifs: She’s associated with the colors white and light grey, common fur colors of wolves.
• Combat Hand Fan: Her heirloom weapon, the Garra de Alanza. It's originally her mother's, and demonstrates enough cutting power to do a clean Diagonal Cut on Revenant's skull.
• Combat Stilettos: She wears these, and puts them to good use in one of her finisher animations.
  Loba: (intro) "Oh you think you're tough? Try fighting in six-inch heels..."
• Crutch Character: Played with. Loba’s kit is designed to help her find high tier loot fast, and equip her teammates with better gear as well. If she rapidly acquires good loot for her teammates as well as herself they can dominate matches in the early-mid game sessions. However, once her teammates and herself are fully kitted, several of her abilities become less useful, and it doesn’t help matters that by late game enemy teams are typically well equipped themselves. The most useful it can get in mid-late game is outfitting recently respawned teammates, but that's very niche.
  • “Eye for Quality” lets Loba see epic as well as legendary tier loot through walls, which is a major help in the early-mid game for finding good equipment.
  • “Burglar’s Best Friend” allows Loba to teleport towards wherever her bracelet lands once thrown. This allows her to flank opponents from unexpected places as well as escape imminent danger.
  • “Black Market Boutique” highlights all equipment/items in a one hundred-twelve meter surrounding with the exception of items/equipment in unopened supply bins; unopened care packages; loot ticks; and death boxes still being carried by Flyers. Upon activation, it allows anyone nearby to interact with it and upon doing so a player can take up to two items/equipment - similar to a death box interaction screen - which is then teleported from its original spot to the player’s inventory. When shield recharge and health kit stacks are chosen you get the entire stack, and in ammunition’s case there’s no limit to how much you can take - nor does it count towards the two item limit.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: While many legend abilities gives them some utility for their teammates if they are revived mid-match with little to no gear equipped, Loba in particular can use her ultimate ability to help those who met this fate obtain armor and a gun, along with all the ammo they can carry. Ideally you never want to be in this kind of situation in the first place, but at the very least it grants her teammates as well as herself the means to ensure they can fight if they cannot find useful loot.
• Cycle of Revenge: Revenant murdered her parents, albeit he wasn’t in full control of himself at the time, and in return Loba threw his organic head - the destruction of which would’ve ended his life for good - through a phase runner out in the middle of nowhere. Now Revenant has no way to stay dead, plenty of rage towards Loba, and all the time in the world to plan out his vengeance against the woman who betrayed his trust considering he wanted her to kill him off permanently.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She witnessed her parents being murdered by Revenant when she was a little girl. As mentioned in Trauma Button below, it continued to haunt her even as she matured into an adult.
• Dark Action Girl: For starters, the "Legacy of a Thief" cinematics showcased her dispatching a group of well-trained men with her graceful kicks and staff. Also, she was shown to have stolen valuable items well before she joined the Apex Games. This means she's the first female legend to be a criminal.
• Developer's Foresight: Loba can take items from an unopened vault using her “Black Market Boutique” ability, but only Loba can do this; it was likely done to balance Loba on the World’s Edge Map - as well as any future maps which feature vaults - by preventing her teammates from getting too many pieces of high tier loot quickly. Also, she can only take one item at a time, and whenever done this way the vault will screech a loud alarm warning all enemies within earshot she’s nearby.
• Didn't Think This Through: After she recovers Revenant's source code, rather than destroying it like she promised, she instead teleports it to a random location just to spite him and deny him his desired death. Not only does this piss off Revenant, who promises to murder everybody remotely close to Loba and has the skills to back it up, but it also ends up angering Hammond Robotics and the Syndicate, who were backing her with the sole reason of recovering the source code so she can kill Revenant and stop him hunting down their staff. In one fell swoop, Loba made enemies of three of the most fearsome entities in the Outlands.
• Early-Bird Cameo: The little girl whose parents were murdered by Revenant in Season Four's cinematic launch trailer was none other than young Loba.
• Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Jewelry was featured prominently in the "Legacy of a Thief" cinematic; it’s the type of item Loba appears to love stealing the most. She also wears multiple pieces of jewelry on her being.
• Fatal Flaw: While she has several traits - “Greed” and “Impulsiveness” most notably - the one which best defines her is “Pride.” She acts haughty towards most people on a regular basis and thinks highly of herself, all of which leads to her downfall several times since she has a tendency to push around people who are more than capable of holding their own against her. The fact she refused to kill Revenant off - despite him wanting her to do so and thus ending the Cycle of Revenge between them - shows that she would rather gloat and make him suffer, which may lead to yet another tragedy Loba could’ve prevented considering Revenant’s plans for her in the future.
• Faux Affably Evil: If Loba is pressed by someone about her past, or Revenant happens to be nearby, she immediately drops her seductive and socialite personality. Revenant in particular loves to enrage Loba in order to expose this.
• Femme Fatale: Loba’s appearance is feminine compared to the rest of the female legends, and she often talks in a somewhat seductive voice. To top that off, she's a prolific thief, making her one of the few legends to be actual criminals.
  Loba (intro): "Careful. I'll steal more than just your heart."
  Loba (intro): "There's a certain elegance to combat. I'll show you."
  Loba (to a kill target): "A faint heart never won a lady like me."
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Bangalore. After she initially went out of her way to get Loba axed from the Apex Games - with Bangalore even considering shooting Loba after she destroyed part of King’s Canyon during the Season Five cinematic trailer - Bangalore began to learn more about Loba’s tragic past and started to cool down the rivalry. As of Season Seven Bangalore is close to Loba, and the former even sympathizes with the latter over having lost family - something both women have suffered in their lifetimes. It’s due to this reason that Bangalore was also unsympathetic about Revenant being betrayed by Loba during Season Seven, even making head puns on purpose to pour salt on wounds. However, Revenant warned Bangalore that she was only going to be used by Loba as well, and considering her actions thus far it’s not unwarranted.
• Foil:
  • To Valkyrie. Both of them lost a parent at a young age (and in Loba's case, both of her parents) and saught vengeance through crime. Valkyrie coped with her emotions through physical experiences like eating food, drinking alcohol, partying, and sleeping with women, whereas Loba prefers coping through gaining material items via theft. Also, when Valkyrie finally confronted the person responsible for her father's death, she was able to move on and leave her life of vengeance behind. But when Loba finally confronted the person responsible for her parents' death, she only grew more vengeful, impulsive, and obsessive over making him suffer, no matter what consequences it brings her.
  • To Wattson. Both of them have lost loving parents and have since experienced extreme feelings of isolation and loneliness in childhood and young adulthood. They're also both very observant and know the other Legends' behaviors very well, but while Wattson has genuine admiration for the Legends and grows to trust them and see them as her family, Loba observes them in order to use them for her own gain, keeping everyone at an arm's length. The two of them both had their lives put in danger during the Shadow Realm quest and the events of said quest made their relationships with the other Legends unstable. And while Wattson is more inexperienced and naive, Loba doesn't trust others easily.
• Generation Xerox: Both of Loba's parents were prolific thieves and she followed in their footsteps. In fact, Revenant was programmed to assassinate her father because he stole something valuable from the man who hired the Syndicate’s services in retaliation.
  Loba: "I've always felt it in my blood. I'm a thief. And a good one at that."
• Girlish Pigtails: Loba has been sporting this hairstyle since she was a little girl.
• Girly Bruiser: Compared to the other female legends, Loba is feminine in appearance with nail paints; makeup; high heels; a love for jewelry; and a habit of walking sexily. This doesn’t make her any less capable of holding her own in a fight, however.
• Hairstyle Inertia: She still has the braided pigtails style she sported as a child.
• Happily Adopted: Subverted. Loba was adopted after her parents died, and whilst she didn't seem to have a particularly strong bond with her adopted family they didn't appear to treat her badly, either... though Loba quickly started stealing from her adopted parents. It was later revealed she went through several different foster families, meaning her kleptomania made her a notorious problem child until she eventually became old enough to go out on her own.
• Harmful to Minors: As a child, she witnessed her mother being shot to death by Revenant after several other innocent people were dispatched by him, and when she managed to escape using an elevator thanks to her father she watched his corpse fall to the ground right in front of her.
• Hartman Hips: Loba has very noticeable hips.
• Her Name Really Is "Barkeep": Loba is the first female legend to go by her real name in Apex Games matches and joins Gibraltar as the only legends to not use a code name.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Enemies can also use Loba’s “Black Market Boutique” while it’s active.
• Hypocrite: Despite going extreme lengths to get into the Games just to avenge her family, she's furious to discover that Bangalore planned on retiring from the Games so that she could see her own, partially because it meant Bangalore was leaving, partially because Revenant was hitching a ride with her. For extra layers of hypocrisy, she herself had previously teamed up with Revenant, and stated afterward that she wouldn't let his existence control her life anymore.
• Iconic Item: The wolf figurehead Loba's father gave her the day he died. Decades later, it now adorns the top of her staff.
• Kick Chick: Loba's default finisher involves her using a forceful kick to deal the final blow. Multiple of her banner poses involve kicks in some way.
• Lovable Rogue: She's a thief, and a skilled one at that, but she's also confident; fashionable; and charismatic, which has made her a favorite amongst the fan base in-universe as well as the fact she’s known to help out people who are down on their luck — which she did for Jaime. In Season Five’s “Broken Ghost” PVE missions, this is subverted, as it turns out she was willing to sell out her fellow teammates in order to further her own goals of destroying Revenant - downgrading her to a Lovable Traitor in the eyes of several of her teammates and an outright traitor to others.
• Love Triangle: Between Valkyrie and Bangalore.
• Male Gaze: During her trailers, the camera is often focused on her round, curvy hips and butt.
• Meaningful Name: The word "Loba" means female wolf in Spanish and Portuguese. In pre-modern times, one of the main reasons wolves were widely feared and hated by humans was that they stole livestock when the owners were not watching. What's Loba most well-known for again?
• Moral Myopia: While Revenant did murder her parents, and acts like a complete prick towards her about this fact, he was forced to assassinate them due to Hammond Robotics programming him to do so after turning him into a simulacrum against his will. Which makes it all the more jarring when Loba refused to destroy his organic head and hid it from him. While she had every right to be angry at him, her impulsiveness prevented a man who was brought back from the dead against his will - and forced to be their hit man - from resting in peace, meaning she has no one to blame but herself for whatever retaliation he inflicts on her in revenge.
  Revenant: (When “thanking” Loba) “You think you’re the victim? What about me? What about what I lost?”
• Ms. Fanservice: Loba's default appearance makes no attempt to hide her natural beauty, which is rather fitting for a seductive thief.
• Nerf: Loba’s “Black Market Boutique” will only lower its cooldown timer by twenty percent when a player uses a Ultimate Accelerant item, compared to the normal thirty five percent reduction.
• Ninja Looting: An example where the unsavory part of this trope is encouraged as a form of in-game pragmatism. It isn’t unheard of for a team with Loba to watch two groups duke it out with each other from a safe distance, one side kills the other, then Loba’s team uses her ultimate ability - “Black Market Boutique” - to steal powerful loot from the death boxes that the enemy team worked hard to earn. Season Seven made this even more apparent with users of the Boutique being able to take as much ammunition as they want without it counting towards the two item limit of the ability, meaning the enemy team who survived and is possibly low on ammo might be in a pinch if suddenly all the ammo is gone.
• Non-Action Guy: Working with one. The "Legacy of a Thief" cinematic included a man named Jaime who Loba saved from a gang of thugs. He is a tech/intel expert who now serves as Loba's assistant and helps her gather the intelligence she needs, including the info which allowed Loba to pursue Revenant’s control center.
• Not the Intended Use: Loba’s “Black Market Boutique” can be used to purposely steal away powerful equipment which your team doesn’t need to prevent enemies from getting their hands on them. This strategy is best used when the Boutique is placed in a remote area that enemies won’t find easily (since upon discovery it’ll become a cache of useful gear for them), and with Season Seven’s update you can now keep ammunition out of enemy hands with ease too.
• Of Corsets Sexy: Loba wears a corset to enhance her feminine figure.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With her Non-Action Guy, Jaime. They work great together, he's committed to helping her because she helped him out of a bad spot, and she treats him as a close friend, doing things like getting him his favorite food in this comic despite it not being her usual palate. That said, she doesn't seem romantically interested in him: the romances she does intend on pursuing are with Bangalore and Valkyrie, and unlike the former, he's perfectly fine with hanging out with the latter.
• Proud Beauty: Loba knows she's sexy, and she loves it.
  Loba (intro): "Most beautiful things are fragile. Not me."
• Revenge Before Reason: She sought revenge on Revenant for killing her parents, only to discover that he wanted to die for good, having grown tired of endlessly killing and reanimating for hundreds of years. Instead of granting him his death wish, she instead tosses his organic head through a phase runner so it will be lost forever, dooming him to eternal "life"... while at same time dooming herself to being haunted by an immortal simulacrum for the rest of her days.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Her primary motivation upon learning about Revenant's participation in the Apex Games, and wants to kill him off by destroying his organic head - in other words, his control center. She instead settled with a Fate Worse than Death by hiding Revenant’s organic head from him to make sure he cannot die, having learned he wanted her to end his life for good having gotten tired of his technical immortality.
• Shadow Archetype: As Valkyrie points out during the Season 9 comics, both of them lost their parents at a young age and let that loss shape them into their present selves. However, while Valkyrie ultimately chose to remember her dad in a healthier way by deciding against her thirst for revenge and carrying his legacy through competing in the Games, Loba was consumed by vengeance to the point of making it far harder for him to truly die once he reveals dying is what he wanted all along, permanently painting a target on herself just for the sake of getting back at him.
• Ship Tease:
  • Some fans ship Loba with Bangalore, due to their mutually softening attitudes towards each other, shown in their interactions since "The Broken Ghost".
    • This exchange between Loba and Bangalore in the early pages of "The Legacy Antigen" comic:
      Loba: Sweet, Anita, but let a girl buy you dinner before you go all Mama Bear on her.
      Bangalore: Follow protocol and I may let you.
    • The final chapter of "The Legacy Antigen" confirms that Loba held feelings for Bangalore... shortly before sinking that ship by having Bangalore claim they're just friends, not knowing she was listening from another room. The final community comic tie-in shows via Freudian Slip that Bangalore actually did reciprocate the feelings for Loba.
  • Following Valkyrie's introduction, Loba seemed to immediately warm up to her, with several interactions between them possibly indicating some mutual interest.
    Loba (Thanking Valkyrie): How did you know? It's just what I wanted.
    Valkyrie: *chuckle* I've got an eye for these things...
    • Matters are complicated by "The Legacy Antigen" showing that Valkyrie saw Loba's Love Hurts moment from Bangalore's above-mentioned statement. Seeing as their comic interactions have far less flirting than their in-game interactions, it can be inferred that Valkyrie's trying to get her over her heartbreak.
• Smug Snake: Explicitly declares herself to be the best thief out there. To be fair, she's not far from the truth.
  Loba: "I was the best, and everyone knew it."
• The Sneaky Gal: Loba is an expert thief who is skilled at stealthy infiltrations. She has been shown to steal her target item with success numerous times, and the victims never noticed until it was too late (if they noticed it at all).
  • On the gameplay side, Loba's tactical ability "Burglar's Best Friend" allows her to teleport to locations almost instantly. This ability is very potent as a tool for flanking as well as escaping tough situations.
• Socialite: Explicitly stated to be one in her storyline, and can act the part too when the situation calls for it.
• Sticky Fingers: Loba didn't provide any reason why she felt the need to steal (despite having an adopted family that didn't mistreat her) beyond "feeling it in her blood", and on some levels she did enjoy being a thief as a child. As she grew older, her need to steal started to include priceless jewels and valuable tech that would aid her thefts.
• Supermodel Strut: Has a habit of strutting around in a confident and seductive fashion, including her intro when chosen in "Select Legend", where she walks up to the screen while swaying her hips. Needless to say, this enhances her Classy Cat-Burglar vibe.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • Should Loba find herself in a squad with Revenant... well, let's just say they'd probably be trying to kill each other if there weren't nineteen other squads looking to kill them both. She's only willing to help save Revenant because she considers him to be extra firepower, whereas he gets to torment Loba as long as she’s still up and moving.
  • Bangalore was this for a while during Season Five, although this changed to friendship in the aftermath of the “Broken Ghost” storyline.
• Teleportation: Shown to do this to escape from a bunch of guards in the "Legacy of a Thief" cinematics. It was later revealed to be her tactical ability, "Burglar's Best Friend,” which involves Loba throwing her Jump Drive bracelet to teleport where the bracelet lands.
• Trauma Button: It was rather subtle, but Revenant is this to her: when Jaime showed Loba the picture of Revenant he found, the first expression that appeared on Loba's face was fear, before it turned into a look of hate and anger.
  Loba: "The system tried to erase the tragedy. But some wounds are too deep to ever truly heal."
• Ungrateful Bastard: After Loba's parents died, she was adopted by another family. Her adopted family seem to have never treated her badly, and Loba repaid them by... stealing from her adopted parents. Needless to say, she floated through different families and never lost her kleptomaniac tendencies all the way to adulthood.
• Video Game Stealing: Justified, since Loba's staff can teleport nearby items to her. It is supported by the advanced technology which exists in the Apex Legends universe, and it’s not the only item on her belonging that can let her teleport.
• What the Hell, Hero?: By the end of Season 14 it's made clear that nobody, not even Valkyrie or Jamie, agrees with her putting Revenant's head through a phase runner so he can suffer forever. So much so that Jamie defies her instructions to do so and instead passes it off to someone else, and Valkyrie says as much to Revenant and offers to help him find it.
• X-Ray Vision: In-game, Loba's passive ability "Eye for Quality" allows her to see nearby epic and legendary loot (but not lower-level loot or enemies) through walls.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Loba has gold eyes, and is a thief.
• You Killed My Father: She entered the Apex Games to get revenge on Revenant for murdering her parents by destroying him for good. Later, she decided to torment him by hiding the only thing that could kill him off for good from him, having learned he wanted to die.

Mirage

Elliott Witt — Mirage

Holographic Trickster

"I don't take myself too seriously. I don't take myself anywhere, really. I need to get out more."

Voiced by: Roger Craig Smith (English), Mikhail Kshishtovsky (Russian)

Born during the Frontier War, Elliott Witt was the youngest of his brothers, and one of the most mischievous. To this end, he took a strong interest in Holo-Pilot technology, and fascinated by the illusions that it could generate, he bonded with his mother even as his siblings disappeared during the war, and his mother's memories threatened to do likewise. While working as a bartender for the Paradise Lounge, he heard tales of the Apex Games and the fame and glory that came with it, but only did he realise his dream when his mother gave him a set of customized holo devices to go and participate in the Games.

Mirage is an illusion-deploying prankster who excels in bamboozling enemy squads with his holographic decoys while stealthily moving in for the kill. His tactical ability lets him Psyche Out foes by sending forth a holographic duplicate of himself. The decoy-Mirage vanishes upon taking enough damage, but reveals the location of any attack's source to Mirage's entire squad in the process. His passive ability is Now You See Me... which causes Mirage to turn invisible when performing certain actions - namely, when reviving downed squadmates, respawning them from a beacon, or for a short period after being downed himself. Finally, his ultimate ability is Life of the Party, which generates a team of 6 holographic decoys around Mirage which mimic his movements, making it difficult for enemy squads to determine his exact location.

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• Ascended Meme: "Bamboozle" was a popular memetic term in the Titanfall 2 community for successful uses of the Holo Pilot tactical ability, the developmental predecessor to Mirage's own holographic decoys. Within Titanfall 2 itself, Respawn had already demonstrated awareness of the meme with a special limited time mode titled "The Great Bamboozle", which equipped every player with Holo Pilot decoys. It seems like a natural fit that a character who built himself around the technology so much would end up falling in love with the term himself, even if he does find it hard to pronounce sometimes.
• Attention Whore: Mirage enjoys the fame and attention which comes with being an Apex Games superstar. Many of his intro quips include the sounds of an audience in the background.
  Mirage (intro): "I love when the spotlight's on me."
  • However, it’s hinted from his dialogue when he’s the last person on his team there’s another deeper reason why he enjoys attention: he has a crippling fear of being alone.
• Badass Bookworm: Downplayed. Mirage is a skilled engineer, and tinkers with his equipment off-field, though this aspect of him isn't focused on as much as Caustic's; Crypto's; or Wattson's.
• The Bartender: Mirage’s original job before he joined the Apex Games. He did this to make ends meet, but as evidenced by several former patrons whom he served he was quite talented in this particular career. As revealed in Season Five, he’s still part of the operation on his downtime when he’s not watching over his mother, and even serves up various alcoholic drinks to his fellow legends who happen to be in the area while keeping tabs on them.
  • Later, the bar he worked for, “Paradise Lounge,” was purchased by him using his winnings in the Apex Games, making him the owner of the humble bar he once worked for. Several of the regular patrons he used to serve in the past still visit the place to this day. It was also discovered in a Season Five loading screen, “Arms Race,” that the Witt family actually owned the bar for years, meaning Mirage had earned enough money to purchase it from a relative, and during the Season Five “Broken Ghost” PVE missions his bar was used as the meeting spot for the legends.
• Bash Brothers: With Crypto, ever since the Season Three cinematic launch trailer was released. Season Five further expanded on this with new exclusive voice lines between the two if they’re on the same team, and while they still grate on each other’s nerves it’s clear they will back each other up.
  Mirage: (When a neutral care package is dropping on the map) “Care package... they found you Crypto, run! Heh heh heh, I’m just busting your pork chops, you paranoid weirdo.”
  Mirage: (When reviving Crypto) “No it’s ok no need to thank me, just remember that I saved your life, and you owe me for all eternity. Simple as that, Cryppy.“
  Mirage: (When being revived by Crypto) “W- Aww, no! Aww, you couldn't have just let me die, Crypto!? Just so- it's embara- so... so dumb.“
  Crypto: (When thanking Mirage) “Thank you. Maybe you’re not the fool I took you as... for now.”
  Crypto: (When rescuing Mirage while downed) “Yeah, don’t worry, I’ve got you old man.”
  • During Season Seven, Crypto now refers to Mirage as a kid since the latter knows through Crypto’s (likely faked) profile that he’s apparently older than Mirage.
• Big Eater: Mirage mentions eating three large pizzas by himself during an all-nighter doing research on Wraith’s birthday, which was his personal best.
• Birds of a Feather: A platonic example with Rampart. Both of them love to mock their opponents as well as their teammates for fun, are expert engineers, and have large-than-life personalities which oftentimes clash with other people. The comics that took place during Season Six, several Season Seven character quotes and the “Apex Legends: Pathfinder’s Quest” book teased these two as possible ships as well, though as of late their relationship is closer to Like Brother and Sister for the most part.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Does this with some of his quotes:
  Mirage: "Either you're with me, or your against me. Or you're with me and against me, because that happens sometimes."
• Broken Ace: Mirage has suffered many setbacks in his life and only has his mother left for family - or at least those he still interacts with on a regular basis. Even then, she has dementia and forgets about his existence from time to time. Despite this, Mirage is still an ace bloodsport competitor and showman who is notably the one to cash in on his fame the most; he has several products to his name including a brand of whiskey and even cereal. He's also tech-savvy enough to have improved upon the original design of the holo-tech his mother gave him when he entered the Apex Games - such as making the gear waterproof to deal with the harsh environment some of the arenas contain.
• Butt-Monkey: Trailers and cinematics are not kind to Mirage. He's been blown up, kicked in the face courtesy of Octane, stepped on by a leviathan, punched out by Caustic, and been shown up by Crypto in numerous occasions during the cinematic launch trailer for Season Three. Starting with Season 3, even Bangalore and Bloodhound are making jabs at Mirage. In the flavor texts of certain loading screens, for instance:
  Bangalore: (Commenting on Mirage and Octane) "Witt’s had my back more than once. And whatever, he’s gotten a chuckle out of me. Occasionally. Maybe they’re good. For morale, I mean. I mean… I just need them to stay out of my way."
  Bloodhound (Commenting on a picture of Mirage): "Hmm, he appears to be a competent ally in this photo. That is a pleasant surprise."
• The Charmer: Despite his social awkwardness, he managed to develop a charming, (seemingly) laid back personality which has endeared him to a legion of fans. He claims to only be in the Apex Games for the ladies, but he has other motives beneath it all which makes him a more benevolent figure compared to others. See Hidden Depths below.
• Color Motif: Yellow is the color scheme of his default skin and the background color when he is chosen during the legend selection before a match begins; it reflects his laid-back personality... or rather, the persona he invented to garner attention. See Mellow Fellow below for details.
• Confusion Fu: His gimmick, in a nutshell.
• Cowboy: The aesthetics of Mirage's Halloween “Fight or Fright” event skin, which is humorous and out of place when compared to other legends - the rest of whom had skins with spooky themes.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: "Moron" is a bit harsh, but he's without a doubt goofy compared to many of the other legends. This doesn't change the fact he’s an Apex Games superstar, and a skilled holographic engineer to boot, which led him to great fame as well as a legion of fans who adore him.
  Mirage (upon pinging a flyer): "Flying bird-thing over there - yeesh, that's ugly."
  Mirage: “Y'know, I didn't get here alone. Man, I defeated a lot of people to get here.”
• Deadpan Snarker: Is quite the smart ass.
  Mirage (to a kill target): "I'm so sorry to make you wait. I... I meant to beat you much faster."
  Mirage (to a kill target): “Trust me, losing ain't that bad. I mean you learn something new every time! 'Least... that's what I've been told. I wouldn't know what that's like.”
• Cutscene Incompetence: In Mirage's finishers, the real one is identifiable by his glowing holo-emitters; decoys don't have the glow. In gameplay, summoning decoys causes no glow, only his ultimate does.
• Decoy Protagonist: As of Season 12, that he has a speaking role in all the season trailers except one^note Season 4's, which features Revenant almost exclusively, only otherwise foreshadowing Loba might lead one to believe that he might have a bigger role in the games. He doesn't.
• Delusions of Eloquence: Tries to use sophisticated words on a regular basis, but fails often. See Porky Pig Pronunciation below for examples.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Mirage's abilities are among the most convoluted ones in the game. Utilizing his toolkit with success requires predicting enemy positions and behaviors, which in turn demands careful observation of enemy habits - even during an intense firefight. However, with enough practice his holographic decoys can fool even the most observant opponents, and that momentary distraction can be all Mirage needs to get the upper hand in a firefight (or escape with his life). It also helps that an enemy who destroys his decoy(s) will have their exact location revealed to Mirage’s entire team.
• Disappeared Dad: His mother plays a vital role in his backstory, but his father was never mentioned. More information was released about him over time, including his name: Richard Witt.
  • The Mirage Express game mode during the Season Three Christmas Holo-Day Bash event revealed in a pre-recorded message that Mirage does miss his father - though a comic revealed during Season Six that Mirage considers his father to also be a dead-beat that abandoned his family.
  • Later, the “Apex Legends: Pathfinder’s Quest” book revealed Mirage did meet his father a few times, but never got to know him, and as a result Mirage didn’t feel too bad at first when his father stopped showing up at all. To this day, he still doesn’t know much about what his father did while he was away, but stopped caring when the rest of his family moved on without him... or so he claims, which contradicts his statements during the Holo-Day Bash.
• Ditzy Genius: Mirage is socially awkward, and tends to be a goofball when he interacts with others, but his skills as a holographic engineer - combined with his remarkable fighting prowess on the battlefield - have made him a dangerous force to reckon with in the Apex Games.
  • The “Ditzy” part is downplayed compared to traditional examples. Despite his awkward nature, he can be quite the charmer outside of the games, and has a sharp wit on the battlefield. The latter was evidenced by Mirage managing to fool Bangalore - a military trained individual with more battle experience than him - in the Season One cinematic launch trailer and defeat her. And he has proven himself to be skilled in other areas of life too, such as managing a bar as well as cashing in on his fame - like sponsoring his own brand of whiskey and cereal, plus being a regular topic of interest in the tabloids which further increases his popularity.
• Doppelgänger Spin: Mirage sends Holographic doubles, much like the Holo Pilot tactical in Titanfall 2, but his holographic decoys can be convincing since they pretend to interact with some objects in the environment, and he can control them at will to become even more convincing to unsuspecting opponents.
• Drives Like Crazy:
  • Though his skills depend on that of his player, Mirage's dialog when interacting with a trident implies he is not good at operating them, even mentioning that he never passed his driver's test.
  • Season 8 reveals that he crashed the Mirage Voyage into a city, where it remains and becomes part of a Season 9 arena map. He claims it's because Rampart replaced parts of it with bits scrounged from IMC warships, but that doesn't stop other characters from making jabs at him for it.
• Expy: Mechanics-wise, Mirage is the combination of the Holo Pilot and Cloak tactical from Titanfall 2. Also, from that same game Mirage acts very similar to Droz and Davis; it’s later revealed that Droz is Mirage’s uncle, meaning the shared personalities wasn’t a mere coincidence.
• Everyone Has Standards: Although Mirage disliked Pathfinder during Season Five, the former wasn’t pleased at Loba’s direct insult at Pathfinder during the “Broken Ghost” storyline - declaring him a mere “appliance” when he called her out for lying to the other legends about her true intentions for finding the artifacts. Mirage even backed up Pathfinder and chastised Loba for her deceit as well.
• Extreme Doormat: Mirage is terrified of Revenant; the former even takes the latter’s insults in stride out of fear the latter will “eat Mirage if he complains.” However, in regards to the other legends, this trope is subverted; even Caustic doesn’t scare Mirage.
• Foreshadowing: During Season Three, a limited time event - “Dummie’s Big Day” - showcased an ultimate ability which created a ring of holograph decoys whom mimicked the player’s exact movements. Come Season Five, this became Mirage's new ultimate ability.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Mirage's backstory is that he's an engineer for Holo-Pilot tech. This is generally not remembered, as he's usually showboating in the Apex Games or standing behind the bar at the Paradise Lounge, but sometimes the writing brings this fact back, such as in Season 9 where he's at a meeting with all the other Legends with science-oriented backgrounds, or in a Season 7 loading screen where Crypto recalls that "He’s an idiot, but he’s still an engineer."
• The Gadfly: He likes to mock his enemies when they get “bamboozled” by his holographic decoys, and has a sarcastic attitude. At the same time, he has no problems making fun of his teammates when the opportunity presents itself, as noted with his interactions with Crypto.
  Mirage (to a kill target): "I gotta admit. I may have tricked you."
• Gadgeteer Genius: Mirage tinkers with his holographic/cloaking devices off-field. And while he didn’t create his initial set - having instead received it as a gift from his mother before he entered the games - he modifies them in order to adapt to the battlefield, such as making them waterproof considering Wattson mentioned his gear once malfunctioned from a water-related incident in the past.
  Wattson (on rare occasions when pinging a geyser in World’s Edge): “Let’s use that geyser over there, my gear is waterproof. Who do you think I am? Mirage?” (Giggles)
• Generation Xerox: He learned holographic engineering from his mother, who is considered in-universe to be a genius in that particular field.
• Gibberish of Love: Being around Loba just breaks Mirage, making his perennial foot-in-mouth syndrome even worse. Especially when he's reviving her; poor guy can't even string together a coherent sentence sometimes. However, events that have taken place during Season Five (Mirage finding out that Loba was lying about her true intentions during the “Broken Ghost” storyline) as well as Season Six (Mirage becomes friends with Rampart, which is evolving in Season Seven to be a potential Love Triangle between those two and Wraith) have made it apparent Mirage will likely not hook up with Loba any time soon.
• Goggles Do Nothing: His goggles haven't yet shown to be useful. However, he does wear the goggles and sports a more professional stance with his “Looking Fierce” pose, which hints he might wear the goggles in-universe when he decides to get serious.
  • At some point, he began wearing them while skydiving. Interestingly, his decoys will not be wearing them if he performs an emote that involves one.
• Hates Being Alone: This is why Mirage became an Attention Whore. It’s noticeable when he’s the last person alive on his team that his voice lines become depressing.
• Hidden Depths: Mirage is aware the Outlands has become a Crapsack World ever since the Frontier War ended, and sees the Apex Games as a way to bring joy and entertainment to the otherwise depressed masses. It helps that he’s showered by loving praise from the crowds when he does well in them, but deep down he wants to help people by giving them something to believe in - or at least distract them from their current reality.
  Mirage: “I guess at the end of the day, the Games give people a reason to cheer. Aren't a whole lot of those left in the Outlands these days. Cool to be part of that.”
  • Also, it makes sense that someone who hates being alone mastered a set of devices which allows him to create holographic clones of himself. This way, he always has someone to interact with if no one else is around.
  • As a bartender, he's quite good at reading body language. Season 13's story is set off of by him noticing the tension between Bangalore and Newcastle despite the latter supposedly being new, and reporting this to Wraith so they can investigate.
• Hypocritical Humor: Mirage has a few of these, particularly regarding his self-themed party boat, the "Mirage Voyage".
  • When Fuse introduces himself in his own ship, Mirage snarks that he's clearly Compensating for Something.
  • Upon coming across a wrecked vessel in the Season 11 trailer, he loudly wonders what kind of captain crashes their own ship. Completely ignoring the fact that he did exactly that two seasons prior (albeit off-screen)
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Mirage cares about himself first and foremost, joined the Apex Games partially for the fame and glory, has several Shrine to Self spots (one of which is an actual place to battle on World’s Edge in some versions), not to mention his heirloom weapon is a small statue of himself which has pre-recorded lines talking about how great he is. However, it’s clear all these boosts to his ego is due to the fact he suffers from extreme anxiety when he is alone, and does everything possible to get attention towards himself in order to alleviate these issues. He also doesn’t like it when people think of him as an idiot, which may have been a contributing factor to why he learned holographic engineering at a young age.
• Informed Attribute: At Season 11's launch, Pathfinder will occasionally mention his best boyfriend (Mirage) is afraid of his best girlfriend (Ash). Mirage lacks any specific interaction quips with Ash, unlike his quips towards Revenant.
• Inherently Funny Words: Whenever he creates a holographic decoy, expect him to try working in the word "bamboozle". Unless he forgets how to say it.
• Innocently Insensitive: He mocks Crypto's weird paranoia occasionally. To him, Crypto's just being a weirdo, but to Crypto, participating in the Apex Games is bringing a genuine danger to his life due to the Syndicate's risk of finding out. Crypto takes it in good humor, at least.
• Invisibility Cloak: His passive ability turns him invisible whenever he is reviving a downed ally, using a respawn beacon, or he is downed for five seconds.
• Irony: What is the passive ability of the most attention-seeking legend? Turning invisible.
• It's All About Me: A rare subverted example for a character with narcissistic traits. Although Mirage cares a great deal about himself more than others, he does care about his fellow legends (with the understandable exception of Revenant), and will put himself in harm’s way to protect them. He also cares deeply about his mother, and does his best to help her while she struggles with her dementia. Finally, as mentioned in Hidden Depths above, he’s not in the Apex Games solely for the fame and glory.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: On the one hand, Mirage can be pushy with his teammates, whether that be claiming high tier loot for himself on the basis he found it first (during the Season One cinematic trailer); taunting his own teammates (Crypto in the Season Three cinematic trailer); and clearly shows signs of narcissism, considering his area on the drop ship shows off all his Apex Games trophies as well as favorite fan art. However, he also loves to joke around with his fellow legends in order to lighten them up, and will put himself in harm’s way to save his teammates when they’re in danger - something Wraith can attest to in the Season One cinematic trailer.
  Lifeline: “Keeps your spirits up, that one. Helps when ya down.”
  Gibraltar: “Haha, well, he makes you laugh, so he’s got that going for him.”
  • He even encouraged Pathfinder to join the Apex Games - during the time when Mirage was still a simple bartender - under the context of being a way for the MRVN unit to find his creator. In reality, Mirage wanted to make sure Pathfinder couldn’t be taken advantage of by manipulative people, having learned from the latter that people were promising the MRVN unit information on his creator’s whereabouts - despite the obvious fact they were lying to use Pathfinder as a free laborer.
• Lethal Chef: Not Mirage himself, but his paternal great grandfather Gryz, who wrote Mirage’s favorite pork chops recipe. The recipe, down under Trademark Favorite Food, calls for ridiculous amounts of spices - notably the overkill amount of cloves - which would make your taste buds scream bloody murder, and is fitting considering Mirage’s goofy behavior overall. A more reasonable recipe for said pork chops exists, however, and is listed below as well. See the Trivia tab for more in regards to Mirage’s pork chop recipe.
• Lethal Joke Character: This is what many expert players consider Mirage to be meta-wise. His abilities do not follow a traditional archetype, and it can be difficult to fool players if you aren’t good at selling the deception with his holographic decoys. However, if an enemy is fooled, every second spent shooting or focusing on a holograph is time Mirage gets to heal; charge his shield; revive a teammate; pick up a teammate banner; escape; reload; and/or start shooting at his victim(s).
  • To make matters worse, whenever a holographic decoy is shot, it reveals to Mirage’s team and himself the perpetrator’s exact location. Even if you think Mirage is a joke, his teammates might be a different story altogether, and many of them would love to know where their opponents are hiding.
• Like an Old Married Couple: With Wraith. Some fans believe it runs deeper, considering their interactions ever since the Season One cinematic launch trailer began.
• Like Brother and Sister: Shares this kind of relationship with Rampart. Both of them are excitable, love to mock their opponents as well as teammates, act competitively when facing each other in an Apex Games match, but will also watch each other’s back closely when they’re fighting together. It helps that their respective kits complement each other: Mirage can distract opponents using his decoys and Rampart can take advantage of this in order to shoot down unaware prey with her turret gun.
• Like Father, Like Son: The lore text of a Season 9 loading screen, implied to be a written note by Mirage's father, shows that he exhibits many traits that Mirage himself has. Trouble using complicated words, a desire to have a statue of himself (and jealousy for Pathfinder's giant statue), and using affectionate charm to hide up insecurities — in his case, what appears to be a self-loathing complex rather than anxiety.
• Master of Illusion: Mirage's kit is focused on deceiving enemy players via holographic decoys and cloaking devices.
• Meaningful Name: "Mirage" has a kit that revolves around fooling enemies with holographs - which can mimic his movements - and utilizing a cloaking device to hide himself as well as his allies if they’re in trouble. Also, his last name "Witt" sounds very similar to "wit", and Mirage is defined as a someone who thinks on the spot during intense gunfights to confuse his opponents.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Whereas most of the other legends’s kits are quite archetypical (e.g., Caustic being "the area control guy", Wraith being "the flanker", Gibraltar being "the tank"), Mirage's abilities are seldom seen amongst shooter games, and requires more predictions as well as mind tricks for them to work.
• Mellow Fellow: While Mirage doesn’t lack ambition, he seems more relaxed compared to many of his colleagues. In reality, this is subverted: Mirage has a crippling fear of being alone, and does his best to get attention while maintaining his charming persona in order to alleviate his anxiety.
• Me's a Crowd: Played with. He loves to fool around (e.g., take selfies) with his holographic decoys as if they were real people. However, his holographic decoys aren’t physically tangible clones, which requires him to be more creative with their usage when he’s trying to impress other people.
• Momma's Boy: He has a close familial relationship with his mother. Him and his mother only had each other for the majority of their lives together while he was still a child, which led in part to Mirage becoming the expert holographic engineer he is today. It’s also a huge reason why he’s riddled with anxiety about his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s: she was the only person who knew who the true Elliot was, and now she doesn’t even remember him at all.
  Evelyn Witt (Mirage’s Mother): “Elliot will always be a champion to me, but I might be biased.”
  • During Season Four, it was revealed by the devs that Mirage knows how to play the piano, and loves to play a song which his mother and himself used to sing together: “The Inch Worm,” by Frank Loesser. To this day, he plays as well as sings it for his mother, which helps her fall asleep - an indicator he still takes care of her.
  • During Season Five, it was also revealed Wraith knows about his mother’s condition. And while he does have a crush on Loba, it did spook him how she knew this information before they had even met each other - an indicator she had been researching Mirage for some time, considering he hasn’t revealed his mother’s condition to the public yet.
• Motor Mouth: Has a habit of rambling, and uses far more words than necessary whenever he talks. Also see Porky Pig Pronunciation below.
• Noodle Incident: His dating profile has him deny that he was "attracted" to a pumpkin one night on the planet Dionysus, after eating Khionan mushrooms.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In the aftermath of the comics, which took place during Season Six, it’s revealed that Mirage has officially become friends with Pathfinder - who was overjoyed by this gesture after having recently been dumped by Ash.
  • Mirage himself receives this treatment during the Season Seven cinematic launch trailer. After several trailers of him dying, sometimes in humorous fashion, he finally survives as well as became somewhat close to the new legend Horizon.
• Porky Pig Pronunciation: He runs into this problem often (in stark contrast to Caustic), which adds to Mirage’s goofy yet likable persona.
  Mirage (to a kill target): "You should've known that fighting me is presp-per-pasterous… is dumb."
  Mirage (to a kill target): "Quite the predimese… pred-predifcaiton pred-predicimin? Uh... bad situation for you."
  Mirage (to a kill target): "Of all the fights, this was pretec-predec-per... this was a really good fight, this one was."\\ after using his Psyche Out ability): "Go bamboozalah-go bamba-...fool 'em!"
• The Prankster: Mirage has this reputation in and out of the ring. Though he turns a "new leaf" in Season Seven, he's not stopped from temporarily gluing Crypto's face to the floor.
• Projected Man: His tech grants him the ability to create holographic decoys; they are similar to the real deal, and can be difficult to tell apart from the real person during an intense firefight.
• Pungeon Master: He’s not afraid to fire off puns when the opportunity presents itself.
  Mirage (pinging a geyser): Guys, geyser. It's a geyser, guys. It's a geyser right there, guys... guys?
• Replacement Goldfish: Shows signs of this with Horizon in regards to his mother, who was also a gifted scientist/engineer. While Horizon is a nice person in general, she goes a step further and acts like a caring motherly figure towards Mirage in-game. She never makes fun of him at all within their unique interactions - even complementing him on everything positive he does, similar to how she was a good mother towards her own son Newton. Interestingly enough, Mirage seems to be reciprocating this, seeing her as a motherly figure as well, and enjoys receiving positive comments from her in particular. Considering that Horizon has long since lost her biological son, and Mirage is slowly losing his mother’s memories of him to dementia, it sadly makes sense why these two would share a familial-like bond.
• Revolvers Are for Amateurs: Tends to be portrayed with the Wingman, and also tends to not use it to its fullest extent.
• Schmuck Bait: Go on, shoot Mirage who is acting suspiciously in-game, he can't hurt you... whoops, shot his decoy, now his squad knows your exact location and can flank you as well as your teammate(s). Also, everyone in earshot who heard you shooting now knows where you are too.
• Ship Tease: Zig-zagged with several of the female legends, as befitting of his personality in the legend lineup:
  • Wraith, who is the most prominent example. In the Season One cinematic launch trailer, Wraith saved Mirage from Caustic when Mirage was caught in a poisonous gas trap, and in return Mirage saved her from being executed by Bangalore in a flashback, during which Wraith smiled at his heroic actions. Keep in mind she almost never shows emotions, so the fact Mirage was able to sneak a smile out of her did not escape fans who ship the two together. She also smirked at Mirage’s reaction when Pathfinder tried to make a claim for rare loot they were nearby, and picked up Mirage’s death banner when he succumbed to an enemy grenade.
    • In Season Five, the PVE “Broken Ghost” missions revealed these two have a tense yet close friendship, and while Mirage does tend to annoy Wraith she still puts up with his antics. Coupled with her interactions with Mirage during the example above have led many fans to believe these two might be getting closer as time goes on. It’s also revealed that she is one of the only people who knows the truth about his mother’s condition.
    • In Season Six, it’s revealed that Mirage knows Wraith’s true name, something she doesn’t share with most people. Also, she set up a deal for him which allowed Rampart to set up shop within his bar in exchange for paying rent; it’s hinted that Mirage is having money troubles, and Wraith went out of her way to help him out. Furthermore, after Mirage accidentally enraged Wraith, he went out of his way to find out when her birthday was by searching through his mother’s old work files with the IMC, and shipped a report of it to Wraith along with a party hat. The discovery not only helped Mirage mend fences with her, she even cried while smiling at the kind act.
    • Season Seven has several Ship Tease moments regarding these two. First, a loading screen from this season reveals the tabloids are keeping a close eye on these two alongside Rampart, rumoring that a Love Triangle is forming between the three legends over Mirage’s affections. Also, while Wraith does mostly act polite towards Rampart, there are some passive-aggressive voice lines on Wraith’s behalf which shows she might see Rampart as unwanted competition.
      Wraith (When reviving Rampart): “Keep breathing. Mirage’ll kill me if I lose his special friend.”
  • As of Season Five, Loba appeared at first to have joined the list - at least Mirage thinks so - albeit her true personality as well as profession makes it unlikely anything will occur between the two, thus subverting this trope. Furthermore, during the Season Five “Broken Ghost” PVE missions, Mirage didn’t take it very well when Loba was revealed to have been lying to the other legends about her true goal for finding the artifacts: she was working with Hammond Robotics.
  • As of Season Six, Rampart. While it's mostly bickering, Mirage does try to buy her flowers (then settles on a bouquette of wrenches instead), and also has a bit of a Spit Take when his own holograms tease him about liking her. Rampart seems to take the whole thing in stride, only showing a bit of awkwardness when Mirage revives her in an Apex Games match, although during Season Seven Wraith does seem a little peeved at Rampart’s new friendship with Mirage...
• Shout-Out: One to “Mean Girls” in Season Seven:
  Mirage: (in a trident): "Hey, Crypto! Get in loser, we're going shooting!"
• Shrine to Self: Has several of them, which makes sense considering he’s an Attention Whore:
  • As shown in the Season Three cinematic launch trailer, his personal area on the dropship is one of these, with fan arts of himself on the wall; trophies (presumably from his achievements in the Apex Games); and an action figure of himself.
  • The Mirage Voy‘age, a floating ship introduced during the Holo-Day Bash Christmas LTM on the World's Edge map. The whole ship is full of emoting Mirage holographs. Turning on the ship's party mode creates a loud, flashing party that produces even more giant dancing holographs of himself.
• The Sneaky Guy: Mirage turns invisible whenever he is reviving a downed ally; respawns them back; or when he himself is downed for five seconds, which makes it difficult to keep track of him during a chaotic firefight.
• Stepford Smiler: The average person in-universe wouldn’t know that, for all of Mirage’s charm and enthusiasm, he’s rather depressed; suffers from self-esteem issues; and suffers from constant anxiety, especially in regards to his mother’s Alzheimer’s having progressed to a point where she doesn’t remember who he is.
• Supreme Chef: If Binging with Babish is to be believed, Mirage does indeed make one hell of a pork chop.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Meets the physical description, and is one of the most sarcastic legends in the lineup.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Near the end of the Season Six comics - released on the official Apex Legends twitter account - Mirage had thus far made insensitive jokes about Wraith’s amnesia, launched Rampart’s equipment on a rocket to Olympus, and discovered Pathfinder was depressed after Ash left him but Mirage did nothing initially to help Pathfinder. As a result, Mirage realized his awful attitude had caused problems with his fellow legends and vowed to fix everything. He accomplished this by helping Wraith discover when her birthday was, surprised Pathfinder by filling his room with flowers and a note which revealed Mirage wants them to be friends, and apologized to Rampart along with giving her a bouquet of wrenches as part of his goofy charm. He was successful, and now maintains a strong friendship with all the mentioned legends as well as claiming he plans on “turning a new leaf” in regards to his previous behavior. As if the universe decided to reward Mirage, the official Season Seven launch trailer showcased him not getting killed in some spectacular manner, and the new legend - Horizon - even has taken a liking to him as a kind mother-like figure.
  • Unfortunately, several tabloids believe Mirage’s new attitude makes for boring news, and has begun spreading rumors there is a Love Triangle forming between Mirage; Wraith; and Rampart for Mirage’s affection. Rampart herself does act a little awkward when being revived in-game by Mirage, but is otherwise on friendly platonic terms with him. Wraith, on the other hand, acts somewhat passive-aggressively towards Rampart, indicating the former might see the latter as unwanted competition.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pork chops, plus anything with pork in general, and he will never, ever ever shut it about them. Another favorite food choice of his is pizza which features many pork items on it (chorizo and bacon), something the pizza restaurant “Roma’s Pizzeria” features as a choice on their menu, known as “Elliot’s Fave.” Finally, Mirage’s pork chops even has a recipe:
  Mirage: "It’s an old Witt Family dela...delacass um - food recipe; passed down from my great grandfather Gryz Witt. Start with the glaze: 80ml dijon mustard, 100ml honey, 30ml maple syrup, 15g cinnamon, 15g ground cloves. Mix that baby up good. Take the pork chops and salt ‘em, pepper ‘em, add light cayenne, then sear those sweets in hot oil. Next, smother them darlings in the glaze and pop those lovelys in the oven at 190 for 10-12 minutes and you’ve got my mom’s favorite meal. But don’t tell anyone, it’s a family secret..."
  • Later on, due to the fact the recipe had overkill amounts of cloves in it, the developers released a new recipe:
  Mirage: “Whoa! Rumor has it my secret family pork chop recipe made it out into the whole Outlands and... whoops... it's a tad bid off. Math was never my fort... fart... forfeit? My thing! Sorry, Ma. Here we go now with a little extra Mirage! Glaze: dijon mustard (about 90ml or 3oz), honey (110ml or about 4oz), maple syrup (30ml or 2 tbsps), cinnamon (pinch), ground cloves (pinch), hand squeezed pineapple (about 15ml or 1tbsp - optional, but personally my favorite), pork chops with salt & pepper (sprinkle good), cayenne (pinch), brown sugar (sprinkle on both sides - optional, but personally my favorite). Cook: 1. Sear pork chops on both sides. 2. Glaze both chops. 3. Bake in the oven at 190C (375F) for 10-12 mins or until cooked at least 63C (145F).”
• Trophy Violence: His heirloom, "Too Much Witt", a golden trophy that he can bludgeon enemies with. It moreso resembles a novelty toy more than anything though, given the battery cover on its underside and the pull string that makes the trophy quote Mirage.
• Unknown Rival: Mirage dislikes Pathfinder due to the latter not understanding sarcasm, and because the latter’s cheerful and naive personality tends to annoy Mirage. However, Pathfinder considers Mirage to be his best friend, which is understandable considering that Mirage told Pathfinder about the Apex Games to begin with.
  Pathfinder: “Mirage is my best friend. I love him.”
  • Season Five further expanded on these two. While Mirage appears to secretly enjoy Pathfinder’s company, Mirage is also going out of his way to dislike Pathfinder at the same time. Many fans believe Mirage has issues with losing people in his life - which isn’t out of the question considering how many friends and family members he lost so far - meaning he’s trying to avoid becoming friends with Pathfinder out of fear of losing another person he cared about.
  Mirage: (When revived by Pathfinder) “Wow, uh, glad you were here buddy. (To himself) Pathfinder... just gonna go ahead and bury those feelings now.”
  • As of Season Seven, this trope is subverted. After the comics which were released during Season Six on the official twitter account showed Mirage trying to cheer up Pathfinder with flowers, Mirage now acts like a true friend with Pathfinder - who was overjoyed to become official friends with Mirage.
• Visible Invisibility: Mirage is very faintly visible when he's invisible, thanks to his arm-mounted holo-emitters noticably glowing to anyone who's close enough. Incredibly sharp-eyed players can capitalize on this flaw by tracking Mirage while he's under his Ultimate's invisibility to identify which one is the real one.
  • His heirloom weapon is a small statue of himself with pre-recorded voice lines, all of which humorously depicts his narcissism.

Newcastle

Jackson Williams — Newcastle II

Mobile Guardian

"Defender of the weak, the innocent, and— Who am I kidding? I've got everyone's back."

Voiced by: Gabe Kunda (English)

Lamont Craig is an everyday resident of Harris Valley; a father of two, the most off-the-wall thing one might catch him doing is repairing the armor of Harris Valley's local legend, Newcastle. But there's far more to him than meets the eye; thirteen years ago, he was Jackson Williams, a top soldier for the IMC that defected from their cause once he learned of the sketchy experiments that the IMC's ARES Division were performing. Despite his skills getting rusty since becoming a dad, he's still got them, and once he discovered that Newcastle sold off Harris Valley to a group of gangsters known as the Forgotten Families, the Apex Games called. He fights to earn enough money to buy back his newfound hometown's freedom.

Newcastle is a knight in shining armor that protects his teammates in a pinch by throwing down deployable cover. His tactical has him place a Mobile Shield, which provides a directional forcefield with high health. This shield has multiple purposes, such as protecting his team while they advance, or staying put as additional cover while he revives his teammates using his passive ability, Retrieve the Wounded, which lets him move to safety while reviving allies and protect them using his own Revive Shield. His ultimate, Castle Wall, allows him to leap forward and create a massive fortification on the spot, giving his team an instant source of protection even if he's not in their immediate vicinity.

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• Acrofatic: His model has a mild bulge around his waistline which he occasionally looks at remorsefully or jiggles, suggesting that he's somewhat pudgy beneath his armor. Despite this, his Ultimate grants him some extra movement capabilities over the generic, shared abilities in that it's a large leap forward.
• Action Dad: He's fathered two children since the last time Anita saw him. Doesn't mean he's forgotten his IMC training.
• Bash Brothers: With Bangalore, where the trailers and story show off how instinctively well they work together. Wraith notices this in the Season 13 trailer and finds it incredibly suspicious how Bangalore had perfect chemistry with Newcastle out of the gate.
• Chess Motifs: The Rook is front-and-center on his armor's symbols, and it fits in line with abilities centered around protecting his allies. Also, his Ultimate ability is very comparable to castling in how it lets him move a great distance to protect an allied unit, in addition to creating literal castle walls.
• Close-Range Combatant: Thanks to his ample amounts of shielding, taking Newcastle's squad out from afar is usually a futile effort, and his kit revolves around leaping to the aid of his allies when they're getting pushed. Ergo, you should choose which weapons to run on him with the inevitability of an up-close confrontation in mind.
• Dartboard of Hate: A promo image featuring Jackson's workstation for repairing Newcastle's armor has a graffiti'd image of Forge on said dartboard.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: One of the most heroic members of the cast without a single mean bone in his body, but even he can't stand Forge if his workbench is anything to go by. Considering he sexually harassed Bangalore and then bragged about how much she still wanted him (or so he thought) in pre-game interviews, this hatred is very much justified.
• Feeling Their Age: He's two years older than Bangalore, but hasn't been keeping up his training like her and is showing it. One of his idle lobby animations has him shadow boxing, only to strain himself and rub at his back.
• Foreshadowing: The name "Newcastle" is first mentioned in a Season 4 teaser, with him only becoming playable after 9 more seasons. When Mirage said he's been trying to get into the games for a while, he meant it.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: There were signs all throughout the Season 13 trailer of Newcastle's identity, leading up to The Reveal at the end of it.
  • An early fade-out transition from Newcastle's face to Bangalore's highlights their shared familial traits.
  • Mirage finds it weird that Newcastle is so confident even though it took him dozens of tries to make it in. Turns out it isn't the same Newcastle.
  • The first thing he says about Storm Point is "nothing good can come from this place", almost word-for-word a quote that Bangalore says to Mirage in the Season 11 launch trailer.^note "No good can come from this place." Mirage even reacts with confusion and looks for Bangalore's reaction to emphasize this.
  • His takedown of a Spectre — tackling it to the floor and holding it exposed for Bangalore to stab with her knife — mirrors a scene in Stories from the Outlands: Gridiron where they use the exact same maneuver to kill Sgt. Scryer. They even collapse on the floor in a similar fashion.
  • Immediately after, when Bangalore helps him up, she gets a close look at his face and her eyes widen in recognition of someone familiar.
  • Seconds before his identity is revealed, he's seen hiding a wristband made of bottlecaps and rubber bands. These trinkets are significant to the Williams family, with Bangalore owning a similar one tied around her knife's sheath, and Jackson mentions that he got one for his first deploy in Gridiron.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Bangalore confronts Jackson in Stories from the Outlands: Gridiron, he's seated behind a chessboard, with a singular piece separated from all the others on the board: a rook, similar in appearance to his insignia on his armor.
• High-Tech Hexagons: All of his ability icons are in the shape of a hexagon, asserting his kit's protective nature.
• Impossibly-Compact Folding: His shield, normally forearm-sized, expands to about half as tall as he is when he uses it as a platform to revive allies with, and further unfolding to be multiple characters wide when he plants it down for his Ultimate.
• I Shall Taunt You: He has a character-unique finisher against Bangalore: leaning in and dismissively waggling his finger at her, which she smacks aside before collapsing as he dances to it.
• Legacy Character: The original Newcastle was killed by thugs he owed a debt to just before his next qualifying match. With them unwilling to let the debt go despite his death, Jackson entered the Games to repay the debt himself, taking Newcastle's equipment and title for himself.
• Never Found the Body: Wraith's digging into Jackson's whereabouts turns up his dog tags and records of his body, but the precise location of his grave was lost during a fire multiple years prior so Bangalore couldn't have found his buried body and confirmed it was him that got buried.
• The Paladin: A sci-fi take on this trope. He's a shield-carrying knight in pearly white armor, and his abilities provide healing support or protective barriers. Oh, and his debut season's unlockable cosmetics are themed on knights in medieval-style armor and beastly dragons.
• Papa Wolf: What motivated Jackson to give up his quiet family life, take up the mantle of Newcastle, and join the Apex Games? The gangsters the original Newcastle owed a debt to threatened to burn the town down if he couldn't pay them back.
• Secret Identity: Only Bangalore knows Newcastle is Jackson. The Season 13 story has Wraith notice that it's incredibly suspicious for Newcastle to repeatedly flunk the qualifiers only to suddenly enter and with great combat prowess, indicating that he joined with the old Newcastle's identity. His family also doesn't know his past identity as an IMC Soldier, having married into them as Lamont Craig.
• Sucks at Dancing: Some of his animations have him bust a move, with varying levels of success. His Shield Bash finisher is capped off with a silly-looking skip backwards as he waggles his finger at his victim, and Bangalore even mocks his ability to dance in his character trailer.
  "Don't let his dance moves fool you. Jack... Newcastle can still move."
• Super Hero: His secondary motif after The Paladin riffs on archetypical superhero tropes. He has a Secret Identity in that few people know that the current Newcastle is Lamont Craig and fewer know that Craig is Jackson Williams, his abilities of having high strength with which he can wear his heavy Powered Armor and leap high into the air are a spin on the Flying Brick, and his Stories from the Outlands as well as the title screen animation for his debut season both use a comic book aesthetic.
• Superior Successor: Needless to say, Jackson is much better at being Newcastle than the original Newcastle ever was.
• Support Party Member: No offensive abilities to speak of, every move in his kit is designed to protect his allies.
• Take Up My Sword: When the original Newcastle died, Jackson had to step up to the plate and get into the games to work off the debt to the gangsters and protect Harris Valley.

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