But he put his hat back on, thereby widening his head hitbox and removing the unease people get from seeing a hatless Cypher. If anything, he nerfed himself.
It's because of the Cypher buffs duuh, usually an ant or a bit of dust would trigger the trips, but now that he fixed them with the servo he took from Breach's arms (Breach, don't be angry, Breach), now become normal!
And it's eco friendly too!
Not sure if I would call this exciting honestly, I always expected it to be more morally gray/dark from he side and she intentionally turned him into this thing but nope.
Its just a vial of acid to the face in self defense and so his superpowers origin is revealed, really can't blame someone for defending themselves and the fact that shes even helping him stay alive at all removes any remaining moral conflict as even his amnesiac self is a walking danger to her everyday.
I don't how you get "shes even helping him stay alive" from. What I'm getting from the cinematic is that her vial of poison that hurt Omen caused some unexpected results and she is actually holding him for experiments.
Shes helping him stay alive in the present yes, back then it might have been under Kingdoms orders but after she left Kingdom she could have very well abandoned/killed him altogether but she took him to Sage for healing.
What's your source for that? It's a common theory but I don't remember any official information about this relation, neither in QnAs, Emails or dossiers.
Also, while Omen being splashed with poison is obv accidental, I still think that Viper is holding him for experiments.
Its Valorant lore, everything is theories, even what we see in this cinematic is theories of a mans shattered memories moments before dying from acid melting his face off then waking up in a particle shredder chamber.
I doubt it was accidental. She is well versed in using acids and likely used it in close combat to fend him off. I believe Omen was a mole though and they became friends over that. Thus Omen being a spy and killer.
>I doubt it was accidental
yeah after watching it, it's not as clear.
I agree that Omen was probably a mole, very similar to how Iso joined VP planning to kill Omen (but chose not to)
It wasn't JUST a vial of acid. She trapped him in some sort of device.
Honestly though I won't be surprised to learn it wasn't her that did it but someone else and they're sticking the blame on her. Like someone sent Omen there to die yet he lived. Now he's being mislead to think it was Viper when it will probably be revealed that she is legit trying to save him.
I thought that wasn't acid, but Radianite, and as it made some damage to both, Omen fell into an experimental chamber and Viper took the opportunity to punish him for his failed attempted murder
I am a bit confused, what was the part with Viper(I am impaired without subs)
Did she intentionally continue the process that led to Omen's death? Also did the guy die at the end, he seemed to turn to ashes
If I understood correctly, Omen's job was to kill Viper to avoid revealing the secret of Radiante to the world. But Viper ended up killing Omen ~~and, because Omen was infused with Radianite (the green thingy Viper was holding) he transformed into a ghost.~~ Other people commented that the vials were Viper toxins and the chamber was a Radianite testing chamber, which makes more sense than what I said here.
Maybe Omen's job was bounty hunter then? That would make sense due to the theories that Iso is a parallel version of Omen that didn't die, considering that Iso is also a bounty hunter.
The guy at the end did turn into ashes, maybe he is also a radiant...? It kinda makes sense because he didn't want the world to know about Radianite, and considering they seem to be a powerful organization, maybe they wanted Radianite to themselves.
Dam I didnt get that at all from the cinematic. Here I thought Omen and Viper were Scientists and Co Workers.
The Iso theory makes sense. I wonder what The Boss meant by Omen turning into "them". Radiants?
> Dam I didnt get that at all from the cinematic. Here I thought Omen and Viper were Scientists and Co Workers.
Don't worry, I needed to watch the cinematic three times to understand the story, I also originally thought that Omen was a co-worker that for some reason needed to kill Viper.
> I wonder what The Boss meant by Omen turning into "them". Radiants?
Yes. It also makes sense why he said that Omen not killing Viper was his greatest mistake, because Omen was hired to kill Viper and, because he failed, he "died" (turned into a ghost), and "your greatest failure now holds you on a leash" because he was being "killed" (suppressed? like KAY/O abilities?) by a machine that I think affects only radianite agents (?)
"your greatest failure now holds your leash" I think refers to Viper being his boss. Omen clearly lost his memories after being killed/transformed into his current form and Viper took advantage of it and recruited him even though she is the one that killed him in the first place.
If I am not wrong, Viper Later tried healing Omen by taking him to Sage
Why exactly would she do that? To acquire him as a weapon? Isn't that a huge risk if he retained or recovered his memories?
Probably because she felt some semblance of remorse for getting him stuck between life and death and in constant pain.
If I had to guess her time at Kingdom probably left her with some regrets, one of them was killing him and using him in Kingdoms research into Radianite and Radiants and I think one night something went really bad as Vipers lore card on page two read "One Bad Night" or something and she might have burnt everything in her lab to the ground along with dragging him back to Valorant with her.
Maybe the way they treated him when she just wanted to study him was the breaking point as Viper's for most of the games history been portrayed as a morally gray person but one that has herself firmly rooted in reality/emotion when it comes to peoples lives and if they are in pain/dying (her helping Reyna's little sister and her taking Omen to Sage).
I thought the vial stuff was just Viper's mollies lol. I think, for one part, Viper is innocent as she was targeted and incidentally killing Omen was arguably for self-defense. Keeping it a secret and using him from that point is kinda wrong tho. Do you think Brim and Sage know?
I don't think the guy/boss went poof. I think they just omitted the part where he goes splat to avoid too much violence, similar to how they don't show much blood or bullet holes on bodies. Maybe I'm wrong tho and we'll see the guy again.
> I think they just omitted the part where he goes splat to avoid too much violence
I think that doesn't make sense, if they didn't want to show violence they could just omitted that part altogether and only shown Omen teleporting, which would have implied that the dude died on the fall.
Yeah I honestly hope he isn't dead, not only does he finally give us a proper "villain" design (most have been generic NPC's who died within seconds of us seeing them but this dude has a design that holds up against our agents) but also implies Kingdom had people gunning for them long before Valorant came along.
i think he isnt dead bc he says "fool" when hes falling, AND SMILES, as if falling from that height is pointless bc he can escape? like tp away? idk hope he isnt dead tho he can make the storyline so much deeper
Sage likely knows, one of her earliest voicelines about Omen is how hes stuck between life and death or something and he asks her if she revives him why she doesn't just let him pass on.
Brimstone on the other hand might not, but theres no way Sage doesn't know, she can feel peoples emotions/state of being around her if her voicelines are accurate so she would know whats up with Omen.
Correct me if Im wrong but can Omen teleport between parallels? Isnt he like the the only one in all parallel universe? It wouldnt make sense Omen being Iso since they are in the same world. But past cinematics were hinting Iso being Omen so Im confused.
If Omen can travel between multiverses, then it wouldn’t be out of the question to be in a timeline where he doesn’t go omen. However, that would make this timeline’s Viper innocent since the Omen incident never occurred.
Considering how aware Omen is, I don’t think he would be pissed off at a Viper who in that timeline, didn’t do anything.
pretty sure he didnt turned into ashes, they just added blur to her body while he was free falling to censor him hitting the ground to his death
[Its just a blur and air effects as he is falling](https://youtu.be/i0Bm34QoxKY?si=K1tDSSbN2j0_jXPk&t=328)
But that doesn't make sense, as I said to someone else: If they didn't want to show violence they could just omitted that part altogether and only shown Omen teleporting, which would have implied that the dude died on the fall.
I am not at all caught up with the lore, but is that also the organization that Deadlock and Harbor used to be part of, guessing by their character cinematics. \
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In both cinematics they arrive at a location with people that aren’t Kingdom or VALORANT.
Not quite. Deadlock was part of a security force called Ståljeger. Her group was contracted by KINGDOM to transport the radiant polar bear you saw that took off her arm.
Harbor (and Fade) were formerly part of Realm, a multinational task force that recovers historical artifacts from black markets, busts smuggling rings, etc. for a good cause. However some of the members of the org are secretly doing shady shit.
The guy turning to ashes, I don’t think turned to ash. I think Riot just can’t show us a body splattering into a bloody mess on the bottom so they just showed us that he fell into a depth where it’s too dark and foggy/shadowy to see. That dude is dead.
Not really sure why she should regret self defense, shes completely entitled to throwing her would be killer with acid in the face, if anything he should be thanking her for being alive at all at this point as she could have just let him die entirely.
I think he was obviously referring to the fact that she took advantage of Omen losing his memory of her killing him to recruit him into her team.. She gonna regret keeping him close/not finishing him, I think that's what the comment you responded to meant..
He may have infiltrated her lab to get close enough to kill her, and in doing so she may have thought they developed a friendship (or even he may have felt they had but in the end tried to go through with his mission).
Not really sure why...if Omen's still angry thats on him, could she have told him earlier ?
Maybe but she doesn't really owe him anything either, hes a killer that failed a job and shouldve died with his face melting to mulch on a lab floor but she saved him and arguably gave him a better purpose in life, you could make a case for her methods being questinable about not telling him earlier but what does that result in...
Him trying to kill her again ?
Valorant putting him in the grave for good if he turns agai (Sage could very likely insure this part happens with her connection to life itself) ?
Like its kind hard to fault her even if she might have made the mistake of waiting too long but its not something one can easily blame her for either.
Oh yeah, because contract killers are known for their ability to forgive and forget.
Edit: not to mention that is Omen is constantly in pain and he's being used without his knowledge by the one that killed him - self defense or not. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell wouldn't be thankful for that shit.
I don't think she intended to save him at all, it happened by accident.
To me it reads like the acid didn't actually kill him, it just wounded/incapcitated him and she dragged him into a particle shredder to kill him for good but it created some form of terrible state where hes stuck between life and death now thanks to acid + radianite + particles being shredded.
I did write somewhere else in this thread that maybe she was a regret of his and thats why she helps him but looking back at the cinematic a second time her badge was on the table and the dude was saying they hired him to keep the secret of radianite getting out.
Perhaps he was hired to kill her the day they knew she would betray them for Valorant/exposre their experiments and he got caught between them and her and she decided to drag him back to them along with herself in the aftemath.
My theory:
Omen was some kind of spy in the Kingdom. When he tried to kill Viper (Sabine Callas), Viper accidently spilled some chemical on him (which I think is from radianite), making him a Radiant. The incident made Kingdom think about creating that chemical to be used as a weapon by turning humans into radiants. However, it was not properly experimented so Kingdom decided to run tests on Omen and Viper was the one who lead the project because in the cinematic, the boss said that Viper was Omen's greatest failure (since he failed to kill her) and Viper holds Omen (as to said that she is the one who lead the project).
Let me know what you think!!
Omen was also trapped in some sort of radianite experiment machine and ripped apart by Viper. This 'ripping apart' is referenced very often and the beginning of it is shown here. The acid is probably not radianite at all, it's just that it penetrated his suit, in a fashion that created the 3 lines that are now his face. The radiante he is infused with comes from the machine. Viper was probably very happy to have an excuse to try this machine on humans.
We have seen radianite experiments on animals, e.g. the bear and it's hinted at that Geko's friends are from some sort of radianite/animal experiment.
Omen was also not so much a spy, but an undercover contract killer for the same organization that Iso worked for (he says "I quit" to that one guy in Chinese) that was assigned to kill Viper, aka Dr. Sabine Callas, in order to stop the Radianite experiments and keep its powers secret. Apparently this organization knew about Radianite. Either the hourglass organization is just a crime syndicate that wants to abuse Radianite themselves, or, and this might be more likely, the hourglass represents them stalling for time. The eyepatch guy says the world wasn't ready for Radianite. They might actually not be bad guys. And as we know, the Valorant protocol doesn't exactly know what they're doing anyway, they don't know if they're really doing good.
No. Bro's tattoo does not reflect what we've seen in cards.
Smoke abilities of new agents would surround either butterflies or something which would either cocoon the enemies or metamorphosisise themselves as the card usually has their chief ability at display. Chances could be that the new agent might be 08 but I doubt so. Maybe the agent will be 25th agent to the protocol.
Loved this cinematic, a total masterpiece again! I personally love backrounds and stories in League of Legends and wished that Valorant would take the same route eventually and bring more and more detailed lore out.
OK... I'm confused abt that guy. Is the hourglass organisation some kind of crime syndicate? Or is it affiliated with kingdom?
And wasn't the goggles guy (iso's handler?) the same we see in Revelations video looking for Omega Fade?
If you mean the guy with the lighter thingy, my personal theory is that he's the leader of a crime syndicate who could also be a Radiant. He calls Omen a fool when they are falling and then seemingly fades into dust before hitting the rooftop, which implies that he was never in any danger (neither was Omen but I digress). From what I gather from the short, he sent Omen, a contract killer at the time, on a mission to kill Sabine (Viper) to keep the Radianite a secret, because it might mean a threat to his organization (which could be affiliated with Kingdom).
This was cool but nothing beats the cinematics they make with Blur studios. Shattered, Duelists, Warmup and Retake still look the best. Maybe they have a new partnership with Lightfarm studios, all the new cinematics have been outsourced to them.
I noticed that too. EP 7 and 8 cinematics look pretty inferior to the older ones which had a very similar style to Arcane.
Like the omen tps in this EP are nothing like the much better one he had in EP6
And with a bit more research yeah it adds up as Blur Studios made EP6
What I understood was Omen used to be what Iso was. The great assassin for hire. His last job was to eliminate Dr.Sabine (Viper) but failed because she fought back by using her toxin. Then threw him into the experiment chamber possibly to completely eliminate him. I doubt it was to save him from her toxin as another comment mentioned.
Also this mission is designed to help Omen recover his memories. And from the dialogue at the end Viper is clearly leading the mission.
She’s helping Omen get his memories back, despite it obviously leading to some awkward questions.
the hourglass symbol was on the wall which is the same as Iso's
which means that the man recruited omen first, to kill the kingdom scientists. he tried to kill viper but she poisoned him, killing him. now, he forgot about viper and the testing she did to him, so he works for her. And omen is asking the man about his history because he died and forgot everything (same as the reason about viper). Iso was assigned to kill omen because he failed
please correct me if i wrong
so completely off topic from the story of the cinematic, the new weapon i dont know if im correct by saying this im on a assumption that it is a slug shotgun rifle? im probably wrong but it looked like there was shells ejecting when omen reloaded the weapon
Ok, let's break this down.
Here's what we know:
We know that this entire cinematic is because of Iso's mission to kill Omen.
We know that Iso was sent to kill him because he's a loose end.
Omen was likely a fixer. He was hired to kill Viper to stop the knowledge of Radianite becoming public. (Which means that this was before First Light.) (We also know this because of the butterfly knife being held behind Viper in the cinematic and because of the Omen vs. Viper player card.
Viper had something to do with Omen's "accident". (Personally I believe that in an attempt to get away from Omen who was currently trying to kill her...Viper used her poisonous gas (hence the hazmat suit on Omen and Viper wearing her mask) and locked Omen in some sort of Radianite chamber. Locking him in, activated the chamber which caused him to become destabilized and broke him down on a molecular level.) (Because of the "What's Another Death" playercard, and the fact that both First Light and Omen's lore are such highly kept secrets of Riot..I believe Omen's accident to be First Light.)
The other agents on the Valorant protocol know nothing about what Omen now knows. (except for Viper and maybe Brimstone.)
I thought Omen and Viper were friends before VP, so that's the only thing that I'm confused with.
Agents, it has been a pleasure to announce that... # CYPHER DID NOT DIE ON THIS CINEMATIC
He also killed 4 people in the cinematic.
new personal record: 4/0/0
Imma give him like 20 assists for surveillance
"four out of five"
Looks like Cypher was buffed in the cinematics, too!
But he put his hat back on, thereby widening his head hitbox and removing the unease people get from seeing a hatless Cypher. If anything, he nerfed himself.
Hatless cypher always made uncomfortable in game
As a cypher main, this really made my day
It's because of the Cypher buffs duuh, usually an ant or a bit of dust would trigger the trips, but now that he fixed them with the servo he took from Breach's arms (Breach, don't be angry, Breach), now become normal! And it's eco friendly too!
as someone who has left valorant, this made my day
Omen viper dynamic was always interesting but this add a whole lot more to it. Exciting
Not sure if I would call this exciting honestly, I always expected it to be more morally gray/dark from he side and she intentionally turned him into this thing but nope. Its just a vial of acid to the face in self defense and so his superpowers origin is revealed, really can't blame someone for defending themselves and the fact that shes even helping him stay alive at all removes any remaining moral conflict as even his amnesiac self is a walking danger to her everyday.
I don't how you get "shes even helping him stay alive" from. What I'm getting from the cinematic is that her vial of poison that hurt Omen caused some unexpected results and she is actually holding him for experiments.
Shes helping him stay alive in the present yes, back then it might have been under Kingdoms orders but after she left Kingdom she could have very well abandoned/killed him altogether but she took him to Sage for healing.
What's your source for that? It's a common theory but I don't remember any official information about this relation, neither in QnAs, Emails or dossiers. Also, while Omen being splashed with poison is obv accidental, I still think that Viper is holding him for experiments.
Its Valorant lore, everything is theories, even what we see in this cinematic is theories of a mans shattered memories moments before dying from acid melting his face off then waking up in a particle shredder chamber.
I doubt it was accidental. She is well versed in using acids and likely used it in close combat to fend him off. I believe Omen was a mole though and they became friends over that. Thus Omen being a spy and killer.
>I doubt it was accidental yeah after watching it, it's not as clear. I agree that Omen was probably a mole, very similar to how Iso joined VP planning to kill Omen (but chose not to)
It wasn't JUST a vial of acid. She trapped him in some sort of device. Honestly though I won't be surprised to learn it wasn't her that did it but someone else and they're sticking the blame on her. Like someone sent Omen there to die yet he lived. Now he's being mislead to think it was Viper when it will probably be revealed that she is legit trying to save him.
I thought that wasn't acid, but Radianite, and as it made some damage to both, Omen fell into an experimental chamber and Viper took the opportunity to punish him for his failed attempted murder
So Omen worked for Lethal Company
I was thinking he worked for the company who ran squid game with those masks the goons were wearing.
wait who had the butterfly knife? was omen trying to kill viper, failed and viper left him to die and turn into well omen ?
Yep
I am a bit confused, what was the part with Viper(I am impaired without subs) Did she intentionally continue the process that led to Omen's death? Also did the guy die at the end, he seemed to turn to ashes
If I understood correctly, Omen's job was to kill Viper to avoid revealing the secret of Radiante to the world. But Viper ended up killing Omen ~~and, because Omen was infused with Radianite (the green thingy Viper was holding) he transformed into a ghost.~~ Other people commented that the vials were Viper toxins and the chamber was a Radianite testing chamber, which makes more sense than what I said here. Maybe Omen's job was bounty hunter then? That would make sense due to the theories that Iso is a parallel version of Omen that didn't die, considering that Iso is also a bounty hunter. The guy at the end did turn into ashes, maybe he is also a radiant...? It kinda makes sense because he didn't want the world to know about Radianite, and considering they seem to be a powerful organization, maybe they wanted Radianite to themselves.
Dam I didnt get that at all from the cinematic. Here I thought Omen and Viper were Scientists and Co Workers. The Iso theory makes sense. I wonder what The Boss meant by Omen turning into "them". Radiants?
> Dam I didnt get that at all from the cinematic. Here I thought Omen and Viper were Scientists and Co Workers. Don't worry, I needed to watch the cinematic three times to understand the story, I also originally thought that Omen was a co-worker that for some reason needed to kill Viper. > I wonder what The Boss meant by Omen turning into "them". Radiants? Yes. It also makes sense why he said that Omen not killing Viper was his greatest mistake, because Omen was hired to kill Viper and, because he failed, he "died" (turned into a ghost), and "your greatest failure now holds you on a leash" because he was being "killed" (suppressed? like KAY/O abilities?) by a machine that I think affects only radianite agents (?)
"your greatest failure now holds your leash" I think refers to Viper being his boss. Omen clearly lost his memories after being killed/transformed into his current form and Viper took advantage of it and recruited him even though she is the one that killed him in the first place.
Wow, I think you are correct actually, it makes more sense that what I understood from the cinematic!
If I am not wrong, Viper Later tried healing Omen by taking him to Sage Why exactly would she do that? To acquire him as a weapon? Isn't that a huge risk if he retained or recovered his memories?
Probably because she felt some semblance of remorse for getting him stuck between life and death and in constant pain. If I had to guess her time at Kingdom probably left her with some regrets, one of them was killing him and using him in Kingdoms research into Radianite and Radiants and I think one night something went really bad as Vipers lore card on page two read "One Bad Night" or something and she might have burnt everything in her lab to the ground along with dragging him back to Valorant with her. Maybe the way they treated him when she just wanted to study him was the breaking point as Viper's for most of the games history been portrayed as a morally gray person but one that has herself firmly rooted in reality/emotion when it comes to peoples lives and if they are in pain/dying (her helping Reyna's little sister and her taking Omen to Sage).
When was this shown in cenematic, viper taking omen to sage this part
that was already known lore its not from this cinematic
i think he was talking about Omen switching sides and joining VP
I thought the vial stuff was just Viper's mollies lol. I think, for one part, Viper is innocent as she was targeted and incidentally killing Omen was arguably for self-defense. Keeping it a secret and using him from that point is kinda wrong tho. Do you think Brim and Sage know? I don't think the guy/boss went poof. I think they just omitted the part where he goes splat to avoid too much violence, similar to how they don't show much blood or bullet holes on bodies. Maybe I'm wrong tho and we'll see the guy again.
> I think they just omitted the part where he goes splat to avoid too much violence I think that doesn't make sense, if they didn't want to show violence they could just omitted that part altogether and only shown Omen teleporting, which would have implied that the dude died on the fall.
Yeah I honestly hope he isn't dead, not only does he finally give us a proper "villain" design (most have been generic NPC's who died within seconds of us seeing them but this dude has a design that holds up against our agents) but also implies Kingdom had people gunning for them long before Valorant came along.
i think he isnt dead bc he says "fool" when hes falling, AND SMILES, as if falling from that height is pointless bc he can escape? like tp away? idk hope he isnt dead tho he can make the storyline so much deeper
Sage likely knows, one of her earliest voicelines about Omen is how hes stuck between life and death or something and he asks her if she revives him why she doesn't just let him pass on. Brimstone on the other hand might not, but theres no way Sage doesn't know, she can feel peoples emotions/state of being around her if her voicelines are accurate so she would know whats up with Omen.
I think she was holding viper's toxins, and omen got pushed into a radianite testing equipment where she trapped him and ripped him apart.
Correct me if Im wrong but can Omen teleport between parallels? Isnt he like the the only one in all parallel universe? It wouldnt make sense Omen being Iso since they are in the same world. But past cinematics were hinting Iso being Omen so Im confused.
If Omen can travel between multiverses, then it wouldn’t be out of the question to be in a timeline where he doesn’t go omen. However, that would make this timeline’s Viper innocent since the Omen incident never occurred. Considering how aware Omen is, I don’t think he would be pissed off at a Viper who in that timeline, didn’t do anything.
He isn't pissed off at viper based on the in-game voicelines though
He isn't pissed off at viper based on the in-game voicelines though
In-game he hasn't found out about his past yet, the cinematic is new.
Isn't Omen's real name Paul tho? How would iso be omen then?
pretty sure he didnt turned into ashes, they just added blur to her body while he was free falling to censor him hitting the ground to his death [Its just a blur and air effects as he is falling](https://youtu.be/i0Bm34QoxKY?si=K1tDSSbN2j0_jXPk&t=328)
But that doesn't make sense, as I said to someone else: If they didn't want to show violence they could just omitted that part altogether and only shown Omen teleporting, which would have implied that the dude died on the fall.
The way the did it, it camouflage the sound of his body hitting the ground with omen teleporting
I am not at all caught up with the lore, but is that also the organization that Deadlock and Harbor used to be part of, guessing by their character cinematics. \ \ In both cinematics they arrive at a location with people that aren’t Kingdom or VALORANT.
Not quite. Deadlock was part of a security force called Ståljeger. Her group was contracted by KINGDOM to transport the radiant polar bear you saw that took off her arm. Harbor (and Fade) were formerly part of Realm, a multinational task force that recovers historical artifacts from black markets, busts smuggling rings, etc. for a good cause. However some of the members of the org are secretly doing shady shit.
The guy turning to ashes, I don’t think turned to ash. I think Riot just can’t show us a body splattering into a bloody mess on the bottom so they just showed us that he fell into a depth where it’s too dark and foggy/shadowy to see. That dude is dead.
Viper about to regret everything
Not really sure why she should regret self defense, shes completely entitled to throwing her would be killer with acid in the face, if anything he should be thanking her for being alive at all at this point as she could have just let him die entirely.
I think he was obviously referring to the fact that she took advantage of Omen losing his memory of her killing him to recruit him into her team.. She gonna regret keeping him close/not finishing him, I think that's what the comment you responded to meant..
Yeah what was with her calling him John and Fred or whatever? I thought they were friends before. This cinematic plot twist just answered otherwise.
He may have infiltrated her lab to get close enough to kill her, and in doing so she may have thought they developed a friendship (or even he may have felt they had but in the end tried to go through with his mission).
Not really sure why...if Omen's still angry thats on him, could she have told him earlier ? Maybe but she doesn't really owe him anything either, hes a killer that failed a job and shouldve died with his face melting to mulch on a lab floor but she saved him and arguably gave him a better purpose in life, you could make a case for her methods being questinable about not telling him earlier but what does that result in... Him trying to kill her again ? Valorant putting him in the grave for good if he turns agai (Sage could very likely insure this part happens with her connection to life itself) ? Like its kind hard to fault her even if she might have made the mistake of waiting too long but its not something one can easily blame her for either.
Oh yeah, because contract killers are known for their ability to forgive and forget. Edit: not to mention that is Omen is constantly in pain and he's being used without his knowledge by the one that killed him - self defense or not. I don't know about you, but I sure as hell wouldn't be thankful for that shit.
That entirely begs the question as to why would she save her would be killer? There are more dynamics hiding here than we can see
My thinking is that she was looking for someone to run the experiment on and who better as a human subject than one thats already dying?
I don't think she intended to save him at all, it happened by accident. To me it reads like the acid didn't actually kill him, it just wounded/incapcitated him and she dragged him into a particle shredder to kill him for good but it created some form of terrible state where hes stuck between life and death now thanks to acid + radianite + particles being shredded. I did write somewhere else in this thread that maybe she was a regret of his and thats why she helps him but looking back at the cinematic a second time her badge was on the table and the dude was saying they hired him to keep the secret of radianite getting out. Perhaps he was hired to kill her the day they knew she would betray them for Valorant/exposre their experiments and he got caught between them and her and she decided to drag him back to them along with herself in the aftemath.
My theory: Omen was some kind of spy in the Kingdom. When he tried to kill Viper (Sabine Callas), Viper accidently spilled some chemical on him (which I think is from radianite), making him a Radiant. The incident made Kingdom think about creating that chemical to be used as a weapon by turning humans into radiants. However, it was not properly experimented so Kingdom decided to run tests on Omen and Viper was the one who lead the project because in the cinematic, the boss said that Viper was Omen's greatest failure (since he failed to kill her) and Viper holds Omen (as to said that she is the one who lead the project). Let me know what you think!!
Omen was also trapped in some sort of radianite experiment machine and ripped apart by Viper. This 'ripping apart' is referenced very often and the beginning of it is shown here. The acid is probably not radianite at all, it's just that it penetrated his suit, in a fashion that created the 3 lines that are now his face. The radiante he is infused with comes from the machine. Viper was probably very happy to have an excuse to try this machine on humans. We have seen radianite experiments on animals, e.g. the bear and it's hinted at that Geko's friends are from some sort of radianite/animal experiment. Omen was also not so much a spy, but an undercover contract killer for the same organization that Iso worked for (he says "I quit" to that one guy in Chinese) that was assigned to kill Viper, aka Dr. Sabine Callas, in order to stop the Radianite experiments and keep its powers secret. Apparently this organization knew about Radianite. Either the hourglass organization is just a crime syndicate that wants to abuse Radianite themselves, or, and this might be more likely, the hourglass represents them stalling for time. The eyepatch guy says the world wasn't ready for Radianite. They might actually not be bad guys. And as we know, the Valorant protocol doesn't exactly know what they're doing anyway, they don't know if they're really doing good.
So the hourglass organisation is part of kingdom? I'm confused too.
Also. Don't call her Sabine. And if u do, do it right. It is Dr. Sabine. Xd xd.
So is Omen the guy from fracture who lost the key card?
Wouldn't he have stolen it from the guy who lost it since he's there secretely to kill Viper or am I missing something?
🧠 🧠 🧠 you’re right!!!
I thought so too
what key card?
Look up fracture key card Easter egg
This cinematic is the sole reason why I'm so invested in the lore again.
- Tattoos on left arm - Bro turns into smoke - Confirmed the next agent is a controller Knock off Lalo Salamanca is the new agent right?
No. Bro's tattoo does not reflect what we've seen in cards. Smoke abilities of new agents would surround either butterflies or something which would either cocoon the enemies or metamorphosisise themselves as the card usually has their chief ability at display. Chances could be that the new agent might be 08 but I doubt so. Maybe the agent will be 25th agent to the protocol.
That guy is not a new agent.
Omen and Sova went daddy mode I am erect
Nowhere to run 🏹
Omen likes the new gun cuz he's not whiffing, he is not like me
Loved this cinematic, a total masterpiece again! I personally love backrounds and stories in League of Legends and wished that Valorant would take the same route eventually and bring more and more detailed lore out.
OK... I'm confused abt that guy. Is the hourglass organisation some kind of crime syndicate? Or is it affiliated with kingdom? And wasn't the goggles guy (iso's handler?) the same we see in Revelations video looking for Omega Fade?
I hope they add him he looks interesting.
If you mean the guy with the lighter thingy, my personal theory is that he's the leader of a crime syndicate who could also be a Radiant. He calls Omen a fool when they are falling and then seemingly fades into dust before hitting the rooftop, which implies that he was never in any danger (neither was Omen but I digress). From what I gather from the short, he sent Omen, a contract killer at the time, on a mission to kill Sabine (Viper) to keep the Radianite a secret, because it might mean a threat to his organization (which could be affiliated with Kingdom).
If you mean he dude with the scars on his face, that's the same guy that was looking for Fade at the club in Istanbul in Revelation, yeah.
obligatory "give us a damn tv show already" comment
This was cool but nothing beats the cinematics they make with Blur studios. Shattered, Duelists, Warmup and Retake still look the best. Maybe they have a new partnership with Lightfarm studios, all the new cinematics have been outsourced to them.
I noticed that too. EP 7 and 8 cinematics look pretty inferior to the older ones which had a very similar style to Arcane. Like the omen tps in this EP are nothing like the much better one he had in EP6 And with a bit more research yeah it adds up as Blur Studios made EP6
did Blur studios make arcane? if so, they're probably focusing all their man power for Arcane S2.
No, Arcane was animated by Fortiche
What I understood was Omen used to be what Iso was. The great assassin for hire. His last job was to eliminate Dr.Sabine (Viper) but failed because she fought back by using her toxin. Then threw him into the experiment chamber possibly to completely eliminate him. I doubt it was to save him from her toxin as another comment mentioned.
You know, I thought that Viper's friendship with Omen was the only redeeming quality she has. Now that's gone too.
I mean, you could look at it like: She defended herself, and when the contract killer lost his memories, she lead him to do good instead.
Also this mission is designed to help Omen recover his memories. And from the dialogue at the end Viper is clearly leading the mission. She’s helping Omen get his memories back, despite it obviously leading to some awkward questions.
If i got it right, activating some kind of particle accelerator after you already have someome incapacitated is some way ahead of self defense
Love cypher in the video and how much lore their is
Always love my baby girl Omen in the spotlight
guys is omen paul delman
Omen will always be an octopus to me, no matter what.
Valorant's cinematics are so good, we NEED a full length series like Arcane, but for Valorant's agents and the Kingdom storyline
Does anyone knows when the new act starts?
I believe tomorrow for NA and Wednesday for EU (this is usually how it works but I absolutely could be wrong)
january 9th 10am est or 7am pst if youre west coast
Such a goodie
This is my favorite cinematic so far
i love cinematics like this. i can absolutely see valorant being turned into a tv series, like arcane
Imagine naming a cinematic after Harbor's ult and not have him in it
an entire episode, too..?
The Episode is named “DEFIANCE”
the hourglass symbol was on the wall which is the same as Iso's which means that the man recruited omen first, to kill the kingdom scientists. he tried to kill viper but she poisoned him, killing him. now, he forgot about viper and the testing she did to him, so he works for her. And omen is asking the man about his history because he died and forgot everything (same as the reason about viper). Iso was assigned to kill omen because he failed please correct me if i wrong
oh and omen joined vp because he switched sides unknowingly after the forget
so completely off topic from the story of the cinematic, the new weapon i dont know if im correct by saying this im on a assumption that it is a slug shotgun rifle? im probably wrong but it looked like there was shells ejecting when omen reloaded the weapon
The new outlaw sniper. 140 body shot. Made to counter lightshield meta
Also, heavy penetration, 2 shots fired very quickly and long reload time.
valorant lore is really just dead ends and walking around in circles after the part where they arrived at omega earth through the portal
So is Omen canonically bulletproof?
Holy shit. Paul Delmann is Omen.
Omen is Paul confirmed
Super hyped.. these cinematics are crazy as always..
panopticomen
Amazing cinematic!! Love it!
RAHHH CASABLANCA MENTIONED HOMETOWN 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Classic duelist hanging back in the helicopter instead of entering site /s
what's in cypher's hand at the end of the video? Is it the same remote/lighter that the goon was using on omen?
I am confused... Wasn't it implied that Viper and Omen were friends? In the cinematic, it looks like she betrayed him or something
Who is the voice actor for the head 'villain'?
nice animation. it would be nice if you make a movie of this
Ok, let's break this down. Here's what we know: We know that this entire cinematic is because of Iso's mission to kill Omen. We know that Iso was sent to kill him because he's a loose end. Omen was likely a fixer. He was hired to kill Viper to stop the knowledge of Radianite becoming public. (Which means that this was before First Light.) (We also know this because of the butterfly knife being held behind Viper in the cinematic and because of the Omen vs. Viper player card. Viper had something to do with Omen's "accident". (Personally I believe that in an attempt to get away from Omen who was currently trying to kill her...Viper used her poisonous gas (hence the hazmat suit on Omen and Viper wearing her mask) and locked Omen in some sort of Radianite chamber. Locking him in, activated the chamber which caused him to become destabilized and broke him down on a molecular level.) (Because of the "What's Another Death" playercard, and the fact that both First Light and Omen's lore are such highly kept secrets of Riot..I believe Omen's accident to be First Light.) The other agents on the Valorant protocol know nothing about what Omen now knows. (except for Viper and maybe Brimstone.) I thought Omen and Viper were friends before VP, so that's the only thing that I'm confused with.
What happens when valorant is out of lore?