#Nier automata 2b art android

The character's creator, Yoko Taro, has stated that he believes the character resonated with players due to her personality and design. It is unexpectedly successful, restoring 2B and her companions to life, repairing their bodies, and freeing them from the control of Project YoRHa. However, in Ending E, her pod, 042, launches a suicide attack on the systems trying to erase her consciousness. In Ending C and D, she perishes along with 9S and A2 as the machines' Tower collapses. It is also revealed that due to their 'disposable' status, she and the other YoRHa units' Black Boxes were recycled from machine lifeforms.

It is revealed that a backdoor in the Bunker was intentionally placed in order to wipe out YoRHa, including 2B, allowing the creation of a new generation of androids who do not realize the truth, and indefinitely drawing out the war. A2 learns that 2B's true designation is a Type E 'Executioner' model, and that she knows the truth about humanity's extinction forced to kill her partner 9S over and over in order to prevent him from learning the truth. For the remainder of the game, she exists within A2, who is able to access her memories. 2B falls victim soon after, and asks A2 to kill her and upload her memories into A2's own system. In the game's Ending A and B, she is forced to kill 9S with her own hands after he is infected with a logic virus by the hostile machine lifeform Eve, a fact that causes her a great deal of trauma, although he is revealed to have survived by copying his consciousness into surrounding machine lifeforms.Īfter Endings A and B, 2B is sent to Earth again as part of a large-scale assault, but she and 9S are the sole survivors after the machines corrupt all of YoRHa with a logic virus, making them go violently insane. Despite her cold demeanor, she is accommodating towards the game's faction of peaceful machine lifeforms, largely ignoring 9S's warnings. From her base in the orbiting Bunker, she descends to Earth to fight machine lifeforms created by aliens in an attempt to wipe out all of humanity. She is commonly partnered with the unit 9S, a 'scanner unit' specializing in hacking and intelligence.

#Nier automata 2b art android

History ĢB is initially created as a combat android, part of a model line based on the android A2, who had since gone rogue. This makes said units more prone to malfunction and going rogue. Though supposedly a miniature fusion reactor, it is later revealed to have been created from machine lifeform cores, as installing 'standard AI' was considered 'inhumane' for the ultimately disposable YoRHa androids. As with all other YoRHa, her consciousness is contained within a unique type of core, the Black Box, which creates a massive energy detonation upon touching another Box. A removable black blindfold covers her eyes and functions as a head-up display.ĢB possesses superhuman combat abilities, and the ability to backup her consciousness to her base at the Bunker, obtaining a new copy of her body from storage. Under her skirt is a white leotard that is revealed if her outfit is damaged in battle, or she activates her self-destruct function. She wears a short black dress adorned with feathers and white gloves with black designs, and other accoutrements reminiscent of lolita fashion. Her uniform has been both praised as an example of haute couture in video games and criticized for its sexualized appearance.ĢB has silvery white hair and pale skin, a beauty mark at the right of her lips, with a distinctly human appearance and features. She has been noted as a popular character amongst fans both for her personality and character design, and has had cameo appearances in numerous games.

She disdains open displays of emotion, believing them to be unnecessary, although she hides emotional trauma and anger over the missions she is forced to complete. Her personality is cold, collected, and quick-thinking in dire situations, a trait of her model line that was inherited from her predecessor A2, whom she resembles perfectly. Her Type B designation indicates that she specializes in front-line combat, and she is able to wield two weapons and use a large variety of combat styles. A humanoid combat android created as part of the YoRHa squadron, her mission is to liberate Earth from hostile machine lifeforms created by an unnamed alien race. 2 Type B') is the protagonist and initial player character of the 2017 video game Nier: Automata.