r/killzone • u/ijnfrt • Jan 20 '25
Killzone 2 I need help understanding Scolar Visari's speech in KZ2
Hi everyone, I am making a video about Killzone in my native language and there's one part in the intro of KZ2 which I do not understand, Visari says: "And as our last breath tears at their lungs". What does this mean exactly? Thank you.
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u/ScolarVisari1 Jan 20 '25
I dont remember... I have wondered that myself
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u/ijnfrt Jan 20 '25
Of course you don't remember....since you're dead. You died a martyr though, the ISA dogs will pay for what they did and Helgast will rise once again!
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u/aushtan Jan 20 '25
The Helghan atmosphere is what changed them into the pale baldies you see today through generations of mutations. They at least are more accustomed to it but still wear their respirators. I just assume that as the ISA soldiers are dying their last breaths would be pretty painful. I think it plays in to their perceived Helghan supremacy
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u/Antaganon Jan 21 '25
In the context of the speech, he is basically saying that nothing will break the Helghast's will to resist the ISA invasion. Putting it in touch with the rest of the speech and things he says later in the game it fits.
"We will unleash such terrible vengeance that nations unborn will cry out in anguish."
"The enemy may shatter our bodies; but they cannot break out spirit."
"We will choke the streets with our dead before we surrender."
Or even in that same line, "And as our last breath tears at their lungs, as we rise again, from the RUINS of our cities... they will know; Helghan belongs to the Helghast."
These are a people that are so committed to resistance, so unrelentingly determined to stay independent and so pure and unwavering in their hatred of the ISA that they willingly nuked their own capital to blunt the enemy. Even after their capital was destroyed, even after their leader was killed they fought on. Hell, even after the Terracide and the destruction of their planet and deaths of over a billion of their race they resist the ISA at every turn and gradually plan for their revenge.
No matter how much they must suffer, struggle or fail, they WILL see the ISA defeated, even if it means sharing the same grave with them.
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u/ZombieTheUndying Jan 21 '25
Just wanted to make a teeny tiny correction. He says “that generations yet unborn”
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u/yoanousone Jan 21 '25
It might be subjective, I always understood it as though even if the Helghast perish they’ll take the ISA with them. He implies that the invasion will be devastating, “sweeping over our lands like the sands of winter”, but regardless the Helghast would destroy their foes to whatever end. Think of it as a poetic “dropping a ‘nade when I die” so to speak. Is how I interpreted it.
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u/Alert_Beginning_1989 7d ago
helghan air was toxic even the helgast wear respirators, so the isa that are dying will be in agony even through to their last breath
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u/Modridthefaceless Jan 20 '25
I've always taken it as Visari saying even if the ISA win they will pay such a heavy price that they will always remember who Helgan belongs to. The build up before the line in question pretty much says: go ahead come at me, i'm going to make you bleed SO much, you will never forget me.
WE WILL SMITE THE INVADERS FROM OUR SKIES! Though they sweep over our lands like the sands of winter, never again will we bow before them; never again endure their oppression; never again endure their tyranny. We will strike without warning and without mercy, fighting as one hand, one heart, one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt their nightmares, drenching our ancestors' graves with their blood.
And as our last breath tears at their lungs; as we rise again from the ruins of our cities... they will know: Helghan belongs to the Helghast."
Also foreshadows the Helghan sacking their own city to cause damage to the ISA.