Viridi

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Viridi
自然王ナチュレ
Shizen Ō Nachure
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First Appearance: Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012)
Latest Appearance:

Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012)

Title(s):
Gender: Female
Race: Goddess/Deity
Homeland: Overworld
Affiliated Faction:
Other Allies:
Status:
Voiced By: English:
Hynden Walch (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
Japanese:
Makiko Ohmoto (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Viridi (自然王ナチュレ Shizen Ō Nachure) is a major character introduced in Kid Icarus: Uprising. She is the vengeful goddess of nature who has a deep hatred for the human race, to the point that she finds enjoyment in obliterating entire armies of humans with her incredible power. Viridi is shown to have her own elite forces, and is allied with other nature deities such as Arlon and Phosphora. She is also shown to be very young for a goddess, and has a rather childish personality. Her minions are separate from those of the Underworld, and are collectively known as the Forces of Nature. They often clash with both the Underworld forces and Palutena's army during various parts of the story.

Characteristics

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Appearance

Viridi is a young goddess that wears a red dress decorated with vines and flowers. She has blond hair, and wields a large, wooden staff. Her long hair is also tied up in a ponytail using vines. Although she is a major character, Viridi's in-game model is only ever seen once during the story mode.

Personality

Despite her initially destructive introduction, Viridi is actually not necessarily evil; rather, she desires revenge on the human race for taking advantage of nature. As a result of Pit getting in the way of her plans, she often argues with him in a childish manner while sending her Forces of Nature to attack him. However, during the Aurum invasion, she slowly develops a change of heart and eventually becomes one of Pit's most important allies. Despite this, Viridi typically gets annoyed with the angel on a regular basis, and often questions his actions and interests (especially concerning Hot Springs). She's also shown to be very protective of her forces when compared to the likes of the uncaring Hades, and often refers to them as her "children". As the goddess of nature, she has a deep affection for plants and wildlife and has a very eco-friendly attitude, claiming that she uses cloth shopping bags, composts her food scraps and separates her recycling into 15 types.

Abilities

As a goddess, Viridi is immortal and possesses unimaginable godly power over nature. She can manipulate plant life and create countless new lifeforms out of natural materials to fight for her. She can also create weapons out of plant life, such as her most powerful weapon, the Reset Bomb which can easily annihilate anything in its path like a meteor and grow forests wherever it lands. She can also use some of the spells known by Palutena such as the "Gift of Flight" and use it on Pit or the ability to teleport Pit out of dangerous situations. Like all the other gods she can communicate telepathically with others to relay information and astral project herself as a giant figure.

Appearances

Kid Icarus: Uprising

Viridi first appears during Chapter 11 after Pit's defeat of the Phoenix, where she suddenly projects an image of herself in the sky and wipes out multiple armies of humans with a Reset Bomb, all the while laughing wickedly and declaring humanity "scum" that the world is better off without. Soon after, a twisted forest of thorns arise from the destroyed area and Palutena orders Pit to explore it in case any humans survived. Throughout their trek in the forest, they encounter Viridi's army, the Forces of Nature which prove to be no match for Pit, meanwhile Palutena tries to reason with Viridi to no avail, as her beliefs are deeply cemented in the idea that humans are evil beings who mistreat and take advantage of nature. Seeing no other choice, Pit heads to the forest's center where he comes face to face with its stone guardian, Cragalanche, Viridi then quickly orders her creation and last resort to destroy Pit. Despite it being a tough battle, Pit comes out victorious leaving Viridi fuming.

In Chapter 12, Pit and Palutena witness Viridi's army in conflict with Hades's and they hear Viridi's protests about the Underworld Army being worse than humans. Viridi then launches another Reset Bomb at a nearby town full of humans and Pit quickly takes action to defuse the bomb and luckily succeeds. Pit then discovers Viridi's Reset Bomb Depot, where she creates all her Reset Bombs and he heads in to shut it down. Viridi continues to send out countless soldiers to defeat Pit but to no avail and he soon makes it to the Depot's core where the pod that grows the Reset Bombs lies. Pit then makes quick work of it and the guards, causing the Depot to explode and fall apart. A furious Viridi then appears and tells Pit that he's made it on her "to-kill list".

Trivia

  • Viridi could be based on any number of Greek goddesses of nature, although her name comes from the word "viridian", which is a bluish-green pigment.
  • At one point during the story, Viridi breaks the fourth wall when a discussion between her and Pit arises about the relation between Metroids and Komaytos.
  • At another point in the story, Pit mentions the loading screen before Viridi quickly says "Shhhh! They'll hear you! We're not supposed to talk abut that!"
  • Viridi has her own domain which you use late in the story instead of Palutena's. When you go back to Palutena's domain, it can be changed back to Viridi's in the settings menu. You can donate hearts to either goddess this way.
  • At one point in the story, when Viridi helps Pit, Palutena teases her about having a crush on him. Pit says that he doesn't think she's all that bad either, and Viridi whispers for him to keep his voice down, as others are listening, then loudly denies it, saying that she's "definitely NOT doing this to help him".