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Hana Song / D.Va

"Time to save the world? Game on!"

^{Click here for her Overwatch 2 appearance}

Species: Human
Age: 19 (1), 21 (2)
Birthday: June 22nd
Occupation: Pro Gamer (formerly), Mech Pilot
Base of Operations: Busan, South Korea
Affiliation: Mobile Exo-Force of the Korean Army, Overwatch
Appearances (Shorts): Shooting Star (Focus)

"I play to win!"

Voiced by: Charlet Chung (English)^note Other Languages:Melissa Gedeón (Latin American Spanish), Tania Ugía (European Spanish), Risa Taneda (Japanese), Geneviève Doang (French), Juliana Vasconcelos (Brazilian Portuguese), Martina Felli (Italian), Julia Meynen (German), Hyeon-ji Kim (Korean), Mu Hsuan Ming (Taiwanese Chinese), Táo Diǎn (Mandarin Chinese), Zuzanna Galia (Polish), Ekaterina Semenova (Russian)

D.Va, a former professional gamer, who now uses her quick reflexes and piloting skills inside of a state-of-the-art mech to defend South Korea.

Twenty years ago, South Korea was attacked by an Omnic threat originating from the East China Sea, in which it caused massive damage to the coastal cities of the nation, which then drove back into the ocean. In response to this attack, the South Korean government developed a mechanized armored drone unit called MEKA. Its purpose is to protect South Korea from this Omnic threat. As time went on, the Omnic threat returned to wreak havok, and was time and again repelled by the MEKA units. But the Omnic learned over time about the weaknesses of the MEKA units, and as Pilots became harder to come by, the government of South Korea turned to an odd pool of pilots to choose from; professional eSports players. One such person was Hana Song, better known as D.Va.

D.Va proved to be a fearless pilot, charging into battle alongside the rest of her MEKA squad, always on call to protect her country, which brought her no amount of attention from fans and enemies alike.

Following the Omnic attack on Paris, Null Sector assaulted Busan with overwhelming force. Fortunately, MEKA was able to repel them, though only with the assistance of members of the newly recalled Overwatch, led by Cassidy. As a gesture towards working more cooperatively with them to help defend the world, D.Va was assigned as to serve in Overwatch by her commander on behalf of MEKA.

D.Va is a highly-mobile Tank capable of diving into the enemy squad and tearing them apart from close-range with heavy weaponry. Her Abilities consist of:

• Her primary fire consists of Fusion Cannons, a pair of miniguns that output a constant barrage of bullet fire without having to reload, though with the drawback of the mech having to move slower during use.
• Boosters allow her to fly through the air, changing direction easily while knocking away any enemy heroes she slams into.
• Defense Matrix projects a shield that which blocks and absorbs enemy projectiles in front of her.
• Micro Missiles, which allows her mech to fire out a salvo of missiles straight ahead of her.
• Self-Destruct is D.Va's ultimate, in which she sets the mech reactor to detonate and cause a massive explosion shortly after D.Va ejects, damaging enemies and destroying deployables upon detonation in a fairly large radius.
  
  Whenever her mech is destroyed (by using her ultimate or by taking too much damage), D.Va will eject and fight on foot instead. In this mode, she can only use melee combat, as well as a Light Gun to fight with. D.Va has increased Ultimate charge in this state, and can activate Call Mech to bring down a brand new mech (potentially onto some poor sap's head) and continue fighting.

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• The Ace: She's a pro gamer, an expert mech pilot, a pretty good shot with her energy pistol (managing to impress even Cassidy with her shooting), and if the posters in the Hollywood stage are anything to go by, a successful actress as well.
• Action Bomb: Her mecha has a self-destruct ability that does 1,000 damage to anything in direct radius of its Area of Effect. It's not supposed to be able to do this; as revealed in Shooting Star, it's something she jury-rigged as a last-ditch attack in a fight against Omnics.
• All Up to You: Shooting Star reveals how much she feels this is in effect, especially during and after the Gwishin attack. She was the last one operational after the Gwishin nearly killed her teammates, and thus the only one left uninjured to handle any other attacks in the aftermath.
• Always Someone Better: Amusingly, despite being one of the most mechanically-skilled players in existence, one of her pre-battle lines is "솔직히, 스타로 아빠는 못 이기겠더라" translating to "Honestly, I can't beat dad at StarCraft."
• Animal Motifs:
  • Her default motif is a rabbit. Her gameplay icon consists of a white bunny, her Mini-Mecha somewhat looks like a bipedal rabbit with machine guns for hands, and one of her emotes has her mecha bunny-hopping. Her basic skins carry the motif further: she usually has a bunny decal sticker on her chest, her gun has a pink rabbit keychain, and her Facial Markings resemble rabbit whiskers. According to screens in the MEKA base, her default pink mecha is actually named 토끼/Tokki, which is Korean for "rabbit".
  • Her "B.Va" skin has a bee theme, complete with yellow-black color scheme and stylized insect wings and carapace, in addition to being a shout-out to the Transformers character, Bumblebee. The "Junebug" skin, its recolor, is alternatively based on June bugs.
  • Her "Black Cat" skin gives her a cute Cat Girl motif, complete with adding ears and a tail onto the mecha and adding a bunch of cat-themed decals, including one in the style of her ultimate icon.
  • Her "Waveracer" skin has dolphins on her gun.
• Artistic License – Military:
  • Given how much of a tactical and security risk it would be, it's unlikely that someone like D.Va would be allowed to stream her combat operations, let alone expressly displaying real, dangerous battles for entertainment purposes. Shooting Star implies that this is actually for propaganda purposes, though this explanation isn't entirely watertight, either.
  • Her Genki Girl behavior displayed in-game (at least in her D.Va persona) would have been completely unacceptable to the real life ROKA's regulations. Even if she is part of a special division comprised solely of ProGamers (who are all Mildly Military themselves).
• Ascended Meme:
  • Though she doesn't transform into a nastier diminutive version of herself, one of D.Va's new emotes of August 2016 has her chowing down on D.Vas and soda while playing video games like her infamous "Gremlin" counterpart. In Shooting Star, her garage is also covered in soda cans, potato chips, and instant noodle containers.
  • The Halloween 2016 update turned Cardboard Mecha D.Va into an official spray tag.
  • In Overwatch 2, if D.Va kills an enemy while out of her mech, she'll sometimes say, "Don't call me baby!" This is a nod to her Fan Nickname "Baby D.Va" for when she doesn't have her mech.
• Aside Glance: In Shooting Star, she voices her gratitude to Dae-Hyun and rolls her eyes when he tries to step into the spotlight and asks for VIP tickets at a fancy restaurant.
• Attack Its Weak Point: While every character receives critical damage when shot in the head, D.Va's weak point in her mech is her cockpit, which is comparatively easy to hit because it's in the center and very large. This is to offset her mecha's high HP pool of 600, the fact that the weak point can be hit only from the front, and her ability to completely shield it with Defense Matrix.
• Attention Whore: She's a very visible celebrity, appearing in live streams, movies, and other forms of mass media. Some of her dialogue gives the impression that she's more interested in putting on a good show and getting cheers than whatever the mission is about. Her "Selfie" highlight intro is a good example of this, showing her taking a selfie as her mecha self-destructs in the background. However, as shown in the short Shooting Star, this is mostly a front meant to reassure the public; Hana herself takes her mission to defend South Korea very seriously.
• Audience Surrogate: She's a massive, loving tribute to Blizzard's massive Korean fanbase.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Though technically an adult, she's clearly one of the youngest human members of the cast (Orisa is even younger at one month, but being an Omnic, her case is more ambiguous; Wrecking Ball is also younger at 14 years, but he's a hamster who's ancient for his species), leading some of the older characters to brush her off as Just a Kid. Illari, being 18, is only three years younger.
• Badass Adorable: She's a 21-year old girl who bedecks herself in pink and has a bunny rabbit motif. She's also a highly skilled mech pilot who can keep up with seasoned combatants.
• Badass Armfold: Her default pose in the game's menus is folding her arms and leaning against her mecha with a defiant expression. After Shooting Star, it is implied that this is part of her "tough gamer" persona.
• Balance Buff:
  • Initially, her mecha's self-destruct fuse was four seconds long and she could get damaged, if not outright killed, by the explosion. A patch later reduced the fuse to three seconds and granted her immunity from the explosion's damage.
  • Pre-patch, D.Va's Defense Matrix was rather lackluster: it only lasted for a few seconds, had a monstrous cooldown, and would shut off immediately if she fired her main weapon. Since her main weapon only does good damage at point-blank, this made D.Va a non-issue at a distance and (thanks to her unforgiving headshot hitbox) laughably easy to kill in close quarters, which is pretty bad for a Tank class. Post-patch, Defense Matrix's cooldown was instead replaced with a charge meter a la Bastion's self-heal, giving the player more control over it and making it much easier for D.Va to do her job. For a while, it was actually too good at shutting down entire Ultimates and pushes (as players realised that lowering and raising it with good timing made it possible to shut down some characters indefinitely), with D.Va replacing Reinhardt as the obligatory tank, until its duration was sharply limited and the cooldown after cancelling it was increased.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's one of the more feminine playable characters, and while her main outfit is a skin-tight jumpsuit that covers her midriff, she has many alternate skins that bare it.
  • Her "Junker" and "Scavenger" skins replace her jumpsuit with a cropped top and a pair of pants.
  • Her "Cruiser" skin has the shirt she wears to tied up above her navel.
  • Her "Waveracer" skin has a small top that sits above her navel.
• Becoming the Costume:
  • Her "B.Va" and "Junebug" skins give her a few bug-related lines, including "All systems buzzing!" or "Did that sting?"
  • Her "Junker" and "Scavenger" skins adds "Hear me baby? Just hold it together," as one of her respawn quotes.
  • Her "Officer" skin gives her a few enforcement-related lines with kills, including "You're going to get a parking ticket!" and "You have the right to remain... oh." In addition, her mecha blares police sirens while boosting.
  • Her "Cruiser" skin gives her a lot of quotes of 50s teenybopper/rockabilly slang, including "Get bent!" after a kill, or "Hey, daddy-o!" as a "Hello" voice line. After she respawns, she'll sometimes say "I'm cruisin' for a bruisin'!"
• Beneath the Mask: The Shooting Star short shows that a lot of the cuter and idol-like aspects of D.Va's public persona are put on for propaganda purposes. In reality, she's very aware that everyone's counting on her to prevent the complete destruction of Korea and that if she messes up even once it's all over, and it weighs heavily on her.
• Bilingual Bonus: Her name means "one" in Korean, and she has voice lines saying "I'm number one!" in Korean and English.
• Bland-Name Product: No, those aren't Doritos she's chowing down on in her "Game On" emote. Those are "D.Vas◊".
• Bling-Bling-BANG!:
  • All versions of D.Va's handgun have keychains.
  • Her "Palanquin" skin gives her mech quite a lot of decorations.
• Blue Is Heroic: Her suit is predominately blue-violet. She's also one of the playable characters and genuinely committed to the defense of South Korea when the Omnic struck there.
• Bottomless Magazines: She can fire her mech's Fusion Cannons all day long, no reloading needed. The catch is that her movement speed drops to a crawl, and they don't do very much damage outside of close range.
• Bubblegum Popping: Does this during one during her "Lying Around" highlight intro.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: A cute girl who is mostly associated with bunnies.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While most heroes have this to some degree, D.Va is notable in that she talks and acts like combat is simply one big video game to her. Yet she's a hero to South Korea who was deployed on the front lines. Justified, in that the government was scrambling to find new recruits and decided that drafting professional gamers was the best answer. Shooting Star shows that this is mostly a front she puts up for the press and that she is actually solemn and serious about her role in protecting South Korea from the Gwishin.
• Car Fu: Her Boosters give her mech enough momentum to damage and knock enemies down.
• Celebrity Is Overrated: She says as much herself in Shooting Star; Hana, propaganda aside, seems less interested in the celebrity lifestyle than one would assume from her in-game appearances and interactions.
  Dae-hyun: [to D.Va] Hey, why aren't we on leave with the rest of the squad? I could use a little "glitz and glamour" in my life, you know?
  D.Va: It's overrated, Dae-hyun. [gestures to the garage] This! This is where the magic happens!
• Charles Atlas Superpower: She must've had a very good practice regimen, because fans have calculated her typical Actions Per Minute is superhuman (in the several thousands, as opposed to the real life record being in hundreds).
• The Chew Toy: If D.Va is the last of her team left alive after a failed skirmish, it's in the enemy team's best interests to leave her alive as long as feasible and not allow D.Va to kill herself or to regain her mech. Delaying her fate is designed to "stagger" the rhythm in which the rest of her team will be able to make their next attack, forcing them to either delay their next push until after she respawns and wasting precious time, or risk the engagement without her. Even in professional matches, commentators often joke about how much this looks like "bullying".
• Chicken Walker: Her mecha has this design, with back-bent legs and very claw-like toes.
• Childhood Friends: According to an interview with Michael Chu, Dae-hyun and Hana have been close friends since childhood.
• Child Soldiers: While she is technically an adult, and her MEKA teammates assumed to be adult as well, they absolutely fit this mold: kids who were basically press ganged into becoming soldiers due to their gaming skill, to fight omnics that otherwise threatened the entirety of Korea.
• Close-Range Combatant: Her mech's Fusion Cannons deal well above-average DPS at point-blank range, but at a distance deals some of the worst. She can also use her boosters to ram an opponent and follow up with a quick melee. This starkly contrasts her Mechless form, which is a Long-Range Fighter.
• Comically Missing the Point: D.Va is fully aware of the fact that Sombra is a hacker, but the reason the latter has earned the gamer's ire is the fact that D.Va thinks Sombra uses her skills to cheat at video games, making it easier for less skilled gamers to believe that the skill of professional gamers are not genuine. Sombra is rather baffled at this accusation, though later she turns out to be guilty of hacking the high score of the Skeeball game in Blizzard World.
• Competition Freak: Like many things, this is part of her public persona as "D.Va".
  • From her dialogue, this seems to be her reason for fighting at her best. She seems to treat battle like a game, but one she "play[s] to win".
  • In the Hanamura arcade, she boasts, "No one's beating my high scores!" This can be particularly funny if the player is currently destroying the games.
• Concealment Equals Cover: In regards to her mech's ultimate, as long as you get out of its line-of-sight, it won't even scratch you. This led to some funny situations initially, where standing behind a pole about an inch wide would allow you to survive the explosion completely unscathed.
• Conscription: She, along with other top Korean gamers, was drafted into service.
• Corporate-Sponsored Superhero: While her primary backers may be the Korean government, she still has some outside sponsers, as signified by the logos◊ plastered along the right thigh of her suit, notable among them being AltFuture!Blizzard (she was a professional Starcraft player, after all). Her Nano◊ skin has her go all-in for one brand, the titular Nano Cola. Wonder if they also make DVAS?
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: Her "Black Cat" D.Va skin turns her into an Elegant Gothic Lolita Cat Girl.
• Cowboy Cop: Her "Officer D.Va" skin, earned from a limited-time event in Heroes of the Storm, transforms D.Va into a police officer. With her character's attitude and her kit's playstyle, she's bound to be this no matter what.
• Damage Reduction: D.Va's mech health partially consists of armor, which generally causes significant portions of the damage-per-bullet to be reduced. However, the effect is negated by other factors in her design — particularly, the wide hitbox of the mech, as well as the absurdly large critical hitbox directly in the center of it. Also, armor is not very effective against weapons with high damage bursts (such as Pharah's rockets, Junkrat's grenades, or Zarya's fully-charged Particle Cannon — all of which, again, are easy to hit her with thanks to her bulk). Thus, she takes so much damage and so easily that many players don't even realize she even has Damage Reduction. Her armor has been adjusted multiple times to make her more or less viable in the various metas.
• A Day in the Limelight: The short "Shooting Star" focuses on her.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has some quite memorable lines when shutting down her enemies' ults.
  Pharah: Justice rains from above!
  D.Va: Good thing I brought an umbrella!
• Death from Above:
  • Since the Self-Destruct takes a few seconds before it actually explodes, a common tactic from D.Va players is to boost her mech upwards before she activation, since they'll continue boosting for a few moments after she bails out. Ideally, once it times out and falls back to earth, the enemy team will suddenly be faced with a 1,000-point damage explosion dropping onto them with only milliseconds to react.
  • As of April 2021, the act of summoning a mech while on foot also now counts as this. It used to do a mere 50 damage and light knockback on impact, but it was since spiked up to a whopping 250 damage, enough to instakill unprotected non-tanks and seriously bust up just about everyone else.
• Disintegrator Ray: Defense Matrix completely atomizes any projectiles in range, hence why explosives don't even detonate.
• Draw Aggro: While D.Va is more offensive-oriented, like all tanks, she does well by drawing the fire of the enemy team. Her large size makes her a attractive target, but her high durability, Defense Matrix, and ability to eject make her very hard to get rid of.
• Drop Pod: It's never specified, but her Call Mech ability looks like an orbital deployment via teleportation, and it can be used to flatten people.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She was initially revealed on Blizzard's Battle.Net page as a Starcraft II player who had to retire to defend her nation. Also, in a few stages, she appears on the poster of a movie called "Hero of My Storm"; apparently her pro-gaming sensation turned her into a celebrity/actress as well.
• Eject... Eject... Eject...: When her mech is about to be destroyed, she gets a warning about imminent ejection; a bright red message will flash on her HUD, reading 비상탈출 (pronounced as bisangtalchul), or "Emergency Escape".
• Ejection Seat: Her mech is equipped with an ejection system. No matter how much damage it takes, she can always eject after its destruction at her full (mechless) health. Jumping just before ejection will catapult her high into the air. Technically, however, the mech has no seat, since she lies horizontally in it.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her legendary "Black Cat" skin is styled after this, and includes elements like black and purple coloring, a layered skirt, and hair decorations.
• Energy Weapon: Her Defense Matrix fires very small lasers that shoot down incoming projectiles and other hazards.
• Explosive Stupidity: Averted in the current patch, but back when D.Va was subject to the same "Your own explosives hurt you" rule as every other character, she was notorious for dying to her own Self-Destruct Ultimate. The devs mercifully removed this weakness later on, partly due to Self-Destruct's countdown being made shorter.
• Fair Cop: One of her alternate skins, "Officer D.Va", is a police uniform, and her mecha is modified like a police cruiser. The sirens blare when she uses her boosters.
• The Face: D.Va seems to be the most recognized and de facto leader of the MEKA Squad, being placed square in the center foreground of press conferences and on news reports. Despite this, she doesn't soak in the spotlight as much as her in-game interactions would suggest and refuses to go on leave when her teammates are injured in the fight.
• Facial Markings: Pink "whiskers" on her cheeks.
• Famed In-Story: D.Va apparently has a large fan following. She streams her combat engagements, endorses products and appears in films. Her pre-game banter with Lucio has him asking for her autograph and her responding in kind.
• Fighting Your Friend: If she kills a character she's friends with, she'll lovingly quip, "I still love you!"
• Finger Gun: Apparently one of her signature gestures. Her default highlight intro has D.va delivering a finger gun to the camera. One of her sprays is also a lifelike representation of D.va defiantly finger-gunning.
• Flashback Stares: Gives one in Shooting Star as she remembers just how desperate the last Gwishin fight was, contrasting with how easy the news made the fight sound.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: She can be seen on advertisements for "Nano Cola," which looks exactly like Soju. This ad can also be unlocked as a spray. Later, the animated short Shooting Star confirms Nano Cola *is* soda, complete with a soda can.
• Future Spandex: She wears high tech skin-tight jumpsuit.
• Fun with Acronyms: Looking closely on her default skin, will reveal that MEKA stands for: Mechanical Exo-force of the Korean Army.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: There are a lot of liberties in Shooting Star that portray D.Va as the hero she was envisioned as.
  • Detonating her mech is treated as a last-ditch Desperation Attack that puts her at serious risk of being caught in the blast after bailing out, and takes several minutes to set up. In-game, she casually detonates her mech as her ultimate (which takes no more than a few seconds, even if it's taken enough damage that she's already ejecting), and can't be killed by the blast (after a patch several months into the game's release).
  • D'Va's mech is capable of sustained flight in the short, while in the game her Boosters give her only a few seconds of thrust before a lengthy cooldown.
  • While she waits for her assistant to set her mech to self-destruct, she resorts to using her sidearm from the cockpit to do little more than distract the enemy she was grappling with. Her in-game Light Gun is surprisingly powerful (even against Omnics like Bastion), and can't be used until she bails out. Unlike the short, it also can't be used to detonate her mecha early after setting off her ultimate^note Not in this game, anyway..
  • The final shot of the short shows her building a new mecha from scratch. In-game, she can summon one in the field via some sort of orbital drop and hop right in. This takes no more than a few moments of combat, or can be done right away if she detonated her mech.
• Gamer Chick: She's a professional gamer. It seeps into her actual combat speech; when using her Defense Matrix, she calls it raising her APM^note Actions Per Minute, used in the StarCraft competitive scene as a measure of player dexterity and when she activates her mech's Self-Destruct Mechanism, she boasts "Nerf this!" Additionally, her mecha makes distinct low-bit sounds that one would expect from an older video game, and her sidearm is called the Light Gun, even going as far as to resemble a controller from a light gun game rather than having realistic ammunition and firearm colors.
• Gatling Good: Her mech is armed with twin rotary Fusion Cannons.
• Genki Girl: Her public persona of D.Va is this, treating the action around her like a game rather than an actual combat zone and always having a quip at the ready. Hana herself, while good-natured, is more serious, with her experiences in combat and her mission to protect South Korea clearly weighing heavily on her shoulders.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoffinvoked:
  • In an In-Universe example, according to the lore blurb for her "Junker" and "Scavenger" skins, mech battles are one of the most popular forms of entertainment in Junkertown. The skins style her after the Junkers and some similar-looking mechs found in the map.
  • Her whole character is a nod to South Korea being one of the most competitive countries for StarCraft.
• Girly Bruiser: A cute young girl whose primary colors are pink (down to her mecha) and blue, and has an overall cutesy and girly aesthetic, especially due to her rabbit motif. She's also a seasoned combatant and one of the most aggressive tanks in the game.
• Glass Cannon: In her mech-less state, D.Va can do surprisingly high amounts of damage with just her pistol, but she can die to one or two high damage attacks and has no means of escape or defense.
• Glory Hound: She overloaded a hoverbike to win a race and in-game she treats the fight as a livestream.
• Godlike Gamer: D.Va is Blizzard's love letter to the professional StarCraft community. As such, she's a pro-gamer whose skills at a mech combat game have been transferred to piloting a Mini-Mecha to fight an Omnic Kaiju which attacks South Korea every few years. Notably, she holds all the high scores in every map set in an Arcade (beating out Genji's old scores, and discounting Sombra's questionable ones).
• Goomba Stomp: It's difficult, but very possible, to crush someone with D.Va's mech when calling it in.
• Gun Twirling: Does this as part of her Light Gun reloading animation. She'd probably reload much faster if she didn't do it, but it wouldn't look nearly as cool.

H-Z

• Hair Flip: Performs an epic and sexy flip of her hair in front of her exploding mech in her "Selfie" Highlight Intro.
• Hartman Hips: By the second game, she's developed almost as much as Tracer in this area.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Her "Junker" and "Scavenger" skins give her leather chaps, bracers, and a cropped vest.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Just as she's about to bail out and shoot her own mech's core to detonate it and the Gwishin omnic attached to it in Shooting Star, she tells Dae-hyun that she'll see him "at the finish line". Just afterwards, as she lines up her shot in the air, she seems to have tears in her eyes, suggesting that she was fully aware of the possibility that she would die in the blast.
• Hidden Depths: Some of her pre-match dialogue suggests there's more going on behind her cutesy exterior than you would expect. A conversation with Mei reveals that D.Va has an adventurous side. She loves reading the former's journal, and wishes she could visit all the different places that the climatologist explores. And if she's put into play on Eichenwalde, she sounds uncharacteristically solemn when she observes that the omnic-wrought destruction reminds her of home. The Shooting Star short explores her character in a lot more detail, revealing that behind the bubbly D.Va facade, Hana Song takes her job extremely seriously and is more than a bit of a workaholic.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: In high-level play, D.Va's ability to eject from her mech and continue fighting can often backfire on her, especially on the offense, as an enemy team wipes most of hers with an ultimate combo, they'll follow it up by allowing D.va to live for a few more seconds before finishing her off, delaying her respawn and causing a "stagger" that forces the entire team to wait for her before pushing as a group.
• I Call It "Vera": Her default pink Mini-Mecha is named 토끼/Tokki, which is Korean for "rabbit".
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Her mastery of video games, including (but not specifically from) Starcraft II gave her the reflexes and instincts necessary to pilot the mech. Downplayed a little by her short revealing that she'd already had some experience with using and maintaining heavy machinery (her assistant even being a childhood friend).
  Cassidy: D.Va, just tell me one thing. Where'd you learn to shoot like that?
  D.Va: 16-Bit Hero!
• Improbable Age: She's only 19, in a game where almost all the other characters are at least in their mid-20s, if not 30s and up. Doesn't stop her from kicking ass alongside and against fighters with far more experience.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: In Shooting Star, D.Va, in a last-ditch effort to win the fight against some of the Gwishin's drones, ejects herself from her mech and plummets towards the ocean. As she's in free fall, she fires her blaster at the exposed reactor on top of her mecha, currently seized by the last drone, and manages to make it detonate.
• In-Vehicle Invulnerability: Nothing can hurt D.Va personally until her mech is destroyed and she gets out, though Sniping the Cockpit does do more damage to the mech for some reason.
• In the Back: D.Va's design makes flanking or attacking enemies from the rear the best way to use her offensively. Going head-to-head with anyone is a bad idea because they can "headshot" her much more easily than she can do the same to them. For the most part, D.Va's job in a head-on fight is to cover the rest of her team with Defense Matrix until the other team falls apart and scatters.
• I Work Alone: Downplayed but definitely still present, as revealed in the Shooting Star short. She works in a team of MEKA pilots, but as The Ace she seems to put the burden of protecting South Korea solely on her shoulders. She also willingly throws herself into combat alone when the rest of the team is down and has trouble asking for help when she needs it.
• Jack of All Trades: In terms of a tank, she has the basic tools to achieve whatever the team needs (she has decent mid-to-close-range DPS, mobility and flanking options with Boosters, and her on-foot form system gives her slightly more survivability and long-range options). She excels in primarily two areas. One, her Defense Matrix destroys any projectile that comes near it and effectively has infinite health (its limitations being strictly time-based), allowing her to counter most forms of burst damage. Two, her ultimate itself has the highest burst damage of any attack in the game, making it instant death if the enemy is stunned or has nothing to get behind.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At first glance, D.Va looks to be a bit bratty and arrogant and absolutely relishes the spotlight, but she takes her mission seriously and her interactions show her to be pretty chummy with other heroes, accepting without a second thought to sign autographs for Reinhardt and Lúcio and complimenting Mei on her travel journal. As of Shooting Star, this is revealed to be a subversion, in the sense that the "jerk" part is attached to a much more exaggerated public persona, with her pensive and kindhearted moments being more indicative of what really lies under the mask.
• Jet Pack: Her Boosters ability.
• Jettison Jetpack Attack: D.Va has her ultimate attack, in which she rigs her jet-propelled mecha suit to self-destruct and "drops" it with all momentum being applied. It deals 1000 damage to anything in range^note which is enough to one-shot any hero and any shield save for Reinhardt's Barrier Field or Symmetra's Photon Barrier when not blocked by a shield, and is often used to clear away points of interest, such as control points or payloads.
• Kid Hero: Slightly older than the usual example, but is otherwise the closest example of one in Overwatch, being that she's 21 in a game where the majority of the cast are above 30.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Is a fan of Lúcio's music. When Lúcio asks her for an autograph, she will ask for his as well.
• Knockback:
  • Her Boosters can push enemies out of the way, disrupting their positions at the least and potentially sending them into a nearby Bottomless Pit.
  • Call Mech will push back any enemies in proximity of the incoming mech, meaning that someone who tries to go against a mech-less D.Va may suddenly find themselves falling off a cliff to their deaths.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: D.Va is a character in a video game who (in her public persona) approaches life like a video game. Many of her lines reference video games.
  • Soldier: 76 calls her out for treating war as a game, to which she responds with "Are you sure life isn't a game?"
  • When she scores in Capture the Flag mode, she sings the four-note triumphant jingle that plays.
  Da-da da-DA!
  • When resurrected by Mercy, she has a chance of saying "Huge rez". This is the name of Mercy's achievement for resurrecting 6 heroes.
• Leet Lingo: Her "Scavenger" and "Junker" skins have vanity license plates that read "WR3KD". Many of her voice lines include gamer and chat lingo like "LOL" and "GG."
• Lethal Joke Character: It's tempting to see a mechless D.Va as an afterthought that simply needs to be mopped up after destroying her mech, but she's still surprisingly dangerous. She's got a very small hitbox, and her Light Gun can pump out a significant amount of damage. Due to the gun's perfect accuracy and lack of damage falloff, she's a more dangerous Long-Range Fighter than when in her mecha. If the player's aim is good, it's entirely possible for her to take most non-tank enemies from full HP to zero with one clip. She gains a lot of Ultimate charge on each hit, so a good on-foot D.Va can get a new mecha within seconds, essentially negating what would be death for any other character. Heck, enemies that really don't respect her space can even get crushed to death by the new mech as it lands.
• Lightning Bruiser: Due to her Boosters, D.Va is one of the most mobile characters in the game and can zip around quickly, moving between high and low ground at will. She also has the highest hit point total in the game when factoring in armor (though her central head location makes her easy to crit). Her Defense Matrix can also block an unlimited amount of projectile fire for a few seconds at a time. All of this combined makes her an effective flanker, using hit-and-run tactics to attack enemies at close range from unexpected directions. Outside of her mech, she becomes a Long-Range Fighter.
• Long-Range Fighter: Outside of her mecha, D.Va has access to an extremely accurate automatic pistol with no damage drop-off at range. Provided that she can land all of her shots (preferably headshots), she can kill most average-health characters in seconds. However, in that form, she has no mobility tools, no offensive or defensive abilities, and low health, so most characters that close the distance can kill her easily.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Her Micro Missiles ability sends out a barrage of missiles wherever D.Va is aiming with deadly precision. It's similar to Pharah's Rocket Barrage, but with more accuracy and an 8-second cooldown, and less damage per missile than Soldier 76's Helix Rockets.
• Meaningful Name: Her first name, Hana, means "one" in Korean. She was originally a world champion professional gamer. One of her voice lines is "I'm number one!"
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: She has two different states (in mech and on foot), and a different Limit Break for each (manually self-destructing the mech and summoning a new mech, respectively). She also becomes quite fragile when outside her mech, and she can stay alive after her mech is destroyed if she can survive long enough to summon a new one.
• Me's a Crowd: If there are two D.Va players on the same team, the two may acknowledge each other. Like Tracer, they take seeing another copy of themselves rather well on its own, but they come to the conclusion that someone must be hacking and fret over the idea that they might get banned for it.
• Military Superhero: Originally a pro gamer in her civilian life, she was drafted into MEKA — "Mobile Exo-Force of the Korean Army".
• Mini-Mecha: Rides around in her mecha, which is a relatively small mech shaped like a bipedal rabbit. She calls it a "suit" when summoning it, but it's not actually Powered Armor, since it uses a cockpit and its limbs are controlled via joysticks.
• Modesty Shorts: When wearing her "Palanquin" skin, she has a pair of white biker shorts under her skirt, which is a good thing considering how often the skirt rides up when she is taken out on foot.
• Ms. Fanservice: She isn't the most curvaceous female member in the cast, but that bodysuit is pretty form-fitting (in addition to several other skins that show a bit more skin). Additionally, D.Va also fulfills the non-looks fanservice, being a Gamer Chick that drops in a lot of gaming lingo and references, thus she's also won the hearts of male players in the 18-21 age range.
  • With her redesigned look in Overwatch 2, her skintight bodysuit still hugs pretty tightly, and her form is a bit more matured from the first game.
• Mundane Utility: Apparently, her mecha's Defense Matrix can also be used for dancing lights, playing a top-down shooter, and reading her stream feed.
• Nice Girl: Her private persona, as shown in Shooting Star; when not performing, she's sweet, polite, and humble.
• No-Sell: D.va's Defense Matrix has a very small effective zone compared to Reinhardt, Winston, or Orisa's barriers, but theirs will eventually break under fire. As long as hers is up, she will stop every projectile that meets the shield. She can negate an entire Roadhog ultimate, completely nullify Pharah's ultimate, and prevent Hanzo's, Mei's, and Zarya's ults from happening at all^note you'll still hear the Ultimate call-out, but then nothing happens with her shield.
• On-Ride/On-Foot Combat: Part of her main gimmick.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: She overloaded Dae-hyun's hoverbike to win a race, and he'll never let her forget it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her voice lines for Eichenwalde and Volskaya Industries are one of the few, if only, times she's actually looking over a situation seriously. And not in her usual perky attitude.
  D.Va: The destruction caused by the omnics here... It reminds me of home.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: D.Va's English combines a regional American accent with a non-native Korean accent that comes and goes.
• Out of Focus: Compared to other characters, D.Va makes minimal appearances in supplemental story material. Until the release of her short two years after the game came out, she was almost entirely absent save for a single second-long appearance in the middle of a montage.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her default skin has a very strong pink motif, which carries over into her sprays. It goes along with her overall "cutesy" aesthetic. even her MECHA is pink!
• Pointless Bandaid: In her Varsity and Academy skins she has a band-aid on her left leg.
• Post-Apunkalyptic Armor: Her "Junker" and "Scavenger" skins wouldn't be out of place in Fallout or Mad Max.
• Pre-Explosion Buildup: Precedes her mech's self-destruction, complete with Pre-Explosion Glow and Sucking-In Lines.
• Product Displacement: It isn't clear just what type of soda Hana drinks during her "Game On" emote. The white label over the can completely obscures whatever it could be.
• Product Placement: Referenced and parodied In-Universe with her own brand of chips◊ named D.Vas◊ in the "Game On" emote, and played straight in the real world with Blizzard Entertainment's logo can be seen on her right leg of her out-of-mech suit.
• Propaganda Hero: She and her fellow MEKA pilots are heavily implied to be this in Shooting Star. Holovids sing her praises, severely downplay how serious the fight against the Gwishin are, and make her team out to be jet-setting celebrities off the clock, all to treat the Gwishin as a problem well in hand. The news even claims she got off "without a scratch"...as we see her in a full leg cast working on a new mech.
• Punch-Clock Hero: Albeit one who seems pretty good-natured by her own accord. She's still primarily a career hobbyist whose main qualifier for being a "hero" is being drafted into a war effort which she has an odd tendency to treat like a game. The Shooting Star short reveals that this is a propaganda front. News programs speak at length about the "glitz and glamor" when she is supposedly off-the-clock when she's actually in her garage, still working. According to Dae-hyn, she's never "off the clock".
• Punch-Packing Pistol: At range, her Light Gun is more deadly than her mech's Fusion Cannons... and more accurate, too.
• Ramming Always Works: Her Boosters cause her mecha to deal damage when running into enemies, potentially killing them if they're low enough on health. Ramming in this way penetrates barriers such as Reinhardt's shield. However, ramming Reinhardt's charge ability does not work at all.
• Ranged Emergency Weapon: Her Light Gun has no damage dropoff from range, and has no accuracy spread. If you can line up every shot at a distance, you can deal massive damage in one clip.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She ends up joining the newly-reinstated Overwatch for this — she and MEKA were aware of their reformation, with D.Va wanting to reach out considering they have a history of better dealing with widespread omnic threats. Once a gang of new Overwatch agents help MEKA save Busan from another Gwishin attack, her commander becomes inclined by the proposal and officially dispatches D.Va to follow them.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism: Her ultimate has her eject from her mech while it self destructs dealing a wide area damage.
• Selfie Fiend: Cool girls don't look at explosions, they just turn around and take a selfie.
• Sensual Spandex: The bodysuit she wears is completely form-fitting.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Shooting Star shows that being one of Korea's defenders at the age of 19 has left her with both severe trauma and a serious martyr complex. When Dae-Hyun suggests that she take a break and relax, she suffers a flashback to the previous battle against the gwishin and continues to work even harder, putting the weight of her home country's safety on her own shoulders.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: While she was never unattractive to begin with, her "Palanquin" skin has her wear a traditional hanbok and a braided haircut, and she looks gorgeous.
• Ship Tease: Her friend Dae-hyun is implied to have a crush on her. However, she seems to see him as a friend.
• Shoot the Bullet: Her Defense Matrix ability is actually two laser arrays plus incredibly fast reflexes.
• Short-Range Shotgun: Her Fusion Cannons have a spread fire as well as a drastic damage falloff at medium and long range. At short range, she does highly serviceable damage, but merely peppers her enemies farther away.
• Shown Their Work: D.Va's officer uniform is a stylized, but otherwise faithful recreation of the female police uniform◊ worn in Seoul, South Korea.
• Sniper Pistol: Her Light Gun is almost perfectly accurate at any range, though as a projectile weapon there can be significant time-to-target at range, so she can only really sniper stationary targets by firing a burst directly at them.
• Soft Water: Zig-zagged in the climax of Shooting Star, where D.Va falls at least 20 stories into the sea, a height that would very likely be fatal in real life. She survives, but she blacks out on impact, and is evidently in critical condition by the time she reaches the hospital. Some indeterminate time later, she's back to work with a broken arm and foot for her troubles.
• Sore Loser: When she's killed and revives, she says, "I'm not a good loser!" That seems fitting, considering that she was a professional gamer.
• Spirited Competitor: Has a highly competitive streak.
• Stance System: Using D.Va in her mech and outside of it means essentially learning to play as two separate characters: one, a Lightning Bruiser mixed with an Action Bomb, and the other a Long-Range Fighter Glass Cannon.
• Stepford Smiler: She's a downplayed case. In her public persona, she acts gleeful and excited on the field, soaking up the attention her heroics get her, but Shooting Star reveals that this is more or less an exaggeration. Behind the scenes, she's a workaholic who's constantly worried about what could happen to Korea if she slips up even once in combat, though she still does have a sincerely jokey, personable side, albeit much softer than one might expect.
• Super-Reflexes: Implicitly. Her mech is entirely manually controlled, Torbjorn even complimenting the fact that it has no AI assists. And she can run the defense matrix, while shooting well enough to impress Cassidy. To elaborate, when she uses her Defense Matrix her Mech deploys holographic distance markers and lets her individually shoot down every projectile that comes into it. Doing the math, her APM is indeed superhuman: she can fully withstand Roadhog's ultimate, which fires 128 projectiles per second. If she were to face against 11 Roadhog ultimates in a custom Deathmatch game, in a best-case scenario, her maximum APM would be 84480 APM. To put this into perspective, the highest real-life APM ever recorded was Park Sung-joon's 818.
• Throw-Away Guns: Taken to an extreme whenever D.Va's mech is destroyed or she triggers its Self-Destruct Mechanism. Given a little time, she'll just summon a new one without incident.
• Totally Radical: Played for Laughs with her "Cruiser" skin, a 1950s rockabilly outfit, which adds in a lot of additional voice lines with silly outdated slang.
  Cruiser D.Va: Hey, daddy-o!
• True Blue Femininity: One of her primary colors(besides pink), is blue, and she's a cutesy, gleeful, and kickass Girly Bruiser.
• Unflinching Walk: Cool girls don't look at explosions... they whip their hair and snap selfies with them in the background.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating:
  • One of her post-kill lines has her boasting about expecting the victim to be a challenge.
  • One of her unlockable voice lines has her rhetorically asking "Is this EASY MODE?"
• [Verb] This!: The player and enemy team hear this when she uses her Ultimate. "Nerf this!"
• Victory by Endurance: Early versions of a D.Va vs D.Va fight was this by default, given that D.VA moves so slowly while shooting, doesn't need to reload, and couldn't fire while activating her defense, meaning that the player with the higher hit point total would always win. With the inclusion of her Micro-Missles, however, the timing of her missiles and Defense Matrix can give one player an edge.
• V-Sign: Does this during one of her intros and victory poses.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Her Summer Games skin changes her bodysuit and mech's colors to those of the South Korean flag.
• What a Piece of Junk: Unlike her shiny, high-tech regular mechs, her "Junker" and "Scavenger" ones look like they were made from whatever parts were scavenged from the nearest scrapheap, but perform just as well.
• What You Are in the Dark: Shooting Star shows that despite her celebrity and gamer facade, she takes her duty with MEKA seriously... perhaps excessively so, all juxtaposed by her and her friend/assistant subsisting on soda, chips, and ramen while she obsessively works on her mech for the next attack.
• Workaholic: As shown in the Shooting Star animated short. She's constantly working on her mecha despite the pleas of her friend and assistant to take a break. Even after she ends up in two casts and the news reports that she's "taking some time off" the camera cuts to show her right back to the same work she was doing at the start of the short.
• Wrench Wench: The Shooting Star animated short shows that Hana performs her own maintenance on the mecha.