Martina is a upcoming playable character introduced in Metal Slug: Awakening.[1]
Character Summary
"Blood is the most beautiful color in this world."
Martina was born in the most chaotic slum of Italy, her tragic childhood exposed her to the harsh realities of the world, leading to a rapid development of her mindset After experiencing a major catastrophe, the destitute Martina began a long period of wandering. Extreme sadness and guilt plunged her into a whirlpool of suffering, and she often heard the voice of her deceased sister in her mind, believing that her sister's soul never left her. The obsession made Martina's emotions extremely unstable, and under certain circumstances, she would display a dual personality.
A turning point in her fate came during a gang shootout, where an elderly man whom Martina saved saw the terrifying ruthlessness and decisiveness in her and decided to train her as the successor of the gang. Martina to madness, making her even more bloodthirsty. After taking the position of gang leader, Martina's decisive and ruthless approach earned her the title of the undisputed Black Market Queen.
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Behind the Scenes QnA
NOTE: Original Chinese text have been translated using a translator which was taken by official QnA sources. this is not the official 100% translation and is only to be use as reference for context. take it a consideration with a grain of salt before viewing the translated text as fact. feel free to correct the translation if you are a native chinese speaker. feel free to correct the translation if you are a native chinese speaker.
Original Text:
Q1：关于玛蒂娜的英雄设计灵感来源，大大们都采用了哪些参考素材或元素呢？
美术“诸星”：玛蒂娜这个英雄的设计灵感，主要来自漫威寡姐和《西西里的美丽传说》中女主的红发形象，这塑造出她战力爆表且美艳动人的基本特征。玛蒂娜的性格是双面的，从小的经历也让她变得容易极端化，作为“地下神秘组织”的首领，红色的卷发诠释着她火焰一般张扬狂傲的性格和财力过人的经济实力，时尚感满满的金色衬衫以及半挂披肩也无一不在诠释她贵不可言的领袖身份。
Translated Text:
Q1: What references or elements did you use to inspire Martina's hero design?
Artist “Zhu Xing”: The inspiration for Martina's hero design came from the red hair of Marvel's Black Widow and the heroine of “The Legend of Siciliana”, which shaped the basic characteristics of her outstanding combat strength and beauty. Martina's character is two-sided, childhood experience also makes her easy to become polarized, as the “underground mysterious organization” leader, red curly hair interpretation of her flame general open arrogance of the character and the financial strength of the financial strength of the people, fashion sense of full of gold shirt and half hanging shawl is also not in the interpretation of her precious leader identity.
Original Text:
Q2：与过往的英雄相比，玛蒂娜有什么特别地方想和指挥官们透露的吗？
策划“Rui”：玛蒂娜的独特终结技可以在造成高额伤害的同时持续召唤分身作战。除此之外还拥有着独特的充能机制，使用战技能做到在敌人之间穿梭的同时累积下一次终结技所需要的能量，从而更高频的召唤分身。这个设计有种太空科幻感，还挺新颖的，届时玛蒂娜与指挥官们相遇时，希望能给到指挥官们耳目一新的感觉。
美术“诸星”：相较之前的英雄背景，这次玛蒂娜的设定世界观发生在太空，所以科技运用程度会有所提高。并且这次提出了时空分身的概念，我们基于次设计制作了一个“金属月轮”作为时空门的传送器，来召唤她的分身进行协助作战。与此同时，每次技能释放产生的空间裂痕也会对敌人造成斩击，从而打出爆炸伤害！
Translated Text:
Q2: Is there anything special about Martina that you would like to reveal to the Commanders compared to previous heroes?
Planner “Rui”: Martina's unique finishing move can deal a high amount of damage while continuously summoning doppelgangers to fight. In addition to this, she also has a unique recharge mechanism, which allows her to use her battle skills to weave between enemies while accumulating the energy needed for her next finisher to summon her doppelganger at a higher frequency. The design has a space sci-fi feel to it, which is quite original, and will hopefully give commanders a refreshing change of pace when Martina meets them.
Art “Stars”: Compared to the previous heroes, the worldview of Martina's setting takes place in space, so the use of technology will be increased. This time, the concept of a temporal bilocation has been introduced, and we have created a “metal moon wheel” based on this design to serve as a time portal to summon her bilocation to assist in battle. At the same time, each skill release creates a rift in space that will cause a chopping blow to the enemy, resulting in explosive damage!
Original Text:
Q3：玛蒂娜拥有着怎样的神秘身世和不为人知的故事呢？
美术“诸星“：玛蒂娜是一名“地下神秘组织”的首领，悲惨的童年回忆让她在小小年纪便心智成熟，具备领袖气质。妹妹的离世也带给她极大的心灵创伤，情绪一度极端化。面对康瑟人远征军的阴谋，玛蒂娜决定和马可与正规军联手出击太空，破除危机！
Translated Text:
Q3: What is Martina's mysterious life and untold story?
Art “Stars”: Martina is the leader of an “underground mysterious organization”. Her tragic childhood memories have made her mentally mature and possess leadership qualities at a young age. She was traumatized by the death of her sister and became emotionally polarized. Faced with the conspiracy of the Conserian Expeditionary Force, Martina decides to join forces with Marco and the regular army to go into space and solve the crisis!
Original Text:
Q4：团队过程中面临的最主要难题是什么？又是如何解决的呢？
美术“诸星“：作为全新火力型英雄，创作过程中，我们对其要求的内容也比较多，比如在服装设计上，既想体现玛蒂娜的高贵，又要具备战术感来契合合金的世界观，还要求结合个人背景表现独特的“地下组织领袖”的味道。所以在权衡战术感和其身份感设计这两者的占比上，我们下了不少功夫，也出了不少方案，最后选择的方向也是身份感优先的这一版。
Translated Text:
Q4: What were the most significant challenges faced during the team process? How were they solved? Artist “Zhu Xing”: As a brand-new fire-type hero, we had a lot of requirements during the creation process. For example, in the costume design, we wanted to reflect Martina's nobility, but also to have a sense of tactics to fit in with Metal Slug's worldview, and we also required the combination of our personal backgrounds to show the unique flavor of “underground organization leader”. Leader” flavor. Therefore, we made a lot of efforts to weigh the proportion of tactical sense and identity design, and came up with a lot of proposals, and finally chose the direction of the identity of the priority of this version.
Original Text:
Q5：玛蒂娜的创作设计过程中，各位比较满意的地方分别是什么呢？
策划“Rui”：玛蒂娜，作为一个拥有“分身”的角色可以为战斗增加更多想象力，而且小透露下，玛蒂娜搭配这次新赛季的武器可以在战场中肆意的穿梭进攻，有不错的加成效果噢，大家可以期待下~
美术“诸星“：我比较喜欢玛蒂娜可以分身的设定，这样我在设计她一些身上机关元素的时候，就觉得非常好玩，趣味十足！设计过程中我也是脑补了许多机械变形的效果，最终决定通过她手部的启动机关，来带动背后的半月轮变形成满月轮，从而开启传送阵。除此之外，我也早就想尝试将红色大波浪小姐姐融入合金世界的设计了，这次可算让我逮到机会咯！
Translated Text:
Q5：What are you more satisfied with Martina's creation and design process? Planner “Rui”: Martina, as a character with a “doppelganger” can add more imagination to the battle, and a small disclosure, Martina with the new season's weapons can be in the battlefield in a reckless shuttle attack, there is a good effect of the bonus Oh, you can look forward to the next ~ ~ the new season's weapons, the new season's weapons can be in the battlefield in a reckless shuttle attack, there is a good effect of the bonus Oh! You can look forward to it! Artist “Zhu Xing”: I like the setting that Martina can split into different bodies, so when I was designing some of the elements of her body, I found it very funny and interesting! During the design process, I also made up a lot of mechanical deformation effects, and finally decided to use the activation mechanism in her hand to drive the half-moon wheel behind her back to form a full-moon wheel, thus opening the teleportation array. In addition, I've been wanting to try to incorporate Miss Red Wave into my Metal Slug World design for a long time, and this time I've finally gotten the chance to do it!
Original QnA Page Source: https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20241209A08T5E00
Trivia
- Martina's design was mainly inspired by Marvel's Black Widow and a couple of red-haired heroines.[2]