Anita Williams, better known as Bangalore, is a Legend first introduced at the launch of Apex Legends. A former IMC soldier, she entered the Apex Games to gather funds for a flight to her home planet, Gridiron.
Lore
Background
Anita Williams was born in 2695 on Gridiron to Felicia & Ronald Williams. The Williams family was a military family and she was raised with her four brothers to serve in the IMC armed forces, as did four generations before her.[2] Throughout childhood, Anita held a strong kinship and a friendly rivalry with her big brother, Jackson. The two created a lifelong game to see who would be better at even menial things. The pair kept a scorecard between them, including tasks such as “who said their first word first”, “fastest time to disassemble an R-201," “who met Vice Admiral Graves first,” and “who spit on Vice Admiral Graves (post-betrayal) first."[3]
One famous tradition kept by the family was the Williams Sendoff. The morning before a Williams child was to be deployed, the family would share one last round of beers together and fashion the bottle caps into a bracelet. That way, the departing soldier would have a memento to remind them that the family was always together, no matter how far apart.[3]
Anita and her brother were together during their time in boot camp. During one prank war, Anita spiked Jackson’s rations with laxatives, only for them to be eaten by their commanding officer. As punishment, both siblings were forced to clean an Essex-class cruiser with toothbrushes.[4] In another incident, during a bow shooting competition, Jackson knocked Anita's elbow before her final shot, causing her to lose by a single point.[5]
On the day of their graduation, the siblings’ score card was tied, with each side having completed 99 tasks. Jackson received his marching order a few days before Anita, seemingly cementing him as the better Williams sibling. She tore the card to shreds in anger after this. After their graduation, as Jackson approaches Anita to give her a gift, the destruction of Typhon by the Frontier Militia was announced. All of the hundreds of thousands of IMC personnel on the planet had perished - including Zeke, the oldest Williams sibling. Anita gained a burning hatred of the Militia from that day.[3]
Jackson, not trusting Anita to go rogue after receiving the news, was granted a transfer, and was given the same deployment as his sister, joining the crew of the IMS Hestia 01.[3]
During Anita's service, an Artillery Inventory Management worker on Kings Canyon challenged her to disassemble and reassemble an M600 Spitfire faster than he could. After easily winning, she obtained her 
Smoke Launcher as the wager.[6]
Battle of Gridiron
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"No... The fight isn't over!"
"It is for us."
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| — Anita and Jackson aboard the IMS Hestia-01
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After the Battle of Typhon, the IMC’s resources became concentrated on Gridiron. During this time, losses continued to mount - the Apex Predators departed, as their contract had been fulfilled, and Vice Admiral Spyglass's Remnant Fleet deserted. With these losses and the loss of Typhon, the IMC became desperate, and the Militia eventually surrounded the planet.[3]
Bangalore hides from an enemy
Ion.
Anita and Jackson both participated in the Battle of Gridiron, during which a Militia Cloak Pilot engaged the former. Despite her best efforts, she could not defeat the Pilot, being stabbed by their data knife.[7]
During her recovery, Jackson, who was in command of the IMS Hestia-01, decided that Gridiron was lost and it was against the crew’s best interest to continue fighting.[7] Anita had to be sedated to prevent her from starting a coup. The item from Typhon, a powerful energy source possibly related to the Ark which powered Typhon’s Fold Weapon, was used to amplify the vessel’s drives, allowing it to travel from Gridiron to the borders of the Outlands in less than a year - far less than the twenty this trip would normally take. When the crew arrived in the Outlands, the power source was exhausted, and a return trip would take its normal length of decades.[3] Additionally, the Blackout had begun, extinguishing all sources of communication with the rest of the Frontier, including Gridiron.
Gridiron
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"You didn't see what I saw. We were dying for a lost cause and they knew it!"
"Then that was the mission! We're soldiers! That's what we signed up for!"
"I signed up to protect my family. The IMC never gave a damn about us. Anita, open your eyes!"
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| — Jackson and Anita
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By the time Anita awoke, the IMS Hestia-01 had crash landed on the Gaean island of Storm Point. The survivors began creating a makeshift settlement at the crash site, with Jackson as their leader.
Anita, perturbed by this perceived act of treason, sent an emergency signal for evacuation and confronted Jackson about his actions. Eventually, she received a response from Commander Scryer, a Pilot serving the IMC. Scryer arrived on his personal ship and attempted to execute Jackson for treason. Anita intervened, and the Williams siblings began to fight off Scryer.
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"The Williams family. Heroes of the IMC. Decorated soldiers for generations. Imagine your parents' disappointment when they learn their children died as traitors and cowards."
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After indiscriminately bombing the settlement, Scryer, himself a Cloak Pilot, began to mock the siblings and engaged them in combat. After picking up Anita and flying around the settlement with her, she was able to disable Scryer’s jump pack with his data knife. Crashing into a nearby building, she recognized his tactics as similar to those used by the Pilot she fought during the Battle of Gridiron. Working together with Jackson, she was able to disarm him and fatally stab Scryer with his own data knife. She then took the knife as her own.
After the death of Scryer, the crew commandeered Scryer’s ship, christening it the Hestia 02 and using it as their new home. Anita joins them, helping her brother to hide from the pursuing IMC leadership.[7]
The Hestia-02
Over the next five years, the crew members of the Hestia-02 took odd jobs to get by. At one point, Jackson revealed to Anita the true reason behind their truancy: The ARES Division, an archeological unit of the IMC, was planning on using a device known as the Fold Weapon to decimate various planets across the Frontier to force the Militia into submission.[8] The Militia had killed hundreds of thousands of people to save billions.[3]
Bangalore watches as Jackson plummets towards Solace.
Roughly a week after this revelation, a grenade[3] exploded on the outer hull of the Hestia-02 when it was above Solace. Jackson was lost during this incident, having shielded Anita and prevented her from flying out of the ship. As Anita watched helplessly as the most important person in her life was taken from her, she refused to believe that he had died.[9]
Six months after the explosion, Anita decided to look through the possessions Jackson had left behind. With them, she found their scorecard, having been taped back together after she had destroyed it. Jackson had made one modification to it - he had added one last task, showing that Anita had won their competition because “A comes before J in the alphabet.” She also found a note from him, which said that “what’s been torn apart can always be put back together again."[3] She then resolved to find a way to search for Jackson and find a way for them to return home to Gridiron.[9]
In 2727, Anita worked as a security guard in the town of Little Mouse, Solace. An informant contacted her, claiming to have information regarding Jackson. Arriving at a facility on the island of Kings Canyon, she plugged in the drive to find a video message recorded by Jackson, who seemed to be still alive. Though she was overjoyed, this happiness was short-lived, as immediately after the drive was taken by the Voidwalker Wraith.[10]
At some point, Anita was at a shooting range to celebrate her birthday when she was harassed by James “Forge” McCormick.[11] He later went on to describe the incident as the two “having a thing."[12]
Anita joined the Apex Games in 2730[13] to raise money to fund her return trip to Gridiron.[9]
At some point, Angela Fazia, a reporter for the Outlands Journal tabloid, attempted to interview Anita regarding her past. She ignored the repetitive requests, eventually threatening Fazia if she was to continue.[14]
Season 5 Launch Trailer
Anita was present when Skull Town sank into the Duchess River and Loba Andrade arose from the wreckage.[15] She detained the intruder, keeping a Peacekeeper to her head. At that moment, two dropships arrived. One contained a platoon of Spectres sent by the Mercenary Syndicate, and the other contained Cheryl Amacci, the head of Hammond Robotics’ legal department.[16] Amacci announces Loba’s entrance into the Games as the newest Legend, much to the violent chagrin of Anita.[17] As she walks away, she overhears Loba having a conversation with Yoko Zepnewski, Amacci’s chief of staff.[18]
The Broken Ghost
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And obviously, we'd fail miserably without the guidance and leadership of our general, Bangalore."
"Sergeant 1st Class will be fine, Loba. Not a general yet.
"Of course you aren't."
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| — Loba and Anita
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After Loba joined the Apex Games, she solicited the assistance of the other Legends (sans Revenant) to hunt down pieces of an artifact on an alternate Kings Canyon, in the Shadowfall dimension.[19]
When Octane revealed that he had a date scheduled with Yoko Zepnewski, Anita seized the opportunity to obtain information regarding Loba’s true intentions.[20] Octane accidentally revealed the true purpose of the “date,” but Zepnewski stated that Loba is working with Hammond Robotics to find something called a “source code,” or the biological remains of Revenant’s human mind. She gave this information on the condition that she would receive Anita’s autograph. However, the “date” was cut short when Wattson was injured in the Shadowfall dimension.[21]
While Wattson recovered from her injuries, Revenant arrived to harass and threaten the Legends.[21] Anita, Gibraltar, and Bloodhound suddenly returned from the Shadowfall dimension to fend off their assailant. Anita stated her belief that someone is feeding him information. Crypto offhandedly accuseed her of being the mole, to which she dismissively brushed the comment off.[22] Eventually, Revenant returned in the form of Crypto’s drone and confirmed that there was a mole amongst them.[23]
After this incident, Octane haphazardly rushed into the Shadowfall dimension, leaving behind a note for Lifeline.[22] After reading it, she confronted Anita, placing some of the blame on her for turning his “date” into an intel-gathering mission. She refused to send an extraction team to rescue Octane and left. An angered Lifeline, wanting to give some incentive for Anita to capitulate, abducted Yoko Zepnewski and forced Anita to give her an autograph. In return, Zepnewski gave Anita a transcript of her and Cheryl Amacci’s discussion with Loba.[24]
Returning to the Legends, Anita revealed the truth about their “quest”: the “treasure” they have been gathering had been for Hammond Robotics the entire time. Despite the further mistrust this revelation sows, the Legends decided to complete the project to find out more of the truth.[25]
After the “treasure” was completed, Anita secretly followed Loba to her ship, wary that Revenant would be waiting for her.[26] Hiding herself in an overwatch position to provide covering fire if necessary, she eavesdropped on Loba and Revenant’s conversation, where he revealed that he wishes to die. He pointed out that she is hiding, and Anita revealed herself after Revenant leaves. This helped to mend the bad blood between the two, and they began to grow closer.[27]
The Endorsement
Anita visited Rampart’s shop with Gibraltar to share a drink.[28]
Overtime
One Saturday on 2733, Anita completed an Apex Games match on Kings Canyon. Afterward, she joined Gibraltar and Loba at a restaurant. Through the window, she sees a man wearing a jacket that belonged to Jackson. Hoping to reclaim this, she pursues the man in the streets of Solace City. Anita takes the jacket, and when asked, the man tells her that he took it from someone at a local hospital.
Suddenly, they were interrupted by a horde of rampaging prowlers, which kill the man wearing the jacket. The Legends were then confronted by a heavily-armed Trident, with the men inside claiming that the man was with them. Anita fended them off using a smoke canister, but the resulting crash took out a significant portion of Solace City’s power grid.
Anita, Loba, and Gibraltar then arrive at the hospital, finding many of the other Legends there as well, only to be caught under debris from a landing dropship owned by Boss Willis of the Mercenary Syndicate.[29] She assisted in rescuing patients, encountering the man who had held the jacket.[30]
Pathfinder's Quest
Anita met with Pathfinder when the latter sought answers regarding his creator. They discussed family, Anita’s past on the Hestia, and her feelings about being an IMC soldier in a world that is so against them.[3]
Season 8
One day, Anita and Wraith were scheduled to fight together in an Apex Games match. During preparations on the drop ship, she asks Wraith to hand her her jump pack. When Wraith bent down to grab it, she found a Pilot’s data knife and pressed Anita for information. Anita reacted violently, grappling Wraith and telling her that “[she is] not taking anything else from [her]”.[31]
The Legacy Antigen
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"I didn't ask for bad news. I asked about the cure. Cause if you're right, I got three days to figure out how to survive. So talk fast, New Girl..."
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Upon the arrival of the Icarus fleet to Olympus, the Legends went to investigate the mysterious ships. After some casual flirting between Loba and Anita, the former went to investigate the ship and fell through a weak part of the dock.[32] Though Anita was devastated to see someone else she loves fall to their certain death, Loba was luckily saved by Valkyrie’s intervention. However, this joy was short lived, as it was discovered that the massive vines protruding from the ship were carrying a potent disease-causing agent. Anita contracted this illness, and she had three days to live unless a cure was found.[33]
Anita was quickly admitted to a local hospital on Olympus. However, she was agitated with the idea of simply sitting around waiting to die, wishing to assist the other Legends in finding a cure. Detonating one of her smoke canisters, she attempted to leave, but was stopped by Wraith. The two engaged in a vitriolic fight, where Anita revealed the reason she hates Wraith: she blames her for not being able to find her brother. Recounting her trip to Singh Labs to Wraith, the latter stated that she was not responsible; the true culprit was the Voidwalker Wraith. Excited to know what was happening for once, Wraith proposed a pact with Anita: Wraith would assist Anita with her search for Jackson, and Anita would help Wraith find out more about her past. Anita accepted these terms.[10]
After the cure was developed, a recovering Anita was visited by Rampart and Gibraltar. When asked by Rampart for “a little bow-chika-mow-mow” regarding Loba, Anita replied that they were simply friends. Loba was waiting outside with flowers and overheard this conversation, crushing her.[34] However, Anita later expressed regret at having said this.[35]
Season 10
One day, an emergency capsule landed on the edge of Olympus. Anita seemed to recognize the capsule, and was in disbelief as to what she saw. Upon entering, she found a manifest containing data regarding the crew members of the IMS Hestia-01, as well as information pointing towards Storm Point. She additionally heard a recording of the message she sent after waking up on the island.[36]
Season 11
After the Mercenary Syndicate acquired Storm Point as an arena for the Apex Games, Anita seemed intent on surveying the wreckage of the IMS Hestia-01, despite her belief that there was nothing more to be found. Around this time, she had drafted a message to Loba about the site, but deleted it before she could send it.[37]
During an expedition with Wraith, she recounted the story of how she obtained her data knife, as well as her landing on Storm Point.[7] On another occasion, Anita was attempting to repair a radio transmitter she once used to try to send a message to her family on Gridiron. Wraith approached her, stating that she was waiting for word from a contact in Solace City. After she left, she heard a thud and was met by Revenant, who said he wanted to “have a little chat”.[38]
Soon after, on the Apex Games dropship, Revenant engaged with Anita once more. Positing that Jackson must be either dead or in hiding, he reiterated what he proposed in her apartment: the pair should pool their resources, allowing them to significantly shorten the length of the normally 20-year trip to Gridiron. After mentioning her aging parents, she began to consider the offer.[39]
Season 12
Anita began to see a therapist to help her overcome the loss of Jackson and her perceived failures as a soldier.[40]
The Williams Sendoff
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"So this last one's for you, Jackie. For your last assignment... You don't need to find your way home, because you're already there."
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One day, Wraith arrived at Anita's door with news. Having located a morgue on Solace, she had found Jackson's dog tags, as well as five-year-old records of a body whose age, height, weight, and dog tags matched Jackson's. Anita demanded to see the body, but the morgue buries its corpses after two weeks if they are not identified. Additionally, the records of the site of burial had been lost in a fire. A distraught Anita wept in despair.[41]
Anita met Loba at a bar to discuss the predicament of whether or not she should return to Gridiron. Loba was initially hesitant to support Anita's departure. However, when Anita let slip that she would be taken by Revenant, Loba entered into a rage. Recalling the night at the hospital on Olympus, she tells her that they were never "just friends" and that she should just leave. After an enraged Loba departed, Revenant approached and requested a final answer. Anita, seeing that all her bridges have burned, agreed.[42]
Before departing, Anita made one final stop at Storm Point to visit the wreckage of the IMS Hestia-01. Taking out a case of beer, she held one last Williams Sendoff, saying her final goodbye to Jackson.[43] After this revelation, Anita decided to remain in the Outlands.
Season 13 Launch Trailer
Loba being close with Valkyrie definitely has no effect on Bangalore.
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"You're really quitting?"
"It's time. My brother's gone. Without Jackson... I've got nothing else left to fight for here."
"So you just run away. So much for all that bravado."
"I need to get back to my family... whatever's left of 'em."
"You built a family here."
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| — Loba and Anita
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Having packed her belongings,[44] Anita tried to enter the Paradise Lounge for a drink, but was met by a locked door. Hearing murmuring inside, she surmised that a party was being planned for her departure.[45]
The party was held aboard the dropship, immediately before what was supposed to be Anita's final Apex Games match on Storm Point. During the party, she was reprimanded by Loba for running away from the family she had found in the Outlands. She additionally saw her intended replacement, a fighter under the name of Newcastle. As they approached the drop zone, she, Newcastle, and Mirage were placed on a team together.
Landing on Storm Point, a violent tremor caused an IMC security installation to rise from the ground. Anita and Newcastle entered to find a large weapons cache, but as Anita grabbed a HAVOC, Specters were activated in defense. Together, the two defeated the robots, only to be met by a larger threat -- the large aquatic beast that had been causing the tremors came ashore. Rallying together with the other Legends, the two were able to fell the creature.
After tending to a wounded Valkyrie, Anita went to meet with Newcastle, who was recovering against a rock and hiding a bottlecap bracelet. She approached him and removed his helmet, confirming her belief that he was her brother, Jackson.[46]
Family Secrets
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"I can't believe you could just abandon our family like that, Jackson."
"We both found a family in the Outlands. I'm just the only one who sees it."
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Jackson's long disappearance caused significant tension between the two siblings. After a match on Storm Point, Anita and Jackson began to argue, with Anita questioning why he was refusing to give her any information. Soon after, Jackson received a phone call from an unknown party, and he refused to take it in her presence, leaving Anita to take the dropship.[47]
After leaving the dropship, she followed Jackson back to Harris Valley. Upon arriving, she was interrupted by a hot dog seller. They asked Anita to leave, citing the fact that Harris Valley was founded by those left behind by the IMC, and her public embracing of IMC iconography could cause tension. She rebuffed him, but this distraction caused her to lose track of Jackson. She then noticed a warehouse in an alleyway and entered on a hunch, sneaking in through a window.
Upon entering the warehouse, she discovered Jackson's transaction with the Forgotten Families. Eavesdropping, she found that their leader knew Jackson's true identity. After their engagement ended, Anita was discovered by a mercenary. In an attempt to escape, she launched a smoke grenade, and was found by Wraith and Mirage, who had trailed her to Harris Valley. The three began to fight their way out, with Anita engaging a soldier with a chain gun.[48][49]
The three fought together clumsily until Mirage requested additional communication. After the three eliminated the mercenary wielding the chain gun, Anita turned on Wraith and Mirage, angered that they intruded on Williams family business despite their best intentions. She began debating with Wraith, angry that she had mislead her about Jackson's whereabouts and wishing that she would figure out her own life before intruding on hers. At the request of Mirage, Anita then stormed off.[50]
Anita later ventured near a block party in Harris Valley, circling it while ruminating on what had occurred. Here she met Wraith, and the two made amends, with Anita promising to assist with finding Wraith's past. Suddenly, a member of the crowd jeered at Anita, telling the "IMC scum" to leave Harris Valley. In the gathering commotion she noticed Jackson and two children. After putting two and two together, she realized that this was Jackson's family. Not wishing to cause any trouble, Anita then left Harris Valley.[51]
Appearances
Trivia
- Bangalore is LGBT+. What she specifically identifies as is unknown.[52]
- Bangalore's favorite weapon is the G7 Scout.[3]
- When she was growing up, her parents raised her on the P20-series handguns, as hinted at when Bangalore pings a P2020 in the game.
- Bangalore enjoys shooting guns on her birthday.[11]
- Her Heirloom is a Pilot's Data Knife, taken from IMC Lieutenant Scryer after his defeat on Storm Point.[7] She claims to have already attempted, fruitlessly, to check the data on it herself.[53]
- Additionally the overall appearance of the knife, especially the curve in the middle of the blade, makes it closely resemble a kukri.
- Wrapped around the blade's sheath is a bracelet of bottlecaps, made for her by her family as a memento before her first deployment.[3]
- According to the manifest in the spherical pod on Olympus, she is considered AWOL (absent without leave), even though she considers herself as MIA (missing in action).
- Bangalore seems to be somewhat spiritual, and may be Christian or Catholic.[54]
- Her fans call themselves "Bangalords".[55]
- Her autograph is seen as a rare collector's autograph, as she rarely does signings after matches.[56]
- Bangalore wears her IMC patches in public, garnering some degree of public resentment.[3]
- Bangalore can strike with a force of 775 pounds per square inch (PSI), and has a weapon draw speed of 0.7 seconds.[12]
- Alongside Mirage, Bangalore is the second Legend known to have a therapist.[40]
- Bangalore and Newcastle are the only blood-related family members to participate in the Apex Games.
- Bangalore enjoys spicy food.[57]
- Bangalore can take apart a Peacekeeper, equip it with a Precision Choke hop-up, and put it back together in under twenty seconds, blindfolded. She was the only cadet in her class who could do this.[9]
- She makes multiple references to IMC grunt voicelines and/or actions from the previous Titanfall games.
- Her hatred of Flyers may be a reference to the first Titanfall where IMC Grunts were forcibly taken away by Flyers.
- Her quote for being attacked, "Third party! They're trying to corner us!" is a reference to the grunts from Titanfall 2, who would commonly say the same few voice lines due to the limited number of available quotes, with the aforementioned line being one of the most common (and infamous.)
- Her La Catrina and Soldado de la Muerte skins reference Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday that celebrates the lives of one's deceased family members.
- Bangalore's
Soldier of Justice skin is based on Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon from the Sailor Moon series.
- Bangalore's
Tactical Oddity skin is based on the music of David Bowie, specifically the song "Space Oddity."
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Soldier of Justice
Tactical Oddity
- Bangalore's voice actress, Erika Luttrell, has portrayed a variety of roles, including:
- She also previously provided the voice of a doctor in the "Ashes to Ash" Stories from the Outlands short. Ironically, the doctor she was speaking to was voiced by Gabe Kunda, the voice actor of Newcastle.[58]
See also
References
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