Tag: overwatch

fatdemoman:

thok-ast-thok:

honestly the “overwatch as futuristic WWE” theory explains so much about the game:

  • the implausible backstories
  • the stage names
  • the exaggerated personae
  • how nobody’s origin story actually seems to impact who they fight
  • the highly specific and long-running rivalries
  • the nonsensical timeline
  • how half the cast has “died” and then come back
  • how it’s never clear what anyone’s actually fighting for

and nothing blizzard does in-universe can disprove it because it’s all part of the narrative

tacticalgrandma:

Okay, so to clarify a bit about my lesbian Sombra enthusiasm, since some might not know: the canonical Bride of Frankenstein screamed when she saw her “”husband,”” hated him, and ran from him:

Sombra clearly has no attachment or wish to associate with said “”husband””:

And she’s doing this in the house of a woman literally named Widowmaker:

So look I’m not saying this was intentional on Blizzard’s part but I gotta say they sure did accidentally make Sombra a lesbian icon who is literally murdering the physical manifestation of compulsory heterosexuality.

freckledmccree:

It’s interesting to think about the idea that Gabriel purposefully pushed Jesse to quit Blackwatch to try and save him from what Gabriel saw was to come.

That the worst case scenario where if Jesse stayed and survived where Gabriel and Jack did not was that Jesse, as former second-in-command and possibly now Blackwatch Commander himself as a result, would bear the brunt of the UN demands to explain what happened within Blackwatch: to stand in as leader of an infiltrated organization, innocent of the conspiracy but unable to convince anyone of that, scapegoated for people’s need to have someone to blame and bear the brunt of punishment for Blackwatch’s mistakes.

But, if he leaves the game early and with obvious grievances against the organizations, against Gabriel… who will target Jesse once he’s gone? Who will try to accuse him of being one of those who sought to overturn Overwatch? Who will make him bear the weight of things he didn’t do? He left, and it was because he wanted nothing to do with the fighting.

Jesse, unlike the other valuable targets, can be protected by simply getting up from the table. Gabriel knows how to push Jesse’s buttons. Just tell him to run without telling him he’s making a run for it. Get him to walk out of the line of fire before the sniper even sets up their nest.