History Heartwarming / Overwatch

** It's also heartwarming in a meta sense. A majority of those 5 upvotes will likely be from his teammates, meaning the player did a good job as Hanzo in their eyes. This part wouldn't be as significant if it was about most of other characters, because Hanzo is a character disliked due to ComplacentGamingSyndrome from "Hanzo mains".

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* During the 2016 Blizzcon Voice Actors panel, Creator/CrispinFreeman (voice of Winston) recounted the joyful events of first realizing that Overwatch was going to become a big thing:
--> ''There was a little screen backstage, and I'm watching it and this thing comes up, and it's bright, and it's shiny, and it's colorful, and I'm like "What is this Creator/{{Pixar}} film?" And all of a sudden this gorilla comes on screen and I go "...there's a gorilla. [[{{Squee}} I played a gorilla! Wait, is this my game!? Oh my god!"]] ... It was when Tracer turned to the boys and said "The world could use a few more heroes," that was it. [[TearsOfJoy The tears start falling,]] and I'm like, I'm in, we're done; I would just play the cinematic trailer -- I had four lines! -- I would play it over and over and over again.''

--> ''We came back to record "Recall," and we were doing all this stuff, and I was swingin' and fighting and everything else, and then we get to the last scene where he hits the recall button, and the first voice is Tracer talking to him on the phone, and I literally became verklempt in the booth, I was like [[InelegantBlubbering "I need a moment! Tracer's back on my team!"]] All professionalism went right out the window, and they're like "Are you okay, Crispin?", then I'm like "I'm going to be okay! I just need a second."''
** Much of the Voice Actors panel is this, as actors like Charlet Chung (D.Va) and Carolina Ravassa (Sombra) are so proud of their characters representing their heritage. It was also the first con that Cara Theobold (Tracer) and Zhang Yu (Mei) have been to, Zhang even coming over to the United States for the first time to a very warm reception.
** The first day of Blizzcon had Cara so floored by the love and support for the game that she was ''too shy to tell anyone she voiced Tracer.''
* On December 16, 2016, a Redditor semi-jokingly suggested sending cookies to the devs on Overwatch for doing such a fantastic job with the game, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5ikmj3/lets_buy_cookies_for_the_devs/ but another fan decided to take this seriously and set up an Indiegogo campaign to make this a reality.]] Within a few hours, [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/blizzard-cookies-project#/ the campaign had already exceeded its $625 goal by over 400% within the first few days.]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5iqds5/cookies_rain_from_above_update/ Jeff Kaplan actually caught wind of this,]] and graciously accepted the offer, but suggested that since they didn't want to get ''that'' many cookies, they should donate the rest of the proceedings to charity, and the campaign has since also turned into a charity drive for UsefulNotes/ChildsPlay.
** The campaign ended at nearly $4000, 630% of their original goal, [[http://imgur.com/a/btPDZ and the cookies were sent just in time for Christmas,]] [[https://twitter.com/DaytimeCoder/status/811648945281585152/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw leaving many Overwatch devs]] [[https://twitter.com/PoodleTime/status/811654313063743488/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw publicly giving their thanks]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5k8rss/cotg_a_thanks_from_blizzard/ to the community.]]
* The fact that Tracer, who is basically the game's poster character, is an LGBT character [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/812110259737137152 (lesbian, specifically)]] is sweet on so many levels, providing a role model for the community and proving that Blizzard wasn't bluffing with the promise of LGBT characters.
* Overlapping with TearJerker, an avid Blizzard fan and Overwatch player [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5vg9kw/overwatch_reunited_me_with_my_brother_just_in_time/ tells a story about how Overwatch was able to reunite him with his brother one last time.]]
* During the [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lqymLlMbo VA Panel]] at [=MomoCon=], Charlet Chung recounts her story of meeting Fred Tatasciore at [=BlizzCon=]. As it turns out, [=BlizzCon=] was Charlet's first panel and was quite nervous, so Fred guided her through the process and gave her some self-confidence, much like a [[Memes/{{Overwatch}} dad]] would. Fred even stands up afterwards and gives her a small hug!
* According to Jeff Kaplan, Torbjörn was named after a new member of the creative team. Upon hearing his name he immediately said "that is the coolest name ever", and it was then cemented as the character's name when Jeff was told the meaning of Torbjörn's name (Thor bear) which made the name "cooler".
* The fact that the entire cast are close friends in real-life; you could lose hours surfing [=YouTube=] and watching the cavalcade of ''Overwatch'' cast members hanging out in their spare time -- even traveling cross-country just to hang out -- and enjoying each other's company. Especially if the videos feature Zhang Yu (who gets a kick out of tricking the other actors to saying something silly in Mandarin) and Anjali Bhimani, whom [[MeanCharacterNiceActor in stark contrast to her character Symmetra]], is incredibly genial, outgoing and uses her platform to promote positivity in the fandom and makes self-help videos on her [=YouTube=] channel.
** This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqssb8Wxd6A Video]] of Zhang Yu (aka "Elise Zhang"), who (besides voicing Mei) also is Symmetra's Mandarin Chinese VA, teaching Anjali, who is Symmetra's English VA, showing the warmth and affection they have for each other (though there is Funny when Anjali flat-out refuses the first line, then after trying another causes them both to break into laughter--and she zings Elise with "YOU try to speak Hindi!").
* At Blizzcon 2018, the VA panel was treated to Keith Silverstein saying [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b39vb2RpB2Q&t=1745s this]], in character as Torbjorn, to Matilda Smedius.
* The Lijiang Tower map has a display of astronaut suitswith the red suit marked with the name Hongyu. Hongyu Wu was a Blizzard fan who died pursuing a motorcycle thief. The text on the wall behind the suits say 英雄不朽, "Heroes never die".
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* "Genesis" features the story of the Omnic Crisis. With the God-Program Anubis overriding the Core Programming of all Omnics, there was only one hope: Aurora, the first Omnic ever built, achieved true sapience. In order to break Anubis' hold on the Omnics, Aurora sacrificed herself to grant that same sapience to ''all'' of them. The Crisis ended because the Omnics were given the chance to ''choose'' to stop. And while many Omnics chose to continue fighting, many more of them threw down their weapons, and others even chose to ''help'' Overwatch stop Anubis.

** Symmetra is there in the first place to repair a statue of Aurora, the first Omnic ever to achieve sapience. She went on a journey of self-discovery, at the end of which she achieved a transdescent state and sacrificed herself to grant sapience to ''all'' Omnics.

* The aftermath of the Rio battle has the team returning victorious to Gibraltar with new recruit Luccio in tow. When he asks Brigitte where everybody is, she admits that they're all they have at the moment. Cue Cassidy disagreeing with Baptiste, D.Va, Pharah, and Zarya in tow.