| 1 | !!General examples: |
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| 5 | [[folder: A-D]] |
| 6 | * AbilityOverAppearance: Vocal variations. |
| 7 | ** Jonny Cruz was cast as Lúcio, even though he doesn't speak Portuguese [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent or speak with a Brazilian accent]], because he captured his personality perfectly. They actually auditioned several Brazilian actors to play him, but none portrayed him the way they wanted. Cruz has recorded some lines in Portuguese which were eventually added in 2018. |
| 8 | ** Roadhog has the deep, raspy voice you'd expect from his character design, but uses an American accent in spite of being Australian. |
| 9 | * ActingForTwo: Zhang Yu, on top of voicing Mei in both the English and Mandarin Chinese version of the game, also voices Symmetra in the Mandarin Chinese version. |
| 10 | * ActorSharedBackground: |
| 11 | ** Both Reaper and Keith Ferguson were born and raised in Los Angeles, California. |
| 12 | ** While she's not an [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Omnidisciplinary Climatologist]], Zhang Yu (voice of Mei) pursued science before getting into voice acting, and has a master's degree in chemical engineering. |
| 13 | ** While Chloé Hollings is about as far away as you can get from Widowmaker in terms of personality, she does happen to share a Parisian performance theater background in common with her; albeit in a different field as a singer as opposed to a ballet dancer. |
| 14 | * ApprovalOfGod: |
| 15 | ** A fan named [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdSpsvkV2N7B7gLb1yTOwqw/videos Dinoflask]] makes incredibly popular satirical videos featuring [[ManipulativeEditing spliced-together voice clips of Jeff Kaplan's dialogue from Developer Update videos.]] When asked about them in an AMA, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/5yj2zk/ama_request_jeff_kaplan/dew5lrz/ Jeff himself says he finds the videos hilarious,]] and [[https://twitter.com/dinoflask/status/873600904968118272 later Dinoflask was invited to Blizzard campus.]] |
| 16 | ** Some less direct examples are the ships some [=VAs=] approve of: |
| 17 | *** Matt Mercer, the voice of Cassidy, approves of the popular BaraGenre Cassidy/Hanzo pairing. |
| 18 | *** Creator/AnjaliBhimani, voice of Symmetra, said that it would be "hot as fuck" if Genji/Mercy became a real thing while thinks that Ana and Soldier: 76 could work as a couple. Her interactons with Carolina Ravassa, voice of Sombra, imply that both of them are into the Symmetra/Sombra ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Symbra]]). |
| 19 | *** Creator/LuciePohl, voice of Mercy, has expressed approval of several Mercy pairings, including "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Pharmercy]]" (Pharah/Mercy), "[[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Mom and Dad]]" (Mercy/Soldier: 76) and "Gency/[[PunnyName Emergenji"]] (Genji/Mercy). |
| 20 | *** Both Charlet Chung (D.Va's voice) and Jonny Cruz (Lúcio's voice) approve of the Lúcio/D.Va (Bunnyribbit) pairing. |
| 21 | *** Jen Cohn, Pharah's voice actress, approves of Pharmercy. |
| 22 | *** Gaku Space, Genji's voice actor, enjoys Genji/Mercy and has fun playing along with Mercy cosplayers or Mercy's voice actress. |
| 23 | *** While not a [=VA=], Michael Chu has also liked fan-art of D.Va being shipped with her team mate [[EnsembleDarkhorse D.Mon]], in addition to his nods towards Genji/Mercy. |
| 24 | * AscendedFanon: |
| 25 | ** Lots of speculation from the Sombra AlternateRealityGame was added to her character with her eventual release: |
| 26 | *** While players were searching for clues, most of them ended up off-track, focusing on [[RedHerring a compression artifact in Dorado's sky nicknamed the "Skycode."]] With Sombra's release, not only did it become one of her spray tags, but she also generates it during her "Amused" emote, [[TakeThatAudience laughing at it.]] It even comes with musical tones based off [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4w7ey1/the_sombra_skysong/ one fan's popular suggestion to make music from it to "decipher" it.]] |
| 27 | *** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/50wfv4/this_needs_to_be_a_highlight_intro_for_sombra/ A Redditor speculated a possible highlight intro]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou that involved her]] [[BaitAndSwitch Bait-and-Switching]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou away another player's [=PoTG=] using hacking,]] 2 months before she was finally released. While there is no confirmation nor denial of whether it was directly inspired by this post or if it was just a really specific coincidence, come Sombra's actual release, her [[https://gfycat.com/BigColdGopher "Hacking" highlight intro followed the description to a T.]] |
| 28 | *** A popular idea suggested by many players after her release was that there should be some way for allies to see exactly what health packs Sombra has hacked and where. Surprisingly, it wasn't long before Blizzard decided to experiment with the idea, and almost immediately they made it so her hacked health packs were made visible through walls. |
| 29 | ** "Boostio" was a common nickname for a nano-boosted Lúcio, widely considered to be the worst target for a nano boost in the game (combined with a tendency to jump in the middle of the ''intended'' target at the wrong time). Blizzard took note of this, and added a new line of him yelling "BOOSTIOOO!!!" when he gets nano-boosted. |
| 30 | ** Many fans had joked that Torbjörn was Bastion's father, mainly due to Bastion being a giant turret and Torbjörn's main skill being that he builds turrets. This got even bigger after Bastion's new buff gave it the "Ironclad" passive, which is one of Torbjörn's [[CatchPhrase catch phrases]]. The "Binary" comic reveals that he is indeed Bastion's creator or at least he designed the line [[spoiler: and also "adopted" Bastion, after realising it might be more than the killing machine it was built to be, shortly after Overwatch was disbanded]]. |
| 31 | ** Doomfist was originally never intended to be a playable character, only just a minor background character to justify the events of the game's first Cinematic Trailer. His presence as a fully playable character and a major character in the lore is largely due to [[MemeticBadass positive fan reception and demand]], as well as hype from the prospect of Creator/TerryCrews voicing him. |
| 32 | * BannedInChina: |
| 33 | ** ''Overwatch (2)'', along with all other Creator/{{Blizzard|Entertainment}} games, became unable to be played in China starting from January 2023 after Blizzard's licensing deal with longtime partner [=NetEase=] (who handles their distribution in the country) ended, with attempts at renegotiation reportedly falling through amidst chaos at Creator/ActivisionBlizzard during the approaching acquisition by Microsoft. However, in April 2024, both companies announced that they reached a new deal, and the games would be returning to China after a year-long absence. |
| 34 | ** The ''Reflections'' comic is unavailable in Russia due to laws against LGBT-themes toward children. |
| 35 | * BeamMeUpScotty: A complicated example: there's a pre-game interaction between Mercy and Reaper, Mercy asking "What happened to you?", with Reaper [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]] "You tell me, Doc." Many fans interpreted this as an implication that Mercy was actually responsible for his ghostly condition, but in reality, he's just snarking at her question since she's a doctor, and she has no relation to his current state. However, many fans took that accusatory angle and rolled with it, and the exchange was collectively misquoted as "This isn't what I intended for you, Reyes." / "You did this to me." [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747844983#post-16 It became so prevalent that Michael Chu had to step in to confirm the lines never existed.]] |
| 36 | * CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Latin-American dub, Orisa is voiced by soap opera actress Vanessa Acosta, who previously did some voice acting, including [[Anime/OjamajoDoremi Doremi Harukaze]] and [[Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll Clarissa Darling]]. Also from the same version, Mei is voiced by theater actress Joanna Ruvalcaba. |
| 37 | * ChristmasRushed: The ''Storm Rising'' event appears to have had a shorter development time than previous Archives events, [[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/412489683?t=02h54m18s beginning development in September 2018 (the Havana map it was based in began a month prior) for its April 2019 release date]]. For comparison, ''Retribution'' [[https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/overwatch-development-time was reported to have had an 11-month development period]], beginning immediately after the ''Uprising'' event concluded. |
| 38 | * ContentLeak: |
| 39 | ** In a strange bit of cosmic irony, [[TheCracker Sombra]] (as well as details of the upcoming Junkenstein's Revenge Halloween mode) was [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/56ih53/sombra_design_identity_halloween_brawl_leaked/ leaked onto Reddit]] a full month before they were officially announced -- in Sombra's case, a full month before [=BlizzCon=] 2016. |
| 40 | ** After being SpoiledByTheMerchandise, the existence of a Switch port was leaked ''twice'' more: [[https://twitter.com/the_marmolade/status/1166292092315942912 once by an internal retail listing from France that was posted online]] and [[https://kotaku.com/overwatch-comes-to-switch-next-month-1837868458 once by Kotaku hours before its official announcement]]. |
| 41 | ** Over a year before she was [[PromotedToPlayable properly announced to be playable]], Junker Queen was accidentally revealed during [=BlizzCon=] 2021, where during a show of in-development story mode assets, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/lpx5sq/junkertown_queen_might_be_confirmed_for_overwatch/ a visible set of limbs and an ax weapon could be seen T-posing in the distance]], greatly resembling how the Junker Queen was [[EarlyBirdCameo depicted in an in-game poster]]. |
| 42 | ** Kiriko had quite the loose lid before she was officially revealed in September 2022: from as early as 2019, [[https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/11/05/details-on-an-unannounced-overwatch-2-hero an insider from Gameinformer]] identified the silhouette of an upcoming hero resembling a female with fox ears and [[FuumaShuriken a giant shuriken]] weapon, which was later confirmed to be of an early iteration of the character. The name "Kiriko" was [[https://twitter.com/OverwatchNaeri/status/1567709979922305024 accidentally dropped]] during an announcement of the ''Overwatch 2'' RewardsPass, which was indirectly confirmed [[https://www.gamesradar.com/overwatch-2-dev-shoots-down-fox-hero-leak/ when Blizzard shot down a separate "leak" they confirmed to be fake]]. Finally, an incomplete workprint of the ''Kiriko'' cinematic (featuring the Spanish dub and temp music) was leaked onto [=YouTube=] a full month before the short's official release. |
| 43 | * CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Years before she was properly established alongside Echo, Mina Liao ([[TheGhost a character who was known to exist]] [[UnknownCharacter but had virtually no known info about her aside from her place in the original Overwatch Strike Team]]) [[https://imgur.com/a/M11yS was claimed to be a cryogenics expert by a Brazilian Playstation magazine.]] If this wasn't the original plan which got changed later on, then it's this, possibly due to the reporter mixing up Liao and Mei. |
| 44 | * CreatorBacklash: While he definitely doesn't dislike the game itself, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/6bwrvj/roverwatch_qa_with_jeff_kaplan_overwatch_game/dhq2pg8/ Jeff Kaplan regrets adding cosmetic rewards for competitive mode,]] since he believes that it's attracted too many competitive players who only want the physical rewards and wouldn't play it otherwise, rather than people who take the mode seriously and to climb up the tiers. |
| 45 | * CreatorInJoke: In the Numbani airport, the big board by the central exit lists flights to various cities that are either On-Time or Canceled. The very last city is Irvine, which is Delayed. Blizzard is headquartered in Irvine, California. The fact that the flight is delayed is likely a reference to Blizzard's famous [[ScheduleSlip reluctance to release a game]] until they feel it is ready. |
| 46 | * CreatorsFavorite: |
| 47 | ** Jeff Kaplan states in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdjeEBPRNM a video]] with IGN that Tracer is "who he wants to be when he grows up someday". |
| 48 | ** During Ashe's "What's Next?" panel at Blizzcon 2018, director Jason Hill described B.O.B. as an extremely rare "unicorn" concept where the designers perfectly nailed their vision on the first try, requiring little to no design iteration to satisfy the entire team as a final product. His implementation was also surprisingly low on hassle; each hero has a "performance budget", and many devs were concerned that B.O.B. would be too technically intensive [[AssistCharacter to add in the game alongside Ashe]], but this was curbed since [[TheSilentBob he required no voice assets]] and his model is almost completely symmetrical. In his Hill's words, "B.O.B. was just meant to be." |
| 49 | * CreatorsOddball: ''Overwatch'' was very much designed to be the antithesis to Blizzard's most famous works, namely ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft}}'', in every possible way. |
| 50 | ** Their forte is in genres like [[RolePlayingGame Roleplaying]] and RealTimeStrategy. On the other hand, ''Overwatch'' is a [[HeroShooter hero-based]] FirstPersonShooter that stands as something very different than their normal material. |
| 51 | ** Also, tone-wise it fits. The other three are much more cynical in how they're presented, taking a pessimistic view in their general storytelling and themes. ''Overwatch'' deliberately prides itself with optimism and idealism. While very bad things can and do indeed happen, the overall message is that HopeSpringsEternal; to look at how things ''could'' be as opposed to what it currently is. |
| 52 | * TheDanza: A foreign dub variant, Baptiste’s French voice actor is Jean-Baptiste Anoumon. |
| 53 | * DarkhorseCasting: Blizzard took the liberty of casting primarily unknowns for the large, multiethnic cast, including many who are not professional voice actors at all. The only well-known [=VAs=] among the cast are Creator/FredTatasciore (Soldier:76), Creator/KeithFerguson (Reaper), Creator/KeithSilverstein (Torbjörn), Creator/CrispinFreeman (Winston), Creator/MatthewMercer (Cassidy), Paul Nakauchi (Hanzo), and later on, Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (Hammond) and Creator/JenniferHale (Ashe). That said, some have become considerably well-known after they joined the cast, particularly Jonny Cruz[[note]]The only other game he was in was ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'', voicing one of the targets of the Bangkok mission: Jordan Cross.[[/note]] and Carolina Ravassa[[note]]To the point where, allegedly, Ravassa said ''Overwatch'' was the first time she had a fanbase[[/note]]. |
| 54 | * {{Defictionalization}}: |
| 55 | ** D.Va once had a ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' World Championship profile which could be seen on the real life internet. |
| 56 | ** Blizzard has started selling Pachimari dolls, complete with making rattling/squeaky sounds like they do in-game. |
| 57 | ** Blizzcon 2018 made two Lúcio-related announcements: [[https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/an-overwatch-cereal-lucio-ohs-is-coming-this-year Lucio-oh's as a real product]], and [[https://luciomusic.com/ a free online release of his album]], ''Synaesthesia Auditiva'' (funnily enough, the latter is primarily a promotion for the former). |
| 58 | * DemandOverload: In addition to the day 1 server overload that is practically standard of every big-name online game, there was also a queue to ''pay'' for the game. |
| 59 | * DevelopmentGag: |
| 60 | ** Roadhog's skin for the Year Of The Rooster Event has the same Mutated Pig Head from his early concept art, as described in {{WhatCouldHaveBeen/Overwatch}}'s What Could Have Been Page. |
| 61 | ** According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huS4_V4e3h0 this IGN video with Jeff Kaplan,]] Ana was originally codenamed as "The Alchemist" and would be able to make different potions to heal teammates. This would later become her in-character title in the Junkenstein's Revenge brawl, and she refers to her abilities as "potions" and "alchemical boosts." |
| 62 | ** Orisa being a huge fan of Reinhardt, imitating several of his lines and poses, seems to be based off the fact she was recycled from some of Reinhardt's early concepts (where he was instead a wildebeest-themed protector from Numbani and piloted by a little girl). |
| 63 | ** In the ''Honor and Glory'' cinematic, Balderich ends up throwing a rocket hammer at an omnic from across the room. This is likely a reference to the original proposal for ''Fire Strike'', which had Reinhardt throwing his hammer at people rather than shooting a wave of fire. |
| 64 | ** D.Va's legendary "Black Cat" skin appears to be a take on the fact she was originally designed with a cat motif in mind, but was later changed to a bunny theme to better fit her "hopping" MEKA. |
| 65 | ** Hanzo's "Cyberninja" skin could be a reference to when the original design for him included Genji's cybernetic look and weaponry. |
| 66 | * DiagnosisOfGod: A letter sent to Jeffrey Kaplan, the game's director, [[https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/9/14873308/overwatch-symmetra-autistic has confirmed that Symmetra is autistic]] [[note]]Admittedly, a tie-in comic had her refer to herself as "on the spectrum", but they still only used the concrete a-word in that letter[[/note]]. |
| 67 | * DiedDuringProduction: |
| 68 | ** Creator/RobertoDraghetti, the Italian voice actor for Soldier: 76, passed away July 2020. |
| 69 | ** Christiane Louise, the Brazilian Portuguese voice of Mercy, was murdered on July 22, 2021. |
| 70 | * DirectedByCastMember: The Latin-American Spanish dub was directed by Creator/EduardoGarza up until December 2017. He still voices Lúcio, through. |
| 71 | * DistancedFromCurrentEvents: |
| 72 | ** Patch 1.50 replaced Cassidy's "Noose" spray following multiple black people being hanged during the civil unrest caused by the killing of George Floyd. |
| 73 | ** Cassidy himself was originally named Jesse [=McCree=] [[{{Tuckerization}} after a Blizzard employee]], but after said employee was fired from the company in August 2021 after being subject to multiple sexual harassment allegations, the character was officially renamed in October 2021 (before the change solidified, Overwatch League casters also exclusively opted for nicknames like "cowboy"). While "[=McCree=]" is still treated as an in-universe alias he took up as an outlaw, and old dialogue referring to him on that basis remain, he's now officially known as Cole Cassidy (his real birth name) from 2021 onward. |
| 74 | ** In April 2022, Zarya's "Arctic" and "Siberian Front" skins had a letter "Z" removed from her vest as a response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol) the "Z"-sign gained traction as a pro-war symbol among the Russian military]]. |
| 75 | * DuelingWorks: On release in 2016, it was with the superficially similar game ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', especially since ''Overwatch's'' open beta took place on ''Battleborn's'' release date. But now that ''Battleborn'' had dropped off the radar, it now duels with ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'', ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'', and ''VideoGame/{{Valorant}}''. |
| 76 | * DummiedOut: Cassidy's Van Helsing skin was supposed to change his ultimate line to "It's High Moon" with an accompanying wolf howl, but the line went unused. |
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| 79 | [[folder: E-G]] |
| 80 | * ExecutiveMeddling: |
| 81 | ** Though not from Blizzard itself; due to Microsoft and Sony's policies regarding hotfix patches, [[GameBreaker Bastion's infamous Season 4 rework]] was left unnerfed for nearly a month until the Orisa patch on consoles, rather than the ''3 days'' it took for PC. |
| 82 | ** A similar story happens with "The Path Is Closed" achievement, which requires the player to destroy 3 of Symmetra's ''Teleporters'' in a single game, and was made when Symmetra only had one ultimate. After her rework, she was given the option of making a ''Shield Generator'' instead, but the achievement still doesn't count it due to a policy in Microsoft and Sony that forbids changing established achievements. It's still technically achievable, but far less likely. |
| 83 | ** Yet another console-based example, part of the reason the much-demanded reporting system for console has yet to be implemented is due to conflicts with the Xbox and Playstation's already-existing native reporting systems, and difficulties in properly integrating with them. |
| 84 | ** The reason for ''Overwatch 2''[='=]s existence and its status as a MissionPackSequel[=/=]UpdatedReRelease sequel is due to this reason. Blizzard, seeing how profitable ''Overwatch'' had become, requested a proper sequel from the development team, but Jeff Kaplan managed to convince them to make it an expansion pack rather than a true sequel, arguing that doing otherwise would split the playerbase, diminish profits, and would be a waste of resources maintaining two otherwise-separate games. |
| 85 | ** According to claims by former producer Tracy Kennedy, ''Overwatch 2'' ended up facing tremendous meddling before it launched thanks to Creator/ActivisionBlizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who would often halt progress by pulling developers away to develop side projects that ultimately went nowhere, wasting months of their development time that ultimately resulted in their announced ambitions (including extensive [=PvE=]) being downsized. It was also reported that Kotick mandated the switch to the free-to-play release strategy and features like a battle pass and requiring new heroes to be unlocked, changes that were widely cited as having resulted in massive burnout and developer turnover due to just how unpopular they were. Somewhat tellingly, come the season 10 kickoff in March 2024 (the first new season after Kotick was officially booted from Activision-Blizzard following the Creator/{{Microsoft}} acquisition), among the first things the ''Overwatch'' team announced would be them [[AuthorsSavingThrow undoing the pay-to-play hero mechanics and restructuring the game's monetization model]] in order to be more generous and accessible to players. |
| 86 | * FandomNod: In a short story released by Blizzard starring Baptiste and Pharah, Baptiste asked Pharah about her relationship with Cassidy before revealing that she's a lesbian and assumed that everyone knew about it, referencing how Pharah is very popular to ship with other women. |
| 87 | * FanworkBan: Blizzard has been [[http://www.pcmag.com/news/344836/porn-makers-hit-with-dmca-notices-over-blizzards-overwatch hitting creators of Overwatch Rule 34]] (specifically those who use edited game assets) with DMCA claims to get them to take it down. |
| 88 | * FlipFlopOfGod: Whether or not D.Va is specifically a professional ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' player has been somewhat waffled on. In February 2018, [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20761806067?page=2#post-38 Michael Chu explicitly confirmed that despite popular notion, while that game is in her (and her father's) repertoire, she was more recognized for playing a different unnamed game whose interface was comparable to that of her MEKA]]. This is something the official lore has previously left consistently vague, only calling her a "pro gamer", never explicitly namedropping "''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}''", but never denying it either. There have been a few instances prior [[https://youtu.be/OypMqQIbeGE?t=1299 of others within Blizzard]] [[http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/20325209/ calling her]] [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/hnewman/2018/01/09/jeff-kaplan-on-how-the-blizzard-world-map-was-built-overwatch-league/#50f43c9a6dc2 a Starcraft player]], though given it's not in-universe lore and they're not of the official writing team, it's unclear if this bit is a {{Retcon}} or [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer an internal communication error.]] |
| 89 | * FollowTheLeader: It goes both ways. |
| 90 | ** They've made no attempt to hide the fact that ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' was the inspiration for them creating ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', which was their very first FPS, because they wanted to do their own take on the HeroShooter genre. It's probably one of the most successful examples of this trope. Also, for the seasonal [=PvE=] game modes, Blizzard cited ''Videogame/MassEffect3's'' well-received cooperative multiplayer as a major influence. |
| 91 | ** Unsurprisingly due to ''Overwatch'''s success, the game has inspired other {{Hero Shooter}}s with similar gameplay. Namely ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' which can be described as "''Overwatch'' in a HighFantasy setting", which was accused of riding on the coattails of ''Overwatch'' since release for having similar gameplay mechanics and some character similarities, though much of the latter similarities were chalked up to typical character archetypes, not direct inspiration from ''Overwatch''. Moreover, ''Paladins'' was in development and closed beta before ''Overwatch'' was shown publically. And while the developers clearly did simplify the gameplay to attract ''Overwatch'' players before release, it still has a lot of gameplay depth (talents, items, character locking etc.) that stop it from being a direct copy. |
| 92 | ** ''VideoGame/LawBreakers'' (which features similar gameplay mechanics, albeit with more gore, profanity, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "zero gravity"]]) also got accused of trying to copy ''Overwatch''. While ''Paladins'' proved successful, despite some stigma, the latter... not so much, with ''Lawbreakers'' shuttering its doors on September 2019. |
| 93 | ** Probably the most JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example is the Chinese [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct knockoff]] ''Legend of Titans'', which features nothing original and compensates with shameless {{Fanservice}} compared to the more tasteful kind found in the original. |
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| 96 | [[folder: I-N]] |
| 97 | * InMemoriam: |
| 98 | ** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4qrpn7/a_new_easter_egg_has_been_added_to_lijiang_tower/ One of the astronaut suits in Lijiang Tower Control Center map]] is marked with the name 宏宇 and the text 英雄不朽 ("Heroes never die"). This is in dedication to 吴宏宇 (Hongyu Wu), an avid Chinese fan who died pursuing a motorcycle thief a day before ''Overwatch'' was officially released. |
| 99 | ** ''The Last Bastion'' is dedicated to the memory of Yvain Gnabro, an animator at Blizzard who died in a motorcycle accident in 2016. |
| 100 | ** A [[https://imgur.com/a/R87Lx#nVWXLwa poster]] in the Eichenwalde attacker spawn has a tribute to Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, a competitive ''Overwatch'' player who died on November 2017. |
| 101 | ** The Malevento map has a plaque dedicated to Roberto Draghetti, the Italian voice actor of Soldier: 76 who passed away in 2020. |
| 102 | * ManualMisprint: When Brigitte was first announced for the game, her age on the official website was initially listed as 28 before being corrected to her current age, 23. [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/968912085735231488 Michael Chu admitted Brigitte being written as 28 was from an early draft]], and was changed as thanks to [[https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/21574699/story-update-a-letter-from-torbjorn-to-his-wife/ this teaser story]] taking place before Brigitte's birth, it would imply that Mercy (who is listed as 37) would have been an Overwatch-level doctor at the age of ''[[ImprobableAge 9]]'' (granted, 14 is still impressive, [[TeenGenius but certainly more believable]]). |
| 103 | * MemeAcknowledgment: |
| 104 | ** Dad: 76 became an AscendedMeme and Blizzard has acknowledged the jokes about Roadhog and Junkrat being [[https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/832725625387393024 compared to Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King.]] |
| 105 | ** Valeria Rodriguez -- voice of Venture -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Pxe-sf16U has acknowledged on their TikTok]] the memes saying that Venture [[EatDirtCheap eats rocks]] and tacitly endorses it as canon fact. |
| 106 | * ModelDissonance: The game uses smear animation in several places, which leads to memetic images when characters are frozen mid animation (for example, Cassidy when he's in the middle of a roll). |
| 107 | * NoExportForYou: A partial example. ''Overwatch'' was released in Japan for the Platform/PlayStation4 and PC, but not for the [[AmericansHateTingle inviable]] Platform/XboxOne. |
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| 110 | [[folder: O-S]] |
| 111 | * OfficialFanSubmittedContent: The Talantis map was synthesized during a "Twitch Makes Overwatch" stream in December 2022, where various major ''Overwatch'' devs collected suggestions from fans and viewers elements that they'd like to see in a future map, contributing to its unusual abundance of jump pads, environmental hazards, floating platforms, and aquatic theme as a Talon-owned UnderwaterBase. |
| 112 | * TheOtherDarrin: |
| 113 | ** In the beta, Mercy and Widowmaker were originally played by unknown voice actresses who weren't fluent in German or French. When ''Overwatch'' was officially released, they were replaced by Lucie Pohl and Chloé Hollings, respectively, who are both bilingual. |
| 114 | ** In the German dub, Pharah's VA Ghadah Al-Akel was replaced in patch 1.10 by Silvia Mißbach. |
| 115 | ** In the Italian dub, starting from patch 1.10, Reinhardt is voiced by Pietro Ubaldi rather than Paolo Marchese, with the update patch [[OrwellianRetcon replacing all his voice clips with the ones done by the new voice actor]]. |
| 116 | ** In the French dub, starting from the 1.14 patch, Ana's voice actress was changed to Isabelle Leprince due to the previous actress Marie Vincent discontinuing her role. |
| 117 | ** Siho Ellsmore is replaced as the Junker Queen by Leah de Neise for ''Overwatch 2''. |
| 118 | ** In the Brazilian dub, Marize Motta replaced Ângela Bonatti as the voice of Ana starting with the 2020 Summer Games Event due to Bonatti having retired from dubbing after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Tonia Mesquita also replaced Christiane Louise as the voice of Mercy for ''Overwatch 2'' due to Louise's tragic murder in 2021, and Camila Maia replaces Carla Araújo as the voice of Junker Queen for ''Overwatch 2''. |
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| 122 | %%** In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, starting from patch (version number), (new VA) voices Mercy due to the murder of her previous voice actress Christiane Louise. |
| 123 | * TheOtherMarty: During the sound design for Hammond, the developers originally used an audio mix of coyote and rodent sounds as his voice, but they were later given an audition from Creator/DeeBradleyBaker, who's well known for voicing creatures. The team liked his performance and eventually casted him. |
| 124 | * PermanentPlaceholder: As the game's initial cast was being developed, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPXKBFXS3wk&feature=youtu.be&t=144 Blizzard was brainstorming the best name they could]] for their {{Cowboy}} gunman character, and somebody suggested "Jesse [=McCree=]", [[{{Tuckerization}} the name of one of their designers.]] Once the name was slotted in, everyone consistently found it superior to any other name they could come up with, and it stuck for a long time, [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents until the real McCree was booted from the company in 2021 and the team chose to distance the character from him.]] |
| 125 | * PigeonholedVoiceActor: |
| 126 | ** Creator/DeeBradleyBaker's casting as Hammond aka Wrecking Ball is about the bazillionth time he's done a role involving animal noises. |
| 127 | ** In the Brazilian dub, Winston is the '''sixth''' simian character [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes that]] [[Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ Jorge]] [[Franchise/Ben10 Vasconcellos]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge has]] [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited voiced]]. |
| 128 | * PlayingAgainstType: |
| 129 | ** In the Japanese dub, Creator/AtsushiImaruoka's role as Winston is a complete contrast with previous roles he played, like [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Adon]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Rudol von Stroheim]]. |
| 130 | ** [[http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Keith-Ferguson/ Keith Ferguson]] usually plays characters that are funny and laughable, like [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Blooregard Q. Kazoo]]. Reaper is the antithesis of "funny" and "laughable", [[NarmCharm but only if you don't wear your "Edgelord" or "Trying too hard" goggles.]] |
| 131 | * PromotedFanboy: |
| 132 | ** The {{Animesque}} Doomfist Origin Trailer was created by the Shanghai-based Wolf Smoke Animation Studio, who almost exactly a year prior [[https://wolfsmokestudio.tumblr.com/post/147076067424/what-if-overwatch-comes-into-an-anime-would-look created fan art of Tracer]] under the theme of 'what would Overwatch look like as an anime?'. |
| 133 | ** Matilda Smedius, voice of Brigitte Lindholm, plays ''Overwatch'' and now voices a playable character in the game. |
| 134 | ** Valeria Rodriguez was also a fan of ''Overwatch'' from day one (and had played ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' since they were 8), later becoming the voice of Venture. |
| 135 | ** Blizzard commissioned [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-B06UJxJ20HYv15lzrm9mA Dillongoo]], who is best known for his Katsuwatch series to create [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO6UVPRWtCI an official video for the Bastet event.]] |
| 136 | * QueerCharacterQueerActor: Non-binary hero Venture is played in English by non-binary voice actor Valeria Rodriguez. |
| 137 | * RealLifeRelative: In the Latin-American Spanish dub, Torbjörn and Zenyatta's voice actors (Arturo Mercado Sr. and Arturo Mercado Jr.) are father and son in real life. |
| 138 | * RealitySubtext: As documented in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq-HwvYjLLg this series of videos]], when creating ''Overwatch,'' Blizzard Entertainment was coming off of the failure of what was supposed to be a new flagship: ''[[WhatMightHaveBeen Titan]].'' Failure -- and rising up again in the face of it -- is heavily written into the InUniverse backstories of ''Overwatch,'' from Tracer's Slipstream accident to the corruption and collapse of the original Overwatch Initiative, before its reinstatement. |
| 139 | * RecursiveAdaptation: After his release in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', some of Lúcio's features in that game made it back to ''Overwatch''. Examples include a visual indicator for the range of his auras and increased movement speed while Wall Riding. |
| 140 | * ReferencedBy: |
| 141 | ** In ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'', Tracer and Roadhog appear on pictures placed at The Sicilian Jar. Hammond also appears at the weapon shop in Harbor Town. |
| 142 | ** Tracer makes a [[TheCameo cameo]] in ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne''. |
| 143 | ** In the Filipino film ''My Mighty Yaya'', a Pachimari doll can be seen when the mother is scrolling through a toy website. |
| 144 | ** In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', Jotaro Kujo (who's voiced by Creator/MatthewMercer in the English dub) [[https://youtu.be/olrAmfo6O0Y tells]] DIO near the end of their battle that "If this were the Wild West, the hero would say, [[ActorAllusion 'It's high noon.']]" |
| 145 | ** Mercy and Tracer make a cameo in ''WebAnimation/{{Batmetal}}''. |
| 146 | * RoleEndingMisdemeanor: The [[TemporaryOnlineContent limited-edition]] "Alien" skin for Zarya was made in commemoration of Jay "Sinatraa" Won, 2019 MVP of the Overwatch League. Following allegations in 2021[[note]]During this point in time, Sinatraa had already retired from the Overwatch League to play ''VideoGame/{{Valorant}}'' professionally[[/note]] of him sexually abusing and manipulating his ex-girlfriend, [[https://twitter.com/overwatchleague/status/1369827584955977729 Blizzard opted to remove the skin from the game, offering refunds to those who obtained it]] -- when they temporarily re-released the OWL-based "Vault skins" in 2021, the "Alien" skin remained conspicuously absent. In a broader scale, this is also widely believed as to why Blizzard made the decision to no longer produce MVP skins. |
| 147 | * RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: Pornhub experienced a massive[[note]]We're talking '''800%''' increases at launch day. NotHyperbole.[[/note]] spike in searches for ''Overwatch'' porn parodies in the days leading up to release. Creator/BlizzardEntertainment eventually sent DMCA takedown notices to Pornhub and other porn sites, instructing them to remove all videos of ''Overwatch'' porn. The initial and most prolific targets of their takedowns were NSFW videos done using modified (read: made nude and anatomically correct) 3D character models based on assets ripped from the game. Rule 34 website Paheal changed their ''Overwatch'' tag to "Overlook" in order to avoid any potential legal troubles with Blizzard, as the company really doesn't like the idea of kids and parents coming across ''Overwatch'' porn so easily. In 2017 Blizzard also issued a cease and desist on a ''Playboy'' styled fan magazine called "Playwatch" which was a magazine dedicated specifically to sexy ''Overwatch'' fanart. |
| 148 | * ScheduleSlip: While ''Overwatch 2'' wasn't officially announced in 2019 with an expected release date, the interim between its reveal and expected release date was much longer than what Blizzard (and fans) were hoping for. As development shifted greatly onto ''2'', the presently-live ''Overwatch'' took a backseat, still receiving rebalances and event-based cosmetics, but heroes, maps[[note]]Mostly in terms of those for competitive rotation -- there were a handful of Arena maps built from recycled assets of preexisting maps[[/note]], and other major gameplay updates were put on pause in anticipation for the sequel. When combined with [[TroubledProduction external problems compromising their internal production forecast and necessitating delays]], the usual 2-3 month gap between new hero/map releases ended up pushed to around 3 ''years'' with ''Overwatch 2''[='=]s official release date in late 2022. Even with that forecast, the future of ''2'''s much-advertised PVE content wasn't fully confirmed due to additional production woes, eventually ending up diving into DevelopmentHell. |
| 149 | * ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Overwatch 2'''s promises of [=PvE=] content were massively screwed over from extensive ExecutiveMeddling, with a domino effect that [[TroubledProduction severely hampered the game's developers to properly deliver on it]], forcing them to renege on and significantly downsize certain promises until it ultimately fell into a DevelopmentHell it would never return from. Despite [=PvE=] having already been announced as the major new expansion for ''Overwatch 2'', Bobby Kotick repeatedly wasted much of the ''Overwatch'' team's development time on irrelevant side projects and forced them to implement certain approaches to the game's monetization model that were internally very unpopular, with many feeling that they would only alienate their playerbase. Those concerns appear to have been validated when the (already-downsized) Story Missions came out in 2023 and reportedly didn't sell well, resulting in the ''Overwatch'' team [[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-22/blizzard-entertainment-makes-big-changes-as-overwatch-2-struggles receiving zero in the company's biannual bonuses]] (itself the result of an internally unpopular, Kotick-enforced policy of rewarding bonuses to teams based on their projects' success rather than evenly across the company). While Kotick was eventually forced out of Activison-Blizzard at the end of December following Microsoft's acquisition of the company, they still ended up facing mass layoffs in January 2024 that included a majority of those involved in further [=PvE=] content, which was publicly confirmed to have been the killing blow for that side of the game. [[https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-story-missions-campaign-canceled-blizzard-1851345720 Anonymous sources within the dev team]] reported not being surprised by the possibility of cancellation, describing the atmosphere surrounding the TroubledProduction and mistreatment by higher-ups as "'never outright negative' but 'increasingly pessimistic,'" and that had those in charge "just made any kind of decisions, the game would have shipped years ago." |
| 150 | * SerendipityWritesThePlot: Out of universe, Cole Cassidy's abandonment of the name "Jesse [=McCree=]" was instigated by [[{{Tuckerization}} the former Blizzard developer he was named after]] being [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents ousted and fired for sexual harassments allegations]]. This change in identity ended up being slightly written into the ''New Blood'' comic series, which was in production at the time: in-universe, "Jesse [=McCree=]" was an alias he chose to use while working with the Deadlock Gang and carried with him in the following years -- by the present day, he's chosen to abandon it and [[MeaningfulRename officially go by his true birth name going forward, representing his "rebirth" as a hero of the newly-recalled Overwatch]]. |
| 151 | * SpinOffCookbook: ''Overwatch: The Official Cookbook'' was released in 2019, containing recipes based on all heroes from release up to Ashe, inspired by [[MultinationalTeam their many various cultures and homelands]] (this also includes some [[TrademarkFavoriteFood peanut butter]] for [[ApesInSpace Winston]], hamster food for Wrecking Ball, and bird food for [[LoyalAnimalCompanion Ganymede]], Bastion's bird). |
| 152 | * SpoiledByTheMerchandise: The existence of a Platform/NintendoSwitch port was first hinted at by [[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/08/an_overwatch_switch_carry_case_exists_no_prizes_for_guessing_what_comes_next an Amazon listing]] for an officially licensed, ''Overwatch''-branded carrying case for the system (that was taken down within a day after going up). (It would then be subject to two more traditional {{Content Leak}}s before its official announcement.) |
| 153 | * StarMakingRole: Many voice actors who get roles in ''Overwatch'' become insanely famous in the gaming community. Two examples are Creator/DarinDePaul and Carolina Ravassa. The latter's previously-obscure "Hispanglo Saxon" Website/YouTube channel absolutely ''exploded'' due in large part to ''Overwatch'' fame--hitting [[https://youtu.be/MN7oBDs0zyU 100,000 subscribers]] on 23 February 2018. |
| 154 | * StreisandEffect: The complaints and eventual replacement of a certain Tracer victory pose [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity caused a huge spike in search interest for the game, character and pose.]] Also, Blizzard's aforementioned crackdown on ''Overwatch'' porn has only increased interest and production of it (and in September 2016, a major porn studio actually released a live-action ''Overwatch'' parody scene featuring characters based on Reaper and Widowmaker). |
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| 157 | [[folder: T-W]] |
| 158 | * ThrowItIn: From the Blizzcon 2016 voice actor panel, Mei's line "Sorry! Sorry, sorry..." wasn't scripted, but her voice actress Zhang Yu apologizing for a bad line read. The team liked it so much, they added it as one of her lines in the game. |
| 159 | * TieInCereal: Originally a background prop in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Lucio-oh's would later be {{Defictionalization}} into a real cereal. |
| 160 | * TrollingCreator: |
| 161 | ** Cassidy's voice actor Creator/MatthewMercer has admitted to saying "It's hiiiigh noooon" over voice chat whilst playing the game, making people freak out and try to hide for risk of being killed by his ultimate. He's also admitted to parodying the line by saying different times just to confuse people. |
| 162 | ** Jeff Kaplan spent Christmas day of 2017 doing a 10 hour long live stream on Twitch of himself sitting in front of a yule log, and doing nothing of any significance. The stream reached peaked at 43,778 viewers, and suffered from "technical difficulties" as he was about to announce the next hero who will join the roster. |
| 163 | ** [[https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/968539031070851072 One of the Twitter teasers for the then-unknown 27th hero]] (who would turn out to be Brigitte) had Blizzard playfully hinting the often-requested "[[WhatCouldHaveBeen Jetpack Cat]]", featuring an [[RedHerring otherwise irrelevant]] cat tail and a covered-up diagram that definitely resembles the idea. |
| 164 | *** Later during the time of 2019's Archives event, [[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/412012217?t=01h01m50s Jeff Kaplan during a stream]] denied Jetpack Cat ever becoming a playable hero... sort of. |
| 165 | --->'''Kaplan''': I said, we are ''never'' making Jetpack Cat! Never ever ever. That would be so ridiculous. It would be like adding a hamster or something. |
| 166 | * TroubledProduction: |
| 167 | ** The [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming Overwatch League]] got off to a strong start and was marked for enormous plans over the coming years, but by 2020 began experiencing several unexpected snags that had direct consequences on the game itself. 2020 was originally marked to be the year Blizzard expanded to an ambitious homestand format that involved more in-person events across the world, but not only did several popular casters and talent depart before season premiere for various reasons (from conflicts with management to personal life making the new travel demands unfeasible), the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic broke out, throwing everything into chaos. Arrangements were made to begin playing the season remotely, but all homestand events were cancelled worldwide, and the major logistical shift proved too taxing for some teams, primarily the NA-based teams with all-Korean rosters and staff — the Vancouver Titans were so wracked with conflict between them and management that the entire roster departed not long after. Things wouldn't get easier for the League in the following years — the highly-publicized workplace lawsuit against Creator/ActivisionBlizzard in 2021 caused nearly all sponsors to pull out of the League, and in late 2022, Blizzard's partnership with Chinese distributor [=NetEase=] ended after their contracts expired and negotiations amidst increasingly strict national standards and the prospective buyout by Creator/{{Microsoft}} earlier in the year fell through, leaving many of Blizzard's games — ''Overwatch'' included — to be effectively BannedInChina. The 2023 season saw many further shifts in teams changing region, changes in Chinese pro-am interactions in the wake of the ban from Chinese broadcasting, one team (the Chengdu Hunters) exiting the league altogether, and Blizzard starting a multi-team collective bargaining process in order to mitigate the high costs amidst continual viewership challenges. Ultimately, however, this wasn't enough to help recover from the damage, and with the end of the Overwatch League's 2023 season came the announcement that it would be its final one, with ''Overwatch'''s esports scene continuing in 2024 under a more traditional "open league" structure moving forward. |
| 168 | ** ''Overwatch 2'' itself ended up experiencing a great deal of this as a mix of [[ExecutiveMeddling corporate politics]] and logistical circumstances. In January 2022 (shortly after the announcement of Creator/{{Microsoft}} acquiring Creator/ActivisionBlizzard), ''Overwatch'' producer Tracy Kennedy [[https://gamerant.com/overwatch-2-delays-why-bobby-kotick/ publicly called out Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick]] for poor management, alleging that he would regularly shove large projects onto the ''Overwatch'' team, forcing them into overtime [[DevelopmentHell only to cancel said projects]], costing the production of ''2'' months at a time and creating a massive turnover rate (including the losses of director Jeff Kaplan and executive producer Chacko Sonny). [[https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/04/overwatch-2-interview-devs-geoff-goodman-brandon-brennan Hero designers Geoff Goodman and Brandon Brennan also relayed]] how the one-two punch of Kaplan's sudden retirement and the highly-publicized workplace scandals at Activison-Blizzard left a massive morale hit to the team. The game's ill-fated [=PvE=] elements were downsized significantly due to a combination of anxiety surrounding the game's long-term future (the aforementioned financial issues with the Overwatch League included) as well as development revealing them to be logistically unfeasible, with the scope of their goals becoming far too big to solve. Director Aaron Keller compared this directly to ''Overwatch'''s predecessor project ''Titan'', which similarly was expected to include big gameplay elements like massive hero-exclusive talent trees and high reliability, but was also crushed under its sheer size — the ''Overwatch 2'' team believed they were in a better position [[RefittedForSequel to reintegrate those elements into the successful game that did properly see the light of day]], but thanks to more unfortunate setbacks [[HistoryRepeats left them still unable to realistically bring it all together]]. The final nail in the coffin surrounding the PVE content in particular was [[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-22/blizzard-entertainment-makes-big-changes-as-overwatch-2-struggles the laying off of a majority of developers working on that side of the game in January 2024]] (itself an extension of mass layoffs across Activision-Blizzard and Microsoft, though the reportedly low sales of the Story Missions in 2023 probably didn't help), with Blizzard officially confirming in March that they had no plans to finish the remaining [=PvE=] content. |
| 169 | * UrbanLegendOfZelda: |
| 170 | ** Early in the game's life, there was a persistent myth that players can LagCancel reloading animations by using a QuickMelee to interrupt it. While it is perfectly possible to reload and give a quick melee attack without cancelling the whole reload, [[https://gfycat.com/SafeCrispArgali the delay for when the player is actually able to fire again does not reset,]] and so players are usually better off not bothering. |
| 171 | ** People believed there was an interaction between Mercy and Reaper where she says to him "This is not what I intended for you, Reyes", and he replies "You knew exactly what you were doing", which was the backbone for a theory that Mercy was responsible for Reaper's [[HumanoidAbomination condition]]. Turns out, the interaction [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747844983#post-16 never existed in the game.]] |
| 172 | ** For a while, [[https://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Zenyatta/Quotes Zenyatta's quotes page on Gamepedia]] listed a response to eliminating Widowmaker in [[AndThisIsFor "That was for my friend,"]] referencing his brother, Mondatta. This made up the basis for some discourse on his character, and given how he reacts to others pursuing revenge, it made him look NotSoAboveItAll at best, [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] at worst. It wasn't until [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20758286253?page=1#post-11 it was brought up to Michael Chu]] that people realized the line didn't exist anywhere in the game, and the line has since been removed from wikis, including this one. |
| 173 | * WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: |
| 174 | ** Originally, the game was built in with an "Avoid This Player" option alongside "Prefer This Player" as a measure to counter toxic players, but it was removed shortly after the game officially launched due to people using it to instead avoid players that were simply annoying for them in-game, regardless of actual toxicity. [[http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20745504371?page=1#post-3 Widowmaker players in particular were hit with long queue times since nobody wanted to play against them, and in the end still ended up being matched against lower-skilled players, so the feature was cut.]] It would later be reintroduced as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4SgeC8h_A "Avoid as Teammate" in 2018]], with much more substantial tweaks to prevent this from happening. |
| 175 | ** While he doesn't go into specifics, Jeff Kaplan states [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnfzzz8pIBE in this Developer Update]] that "bad behavior is not just ruining the experience for one another, but the bad behavior is actually making the game progress, in terms of development, at a much slower rate." |
| 176 | ** Kaplan also wrote a [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20759346970?page=4#post-75 lengthy post]] in which he noted that "The 'public speaking/posting' part of the job is downright scary and intimidating. It often feels like there is no winning." Fans clamor for the team to look at [issue]? [[ScyllaAndCharybdis If the devs speak up, fans expect instant change. If the devs quietly test things internally without saying anything before ultimately releasing something, fans accuse the developers of ignoring them.]] |
| 177 | * WordOfGay: |
| 178 | ** At Blizzcon 2015, it was stated at least one member of the cast was gay upon being asked if one was included in the already diverse cast. WordOfGod from Blizzard is that some of the Overwatch cast are LGBT. Upon hearing this, fans quickly began their HoYay and LesYay couples and engaging in major ShipToShipCombat. It was later officially confirmed that Tracer has a girlfriend, Emily, in the 2016 Christmas comic, and it was [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/20/overwatch-reveals-tracers-girlfriend-emily clarified]] that she's a lesbian (rather than bi or pan). |
| 179 | ** The short story ''Bastet'' reveals that Soldier: 76 was once in a relationship with a man named Vincent and [[https://www.twitter.com/westofhouse/status/1082394625837428736 Michael Chu revealed]] that both Jack and Vincent identify themselves as gay. |
| 180 | ** Lifeweaver is confirmed to be pansexual, and unlike the previous examples, his orientation was established almost immediately upon reveal (demonstrated in-game with [[ShipTease a particularly flirty interaction]] with Baptiste), not just through supplemental material. |
| 181 | ** During the beginning of Pride Month in 2023, Blizzard revealed the previously mentioned characters as well as confirming that Pharah is a lesbian and Baptiste is bisexual. While Baptiste's interest in both genders had been implied a few times in-game, while Pharah explicitly identifies herself as such during the "As You Are" short story. |
| 182 | * WordOfGod: |
| 183 | ** Though not revealed in the cinematic, [[https://www.asoundeffect.com/overwatch-trailer-sound/ according to an interview with sound designer Paul Menichini]], the two boys in the cinematic are named Brian (elder brother) and Timmy (younger brother). |
| 184 | ** [[https://twitter.com/jdavisAnimation/status/867238860044087298 According to senior animator Jesse Davis]], Sombra’s Anniversary dance emote is a general reference to shuffle dancing and didn’t know [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5BmlZLP1A about a Sombra cosplayer making a video of her dancing]]. |
| 185 | ** Both [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/744643829811163136 Micheal Chu]] and [[https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/9/14873308/overwatch-symmetra-autistic Jeff Kaplan]] had confirmed that Symmetra is on the Autism Spectrum. |
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| 188 | !!Trivia tropes with their own pages: |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[index]] |
| 191 | * [[FakeNationality/{{Overwatch}} Fake Nationality]] |
| 192 | * [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Overwatch}} What Could Have Been]] |
| 193 | [[/index]] |
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