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So regarding the WordOfGod entry about D.Va being revealed to not specifically be a professional Starcraft player, there's a bit of a back and forth regarding whether or not it was a retcon or a communication error, and I believe a lot of it is mainly the latter. Addressing certain points:
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So regarding the WordOfGod entry about D.Va being revealed to not specifically be a professional Starcraft player, there\'s a bit of a back and forth regarding whether or not it was a retcon or a communication error, and I believe a lot of it is mainly the latter. Addressing certain points:
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\'\'\"Going back to when we announced D.Va as a hero, we had been experimenting with using different methods of teasing new characters. We thought it\'d be fun to use the StarCraft WCS site and slip D.Va in as she had a background as a pro gamer (this all happened before she was officially announced). At the time, I actually worried that it would be taken as canon, but I was hoping elements like the fact her preferred race was listed as \"random\" and the fact she couldn\'t have competed in the current series would help defray that. In hindsight, yeah... pretty confusing.\"\'\'
She originally had that Starcraft profile that was just meant to be a fun teaser through an already-established format in said profiles, and because it was relevant to her status as a gamer, not specifically as a pro Starcraft player. He even admits this was probably a slightly misleading idea in hindsight, but still, if you look at every even archived versions of [[https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/dva/ D.Va\'s profile, it has always only simply listed her as \"Pro Gamer (Formerly)\"]], with nothing more specific, with the idea that \"she was most known and specialized in a game with a skillset that was closer mapped to the skills that she (and the other MEKA pilots) utilized while piloting their mechs\", and it seems that this was \'\'always\'\' intended to be the case by the whole writing team.
> interview with Jeff Kaplan himself calling her a \"Starcraft pro\"
The issue I take with this is 1) Jeff Kaplan is not Michael Chu, and 2) Jeff Kaplan is also not infallible in regards to the lore and has made minor lore mistakes in the past. If we\'re getting down to really specific details like that, [[https://youtu.be/DWqhXWRaMmU?t=643 Jeff repeatedly calls]] [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20753425533?page=2#post-36 Bastion by \"he\"/\"him pronouns\"]] despite [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/829568181320642561?lang=en multiple verifications]] [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/924769557461344256 by Michael Chu]] that it\'s genderless and is referred to as \"it\" [[https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/bastion/ in the official bio]] and even [[https://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/bastion-binary in-universe in the comics]].
Slip-ups happen, and so do sustained misconceptions even among the same team within the same company, and the writers behind things like that Starcraft 2 post (which I ALSO directly linked that says the same thing as that screencap [and the link\'s still perfectly functional for me btw]) are also not infallible, especially since it was likely written by a member of a separate team whose only real connection is working within the same company, writing about a character he doesn\'t have the full understandings of from what\'s effectively an entirely seperate game.
A {{Retcon}} is when something previously established has been retroactively rewritten and actively changed. Like I said, though, this technically \'\'was\'\' previously-established, albeit ambiguously, mainly by listing her as a \"Pro Gamer\", and as stated by Chu, it was meant to be taken of a game that\'s not Starcraft, which in no way contradicts this official, unchanged description.
While there is a fairly reasonable explanation as to why people jumped to the idea that \"D.Va is specifically a pro Starcraft player\" and why that stuck -- it just makes a lot of sense -- and people, some even within Blizzard itself didn\'t get the memo about this really specific detail, that does not make this revelation \"retroactive continuity\", because it doesn\'t change anything officially pre-established in the fiction by the main people behind writing it; this was simply an error by official sources within the same team (or in one broad case, one general company) used to describe it (that\'s what the CowboyBebopAtHisComputer pothole was for), but weren\'t consequential.
It\'s not a retcon. And even if it was, it would\'ve been categorized in this page wrong.
She originally had that Starcraft profile that was just meant to be a fun teaser through an already-established format in said profiles, and because it was relevant to her status as a gamer, not specifically as a pro Starcraft player. He even admits this was probably a slightly misleading idea in hindsight, but still, if you look at every even archived versions of [[https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/dva/ D.Va\'s profile, it has always only simply listed her as \"Pro Gamer (Formerly)\"]], with nothing more specific, with the idea that \"she was most known and specialized in a game with a skillset that was closer mapped to the skills that she (and the other MEKA pilots) utilized while piloting their mechs\", and it seems that this was \'\'always\'\' intended to be the case by the whole writing team.
> interview with Jeff Kaplan himself calling her a \"Starcraft pro\"
The issue I take with this is 1) Jeff Kaplan is not Michael Chu, and 2) Jeff Kaplan is also not infallible in regards to the lore and has made minor lore mistakes in the past. If we\'re getting down to really specific details like that, [[https://youtu.be/DWqhXWRaMmU?t=643 Jeff repeatedly calls]] [[https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20753425533?page=2#post-36 Bastion by \"he\"/\"him pronouns\"]] despite [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/829568181320642561?lang=en multiple verifications]] [[https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/924769557461344256 by Michael Chu]] that it\'s genderless and is referred to as \"it\" [[https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/bastion/ in the official bio]] and even [[https://comic.playoverwatch.com/en-us/bastion-binary in-universe in the comics]].
Slip-ups happen, and so do sustained misconceptions even among the same team within the same company, and the writers behind things like that Starcraft 2 post (which I ALSO directly linked that says the same thing as that screencap [and the link\'s still perfectly functional for me btw]) are also not infallible, especially since it was likely written by a member of a separate team whose only real connection is working within the same company, writing about a character he doesn\'t have the full understandings of from what\'s effectively an entirely seperate game.
A {{Retcon}} is when something previously established has been retroactively rewritten and actively changed. Like I said, though, this technically \'\'was\'\' previously-established, albeit ambiguously, mainly by listing her as a \"Pro Gamer\", and as stated by Chu, it was meant to be taken of a game that\'s not Starcraft, which in no way contradicts this official, unchanged description.
While there is a fairly reasonable explanation as to why people jumped to the idea that \"D.Va is specifically a pro Starcraft player\" and why that stuck -- it just makes a lot of sense -- and people, some even within Blizzard itself didn\'t get the memo about this really specific detail, that does not make this revelation \"retroactive continuity\", because it doesn\'t change anything officially pre-established in the fiction by the main people behind writing it; this was simply an error by official sources within the same team (or in one broad case, one general company) used to describe it (that\'s what the CowboyBebopAtHisComputer pothole was for), but weren\'t consequential.
It\'s not a retcon. And even if it was, it would\'ve been categorized in this page wrong.
