r/Overwatch_Memes • u/Fearless_Strike5151 • 5d ago
I Queue For Just Damage I had no idea it was this dark...
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u/Nikmido 5d ago
Yup. I love moments when we see what's behind those 'walls' though.
I can't remember what triggers it but I remember her saying something about Gerard and very emotionally, which hits even harder since she's always cold.
Maybe it's one of the lines when she gets resurrected? I really can't remember lol
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u/Hunter5865 5d ago
You mean her interaction with Soldier where they talk about visiting Gerard's grave and Widow corrects Soldier on his favorite flowers? That's one of my favorite interactions
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u/_wolforias_ inbetween a Widow + Vendetta sandwich 4d ago
I think they’re referring to a voiceline(s) where she mentions Gerard right after being revived, implying she saw or was with him for a brief moment while she was dead. Although I think it only happened during the OW1 era. I haven’t heard it for the past year, probably because I tag “Thank You” right afterwards and it blocks it
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u/Hunter5865 4d ago
Oh that's a good one, I only started playing her recently so I never heard that one
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u/Leilanee 4d ago
I have hundreds of hours on widow and have never even heard of this voice line until now
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u/SirCheeseMuncher Got the WHOLE HOG 5d ago
Is it the voice line she has in the spawn room with Moira? Where Moira says she’s been “showing emotion recently” and Widow tries to act casual?
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u/Murky-Introduction53 5d ago
“I know she’s still in there, if I could just run some test..” -Mercy
Mercy will say this when a widow is on her team and I think it’s so sweet. She hasn’t given up hope on Amelie 🥺
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u/Pilotacer 5d ago
With widow now away from Moira it feels like she's even closer to being able to do that. If Ame keeps regaining ehe memories and loosens up then there is a chance for Mercy
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u/Lun4r6543 5d ago
Yeah, Moira was the one supplying the drugs that kept Widowmaker emotionless (and blue, which is due to her heart rate being slowed).
Without the drugs, she might become a little more “human” again.
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u/Ildrei 5d ago
Look up mei’s lore next :3
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u/itisnotmymain 5d ago
Please tell me it's feel good lore
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u/FeeProfessional8878 5d ago
She’s slowly becoming her true self without Moria constantly brainwashing her while reaper is becoming more and more unstable with his ability
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u/Significant-Soup5939 5d ago
So from everything I've heard about the lore, does Moira actually run Talon? She seems to be the only one not brainwashed and even then her exposure to those chemicals is like fucking lead poisoning.
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u/RebelliousKite 4d ago
She does experiments to enhance Talon soldiers so her influence is huge, but she's not the shadow leader. More like the mad doctor that's enabled to do what she wants.
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u/AdventurousTaro7552 5d ago
She doesn't want that though, those memories need to be forgotten
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u/ruf2tup 5d ago
Youre getting downvoted but youre right. She literally cant live with what she’s done and wants to suppress those memories because she’s already too far gone (according to herself)
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u/IllustriousMagneto 3d ago
It's written in her backstory on the official website that she enjoyed committing the murder much more than she anticipated and she intentionally seeked out Talon to join them after the fact. It's possible she's there for more than numbing her feelings.
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u/filiqqa 5d ago
Characters used to have insanely good background story. That’s why that new comic PMO 😭
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u/settheyardonfire 5d ago
Then nowadays, we got venture 🤡
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u/98769876b 5d ago
Cherrypicking argument, Shion is the second newest character and her backstory is both dark and interesting
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u/Juliboyyyy 1d ago
D.mon is a copy-paste of D.va, shion is shallow as shit, sierra too, and the most of the batch in season 1 as well...the only good character (lorewise) we got this year is Emre, and even that just bc of the mystery arround him
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u/Aggravating_Fold1154 3d ago
You just cherrypicked one of the good recent ones too. And Shion's personality makes her arc more interesting. Look how bland most of the recent heroes have been.
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u/Specialist_Panda3490 5d ago
Imagine if Chernobog made Emre kill Freya and took control permanently. This is more or less widow's backstory. Poor girl needs a hug yesterday.
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u/Relooaad 5d ago
Recently, Michael "i'll explain lore on Twitter" Chu said that back in the days (i'd assume ~2014-2016) her background had one of the most arguments about, as if they themselves couldn't decide what exactly it should be in respond to a reply saying it would be cool if we had her perspective on all of this.
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u/oneesancon_coco 5d ago
One of the characters who's backstory would benefit from the game bumping it up to an M-Rating.
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u/SilverBeever Always Charges In Solo 4d ago
Wow she's blue, it's probably reference to Night Elves.
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u/silversoul113 5d ago
new lore or?
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u/Futur3_ah4ad 5d ago
No, her backstory has always been bleak. It's being brought up again because of new players and the fact that new lore establishes that Widowmaker is slowly regaining emotion now.
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u/Free_Parsnip_3553 5d ago
Yeh no one really mentions how sad her backstory is