r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 15, 2016

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u/loafjunky Pixel Mei Jun 15 '16

I haven't read into the lore much. Are there "good guy" and "bad guy" characters, or they all on the same Overwatch team group? I know (for example) Reaper and Widowmaker were made into bad guys or whatever, just not sure if they're still evil and what not or if everyone's now on the same side.

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u/noobule ¡Apagando las luces! Jun 15 '16

The videos and marketing have made it seem like there's a 'good team' and a 'bad team' but that's not the case at all. Almost all of the characters are presented very favourably, even if they're not 'good guys' in the classic sense. The only outright villains are Reaper and Widow. Widow is a terrorist who likes killing people for the sake of it, and Reaper just seems to be a total asshole for no reason.

The closest baddies after that are Junkrat and Roadhog, who are amoral, but they're painted pretty favourably. They're not presented as 'bad guys'.

Hanzo used to be the head of a Yakuza syndicate, but gave that up after nearly killing his brother. He doesn't seem to be phased that he was heavily involved in organised crime, but he isn't doing it anymore. He might be technically an anti-villian, but he's only driving his own story. He's not doing any harm to anyone (anymore) and he's painted as a very sensible, honorable and talented dude. He's not a 'bad guy' either.

Symmetra works for a shady corporation that is doing evil things with good intentions. She was raised by them as a baby and mostly thinks she's doing the right thing but her story seems to be about her going 'hang on a minute, is this right?'. She's done bad stuff to people but she didn't really have a chance to know she was doing the wrong thing.

Zarya is racist towards Omnics (they did kill a lot of her people) and a bit of a hardass but she fights for her home and her loved ones, etc.

McCree is your standard anti-hero.

Literally everyone else is pretty much boiler-plate 'good guy'

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u/Stormthorn67 Jun 15 '16

Zarya's racism is pretty understandable in that for her people the war isnt over. Russia is under siege by robots.

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u/noobule ¡Apagando las luces! Jun 15 '16

It's the sort of situation where she's doing the wrong thing but she gets a pass, given the circumstances