Overwatch Comic #10 - Tracer Breaks The Internet (and Russia)

[freezer]

As many of you already know, Blizzard Entertainment has been posting online comics involving the characters of their smash hit game, Overwatch. The tenth such comic, "Tracer: Reflections" is a Christmas-themed comic involving Tracer's attempt at getting a last-minute gift for her best bud, Winston (The armor-clad, hyper-intelligent gorilla).




The big to-do about this comic is a reveal about Tracer's personal life. One that's drawn strong reaction positive and negative: The two relevant pages (out of 12)





The scarf was actually for Winston, BTW.



Yep: Tracer, the game's defacto mascot, is a lesbian. Naturally, the internet reacted in equal parts "SQUEE" and "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN".

Equally naturally, it's already banned in Russia. They're not saying it's because of their laws banning anything that could be considered "gay propaganda," just that the comic is not "in accordance with Russian law." Their loss.

I admit the only other Overwatch comic I've read is one with McCree foiling a train heist in the most assholish way possible. I plan to dig into the rest, post haste.

Comments

[locuatico]

I actually wrote something about this: http://locuas.com/2016/12/21/opinion-why-tracer-matters/
Bottom Line, with this reveal, Blizzard just created one of the most highly visible queer videogame characters ever created.

[janegray]

That's interesting. Have you considered putting that on Tumblr? Easier to share.

[informationgeek]

I did notice he got Linkara to retweeted the article, so there is that.

[locuatico]

http://locuas642.tumblr.com/post/154802942243/opinion-why-tracer-matters

[q99]

And they did it, while not right out the gate, what's clearly pretty early in the project's intended lifespan. This isn't a post-series Dumbledore type reveal.

[locuatico]

I think it even works out for the better? if they had revealed it when it came out, it could have been shuffled among everything, but revealing it now, with the game's future set in stone and nothing else to overshadow it, gives it the attention it deserves.

[q99]

Yep!

It also means it's too late for people to studiously ignore the character ^^ She's here, and she's here to stay.

[shadur]

She's here, she's queer, get used to it?

[q99]

Quite ^^

[freezer]

And bear in mind, Blizzard has already stated there's more than one LGBT character in Overwatch.