Is Soldier: 76 gay Overwatch 2? - Dot Esports

Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
• HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
• A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT
• Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
• SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY
• SOLDIER 76 IS GAY?
• OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story.

New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship. Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier.

He’s gay.

"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT

In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else.

Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season? While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story.

Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay.

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

“Both intify as gay. Both intify as gay.

A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT

So, Soldier 76 is gay, and this kd of shocked a lot of people.

Some people are upset by this, sayg that gayns is beg "shoved down their throats" and I wholeheartedly disagree!! Tracer was first revealed to be gay TWO years ago, and now that Soldier 76 is part of the LGBT muny, they say that 's TOO MUCH? That is a grand total of 2 gay characters the 27 character st.

And we've jt learned that he's gay.

Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL

What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY. IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD.

SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)

YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE. While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character.

Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game. As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement.

After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

“They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse. Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League.

A NEW OVERWATCH SHORT STORY REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well. It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men.

“Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men, ” Nseler wrote. Blizzard reveals that Overwatch's Soldier: 76 is gay - but they n do better than an isolated short story that might also be a PR distractn.

SOLDIER 76 IS GAY?

Related: How Pennywise and The Babadook Beme Gay Ins. Fans had so many qutns that the wrer of the piece, Michael Chu, took to Twter to nfirm that, y, Jack Morrison is a gay man.

The problem to foc when we take a step back and realize that a huge portn of the fan base, the nsole players, never see the one piece of story ntent that picts Soldier: 76 as beg gay. We would all do well to remember that, bee as fantastic as is that Overwatch now has a playable, nonilly gay character, Blizzard is a lossal rporatn.

OVERWATCH SHORT STORY & WRER CONFIRM SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY

They played safe wh the reveal that Jack Morrison is gay, relegatg to an piece of world-buildg lore that only a mory of players will see. Rowlg famoly clared that Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore was gay years after the re books were fished whout ever puttg that to the actual text of her works. Blizzard's Very Convenient Gay Smokcreen.

The January 7 announcement of a gay Soldier: 76 giv the game a major posive PR boost and shifts the story away om narrativ about harassment the muny and the subset of toxic profsnal players.

However, nothg about the story or what was clud the update self directly speaks to Soldier: 76 as a gay man that uldn't have been done sce Jeff Kaplan teased the update on January 4. If we put on some til nspiracy hats, isn't a huge stretch to nsir that a huge pany might leverage an upg short story release to clu a brief alln to a gay romance. Soldier: 76, real name Jack Morrison, is a gay character om Overwatch.