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
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• Y, 'OVERWATCH' MAKG BOTH SOLDIER: 76 AND TRACER GAY IS A BIG DEAL
• 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
• BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
• 27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY
• SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)

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

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

Both intify as gay. 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. And we've jt learned that he's gay.

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

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE.

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

Image via Blizzard Entertament Soldier: 76 is a gay man, as nfirmed by the 2019 short story Bastet. The reveal that Soldier: 76 was gay Bastet marked the ex-Overwatch manr as the game’s send nfirmed LGBTQ hero.

He also remas the only gay man on the st as of now, although flirty teractns between Lifeweaver and other hero such as Baptiste uld lead to addnal revelatns on character sexuali g the near future.

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!!

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

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.

But yterday was an tertg day for the seri, as dropped to a newly released lore story that foced on Ana was the reveal that Soldier: 76, Jack Morrison, is gay, or at the very least, terted men.

So to have both Tracer and Soldier: 76 be gay, that’s rather signifint an dtry where almost no major gamg ins are nfirmed to be LGBTQ. Some are accg of Blizzard pullg a JK Rowlg wh an “actually, Dumbledore is gay” reveal after the fact, spe that never me up the books or movi. Everyone seems to be eher A) happy B) claimg they knew he was gay all along C) different.

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

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.

BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

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.

“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. 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. Soldier 76 beg revealed as gay Overwatch felt forced.

27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY

Sure, they did ridiculoly good forhadowg that nobody ever noticed until was poted out but part of me felt like he was revealed as strictly gay (not bi or anythg else, jt straight up gay) for the sake of havg another gay character the game.

A short story tie- to one of the most popular gam the world revealed that one of the game's most regnizable characters is gay — generatg an enthiastic rponse om fans, many of whom had already spected as much. Some fans were nfint that the character was gay based on his relatnships wh the game's other hero, while others felt that he took on an asexual role as the patriarch of "Overwatch. " Michael Chu, the lead wrer of "Overwatch, " later nfirmed on Twter that Solir 76, a super-soldier once known as Jack Thompson, intifi as gay.

—Michael Chu ?? (@wtofhoe) January 7, 2019LGBTQ fans seem to have embraced the news and weled Soldier 76 as the game's send gay character. (@KayGRadley) January 7, 2019Another bisexual fan showed off his Soldier 76 jacket wh pri:—Rae (@skelerae) January 7, 2019Well-known ports champn Domique "SonicFox" McLean, who is gay, ma an affectnate (but slightly risqué) joke on his Twter, too. "I mean, that's great that #Soldier76 is gay but let's be f**kg real.

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

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.

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.