I JUST NEED TO TALK ABOUT HOW FUCKED Jack is in this comic, though?
This is just the ultimate in ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t.’ The news is blistering with ‘Overwatch anti-sovereignty?’ ‘Japanese government complains about Blackwatch!’ ‘Investigation into Cairo Incident!’ ‘New civilian leader for Overwatch?’ Everybody is mad at them and criticizing every move they make. Jack’s position is being threatened. He says himself that Overwatch can’t afford another PR nightmare.
And then all his agents are telling him how they NEED to go into London, despite the Prime Minister telling them to stay out. People are going to die if they don’t! They won’t be able to handle the fallout if they wait!
I mean you can see how Overwatch could have come to this. There are so many crises all the time, all over the world, and as an international entity, you have to choose: do you go in and help people even if you’re being told not to? What gives you the right, when you’re supposed to be serving and protecting the governments of the world? But then what if there’s a genocide happening, or the government itself is deliberately persecuting part of its own population? Floods? Rampant disease? If you don’t intervene, then people die. If you do, then you’re violating international borders. Either way, as the guy making the call, you’re screwed. You’ve got the blood of thousands on your hands, or else you’re a walking diplomatic incident. But meanwhile, the world’s governments are getting more and more unhappy with you because you keep meddling in their affairs.
Jack chooses–for probably the thousandth time–to save lives, even if they’ll all pay for it. We might be seeing the very moment when Jack murders his career and takes Overwatch with it.
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