A bunch of interesting details and thoughts I’ve found in the Overwatch: Uprising comic:
- Jesse McCree still has both flesh arms
- Genji has a Deathwatch logo on his chestplate
- Gabriel is ‘Gabe’ to Jack, ‘Gabriel’ to Ana, and (quite properly) ‘Commander Reyes’ to Lena
- Ana is the one who displays anger at Gabriel’s attitude
- There are four medals and awards on Jack’s desk. Is one of them…a Nobel Prize?
- Mercy is militant about getting involved in crises
- Ana’s still alive and Reinhardt’s not retired yet – I wonder how close to the end all this is
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WE HAVE A ROUGH AGE FOR JACK. Overwatch lore tells us he signed up for the military at age 18. It also tells us the Omnic Crisis started 30 years before the beginning of the game. So Soldier: 76 is just about 48 years old!
- Headlines on Jack’s news monitor include:
- “Overwatch official murdered.” – Gerard?
- “Director Petras orders full investigation into Cairo Incident.”
- “Blackwatch under scrutiny after complaint from Japanese government.” – does this mean, like, the Japanese government is complaining that they just learned about the existence of Blackwatch? Or is it not quite as secretive as was made out?
- “New civilian leader for Overwatch?” – are they already talking about replacing Jack?
- “Overwatch anti-progress and anti-sovereignty?” – I’m curious about this one. The anti-sovereignty argument is clear enough, because we’ve got Overwatch meddling in UK affairs after being ordered not to, just as one example. Honestly this’d probably be enough by itself to get Overwatch wiped out. We fight enough about it regarding the UN these days, without the UN having a permanent standing military presence. But I wonder about the ‘anti-progress.’
- WE HAVE A ROUGH AGE FOR JACK. Overwatch lore tells us he signed up for the military at age 18. It also tells us the Omnic Crisis started 30 years before the beginning of the game, and in the comic he says he enlisted when the crisis started. So at the time of the game, Soldier: 76 is just about 48 years old!
- JACK ENLISTED
- This means that unless he found time to pursue a college degree while in the service, he probably doesn’t have one
- It also means that at least by real world rules, unless he got a college degree and enrolled in Officer Candidate School (or they change the requirements sometime in the next 30 years), he could not have risen higher than an NCO (non-commissioned officer position)–that is, Corporal, Sergeant, Sergeant First Class and assorted other ranks that all have Sergeant in the title.
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