Overwatch
After a devastating war against a combat-ready team of intelligent machines known as Omnics, the former agents of the heroic team known as Overwatch must join forces once more to fight a new threat.
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View AllThe Butcher Moonlights in Two Other Blizzard Games
He's a fully playable melee assassin in Heroes of the Storm, built around a trait literally called Fresh Meat. Over in Overwatch, Roadhog has a Butcher skin, and one of its unique voice lines is, of course, 'Fresh meat!'
Genji Quotes The Princess Bride
Genji has a voice line, 'You seem nice, I hate to kill you,' that's a pretty direct lift from Inigo Montoya's duel with the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride. It fits Genji's whole honorable-swordsman thing a bit too perfectly to be a coincidence.
48 Heroes Pitched in One Morning
After Titan died, the leftover dev team (Team 4) had six weeks to come up with something new. On one particular morning everyone on the team had to pitch a hero idea, and by lunch they'd racked up 48 concepts — including a Russian woman riding a bear and dual-wielding AK-47s, whose ultimate had the bear pull out guns too. That one didn't make the cut, somehow.