In the Reinhart cinematic, his handing his hammer to his boss hits even harder when you consider he's basically giving up his main weapon, his only weapon. He's literally saying "No more glory-hounding, I will be their shield." And that when his shield fails, he tries to cover the few survivors with his own body. It's a hell of a statement, and a hell of a lesson for his players...

You missed the transition of shadows as Mei was sat in front of the cryo chambers, implying she sat there for hours. She didn't exactly get over it quickly.

11:20 The Scientists in Winston's cinematic trailer actually did die. Him and his other scientists colleagues were killed by a gorilla rebellion on the moon

As a tank main the Reinhardt cinematic hit so hard, his "I will be your shield" voice line got a whole new meaning.

Honor And Glory is hands down my favorite OW cinematic. "I have been called. I must answer, always." is such a powerful line.

it's a tragedy they gave up on fleshing out the universe. The cinematics and lore really made overwatch something special. It could have been so much more if not for all the problems behind the scenes.

Quick little lore drop: Widowmaker’s husband worked for Overwatch but she was kidnapped and experimented on to become a living weapon, she escaped but the experimentation corrupted her and she murdered her husband while he was asleep and went back to finish her experimentation. There’s also a voice line between Soldier 76 and Widowmaker that goes: Widow: “Was the Lily on Geráds grave yours?” Soldier: “You know we were close” Widow: “Not close enough to know he preferred Roses”

I just realized that Winston saved Mei by broadcasting that recall message, which prompted the computer to wake her. And as some chatter pointed out, she was mourning at least for several hours based on the shadows.

I remember when Overwatch was loved. That was a good memory from another time

"I know you come here every year, on the same day" And yet their security is THAT sparse?!

Mei didn't get over the other scientists deaths quickly, they just show the passage of time in a very subtle way, like in the Winston one where he is recording the video you see the time of day change when she is sat crying you can see the shadows on the floor move as time passes, nice detail but it does make it seem she got over it quickly if you don't notice it

The story cinematics for characters that were released in the first two years of Overwatch almost got me to play the game despite never having played a game like this before. That's how good the cinematics are. Never did cause I was told numerous times I should play it on a PC, and I still don't have one.

"You're ever feeling angry, just go touch grass. Nature heals." Sage words from Ant right there.

if you're gonna react to overwatch trailers then you should also react to tf2: meet the tea

There's a Widow voiceline when she kills tracer "At least you took the bullet this time"

"You literally watch anime for a living" Actually she IS anime for a living

the writers were the only ones left who actually cared about this game

13:18 I don't know much, but here's what I know: Reaper was a part of Overwatch (you can see him on a photo earlier, he stands showing his back), a leader of Blackwatch (a part of Overwatch, which sorted out, well, dirty works). Those two group always had issues, but when the influence of Overwatch had become weaker, Blackwatch started "a civil war" within the organization, which was the reason why those group collapsed. Gabriel Reyes (a real name of Reaper) was fatally injured and Moira saved him by making him the mist we all know. So when Talon ask to join them, Reaper agreed.

Widowmaker's backstory is actually so damn sad and tragic. in her former life, Widowmaker was married to Gérard Lacroix, an Overwatch agent spearheading operations against the Talon terrorist organization. After several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate Gérard, Talon decided to change its focus to his wife, Amélie. Talon operatives kidnapped her and subjected her to an intense program of neural reconditioning. They broke her will, suppressed her personality, and reprogrammed her as a sleeper agent. She was eventually found by Overwatch agents, apparently none the worse for wear, and returned to her normal life. Two weeks later she killed Gérard in his sleep. Her mission complete, Amélie returned to Talon, and they completed the process of turning her into a living weapon.

my dumb thoughts girl: "You saved me, why" 76: "Monkey" 🤣🤣

to explain overwatches cinematic universe, its basically the entire world is represented, which is why the cast is so diverse, but there ARE some main plot points: old overwatch: a group of ex mercinaries, most of them are retired, or off doing other things, they had a sub-division called blackwatch which genji, moira, reaper(previously reyas), cassidy) all fell into, and they all delved into more...shady stuff, but after blackwatch was outed for their shadier antics, overwatch as a whole got targeted. new overwatch: winstons desire to bring back the name "overwatch" led to him recruiting a bunch of new and old faces to help save people again. talon: we don't actually know much about talon, but they are the big oppressive force. null sector: the creators of the "omnic crisis" a "God program"(sentient supercomputer) called anubis took over a bunch of omnics and declared war unto the world. null sector now, follows ramattra and other null sector leaders causing chaos, a second villain group that is working with talon. these are the prime four things you need to know about overwatches lore...but theres a LOT of stuff not related to either. iris: someone omnic monks like zen worship, said to give omnics sentience. junkers: borderlands. thats basically all you need to know, a bunch of scavengers lost their homes due to the omnic crisis, creating a home of omnic hating dirty people who love scrapping for the title of "king of the junkers" deadlock gang: cassidys group of bandits, ruled by ashe. thats all we kinda know about them. vishkar: using stolen tech by lucios father, vishkar is a sketchy company, designed to try to improve life, but has odd connections to talon. shimada/hashimoto clans: a group of magic(?) users who harness the power of the dragons. uhh...yeah, those dragons are actual magic, theres prob a better explanation, but thats the "Canon" we have been given about how kiriko's and likely the shimada dragons work. these are the "Bigger" lore aspects that aren't exactly tied to overwatch or talon. this isn't even touching on the smaller stuff, but these are the main story points to understand overwatch and its world building.

In the Mei cinematic, she actually spent two time skips crying. We see it because the shadow on the ground moves twice as she's balled up

"I have been called, I *must* answer. Always." is my favorite line from any of the cinematics. He's still trying to live up to being the man Balderich knew he could be.

I honestly love how ant sarcastically makes fun of every single cliche moment, meanwhile Alicia is so fully invested and loves every corny line.

Oh the days long gone, a time long abandoned. What a sad tale, once promise abundance now reduced to a shell of what could’ve been

"You know what, I don't remember this trailer. I've only ever seen one trailer and it's the one where Tracer's inside of a museum." DUDE!

Sad thing is you can't even play the original Overwatch anymore and what's worse is that the developers can't seem to do anything but make poor decisions that are running Overwatch 2 into the ground.

Jack Morrison enlisted in the United States military when he was eighteen. His bravery and work ethic earned him the attention of the "soldier enhancement program" so he is like Captain America but with a gun and more willing to kill. After the downfall of Overwatch he became a vigilante and now saw no reason not to kill all those who see saw as bringing Overwatch down.

"I have been called, I must answer...always." Is one of my favourite tropes in media. It almost always signifies someone who is at their core is humble. Even Reinhardt, who is loud, boisterous and larger than life is someone who would likely gladly give his life for a single innocent person with not one person acknowledging his sacrifice. It doesn't matter he was betrayed, it doesn't matter if the world sees him as a bit of a corny joke, it doesn't matter that his battered body is barely holding on. He has been called to help those who need it. And he *must* answer.

3 PARTS? Hell yeah overwatch may be ehhhhh but i still love the cinematics

In the Widow cinematic, if someone’s in my secure channel and telling me to get my VIP client out of there while not identifying themselves, I’m assuming it’s a trap. I’m definitely not taking their word for it immediately which is exactly why that guys tells the rooftop teams to check in and confirm what’s happening

There are so much details in the Reinhardt cinematic that make it incredible Like Rein says "die with glory" twice in answer to his master's line, but you can clearly see that it's only the second time that he understands the real meaning behind the words, then he gives his hammer meaning he's giving up on his reckless nature to go save his squad this time, Balderich's little smirk after this interaction and his little shoulder movement in relief when he understands he passed his coin (and his whole legacy, probably) to the right person... Then Balderich gets rid of a whole army of omnics who are clearly too strong for him while being damaged enough to know he's not getting out of this castle alive and probably poisoned (looks like it) and still finds the energy to die on the throne, because "dying in glory" means fighting until your last breath And the last line straight up means "I still haven't forgiven myself for this moment and I'll do whatever it takes so my master's death won't be in vain, so I must continue fighting to save lives" because that's what "living with honor" means It's like they weren't just saying their motto out loud for fun. It's like Reinhardt finally understands that his master was commanding him to live with honor, so he accepts his sacrifice and asks him to die with glory, because he values him as a great warrior, but also as a friend. And because Balderich honored his side of the deal and "died with glory", Reinhardt now has no choice but to "live with honor" and going back to Overwatch. It's just beautiful. And it's why brig doesn't understand why he's going back to Overwatch, because she's too young for this and he wants to preserve her as long as possible, but you can bet that he knows he will one day have to teach her the true meaning behind these words just like he learnt them from his master. It's just crazy how they can tell all that from one single 40 seconds interaction. And it's the reason why it's my favorite cinematic all games combined. Also the overwatch coin that Rein put on the throne's arm is also there in the map along the armor

That first trailer was the literal first reveal of overwatch to the world. It set the hype train to turbo speeds

I've never played overwatch for a few reasons. But I always enjoyed the cinematics. And roasting them a bit.

“I wonder what the motivation is for Reaper and Widow”, that is stuff you’ll need to read the comics for… or else look up a video on them.

There are a few cinematics missing. Shooting Star, Reunion, The Wastelander, Kiriko, Calling and A Great Day Character trailers for OW2 characters are also pretty fire, highly recommend for a potential part 2

With Bastion (robot) the lore is that his model had an AI programming that was made to constantly evolve. Bastion was dormant, but his programming kept going until he eventually developed a personality similar to that of a young child, hence his curiosity.

Not even a second on screen and Ant coming in swinging😂

"The Last Bastion" is my favorite short ever. It has this Ghibli-esque feel to it when Bastion is in the forest, very peaceful where he is traveling to his destination yet observing nature with curiosity and respect, then I feel a bit of The Iron Giant in it when he switches to his gatling mode and when his bird buddy comes back at the end. I'm reminded of Hogarts' quote "Guns kill and you are not a gun. You are what you choose to be." I just can't express how much I like this short. Every single one of them is fantastic on its own, but this one has just a special place in my heart...

What I recall of Widowmaker and Reaper’s motivations was she was kidnapped and brainwashed by Talon to murder her husband, the former leader of Overwatch and now lives for the thrill of the hunt, and Reaper getting caught doing black ops murder stuff was the reason the public demanded Overwatch be disbanded, so he ended up working for Talon but it’s unclear if he’s a double agent or loyal to them

Man, overwatch fell off so hard, like from the top of Mt Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

Still upset they never ended up making a Overwatch show at their peak popularity cause now other than animations I have no interest in Overwatch 2.

23:00, Tracers booty did cuase some PROBLEMS when ghe game first came out.

5:30 ngl I wanted to see this kid come back in some shape or form. I always thought he could be a new hero, maybe him and his brother would work like ashe and Bob. Meh just a desire from years ago.

Love the cinematics for OverWatch specifically between genji and Hanzo. A tale between Brothers growimg up in a strict family. If the roles were switched? What would play out?

In hindsight i think they should have left casidy named mcree, because now everytime i see the new name im just reminded of why they changed it

This has got to be the BIGGEST COINCIDENCE I have experienced yet, cuz the video suddenly stopped and started loading exactly at 57:34, I checked my WiFi and it was disconnected for having bad connection. It felt like she actually hacked my phone through the screen 😆

I like how the 2 of them were more emotionally invested with the robots than the people

Now you gotta check out the TF2 meet the videos As well as Expiration date and some TF2 fan content (Seriously the tf2 community is really talented)

What’s funny is that Genji is only stronger than Hanzo because of his cyborgs enhancements.

make sure to watch the shorter animatics, that explain the lore for some of the characters

1:05:30 Actually, if you look closely at the background, there's some changes in the environment shadows and her sitting position which i feel like was supposed to show time passing while she was crying. So i believe she supposedly cried for hours but it's probably too subtle to notice and that's why it looked like she accepted their deaths so quickly.

Alicia! You should absolutely do the Overwatch Hero Origins. They're great

"I would never use a tire swing in my living room." Uh, imagine getting railed in a tire swing. You'd totally use it all the time.

25:00 Basically, after Overwatch offically broke up, some of the less ethically galvanized members turned to lives of crime. Since neither the vigilantes nor the criminals have a stronger claim to the name, both sides are technically Overwatch. The whole plot is basically Luca Turilli beefing with his former bandmates over the Rhapsody trademark.

ALICIA you should watch all the overwatch hero's origins!! they are pretty quick

God I love when content creators react to these, they're so good and it's cool to see people be surprised at just _how_ good they are.

1:18:49 In fact everything on that map revolves around the commander's remains. In the description of the official trailer for the Eichenwalde map it says the following: "The site of one of the most famous battles during the Omnic Crisis, it was here that the leader of the Crusaders, Balderich von Adler, and a handful of his best soldiers made a last stand against an advancing automaton army. Outnumbered and outgunned, They were ultimately slain during the resulting combat. However, thanks to their valiant efforts, the German military was able to push back the omnic offensive and win the fight. On this map, one team must escort a battering ram to Eichenwalde Castle to reclaim Balderich's remains from their current resting place, while the opposing team does everything in its power to thwart the keep from being breached"

I always like to point this out! On the scenamatic with Genji and Hanzo. Hanzo brought out a feather as a tribute, it is a Sparrow feather. The cool thing about that is Genji nickname when he was young is Sparrow (Evident with the Sparrow skin in game and additionally with Genji dropping the feather when he jutsu out of there). That means, to me atleast, even though there's this big fight and misunderstanding between them, their brotherly love with one another transcends all of that. MANNN I LIKE THIS LORE OF THIS GAMEEEE

21:25 Alicia: *"ANT, YAH HAFTA ANDASTAND!!"* Ant: "I'll give it a pass." Me: *[Drops a Doom Slayer Hellbreaker bonk on both of y'all]* _"NNNNNNNOOOOO HORNIIIII ORRR THE ENNNAAABLEMENNNT OFFF IIIIIIIIIIIIT, _*_RIIIIIIIIIIP ANND TEEEAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!"_*

A reminder that Soldier 76 is a 2020 kid, meaning whenever he says lines like "Was'poppin" he's not trying to be hip, he 's just saying stuff from his generation.

7:55 this part of the cinematic where monke be intellectual with inner monologue going *"Uuuuunnnngabungaaa? Hmmm unga... Bungawundunga... AHA! UNGABADUNGAWANGA!!!"* is like me, fr. I love tinkering with little components & seeing what works & what doesn't. So fun. Edit: a'ight. I'll say it before anyone gets weird about it or gets teasy over it 😆 this is my 1,000,000,000,000,000¹⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰% my favorite overwatch moments in my whole life. I'm a tinkerer & thinker by heart; yeah, yeah, despite my temper, depression, & fkd up ways of dealing drunken beatings to ma-fkrs that act like OFFline Tw∆tter freaks, or Karens, Kevins, or (if kevin is straight up married to karen) brads bc I don't have a single shred of time or tolerance for smoke (think of my temperament as if you faced the Corporal from Black Iron Prison in Callisto Protocol - zero tolerance & mercy, & I'll make you feel pain for minutes minimum), in spite of all that, 👏🏼 I 👏🏼 FOCKING 👏🏼 LOVE 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 TINKER!

Watching all these cinematics again takes me back when fans were still putting the pieces of lore together in the Overwatch universe. 🤗

The ReinHart cinematic is easily one of the best/my favorite of all the cinematics

Of course, of course. Fkin Soldier 76. A character who was supposed to embody all the (positive) masculinity of the Heroes of his time, but the "unexpected" change in the internal composition of Blizzard towards tolerance, the realization that the characters are very popular on "Specific" Internet sites, the flight of madness, and here we are, quite unexpectedly, it turns out that a Soldier, a Tracer, a Widow and someone else is a plus changed their orientation. Add to this a Community of approximately similar composition and the noise of shouting, and we will eventually get the reason why TF2 players laugh so fiercely at overwatch. And I'm in the company with them. I've never been a fan of Overwatch, but I recognized the beauty, advancement and "coolness" of this game, I even thought about buying it before, but how it all went... irrevocably refused. And looking at the modern Overwatch, I made the right choice. For me, in such games there will never be any orientation, diligence (religious, racial, gender, etc.). I came to play and relax, not to be interested in politics and the choice of someone there. This is a shooter, damn it. It's like if in the new Doom (about the Middle Ages) There would be Gay demons, and we wouldn'T have to kill them for that reason. Do you feel the level of absurdity?

The Reinhardt cinematic hits me hard. I love the man and see where he realized it wasn't about the glory or the mission. It was about being a crusader, the DEFENDERS of Germany. To echo his mentor to his engineer about how he must answer. Always.... Also, nice touch on rewatch. The outfit leaking blue fluids(When he realizes his mentor will die here) I interpret as the noble leader showing Reinhardt the right path. Aka, a blue blood. I was a Rein main for all of OW1 that can play any tank, yet when it was time for the man to roll out. If team stayed in position, we often rolled them over. My MMR wasn't high, merely average I'll admit. The satisfaction from playing him, Symmetra(all forms) and Ana(Mercy, but hide and team revive anyone could do prior) made me a fan until I was quickly tired of OW2. A shame they wrecked it

If you're interested in learning more about the deeper lore behind the characters, there's actually another set of trailers (besides the cinematics you're watching here) called the origin stories. They're not animated like the cinematics, but they do a great job of introducing the different characters, their backgrounds, and what their goals are. Honestly, they're pretty underrated and often get missed by fans because of how flashy and cool the cinematic trailers are in comparison. Highly recommend checking them out if you're interested!

Unfun fact about Tracer, she carries a lot of guilt over Mondata's death. In OW1, she had a pre-match voiceline where she wonders if she should have died instead.

They really should've just made an Overwatch TV show. These shorts are the best part of the game by a wide margin

7:10 - The first time in history a "daddy" character has fit that description in almost every metric. Also, based.

OMG, I would KILL for you to watch the origin stories! They are basically trailers that delve deeper into specific characters backstories and how they came to be. They are really cool in my opinion!

Fun fact the last bastion is well animated cuz one of the animators died during its initial making

The glasses break explains his rage after seeing the Dr scenes

52:14 That awkward moment when your wardrobe is almost entirely Black & Purple 😳

If you do want specific backstories, like the backstory for Soldier 76 like you mentioned, there are also Origin Story videos for a lot of the characters that are all like 1-3 minutes max, and there are a lot of compilations and playlists of those as well. Some of them have crazy production quality that slip into anime territory.

You know why Winston's voice is so good? Cuz its Crispin Freeman

The very first cinematic came out before the official release of the original Overwatch game. It was supposed to get people interested in this new game that was intended to be TF2 but better.

kinda tl;dr on OW timeline: - Usual World Ending scenario (ppl create Omnics to aid humans in thing+military>gain sentience and rebel) called Omnic Crisis - Overwatch was created to fight against the rebel Omnics (aka Null Sector) and became the symbol of hope - But not all threats could be dealt with directly, thus the creation of the Black Ops team: Blackwatch, without Overwatch knowing - Cmdr. of the Overwatch caught the wind of it; dissent arise - The media knew about Blackwatch and called OW a shady military group - Ppl called for OW to disband (plus there's almost to none Omnic threat at the time = no reason for OW to stay) - Internal conflict between different ideologies in OW, resulting in the destruction of OW HQ (HQ went boom) - Both Cmdr. of OW and the head of Blackwatch were declared KIA* - Whatever's left of OW signed the treaty, disbanding OW* (dunno whether the base goes boom first or after this, cmiiw) - Timeskip - _Guess who's back, back again?_ - Null Sector is back for Omnic Crisis 2: Electric Boogaloo - Backing with the _big-baddie-daddy_ Talon - "Oh shoot, we banned the group that could help us; what to do?" - Ape scientist pressed de button

Nice to see you react to these. The trailers are honestly the best part of the game, as sad as that is. If you're interested in more lore, consider watching the character intro shorts as well (mostly for the new characters added, but Tracer and Soldier have one too). They're not as visually stunning as the cinematics (for the most part, Doomfist's short is very cool), but they are interesting character- and story-wise.

As an og overwatch player, I have liked this video at 4 seconds

38:00 I can't look at 76 and see anything other than Cable. He's such a love letter to 90's Todd MacFarlane comic book designs, even among the cast of Overwatch.

They are so good at hooks for their stories, if only they were this good at followung through with anything but foreshadowing later characters like Echo

So sad how they had this awesome world and how the old team tried to build it. And now the new team dosent give a F about it. The timeline dosen't make any sense anymore new characters are just random OCs that were never even hinted at. I could go on and on...

Cant wait til she gets to the TF2 cinematics, bonus points if she watches the piemations ones as well

I have never played Overwatch but I love these cinematic trailers and the Dragons one is my favorite. Brothers-to-enemies is a badass story trope when done right and this did excellent for how short it is.

So glad Honor and Glory made it into this part of your reaction, as that and the Dragons are my two favorites.

I want the kid who punched widow in the first cinematic to become a hero.

Reinhard’s got some serious PTSD and survivors guilt after what happened in that battle

Ant panicking over thinking snowball was gonna die was so sweet,

14:02 Reaper: "if you want something done right"

There's some great "origin" story videos they did, too, and one goes into Soldier's backstory.

I couldn't tell you exactly wbat Reaper's motivation is but Widowmaker was kidnapped and brainwashed by Talon, the main bad guys. Her motive is whatever she's told

Its sad that a lot of the most important lore for these characters isn't in the trailers. We dont have the stuff about winston escaping the moon full of several crazed super soldier gorillas. We dont have Amelie/Widow being tortured and brainwashed into killing her husband, we dont have Reaper suffering from his cells constantly ripping apart and healing

I’ve never played Overwatch because I am not a big competitive fps player, but I watched all these cinematics because they were just so good. It OW2 had pulled through with the single player campaign mode I would’ve absolutely opened the wallet for it, but alas.

10:30 so that was my favourite deck, Jaina with traps and fireballs. I guess I am old and I haven't played in many years because that looked like home to me.

23:30 Widowmaker is only an assassin because she believes in getting paid to do what she loves.

22:22 *_SORRY WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???_*_ HOW WOULD YOU RECOGNIZE THAT, 'LICIAAAAA!!!????_ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So, Reinhart is Spider-Man? He blames himself for his Uncle Ben's death, and has chosen to always walk the heroic path due to that, despite others in his life telling him he has done enough.

BTW it's not Zenyatta in the "Alive" cinematic it's his brother Mandatta

I've literally seen so many people react to the Overwatch cinematics that I thought this was a repost for a second lol!