Ok i know this is long but. 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. And the only time she can feel enything is after a kill/successful mission.

"This is already going to be adorable I can tell!" Me: "yeah if we consider PTSD adorable, then yes" That first cinematic, the Bastion one, won several awards by military services for it's accurate representation of PTSD in an animated setting. :(

03:22 last bastion 12:30 hero 19:36 recall 31:34 alive 39:25 rise and shine 50:52 first trailer 58:01 dragon 1:08:45 honor and glory 1:16:49 reunion 1:26:01 infiltration 1:31:55 shooting star thanks for overwatch reaction.

Bastion shows more human emotion and trauma than most actual humans. It's hard not to love the big guy.

The Pompadour guy in Hanzo's is the same from Kiriko. He lost teeth running into the bell, hence why he's missing teeth in Kiriko's cinematic and why he doesn't want kicked in the face.

I think what makes the Overwatch cinematics, and their characters by extension, so special is the fact that they 100% commit to complete stylistic choices. Everything is exaggerated in a way that is grounded somewhat in reality, enhanced by sci-fi fantasy, and perfected with brilliant characterization and voice acting. Junker Queen's cinematic was just a high-octane punk-rock fever dream; Kiriko's was a Japanese hip-hop ghibli pixar film, Ashe/Cassidy's was a witty Western, and so on and so forth. The characters are presented with extreme scenarios, but still shown with relatable humanity. Despite the ups and downs of Blizzard, I still stand by their games, Overwatch being one of them, and the dedication of everyone involved to create true art in gaming.

rein hesitating and then saying "Die with glory...old friend" makes me get chills and tear up every time its so crazy

if you ever wanna check out the lore stuff of overwatch, it is actually pretty good. Widowmakers lore is what kinda got me into it, because her story is kinda sad but she is also linked to characters like Ana. I enjoyed your reaction to the cinematics and it would be cool if you could do lore stuff for overwatch too, like reading the comics or so.

So this isn't in release order, but it is in chronological order if you're a fan of the lore

Important to note is that most of the characters were either children or not yet born during the Omnic Crisis; Overwatch was originally only six members, Jack Morrison (Soldier 76), Torbjorn Lindholm, Ana Amari, Reinhardt Wilhelm, Mina Liao (Echo's creator), and Gabriel Reyes (Who would eventually become Reaper). Most of the other characters only joined in the intervening three decades, most of them towards the latter half. Pharah and Brigitte in particular are the children of Ana and Torbjorn respectively, and were only born after the Omnic Crisis. (There's actually a cute little story about Brigitte's birth; While his wife was pregnant, Torbjorn was on a mission with Reinhardt, and something went wrong, ending with both of them injured, but Reinhardt saved his life, so he let him pick out the name for his new child, and made him her godfather. That child was, of course, Brigitte)

I like to think that the narrator in "Dragons", Hanzo and Genji's cinematic, is their father telling them both a bedtime story (which would explain why Hanzo yells at Genji that real life is not like the stories their father told them and he was a fool for believing it so)

It's hard watching the emotion of Rise and Shine, knowing that a bigger gut punch in Honor and Glory is to follow.

When you said you only saw one with Winston in it, I was ready for you to start crying at honor and glory 😭

Sombra's short actually has a continuation via comic starring Zarya chasing Sombra's tracks by Katia's comand (as you can see at the end of the short)

Glad you liked Dragons, it came out six years ago before the game even came out and I'm STILL waiting for them to top it.

Reunion Cassidy: "Say hi to the monkey for me." Zero houe Echo: "Hello Winston!"

Oh my gosh!!! I never realized that the guy saying he was going to call for backup was reference to him trying to do it in Drangons!!!!

The Reinhard cinematic always makes me drop some tears

59:11 ya thats the hashimoto, its why when kiriko and hanzo are on the same team they banter about her neighborhood being over run by them since hanzo left. also the cassidy rename was cuz the guy they got the name from was sexual harrassing his coworkers and stuff so to kill ties with him to the game and company they fired him and renamed cassidy to cassidy.(which honestly is the better name)

"There's not too much story in the background apparently" Oh boy it may not be in game but the lore and the intertwined story when it comes to Overwatch is amazing

My boy Doomfist just can't get any love in this world

1:12:45 I have to share paying close attention to a detail here. It may be something from the suit, but it is no accident. A quick showing of a true blue blood. Hard to be even more noble than this mentor seeing his student out with the greatest lessons before the end of his life. It isn't about him. Also being a true crusader, their shield! Lost it when I caught this and felt tha feels after seeing Rein give up his hammer. Also gave me a hell of a gut punch seeing his mentor's armor STILL there. I wonder how many of the crusaders even know of his sacrifice and death in that castle. Or is it really just Reinhardt, then perhaps only Brig learned who sat on that throne.

Seeing her fangirl over Bastion: so you're getting the full emotional roller coaster in the first few minutes! Edit: but for more Bastion story, read the comics. There aren't that many. Torb's chapter is what you're looking for.

Btw, this forest Bastion skin (and four other skins for Reaper, Tracer, Soldier 76 and Pharah) was given to those who bought the definitive edition of overwatch 1, I am quite sure the skin is unavailable now and will become quite valuable in the next few years.

widowmaker is the only reason why i still play this game. i will always love her!and part of it is her lore!

As I understand it, you were looking for a 'playlist' of the release date order of cinematic? because this is not that. This, I believe is story wise in chronological order.

Blizzard better does the PvE mode justice. The way they have neglected the story of Overwatch for years is downright criminal.

I *think* (based on the armor) that the crusader shown in Bastion's short was Colonel Balderich. Not super important, but a kinda cool easter egg that places the battle before the past segment of Rein's short.

My FAVORITE shorts are "Hero" (the Solider 76 short, which reminds me almost of a Batman movie?), "Dragons" (the Hanzo/Genji one, reminding me of an old Samurai film) and of course Kiriko (reminding me of a mix of Pixar + Tarentino film almost), all are amazing though!! You can actually see Alejandra's (the little girl Solider saved) house on the Dorado map and walk by it. It's towards the beginning of the map off to the right. Which I think is super cool still :) Fun fact about that Doomfist gauntlet in that one short with the kids. That was the very first trailer for Overwatch as a game. Doomfist was hinted at in this trailer, but he did not appear as a playable character in game until multiple years (want to say at least like 2 years) later.

God. I have seen the Reinhardt one a dozen times, and I am an emotional mess every time.

I think the maker of the video tried to put them into lore chronological order. It's not perfect but pretty good.

Man I had to hold my tears back on that bastion trailer. I've been playing overwatch since launch but for some reason I had never seen that video.

If you like Overwatch cinematics, you would love the Overwatch Fan animations too. My favorites are made by the creator 'To Binge' such as Ana's First Nanoboost and Zenyatta's Gold Experience. I love them cuz of the anime reference especially

Players become dots when your machine/system isn't loading the 3d models fast enough, it will still give you an indication of everyone's location so you can attempt to play if you want

Love your reactions. ❤️

Love the emotional reaction. Such great backstories

The Bastion cinematic is set in Germany and if I remember correctly the city is Stuttgart

Tracer didn't join overwatch right at the beginning when it was founded, so she's a lot younger than the rest. but she is also a special instance because, due to being trapped in the slipstream she ages differently. that's how she can blink and reverse time

You should definitely react to all the origin stories and gameplay trailers

my top favorite is Honor and Glory (Reinhardt), the Shimada Brothers, Dva and Sombra, BOOP!

As a little easter egg a lot the after effects of what happens in the cinematics can be seen in the actual maps in game. For example in the Hanzo/Genji cinematic all the arrow's and shuriken's that were used are visible within the Hanamura map and on the Eichenwalde map Reinhardt's name can be seen where he carved it into the bar and the Overwatch medallion still sits on the arm of the chair where it was placed in the cinematic.

widowmaker did the right thing, if women thinks that a robot is better than a man they will be lonely whole their life

the Vi/Jinx in the background is so nice!

I like how nobody noticed how that one grunt that was holding winston with electrical wires dropped his gun after winston grabbed the wires once he was free. Thats one smart grunt right there ngl.

Fun fact to the “taking the bullet for Mondatta”. There are 5 comics around this short, of what happened before and after and in these Comics Tracer takes a bullet for one of the Omnics, kinda like a small redemption arc

Overwatch could absolutely have already had an Arcane Style show or an anthology about events and characters. I mean, Arcane touched on just a few characters from 1 or 2 regions. Overwatch very much has enough lore for a good short season. Like I don't like Riot , but have grown to love League's lore (potential) I've still got a soft spot for Overwatch's lore and potential in spite of Activision driving me away with stagnation and their politics.

Dude those arcane posters are beautiful I love arcane so much💙♥️

I have PTSD from the time I spent as a 911 EMT. You do what you can for the people you can help but you can't help everyone. And the people you can't save will haunt you more than the ones you can, but all the blood, injuries and losses will stay with you in your dreams. When you're awake you can control your thoughts (for the most part) but when you sleep nothing can stop it.

Tracer doesn’t age physically because of her ability. That’s why she looks the same age in the past and the present while Soldier for example looks way younger in the past and way older in the present

I know it's an old video, but... I can tell: "Jesse McCree" is the name of the game designer, an ex-employee of Blizzard. They used it (with his permission), because they agreed it was a great name for a cowboy. The problem came later, when this game designer was fired from Blizzard, and they have to rename this agent.

If it grabs your attention, there’s a timeline video you can watch that explains the story

You can still find the body of the guy from Reinhardt’s story in the castle

Sombra is a blackmailer. She wants to control everything and she does so incredibly well through blackmail and information control. One who controls information controls everything.

Tracer's not 26. She has chrono-impairment due to the experimental Slipstream Jet. She's been alive since like the 1940s or something. Winston found her as part of Overwatch. She's like hundreds of years old. Also Widowmaker doesn't work with the Omnics. She works with Talon.

Reinhardt´s cinematic always hit me. To me is the best.

Hahaha Cinematic "Maybe I don't need to worry about her after all" Georgie "I would DEFINITELY be a little bit worried" That made me cackle! XD

Widowmaker GOATED for sure, much love and respect for a professional!

Widowmaker and Reaper's origins are kinda tragic.

For the record the guy widow killed was an omnic

i have cried with you ahhhhhhh

There are no polar bears in Antarctica, Georgie. xD

Bastion is literally a Robot with PTSD and i love it

The overgrown skin was in OW 1 from the beginning I believe. You either needed to preorder the game or it was part of the deluxe edition or something, I don't remember. I got it apparently and it was like the main skin I used for bastion for my entire time playing OW. Then they nerfed/reworked into oblivion, and now we have OW2 bastion which is just so...bleh...

Short answer, in the Dragons cinematic, yes, same guy from the Kiriko cinematic.

on the soldier 76 cinimatic everyone thinks that the girl he saved is sombra when she was young

All Cinematics - adorable Bastion Cinematics - fucking PTSD

You need to react to every skin for all the heroes, that would be super nice

Sry for the long comment, I thought you'd enjoy more infos and anwsers to your questions, I hope it's ok. For the lore part you mention and in general, between the comics, origin stories, official announcements, secrets in the game, voice lines etc you've still enough to piece most of it together. But yeah, there are big gaps :/. If I remember well enough, Bastion was then noticed and deemed a threat by Germany (I think he's there, we see the Eichenwald castle that is in another short with Reinhardt and on a map, so Germany) and must be destroyed (because last bastion, one of the enemies from the omnics war etc). But Torbjörn intercedes in his favour and vouch to take care of him/ watch over him and make sure he won't turn against Humanity. Through Torb, on of the founding members of Overwatch, we guess that Bastion got in (I hope I remember all of that well, maybe Torb didn't exactly did it the "official and proper" way and snuck Bastion out of the country, maybe X). PS: the omnics aren't "alienish" they're man-made in giant automated factories. But the AI went rogue and took control of factories in every countries (they all had at least one), producing military units (Bastions and OR-14/15) instead of civilian ones to overthrow Humanity o_o. Widow is not with the omnics which are the enemy, but also like all the sentient machines (even civilian ones helping humans/working for them etc, there are different groups in omnics, extremist ones like Null Sector or friends with humans). Widow is with Talon, the real assholes. Reaper or Doomfist too as well as Moira and others. They want to gain profit from chaos and conflict and they work at creating more of said conflict in every sectors (within Humanity or between Humans and Omnics, so a peacemaker like Mondatta wasn't "good for business" and the new world order they want). Widow and Reaper are former agents of Overwatch that got experimented on and turned by Talon :(, hence the smoke and blue skin. For the data Mei is talking about, again, I hope I remember well, but like Humanity drove the planet exploitation further which in turns fucked up the climate, triggering catastrophic events, like ice storms of high magnitude, heat waves, tornados, etc. Their scientific mission was studying that if I'm not wrong. Also, there are two omnic wars, the second one is ongoing during the two games, the first one is in the past and was the reason behind the creation of overwatch. During the first one, geoclimatic weapons have been used by the omnics and have triggered some pretty nasty chain reaction on top of the climate change ^^". Yes the guy in the Hanzo one is the same. Since the Shimada brothers have been raised with Kiriko and lived not too far, the "I'll call for backup" was a joke referencing the Dragons short ^^. Even his "I don't want to get kicked in the face" is a wink at the fact he took a bell in the face X). Why they didn't made a show or film like Arcane with all that? It was the plan at first. Overwatch wasn't meant to be a game at the very beginning it was supposed to be the big launch of Blizzard into animation movies (in 2016! So just when Arcane secret production started). Except nobody followed at the time, no investors, no one believed in that and they had to change plan late in the process to make a game instead, with the material they had. They still did the shorts to show that "see, we can do it". But they since lost some money and mostly their "aura" with all the shit around the studio and staff etc... I'm not sure such a costly adventure is in the cards now :/. For the McCree/Cassidy name change: the person he was named after was working for Blizzard but after the rise of MeToo and the MeToo gaming, some sexual misconduct/harassment he has done resurfaced and it was a big deal (other people were implicated too). They got fired and they renamed the chara after that. The last short we see launching itself at the end is supposed to be in the shorts for the first game, since it was the announcement for the second one, but the closure of all the cinematics you just watched. After Zero Hour, you only have Wastelander about Junker Queen and you've already seen the Kiriko one ^^. Then you've the origin stories and/or the comics to complete your journey and you'll be up to speed :) (maybe the "The story so far" video too). Again, sorry for the huge comment, hope it can be liked by some people, take care! ^^

I believe they have talked about the potential of a animated show or movie in the past and enjoy the idea. I think they wanna get overwatch to the point where it’s recognizable as a brand like Pokémon or Disney as it would definitely give it enough weight to stand on its own regardless if a hypothetical show/movie would succeed or fail

Yes traced is 26 yes over watch disbanded 30 years ago. Tracer tends to travel through time so something to consider

@59:45 Yeah,he IS the same person in both the cinematics (Hanzo/Genji and Kiriko). Why do you think (and not only you,Georgieegames,but everyone) in the Kiriko cinematic he says " I will call for back up." ? :P I wonder why he thought he would succesfully call for backup against Kiriko,when he failed against Hanzo. XD @1:22:00 Every GOD DAMN time : Ashe : Bob,do something! Bob either flies off the map.or becomes an ice sculpture or stares at GOD DAMN nothing. XD ( I know i am gonna be hated for my joke. :P )

Mei is an absolutely well written character But God sakes when you play against her in overwatch

Bob is actually an acronym. B.O.B. it stands for Big Omnic Butler

If you want to know the story of overwatch I recommend Hammeh here on youtube, he made a recap of all the lore when overwatch 2 launched

Bro bastion is basically a ww2 veteran with ptsd ToT

Alejandra! Don't leave the front door open! There will be a chancla waiting here for her when she gets back.

Dragons (Genji/Hanzos) and Honor and Glory (Reinhardts) are my favorite of the cinematics

48:00 southern lights not northern, also no polar bears here.

Mei was in Antarctica so those were the southern lights (Aurora Australis), not the northern lights. Also no polar bears lol Ecopoint was the environmental wing of Overwatch so they were probably gathering climate data

Like others said: check out the 20(??) origin stories. they are all very short (around 2 minutes). Here you learn about Tracer's mistery why she is still 27 yrs old. (she is btw the godmother of Brigitte. Thats not in the origin story)

In concept, Reaper and his team are trying to get rid of Omnix influencers and agents... which makes them, evil? Stealing Dooms fist was roberry alright, but shooting Omnix influencer and trying to assasinate Omnix agent was - bad? Ok...

Dragons is still the best Overwatch trailer the story aspect and the artistic style draw me in so much

Widow actually has a really sad story. She was kidnapped by talon as they were unable to assassinate her husband. Moira then wiped her memory and slowed her breathing to add focus, which turned her skin purple. Moira Also made it so she could not go against anything Talon tasked her to do. She was then tricked into returning to her home and then killed her own husband. This is why in voice lines in game widow is scared of going against Moira. Another thing is when Widow said ‘At the moment of the kill, they are never more alive,’ this was specific to her as she can only feel emotions after a kill

There's also Junkertown: The Plan. It's very funny. I promise you.

yeah its the same dude at 59:46 his name is btw kevin thats how the community named him after 7y xD

I love how every character has an emotional story and then D-va is literally just an egirl with a gundam lol

Not sure if you knew but the little birds name is Ganymede

I'm still waiting for them to remove the recoil from Hanzo

This video you reacted to is in chronological order i believe, not in order of release.

I strongly recommend the free comics on the Overwatch site and the character bios if your want more story. I had more to say, but I canceled the comment by accident without remembering to copy it.

Can I just point out that Blizzard managed to make me care and fell sad over a robot having PTSD when he is incapable of thinking and doing it all in 4 minutes only showing the robot and some bird. That’s storytelling

fr I was watching these cinematics like for more than twenty times and I'm just crying every time as at the first one

47:53 Those are not the northern lights, but the southern lights. It's antarctica

anecdote, Hanzo is a better swordsman than an archer

No your right that guy is from the kiriko cinematic!

To be honest, if you look up Widowmaker's backstory she is actually a kind of a victim more than a villain.

The Shimada Clan was a Yakuza family, perhaps the largest and most influential. Hanzo, the older brother, was his father's heir and took on the responsibilities therein. He wanted his brother at his side, but his brother, Genji was spoiled. Led the party boy lifestyle. When Hanzo tried to get him to take things seriously, Genji couldn't do that. Hanzo reacted with violence, and the two fought. Hanzo inflicted terrible wounds on Genji, and Hanzo thought he had died. In truth, Overwatch was looking into the crimes of the Shimada, and found Genji's broken body. Mercy put him back together again. He'd join Overwatch, and along with Cassidy, Reyes, and Moira, form Blackwatch, the covert branch of Overwatch. They eventually killed his father, and the Shimada crime family dissolved. Hashimoto would later move in on their territory, more aggressive and savage... but by then Overwatch had been disbanded. So yes, that guy with the phone is the same guy in the Kiriko short, lol.

The guy from Hanzo/Genji is the same guy as in Kiriko Short. Hanzo and Genji was trained by Kirikos mother. Also, funny enough, Hanzo was better than Genji with Swords when they were young.

29:58 Wow, Soljourn was already a character back then.

Widowmaker was formerly Amelie, a ballerina, and wife to Gerard Lacroix head of anti-Talon operations for OverWatch. Talon was unable to kill Gerard, so they kidnapped his wife. After she was recovered, she killed her husband in his sleep. After Talon had its way with Widowmaker, the only time she feels alive is when she completes a kill.