{"id":74766,"date":"2023-09-09T08:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T07:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/overwatch-2-heroes-official-ages-sound-extremely-made-up\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T08:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T07:19:59","slug":"overwatch-2-heroes-official-ages-sound-extremely-made-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=74766","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Heroes\u2019 Official Ages Sound Extremely Made Up"},"content":{"rendered":"


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For a game like Overwatch 2<\/em>, in which its story has been trickled out over dozens of disparate external media stories<\/span> rather than in one, cohesive thing\u2014you know, like, a video game campaign<\/span>?\u2014there are bound to be inconsistencies along the way. But lord, seeing the game\u2019s 38 heroes suddenly get canonical birthdates and ages really just makes it apparent how weirdly incongruous these ages are with the timeline we know.<\/p>\n

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This new birth-chart fodder comes from the official Overwatch <\/em>website<\/span>, which was updated this week to give each hero a canonical birthday and age. Some of these make sense, like how many of the old-guard characters like Soldier: 76, Ana, and Reaper are in their late 50s and early 60s. The new kids on the block\u2014like recent addition Illari being an 18-year-old sun-powered queen, or D.Va being a 21-year-old esports champion\u2014probably check out too, because they\u2019re mostly removed from the larger timeline of Overwatch<\/em>. It\u2019s when we start comparing more central characters\u2019 canonical ages that things start to get murky.<\/p>\n

Kiriko, one of the new support heroes introduced in Overwatch 2<\/em>, is one of the most glaring examples of the math not mathing. When Blizzard first revealed Kiriko, it claimed she grew up with Genji and Hanzo, and even trained alongside them in the ways of the sword. However, now that all involved have official ages, things aren\u2019t adding up. We\u2019re told Genji and Hanzo are 37 and 40, respectively, while Kiriko is supposedly 21. On paper, I believe those ages because each of those heroes feels written to be those ages, it\u2019s the pitting those numbers against the lore, art, and story we know that doesn\u2019t click. Look at this illustration of the three training in Kiriko\u2019s Origin Story trailer<\/span>. You expect me to believe there are nearly 20 years of difference between these characters? Sure, Kiriko looks young and could reasonably be under 10 here, but you expect me to believe that Hanzo is pushing 30 in this image?<\/p>\n

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Attack of the Fanboy<\/em> compiled some examples<\/span> <\/em>of Overwatch <\/em>fans pointing out other oddities and inconsistencies. Consider Sojourn, who\u2019s now listed as 47 years old. Her sister Valentine, introduced in the spin-off novel \u201cOverwatch 2: Sojourn\u201d<\/span>, would have had to have been 14 years old when giving birth to Sojourn\u2019s niece Bonnie. Which sure, isn\u2019t impossible<\/em>, but it does seem highly unlikely.<\/p>\n