Archives Event - Part 5

My duo calls lag non consensual movement 😂😂

Overwatch Origin Stories Master-list

Links to the Youtube Origin stories in Chronological order of hero release <3

Most of the base Roster doesn't have an origin story, but there is this short for Roadhog and Junkrat:

It's not in the same format as the rest of the origin stories that follow, but it's the closest thing that resembles an origin story for them.

Soldier 76 is obviously one of the outliers of this standard (being Blizzards golden boy and all I suppose), and I'm fairly sure his was the first origin story put together in this format:

Another of these outliers is none other than the poster girl herself, which I guess makes sense:

That's all the base roster got, and the following origin stories all belong to heroes that we released after the release of the game.

First of, Ana came out in July of 2016:

Then followed Sombra in November of 2016:

Orisa in March of 2017:

Doomfist in July of 2017:

Moira in November of 2017:

Brigitte in March of 2018:

Wrecking Ball in July of 2018:

Props to Tom Beansons for going the extra mile and getting coffee making hands 😚

Baptiste official wingman of overwatch 👍🏻🥰

Team Kill 💪🏻

I simply ADORE the way this artist draws them <33333

dvattra doodle dump

Is Reaper a COVID baby because he was born in 2018, and (hypothetically if COVID happened in Overwatch Universe) would have been turning 2 during the lockdown? Like would he have been one of those toddlers that didn't develop proper social skills at nursery?

I think about this sometimes...

When he calls her 'Sweetheart' :0

Ok, ngl I kinda ship Baptiste x Sombra now haha

The Archives event Retribution - Part 2

The second Archives event took place in 2018, it started on the 10th April and finished on the 30th of April.

The brand new brawl/mission that was introduced during this event was the Retribution event, which followed the Blackwatch cast (Reaper/Gabriel Reyes, Jesse McCree/Cole Cassidy, Moira and Genji). The aim of their missions was to take the head of Talon, Antonio Bartalotti, in. Instead, Antonio goads Gabriel Reyes and explains that any action they take will be a waste of time since his political connections will have him out of prison by the end of the week. Realising he's right, Gabriel Reyes changes the plan (Drastically) and shoots Antonio instead. The Retribution mission is their hasty escape from Rialto.

Not only was this mission introduced but we were also given a handful of brilliant skins.

Scion Hanzo and Soldier 24 are some of my favourite skins as well, so 2018 achieves skins were ab absolute win.

Here are all the cinematics for the mission as well:

I think, short as it is, that there's some really interesting content in the videos.

To start off with, I find it really funny that the video starts with McCree taking out one guy, then Gabriel takes out one guy as well, then Moira takes out three guys and it's like woah ok. Then Genji says hold my bear and takes out an entire group.

It amuses me.

Also, this interaction between McCree and Gabriel, he addresses him as 'Reyes' respectfully, but you can tell he's toeing the line out of concern because they're not just comrades. They're not just commander and follower. They were friends! They worked together for 20 years and it shows in this interaction here!

He's challenging his commanders decisions because he knows that they're friends and he's concerned for him!

Also, please look at these pictures and say to my face that this is not a man who's reflecting on every choice he made since joining Overwatch, and I dare you to tell me those choices aren't weighing heavily on his shoulders!

This is a man that knows if he keeps doing things the way he was doing them, nothing is ever going to change.

So he does something drastic and he kills a man.

He looks so tired :(

I sort of forgot the purpose of this post because I just got carried away psycho analysing Gabriel Reyes.

So, I guess your welcome <3

Then a couple of months later they released the 'Honour and Glory' short:

Then another year or so later the 'Shooting Star' short was released:

A couple of months later the 'Reunion' short was released:

The the infamous OW2 trailer 'Zero Hour' was released, casually three years before they were ready to release the thing:

The first Overwatch 2 short 'The Wastelander', was released a astounding three years later, with no filler shorts in between:

Shortly after the 'Kiriko' short was released:

And last but not least, the newest trailer, released in the summer of 2023 is the 'Calling' short:

Fingers crossed there will be more shorts in the future though and it won't be the last one for long lol

Overwatch Animated Shorts Master list!

All the Overwatch Animated shorts in release date chronological order <3

Naturally, the 'cinematic trailer' came out first :) ->

The next trailer that came out was the 'We are Overwatch' short:

The next short was the 'Recall' short:

Quickly following that short, was the 'Alive' short:

Not long after that one either, the 'are you with us' Short was released:

Following that was the 'Dragons' short:

Then not even two weeks later the 'Hero' short was released:

Then a few months later 'The Last Bastion' short was released:

A month of two later the next short, 'Infiltration' was released:

After quickly putting out so many shorts, Blizzard took a break just shy of a year before releasing the 'Rise and Shine' short: