Does DVA know she's in a video game?

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Reinhardt: I was wondering if you'd sign something for me. It's... [clears throat] [whispering] ... For a friend.
D.Va: Aw. After this match is over. Right now, it's time to get serious!

Does that seem self-aware to anyone else? I took it as a slight fourth wall break. I had originally thought that everyone took the objective seriously. Like, for them it was part of some actual mission. So, why would she call it a ‘match’? Or maybe since she’s supposed to be a gamer that she refers to battles as matches?

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:joy:Yes.

:joy::joy:

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Is there a character that breaks the fourth wall?

No, don’t think so.

Realistically they think it’s real because they have no idea they are controlled by someone else.

Edit: She is famous, saying “for a friend” barely reach fourth wall breaking at all, it’s just normal discussion.

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I think it’s more likely that her character is so obsessed with gaming that she often calls missions matches instead and uses game language/references in regular day to day conversations.

If I’m not mistaken she was recruited by the South Korean Army or whatever because of her elite gaming skills after all. Her character’s interesting in my opinion, thinking about it makes me curious for more lore about her.

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I think you misunderstood. I in no way was referring to the ‘for a friend’ line as fourth wall breaking. I was speaking specifically on her referring to, what should be for her, a serious life or death mission as a ‘match’. She has other voice lines that could be taken as her awareness of being in a game or just gamer references. I just thought it was interesting.

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I see it in that way personally. If she is obsessed with games, it woudl make sense for her to make game references for real life events.
However, since we don’t know anything about her she could be a psycho for that matter.

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I mean, she does say: “Are you sure life isn’t a game, Soldier 76?” That seems more fourth wall breaking to me…

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Yeah. That was one of the other lines I was hinting at in my response. Seems possible.

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But how do we know we’re not in a game?
Maybe she’s just very deep xD

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They shoot their friends to death several times per minutes.
They even taunts each others when certain characters kills a particular one meaning they are totally aware about what they are doing.
I mean DUH

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It might be a coping mechanism to distance herself from harsh reality, like Spiderman’s constant jokes while people are actively trying to kill him.

Pretending you can just respawn if you get killed in the line of duty makes the idea of dying less scary, and lets you focus better on completing the mission.

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She normally speaks as if real life is a game to her ,and she probably refers to basically everything else in game terms ,it fits the character too if you ask me.

"Soldier 76 : war is not a game…

D.va : are you sure life isn’t a game ,soldier 76 ?"

Probably sees missions as matches.

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Its mentioned in her bio on the heroes page that she took the new mission on MEKA as a game she has to complete.

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Her ‘upon kill’ line and interaction with D.Va is way more “fourth wall breaking”.

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All sentient beings have a faint intuition of being in a game of primordial chaos gods.

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I mean, games have to break the fourth wall to be…games.

Talking about the fourth wall in disscusions about games may not be the best thing.

People are reffering to it now as “fifth wall” because the “fourth wall” sintagm can’t apply to these situations you are describing.

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If there is another D.Va on the team (arcade mode), she says in the spawn room, “It’s me! Someone must be hacking.”

But a few heroes have lines kind of like that; I think by the time you have multiple versions of the same hero in a fight, the fourth wall has already crumbled to ash. :wink:

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Reinhardt pretty much shows a ‘coy’ side of his by saying that he needs it for a friend while in reality, he wants the autograph for his old grandpa self.

As for D.Va, a person who breaks TOS by streaming in war zones must be pretty much insane. I wouldn’t be surprised that she calls everything a match or a game.

Not breaking 4th wall to me, just has serious issues.

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D.VA is messed up in her head. She threat battle / war as a game, and even live stream it. She could be a psycho, seeing people dies, cities getting destroyed and not caring. It could also be her coping mechanism, telling herself that “all of this is fine, it’s just a videogame”.

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Well maybe enemies she fight, look like bosses in some game :wink:

Personally, I don´t want D.va to be psycho, maybe deeply traumatized, and streams and other activities are her means to escape her past