How would Cyborgs be viewed in OW?

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Theres one show called RWBY that ive liked to watch.

In RWBY,they have a different specie of humans called Faunus, who are basically humans with some kind of animal trait. There can be humans with dog tails,cat ears,horns,claws…

They are looked down upon and viewed as inferior to humans. They are apparently hated,murdered,discriminated.

The Faunus then fight back against this discrimination. And form an organization called White Fang that specifically fights for Faunus rights.

Now,about Overwatch. How would Cyborgs be treated? Omnics,machines are hated and discriminated against, so what about humans who are also machine? Would they be hated? Bullied? Murdered?

Would they form something like White Fang
and try to regain their rights? Would they get some kind of fighter like Adam or Sienna on their side? (They are faunus from RWBY who are on White Fangs side)

I would love to know if something like this existed. If it did at all…

Quite a lot of heroes on OW are cyborgs. Doomfist,genji,Junkrat,symmetra,tracer, torbjorn are all humans with machine in their bodies.

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Depends on how Omnic they look if Genji’s lore is anything to go off of.

Also vol 7 hype

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Zarya: “How can I trust a man who is half-machine.”
Genji: “The heart of a man still beats inside me.”

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I mean if your family got killed by robots and you’re uneducated you’re probably gonna hate someone that looks more machine than man like Genji.

General population probably pretty meh about them. I think if people start getting neural implants and prosthetics in the next fifty years it’ll be the Uber rich eeking out an edge. Transhumanism is gonna look like a plus for most people and not be discriminated based on. The anti cyborg sentiment comes from the war between humans and robots in OW afaik.

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I should add her into my website as an Easter egg… hope it doesn’t get me in trouble.

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I mean, half the cast of Overwatch are technically Cyborgs. McCree, Junkrat, Torbjorn, Soldier, and Doomfist certainly are.

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This can vary actually. Genji is a Cyborg has he has part artificial intelligence which enables him to do superhuman feats of strength and speed (Deflect for example). Other heroes more or less have prosthetics which enables them to have a full function body, but really don’t have anything that enhances their ability to comprehend and process their senses. So McCree and Junkrat are not really a cyborgs in my opinion. Doomfist. Yes, this is confirmed in his backstory. Symmetra… maybe… depending on exactly how she manipulates her hard light technology. Torbjorn… probably… I mean, he pours molten slag from his working prosthetic and… drinks it. (How does he do that?!) Soldier, might be. We know he is an enhanced super soldier from the American Army’s experiment programs, but what did they exactly pump into him that is suppose to be good for him? Nanites maybe, but I think mostly performance enhancing drugs. He is capable of healing his own wounds overtime.

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I always viewed Soldier and the super soldier program as some kind of genetic enhancement with drugs or something,no cybernetics involved.

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He’s not welcome in Junkertown either.

Agree there’s a line somewhere when you go from a practical replacement to a substantial augmentation. Where that line is, is rather fuzzy and will vary from person to person.

What’s interesting is that it seems in literature to be peculiar to cybernetic enhancement. A character like Widowmaker, Soldier or Reaper would still be regarded as much more human, even though in any practical sense they’re just as augmented as Genji.

You get those same attitudes in Shadowrun and Cyberpunk for example. Get your whole body replaced with Cybernetics, you’re a lunatic and no longer regarded as a human anymore. You get genetic enhancements and biological improvements, you’re just a super soldier.

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I think they mainly treated as equal, because many characters have cyber parts to restore lost parts of their bodies.

We can notice that Torbjorn has more robotic prosthetic, while Doomfist have more human-like. What can catch us on a thought, that more expensive prosthetics are more human like.

Genji got sliced really hard, but he got picked up by overwatch, a rich international organisation, and his lost body parts was replaced.

So, we don’t know, are advanced prosthetics available for every class or just for the rich.

Junkrat for example, has less expensive prosthetics, what actually hurts him. He don’t seem to update to a better level, and we know that he is incredibly biased to robots, although he doesn’t give any comments about cyborgs.

Or maybe prosthetics are made by big corporations, and junkers have no access to it. Just like Roadhog has no access to proper medical treatment.

But some characters didn’t lost anything.

Symmetra didn’t lost an arm, she got cut it off just to deploy cyber arm manipulating hard light.

I’m sure that treatment to cyborgs is dependent on country. Because half of Australia got destroyed by omnium, of course they hate everything connected to them. We also can see that Russia has anti-omnic propaganda, while it wasn’t influenced by Overwatch.
What again leads to thought that every country where Overwatch didn’t have any influence to their own omnic crisis (like in Haiti, Bap homeland) is biased to robotics, and everything connected to it.

Tracer isn’t a cyborg, she got lost in time and space. I think people are biased to human that just barely exist in exact time and space by glowing thingy on her chest, that’s terrifying and weird.

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For Omnics like Zenyatta… What kind of thing are Bastions?
How do omnics see older AI’s?

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frankly i am surprised we don’t see more cyborgs in overwatch… at some point augmentation technology will be so beneficial for expanding human ability that getting augmented will be a major advantage on the job market.

then again maybe the omnic crisis was a chilling effect to counter that trend just as it was getting started hmmm…

Also surprising that there is no exploration of the potential of that technology to achieve immortality… i mean why does an omnic need a body anyway? the story does not even seam to explain why Mondatta could not restored from a remote backup…

the theme of post-humanism seam to have been touched on ever so slightly even with a sentient synthetic species in the game…

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Bastion is an Omnic, technically so is Orisa (in some ways). Omniums after they went rouge because to develop various models to suit their needs during the omnic crisis.

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Soldier?

He’s enhanced, or hell, augmented if you wanna stretch it

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Honestly… what is up with Zarya? So many heroes have enhancements or prosthetics and she doesn’t trust genji because he is half machine?
But 46% would be okay? :expressionless:

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Remember Genji?
“My halloween costume? Cyborg Ninja!” =]

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Maybe he means genetic modification. I’m sure people can’t recognize that one yet, but incredibly biased against. It’s a pinnacle of creation, of course all religions just stood up against it, just like vs artificial intelligence. But Blizzard probably won’t touch that theme.
That’s probably why Genji got hurt so much after cyborg enhancement, it just ruins his view point on the world.

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I just kinda thought it would make some really neat plot points. A bunch of cyborgs discriminated against because they are partly machine.

And then they gain some kind of leader who stands up for them

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From all of them, i think only Genji is considered as a cyborg but i think how they’re being viewed depends on country. Like he doesnt know if he can go to Junkerownn because of it. Im sure Numbani would accept him.

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This. Prejudice varies from person to person and culture to culture.

In some places Genji is doubtless an abomination, in others, he’s just Genji.

I mean, people view people with tattoos and other modifications negatively, turn them into a half machine killbot and that list of people gets longer. A lot of people regard the flesh you’re lumbered with as somehow sacred.

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