Lore from heroes of the storm

So heroes of the storm has a mechanic where if u click on a character, they starting saying things. these are mostly just jokes and not canon but some of them are actually quite interesting.
Tracer:
since she was the first overwatch character in Hots most of her jokes are related to stuff we already knew or just generic time jokes. the closet thing to “lore” is that apparently she once left some peanut better in reinhardt’s helmet and winston got his head stuck in it trying to eat the peanut butter : /

Zarya:
Again some stuff about her stength needs to be shared, and how she sacrifed things for her country. nothing new but still true to her character

Lucio:
One of his lines, is him saying how he actual likes the music reinhardt listens to. he also didn’t name lucioball. hmm

D.va:
One of her lines is her saying that her make up whiskers are suppose to be warpaint. a more interesting line from her “Can we wrap this up? I’ve gotta big test tomorrow. And if I get anything less than 100%, I’m blaming you” which can be taken in many ways. perhaps she’s still in school? or maybe the test is related to her meka squad? its quite interesting.

Genji:
He mentions how her view his body less as a weapon and more as a “high-tech prosthesis”. his favorite animal is also a “gray fox” but this is possibly just a metal gear solid reference.

Ana:
on of her lines is “Having faked my own death, I can never return to Overwatch. You have no idea how serious they are about insurance fraud.” so ana has canonically committed tax evasion. : o. she also mentions the photo with the two unknown overwatch members in it. of coure thought the game replaces their names with (REDACTED) because of course.

Hanzo:
He’s confused as to why people view him as a villian, (he thinks its the beard) so maybe he views him self as more neutral? i dunno

Junkrat:
Junkrat actually does have an interesting line that being “These bombs aren’t cheap, you know. They cost an arm and a leg! (laughs) I’m joking. They only cost me a leg.” meaning that he definitely blew off his leg, but its unknown whats happened to his arm. this lines up with a interview with jeff kaplan where he mentions “here’s a guy who blew his leg off and thinks it’s the funniest thing ever” so this seems to imply that something else happened to his arm. he also mentions how he made his frag launcher, pretty much confirming what we already know, that he builds his own weapons.

SO yeah most of heroes of the storm lines are just jokes, and most them are non canon, but i did find a few interesting lines. you can find the lines on the wikis or on youtube.

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Heroes of the Storm isn’t canon at all.

So you’re telling me that Junkrat really DOES love shrimp? And it’s not because of the tentacle heads?

I know they’re not technically canon, but I like to imagine Lucio’s line about Reinhardt’s music is true. Course I also like to believe Reinhardt likes Lucio’s music but is too proud to tell him

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Possible Yoshi hero teaser?

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Heroes of the Storm is unfortunately not canon. Voice lines aside, there are 2 major things from HotS that I would hope were canon:

1 - The Shimada Omnics. From the lane creeps to the mercenaries, there are a large number of unique omnic designs that would make an interesting place in Overwatch. Of particular note are the mage creeps, which behave similarily to Zenyatta. To see more of these in Overwatch, perhaps more widespread than just our 1 monk, would be interesting.

2 - The Volskaya vehicles. Specifically, the one that Zarya’s gun appears to be from. We know that Zarya’s gun was removed from a “vehicle”, never specified if it was a truck, a tank, or a mech. However in HotS, we see a truck with a canon that is apparently identical to Zarya’s. Cant post images yet, so here is most of a link:

^https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/109672661671505920/460366320509255720/unknown.png

I know its not canon. i said multiple times

i just said there’s some interesting stuff like how junkrat mentions loseing his leg and not his arm. and jeff said in an interview that

so while not anything directing from the game is canon, some of the stuff has possible canon stuff related to it. like junkrat losing his leg and not his arm. so maybe read the entire thing before telling me “ITS NOT CANON” when i already said that most of it is not canon.

There’s this Heroes of the Storm line where Ana mentions the two unknown Overwatch members that you see in the Ana Origin Story video. She says their names, but the names are replaced by the word “Redacted”. Sounds like to me Blizzard does acknowledge their existence, but only time will tell when we get to know their identities.

That’s very interesting. I never knew that. I didn’t quite understand what Zarya’s gun was supposed to be but it really does look like a cannon from a vehicle/tank.

with Busan being added, we can see that inside of the MEKA base there actually is a classroom…
assuming that she lives in the base, it’s not far-fetched to think that MEKA headquarters is similar to a school campus, & that they treat pilots as ‘students’, and that hana is one of them.
phew, bit of a run-on sentence.

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He also really misses his best friend, Roadhog. He cries/sings about wanting to know where he is.

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