space wizards hahahahahahah never heard that before but perfectly sums up Jedi!
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kiri has her own lore… “spirit and friends”.
jokes aside, i would love for OW to bring a new hero from kiri’s team with a different animal spirit. Maybe a tank with turtle spirit that has a good defensive powers… or a DPS with tiger spirit with good hunting powers.
I’d go further. Trying to read Junkrat’s mind should cause damage to the mind-reader. There’s only so much chaos one can take.
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mayhem on another level!!! yes, this should be implemented
Except without any tech on her person whatsoever and the fox is treated as it’s own thing seperate from Kiriko
She’s straight up magic yo
And that was always pretty lame. Hanzo at least it was only his ult, Kiriko it’s everything
No he could not have. He could have hypothetically met her before that but the Iris was the Iris until AFTER what happened to her. Again though ANYTHING said in spawn room is considered non canon so any basis of lore from spawn room is non canon.
Blizzard, the writers of the lore, have said there is no magic in the OW universe. Therefore there MUST be a sci fi explanation for Kiriko. These are things confirmed directly from the writers. Therefore any explanation that uses “magic” must be wrong so the only one we have in universe is Hard Light and the best explanation one can come up with is that it was implanted into her without her knowing which covers every checkbox while keeping to the stated thing by the writers that there is no magic in the OW universe.
Yeah, well, it’s also their job to make the assertion believable
And they failed. Badly, with Kiriko.
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so, she is delusional and hallucinates the fox spirit… while the reality is that she has been imbued with hard light L.O.L. that’s scary
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Except we have not been told yet why so they cant have failed yet. Its like saying my new running shoes have failed before I even took a step in them.
I mean, we already have magic users like Genji, Zenyatta, Hanzo and Kiri, so why not psychics.
Maybe the line ‘wait till you see me on my bike’ has a darker meaning.
‘Bike’ is actually the name of a drug she takes, fox steroids or something IDK, so she goes crazy and warns people if she’s ever on her ‘bike’.
“Wait till you see me on my methamphetamine!”
“wOAaaoHh, LEt ThE FOx sPiRIt gUIDe yOU!”
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hahahaha maybe her kitsune rush is her sharing her drug with the team so everyone is high and quick! lol
these theories are FUN !
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Again we have been explicitly told by the writers, meaning it is canon, that there is no magic in the OW universe.
Meanwhile I would argue she believes its the fox spirit because her grandmother did not tell her what they were doing. Conversely she knows that it is Hard Light but claiming your powers are given by a god is scarier than claiming they are given by foreign technology. The latter you can counter by getting your own tech but how does one counter powers you think are magic?
It still remains a truth though that we have seen some element of everything she does accomplished via Hard Light technology. That seems to make it the most logical explanation when we again have SEEN that tech do everything she can do.
I honestly feel like they’ve thrown canonical lore out the window, especially with this Transformers collab, not to mention the Cowboy Bebop one. After all, with how the three story missions weren’t well-received (or at least they didn’t spark a big enough demand for more), I feel like they don’t have a real plan to continue expanding the real canonical story.
I think one of Blizzard devs called it spirituality instead of magic. They (Genji, Hanzo, Kiriko, Zenyatta) might be tapping with their souls to higher dimensions (spiritual word) either naturally with a form of psychic abilities, or maybe some sort of technology. Nevertheless, it can be called a magic, considering such ‘‘powers’’ are not naturally occuring in real time (at least not that we know of).
I mean skins are another one of those things are are told are not canon either and we were told that from day 1. No Soldier is not both young and old at the same time; nor are Reaper, Torb and Rein just as a minor example. Pretty much everything the main game of OW for the PvP is a “what if” scenario and not relevant to the story.
For the story itself we know from the magic that there is no magic in the OW universe and that there is a “scientific” explanation for everything. Guess they are going with the classic science fiction approach that “magic is just science we dont understand yet”. We as the audience do not yet understand how Kiriko (and also Hanzo and Genji) uses her abilities so we call it magic because that is the only explanation we can think of.
Psi phenomena exists in many sci-fi universes and often isn’t considered “magic” in them.
Babylon 5 has the Psi Corps and telepaths.
Star Trek has multiple telepathic races and has dealt with other psi phenomena to various extents.
Farscape has psi phenomena though includes “spiritual” aspects along with them.
Stephen King’s Firestarter universe includes various psi elements that are sci-fi and not magic.
Most super hero franchises including things like The Boys are sci-fi based and not fantasy/magic based. Some of the powers involved are psi-themed.
Things like X-men/marvel include both magic and sci-fi mixed together but they have a clear distinction.
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The original vision of Overwatch has mutated into the realm of fantasy.
Many things were changed or dropped to make certain things work, or overlooked so as to not question things - such as Genji and Hanzo’s dragons.
At first, it was more likely than Zen found some new technological advancement within himself and his orbs which allows him to float/fly and heal. Now it has been revealed that, no, Zen does not know at all what it is that allows him to do such things - which it is far more likely that the writers were too lazy to write more lore for Zen, which we have been asking for for years.
The novel they wrote for Zen and Satya (wasn’t a comic) was mainly about Zen showing Sym how the omnics lived, how they treated other humans and cooked food for them, how Zen and Sym share similar communication barriers, and an abstract about who Aurora was and the monks’ subsequent belief in the Iris.
It was a nice “meet and greet” if you will, but told us nothing new about Zen or his abilities - which is what I was most interested in. The writers simply have been lazy and sparse in their storytelling. Not to mention, but they constantly rehash the same “Omnic crisis” story over and over again, as though it’s fresh and new.
To their credit, the new story with Ramattra is different subject-wise, but it’s still an “omnic” causing a “crisis” theme-wise - a story beaten beyond undeath after a decade of hearing it again and again.
There’s a reason Junker Queen has a line with Ramattra, when she mentions that omnics are “gimmicky”. We all feel it.
Sure
Well until then, they’ve failed. They could have launched with it, but they left it ambiguous and magical