🥬 | Overwatch needs its own Cabbage Man

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Overwatch is great because it’s a game with 30 special protagonists. Even the side characters we don’t often see are all very special, and they’re all probably in the up-n-coming hero lineup. That being said, what Overwatch is missing is a lovable NPC.

Someone like him…

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Cabbage man from the popular series Avatar the Last Airbender was an average old man who led a simple life of selling cabbages; hence his name Cabbage Merchant. Despite his very lackluster appearance, C.M. was loved by the entirety of the Avatar fandom. Why? Because he was a reoccurring NPC who we had grown attached to over the course of the series. We watched his struggles and successes in the cabbage industry, and it gave us a perspective on life outside of the protagonist’s POV.

This is what Overwatch needs.
We need to see what life looks on Near Future Earth outside of the Overwatch/Talon squabble. We need a window to look out of to see that there is more to Near Future Earth than a prison of genocide, fratricide, and goats.

And to save Blizz the time and energy to come up with a new character, I already have the perfect candidate in mind:

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His name is Greg. You might remember him from the Alive animated short. He works as a vending machine repair man, and he’s in a healthy and loving relationship with his girlfriend Suzie. I want to see more from Greg and Suzie. I want to know what their plans for the future are. I want to know if they plan on building a kid. I want to know if they have a pet Roomba. These are all important things we as a playerbase need to know if we want to understand the world of Near Future Earth better.

I truly believe with a lovable NPC that we can follow the lore of, we can grow as a community and become better, less toxic players.

Thank you for listening to my rant. Have a nice day!
/endrant

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Actually a plant based hero would be kinda cool. A scientist who can control plants as weapons and tools would be dope. They could make them almost druid or witch like.

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Greg could own an omnic plant that gains consciousness and becomes a playable hero. I’d be fine with that!

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Either you didn’t actually read the op or I just got hard wooshed, but I can’t figure out the woosh.

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I read it but cabbage man made me preform a tangent. Lol

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can’t we just have Iroh?

he does sage advice and comic relief

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The world is about interpretation and compromise.

I bought a woven poncho from a, um, hippie store, and it smells funny. (:

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I was imagining the actual cabbage guy from Avatar being in Overwatch himself. He’s had enough of people destroying his cabbages and he’s back with a vengeance! But yes, heartwarming, comic relief characters are great and Overwatch could use more of that.

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Are you saying he joins Talon? :frowning:

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No, no, he can be like cabbage Batman. He’s on the side of pure cabbage justice!

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Yes we need cabbage man

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i saw cabbage man, didn’t read the rest, but i love cabbage man

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TL;DR cabbage man :+1:

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Does he have a cart that I can destroy?
And when it dies he says “MY CABBAGES!” ?
If he does, I’m on board. I’m going to make this man go bankrupt.

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I name you Mean

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I fully support this.

I fully support this.

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Blizzard got a lot of type of hero and character concepts.I’m sure the design team and Geoff already prepared a lot of it,but to release them on the live game it’s like a snail.

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We need more vegetable representation in Overwatch, everyone has their groups represented, but plants. If Blizzard doesn’t add them to the game, they’re vegetophobes.

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