How exactly are these two truly connected? I feel that Roadhog and the Junkertown Queen have greater ties other than that the Queen thinking he’s a no good criminal. I believe that Roadhog used to be the KING of Junkertown.
Mr. Mako was much leaner back in his day. He was pampered and looked up to. He was also, potentially, a mech fighter. There are two mechs in a defender’s spawn on the Junkertown map. One, with a license plate “K NG”, I believe belonged to Roadhog. Roadhog has a similar license plate on his base character model, now reading “ROADR8GE”. Something that might debunk all this is that one of the mechs was called “Bludger” and I’m uncertain as to if that person could be a younger, healthier version of Roadhog.
The Queen must have challenged Roadhog or Roadhog must have done something that was deemed “unruly” by the people of Junkertown (slight Black Panther SPOILERS think Wakanda). And the Queen took his position. Roadhog fled and proceeded to lead a life of shame. He meets up with Junkrat, who may or may not have been kicked out for the same or another reason. Roadhog now wears a mask, to hide the person he was once known to be out of shame.
My theory is basically me grasping at straws and thirsty for lore. Not sure if this idea was already thought of or discussed before so I will credit anyone who thought of anything relating to this.
TLDR; Roadhog, license plate “K NG”, is banished from Junkertown, now wears a mask (hiding who he is), bing bang boom he was the previous ruler of Junkertown. This theory has flaws and is probably debunked in more ways then one, but let’s talk?
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Lore leak : Roadhog stole the priced pachimari doll from the queen(his secret friend emote).
Proof : Only reason junkertown door opens is cuz he temporarily kept the doll on the payload.
On serious note he does have exceptional skills at hooking people maybe he did get practise from the mechs.
i believe the junkertown queen and mako met in the australian liberation front, i heard theories they were romantically connected at some point but that is just a theory
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No lie, but this is also my headcanon
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Nah he was still big fat Mako rutledge. He used to be an enforcer too, whatever that may entail 
I think that part of the theory has a small chance of being correct, except for the part of the reason why he wears his mask. The canon reason of why he wears he mask is because his face got deformed during the omnium fusion core explosion.
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Unless they retconned it I believe the way the queen became the queen is through repeated Mech battles
In Roadhogs biography it said he used to be an enforcer so my personal head Canon is that he was an enforcer for the previous ruler of junkertown and when the new Queen took over she asked him to be her enforcer as well but he didn’t like her, or was still mostly loyal to the previous ruler and decided to just vacate the position which angered her and had her Exile him.
Either that or he was also an enforcer for her and she made a pass at him or they even may be dated for a little while and then he dumped her, and to save her Pride she exiled him but still allows him into junkertown to do trade, which is also why I feel she addresses him by his first name and address is junkrat as just junkrat.
Also as a side note one of the reasons he wears the mask is to combat the effects of radiation which is why he’s a little more level-headed than most but he still needs his hogdrogen to reduce the full effects and it seems the only way he’s capable of inhaling it is with the aid of the Mask ( he also has a hogdrogyn dispenser and hose hooked up to his bed to breathe while he sleeps as well)
Also the mask probably protects the parts of his face that got damaged when the omnium exploded
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I don’t know exactly what happened, but I think the Queen had completely valid reasons to push both of our current Junkers to the outskirts of society. Also, I definitely agree that Roadhog’s mask is to hide scars/allow him to breathe (and the hogdrogen tank hooked up to his bed kind of only supports this because of how it’s set up)
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Lol yeah because they’re troublemakers and trouble makers will be exiled [ie Rule 4] (though the only one being fully ejected from Junkertown is Rat, hog was already not living in junkertown but their destructive shenanigans got his trading privileges revoked it seems lol)
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