as if people in my community aren’t beaten and killed everyday.
you seriously need to chill my guy.
its a skin based off a movie NOTHING MORE OR LESS
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Yup. Just like Sigma. Both fictional characters.
Thats a broad and general area, with this I could say Freddy Krueger looks like Michael Myers because they’re both horror movie antagonists. You see what I mean? Asylum is meant to be hannibal lector a COPYRIGHTED character which could get blizzard into legal trouble if they made him look EXACTLY the same, “Horror movie antagonist” isn’t really a reference to anything its just horror movie antagonist.
Exactly, I don’t see an entire month where your livelihood is used as a marketing tactic.
That’s not true. Fiction will tackle issues directly a lot of times. It’s just everyone involved, the scenario taking place, etc, is all fictional.
Citation needed, you should probably read/watch more sci-fi. People going crazy for touching the void isn’t really meant to represent real life mental illness as much as the human mind’s frailty in comparison to the cosmos. This goes all the way back to writers like Clark Ashton Smith.
…Slasher is lichrally a Jason Voorhees reference. The mask.
Hockey masks weren’t used for slasher types till Jason.
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It is true. Overwatch is an example of it. Just because they also tackle issues directly doesn’t mean that indirect comparisons aren’t also utilized often. The Sci-Fi genre in particular is rife with examples.
They are of the same type. That is, horror movie type antagonists. The name “Slasher 76” basically narrows things. Etc. But you can easily identify that it is a reference to those sort of things.
All that is to say is that references are made, homages are made, tribute skins, etc. It’s not a sort of statement on the current state of society or anything like that.
It’s a skin. Not a statement.
Literally looks nothing like Jasons besides the straps and holes the rest is ALL original, Jason doesn’t use a chainsaw or an axe he used a machete and a pickaxe.
Where as Sigma’s skin has way too many resemblances, so many that people pointed them out without any statement from Blizz.
Gotta give op props, he found a really good troll.
I totally understand that. All I was trying to get across is that it’s an assumption to say he has schizophrenia and that Blizz isn’t being evil or something like the OP is trying to get across.
He is certainly mentally ill, and his character (as I noted earlier) is clearly intended to be viewed as a victim.
Maybe it’s just me, but it peeves me a little with the assumptions when Blizz clearly isn’t afraid to tackle such issues while directly stating so. We have LGBT issues with soldier / tracer, Symmetra is supposed to be autistic. As someone who is autistic, I feel like they went with the stereotypical view autistic individuals with her. But I also don’t believe blizz is being malicious for doing so, nor do I think there was any malicious intent with Sigma.
It’s often both. They make references to real world ones so that you can connect with the character and relate it to something in our world.
A reference to horror movie killers, that aesthetic or brand isn’t copyrighted in and of its self other wise there would only be ONE slasher franchise.
Sigma’s skin is made to resemble one single specific copyrighted character.
My point is that Soldier being made to look like a generic horror killer has no legal ramifications where as Sigma looking like a single copyrighted one does.
Well of course. When writing fiction and stuff the closer you can tie it to reality, and not just say well known stories, but things that people can truly themselves relate to. To give them stop and pause, to be invested, personal, etc. It’s all part of the art.
That simpy drives home the point further that this is a FICTIONAL CREATION! A character constructed in certain ways to invoke certain emotional, to invoke certain thoughts, it’s not a statement. It’s not an attack.
Like when? Do you have examples of cosmic horror clearly relating directly to real life mental illness?
Boy did this thread hit the wall after I left.
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That one character was also constructed from many other specific things, from life and other movies, they’re a culmination of references etc as well.
I don’t care about the copyright aspects, that’s blizzards stuff. But acting like a dude with a mask in a straight jacket is somehow specific to just ONE character is kind of ridiculous given the history.
It’s honestly weird to me this is even something to talk about… I know I’m contributing in giving it life… My bad…
It’s clearly a specific direct reference to Hannibal. Blizzard is known for this sort of thing.