No, a lower heart rate would not turn a skin blue. It would make skin pale. Now in lore she was treated by Moira to have a lower heartrate and no emotions. Yet, the only thing that could give her a blue skin, is to genetically alter her to have methemoglobinemia, which makes the blood darker red, because it carries less oxygen. That in turn turns the skincolor of Caucasians blue. The biggest example would be the Fugate family, who had a large portion of their family blue skinned, thanks to inbreeding. The original genetic mutation was probably just random and came from someone in France, which I find ironic considering Widowmaker nationality.
For more on the Fugate family:
But having such low oxygen-carrying blood, you would think that having a lower heart rate on top of that would be even more detrimental to Widowmaker’s health.
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It is possible because its not real 
Honestly who cares if lore is 100% scientifically accurate?
Just go with it, have fun man. Theres talking gorillas and giant hamsters with huge brains.
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Yeah, but there is a difference in making up something that exists, then just making things up that already exist. It’s like Overwatch declaring the Earth is flat for some reason, while maintaining being set in the future. It bugs me.
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Thats nothing new.
Look at all the games that are set on planet earth but with new countries that dont exist.
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last time I checked overwatch isn’t real
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It works because Widow is a smurf
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Today I learned something new
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It’s really nit that deep lol, it’s just fiction so who really cares if it’s possible or not…
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obvious troll…
if by some miracle it’s not a troll then damn you really give new meaning to the phrase “first world problems”
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Should’ve made it green I guess…
This is not entirely true since you have argyria (silver poisoning) which also causes bluish skin
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it is blizzard so i think they had night elf female in mind when they designed her
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well it’s been explained that Talon slowed her heart rate and oxygen levels to make her a more focused, silent and concentrated sniper
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OW was just another Blizzard title that needed a hot blue lady, don’t read into it too much.
So, we putting logic into this game? Ok:
- Sigma would be dead as his experiment with the black hole would have crushed his body
- omnics likely wouldn’t exist as sentient as they are
- reaper would be dead
- sombras hack defiantly wouldn’t work as it does in lore
- doomfist would have his arm destroyed if he tried to use his gauntlet as it would basically crush his arm when using it.
I could go on and on about how illogical the lore is…or you know, you can just not think into is as the game isn’t real
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That’s some well founded and science-based analysis, but consider this: she looks hot in blue.
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We talking about stuff done by moira
Character that lore wise seems to be able to make character turn in to the dark cloud, then rebuild themself, and suck out life out of people
I dont think its outside posibilities that there is done more here than we know, that is more fantasy than real thing based.
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It’s not as whacky as you think it is. Cyanosis. Obviously, in real life it is never quite as exaggerated as Widows is, but I think we can allow them some artist licence.
When blood is poorly oxygenated, it can make tissue appear bluish, due to the presence of deoxyhaemoglobin, the form of haemoglobin with no oxygen.
Low blood pressure is a common cause of cyanosis and low heart rate is a common cause of low blood pressure.
So, the science is real, its just been exaggerated and artified.
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If you Google “blue skin”, argyria is the second suggested cause. Cyanosis is the first. If I’m honest, not sure where OP got methaemoglobinaemia from.
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We don´t know, what science they use 50 years in future…there could be anything, not just that. Moira did some pretty messed up experiments.
