The latest episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD featured a slightly unhinged Australian demolitions expert. You can probably see where this is going.
The character, James, is an Inhuman whose monitor was hacked by the Watchdogs (a fictional terrorist group, as opposed to the video game that is also about hacking and monitors). He quoted Overwatch’s Junkrat word-for-word on multiple occasions. Check it out in this video, courtesy of CherryTF:
The parallels don’t end there. At one point, James tossed an object that looked pretty much exactly like Junkrat’s ammo. Also, Junkrat’s real name is Jamison Fawkes. So basically, James.
Now, if you tried really, really hard because you pride yourself on being The King Of Internet Sceptics, you might still be able to chalk this up to coincidence. But you’d be wrong. In a pair of Reddit posts, the episode’s writer said it was all intentional. He even pointed out some things people missed.
“Hi. Matt Owens, writer of the episode here,” he wrote. “Can confirm the references. A couple of Tracer ones too from Simmons. Subtle ones cause her quotes would be too obvious to sneak in. Hooray crossover!”
Why so much Overwatch in SHIELD, of all things? “Overwatch procrastination is a large part of my writing process,” Owens said. Looks like some wires got crossed. And then everything exploded. Junkrat would be proud.
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