Overwatch’s holiday event, Winter Wonderland, started yesterday, and with it came new character skins and emotes. Widowmaker’s addition is a highlight intro in which she holds mistletoe over her head, then punches the viewer in the throat and steps on them. The fandom is having a moment with this.
Widowmaker is a character based around the tropes of the femme fatale, so it’s not surprising that her new animation begins as teasing or coy. I don’t think fans were betting on exactly how hard Blizzard was going to lean into Widowmaker’s more fetish-y roots, however.
The animation is sexy in a winking kind of way, and also not corny or over the top. A character named for the act of killing people’s husbands probably wouldn’t want to kiss someone under the mistletoe without an ulterior motive, right? While the reaction to the new highlight intro is very positive, some fans are disappointed that it’s not a more straightforward kind of cheesecake.
Source: JingleBee
But for a very large and vocal segment of the Overwatch fandom, getting stepped on by Widowmaker is maybe the best holiday gift that Blizzard could have given them. And to them I say: god bless you.
https://twitter.com/spidersex69/status/808756008470401024
sorry not sorry pic.twitter.com/R04oZGKXR1
— Scarfulhu (@Scarfulhu) December 14, 2016
https://twitter.com/AndrastesTits/status/809034564748374016
https://twitter.com/evaan_verlaine/status/809034733598425088
I was gonna go to History Club yesterday but Overwatch updated and I wanted to watch Widowmaker step on me for two hours.
— the gongoozler ™ (@demidripart) December 14, 2016
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4 responses to “The Overwatch Fandom Is Horny For Widowmaker’s New Highlight Animation”
Yeah, it’s kind of hot. So tsun-tsun!
Saw Widowmaker’s animation in Gaijin Goombah’s latest video.
All I could think of was that line from Granny in Looney Tunes.
Whenever I read about Overwatch fandom I’m reminded of a line from an I Am Duckeye song.
“Have you ever loved something so much you wanna stick it inside yourself inappropriately?”
…or in this case “smashed in the face and then choked out by it”.