I finally jumped into Blizzard’s hero shooter after the release of Bastet, a short story following the medic sniper Ana and old man vigilante Jack “Soldier: 76” Morrison, which confirmed the broody ex-Overwatch leader was once in a long-time relationship with a man named Vincent, but the two had long since split. When the company finally announced what it was doing for Pride Month, however, it was revealed this was the precursor for a much bigger moment for Soldier: 76 and for those who have been waiting for his identity as a gay man to be more than just a footnote in Ana’s short story. The war that Soldier: 76 dedicated his life to may still be ongoing without an Overwatch 2 story mode to depict it, but seeing one of the series’ longest-running characters actually grow from who he was when the game launched in 2016 is the kind of development we’ve been denied for almost a decade.
Author: Kenneth Shepard
Published at: 2025-06-30 20:57:48
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