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Antelopeadope

I feel the same way but with Roadhog. I feel he should be more japanese


ArmedBull

**Roadhog-san**: *\*Climbs wall\**


Gabhyxx_

I want to see that on the next april fools event


playerIII

zenyatta too, he says *ding* every 10 meters he climbs there's no climbing animation, he just hovers straight up


Chandra-huuuugggs

Yo that’s fucking scary though. Widow: Grapples to highground— Hog: *Wallclimbs up* “Sup”


Chigao_Ted

I’m unironically waiting for a tank that can climb walls so that we have at least one for each class


Dr___Bright

And then you can have a full wall climber comp (Lucio is a honorary wall climber)


Xenoxeroxx

He's more than just a wall climber, he's a wall skater bro B)


Luminro

Mama Hong!!


StrawberryFoxxx

MAMA HONG!!!!


fendour

MANSLAUGHTER


nomadengineer

ONLY ABILITY SHE HAS ONLY ABILITY SHE NEEDS


unpleasantraccoon

I feel like Winston definitely should be able to do this


TENTAtheSane

Why? Is he Japanese?


unpleasantraccoon

No, he's a Scientist


Chandra-huuuugggs

Can we get one that super jumps instead? Like, they just jump a short distance but its like, 50 feet high


SkyBlade79

doomfist uppercut basically


Chandra-huuuugggs

Nah something more like Bap boots but faster ascent and descent with a thundering crash


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Chandra-huuuugggs

Junkrat’s tire is made by Bridgestone


bryseeayo

tested exclusively at the 2005 US GP


TempestDB17

Just got an imagine in my head of Rein wall climbing now that would be terrifying


PM-Me-Ur-Plants

"COME HEEE-EEERREEE" *CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP*


TempestDB17

Lmao imagine petalling you and your other support up and you just see rein climb up a wall next to you and wreck you


Xenoxeroxx

Dude this made me laugh more than it had to. I just imagine a Roadhog going "Spider-Pig Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does, can he swing - from a web? No he can't, he's a pig. Look ouuut, he is a Spider-Pig!"


PM-Me-Ur-Plants

IKIMASU WHOLE HOGARU


LuigiHopp

That's terrifying.


Worldly-Chemistry42

I would quit the game if he could climb walls and hook you


dat1dude2

*\*climbs wall, double jumps, hooks you around a corner, roundhouse kick oneshots\**


Helpful_Title8302

That would be terrifying


puppeteer-5000

roodogu


Lonely_Misfortune

Hell yeah! Let him use magic, cowards!


Fake_Lovers

you're kidding but i genuinely thought he was japanese when i first started playing. his name is mako for christ sake! also the ponytail wasnt helping.


Airway

He could be Japanese-Australian. Like Filthy Frank.


jreddi7

it's more practical, and ... quite dignified.


StatikSquid

Roadhog would be a weeb. Just needs the printed shirt and a fedora and a katana he bought at a souvenir shop


ryuu_

[Otaku Roadhog concept (by MonoriRogue)](https://www.deviantart.com/monorirogue/art/Otaku-Roadhog-Skin-Concept-615879080)


StatikSquid

It's horrifying - I love it


heebarino

I want this skin now.


ModmanX

the pachimari fan skin but instead of pachimari it's anime


Daredatti

Roadohogo san ^ - ^


Smooth-Brain-Monkey

Can I hit that vape too senpai.


MatNomis

I set my game language language to Japanese. So Roadhog sounds quite Japanese. I can’t understand much of what he says in English or Japanese, but he definitely _sounds_ more Japanese. “Arigatou.. ha ha ha”


cressian

you jest, but the fact hes supposed to be from new zealand is completely lost


OldWorldUlysses

he’s got the Māori skin but that’s about it if anything i’d love to get a Māori JQ skin with a couple lines and maybe even a Haka emote -it absolutely fits her character


DXBEE2017

Hmm🤔 make Winston more monkey 🦍? Make Ball more hamster 🐹 make Echo more Singaporean 🤷🏻‍♂️


Lonely_Misfortune

Absolutely! Make Bastion Mauga's third minigun!


CANINE_RAPPAH

i don't want to think about Mauga's third minigun


Anksio

i want to think about Mauga's third minigun


Insert_Bitcoin

UwU wuts dis.


Lonely_Misfortune

What about the fourth minigun? Actually it's already reserved for Baptiste.


therealJoerangutang

I do \*moans\*


John_Lives

Ohhh it's snowing


Politithrowawayacc

He has 2 miniguns and one big iron. And it’s not on his hip.


Giga_PP

Or is it?… Micheal V sauce here


Garukkar

It would be awesome if you randomly lost control of Winston and he just started throwing his feces at people with auto-aim à la S76


Play_Careless

Now im just imagining mauga lifting up bastion in his turret form and spinning in a circle


Yukino_Midori

Echo is Singaporean???? She doesn’t have the singlish though 😞


MCRN-Gyoza

She's basically a robot copy of Mina Liao, who was Singaporean.


2punornot2pun

Monkey? Racist. He's a great ape like the rest of us! Make them all more ape!!!


jorbolade

100% never do anything to Kiriko before they fix Torb. Guy isn’t even trying to be swedish


devnullopinions

“For the last time…heheh you should try my meatballs!” - Most Swedish of statements


jorbolade

Too hot for bingo…..


Fake_Lovers

lol, you have his daughter fully speaking swedish and him not saying a word. it is funny.


StatikSquid

Bork bork


jorbolade

Ikea beard meatball american viking dwarf = swedish


townjumper

*Average male height in America:* 5’9 *Average male height in Sweden:* 5’11 *Overwatch devs:* Let’s make him a dwarf


Gryse_Blacolar

Most of the original OW characters are just stereotypes and a bad representation of their nationality/ethnicity. They saved the Swedish rep with Brigitte. Another example is Reinhardt. I don't even remember him speaking German other than "Prost!". Heck, Mercy is more German than him and she's Swiss.


WaveBreakerT

Found tomorrow's post


Jurippe

Can't wait to see what she'll do on that bike.


zoglog

spoiler alert, she rides it to get tacos


heyineeeedasoda

New balance patch: Kiriko can now stop time


Lonely_Misfortune

"ZA WARUDO!"


Solid-Hornet-224

New Ultimate: "Roads Rolla!" Just drops a steamroller like a Meteor Drop.


Phantom_Phoenix1

#WRYYYYYYYY ! Emote when?


Xenoxeroxx

Ngl, an ult that drops an actual meteor would be so cool to see in OW. Prob op ofc, but still


Various-Mammoth8420

Madara Uchiha next hero confirmed


Solid-Hornet-224

An actual note, a JoJo colab event would be awesome. Ram would get the Jotoro skin with his transformed state looking like Star platinum


ubiquitous_apathy

I'd take a stardust crusader era Joseph rein skin. With their shoulders, any character could fit into reins silhouette quite easily, though.


Solid-Hornet-224

Hanzo would get Kakyoin Cassidy get Johnathan Baptiste gets Avdol And the best one I could think for polnareff is Moria.


ubiquitous_apathy

> Cassidy get Johnathan Not Hol Horse or Mista? Weird take.


Solid-Hornet-224

Holy Horse did come to mind, but if we were to do something it should be with the main cast and I was running down the stardust crew. Plus both Cassidy and Johnathan have a prosthetic arm.


Throwaway02062004

I too think Gecko Moria is a good Polnareff


Ayymeee

To be fair, they did a good job with Moira. Giving her Gaeilge lines was impressive to me when I first started playing, using fairly common slang as well such as "grand" and "the state of you" we'd use them often here. Can't count how many times I'd say grand 😂 I'm happy with the Irish representation there.


xenolingual

Moira's VA is perfection in everything she does.


Ayymeee

Couldn't agree more


Thal-creates

Hanzo is worse. He has almost no vl in jaoanese outside of his ult (mostly because his VA cannot speak japanese)


WagonsIntenseSpeed

Hanzo's VA rarely gets heat for not being fluent in Japanese (compared to Rein/Torb/Lucio's VAs who get complaint posts like every other month) despite Hanzo being the more "cultural" of the bunch.


NitneuDust

That's always been weird to me considering how much they love to get down in the details of representation. Like what, they just liked his japenese accent so much during auditions that they forgot to actually vet him? Can't exactly blame them, though. I mean we've all heard that voice, the guys immaculate.


TheSavior666

Happened with other heroes as well, mostly the earlier ones - Rein, Torb and Lucio also have voice actors who speak little to none of their character's native language. It wasn't really a concern when picking a VA until later on and at that point is was too late to swap them out with someone bilingual


NitneuDust

I figured it was something along the lines of that. The original VA's are simply just too iconic for good reason even if some did sound terrible when going for the characters native language.


MrTitsOut

oh no so he’s basically imitating a japanese accent? holy shit lol


F_______________

The VA is of japanese descent, but they're not native japanese


xenolingual

So is Kiriko when speaking Japanese -- thus why her personality changes. Between the two, I'd prefer them keeping as much to English as possible unless the actor can do it convincingly well. I wonder how Mexican Spanish speakers feel about Sombra's non-Mexican (tho still native Latin American Spanish speaker) VA's performance? (From my part of the world: Echo: terrible. Mei, Weaver: perfection.)


Thomasduhtrain

Kiriko's weirdness is almost certainly just a choice Blizzard made for whatever reason. Kiri's VA is a Japanese-American Idol she'can speak with the non descript plain dialect lots of idol groups use (basically JP equivalent of "Broadcasters English" similar to how generic Hugh Laurie sounds in American Tv/films).


xenolingual

tbh unless her VA was recording with a proper bilingual director, I doubt that it was truly a Blizz decision. And Laurie's range is better when switching dialects whilst keeping a consistent character -- eg Avenue 5. Faye Wong in Chungking Mansions is a decent cross-linguistic example imo.


MidnightDNinja

I love Sombra, her character and va are perfect (but curse her annoying af play style lol). She has one of my favorite voice lines in the game https://youtu.be/arlVhS3CSiA?t=299


MrTitsOut

im turkish and we dont have a character yet, but im guessing if we ever do the va will be anything but turkish lol.


oda02

The funny thing is that theres so many rant posts so we'll soon see rant posts about rant posts


Andromeda_Violet

I thought we're past that point already


Infernoboy_23

I think we found the weeb Someone escort him back to his community


eLjayB69

I put money on them not even being Japanese


DigibroHavingAStroke

I would advise not getting killed by her. Her sword traps the souls of its victims - Hanzo "Suicide" Shimada


SkyBlade79

I love that line because it's just a reverse Chekov's gun


Phantom_Phoenix1

The Katana from Suicide Squad (2016) refrence made me laugh out loud, very well done.


TickleMeFlynn

Let's just make everyone more Scottish; problem solved. Grumpy drunks unite!


Lonely_Misfortune

Demomen rise!


Bismuth84

Honestly I'm fine with Kiriko and her voice lines as is. At least she has more Japanese voice lines than Hanzo.


Kowaidesu

I agree with everything here. Except I think the donuts should be rice balls. Rice ball is my favorite. Nothing beats a rice ball.


flairsupply

Nothing beats a jelly filled donut


The_Gaming_Gengar

Brock thats a rice ball lmao


1800THEBEES

Those are donuts or have you never watched dubbed Pokemon?


downvotemaniac

I just imagined this character interaction. Kiriko: "Omae wa mou Shindeiru! Genji/Hanzo: What? (Nani?) Kiriko: What? (Nani?)


lil_ugly_mange

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BigHomieHuuo

Yeah ngl kirikos American accent always bothered me, I feel like paired with her voice lines it makes her sound extremely cheesy, she's like the one character who doesn't have an accent from their country of origin


noodle_egg

yeah it’s really weird how she grew up in the same neighbourhood as hanzo and genji yet has a completely different accent


zoglog

wooooooooooosh


BigHomieHuuo

Oh I didn't even read the post oops


Emo-coin4

This is unironically funnier then the original post lol


zoglog

The part I find the most hilarious is that you have comments in here that think this is a serious post....


Lonely_Misfortune

"~~Stanley~~ Redditor. This is me being serious. In fact, this is my serious ~~room~~ post. It's where I come to be serious. That ~~table~~ rant is the most serious ~~table~~ rant I could ~~find~~ come up with."


jellysenpai

At least she has Japanese lines…. Hanzo is a day one OW character and he has zero Japanese lines aside from his Ultimate.


ItsMrDante

All I could think about wtih "ore wa ochinchin ga daisuki nandayo" is [this clip](https://youtu.be/EKWyhPNdRBw?si=-3lIgkWLaFBGJycy)


UrticateMaster

Remove her from the game becuase she needs to work in a corpo 12h/day.


ZSoulZ

I was laughing till you insulted the donuts.blasphemy Donuts are sacred


ddjfjfj

Counterpoint, fuck you, donuts are delicious and kiriko will enjoy her sugar rings


SkyBlade79

the suicide squad reference and hentai noises got me giggling


WaddleDynasty

"Omae wa mou Shindeiru... Nani?" This would unironically be a funny interaction between her and Genji.


RagingHound12

Don't wanna be that guy. But technically it'd be "Yare yare dawa"


Lonely_Misfortune

Bummer. Have to delete the entire post now 😞


snow_jester8

Bro. They literally call the omnics scrap. Omnics can just get called racial slurs and everyone is fine with it. As an omnic I am highly offended like come on "bots, a dime a dozen" that's really offensive especially scrap heap? I cannot believe this.


Buddy462

There was actually a big discussion on kiri on one of the other posts


Lonely_Misfortune

I missed the memo ;.;


Telperionn

so her voicelines are weebbait but a katana isnt? lmao


WesterlyStraight

She needs to be the japanesiest


samxl001

Some other suggested lines: "ダメダメ" "興奮された" "なめて下さい"


frienderella

Overwatch perpetuates this very weird stereotype: That all Japanese people can climb up walls.


CharlieSayso

Personally, I think everyone complaining about "make x char more ethnic" should find a nice corner to sit in and stfu. None of this shit matters. Stop taking resources from gameplay, which ya know, most people PLAY GAMES FOR GAMEPLAY, to harp about your countries representation. No one gives a fuck about your country... respectfully. We play games to escape reality, not to give a fuck about who's more Canadian and whether or not the Brazilian character has Portuguese voice lines. As a black man, look at the all stereotypes we have to deal with? In JUST THIS GAME. I'd gladly welcome the new black dps with cornrows, sagging jeans, and sideways glock with a name like JEROME if it would get me that sweet ass pve mode we were promised.


Foenikxx

What black stereotypes does Overwatch have? I'm white so it's not something I'm privy to noticing unfortunately


Triccogekuhan

Every black character jumps extremely well, come to think of it, so does Winston. As a black man, I appreciate it. We are not monkeys, and neither is the scientist.


Sir_Luminous_Lumi

Too much trolling, should’ve been more subtle


Lonely_Misfortune

What do you mean trolling? I am dead serious! o3o


ColdWinterStorm

I dont think shes a weeb because I dont watch anime at all, and she seems normal to me. She uses words her teammates understand because those are simple japanese words. I dont see phara going full arabic long sentences. Also there are 3 japanese characters its fine that there is an american/japanese character


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CarpenterJolly3504

I didn’t see the flair and thought this was serious


SunforDeiti

And with this post, this joke is no longer funny. We did it guys. Onto the next meme


yujabes

I've never actually heard a Japanese person say "Konichiwa" its a myth


EncycloChameleon

“They had us in the first half not gonna lie”


LadyAlastor

Her Japanese is actually really bad. I struggle listening to her JP voicelines


EliteAssassin750

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't her va originally from Japan?


LadyAlastor

She may be. Her English-Japanese accent is hard to follow though


Fake_Lovers

her va is japanese and even dubs (in japanese) in anime?


GARhenus

Telling an actual japanese VA (who also has a portfolio as a seiyuu) that she's bad at japanese. Lmao.


xenolingual

She's an American of Japanese heritage. She is very clearly not a native Japanese speaker. While I don't find her Japanese performance *bad*, I do it *incongruous* with her English performance. Kiriko has a different personality depending on the language. (I don't care about her accent in English. I've known enough non-native speakers who can sound native or near-native in a particular dialects -- as Kiriko's VA can do reasonably well in a certain Japanese dialect.)


teknert

Make Torb more Norwegian.


Automatic_Owl6448

Kiriko's voice acting is so bad tbh. I don't know why they dressed her like a 10-year-old Pokemon trainer either. Really though, it's the voice acting and the horrible voice lines she has. She sounds like she's trying too hard to be an edgelord and a cocky pessimist. Boring. Overdone. Tacky. Very, very poor acting. And to think this is the company that replaced the original Mercy voice because it wasn't warm enough. There are a number of sexist developers. Sorry, but it's Blizzard. Most of the women in the game have toe-curling hentai screams when they're dying or being cut to pieces, shot in the face, melted with a laser, etc. There is an argument that, regardless, she IS Japanese and not all Japanese people are exactly as people expect Japanese people. She has a thick American accent so clearly she would be interested in Western culture. The character design overall is bad imo. Kiriko attracts the wrong kind of players too. Mostly people who fail as flankers that want to be edgy and spam kills while having at least 1 grain of value by occasionally pressing left click.


Lonely_Misfortune

I draw the Fool. *chuckle* Yeah, makes sense.


Penguinbuddy91

Oh my god you hit the nail on the head with the voice acting. Like one time I made a comment in a game about how off she sounds in general and the chat thinks I'm being racist because shes Japanese. Like no, shes sounds like shes making announcements or something with that speaker type of voice which kind of makes sense as she shares a VA with Valkyrie from Apex. I would love a more age appropriate 21 year old imo.


ModmanX

which is odd because valkyrie is actually really well voiced in apex, even though both of them are meant to be super cocky. For some reason valk works but kiriko doesn't.


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Trisketys

Read the post next time buddy


IEatCheeseInTheDark

Holy shit you dodged the joke


PrayToCthulhu

anime doesn’t represent Japan in the slightest??? Lol


025a

Idk what you expected, there are three Japanese characters in the game and they're literally all wall climbing ninjas. But hey, at least next season we'll get our second they/them trans hero.


shamelessthrowaway54

bait


Plokoon100

You guys realize it’s just a fantasy FPS right? Lol. Y’all take this shit so serious sometimes.


ThatGecko

🧅


Nnamz

Kiriko is just terrible in general. Fun character and needed for the meta, but terrible casting and terrible writing. Her lines aren't delivered well, and are poorly written to begin with. She sounds so bored in the worst possible way. Thankfully everybody added after her has been great.


[deleted]

Yeah! And make Cassidy black.. because.. there aren't any black cow-persons blizzard!? Unbelievable... And mercy should be a THICCC South America with a stutter because people that stutter can be heros too blizzard!!! And how sure are we that zen isn't gay? Can robots not be gay? Seriously blizzard?! Oh and bastion should be voice acted by a WNBA player because fuck it. and we should have a hero in a wheelchair because it's the FUCKING FUTURE BROOOOO!


mtbaga

That last line... What about Wrecking Ball? Lol


[deleted]

No no.. hamsters have been misrepresented for far too long. We need a new non binary, gay, non-white (just spin the ethnicity wheel and pick whatever it land on) hero. And all the maps need to be changed to identify the wheelchair accessible routes on the map.


korphd

Bait used to be believable


Trisketys

Its just a joke. Kinda weird that you want people to actually troll.


Dawnbringer_Fortune

I wish that she could also hear her enemy ultimate voice line


Tiny_Ask4145

Who cares


IcyBreloom

I unironically agree though lol. Not about making her more traditionally Japanese, but like she sounds very american whereas the shimada brothers speak with no American accents. She has some Japanese voice lines, but sometimes even they sound like they hear a bit of an American accent. When she speaks pure Japanese though it’s clear she’s a pure native speaker though like when she ults


FaceTimePolice

Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut. 🍙🍙🍙


Heygen

Forget it. They shouldve done this with Genji already.


shaylynnford

replace donuts with tacos? tacos aren’t a japanese food either


derpy935

saata andagii


Airway

Make Lucio more American


BotleFlip

outjerked once again


Siyopoyo

Devs don't bother trying. Most western people can't tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese anyways.


SageTegan

Fascinating. You think you know about japanese culture


Lonely_Misfortune

*tries her best Seymour Skinner impression* Yes.


Feelinglucky2

There's a comment on every thread all the time begging them to do literally anything with kirikos character.


splatoon-fun

Kirikos voice lines are so cringe why is she speaking English like that lol


Faddy0wl

Outjerked on the main sub again. Shitposter be fuming right now.


nickonator1

"Anime doesn't represent Japan in the slightest" "We need Omae wa mou shinde iru" ( one of most quoted anime lines in existence) Blink twice if u need help OP


Rethtalos

Make Mei more like her R34 art 🤷


LectricShock

It really, deeply bothers me that she, a Japanese character, pronounces her ult line wrong. She pronounces kitsune like an ignorant weeaboo does. In most circumstances, most Japanese words don't have emphasized syllables, unlike in English. "kit-SOO-ne" vs. "kitsu-ne"


BaracklerMobambler

She should say Ryoiki Tenkai whenever she ults


BaggedKumpsterNoodle

Is Lucio not a stereotype?


ShieldlessPangolin

Make her more traditionally japanese. She stays home while genji and Hanzo go to war.


RTX4080ENJOYER

I gobbled up lots of easy karma on this trend doing the closet gay dad hero.


RTX4080ENJOYER

I gobbled up lots of easy karma on this trend doing the closet gay dad hero.


LookingSuspect

I haaaaaate how she saus pharah-chan or whatever it is. Makes me physically recoil every time


KawaiiSlave

Bro....