How would you make an Overwatch animated series, Sup Forums?

How would you make an Overwatch animated series, Sup Forums?

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I wouldn't because the characters are flat and the world is bland and uninspired

I wouldn't

If it has plenty of Widowmaker ass, I might watch it.

every episode would focus on different groups of characters. every once in a while characters cross paths. some season premieres and finales would be more lore-heavy, perhaps some providing backstories and origins, and would have large groups come together. the series finale would either be one where everyone picks a side and fights, or it could be where everyone comes together to fight something new.

Focus on that boy and his journey to being a hero.

I wouldn't. Stop trying to have Sup Forums threads on Sup Forums.

I would not. OP btfo

this

If it would have zero memes except for really subtle ones, would a battleborn cartoon actually work?

Tracer's Ass: The Show

Overwatch goes to highschool and he has to save the world while in time to prom night

Lots of cash and cheap koreans?

Just watch My Hero Academia at that point.

>there will never be an overwatch cartoon beach episode
why bother going on?

You'd either have to make a prequel, or you'd make something where the younger generation of heroes is establishing themselves and coming together.

The first few arcs would follow [insert young protagonist] and other young characters finding out about the Overwatch call made by Winston somehow, and taking it upon themselves to respond to objectives he's set in lieu of the mostly missing old Overwatch members. It would end with them proving themselves to Tracer, Winston and someone else and becoming the new core team of an illegal but rebuilding Overwatch.

[insert young protagonist] and D.va would probably be shipped by the show, while degenerates on the internet will primarily ship him with Widowmaker and Mei. Tumblr will be furious when he's confirmed not gay but will be somewhat placated by the existence of Tracer.

There are some interesting characters, but everything interesting about them is ripped from somewhere else. Like Rheinhart being Don Quixote, Soldier 76 being any 'betrayed and left for dead' action movie character and Genji being Raiden.

Make it about Hana and make her homolust after Angela

Just make it the wild adventures of Junkrat and Roadhog in nuclear holocaust Australia.

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i like they way you think user

Oh, also, because Blizzard is involved, a female character will be turned evil at the end of the first season.

She'll go on to be a super bitch who manages to gain control of some bad guys, be popular for a while, and then be jerked off endlessly by the writing until everybody hates her. She gets away with everything in the end and loses all traces of the wrathful persona that made her interesting as a character, and the narrative bends over backward to tell everyone that she did nothing wrong. At this point fans will be livid and many will drop the show, but there'll be a large enough remaining viewer base to convince Blizzard that they're 11/10 master writers.

I would make a cartoon about literally any other game

Widowmaker's already halfway through that.

Only if she is cucked relentlessly by Dad76.

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This.

Make it a mecha anime

Oh, yeah. She kinda is isn't she?

Well, we didn't see her before her turn, so I'm not sure she counts. I don't really see her taking over Talon either.

She'll probably go rogue, do bounty hunting, maybe fuck McCree. They're both shitter magnets.

Make a TF2 cartoon instead

Nah, I want Dva to cuck Pharah just to shit on Pharmafags
As long as it's muh OTP, whatever

>Witch Mercy episode

Make it about Junkrat and Roadhog
The only two interesting and remotely funny characters
Roadhog has a slightly better backstory than the others too but that isn't saying much

This.

OW has one of the most boring fucking character sets I've ever seen, and it's honestly downright amazing how Blizzard managed to make such a big cast of varying backgrounds and roles and they're all ABSOLUTE FUCKING GARBAGE because they're the most bland, boring caricatures ever made.

Demoman has more character in his missing fucking eyeball socket than half the cast of OW.

Literally GI Joe: American Hero.
Overwatch is GI Joe. Talon is COBRA.

If you want to expand it further and give it more of a cohesive overarching plot rather than following the simple episodic SatAM formula, you can split the main cast between Jack's ex-OW semi-outlaw group (think A Team) and the more lawful 'official' OW lead by Winston. The main antagonist force would still be Talon, but you could also include other groups like Null Sector, Vishkar, corrupt government officials, etc.

You'd need to add some original characters either way, since Overwatch lore is so spotty. We don't know who leads Talon and it would make no sense for it to be Reaper or Widowmaker, so that's at least one shadowy figure we might need to put a name to.

What I would NOT do is try to adapt the fall of Overwatch into a cartoon. I would say without a doubt that any cartoon based on Overwatch should take place in the "present" timeline that the game (sort of) takes place in.

I wouldn't.

>Demoman has more character in his missing fucking eyeball socket than half the cast of OW.

All the TF characters are just as thin. Spy is really the only one, even in the comics, that has any level of depth.

They get away with it because the writing for them is a whimsical comedy.

>mfw Roadgod main
>rape Mercy and Lucio
>Rip Pharah out of the sky
>Snipe Tracers, Genjis, and Zens
A good Tracer and Ass reaper are my only threats, but i can usually deal with them

Worst idea. Making it star a cookie cutter self insert kid would be awful. We already have characters people like, and I can almost guarantee that focusing on some OC donut steel boy hero would just make people angry that more familiar characters are getting less spotlight over it.

That boy was the most interesting character out of the whole cast. He at least had potential for development.

That's the thing, all the TF2 characters are simple yet entertaining as fuck while every Overwatch character has an intricated backstory and 98% of them are fucking lame

The TF characters don't have much in the way of backstory, but their actual character interactions more than make up for it, even if you go by their original characters and discount anything from the later comics and shorts. They're a bunch of half-tilt mercenaries who shoot each other for money and fun, and none of their characterizations go against that- that's what the game is about, that's what the shorts are about, that's what the comics are about, and it's all nice and happy and on fire.

Blizz has outright admitted the game has nothing to do with the OVERARCHING CANON BACKSTORY™ of OW, which is not only a really silly thing to do (read: they'd rather shy away from the issue of why everyone is fighting on the same sides when they're mortal enemies instead of just hand-waving it like Valve did with "don't worry about it, it isn't a serious plot"), but said BACKSTORY™ itself is the most bland, cliche mess of garbage I've seen in ages, a completely expected Good vs. Evil where everyone is clear-cut in what they do, everyone has to be linked to everyone else somehow, every character must have one defining trait that the internet will associate them with to make fanart and memes out of (this one is important!), and there's about five characters whose backstory is "Everyone thought they died... But they DIDN'T."

Sure, they dont have depth, but they all have distinct personalities which are great to see interact with each other.

The Overwatch characters have no traits that provoke the same chemistry, they have very little outside whats already apparent by their costumes.

>How would you make an Overwatch animated series, Sup Forums?
I wouldn't

I've had this on my mind for quite a while. I would start off with just Tracer responding to Winston's recall. From there we would see Winston struggle to rebuild the foundations that Overwatch was built upon, trying to establish a budget, make preparations, etc.

As the show goes on, more and more ex-Overwatch members start joining the group, helping out with certain missions (Mcree could do some bounty hunting, Tracer could help Torbjorn find stolen blueprints to a weapon he disowned, etc.) As far as character arcs go, focusing on two or three main characters per season and giving the rest mini-arcs could help set the tone for a particular season. (Maybe the 1st season is about Mercy rekindling her passion for battlefield healing after becoming jaded).

Talon is an important adversary, no doubt, but with how many characters and factions there are, making Talon the sole enemy would be wasted potential. Maybe one season has the new Overwatch go through wasteland Australia, the other focuses on Vishkar conspiracies, another deals with the government and what they would do to the new Overwatch. Helps keep the viewer on their toes.

Personally, I think that Overwatch's main theme could be about making lemonade from lemons. If you think about it, the majority of the characters have had their lives fucked in one way or another. (Tracer being temporarily erased from existance, Genji being dead, Rein losing his comrades, Torb's weapons being misused) Good character growth would take advantage of how each character deals with their predicament, and how they improve as a person; or in cases like Reaper, how they become worse.

If I was a decent fanfiction writer maybe I could write some stories about this shit, but I don't know if I have any real creative skill. Just wishful thinking. :I

make it episodic as fuck with an over arching story.
Every single episode should focus on different characters in different situations or missions.
It should have them all playing off one another in different ways.

You shouldnt even realize there is a bigger story until like the last episodes of the season.

Young Justice Season 1?

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>Demoman has more character in his missing fucking eyeball socket than half the cast of OW
This is actually true.

But this isn't a matter of whatever superficial notion of depth you have. No one argues that TF2 has "deep" characters, that's absurd.
It's about charm, good design, good character interactions, going the extra mile to make your classes stand out as characters with limited resources. Before the comics, the only thing TF2's characters had was design, a few hats, and dialogue, and the occasional Meet The Team videos, and everyone loved them (they still do). It's consistently agreed to be the best part of TF2 (because it sure as hell ain't balance or community).
Overwatch can cram as much backstory as they want on their half-assed uninspired designs with witless dialogue, they will never be even half as interesting as what TF2 had.

The lore was pointing towards Doomfist being the leader of Talon.
However that may have changed with the Orisa update, since they referred to him as a local villain.

He doesn't know that Demoman last his eye when he had a summer job where he cleaned the house of a wizard.
He opened a cursed book in the library which took his eye.
Now the eye is a giant, deadly, flying eyeball.
Also, the Wizard later was the roommate of Soldier for a while.

I'm sure it's not as easy as it sounds, making such ridiculously stupid yet really fun back stories.

>Personally, I think that Overwatch's main theme could be about making lemonade from lemons.
very cool
me personally, i think that overwatch's main theme could be about making money from idiots

>How would you make an Overwatch animated series, Sup Forums?

I would make about Mei and her globetrotting adventures.

Everyone has sex especially Tracer and Widow.

This works. I can dig this idea. Although I'd prefer it be fairly obvious that it's slowly building up to something by about half way through the run. I guess that also depends on how many episodes.

Junkrat and Roadhog go to White Castle

>I'm sure it's not as easy as it sounds, making such ridiculously stupid yet really fun back stories.
It'll be less easy now given that pretty much every writer of note has jumped ship from Valve.

its GI Joe with superpowers.
every episode/mission has a couple main people (Tracer/Winston/76 for OW) plus others as the mission decries. fighting Reaper/Widow/whoever + nameless thugs of Talon.

>How would you make an Overwatch animated series?
13x22min SFM porn
I mean, it's the only thing about Overwatch that I even pay attention to anyways.

Entertaining characters in Overwatch: Junkrat, Roadhog, maybe Reinhardt.
Trash: The rest.

This would be the easiest way to do it. Just set it up in a two parter that takes place shortly after the Recall short, then make it entirely episodic from there. Shit you could even skip the set up episodes, it's not as mandatory as people think.

Junkrat and Roadhog are the only characters in Overwatch I find even remotely interesting.
That, and Mercy, but that's mostly because her designs make me diamonds (I have no idea what her "character" is and I couldn't care less)

as long as she is a low key nympho

>low key
Why?

I wouldn't becasue the games fans that actually want that sort of thing are super autistic about their headcanons and it's honestly not worth it.

Well yeah, there should always be that threat of a "greater evil"
But as for the series itself, one week you might be seeing junkrat and roadhog getting into shenanigans and having a run in with Talon.

The next week its tracer and winston training up Lucio, D.Va, and the other new recruits.

Week after that the episode is Reaper attacking Soldier 76 and Ana.

The point is that it shouldnt focus on any one character. In fact it should strive to mix and match as many as possible. Similar to the video game, where you have all sorts of weird team combinations. Forcing enemies to work together, and vice versa.

>not D.Va and Lucio
its like you dont want a cute SoL about a gamer and music producer living together with awkward sexual tension that grows as the season goes on

Fun idea for a drinking game: Take a drink every time someone says "Junkrat and Roadhog are the only interesting characters" or anything along the lines of Overwatch is boring ITT. Proceed to then die of alcohol poisoning. I'll keep score.

gas yourselves filthy degenerates

You sound butthurt, just close the tab.

It's a cartoon, lad, not hentai

I'm already buzzed. Making me full-on drunk will not make Overwatfch's cast any more interesting.

I imagine it more like she travels world doing research and performing important experiments when a Jonny Quest style supervillain tries to steal her work or destroy her and she's gotta freeze 'em.

You've actually hit one of my big issues with it here. The general aiming for a NobleBright setting doesn't land. All the supposed Hope and Optimism feels manufactured, like it was decided in a boardroom to boost sales. All the heroes want to do good, but have no ideology beyond that. And there's no actual threat outside an edgelord and one sniper, or a Robot rebellion which is constantly undermined by presenting them as an opressed minority.

Hentai is a cartoon.

>hating on Pure Love
MODS
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>Hentai is art
ftfy

Hey man, i love overwatch, but they arent wrong.
Junky and Roady are fucking awesome.

Zenyatta is pretty great too.

>It's a Zarya snu snu episode

>Zenyatta is pretty great too.
damn straight

This, someone COULD attempt to pull a Sonic Boom and give it something the original game didn't have at all, but then again lightning rarely strikes twice.

surprise, you've cracked the code
overwatch the game was specifically designed to appeal to as many people as physically and humanly possible by taking good parts of other games and stripping them down by very heavily flattening the skill curve, and to generate a massive secondary fanbase (think touhou) who have never actually played the game and never will, but see a character they like because that character has a single stand-out trait or design that appeals to them ("literally me," as the tumblrites say), who then make pages and pages of fanart and poorly edited memes, which are then spread to other secondaries and primaries, and the cycle of incredibly effective free marketing repeats

everything feels manufactured because it IS manufactured, nothing in the game can be taken as even remotely offensive to anyone because every gender, race, sexuality, disability, nationality and barbecue sauce flavor choice must be included in one way or another

also blood is #triggering so no one bleeds in our first person shooter

Would go to Studio FOW

Mei is bae and anyone who says they wouldn't watch a show about her is lying.

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Can you even say they are wrong ?
It's pretty hard to find a way to make a fat-and-skinny villain duo not fun to watch.
Bulk and Skull, Wario and Waluigi, Scratch and Grounder, etc, everyone usually likes these characters even if they aren't fans of the property they are in because they are usually fun.
Roadhog and Junkrat aren't great characters but they are fun characters, and that's more than what can be said for the rest of the cast. Part of the reason why they stand out is because of how they contrast with the unspeakably boring cast by at least having a little bit of an attitude.

An Overwatch cartoon would be fucking retarded because Blizzard doesn't even listen to their own lore.

OK SO ITS GOOD VS EVIL BUT THE BAD GUYS AND GOOD GUYS WORK TOGETHER SOMETIMES FOR NO REASON LOL IDK CHECK OUT MEI'S FAT TITS

It's weird, people absolutely love the shorts but I found them more generic than your typical Disney/Pixar story. It's like, the difference between The Little Mermaid or Quest for Camelot.

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I don't think they're wrong per se, I just couldn't help poking fun at how many times the same thing needed to be repeated. And will be repeated, over and over.

It's a video game. You'd be pissed if you weren't allowed to play as good and bad guys on the same team.

They look really good but that's it

>OK SO ITS GOOD VS EVIL BUT THE BAD GUYS AND GOOD GUYS WORK TOGETHER SOMETIMES FOR NO REASON LOL IDK CHECK OUT MEI'S FAT TITS

are you making fun of it, or trying to advertise to me.
I cant find anything about that sentence that i didnt like.

Well maybe they should have factored that into their lore before they made a fucking game out of it.

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Why? No one asks why Spartans are shooting each other in Halo's multiplayer.

They know it's just a fucking multiplayer video game, you fucking autist.

also I'd be unbalanced like that
>3 talon members vs the 19 other ex-overwatch members and and 2 semi neutral omnics

I wouldn't mind seeing a short that focused on the character's lives outside of battle. Maybe a short where we get to see D.va playing on a professional e-sports team, Lucio setting up for a DJ gig, Reaper browsing message boards and being a passive aggressive prick, etc.

It's a training simulation. Everybody knows that.

There's literally no excuse for having Tracer and Widow fighting Winston all in the same match when, it's retarded and just shows how little thought was put into making this corporate slop that appeals to fucking normies such as yourself.

>There's literally no excuse for having Tracer and Widow fighting Winston all in the same match

Except if it's a training exercise.

Halo has a separate campaign, and im pretty sure the multiplayer is supposed to be training exercises.