The game sports a cast of various characters, each with a unique design. Overwatch is a multiplayer online shooter game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Overwatch has inspired both sexualized cosplay and pornographic virtual reality works. The website started producing a Playboy-style magazine about the game in late 2016, until they were forced to stop in February the following year. Brazzers produced a "porn parody" based on Overwatch in September 2016. Overwatch and its pornographic community has inspired various groups and companies to produce adult content related to the game. Blizzard has been issuing cease-and-desist orders to some prolific creators through an independent security firm, though the game's director has described the situation as "an inevitable reality of the internet in 2016." Video game journalists have described the abundance of (pornographic) fan works as a positive indicator for the game's longevity. Overwatch pornography usually consists of short pieces of video featuring characters such as Tracer, D.Va, and Mei. Pornographic content is created primarily through Valve's Source Filmmaker (SFM), with the more detailed art being made via Blender, Cinema 4D, or Autodesk Maya. Original pornography fan artists (animators and illustrators) are most commonly based on social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr, while they upload their works to file hosting services like MEGA, Gfycat, Webmshare, and Google Drive. Character models were ripped from the beta versions of the game and subsequently spread, edited, and animated on the Internet.Īnimated pornography shorts and sexualized imagery featuring official character models constitute the main content of Overwatch pornography. The game's distinct and colorful character designs drew the attention of many online content creators, resulting in sexually explicit fanart. īlizzard Entertainment's 2016 video game Overwatch inspired a notable amount of fan-made pornography. The character victory pose was changed after criticism because it "reduces Tracer to just another bland female sex symbol". Now Brigitte fights at Reinhardt's side to protect him, and any others in need as knight and squire journey to make the world a better place, one battle at a time.Comparison between Tracer's original pose (left) and altered replacement (right). While Reinhardt trained her in combat, Brigitte began to build her own suit of armor in secret. But more and more, she found her main job was taking care of Reinhardt himself, trying to protect him from his overenthusiasm even as his body was breaking down from years of combat.Įventually, she realized that serving only as a mechanic wasn't enough, and that the best way she could aid Reinhardt was to become a warrior in her own right. Reinhardt accepted.Īs a squire, Brigitte had many responsibilities, the most important of which was the upkeep of Reinhardt's Crusader armor (a design she was familiar with as the current version was designed by her father). Before he left on his adventures, Brigitte surprised him by asking to join him as his squire. After his retirement and Overwatch's fall, Reinhardt declared that he would become a knight-errant on a quest to bring justice.
A close friend of the family and Brigitte's godfather, Reinhardt told Brigitte tales of heroes and chivalry as she grew up. But her plans changed due to influence of another prominent figure in her life, her father's close friend and fellow Overwatch agent, Reinhardt Wilhelm. Her aptitude for engineering mirrored that of her father's, but Brigitte's primary interest was in armor fabrication and defensive systems, unlike Torbjörn, who was world renowned (and perhaps infamous) for the weapons he created.Įveryone expected that Brigitte would continue her apprenticeship and follow in her father's footsteps. Brigitte spent much of her spare time in her father's workshop, learning the trade and honing her skills. The youngest daughter of weapons designer, Torbjörn Lindholm, Brigitte was the first of his children to show an interest in mechanical engineering. No longer sitting on the sidelines, Brigitte Lindholm has taken up arms to defend those in need of protection.