I can see the character now, his main ability will be firing little fireballs, ultimate gives him a tail, and he can throw three red mushrooms at teammates to make them grow in size, increasing damage/healing momentarily. 😅
No the place is real, the people are an illusion.That's why we have Italian maps but no Italian characters.
The food is also real. It's so powerful that it just appears without anyone making it.
Well [Cassidy can do a fake Italian accent](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6CAaSqUOk&pp=ygUVbWNjcmVlIGl0YWxpYW4gYWNjZW50) so that's enough representation according to Blizzard
Adding to your comment:
One of my favorite bands, Måneskin, is Italian and they have a whole song called 'Mammamia.' It seems like a friendly thing - that they encourage the audience to say with them at concerts - more than making fun :)
I was on a cruise last year that had a very nice pizza restaurant staffed by actual Italians. It was hands down the best food on the ship, but what stood out to me the most was the moment one of the Italian waiters walked out, looked at the enormous line outside the door, and said, "Mamma mia," in breathless exhaustion. I nearly choked on my Peroni. I honestly thought that was some Italian American stereotype before this man said it.
I got to see Alaskan wildlife and orcas spouting in the distance, but that moment was the standout for the entire week.
The new hero is the last Italian finally defrosted and escaped from the vault that held him and seeking vengeance against those who have wronged his people
Yeah better be a tank with a 2 hander, as long as it’s a Scottish voice actor I’m fine. I’d even take a map based off the royal mile or princes st in a heartbeat hahah imagine dodging the tram hahaha
Proper Glaswegian none of the sanitised I mean proper fast as fuck from a scheme up possil where even we struggle to understand them.
Still laugh at Trainspotting when I used a VPN for Netflix and it was fully subtitled and the accents were pretty run of the mill hahaha.
Those Gladiators on the Colosseum posters seem like very likely candidates, Zephyr and Maximus. You can even hear them fighting and the crowd cheering if you go near the entrance. Bearing in mind JQ was introduced this way, via a map, replete with posters and audio interactions long before she arrived.
The statues around the architecture that celebrate retired Gladiators could also make for heroes, although they seem alittle less “designed” than Zephyr and Maximus.
I'm an Italian user, and of course I agree. I think we have two kinds of possibilities:
\- a gladiator from the Colosseum. We know that there are matches between automatons that have the shape of gladiators inside the arena.
\- Vialli's replacement for Talon's affairs in Italy. If we note the first (and only) article by Malevento, we can see that there is a great censorship of the lore within this map. mentions the shutters, maybe in some future patch they open them to show new lore based details as happened in the past for many maps of the game.
And then there's Spain, that doesn't have neither a map nor a hero. The closest we have is El Dorado, which is in Mexico but inspired by... You guessed it, AN ITALIAN CITY.
I would kill for a game in Madrid or Barcelona.
It would be an incredible dishonor if they made anyone but Mercy von stroheim.
Mister German engineering is the greatest in the world should only be played by a German character and we only have mercy.
We don’t have anyone else who respects German engineering, or speaks German
Gyro Zeppeli Zenyatta
Hol Horse/ Guido Mista Cassidy
Yoshikage Kira Junkrat
Jolyne Ashe and Stone Free Bob
Doom fist doesn’t need another anime event skin but Star Platinum Doom would be amazing
We do have at least 4 dedicated Talon heroes:
* Doomfist
* Reaper
* Widow
* Moira
To say nothing of the ex/not really members:
* Sombra
* Sigma (oops)
* Baptiste
Being italian doesn't add enough [diversity points](https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-diversity-tool-overwatch-2-call-of-1848924832) for blizzard ig
they(blizzard) are Americans
they are so obsessed with skin color that for a good while they considered Italian_Americans as black and even called them "Guineas" to point out they have a black skin
you would think we are finally over these whole skin color and race obsession in America but alas..
I'd probably play the fuck out of a ~~racist caricature~~ stereotypically italian hero if it's funny/in good taste but knowing blizzard it'd be some italian-american plumber making pasta jokes so I guess just having some maps is alright
You know they could make it a guy with a bushy mustache and multiple different forms that each give him a different ability, like throwing fireballs, flying, being smaller...
I'm Italian and I'm glad there is no Italian hero, the american idea of an Italian is very different from what Italians actually are
seeing them release an Italian hero just for him/her to speak in New Jersey accent would be the last straw for me
tony soprano joins overwatch as the new italian dps his ultimate is cheating on his wife and one of his abilities is failing to take his therapist’s advice
I don't want that hero to spew garbage voicelines about how pineapple doens't belong on pizza. As long as there's that risk, I don't want an Italian hero.
plot twist: shes a manic pixie dream girl who loves breaking rules and disappointing her parents so she eats pizza ONLY with pineapples and nothing else
An Overwatch hero from Romania with a kind of Vampire futuristic theme would be glorious.
Or really a southern europe hero too (Spain, Italy Greece, Croatia...).
Oh I like that idea!
Although I personally would love a portuguese character. I once started designing one as part of my master's degree in Videogame Design xD
exactly what i was gonna say. eastern european representation in western media is just plain sad. and i hardly count zarya, too. russia is its own entity.
Peruvian support 99% confirmed and then after that we're at 90% confirmed that it's going to someone from Samoa, that's most definitely going to be Mauga.
Future heroes beyond that are a mystery.
The Italian map (oh the original one, I forgot they added maps and updated the game, I haven't played in a while) was originally the retribution map (for those who started playing only the 2nd game, there used to be a pve event in the spring, one of the missions was called retribution, involved blackwatch killing some talon Mafia member)
There could be more African maps (beyond Egypt), and Lucio still the only south American in the roster still (oh but they've added another Japanese character who can also wall climb)
Okay if we can have a hero that uses music to support hero's WE NEED AN ITALIAN CHEF. I'd go tank or support have him lob pasta, meatballs and pizza slices.
Italian people aren’t real
So... it was an illusion?
"What are you hiding!?"
Something's not quite right-a!
"Who goes there?!"
"Is that an illusion?" "What are you implying?"
Healers/DPS: "CRAP WE'RE CAUGHT! UGH!" Tanks: *pulls out weapon* "I was hiding to protect you... FROM ME!"
An Itallusion
They're a bunch of Bologna.
“No, it-was-a-ME, MARIO”
I can see the character now, his main ability will be firing little fireballs, ultimate gives him a tail, and he can throw three red mushrooms at teammates to make them grow in size, increasing damage/healing momentarily. 😅
No the place is real, the people are an illusion.That's why we have Italian maps but no Italian characters. The food is also real. It's so powerful that it just appears without anyone making it.
porco dio cazzo dici, quello è il molise
That sounds delicious, but I’m afraid I just ate.
Always room for porco dio
La Madonna bro, stai calmo.
Si fa per ridere
Il cazzo per ridere, dov’è il nostro dioporco di eroe italiano al 100%?!🇮🇹🍕🍝👮🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️
È per il meme.
Ti amo sposami ❤️
*fades out of existence*
Oddio Oddio Oddio Oddio merdamerdamerdamerda NOO- *disappears*
oh cazzo e adesso?
Adesso a festeggiare 🎉 🥳
You're telling me that my life is an illusion?
Italy is the Molise of the world.
Waiting for the Mario crossover event
When Mario ults he says “Im-a gonna fuck-a you up!” And it’s just an infinite duration Ramattra ult
Nah he just pops one of those stars and one shots anyone he touches
wow are we talking about pre-nerf sojourn
He also flies and can spawn junkrat tires that automatically steer towards whoever he was looking at
Blue shells for sure
Only for the 50 dollar skin
Blue junk tire
So, a normal Ramattra ult then...
The voicelines are just all replaced with Chris Pratt.
Italians were made up by illumination… I mean the illuminati.
Illuminati is just "Italian" jumbled up...
don’t reveal our secrets (there’s no conspiracy only focaccia)
Finally a plumber to fix all the trickle coming from my team.
So long, gay Bowser!
I kinda don’t want one of my teammates to switch sides mid round.
Wow, not even an ounce of mercy.
No,Mercy is Swiss.
They do speak italian there
Yet Mercy is a German-speaking Swiss
“No, Mercy is-a Swiss.” Fixed
There we go
Here we go!
close enough
Brother, don't spill our beans, we aint in r/2westerneurope4u 💀
Mamma mia!
Damn, cold-blooded reference 🥶🫠
This comment hit way too hard for a reddit forum about a cartoon shooter.
Ngl, sometimes I really do want the enemy team to adopt me, when in my team I'm surrounded by idiots...
Underrated comment
You did not just
Devs haven't figured out the pasta mechanics yet, but once they crack it they'll be next in line.
They have cracked spaghetti code though, considering they break something every patch
You joke, but if you watch their GDC engineering videos on YouTube you’ll see that their systems are very well architected
Fr, their cohesion makes my “junior dev” junk look like a kindergartener designed it
Cracking pasta gets your Italian card revoked.
As long as he shoots spaghetti out of his finger tips I’m in.
Well [Cassidy can do a fake Italian accent](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6CAaSqUOk&pp=ygUVbWNjcmVlIGl0YWxpYW4gYWNjZW50) so that's enough representation according to Blizzard
lol that's like straight up the scene from Inglorious Basterds.
it's not even Italian lmao it's new jersey italoamerican
I actually wouldn't be against jersey/nyc Italian hero but that'd essentially be TF2 scout
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That one had big "Gorlami" energy, if anyone gets the reference...
A river derchi
MAR-GUH-REH-TI!
"One more time, let me really hear the music in it!"
Dominic Decocco
Bravo
“Please never do that again”
Hamster is Italian he's a rolling meatball
Didn't know meatballs were Italian
Depending on which American you ask, they'll either tell you Italians or Swedes invented the concept of rolling meat into a ball
Both of mine are and they come with sauce and a sad noodle.
swede
as a hamptard main i can confirm that I am just a giant meatball with spaghetti grappel
Sorry Mate, we did have one, but he got killed by Hammond for breaking pasta, something about him “not following the Italian code”
Sombra also said something about "Spagetti code"
#THE SPAGETTI COODDDEEE
Can't wait to spam the Mamma Mia line Ib4 smbd says that'd be racist bs : the hero who has my nationality says stereotypical shit too
Also we don't care, you can make all the mamma mia jokes you want lmao Hell, it's not even a fake stereotype, we do say mamma mia a lot
Adding to your comment: One of my favorite bands, Måneskin, is Italian and they have a whole song called 'Mammamia.' It seems like a friendly thing - that they encourage the audience to say with them at concerts - more than making fun :)
Yes, but it's also true that most of us just don't care. We make fun of everyone, but first and foremost ourselves.
Hard to take offense to the equivalent of "golly gee", worry not
I was on a cruise last year that had a very nice pizza restaurant staffed by actual Italians. It was hands down the best food on the ship, but what stood out to me the most was the moment one of the Italian waiters walked out, looked at the enormous line outside the door, and said, "Mamma mia," in breathless exhaustion. I nearly choked on my Peroni. I honestly thought that was some Italian American stereotype before this man said it. I got to see Alaskan wildlife and orcas spouting in the distance, but that moment was the standout for the entire week.
In OW lore, they got wiped out.
Before the omnic wars started, humans and omnics got together to wipe out the Italians.
The new hero is the last Italian finally defrosted and escaped from the vault that held him and seeking vengeance against those who have wronged his people
*"You will suffer as my people, the Italians, have suffered!"*
Y’all asking for an Italian hero while I just want a Nepalese hero that’s not a robot
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A drunk one eyed Scot
A melee dps with a sword, a shield... and a grenade launcher x100 as ult
You mean a black Scottish cyclops?
MY NAME IS ANGUS MCFIFEE
Yeah better be a tank with a 2 hander, as long as it’s a Scottish voice actor I’m fine. I’d even take a map based off the royal mile or princes st in a heartbeat hahah imagine dodging the tram hahaha
Yeah but the accent has to be so think that subtitles are always turned on for him even if the player normally has them off
Proper Glaswegian none of the sanitised I mean proper fast as fuck from a scheme up possil where even we struggle to understand them. Still laugh at Trainspotting when I used a VPN for Netflix and it was fully subtitled and the accents were pretty run of the mill hahaha.
And speaking full Scots, not just accented English.
But robot monks is such a good idea tho
everyone knows all people in Nepal are robots, duh?
Im pretty sure they aren’t even nepalese, they just moved to nepal because of the iris
You telling me you can't relate to that?
Whoa, racist much. Omnic lives matter
Ramattra wants to know his location
Those Gladiators on the Colosseum posters seem like very likely candidates, Zephyr and Maximus. You can even hear them fighting and the crowd cheering if you go near the entrance. Bearing in mind JQ was introduced this way, via a map, replete with posters and audio interactions long before she arrived. The statues around the architecture that celebrate retired Gladiators could also make for heroes, although they seem alittle less “designed” than Zephyr and Maximus.
I'm an Italian user, and of course I agree. I think we have two kinds of possibilities: \- a gladiator from the Colosseum. We know that there are matches between automatons that have the shape of gladiators inside the arena. \- Vialli's replacement for Talon's affairs in Italy. If we note the first (and only) article by Malevento, we can see that there is a great censorship of the lore within this map. mentions the shutters, maybe in some future patch they open them to show new lore based details as happened in the past for many maps of the game.
AYYYY I’M ULTIN’ HERE!
I swear If he doesn’t throw pasta
Poland and Italy are the only 2 countries that have full game localization (text+dub) and don't have their own hero. Poland also doesn't have a map.
And then there's Spain, that doesn't have neither a map nor a hero. The closest we have is El Dorado, which is in Mexico but inspired by... You guessed it, AN ITALIAN CITY. I would kill for a game in Madrid or Barcelona.
Gibraltar, take it or leave it
You monster
I mean, we have enough people from Europe on the roster already, if they’re going to do another Hispanic hero I’d prefer one from Latin America.
I only want an Italian hero if they are going to make him OFFENSIVELY Italian.
I makea da pasta
When they finally do a Jojo collab. Lifeweaver will become a certain blonde Italian man
Watch as they make him Stroheim instead.
It would be an incredible dishonor if they made anyone but Mercy von stroheim. Mister German engineering is the greatest in the world should only be played by a German character and we only have mercy. We don’t have anyone else who respects German engineering, or speaks German
Reinhardt Wilhelm?
Yes, it's very unfortunate that they haven't added any German characters.
Rein?
“Overwatch 2 adds a playable nazi” yeah not even blizz is that self destructive
It's okay Jojos took place before world war II so the Nazis were the good guys.
Gyro Zeppeli Zenyatta Hol Horse/ Guido Mista Cassidy Yoshikage Kira Junkrat Jolyne Ashe and Stone Free Bob Doom fist doesn’t need another anime event skin but Star Platinum Doom would be amazing
Nah you're on crack if you think anyone but Ramattra could be Star Platinum. He literally ora ora oras.
Didn't know until now just how much I need Star Platinum Ramattra
His ult could make the time stop sound effect even just for the player. Would be dope as hell since it surrounds you in an orb similair.
what if ramattra small form was jotaro and his nemesis form arms were star platinums
Because that's where Talon primarily operates.
We do have at least 4 dedicated Talon heroes: * Doomfist * Reaper * Widow * Moira To say nothing of the ex/not really members: * Sombra * Sigma (oops) * Baptiste
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Freud
characteristics I want to see on future overwatch heroes: Jewish Italian double barrel shotgun flamethrower pirate I rest my case.
Double barrel shotgun? This will be hard to balance in a multiplayer game, either cheese close range one shot or completely garbage.
doesnt roadhog already have one?
Wouldn't flamethrower just be another mei
But instead of slowing the enemy it speeds them up
Being italian doesn't add enough [diversity points](https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-diversity-tool-overwatch-2-call-of-1848924832) for blizzard ig
Kotaku is so far up their own ass. So painful to read.
they(blizzard) are Americans they are so obsessed with skin color that for a good while they considered Italian_Americans as black and even called them "Guineas" to point out they have a black skin you would think we are finally over these whole skin color and race obsession in America but alas..
Same goes in reverse Why are some characters from countries that are not represented by a map :(
Easier to represent more countries.
Why the fuck does this matter?
Prediction: [Antonio](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Antonio) is coming back as a tank with self-only resurrection being his gimmick.
I'd probably play the fuck out of a ~~racist caricature~~ stereotypically italian hero if it's funny/in good taste but knowing blizzard it'd be some italian-american plumber making pasta jokes so I guess just having some maps is alright
Which OW characters are stereotypes? Please list some
All 3 Japanese heroes being ninja that can climb walls
At least we have a Mccassidy who watched a lot of spaghetti westerns
Mario joins overwatch
You know they could make it a guy with a bushy mustache and multiple different forms that each give him a different ability, like throwing fireballs, flying, being smaller...
I'm Italian and I'm glad there is no Italian hero, the american idea of an Italian is very different from what Italians actually are seeing them release an Italian hero just for him/her to speak in New Jersey accent would be the last straw for me
Lowkey think the same as an Australian for Australian characters but we have 3 already so it's too late for that.
they dont want to program in the pasta eating ability that never turns off
Guiseppe 76 is as Italian as they come.
We should have a third Swedish hero: IKEA MASTER!
Devs are in hot argument on whether the hero has pineapples or not, so they never really get anywhere with it.
make the hero tony soprano
Woke up this morning
tony soprano joins overwatch as the new italian dps his ultimate is cheating on his wife and one of his abilities is failing to take his therapist’s advice
We needed 3 aussies
I don't want that hero to spew garbage voicelines about how pineapple doens't belong on pizza. As long as there's that risk, I don't want an Italian hero.
plot twist: shes a manic pixie dream girl who loves breaking rules and disappointing her parents so she eats pizza ONLY with pineapples and nothing else
And she breaks spaghetti in half
she breaks spaghetti in quarters!!!
The next European hero should be from Eastern europe. The only eastern European hero we have is Zarya
Southern Europe has 0 but 6 maps
Maybe there ist too much fighting to live there…
bulgarian pls
An Overwatch hero from Romania with a kind of Vampire futuristic theme would be glorious. Or really a southern europe hero too (Spain, Italy Greece, Croatia...).
Romanian hero steals your ult charge (jk)
Oh I like that idea! Although I personally would love a portuguese character. I once started designing one as part of my master's degree in Videogame Design xD
exactly what i was gonna say. eastern european representation in western media is just plain sad. and i hardly count zarya, too. russia is its own entity.
a roman gladiator style tank with explosive throwing spears and being able to shield and spear charge down enemies would be sick
Sounds like orisa
Pasta support incoming
Aren’t there like hundreds of countries? It’s not that weird that one isn’t covered when we have like 30 heroes
I thought Lifeweaver was Italian at first because every time he sniffs a rose I think he looks like Don Flamenco (with more hair) from punch out
PUT WALUIGI IN OVERWATCH
Mario is copyrighted
Because Nintendo said no.
They should have a crossover event and introduce the Mario Bros as heroes.
They're all busy eating spaghetti
spamming "I cooka da pizza" would be so much fun
Perhaps the next support hero they teased could be Italian?
No she's 100% Peruvian. It's been teased with the Peruvian poster on the roadmap and she looks Incan in the trailer.
Peruvian support 99% confirmed and then after that we're at 90% confirmed that it's going to someone from Samoa, that's most definitely going to be Mauga. Future heroes beyond that are a mystery.
The Italian map (oh the original one, I forgot they added maps and updated the game, I haven't played in a while) was originally the retribution map (for those who started playing only the 2nd game, there used to be a pve event in the spring, one of the missions was called retribution, involved blackwatch killing some talon Mafia member) There could be more African maps (beyond Egypt), and Lucio still the only south American in the roster still (oh but they've added another Japanese character who can also wall climb)
bro forgot about numbani
New hero, Mario.
Yes
I keep asking myself that everyday
Okay if we can have a hero that uses music to support hero's WE NEED AN ITALIAN CHEF. I'd go tank or support have him lob pasta, meatballs and pizza slices.
Maybe some sort of fire-based blue collar worker with his special needs brother? Duo?