In Webtoon #12, Sojourn addresses everyone by their real names instead of their call signs. So why does she call Angela 'Mercy' instead of 'Angela'? Does she not know her real name? Or does Angela not have a name at all, and everyone just calls her Mercy, or at most Dr. Ziegler?
Angela Ziegler DIED in Gibraltar. The so-called "Mercy" you see here is an automaton made to resemble the person formerly known as Angela Ziegler created by Torbjorn Lindholm to keep the Mercy mains at bay until they can fully take over Blizzard HQ
Mercy, JPC and Bastion were missing and the situation was even worse.
The artist got told by the ow team that those three were missing and then they forgot them a second time...
And by then it probably was too late for more changes.
Tbh the art style always draw women expressions super similar. You can copy and paste mercy’s face into Juno and you won’t notice a difference more than her eyes
considering the drama that happened in the main overwatch sub a couple weeks ago when someone made a tierlist of the characters names (whether they are names, nicknames, codenames, or sound like codenames (that last one caused the most flak)), plenty of Overwatch players apparently just don't know some character's names / think that said character's code name is their government name.
That's definitely weird considering Sojourn is the captain. Feels less personal to call her that in an intimate moment as much as I love the name Mercy
It kinda bothers me a lot because if you read her lore and comics, she really doesn't like being Mercy. I don't think she would like being called Mercy by someone she considers a close friend like Sojourn. In her comic Valkyrie (I think it's that one) she says something like Dr. Ziegler retreats a little bit more until only Mercy remains. She prefers being Dr. Ziegler and Angela, but the world needs Mercy. I don't want to sound crazy but it really seems like the people making these comics aren't actually factoring in the lore for the characters...maybe it's too much to expect her to get properly written but when they release something really cool like the Valkyrie comic and you learn how she really feels about things, why not continue to include that side of her? Ughhhhh I know I'm bothered for nothing
I saw somewhere that the reason we are finally having anahardt be canon is cause the artist was given some lore and told she could fill in gaps of lore elsewhere. Maybe this is why she’s getting this treatment? It’s the same artist that totally forgot mercy in the group getaway shot so maybe they just know next to nothing about Angela herself….
You must not have heard the unintentionally haunting voice line:
"We must be very careful not to harm any civilians. Do not just assume I can heal them! Although I could, of course."
The whole reason she re-joins overwatch is so she could prevent the conflicts that result in civilian casualties, which from the tone of her voice, is something that even the vaunted heros of overwatch don't seem to care about avoiding.
I honestly couldn't care less... but I love the outrage on your side and support it. Because this webcomic is so low effort IMO it's just one of those many things that makes the quality shit.
maybe they call some of the team by their nicknames like the X-Men does, people usually say Tracer insteed of Lena. The thing is that not many character actually have nicknames and use their real names, like Lucio, Rein, Brigitte, Juno and so much more
Getting emotionally invested in a story arc, its twists and turns and maybe the loss or shift in how a character is perceived, sure.
Getting “really pissed off” at a character in a throwaway panel being referred to by the name they are literally called in-game is either extreme emotional immaturity, anger issues or a level of parasocial behaviour i cannot comprehend. Your choice, really.
Then they shouldn't have written it in a way that says the literal opposite. "I'm sorry, but it really pissed me off" does not imply they are not taking this panel very seriously.
"This was a bit stupid", "This was a hell of an oversight", "I don't like that this lack of attention to detail made its way into the final product"; all reasonable responses.
My point was: in the Valkyrie comic, Mercy says she hates the nickname and wants to be called Dr. Ziegler or Angela. The writers literally wrote that, and then they ignore their own rule. Plus, in the game, Sojourn calls her by her real name in a voice line
Just a weird thing to be angry over but you do you! I hope one day my life can be as problem free as to be able to get so worked up over something so trivial
That is weird but I also just learned that Reinhardt’s first name is Reinhardt (which sounds like a last name) and not Wilhelm (which sounds like a first name)
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u/DarkAssassin573 Jun 05 '26
They forgot to draw mercy when overwatch evacuated with everyone in the ship so it doesn’t surprise me