Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Widowmaker is a female video game character who features in Overwatch.
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Biography
Amélie Lacroix was a female human who grew up in her family's ancestral home of Chateau Guillard. For much of her life, she was known as an accomplished ballet dancer in Paris. She married Gérard Lacroix, an Overwatch agent who spearheaded operations against the terrorist organization known as Talon. After several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate Gérard, Talon decided to change its focus to his wife. Talon operatives kidnapped her and subjected her to an intense program of neural reconditioning. They broke her will where she suppressed her personality and reprogrammed her as a sleeper agent. She was eventually found by Overwatch agents, apparently none the worse for wear where she returned to her normal life. Two weeks later, she was responsible for killing her husband Gérard in his sleep.
Widowmaker was next sent to King's Row to assassinate Tekhartha Mondatta the Shambali leader who was in London making a speech to a crowd of people. As she made her way to her vantage point, she reflected upon how she had been frightened of spiders as a child, drawing an implicit comparison to Widowmaker herself -- neither one felt emotion or had a beating heart. She lowered herself, upside-down, off the side of a building using her grappling hook and began to line up her shot. However, unbeknownst to her, Tracer was also at the speech. Just before she could press the trigger, she was distracted by Tracer blinking through the air towards her, pistols firing. The two engaged in a rooftop chase as Mondatta was ushered away, having been warned by Tracer. In the end, Tracer's pulsebomb backfired and blew both of them into the air. As she fell, Widowmaker took careful aim, and fired a single bullet at the center of Tracer's chronal accelerator. Tracer blinked forward, and the bullet sped on—straight into Mondatta, killing him moments before he entered his limousine. Tracer tackled her to the rooftop, demanding to know why she would do such a thing, but as a Talon aircraft arrived to retrieve her, Widowmaker just chuckled, whispered, "Adieu, chérie," (Translation: "Farewell, darling,") and flipping the pair over the edge of the roof, slammed Tracer into the building's wall below them. Leaving incapacitated Tracer behind, as Widowmaker was spirited away from London she reflected that spiders did indeed feel—when they kill.
Overview
Personality and attributes
As a child, she was noted to had been frightened of spiders.
Her nature meant that she was the perfect assassin as she was a patient, ruthlessly efficient killer who showed neither emotion nor remorse. Her only joy was found in the moment of the kill. She does not keep track of the number of people she's killed, and preferred to work alone.
Powers and abilities
Talon would kidnap her where they subjected her mind to intense neural reconditioning effectively brainwashing her to be their agent.
In the field, she equipped herself with whatever it takes to eliminate her targets.
A recon visor granted her squad infra-sight thus allowing her to see the heat signatures of her targets through walls and objects. She was capable of sharing this intelligence with her allies in order improve their response towards their enemies.
She made use of a grappling hook that launched her towards to a location she was aiming at with it. The hook connected with a scalable surface allowing her to be quickly drawn towards it where higher positions allowed her to expand her view of the battlefield and evade or flank targets.
Widowmaker was able to deploy swiftly-armed Venom Mines that adhered to nearly any surface. A target that wandered within range of the mine’s motion trigger caused it to detonate whereupon it delivered poison gas to any enemies in the vicinity.
For weaponry, she was armed with Widow's Kiss that could fire in fully-automatic mode. This was a versatile sniper rifle made ideal for scope-aimed shots at distant targets.
Notes
- Widowmaker was created by Blizzard Entertainment where she was voiced by actor Chloé Hollings and featured in the Overwatch setting.
Appearances
- Overwatch: (2016)
- Overwatch 2: (2022)
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