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any opinion on the masked men from Overwatch? (Soldier 76, Reaper, Roadhog, Genji, Reinhardt) Can also include the omnics (Zenyatta, Ramattra, Bastion) since they don't really have human faces
As someone who's been obsessed with Overwatch since it first came out i love all these guys. This might be a long one since they've introduced a few more masked men in the game so it'll be under the cut.
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What if Adhabu Ngumi joined Overwatch?
What if Adhabu Ngumi took the offer to join the original Overwatch team?
Reyes held strike commander rank with Morrison as second and Ana as third, largely because of seniority and program pedigree. Ngumi's proven solo combat record against omnic hordes — arguably unmatched by any founding member — could have earned him a command or lead-combatant role, shifting internal team hierarchy and potentially altering who the lore treats as the "face" of Overwatch's success.
This is the biggest lore fork. Ngumi's refusal meant Nigeria fought its worst omnic incursions largely without him being pulled away, and he ultimately died defending it just before the war ended. Had he joined Overwatch, Nigeria would have lost its singular gauntlet-wielding defender during the crisis's most intense years, likely resulting in far greater civilian and territorial losses there, since Anubis kept escalating troop deployments specifically because Ngumi kept repelling them.
Ngumi's death in Nigeria and the gauntlet's mysterious disappearance-then-reappearance with Akinjide Adeyemi is a deliberate mystery thread in Overwatch lore. If Ngumi instead survived as an active Overwatch operative, that entire Doomfist succession — Adeyemi as "the Scourge" and eventually Akande Ogundimu as "the Successor" — might unfold completely differently, since it's unclear whether the gauntlet transfer requires Ngumi's death or defeat.
In canon, Ngumi remained in Africa, became Nigeria’s “Savior,” died holding the line, and his gauntlet later passed—by an unexplained process—to Akinjide Adeyemi. In this alternate timeline, Overwatch gains an extraordinary frontline hero and globally credible African founder, but Nigeria loses the individual who had been personally forcing Anubis to commit more and more resources to that front.
That creates two broad versions of the timeline:
●Ngumi joins but returns to lead African operations: most plausible “best case”; he becomes Overwatch’s African theater commander and retains much of his homeland-protection role.
●Ngumi stays attached to the central strike team: darker version; Nigeria endures greater devastation, and Ngumi may emerge from the war burdened by guilt or distrust of the UN that redirected him.
Talon's origin predates the Omnic Crisis, so Ngumi joining Overwatch would not erase it. But Talon’s later rise depended substantially on instability, the public collapse of faith in Overwatch, and the power vacuum created when Blackwatch killed Antonio Bartalotti during the Venice/Rialto operation.
Ngumi could make Talon’s plans harder in several ways:
●He gives Overwatch a major public hero from the Global South, making it harder for Talon to paint the organization as Western military power with a humanitarian logo.
●His experience confronting an escalating omnic campaign would make him an influential voice against Talon’s preferred strategy of manufacturing perpetual conflict.
●His presence could provide a counterweight to the increasingly militarized, secretive culture around Reyes and Blackwatch.
●As a renowned Nigerian defender, he could help prevent Talon from exploiting African insecurity and postwar reconstruction networks for recruits, contractors, weapons, and political leverage.
●But Talon could also target him aggressively. A living Ngumi would be both a battlefield problem and a symbolic threat: proof that a powerful warrior can stand for protection rather than Talon’s doctrine that humanity improves only through conflict. Akande’s eventual philosophy directly aligned with Talon’s conflict-centered worldview.
Akinjide’s canon importance begins with inheriting Ngumi’s gauntlet and becoming the second Doomfist, “the Scourge of Numbani,” as well as a Talon mercenary and war profiteer. If Ngumi lives, Akinjide almost certainly does not receive the gauntlet on the same timetable—or perhaps at all.
Canon Akande lost his right arm during the Omnic Crisis, struggled to find purpose afterward, and was recruited by Akinjide; he ultimately killed Adeyemi, seized the Doomfist title and gauntlet, and rose as Talon’s calculating leader. Ngumi’s survival changes the emotional and symbolic foundation of that arc.
The optimistic branch
Ngumi becomes precisely the mentor Akande never had: a famous African combatant who also understands disability, prosthetic adaptation, postwar displacement, and the temptation to define oneself only through battle. Since Akande came from a prosthetics-development family and lost an arm in the war, Ngumi’s gauntlet could represent not conquest but survival and responsibility.
Ngumi might recruit him into Overwatch’s reconstruction, security, or defense-tech work. In that version, Akande could become:
●An Overwatch-aligned African defense strategist.
●A Numbani or Nigerian reconstruction leader.
●A difficult but fundamentally heroic successor to Ngumi’s legacy.
●A political critic of Overwatch who remains outside Talon rather than becoming its war-making champion.
The tragic branch
Akande could instead resent Ngumi. If Nigeria was devastated because Ngumi departed for Overwatch, Akande might see the older hero as a man who chose global celebrity over local duty. Talon could exploit that resentment, framing Ngumi as the “approved” African hero serving international institutions while Akande becomes the uncompromising nationalist or revolutionary alternative.
In this branch, Akande may still become Talon’s leader—but likely without the Doomfist identity at first. He might steal the gauntlet from a living Ngumi, defeat him publicly, or acquire it after Ngumi’s later death. That would make Akande’s villain origin more personal: not merely killing a mentor, but corrupting and usurping the very protector Africa revered.
Overwatch was eventually shut down after the UN investigation, Swiss HQ’s destruction, and loss of its key leaders; its former agents became widely distrusted and the organization disbanded. Ngumi’s survival gives it a stronger chance of becoming a durable reformed institution instead of collapsing altogether.
Ngumi’s war experience may give Overwatch a voice that understands both sides of the Omnic Crisis: the terror of omnic armies and the fact that not all omnics are the same. That position could complement Mina Liao’s scientific perspective and Aurora’s sacrifice, making Overwatch less likely to slide into reflexive anti-omnic policy.
If Overwatch survives the Swiss crisis, it can respond to omnic civil-rights abuses earlier and more credibly. That does not guarantee Null Sector disappears, but it could reduce its recruitment base: fewer omnics conclude that violent liberation is their only option.
If Ngumi’s absence devastates Nigeria, human survivors may become even more anti-omnic. Overwatch could gain a powerful “the machines destroyed Africa while international leaders looked away” constituency. In that timeline, Null Sector might radicalize earlier, find broader human hostility, and become more militarized long before its later global assault.
DON'T WAIT UP soldier: 76 x daughter!reader
summary: there was something eerily familiar about soldier: 76, but you could not for the life of you figure out what or why. you were almost certain you knew him. but how?
content: 18+ MDNI, age gap, older man/younger woman, incest, father/daughter, p in v sex, no use of y/n.
w/c: 2.3k
a/n: this was the first explicit fic i ever wrote, back in... 2019? i deleted it from my original blog some time ago and rediscovered it only recently (through wattpad, if you'll believe it lmao). i've been inspired by my dash lately, so i decided to rewrite it and fill it out a bit more, and now here we are lmao
Grillmaster: 76 cosmetic update concept Thoights 👀👀👀👀👀👀Blizzard hire me @blizzard games
They match perfectly 🥰
when Illari joins Soldier76 and Sombra to expose the Conspiracy but she can't leave Chuno all alone in Runasapi
Old Friends meet again...
