Overwatch/Trivia
- Defictionalization: The Overwatch Anniversary Drip cake which appeared in "Trace and Bake" is not a lie and there's even a separate video shows how to bake it.
- Expy: Of Team Fortress 2, kinda. Since Overwatch's DNA is Team Fortress 2, basically the Steam game was one of the main influences, though there's enough material, uniqueness, and benefits to make both games different.
- Fake Nationality: Subverted, most of the actors who voiced the Overwatch playable characters matches the countries that they hailed from.
- Fan Nickname
- "OW" or "Team Fortress 3"
- Those who dislike Overwatch nicknames it "Overhype" and other variations of it.
- "Solly 76" for Soldier 76/Jack Morrison.
- "Centaur" for Orisia.
- "Soldier 69" for Jack Morrison, for an artistic subset of reasons.
- Mei's ickname is Ice Woman, sometimes Satan, Satan spawn, or "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppp!"
- Ana's Grandma.
- Bap for Baptiste.
- Hog, Pig, Chopper, Turbopig for Roadhog
- Winston's dubbed "Monkey" and Scientist.
- Zar for Zarya
- Zenyatta's nickname is Zen or Zenny.
- D.Va's nicknames when she's inside her mech: Deev, Mech, MEKA and when she out of it: Pilot Baby, Girl, Hana, or Baby D.Va.
- Genji is Ninja
- Rat or Jackal/Chacal for Junkrat.
- Orisa is Ori.
- McCree's Cree.
- Parah's nickname is just Phar.
- Reaper's just called Death or Shinigami
- Reinhardt's name is shorten to Rein or Ryan.
- Sym for Symmetra.
- Hacker is an appropriate nickname for Sombra.
- Mercy is Merc or Misery (from one of her localized names "Misericordia").
- Luci for Lúcio
- Torbjorn's nickname is "Dwarf".
- "OW" or "Team Fortress 3"
- Gender Flip: In the early concept art, Parah was originally a man whose nickname is Rocket Dude. This was changed in the final product.
- Same with Tracer, during Project Titan, she was originally a dude.
- Hey, It's That Voice!: Tracer is Ivy Stuart.
- Gen Fu decides to go further than fighting in tornaments to save Mei Lin, he wants to also save his cyborg brother.
- Yusuf Tazim plots to steal the Queen's money in the rural outback, telling a friend an over complicated plan (which involves explosives) that's ruin by his big mouth.
- Bagheera's intelligence increase during his stay in the moon, so he decided to become an ace pilot/mechanic.
- Trey decides to trade in his bow for a pair of pistols and sport a western cowboy theme.
- Reaper was scheming to overthrow Xemnas and take over Organization XIII.
- Loz became a founding member of Overwatch and a vigilante.
- Coyote Starrk decided to be more social, joins Loz to found Overwatch, and designs their weapons.
- Doing a career change as a scientist, Alucard also became nicer and uses telsa cannons. Though his ultimate ability is Primal Rage.
- Mon Mothma pens an essay which may played a part in the Omnic Crisis and eventually joins Talon.
- What Could Have Been: Titan, a massive online multiplayer, was announced. But by 2013, Blizzard canceled this mysterious game. Instead, it is given a Spiritual Successor in the form of Overwatch.
- "Overwatch: First Strike", a graphic novel which shows the group's early days, has been canned. The only thing that's left of this comic are the core ideas of the story that are used in other canonized media.
- The Wiki Rule: There's two: The Overwatch wiki and Overwatch Wikia.
- The Support class was planned to be called Guardian.