Overwatch has one of the best rosters of characters when it comes to multiplayer shooters.
It’s one of the reasons why it’s so beloved worldwide; not only do they offer a wide scope
of game mechanics and play styles, but each character has a developed and intricate back
story.
Some of them are also pretty scary, too.
So today we’re counting down the top ten scary overwatch characters.
We’ll be looking at characters who are not only physically and aesthetically imposing,
but ones who have a terrifying backstory, or ones that give you the heebeejeebees when
you realize you’re going up against them in a match.
So with that in mind, let’s get to it!
10 Junkrat Junkrat is an anarchist, a thief and demolitionist
who is obsessed with explosives and lives to cause chaos and destruction.
He was a member of the Junkers, a group of those who survived the attack on Australia’s
omnium fusion core that altered the Outback’s landscape into a harsh, irradiated wasteland.
Effected by the lingering radiation, he lived alongside cutthroats in this lawless society,
and he’s gone slightly mad, which really, only helps him with his explosive obsession
and handling the deadly weapons.
He left the Outback, teaming up with Roadhog as his personal body guard, going on an international
crime spree.
So all in all, if Junkrat were a character you came face to face with in real life, he’d
probably scare you senseless.
Plus, in the game itself, if you run into someone who knows how to play Junkrat really
well, you know you’re going to get crapped on, that’s for sure.
9 Mei Out of all the characters on our list, Mei
is arguably the least physically terrifying.
But it’s her abilities that sometimes have Overwatch players shaking in their boots.
For starters, Mei is an adventurer and a climatologist, a scientist who has taken the fight to perserve
the environment in her own hands.
After getting stranded at Watchpoint Antarctica, Mei along with her fellow scientists went
into cryostasis, and years later, when they were rescued, it was revealed she was the
only survivor.
While that’s a saddening back story, it’s definitely something that doesn’t make her
scary.
But to some, when they cross paths with her, it’s a whole other story.
Coming across Mei in a situation where you’re going up against her solo can be nerve wracking
at best.
She is gonna WRECK YOU MY FRIENDS.
After she freezes you, of course.
8 Torbjorn (tor-be-orn) Torbjorn is yet another character who isn’t
aesthetically spooky, although you could argue that his persona is physically intimidating.
Personally, I think he looks like a really dope Gimli-esque adorable dwarf, but that’s
just me.
Anywho, he’s an ingenious engineer from Sweden with a deep mistrust of sentient robotic
intelligence, to the point where he’s mildly paranoid.
But hey, his fears were proven right during the Omnic Crisis, and, feeling responsible
for his creations, he goes around the globe determined to stop them from falling into
the wrong hands.
But let’s talk about why he’s scary in the game, in the sense that players might
feel uneasy when they realize he’s on the opposing team.
Maybe it’s because he’s at crotch level?
Others would argue that Torbjorn isn’t necessarily scary, but frustrating to go up against.
If you find yourself 1v1-ing, his turret can leave you in a really weak and vulnerable
position, but often that tends to be a rare case.
7 Ana To be fair, if you saw Ana walking down the
street with that bad ass biotic rifle of hers, that eerie dark outfit and that sinister looking
eye patch, you’d probably cross the road in trepidation.
She’s a 60 year old bounty hunter hailing from Egypt, she’s a superior marksman, and
considered one of the world’s best elite snipers.
But let’s focus about what she’s like in the game.
Flanking her can be incredibly dangerous if you’re not approaching from the side or
behind.
Her bullets heal friendlies if they get in the way, and hurt enemies if they get shot,
and really, the implication of that is kind of scary.
6 Moira Moira might not be a character that freaks
out some when they see her on the battlefield, but it’s her backstory that makes many feel
super uneasy.
A controversial geneticist, her work was criticized for being dangerous thanks to ethical shortfalls;
the kind of drive that many believed caused the Omnic Crisis in the first place.
she is capable of sucking the life force out of foes like some sort of demon.
This can heal allies, while decaying foes; a trick that she had previously practiced
on rabbits.
She believes that she does not take the cautions others do, and she would turn her back on
Overwatch, exploring scientific areas forbidden by law and morality.
5 Widowmaker Widowmaker is arguably one of the ‘sexier’
characters in the game, but she’s deadly AF, which is why she lands on our list.
Described as the perfect assassin, she’s a ruthless killer, who was kidnapped by the
Talon terrorist organization who subjected her to cruel and intense neural reconditioning,
breaking her will, and suppressing her personality.
She became a sleeper agent, and killed her husband in his sleep.
Her former self is now gone, numbed of the ability to experience human emotion.
If that wasn’t eerie enough, her widow’s kiss ability leaves players shaking in their
boots.
Just knowing that her infra-sight ability allows her to see the heat signatures of her
targets will leave players on edge every time they come up against her, anxiously anticipating
a strike when they least expect it.
4 Symmetra Symmetra may not be aesthetically scary, nor
does she have a particularly terrifying origin story, but she’s a character who freaks
out a lot of players when they realize she’s on the opposing team.
Getting close to Symmetra can be a nightmare, especially if you’re playing as Mercy or
Winston.
The pressure to finish Symmetra off as well can leave some players borderline panicking,
too.
If she locks onto you, she can run right through your entire team and kick some major butt.
She’s got a whole lot of DPS, and without having to aim, making her a major challenge.
In addition to that, her ultimate can reinforce her entire team, making your overall match
super hard, and the rest of the team difficult to wipe.
3 Sigma Sigma made some major waves recently with
his character introduction video, which skyrocketed to the trending page on YouTube when it was
released.
And needless to say, it was scary AF.
Sigma is a brilliant astrophysicist who was altered forever when one of his experiments
went horribly wrong.
Triggering the formation of a black hole, he was exposed to its power, suffering major
serious psychological damage.
He would be detained for years thanks to this, with the government hiding him in a secret
facility, fearing that his psychic damage and the gravity anomalies occurring around
him would be unsafe for others.
Solidarity confinement definitely didn’t help much mentally, but he did gain control
of his powers.
Needless to say, his origin video was scary as hell.
Plus, people are kind of triggered by his bare feet, which is pretty hilarious.
2 Roadhog Roadhog is a character who is equally terrifying
both in and out of matches.
Let’s start by talking about his backstory first.
He’s a 48 year old ruthless killer who lost his home after the Omnic Crisis.
This upset turning into a violent rebellion, which would later cause the omnium’s fusion
core to explode and irradiate the Outback, turning it into an apocalyptic wasteland.
It not only changed his home forever, but changed him forever, twisting him, slowly
eliminating his humanity for good.
Roadhog is a character whose presence forces you to change your approach, and requires
a whole lot of effort to take down.
He’s also a character that many players feel like they can’t make a mistake against
without suffering some major game-ending consequences.
Of course, like many of the other characters on this list, it all depends on the map and
character you’re playing as.
As one user on the Overwatch community forums put it, “playing as mercy against Roadhog
is like literally walking into a survival horror game.”
1 Reaper While Reaper may not be as difficult to go
up against someone like Roadhog, he is by far the most sinister looking character in
the game, hence why he tops our list.
Reaper is a pretty mysterious fellow.
He’s a black robbed terrorist whose identity and motives are unknown, loyal to no one but
himself, haunting his foes who have described him as a black shadow moving unscathed through
the most hellish of battlefields.
Extremely volatile and ruthless, he’s a remorseless killer, responsible for terrorist
attacks globally.
His recovered victims are terrifying, to say the least; their corpses are pale, their cells
depicting signs of intense degradation.
Rumour has it that the Reaper is a byproduct of a failed genetic alteration which forces
his cells to constantly decay and regenerate at a hyper accelerated rate.
And if that isn’t scary AF, I dunno what is.