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What does Doomfist’s real name have to do with a God of iron?
Did Winston defeat him many years ago?
Is Helix Security the new Overwatch, and are they making the same mistakes?
There was a lot of new information in this new post from Blizzard, so let's take a closer
look at everything and how it ties in with the rest of the overwatch lore.
First a super quick summary.
According to the post Doomfist has been incarcerated in Helix Securities maximum security installation.
3 Months ago he escaped thanks to some help from Reaper.
From there he went onto Numbani where he recovered the Doomfist and smashed up the OR15’s.
Now for the interesting stuff, the post gives us his name, Akande Ogundimu which doesn't
match either of the 2 names for the Saviour or Scourge on the Numbani Doomfist posters,
implying that as expected this is the mysterious Successor.
The previous 2 names had a lot of relevant meaning behind them.
The Saviours name translated directly to “Doom Fist” from Swahili while the Scourges name
translated to something along the lines of “The strong one has returned” from Yoruba.
Now the new Doomfists name has an interesting meaning behind it as well.
Many people are reporting that his first name translates to “Thirdly”, this is a mistake
made by Google Translate, although it is a little interesting as he's the 3rd Doomfist.
What it actually means is “First Born” or “First to Arrive”, traditionally a
name given to first born sons.
The surname is even more interesting.
The first part, ‘Ogen’, is the name of a powerful warrior spirit of metal work in
the Yoruba religion, and the second part ‘Dimu’ means “to hold” or “grasp”.
Putting this together would give the idea of holding a powerful weapon, essentially
the Doomfist itself.
It also draws a connection with Orisa, her name is similar to the collective name for
all the Yoruba spirits, Ogun included.
Now another interesting element of the post is that he's been in prison, we know from
way back in the first cinematic trailer for Overwatch that Winston defeated a Doomfist:
So maybe this Doomfist is the one Winston defeated?
It was widely assumed that Winston defeated the Scourge, but maybe there’s something
we’re still missing?
Another interesting part of the post was that it mentions there may have been more breaches
from the prison than just Doomfist, so could this imply another evil hero on the horizon?
Or perhaps Talon are just freeing other agents or potential new recruits, it would make sense
for them to add to their forces.
The post also mentions it could potentially be items that were stolen, we know Talon have
been trying to collect things like the Cube in the McCree comic and the Doomfist, so could
they have stolen something from the prison?
It's also intriguing as to what role Doomfist has with Talon.
This is the first real rock solid evidence of a connection, although we have speculated
about it in the past.
Could Doomfist have been a high ranking member before his incarceration?
Perhaps even a leader?
Or maybe it's the exact opposite and Talon are trying to recruit him by freeing him?
Now let's take a look at the rest of this post as there is a lot more interesting information
in here than just Doomfist.
Firstly we get even more info about Helix Security International, the firm Pharah works
for.
It looks like after the fall of Overwatch Helix security stepped in taking over a lot
of what would probably have been Overwatch’s operations.
Guarding the Anubis AI in Egypt, guarding the old Overwatch outpost in Grand Mesa and
now we know they also guarded a prison.
However all 3 of the locations we know Helix to operate in have had failures.
In Egypt the God program caused a lot of damage and nearly escaped.
Soldier 76 broke in and stole his pulse rifle from Grand Mesa and now with this prison Doomfist
and others have escaped.
So are Helix security just inept, or is someone undermining them?
In the Blizzard post it mentions the potential for moles within the group interfering with
their defence systems.
Now this could be the case, with their track record it would make sense that someone on
the inside was working against them, but this could also be the presence of Sombra, infiltrating
and hacking their systems.
Lastly the final paragraph of the post is very interesting.
It talks about people questioning the methods of Helix as a world security force and mentions
that the UN is bailing them out.
Now what's interesting here is this feels a bit like history repeating itself.
Overwatch was once the global peacekeeping taskforce, until things started to go wrong,
most likely as a result of people inside the organisation working to bring it down, namely
Blackwatch.
Director Petras was brought onboard by the UN to oversee Overwatch but they were eventually
shut them down by passing the PETRAS act.
Now Helix seems to be going through the same thing, however the UN is bailing them out
rather than ripping them down.
Why are they backing Helix now?
Are they just trying to avoid a situation like they had with Overwatch or is there something
more to it?
Is Petras involved?
So what do you think about this new information?
Was this new Doomfist the one Winston defeated?
How does he tie into Talon and is Helix Security going the same way as Overwatch?
Let me know in the comments below!
As always this is James for Curse saying thanks for watching, and enjoy the game!
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