Wiz: While the stories of many world-class assassins often carry a truckload of baggage.
Few are quite as heartbreaking as the case of Amélie Lacroix.
Boomstick: That's even more true than you think, but we'll get there.
Wiz: Growing up, Amélie never aspired or trained for combat.
In fact, she devoted much of her life to becoming a world-renowned ballerina in Paris, France.
Amélie's husband, however, was a key figure for Overwatch.
A global peacekeeping organization spearheading operations against a terrorist group called Talon.
Boomstick: Talon tried over and over to kill this guy, but they just couldn't pull it off.
So instead, they kidnapped Amélie.
Damn!
Not cool.
Wiz: Thankfully, Overwatch quickly rescued her, and life returned to normal.
Boomstick: Or did it?
Nope!
Because out of nowhere, Amélie killed her hubbie in his sleep.
Wiz: Turns out, the kidnapping wasn't just a simple ransom or attempted lure.
Talon ruthlessly subjected Amélie to intense neurological reconditioning.
Molding her into the perfect brainwashed sleeper agent.
Boomstick: Right, because she was sleepin' next to him in their bed and then bam!
First kill!
Sleeper agent!
Wiz: Right, sure.
She returned to Talon to complete their psychological and physiological reconfiguration process.
When all was said and done.
Amélie Lacroix was no more.
In her place stood the cold-hearted assassin known as Widowmaker.
Boomstick: Ah, I get why she's called Widowmaker!
Though it is kind of weird that the widow she was makin'...
was her.
Wiz: Brilliant deduction, Boomstick.
Widowmaker embodies the coldhearted killer trope so well, it's actually literal.
Talon's experiments slowed her heart rate and suppressed her emotions.
Turning her into an actual cold-blooded killing machine.
Hence the cold blue skin.
Boomstick: Ah.
I always thought she was just a Smurf with gigantism.
Wiz: I didn't even know you knew what gigantism was.
Boomstick: Your mom knows what gigantism is -
I introduced her.
Wiz: Oh my [bleep] God!
Boomstick: Y'know Wiz your mom had that same look on her face.
Anyway come back next week and we'll make them fight.