Doomfist has busted out of prison, retrieved his gauntlet and taken back control of Talon,
but what does he actually want?
The hints are cryptic and the clues are subtle, but we’ve been hunting through all of the
Doomfist and Talon lore to try to uncover what their evil plans are and we have a couple
theories.
Let’s start with what we know.
It seems Talon want to start a war between humans and omnics.
Its stated in the Doomfist comic by the Talon councilman Maxamillion that war between the
2 races is all but inevitable and in the final page of the comic Doomfist himself directly
says they have a war to start.
So that tells us what they want to do, but not why.
How does a war between the humans and the omnics benefit Talon, an organisation comprised
of both races.
Its clearly not about money, in the comic it mentions one of the Talon leaders has tried
to turn the group's aspirations towards monetary gains, but this doesn’t sit well with Doomfist
so he throws him off a bridge….
The evidence all seems to show that Talon want to start this war purely for ideological
reasons, they believe that only through conflict can they become stronger.
This somewhat Darwinian philosophy of natural selection seems to be a driving force behind
Doomfists character and appears to stem from his childhood.
As a young man he competed in Mixed Martial Arts competitions but in the aftermath of
the Omnic Crisis he lost his right arm.
However rather than be left weaker by this conflict he instead replaced the limb with
a cybernetic prosthetic that made him far more lethal.
Although at this early stage in his life the “strength through conflict” ideology may
not have been fully formed it was certainly in his nature, and when he was recruited into
Talon his personal experiences resonated with their ideology.
This is likely part of the reason Doomfist rose through the ranks of the organisation
to sit on its council, and killing the previous Doomfist and taking his gauntlet probably
helped.
Now this is where things start to get really interesting.
If Talon was a group comprised entirely of humans it could make sense that they would
want to start a war to destroy the Omnics and make humanity more powerful, but that
isn’t the case.
The council consists of both Omnics and Humans, but there is something interesting about all
the human members of Talon we know about, they all have some kind of augmentation.
Doomfist had his arm replaced and now also uses the Doomfist itself.
Reaper is far from an average human and there are theories his powers are tied to nanobots.
Sombra is heavily augmented with technology to become a living computer and even Widowmaker
has been evolved from a normal human when Talon turned her into a living weapon.
Could this be what Talon actually wants?
To blur the line between the two races by forcing humanity to become more like omnics
themselves?
The machines are already very human, they feel emotions and some even have religious
faiths.
If the Humans became more machine would there really be a difference between the two?
Doomfist has an interesting line about this with Zarya.
So it’s an interesting theory, and it actually goes quite a way towards explaining why Talon
fought against Overwatch so hard and why today they are still hunting its old members.
Overwatch acted as a barrier for both humanity and the omnics.
It was established by humanity to end the war but after the mission was complete they
began to focus on maintaining peace around the world.
In this situation Talon would want them out of the picture, as with Overwatch in action
there was no need for most people to be involved in any form of conflict meaning they wouldn't
become any stronger.
In their eyes Overwatch was essentially a barrier that stopped humanity from reaching
its true potential.
With Overwatch gone Talon are now free to bring about another Omnic Crisis and in turn
make humanity stronger, at least that's how that theory goes, but there is one other idea.
Let's put the Augmentation argument to the side for the moment and try another point
of view, could this be less about empowering humanity and blurring the gap between human
and omnic and instead about actually causing a war to wipe out most of humanity, only leaving
the strongest alive.
There is a theory that says humanity will create an AI so much better than humanity,
that it will replace us, there have been plenty of hollywood movies made on this premise,
so what about if that's what Talon really wants.
Perhaps their desire is to push humans and Omnics into a war that will force them both
to grow stronger, build more powerful weapons, at this point natural selection takes over,
either the humans win or the omnics do, and let's be honest, the advantage has to go to
the omnic’s as without Overwatch humanity is doomed and Talon have always worked against
Overwatch.
This would fall inline with many of the things we have seen them do.
Killing Mondatta in London makes war more likely.
Reaper stealing the Overwatch Agent list lets them take out the only people who could stand
in their way.
The one thing that doesn’t line up is the attempted assassination of Katya Volskya,
but we actually learn that Doomfist is pleased they failed, he says she will keep the fight
going and is of more use to him alive than dead.
If this theory is correct perhaps Doomfist believes he and the other strongest humans
and machines will be all that remains when the fighting is done, or perhaps Talon aspire
to step in as rulers after the war, whatever the case both theories seem interesting but
what do you think?
Do Talon want to make humanity more powerful through augmentation or is this about wiping
out the weak and Talon taking their rightful place as world leaders, or do you have another
theory?
Let me know in the comments below, as always this is James for Curse saying thanks for watching, and enjoy the game!