You read that right, Overwatch’s new hero is a hamster. Though not much information is known about the little pipsqueak, apart from it is (at least visually) a hamster in a machine-gun looking ball that he uses to mow his enemies down. It also has a very evil laugh, which in our honest opinion, only makes it even more adorable than before. Could this be the Talon tank we’ve been waiting for?
Joking aside, we’re more than a little shocked that we’re looking at a hamster in a mechanical ball right now, instead of the chimpanzee many guessed Hammond would be. You can see the reveal for yourself at on Twitter, where you can see from the many responses that fans are swinging between being confused to pleasantly surprised.
What we do know of Hammond, if that is indeed the hamster’s name, is that he is the missing specimen off Horizon Lunar Colony. Horizon Lunar Colony was a scientific experiment, which helped uplift certain specimens (mainly gorillas) into intellectuals and sometimes even scientists like Winston. It was this reasoning that was behind the theories that Hammond was, in fact, a primate rather than a rodent.
However, there are some who aren’t pleased with the Overwatch team and they have more than enough reasons which many have already started to share on Twitter. The team at Overwatch has prided itself on diversity with a variety of characters we’ve all known to come and love, which has made their silence this month seem particularly strange. For those who may not know, June is Pride Month and with Tracer being the game’s only confirmed LGBT hero, fans were shocked at the lack of content surrounding that.
There is also the fact some fans feel as though Overwatch lore has reached such stagnancy that the introduction of another hero that already has so much more lore than favorites like Zenyatta, D.VA and Lucio feel as though the team has given up altogether on expanding the universe.