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Hero 27 Speculation

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irishfire

So for every new hero except for Moira, Blizz likes to give us small leaks about the new Hero. In the past week, Blizz has been giving us leaks on the new hero. Now I think the new hero is one of 2 heroes i have in mind. Emre and Bridget. Heroes the sequences of leaks and what i take from it
First, we had the leak about Operation White Dome, where Ana, Reinhardt, Torb, and unknown hero Emre Sarioglu go on a mission to Istanbul, Turkey to take out omnic resistance. I don't want to explain what actually happens as I'll just leave the link for you to read, but when i was thinking, i thought what if this is the new PVE mission to go with the Uprising event, as it is a mission from the past and features 4 heroes. If that is true, then Emre could be the new hero to make the team 4 members in game. Also, Emre is a popular name in Turkey, so he could be on the team defending his home country, just like Tracer did in the Uprising event last year.

Link: https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/966840037093523456

Our next leak was a letter From Torb to his wife back in Sweden. He was saying how in the mission in Turkey, Rein saved his life during the mission. He also says that he will build a new arm to replace his amputated arm. But the biggest thing is that his Wife is actually pregnant at the time. Now we know that this is very likely Bridget, as she is the only known daughter of Torbjorn, and that Torb says that Rein will get the honor of naming her and being her God Father. This would likely be the reason why Rein and Bridget hold a very close relationship through what we've seen in the comics and in the animated short.

Link to letter: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/21574699

Our last leak so far is the blue prints of a weapon called a Slaga 3.0. If you don't know, a slaga is a Swedish weapon used in the old days, and is it is also known as a flail. it is also a well used weapon in movies, as it is the proper name for the wrecking ball on a chained stick. This points to Bridget building a weapon either for herself or someone else. Now this actually looks like an in-game weapon, as in the picture in the top-left corner, we can see the blueprint for the top of the blade to fire out. Since Bridget is Swedish, it would not surprise me if Blizz gave her a weapon based on her national heritage.

Link: https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/968198992453451776

Now that we've seen our first 3 leaks, who do you guys think the new hero will be: Emre, Bridget, or an entirely new hero Blizzard will blindside us with. I think both Emre and Bridget have great chances to be hero 27, and with the three leaks, I can't make up my mind

I will update this thread as more leaks come out

Teaser 4: God Damnit
https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/968539031070851072

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victococoblazin
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it's jetpack cat lol no need for this thread

#3
Pixelfish
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so this is how you get upfrags :thinking:

#4
decoherence
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can't be bridgette because her name doesnt end in an a and every female heroes' last name has ended in an a thus far
so unless mike chu wants to break this stupid little trend of his it can't be bridgette which sucks

  • sombra: olivia
  • pharah: fareeha
  • tracer: lena
  • mei: (pronounced m-ay, i think there's something about the mandarin spelling of her name ending in that language's equivalent of a as well? so it's not as much of a stretch as you'd think)
  • widowmaker: amelie -> amelia
  • d.va: hana
  • orisa
  • zarya: aleksandra
  • ana
  • mercy: angela
  • moira
  • symmetra: satya

it's gonna be emre or someone else

#5
cha0
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Lol? You can't just write Widowmaker: Amélie and then change the e to an a

#7
remiska
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AméliE Lacroix - widowmaker
Mei-Ling Zhou (there isnt even single "a" here) - mei

its not any trend its just the fact that female names (specially of European origin) eften end with an "a"

also Emre you proposed doesnt end with "a" either

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Raisin
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Emre is a male name

#12
remiska
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ok, never heard it and it sounded more girly, still rest of the arguments stand

#8
sgbros1
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This post is too dumb not to be a shitpost

#6
Involv3r
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The name is Brigitte not Bridget or Bridgette lol

#9
irishfire
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My bad.

#11
Raisin
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My guess is the new hero has to be Emre. It would be really strange to put him in the story and then not make him playable. They might release 2 heroes at once, but that seems like an awful idea balance-wise.

#13
Taichi
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They dropped so many names in the past and no one made it.

For example everybody thought Ana was Sombra just because we had the name. But no, it wasnt Sombra. Also Doomfist.

And also, whats about Liao, Soundquake, Athena, Alejandra, Maximilian and so on?

Just because we have the name doesnt has to mean anything.

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Raisin
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Fair enough. I still think it would be strange to talk about a mission almost identical to the uprising mission around the time when uprising was released and not include it.

#14
KuroiRyuu9625
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I'm thinking Brigitte could be playing the same role Effie did when they came out with Orisa. She could have designed the weapon for someone else, seeing how she maintains Rein's suit and what not.

Basically I'm saying I don't think it'll be Brigitte, even though I kinda want it to be.

Edit: There's apparently a leak from Blizzard Japan's marketing manager so I might very well be dead wrong
Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/80kg8t/hero_27_leaked/

#15
Wombat
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I'm with the camp that says that the leak is all staged and is just a publicity stunt. I'm willing to bet that the next hero won't be Brigitte

What I definitely know for sure is that Blizzard have done an amazing job of getting me hyped for this new hero, I can't wait!

#16
irishfire
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so what of Emre then, because that throws off by theory of the mission in Istanbul being the new PVE Mission in Uprising

#18
CamRa
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It might actually be jetpack cat with the new teaser.

#19
murasaki
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the jokes on everyone, its literally just a second torbjorn so you can run dual torb in comp

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