I love how Reaper is literally steaming inside his head when Mauga ran off to do his own thing. Must have gave the man flashbacks of Rein-charge PTSD back in the day.
I don't realy miss the dual tank days, but lord these two tanks charging into the backline to get kills together without a seccond thought for the rest of the team is something I can see with a terrible sort of clarity.
I love that they gave Mauga a shirt for this short to save the animators from the need to draw all his tattoos for every frame. I don't blame them, haha
IMHO, I think he looks better with a shirt. It makes him look like a body builder. Imagine if that shirt had a chest logo that served as his calling card, kinda like the sugar skull Sombra has when she does her hacking jobs
I like how Doomfist wanted a surgical and stealthy mission even though one of the member on said mission is a loud and boisterous Samoan Tank with twin miniguns. Like Mauga is smart and strong, but Doomfist must really lack foresight to not see things going explosive.
His other tank option would have been a schizophrenic black hole so I guess he was the stealthier option. But yes Doomfist clearly isn’t as smart as he thinks himself to be if he thought Mauga was in anyway stealthy.
You know how Arcane made people forget how bad League was? I want Overwatch to try it too, they have the money, they have the writing potential, give it a shot.
Actually, Activision isn’t in charge anymore ever since Microsoft bought them out. Now Microsoft is giving the devs at Blizzard more freedom to make the amazing game they wanted to the whole time! It’s possible that without Bobby Cotick or Activision breathing down their necks telling them to over-monetize everything that they COULD make an animated series
Anyone else notice how Sombra's placed Translocator breaking and then her throwing it is basically canon to her recent rework. Little detail, but awesome inclusion!
I absolutely love how at first glance they made Mauga seem like a "meat-head" and muscles-only type of guy, but the truth is he is very calculative and cunning no less and sometimes even more than everyone else around him. He just loves doing the things his way, and most importantly, to have fun with it 😁
It's kinda like how Junker Queen was shown at first glance to be strong, cunning, and intelligent but with a layer of compassion rooted in her own vulnerability, then later shown to be a muscle meat-head that doesn't like vegetables.
I don't get your point, they make him look stupid and then show him knowing something and doing it without telling the others, so it's really stupid to risk everyone's life for no reason.
0:32 Right. Because when you want a clandestine operation - clean, surgical, and precise, you should totally send in the 7 ft tall, 400 pound Samoan dude with dual miniguns and a mirth-filled laugh you can hear from a city block away, lol.
I really like Reaper in this one. He's showing signs of humanity - like when he chooses to not shoot Mauga, or orders Sombra to escape from danger, even though they didn't get the data. Maybe it's just cold logic, but I like to think he has empathy still.
I don't think Reaper is completely heartless (there's even enough rapport there to at least tolerate Sombra nicknaming him "Smokey" and "Calavera Man"), but he mostly understands how capable his team is. Dare I say it, he even trusts Sombra enough when she says she'll get the job done before bailing. I think in the moment though, Mauga made for a suitable distraction for them to continue the operation. He had no problem "dealing with Mauga" on Doomfist's order once the mission was completed, even going so far as to non-verbally ask Sombra's opinion on how to deal with him by holding up the gun.
I think both him and Widow are losing their loyalty with Talon, or maybe even using Talon much like Sombra is. I think Widow's brainwashing is starting to wear off and I think Reaper has noticed, but hasn't said anything. (Mercy even says in pre-game chat that she knows Amelie is still in there, all she needs to do is run some tests). And I think Reaper has just had enough of Moira experimenting on him and just wants to get away from her, honestly. And much like Widow, Mercy wants to help him and has offered (thanks to some pre-game chats again) but at this point he just doesn't trust any scientists so he's leery of accepting her offer.
@@milkmandrew8866 I've always been of the opinion that Reaper was playing the long game with Talon, like his interests *are* actually aligned with Overwatch, but he wouldn't make for a very good man on the inside if that were clear. Now, it's also possible that that was the original goal, but now he can't survive without Moira and is stuck doing the dirty work because otherwise the careful balance between regeneration and decay that he strikes will fall out of balance and just flat out kill him.
I was thinking the same thing.... which will, of course, pit them right up against OverWatch, since Bap joined Cassidy's team in the "New Blood" comics
What he actually says was "Looks like you owe me one", then laughed and said "but who's counting?". He's not keeping track, to him it's nothing but dust in the wind. He's just there to have fun.
@@Toast_94”but who’s counting” could mean she owes him quite a lot, or maybe she held him to owing her something in the past and he’s taking a jab at her. or it just is straight up sarcasm, and he is absolutely counting. he seems like the kinda guy to do that
How is stealing a power core a better plan that learning how to make one? Getting that data meant they could build as many power cores as they'd like, and even tweak and specialize the design for their specific needs. Now they will have to reverse engineer the power core, which is not always succesful. Not to mention null sector could easily implenent features to their own power core to prevent use from others. Not to mention that now Null sector knows Talon has a power core, and they know Talon is trying to build something that would require one. The point of it being clandestine, was that Talons enemies dont know they have a power core, thus will not expect them to have a weapon requiring a power core to create, thus underestimating Talon, giving them the advantage.
@@a.f.k3986Power cores are probably EXTREMELY hard to come by or create, given how just one could keep that massive ship afloat. And since Mauga destroyed the dish at the very beginning, the ship couldn’t tell anyone that Talon was there at all. All everyone else knows is that something caused the already damaged ship to explode, possibly the same ex-Overwatch agents that caused it to go down in the first place.
@@a.f.k3986 Counterbalanced by the time and resources saved by skipping the R&D and prototyping altogether. Knowledge is only useful if you have the time and resources to act on that knowledge. Speed can and does beat Knowledge if you can act at a speed (with sufficient Power) that is faster than can be reacted to. Does it matter if your enemies know you have a fuckhuge battleship if they have no access yet to any weapons to counter it, let alone have any produced?
the villains lore is so good i have a billion animation ideas of them, too bad im bad at animation so i cant really execute them... 😭 (tho, since my dream job is to be an animator maybe in the future i will)
I can imagine the conversation at HQ. DF: Mauga? S (wearing a backpack on her chest): He jumped. With a parachute, I imagine. But I managed to get a story out of him. DF (raises an eyebrow): Go on. S: Mauga used his knowledge of ships to execute a slightly louder stealth retrieval. He tried to tell us, but we kept telling him to shut up. The initial explosion when we entered the ship was him destroying the communication antenna. Everything else--him splitting up from us, the system lockdown, the entire ship exploding--were mere side effects (opens the pack and takes out the relay with a smirk, shocking everyone) of him getting me a souvenir while avoiding any leaks. DF: ...Your trust in Mauga? S: Still zero, but at least he's a useful loose cannon. DF (nods): Get the Relay and data to the technicians. Dismissed. (walks off)
They really need to give us more of these, especially for team talon, but I honestly wouldn't mind one with a bigger budget, with the same quality as the Kiriko cinematic or the Dragons cinematic. But at this point just give us more, these are really fun
I mean he basically fixed events he caused for an operation he didn't need to be on XD. I was like oh he is actually smart till i realized he tripped the security to begin with.
@DPowered2 it's also a "give a fish vs teach to fish" situation. Knowing how to build and how a nuclear reactor works is far more valuable then a nuclear reactor, much less a second-hand broken one.
@@D.Jay. its not really the same, as this nuclear reactor can be researched so you can get the blueprint anyways. And it probably saves a lot of resources for building it. It also prevents nullsector from having it. to fit your acronym it should be giving a blueprint or teaching them to get one
Two things, I really love Doomfist's exasperated "I could see the explosion from space" line. Also, what exactly is he doing in space? Is he truly as cowardly as Orisa said and now is hiding in space or is he planning something more.
this has me thinking because mauga mentioned the reason for the mission was to extract all of the data from the power core of the null sector ship for doomfist to build his new "power thingy" but what could that be!
@@juiceboxbzrk Yeah but we got to play Mauga already. So I dunno, maybe that'd be best to describe how people were when Sombra was hinted wayy back. Cause the anticipation for her was so hyped back in OW1.
@@AndersonMallonyMALLONY-EricCFS teir character for an F teir game, how thrilling.. Also the fact homeboy here asked if OP was Christian also kinda encapsulates the current player base lol. Only some drooling troglidytes would still find this game compelling. But to a person that believes a 2,000 year old fairytale over convential science or you know.. common sense, they'll eat it right up.
@@ashegaming3530 he kills for fun 💀 the first thing he did when he woke up was choke the doctor who did surgery on him to death. 💀 nah actually he SNAPPED HIS NECK, that man is evil bruh
@@ashegaming3530 Look into his backstory. He was ordered by Talon to tear a town apart to find someone, and he did so even if it meant killing civilians. He's a complete nutjob with no morals.
Mauga: "Hey, you guys know what we should do?-" -We should just take the whole dang power core! They won't need it now! Sombra: "Yeah! Grab the data, like we PLANNED!"
This was such a good way to show his personality. A brute but a high intelligence brute. He may not excel at academic intellect but he has it where it matters.
This animation is so good. I hope Blizzard makes more shorts in this style. I love how Mauga's portrayed here. Very much a force of mass destruction, but he's not completely chaotic about it, he 's calculating and clever about what he obliterates, and cares about the mission as much as Sombra and Reaper. He just prefers to to it his way. I can't wait to play as him.
Yeah, same for me Dan, i am hopefull that Blizzard will hire this animation team, and Mauga is truly a real force of mass destruction, plus, he is a vaulable teamemate 😉😎👍✌️🙏🙌
Goes to mission Lands on ship Kills seagull Activates robots Kills said robots Goes in Kills more robots Steals something important (idk what it is) Leaves ship Gives important thing to Sombra Refuses to elaborate any further Leaves W Mauga
They should But ya know activision they hate that they only wanna get the money out of ow But don’t worry microsoft is here and they might do it honestly I would want warcraft movie part 2 the first one was good
Dude, same for me MarcosCastro, this need to be an animated series, with that same team who made this miniature episode (by the way, fun fact, this animation, was done by same people who did a Batman Arkham movie) 😉😎✌️👍🙌✨❤️🔥🔥💫
Eyup, that's this Batman movie that i mentioned@@starrycanvas., thanks for reminding me of it's original title, and yeah, there are huge similarities indeed (and i bet that this is the same animation team indeed) 👍✌️✨💫😉😎
This just made me want a Sigma cinematic more. At this point it feels like he's the only other character to not be animated in action (I guess others would be sym, zarya, pharah, and who knows but they aren't my favorite schizophrenic Dutch man 😅).
If missions ever come back we need one where we play as the villains because playing reaper or mauga against a bunch of null sector bots sounds awesome 👏
Every single one of these cinematic trailers and animations are oozing potential. Any sane person would want to see an entire show based around overwatch
For a character that we’ve known about for years, it’s really nice that he isn’t a disappointment. Like yeah that sounds rough and gloomy but things have been that way in OW2… at least for me. It’s nice that these shorts never come up short. A character with a big personality comparable to Rein? And he isn’t a cliche dunce but acts with purpose too? Love it.
I love how heartless (lol he has two) and cunning this big guy is, the personality of mauga is something to he scared in a way, but I'll be honest, out of gameplay he is now one of my favorites
Man the moment Mauga Just started to run off when reaper told him to hold the perimeter you could tell that Gabe was really tempted to just shoot him but it turned out he didn't mess everything up he just had his own plan and just rolled with it he may be a sociopath but I have to admit I like his style.
I think they used the short as a way to bridge the old ability and the new one cause at first she leaves it like the old ability but they break it then at the end she uses it more like the new ability to get into the jet as she's leaving cause she throws it and teleports right after. Pretty cool if that was the reason they did it but yeah leaving it is definitely old ability.
I think they actually reference it in a pretty smart way, as you can see in the short it doesn't work as it previously did, instead she uses it in the rework way (short distance insta-teleport).
Dude, this is so well-done that I really and truly want an animated series with this artstyle. It's so good and Mauga in general has been breathing some new life into OW2.
This is why Overwatch should just be made into a series already. There’s clearly enough plot and good characters to make it happen. The creators should just do it already. It’d make a killing on Prime. Maybe even Netflix.
I’ve been a sombra main since 2016-2017 partly because of how much I love sombras kit and her fun personality but for the first time in so many years, Mauga is probably gonna either rival or dethrone her for me. it’s been so long since we’ve gotten a fun and goofy character that isn’t just a stoic or tragic loner. Also this short heavily reminded me of the stuff I used to watch growing up on adult swim and Cartoon Network so it felt nostalgic to me, I really wish overwatch had a tv series or an anime because I really love these characters but alas we’re just stuck in a silly game👍
DF: What I wanted was a clandestine operation; clean, surgical, and precise. Sombra: then why did you send a walking gun on legs to perform surgery? Seriously, if DF wanted a quiet and clean Op, why send Mauga? Why not send Sigma? He may get distracted, but at least he follows orders and wouldn't cause a literal ship meltdown.
This is amazing!! I swear the story and animation side of the overwatch team are begging for a show or anything consistent or large-scale at this point. So much passion and liveliness in this short!
Mauga leaving his team behind, a true tank move
He carried
WHERE IS REINHARDT!!!
True but he didn't blame support like a true tank main does
when I saw him running away to go brr on some enemies I knew I was playing him right
Yes bro😂😂
I love how Reaper is literally steaming inside his head when Mauga ran off to do his own thing. Must have gave the man flashbacks of Rein-charge PTSD back in the day.
If Mauga wasn't with Talon or just straight up crazy he and Rein would get a long just fine.
Reaper and S76 play that grumpy dad role.
Reaper was so ready to kill Mauga, literally.
He literally experienced it before in the Infiltration animated short where Sombra didn't go with the plans and just did her own thing.
I don't realy miss the dual tank days, but lord these two tanks charging into the backline to get kills together without a seccond thought for the rest of the team is something I can see with a terrible sort of clarity.
I love that they gave Mauga a shirt for this short to save the animators from the need to draw all his tattoos for every frame. I don't blame them, haha
I wish they made that a skin for him in game that be nice
IMHO, I think he looks better with a shirt. It makes him look like a body builder. Imagine if that shirt had a chest logo that served as his calling card, kinda like the sugar skull Sombra has when she does her hacking jobs
You are praising Blizzard for making cheap animations? This community is hopeless.
I think they would make it a skin but I just hope it’s a blue or purple and not 20 dollars… for a shirt
@@Cabono31
Do you honestly not understand the nightmare it would’ve been having to draw all those tattoos frame by frame?
I like how Doomfist wanted a surgical and stealthy mission even though one of the member on said mission is a loud and boisterous Samoan Tank with twin miniguns. Like Mauga is smart and strong, but Doomfist must really lack foresight to not see things going explosive.
He should have brought someone like anyone that isnt mauga my guy is a samoan beefcake with a concert for a personality
@@farizr.batarai8271 “concert for a personality” is so accurate and definitely a term I’ll be using in the future lmaoo
@@executive.jaystar
Guns are his instruments
I think Mauga is there just incase everything goes wrong.
Whith it kinda did.
His other tank option would have been a schizophrenic black hole so I guess he was the stealthier option. But yes Doomfist clearly isn’t as smart as he thinks himself to be if he thought Mauga was in anyway stealthy.
At this point, I’m convinced these shorts are just experimental animated films to convince Activision to make a Netflix series. This one is a banger.
Agreed we need one now. I need a clear explanation of the lore xd
It's up to Microsoft now and they did the Halo series and Fallout series is going to be next year, I hope overwatch is next
Would love for them to make one and dive more into Hanzo and Genji's childhood.
You know how Arcane made people forget how bad League was? I want Overwatch to try it too, they have the money, they have the writing potential, give it a shot.
Actually, Activision isn’t in charge anymore ever since Microsoft bought them out. Now Microsoft is giving the devs at Blizzard more freedom to make the amazing game they wanted to the whole time! It’s possible that without Bobby Cotick or Activision breathing down their necks telling them to over-monetize everything that they COULD make an animated series
we can blame Mauga for breaking Sombra's translocator for her new abilities in game, that's a nice touch
Ya know... you're right!
New sombra is both much more fun to play and play against, so we should actually be thanking Mauga.
ohhhhh, i hadn’t even thought of that, that’s kinda genius
But she literally still used another translocation? Even if he broke it I would assume she just has multiple
@@arryn786 When she placed it down at the beginning its how her playstyle was pre-rework. Her throwing it and instantly teleporting is post-rework.
Mauga: I went for a walk
Sombra: you blew up an entire null sector ship!!
Mauga: I take very enthusiastic walks
Awesome tfs Hellsing reference.
@@jshewman6575 nice
He's definitely on par with Alucard in that regard. 😆
Reading this comment made me realize Mauga gave off TFS Alucard vibes in this vid!😂
Alucard: NAILED IT!
Anyone else notice how Sombra's placed Translocator breaking and then her throwing it is basically canon to her recent rework. Little detail, but awesome inclusion!
I was just thinking that and I thought it was so clever
Nice eye! I totally see that now.
It’s an amazing detail!!! Makes the rework so much cooler and Canon!!!✌🏾😎
they basically killed her with this rework
except she could always do that...
I absolutely love how at first glance they made Mauga seem like a "meat-head" and muscles-only type of guy, but the truth is he is very calculative and cunning no less and sometimes even more than everyone else around him.
He just loves doing the things his way, and most importantly, to have fun with it 😁
It's kinda like how Junker Queen was shown at first glance to be strong, cunning, and intelligent but with a layer of compassion rooted in her own vulnerability, then later shown to be a muscle meat-head that doesn't like vegetables.
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Exactly, he was described as a secret master tactician that just loves to have fun. Also that smile is beautiful.
Every Talon character is either "the smart one" or "secretly the smart one."
I don't get your point, they make him look stupid and then show him knowing something and doing it without telling the others, so it's really stupid to risk everyone's life for no reason.
Mauga is probably the biggest gigachad in overwatch while still being a goofball. Top tier character.
The sexiest with Reinhardt is here !!! Let’s go!!!! So badass.
Mauga just perfectly describes what today's Blizzard is - a shitshow
@@Kabachokeboooo
@@Kabachokehuh? did you even watch the cinematic? He seemed like he was just causing havoc, but was really being very calculated and assertive.
@@AetherMoose Like Blizzard
0:32 Right. Because when you want a clandestine operation - clean, surgical, and precise, you should totally send in the 7 ft tall, 400 pound Samoan dude with dual miniguns and a mirth-filled laugh you can hear from a city block away, lol.
He was supposed to protect them staying outside
@@sus6371 And he did, but in a different way-
Love the fact that Magua can even get on Sombra’s nerves
I find that ironic because Sombra gets on several Overwatch characters nerves.
I really like Reaper in this one. He's showing signs of humanity - like when he chooses to not shoot Mauga, or orders Sombra to escape from danger, even though they didn't get the data. Maybe it's just cold logic, but I like to think he has empathy still.
I don't think Reaper is completely heartless (there's even enough rapport there to at least tolerate Sombra nicknaming him "Smokey" and "Calavera Man"), but he mostly understands how capable his team is. Dare I say it, he even trusts Sombra enough when she says she'll get the job done before bailing.
I think in the moment though, Mauga made for a suitable distraction for them to continue the operation. He had no problem "dealing with Mauga" on Doomfist's order once the mission was completed, even going so far as to non-verbally ask Sombra's opinion on how to deal with him by holding up the gun.
I think both him and Widow are losing their loyalty with Talon, or maybe even using Talon much like Sombra is. I think Widow's brainwashing is starting to wear off and I think Reaper has noticed, but hasn't said anything. (Mercy even says in pre-game chat that she knows Amelie is still in there, all she needs to do is run some tests). And I think Reaper has just had enough of Moira experimenting on him and just wants to get away from her, honestly. And much like Widow, Mercy wants to help him and has offered (thanks to some pre-game chats again) but at this point he just doesn't trust any scientists so he's leery of accepting her offer.
@@milkmandrew8866 I've always been of the opinion that Reaper was playing the long game with Talon, like his interests *are* actually aligned with Overwatch, but he wouldn't make for a very good man on the inside if that were clear. Now, it's also possible that that was the original goal, but now he can't survive without Moira and is stuck doing the dirty work because otherwise the careful balance between regeneration and decay that he strikes will fall out of balance and just flat out kill him.
@@Mr.MonacleI like
u shouldve seen his book, he even wondered if the people he killed had their own lives and families...😭
Sombra sure is great at damage control.
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She can control me and I would love it
Her and Mauga were practically meant for each other XD
@@akionlizardI think he’s got his eyes on somebody else
@@PhysicallyAwake He wants to take a ride on Roadhog's roadog if you know what I mean.
Mauga saying “now you owe me” to sombra has me feeling he gonna use her to find Bap. Unless I’m missing some things
I was thinking the same thing.... which will, of course, pit them right up against OverWatch, since Bap joined Cassidy's team in the "New Blood" comics
he referenced to this ingame as well, when u pick sombra + mauga
What he actually says was "Looks like you owe me one", then laughed and said "but who's counting?".
He's not keeping track, to him it's nothing but dust in the wind. He's just there to have fun.
@@Toast_94”but who’s counting” could mean she owes him quite a lot, or maybe she held him to owing her something in the past and he’s taking a jab at her. or it just is straight up sarcasm, and he is absolutely counting. he seems like the kinda guy to do that
Use sombra? Haha sure 😂
The look on Doomfist's face when Mauga did an idea he didn't think of, and it worked better than his idea.
Akande is too uptight.
That was Dooms plan all along. -Travis Santiago-
How is stealing a power core a better plan that learning how to make one? Getting that data meant they could build as many power cores as they'd like, and even tweak and specialize the design for their specific needs. Now they will have to reverse engineer the power core, which is not always succesful. Not to mention null sector could easily implenent features to their own power core to prevent use from others.
Not to mention that now Null sector knows Talon has a power core, and they know Talon is trying to build something that would require one. The point of it being clandestine, was that Talons enemies dont know they have a power core, thus will not expect them to have a weapon requiring a power core to create, thus underestimating Talon, giving them the advantage.
@@a.f.k3986Power cores are probably EXTREMELY hard to come by or create, given how just one could keep that massive ship afloat. And since Mauga destroyed the dish at the very beginning, the ship couldn’t tell anyone that Talon was there at all. All everyone else knows is that something caused the already damaged ship to explode, possibly the same ex-Overwatch agents that caused it to go down in the first place.
@@a.f.k3986 Counterbalanced by the time and resources saved by skipping the R&D and prototyping altogether. Knowledge is only useful if you have the time and resources to act on that knowledge. Speed can and does beat Knowledge if you can act at a speed (with sufficient Power) that is faster than can be reacted to. Does it matter if your enemies know you have a fuckhuge battleship if they have no access yet to any weapons to counter it, let alone have any produced?
The "villains" being just as interesting and fleshed out as the heroes is giving me "Saturday morning cartoons" vibes, in a very GOOD way.
the villains lore is so good i have a billion animation ideas of them, too bad im bad at animation so i cant really execute them... 😭
(tho, since my dream job is to be an animator maybe in the future i will)
arguably more fleshed out cus the heroes have about as much flesh to them as a KFC chicken wing
@@TamWam_ do it anyway how else will you learn
@@TamWam_ bro I feel you, I have the exact same problem (just not with overwatch)
They’re way more fleshed out, bar genji, hanzo and reinhardt the heroes have f all depth to them
“What is he doing!”
“Not sticking around.”
Ah, it’s nice to see Talon has the same tank problem as everybody else.
I love characters like mauga. Big, brutish, cynical, but smart. An unpredictable all rounder. Easily underestimated but can always back it up.
And also a madman
idk if he's cynical, he sort of seemed the opposite in this short
@@lozeritis9612he may look cynical, but he is not
He's coming for Heavy's gig!
He's kinda a Himbo, but smarter (and more bloodthirsty).
I love that Sombra's hotkey for her Translocator is the sassy wave from her short lol
eahrjr
I like when Sombra said we are here to “grab the data,” he took that literally lol
he took it (literally)
I can imagine the conversation at HQ.
DF: Mauga?
S (wearing a backpack on her chest): He jumped. With a parachute, I imagine. But I managed to get a story out of him.
DF (raises an eyebrow): Go on.
S: Mauga used his knowledge of ships to execute a slightly louder stealth retrieval. He tried to tell us, but we kept telling him to shut up. The initial explosion when we entered the ship was him destroying the communication antenna. Everything else--him splitting up from us, the system lockdown, the entire ship exploding--were mere side effects (opens the pack and takes out the relay with a smirk, shocking everyone) of him getting me a souvenir while avoiding any leaks.
DF: ...Your trust in Mauga?
S: Still zero, but at least he's a useful loose cannon.
DF (nods): Get the Relay and data to the technicians. Dismissed. (walks off)
Bro is late to their own thing
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It would have like 10x views if they had it yesterday
Lol
Real
So real! Even PlayStation uploaded before Overwatch
Mauga running away from the OBJ giggling is such a tank mood. Been there too many times as hammerman.
Been waiting for Mauga since 2019 and man they are delivering. He is great.
Also they need to do more animated shorts like this
They really need to give us more of these, especially for team talon, but I honestly wouldn't mind one with a bigger budget, with the same quality as the Kiriko cinematic or the Dragons cinematic. But at this point just give us more, these are really fun
Glad that Mauga is finnaly going to be playable AdamVoidless, it truly was soo long since their official announcment in 2019 🙌👍✌️🤗☺️💫✨
The sexiest with Reinhardt is here !!! Let’s go!!!! So badass.
@@pwpqwq7648 i rather have them at this quality if that means i can get more and it’s a nice change of pace from the cgi animated shorts
💯💯💯
I love the part where Mauga is able to outperform his entire team solo! Truly an Overwatch experience.
I mean he basically fixed events he caused for an operation he didn't need to be on XD. I was like oh he is actually smart till i realized he tripped the security to begin with.
@DPowered2 it's also a "give a fish vs teach to fish" situation. Knowing how to build and how a nuclear reactor works is far more valuable then a nuclear reactor, much less a second-hand broken one.
@@D.Jay. its not really the same, as this nuclear reactor can be researched so you can get the blueprint anyways. And it probably saves a lot of resources for building it. It also prevents nullsector from having it. to fit your acronym it should be giving a blueprint or teaching them to get one
Two things, I really love Doomfist's exasperated "I could see the explosion from space" line. Also, what exactly is he doing in space? Is he truly as cowardly as Orisa said and now is hiding in space or is he planning something more.
hes in meteor strike
Probably a satellite view, not him actually in space
I believe it's an exaggeration
this has me thinking because mauga mentioned the reason for the mission was to extract all of the data from the power core of the null sector ship for doomfist to build his new "power thingy" but what could that be!
@@ReThiink probably a really strong air fryer.
I'm a woman in a happy relationship with another woman; then I see Mauga and think "I wanna climb that like a Jungle Gym"
Who doesn’t want to
Dude, Mauga completely exceeded my expectations and this animated short further cemented it. Easily an S-tier character.
are you christian?
(i just saw on Playstation channel in this same video lol)
This explains the current overwatch fan base so far well.
*Sees no gameplay whatsoever
*Aggressively pisses pants in excitement
*Buys $25 skin
@@juiceboxbzrk Yeah but we got to play Mauga already. So I dunno, maybe that'd be best to describe how people were when Sombra was hinted wayy back. Cause the anticipation for her was so hyped back in OW1.
@@juiceboxbzrk mauga got play tested for like 4 days during blizzcon.
@@AndersonMallonyMALLONY-EricCFS teir character for an F teir game, how thrilling..
Also the fact homeboy here asked if OP was Christian also kinda encapsulates the current player base lol. Only some drooling troglidytes would still find this game compelling. But to a person that believes a 2,000 year old fairytale over convential science or you know.. common sense, they'll eat it right up.
Mauga is just an evil Reinhardt and I love it.
But smarter
I don't think he's even inherently evil, not a good guy by any means but certainly not a villain-level bad guy
@@ashegaming3530 he kills for fun 💀 the first thing he did when he woke up was choke the doctor who did surgery on him to death. 💀 nah actually he SNAPPED HIS NECK, that man is evil bruh
@@ashegaming3530nah he’s evil forsure. The fact that his personality can make you think he isnt, is part of what makes him even more nefarious.
@@ashegaming3530 Look into his backstory. He was ordered by Talon to tear a town apart to find someone, and he did so even if it meant killing civilians. He's a complete nutjob with no morals.
2:40 bro was going to do it to. Doomfist didn’t even need much of convincing argument when reaper was already ready to off his own squad
Love how Mauga did pretty much the Rio Mission all by himself.
Mauga is the scariest ow character. With doomfist and widow you know what you're dealing with, but mauga is unpredictable and dangerous
I'd say Sigma is even more so. At least Mauga knows what he's doing, Sigma is just competely out of touch with reality.
@@adalwolf8328Sigma is also somewhat mind controlled/ manipulated by talon so Mauga is still one of the most unpredictable talon members.
@@adalwolf8328 I think he's TOO in touch with reality, like the very foundation of it.
@@ol4414um Sombra?
Mauga strikes me as someone who has his own personal agenda. He's not a good or bad guy, but he has no qualms doing whatever regardless of morals
They brought Mauga of all people on a stealth mission.
No wonder Talon keeps failing
@@whitejesterto be fair they've failed everywhere else EXCEPT where Mauga came in 😂
It's still stealth if there's no one left to report it.
@@sebastianrodriguez8992nah frrr 😂
I love Mauga's personality, it totally fits his character.
For lore reasons, I will never stay on the objective
It's never boring around this new hero.
It's never balanced around me.
1:45 I've pinpointed the exact moment Mauga decided to take the power core itself rather than just the data.
More 1:51
Mauga: "Hey, you guys know what we should do?-" -We should just take the whole dang power core! They won't need it now!
Sombra: "Yeah! Grab the data, like we PLANNED!"
@@chronigma75and he took it literally like LITERALLY
5:22
What can I say except your welcome!
I love Mauga he’s a menace!🤣 we need more animated shorts like this 👏
This was such a good way to show his personality. A brute but a high intelligence brute. He may not excel at academic intellect but he has it where it matters.
This animation is so good. I hope Blizzard makes more shorts in this style. I love how Mauga's portrayed here. Very much a force of mass destruction, but he's not completely chaotic about it, he 's calculating and clever about what he obliterates, and cares about the mission as much as Sombra and Reaper. He just prefers to to it his way. I can't wait to play as him.
Very much agreed.
Yeah, same for me Dan, i am hopefull that Blizzard will hire this animation team, and Mauga is truly a real force of mass destruction, plus, he is a vaulable teamemate 😉😎👍✌️🙏🙌
We need more of this.
I do wonder when the idea fully kicked in was it before or after he shot the satellite? My money is before
Agreed, this was brilliantly animated. The characterisation for Talon is great too.
"I could see the explosion from SPES"
-Doomfist 2024
5:12 Man literally went for a “Walk” like Alucard from Hellsing Abridged.
Fun fact;
Alucard is Dracula backwards
Sombra: Someone on my mission ran off and did their own thing! It really screwed up my plan.
Reaper: -_-
prob caz reaper can solo doom
I love how this takes place after the Gothamburg mission, nice that they remembered the continuity
I love how they made Mauga really violent but not a dumb meathead. He's smart and clever and that makes him even more dangerous.
Goes to mission
Lands on ship
Kills seagull
Activates robots
Kills said robots
Goes in
Kills more robots
Steals something important (idk what it is)
Leaves ship
Gives important thing to Sombra
Refuses to elaborate any further
Leaves
W Mauga
Blizzard, all of these shorts are bangers. Just make an animated show already.
I think they would be more successful making an animated show than making the game
@@it1745Absolutely this
@@it1745it would probably boost their game passively too like what happened with league
for real
They should
But ya know activision they hate that they only wanna get the money out of ow
But don’t worry microsoft is here and they might do it honestly I would want warcraft movie part 2 the first one was good
Reaper and Sombra make a fun dynamic. Need more of them teaming up like that.
Fr, she always messes around and tells him not to 'take things so seriously' lol. Then he has to just tolerate it 😭
They really need to make a animated series of overwatch with this art style that'll be awesome
Been saying this for the past 5 years. Blizzard don't listen.
Dude, same for me MarcosCastro, this need to be an animated series, with that same team who made this miniature episode (by the way, fun fact, this animation, was done by same people who did a Batman Arkham movie) 😉😎✌️👍🙌✨❤️🔥🔥💫
@@croteam17Assault on Arkham? If so, I can definitely see the similarities.
Eyup, that's this Batman movie that i mentioned@@starrycanvas., thanks for reminding me of it's original title, and yeah, there are huge similarities indeed (and i bet that this is the same animation team indeed) 👍✌️✨💫😉😎
i think it looks and would be better in the original 3D style
I woulda killed to see Overwatch on Saturday morning television growing up, goodness gracious.
Doom's VA is so goated
Mauga: Big brute on the outside, but clever man on the inside
love when there's more talon lore and this animation style is awesome!
fr talon lore is amazing
Talon has the best characters and lore
This is why there should be an animated Netflix series.
3:22 “Mauga is a *LOOSE CANNON* and i don’t trust him.”
Much like the Wrecker Wheeljack from Transformers Prime
Reaper was so angry he was going to kill mauga without hesitation
This was pretty good! I liked Sombra complimenting Reaper's "dancing" lol
Her messing with him is really funny, and him tolerating it is also funny 😭
Love this! Imagine if Blizz had done an animated series like this, would be awesome.
Untapped potential imo
Saying this for years 😔
Or would suck just as much as the wow movie
How about doing good games instead?
Maybe they will now that Bobby is gone
6:33 "not bad, big man, not bad at all"
I love how they assumed Mauga sabotaged the mission, when he really ensured it’s success, single-handed
This just made me want a Sigma cinematic more. At this point it feels like he's the only other character to not be animated in action (I guess others would be sym, zarya, pharah, and who knows but they aren't my favorite schizophrenic Dutch man 😅).
A couple of the newer characters also don’t have cinematic shorts yet. Ramattra, Lifeweaver and Illari.
@@pokeaust7800We’ll probably get a 3D cinematic for ramattra considering he is the main villain to the in game story
I believe Zarya briefly appeared at the end of one of the cinematics to tease a followup that never happened, but that doesn't really count.
@@Toast_94the follow up is in a comic
@@thefeogordo5444 ah, that explains it. Ty
“I could see the explosion FROM SPEZ”
I LOVE DF VOICE
"Where is Mauga? What is our tank doing?"
Looks like I'm playing him correctly 😂
This was actually pretty good. Classic 2000s Sunday cartoon vibes.
Indeed it even included a (hot latina cyberpunk) GOTH just for accuracy
"It's never boring around me"
-Mauga
glad you said Mauga or I would've never guessed
that's me, ayy
Mauga literally went *WHAT CAN I SAY EXCEPT YOU'RE WELCOME!!!* with his *souvenir*
If missions ever come back we need one where we play as the villains because playing reaper or mauga against a bunch of null sector bots sounds awesome 👏
Every single one of these cinematic trailers and animations are oozing potential. Any sane person would want to see an entire show based around overwatch
Sombra looks stunning in this short animation
4:53, I believe Sombra was quite ready to execute Muaga then and there with the way her hand is positioned over her gun.
Sombra's smg was hanged sideways and slightly higher than her hand, so she probably just putting her hand in resting position
She'd had been reduced to Swiss cheese lmao
@@terr2907 Definitely looked like she was ready to grab the gun. Hand close to the trigger with fingers extended and ready to grip.
He was probably aware the entire time though lol@@CopShowGuy
@@borzoilover4156 Definitely. He already knew Doomfist wanted her to "Handle it"
Sombra comes off as competent, determined, & professional in this video. Love it!
bro does the smartest things in the stupidest ways
SOUNDS LIKE HIM
For a character that we’ve known about for years, it’s really nice that he isn’t a disappointment. Like yeah that sounds rough and gloomy but things have been that way in OW2… at least for me. It’s nice that these shorts never come up short. A character with a big personality comparable to Rein?
And he isn’t a cliche dunce but acts with purpose too? Love it.
Just give us an entire series already!
Honestly though!
1:45 it’s so cool when you rewatch this, he wasn’t shooting the bird for fun and the “you know what we should do?” was an actual plan
I love how heartless (lol he has two) and cunning this big guy is, the personality of mauga is something to he scared in a way, but I'll be honest, out of gameplay he is now one of my favorites
I love how they sneaked in a reference to Sombra's translocator rework
Man the moment Mauga Just started to run off when reaper told him to hold the perimeter you could tell that Gabe was really tempted to just shoot him but it turned out he didn't mess everything up he just had his own plan and just rolled with it he may be a sociopath but I have to admit I like his style.
We need another support siding with talon. We haven't had one since Moira.
Technically there's Baptiste, but he is ex Talon.
These 2d shorts are everything!! Love the 3d ones too, but these just capture the ow crew so much better in my opinion, amazing job 👏🏼💖💖
4:37 I like how they used the same radio from his origin story.
I love that Sombra has her old teleport ability 😂
In lore she probably still has it like that but to balance her gameplay she has the instant teleport
This was almost undoubtedly in the works before her rework.
Think about it, is like after this incident, she now realize having one at hand at all times is better and hence the rework
I think they used the short as a way to bridge the old ability and the new one cause at first she leaves it like the old ability but they break it then at the end she uses it more like the new ability to get into the jet as she's leaving cause she throws it and teleports right after. Pretty cool if that was the reason they did it but yeah leaving it is definitely old ability.
I think they actually reference it in a pretty smart way, as you can see in the short it doesn't work as it previously did, instead she uses it in the rework way (short distance insta-teleport).
"i could see the explotion from space" LMAO
Mauga running away from his team while laughing got me chuckling
Dude, this is so well-done that I really and truly want an animated series with this artstyle. It's so good and Mauga in general has been breathing some new life into OW2.
6:14 So what can I say except you’re welcome
Finally someone sees the resembalance
Mauga every time after charging somewhere on his own : "What can I say except "You're welcome !"
This is why Overwatch should just be made into a series already. There’s clearly enough plot and good characters to make it happen. The creators should just do it already. It’d make a killing on Prime. Maybe even Netflix.
Ok. Now I'm amazed. A story animation about Talon was just what I needed. This was great!!!
i need more stories about talon
Mauga’s cinematic is so much fun to watch! This is him at his finest
They should make this into a series, i love this short video
But the animation was PREFECT! Love the design choice and it's was so exciting watching it!
I 100% enjoyed this and I am excited to see more Talon content. I would love a 3D cinematic or a 2D animation with Sigma and Moira included.
I’ve been a sombra main since 2016-2017 partly because of how much I love sombras kit and her fun personality but for the first time in so many years, Mauga is probably gonna either rival or dethrone her for me. it’s been so long since we’ve gotten a fun and goofy character that isn’t just a stoic or tragic loner.
Also this short heavily reminded me of the stuff I used to watch growing up on adult swim and Cartoon Network so it felt nostalgic to me, I really wish overwatch had a tv series or an anime because I really love these characters but alas we’re just stuck in a silly game👍
Okay Mauga is official in my top 5 fave characters just for this animated short.
When the tank did a 9000IQ move
Really like how Sombra's translocator is also reworked in the lore
Everything about this is absolutely amazing, the voice actors, animation, music everything 🙏🙏🙏
DF: What I wanted was a clandestine operation; clean, surgical, and precise.
Sombra: then why did you send a walking gun on legs to perform surgery?
Seriously, if DF wanted a quiet and clean Op, why send Mauga? Why not send Sigma? He may get distracted, but at least he follows orders and wouldn't cause a literal ship meltdown.
This is amazing!! I swear the story and animation side of the overwatch team are begging for a show or anything consistent or large-scale at this point. So much passion and liveliness in this short!