Elon Musk doesn’t know his Mercy fetish is boring

polygon.com:

In May 2016, billionaire Elon Musk and actress Amber Heard hung out at the Met Gala, just weeks before Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp. The two had met several years before, while Heard was filming Machete Kills, for which Musk had been brought on as a consultant — but it was at the prestigious fashion charity event that the two hit it off as friends. That same month, Blizzard Entertainment launched its first new game franchise in years with the colorful hero shooter Overwatch, which would go on to sell over 50 million copies. And, years later, these two moments in pop culture history intersected.

On Sept. 12, Elon Musk, a biography by Walter Isaacson, was released. Isaacson spent two years with the current owner of X (née Twitter), producing a wooden recounting of Musk’s life of entrepreneurship and struggles with family, mental health, and relationships. Casually tossed into the chapter about his on-again-off-again entanglement with Heard was this two-sentence bombshell, with no additional information:

He told her that she reminded him of Mercy, his favorite character in the video game Overwatch, so she spent two months designing and commissioning a head-to-toe costume so she could role-play for him.

At least one review of the book picked out this detail, which instantly became a new reason for the internet to clown on Musk. Undeterred by shame, Musk took to the replies of a joke post retweeting Dexerto’s coverage to wordlessly post proof in the form of a private picture of Heard in the costume (reportedly without her permission) and, in a separate post, mention how cool it was. The candid photo of the actress in a skimpy, corseted version of the support hero’s armor spread quickly through social media,