Overwatch 2 Fan Shares Incredible Concepts For X-Men Crossover Skins
Taking part in the wave of recent fan art based on licensed characters, an Overwatch 2 player has created concept art of several heroes in X-Men costumes. Blizzard recently announced its first licensed skins for Overwatch 2, based on the popular manga and anime One-Punch Man. Now Overwatch 2 players from across the world are offering up their ideas for what licensed skins the online multiplayer shooter should work on next.
It's somewhat surprising to consider, but until recently Blizzard had kept to a practice of not adding licensed content to Overwatch 2. All skins and cosmetics were original to Overwatch or Overwatch 2, or tied in from another Blizzard property. The One Punch Man collaboration changed that, with plans to add multiple skins from the anime. That includes a Saitama skin for Doomfest and a Mumen Rider for Soldier 76, and potentially others yet.
Overwatch 2 Fans Discuss Anime Skins They Want To See Next
One Reddit user named King_Shuaa took it into their own hands to imagine what it might look like if Overwatch 2 crossed over with the X-Men next. They created fanart imagining Overwatch 2 characters using skins based on X-Men: The Animated Series. More specifically, they imagined a Cyclops skin for Soldier 76, a Beast skin for Winston, and a Nightcrawler skin for Tracer.
The skins are well-thought-out, with the powers of each of the X-Men potentially translating well to each hero. Tracer's ability to blink matches with Nightcrawler's mutant teleportation power. It just needs a puff of purple smoke, the smell of sulfur, and a «Bamf» audio cue. Beast is, obviously, transformed into a blue and powerfully athletic creature, which translates well to Winston's gorilla strength. Both are also geniuses, which perhaps
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