And so, newly-minted as a field agent and with an experienced strike team alongside her, Tracer helped rescue the hostages and defuse the King’s Row Uprising before it could deteriorate further. When Tracer heard of the crisis, though, she convinced Strike Commander Jack Morrison that doing the right thing was sometimes more important than following the rules.
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Overwatch, having lost their positive image after numerous questionable events in the post-Crisis era, was barred from taking any active role in ending the siege, as the United Kingdom’s government didn’t want their help. This coincided with the King’s Row Uprising, where the terrorist cell Null Sector crashed the dedication of a new Omnic housing development, kidnapped a number of dignitaries and civilians, and held an area of London under siege. While adjusting to her new abilities, Tracer rejoined the Overwatch organization, switching from flight testing to field operations. With this newfound control, she could now accelerate herself forward, “blinking” from one location to the next as though moving at impossible speeds, but could also reverse in her own motion through time, allowing her to “rewind” to a previous location while the rest of the world continued to spin on. When Tracer and the fighter reappeared months later, Overwatch discovered that she had become disconnected from the natural flow of time, causing her to disappear and reappear, ghost-like and inconstant.Įventually, her salvation came from an unexpected source: Winston, the genetically-modified gorilla scientist from the Horizon Lunar Colony, developed a chronal accelerator that allowed Tracer to assert control over her dissociation from time. Excitable, perceptive, adaptable, and utterly fearless, Tracer was willing to push the limits of the experimental fighter like no one else… but during the flight tests, a malfunction with the prototype’s experimental tech caused the fighter to disappear, along with its pilot.
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Let’s start at the beginning: At some point after the end of the Omnic Crisis, the Overwatch organization was testing out an experimental teleporting aircraft, called “Slipstream.” Their test pilot for the project was an exceptional young RAF fighter ace named Lena Oxton, call sign Tracer.
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And she thinks the world could use more heroes. No matter how you may have come across her, you’ve likely asked the question, “Who is this bubbly British girl who blinks past bad guys and busts them up with her glowy pop guns?” Or maybe just now, in the lead-up to the release of the highly-anticipated Overwatch 2. Perhaps in Blizzard’s mash-up MOBA Heroes of the Storm. In the big media blitz surrounding the announcement (2014) and release (2016) of Overwatch. You may have seen her show up as a cosplay.