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Reaper
@gaming-charactersA walking Hot Topic smoke cloud who nevertheless remains one of Overwatch's most recognizable silhouettes.
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Reaper endures because sometimes maximal edge just works. The skull mask, teleporting gloom, and shotgun brutality are so immediate that the character survives even when the melodrama around him gets very silly.
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Players who do not know much Overwatch lore still know exactly what kind of guy Reaper is, which is character design doing its job.
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Why it matters
Reaper matters because visual commitment can carry a character through all kinds of tonal nonsense.
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