Look at that dream come true
January 2, 2017
2:46 am
Picked the winner from the BPAL giveaway via random number generator, right now it’s this person unless they tell me they don’t want it and to pick someone else;
Probably not a good idea to have your hair out in surgery like that but hey, Mercy is about nothing if not brand recognition.
By this point, as far as I’m concerned, this is simply canon.
Seconded. XD
Isn’t the entire reason he had to train under Zanyatta because he had a hard time coming to terms with his new state as a cyborg?
I doubt he chose that new form for himself.
Maybe it was
“I didn’t ask for this. Okay, I did. But I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.”
“I was high on laughing gas. Why did you take me seriously.”
I thought it was because he was used to the original xbox controller and the new version threw him off his game.
My fan theory is that Genji died on the operating table, but Mercy wasn’t gonna let that sweet cyborg body go to waste, so she kidnapped and wired up a teenage American anime fan who’s been having the time of her life cosplaying an angsty ninja with a hot ass for the past 10 years.
That explains a lot of Genji players I’ve seen.
The true source of Genji’s anguish at being a cyborg: one week after Mercy completed the surgery to turn him into an Xbox, the 360 was announced.
Well it wouldn’t be that the xbone aws announced, that’s for sure.
Doesn’t the game take place in the 2070’s? in that case the surgery would have taken place one week before the xbox 36,000 was announced.
Given Xbox numbering conventions, I’m sure that the 2070’s version will be the Xbox -i.
or the xBox μ
The Xbox Alpha.
Xbox 0ne.
That’s a zero in there.
I’m just gonna take a moment to thank Sony and Squeenix for (mostly) incrementing their stuff with the system literally invented for tracking increments.
Pssh. Numbers? It’ll never take.
By 2070, they’ll succumb to the silly naming convention.
Xbox Sun and Moon.
I’m calling it now, the next one is going to be the Xbox X.
Close! Its the Xbox 1 X! Which is honestly worse somehow.
That was the last generation. Next one’s the XBox Aqua.
And here I thought he was just a shitty Warframe LARPer
Warframe is available on Xbox, is it not?
Goddammit Genji.
Well, good thing he doesn’t hold grudges. Mercy forgot to install the 360 start-up sound.
Doesn’t he mean “Turn me into Gray Fox”?
Because that’s EXACTLY what he is lol.
Gray Fox in Xbox 360 colors.
Hmm. Do you go to your doctor for cybernetic parts, or your mechanic?
You go to Major Kusanagi.
no, you go to Omni Consumer Products, or OCP.
With their prices? It’d cost you an arm and a leg!
Essentially they left you Grievous.
It’s funny how Overwatch isn’t my type of game, but your comics about it make it seem so interesting – good work as always.
And by carbon monoxide detector surely Hanzo meant his lungs… and by batteries surely Hanzo meant “I stabbed him”
“The only thing I ever did to Genji was take the not-being-pierced-with-an-arrow out of most of his internal organs.”
Hanzo savaged Genji using a sword. That’s the primary reason why he uses a bow now, he swore off the sword since it reminds him of how he killed his brother.
Planned obsolesense , the Bane of consumer electronics. Worse If you are a Cyborg, and buying remorse is a kick in the GPU. (Autocorrect nuuuu).
Why did a global paramilitary organization swoop in to save the underperforming son of a notorious criminal family to become a (presumably multi-million dollar) killing machine? I know “to help dismantle the organization”, but there must be a more straightforward, less risky way of doing that. Were they just waiting for someone to get Murphy’d?
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a team of the “world police” (because that’s basically what Overwatch became after the Omnic Crisis) being sent to investigate the reports of a battle involving the head of the big local mafia. They probably barely arrived in time to find Genji’s remains, left to die by his brother.
And then there’s Mercy’s tendency to value survival above all else. She sees someone in need, she helps – not paying much attention to cost, strategies or even possible risks and side effects. We saw the same later with Reyes/Reaper.
Holy crap, Mercy must have trained under Fran Madaraki… (For those who don’t know, Fran Madaraki has among other horrific things is the doctor who oversaw the birth of the Flying Spaghetti monster, created a working immortality serum that causes full body cancer as a side effect(As in you literally become one giant blob of tumor and not the fun kind like Deadpool…)
Come to think of it Fran Madaraki and Mercy probably went to the same medical school….
Well, not really, considering Fran was taught at home by her father while Mercy went out and got a “Dr” attached to her name at a university somewhere.
Also, I’d take being Reaper over the mildest procedure Fran has ever done any day of the year. She’s THAT bad.
Fran is a literal genie doctor, be very very specific and you’ll be fine
Las of unintended consequences?
I think it might have been Mercy saving him as a personal thing. They seem to get along, it could have been that they knew each other before the incident.
It WOULD explain why he has such a great ass.
He did have training as an assassin that was uncommon in them. Mercy saving him was probably her doing (like others mentioned), then, well, even the second brother is still an impressive combatant. Why not offer the job and see if he can make something of himself?
I kind of wonder if maybe Genji was doing more than just being a lazy teenager and maybe the clan thought/found out he was giving info to someone on the outside, like OW….
Maybe he was just a REALLY big fan of D.Va.
Maybe he was just a REALLY big fan of D.Va and thought that the best way to meet her would be to literally become an Xbox.
Hanzo: the biggest fanboy.
I love the thought that everyone just sees Genji and then says to Hanzo “You’re sick man!”
“Thanks for helping me with my Eva cosplay, brother.”
Is the line with the carbon monoxide detector a reference to the women complaining about the headache that supposedly the beeping of the carbon monoxide detector gave her, so she removed the batteries? (also why Genji is in the hospital, probably for carbon monoxide poisoning)
Pretty sure the implication is that Hanzo just took out the batteries so that Genji would get poisoned and die. Not sure it’s a reference to anything, especially since I can’t find what you’re referring to.
PS4 Gengi skin confirmed.
He already has a carbon skin that is black with blue highlights instead of green
Doubt infection’s much of a problem. If they have surgery to turn you into an Xbox, they probably also have antibiotics so strong you could sew a dead cat in his chest and he wouldn’t catch anything.
I strongly appreciate the contest of utter pettiness implied in this comic.
That thousand cut torture. Dismemberment. Then I guess he seppuku’d him?I don’t know how he’d lose the torso in that situation..
Conversion to full body prosthesis to lessen the strain on him, maybe? Organ damage and replacement? His father figured, just go for the full replacement to make him stronger? The possibilities are many.
Who said he lost his torso ? Its probably in a pitiful state, just like the rest of his body if he isint missing limbs but full on cybernetic augmentation dosent necessarily means missing pieces. In many science-fiction stories, people who undergo cybernetic limb enhancement also receive some form of modification to the torso, what with muscle groups and keeping pace with the augmented speed/strenght lest the body tears itself apart.
…yeah im a big sucker for scifi lol
this is alot funnier when you remember most of Japan doesn’t like Xbox.
And now here is my head canon for the conversation where the Shimada Elders ordered Hanzo to kill Genji:
Elders: “Hanzo, Genji is refusing to buy the new playstation system.”
Hanzo: “I know. He plans on buying the new XBox instead.”
Elders: *beat*
Elders: “Kill him.”
Hanzo: “What!?!?”
Elders: “NO SHIMADA SHALL EVER BETRAY OUR CLAN BY BUYING A DIFFERENT GAME SYSTEM!!!!”
Genji must have gotten his hands on some old CTRL-ALT-DEL comics.
back when CTRALTDEL was a gaming webcomic
Explains the green theme. Look out for red eyes though.
Red Genji’s of death only appear during Summer Games. We’re safe for now.
his eyes should turn red when he dies
Red ring of death should be an achievement for dying too many times in one game as Genji. One of those bad achievements that people judge you for. Forever.
Ha. I am amused that it looks like he’s grabbing for her boobs ^_^
I always thought Hanzo blasted Genji with that spirit Dragon thing they can both summon.