Austrailia and the Junkers
It’s wildly known that both Junkrat (Jamison Fawkes) and Roadhog (Mako Rutledge) are both from Austrailia, however the backstory for their home is something that absolutely needs more exploration. Of all the places during the all out war known as the Omnic Crisis, Austrailia arguably got the worst end of it by the time everything was settled. After the war ended the world governments decided to allow omnics to build large population centers/factories in the Outback, which displaced a lot of people who were living there. Angry at the omnics, for obvious reasons, these people formed the Austrailia Liberation Front and begin to attack the robots.
However, this all escalated when they bombed an omnium factory’s fusion core and effectively turned the Outback into an irradiated wasteland. Now only those who live among the robotic debris have survived and are known amongst the world as “Junkers” which is where Roadhog and Junkrat are from. There’s no denying the obvious Mad Max inspirations behind this story, but we as players should actually get to see this world.
It’s clearly unlike anything else in Overwatch and perhaps one of the darkest tales in the entire series’ lore. Now exploring a destroyed Outback could make a fantastic map for players to explore and gather more tidbits of lore to deepen this area’s tragic tale. We don’t usually see the horrors of war or the Omnic Crisis in Overwatch, so opening this area up to the players should be something Blizzard considers down the road.
