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(2/4) HOWEVER, with all of that said, I /do/ think things will improve for her, and in a big way. I’m not just being blindly hopeful when I say that, either. I know her situation is far from ideal, but if it’s getting you down, I think it’s important to keep a few factors in mind:
- She was chosen to be the series flag-bearer for a reason. People, for the most part, seem to like her, and the amount of attention Blizzard seems willing to pour into her for merchandise, marketing and in-game goodies tells me they have a lot of faith and confidence in this character. They’re not about to let a character worth as much money as her who’s so emblematic of the franchise stay in this rut forever.
- As backhanded a reassurance this may sound, this kind of treatment is about par for the course. Let’s face it, most of the characters represent a lot of potential that’s going unused. Zenyatta, Lucio and DVa have done nothing at all, Pharah and Symmetra have each been MIA from anything meaningful for over a year, and when you take Hero into context with all that’s come after, it doesn’t really have anything to do with Jack. The cinematic focusing on the founding leader of Overwatch is basically just a glorified setup for revealing Sombra’s name over a year later in Searching. Heck, even Sombra herself fits, considering that her cover’s been blown, the executive she coerced into stepping down was reinstated, and her Talon buddies are wise to her extracurriculars. It’s also worth noting that in all the time Ana’s been out, she and her daughter still haven’t spoken to each other outside of the game. And it took over a year for Mercy to canonically speak at all (Junkenstein doesn’t count, since that technically wasn’t her). I know the thought that matters are consistently underwhelming doesn’t offer much comfort, but it does make her less of an anomaly.
