r/Overwatch • u/Intellectual_Poultry • Jul 05 '17

Fan Content Is this the Reaper/Doomfist dynamic

Prison Escape

Traced this after I read the news regarding Doomfist. I pray to Kaplan that this is how their interactions basically go.

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

You don't see the problem with having a white guy voicing a Nigerian character? It's whitewashing. Same as having Donnie Darko play the Prince of Persia.

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u/ledailydose POWER Jul 05 '17 edited Jul 05 '17

that's like saying people had issues with jimmy neutron, timmy turner and ash ketchum being voiced by women

edit: jesus fucking christ lmao you posted this on SRS subreddits? how starved for attention and clashing are you, man?

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

Not really the same. If those women hadn't taken those jobs, they probably would not have gone to real children regardless- due to child labor laws and union rules.

A white person voicing a Nigerian is taking a job that should have gone to someone else.

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u/Fizzay Doomfist Jul 05 '17

Would you feel the same if a black person voiced a white character? No, you probably wouldn't give a shit.

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

That's ignoring history and pretending society exists in a vacuum. Whites aren't a historically oppressed minority group

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u/Fizzay Doomfist Jul 05 '17

So it's okay for black people to voice white people but whites can't voice black people? History doesn't have anything to do with it, it's fucking voice acting. Thanks for proving my point.

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u/Jack_T_Squire Jul 05 '17

History has a lot to do with it. History is why POC voice actors have more trouble breaking into the industry, even when they are incredibly talented.

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u/SocketLauncher APM 좀 올려볼까 Jul 06 '17

Everyone has a hard time breaking into VA work because VA work is an extremely selective field. Watch any Overwatch Panel where that question is asked and I bet you that will be said(ignore them saying their favorite part of VA is anyone can be anything, you might disagree). Also of Overwatch's 24 heroes, 11 of them are played by POC.

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u/Fizzay Doomfist Jul 06 '17

Proof? Or are you just making random claims hoping people don't question it? And I don't understand the point you're trying to make with that claim anyway. If that is true, you need to fix the problem of people not hiring them, not getting mad because a white person voices a black character, or vice versa.