Few are quite as heartbreaking as the case of Amélie Lacroix.

Boomstick: That's even more true than you think, but we'll get there.

Wiz: Growing up, Amélie never aspired or trained for combat.

In fact, she devoted much of her life to becoming a world-renowned ballerina in Paris, France.

Amélie's husband, however, was a key figure for Overwatch.

A global peacekeeping organization spearheading operations against a terrorist group called Talon.

Boomstick: Talon tried over and over to kill this guy, but they just couldn't pull it off.

So instead, they kidnapped Amélie.

Damn!

Not cool.

Wiz: Thankfully, Overwatch quickly rescued her, and life returned to normal.

Boomstick: Or did it?

Nope!

Because out of nowhere, Amélie killed her hubbie in his sleep.

Wiz: Turns out, the kidnapping wasn't just a simple ransom or attempted lure.

Talon ruthlessly subjected Amélie to intense neurological reconditioning.

Molding her into the perfect brainwashed sleeper agent.

Boomstick: Right, because she was sleepin' next to him in their bed and then bam!

First kill!

Sleeper agent!

Wiz: Right, sure.

She returned to Talon to complete their psychological and physiological reconfiguration process.

When all was said and done.

Amélie Lacroix was no more.

In her place stood the cold-hearted assassin known as Widowmaker.

Boomstick: Ah, I get why she's called Widowmaker!

Though it is kind of weird that the widow she was makin'...

was her.

Wiz: Brilliant deduction, Boomstick.

Widowmaker embodies the coldhearted killer trope so well, it's actually literal.

Talon's experiments slowed her heart rate and suppressed her emotions.

Turning her into an actual cold-blooded killing machine.

Hence the cold blue skin.

Boomstick: Ah.

I always thought she was just a Smurf with gigantism.

Wiz: I didn't even know you knew what gigantism was.

Boomstick: Your mom knows what gigantism is -

I introduced her.

Wiz: Oh my [bleep] God!

Boomstick: Y'know Wiz your mom had that same look on her face.

Anyway come back next week and we'll make them fight.