Widowmaker

Widowmaker, also known as Amélie Lacroix and Amélie Guillard, is a character from the Overwatch series.
== Charactah Account ==
Widowmaker is the perfect assassin: a patient, ruthlessly efficient killer who shows neither emotion nor remorse.
Due to her brainwashing, Widowmaker has a malevolent disposition and is very detached from her sentiment. She shows no mercy for her targets no matter who they are and has a love for killing, claiming that it makes her feel alive. She also seems to possess vanity when it comes to her skills and looks.
However, it is implied that Widowmaker isn't completely emotionless, as there are bits and pieces of evidence which indicate that her former self is still there somewhere. An example is when she's resurrected by Mercy in-game, she'll sometimes call out for her husband, or lament the fact that she's still alive. She also visited her husband's grave silently around Christmas, implying that she still possesses emotion to some extent, or that the brainwashing is starting to crack. 
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Overwatch
* Overwatch 2
== Trivia ==
* Widowmaker's name and her spider themes are a reference to the black widow spider.
** "Widowmaker" essentially describes her past, as she made herself a widow by killing her husband.
* Widowmaker's name is different depending on the game's language:
** "Fatale" in French (formerly "Arachnée" pre-release).
** "Trupia Wdowa" (Dead Widow) in Polish.
** "Rokovaya Vdova" (Fatal Widow) in Russian.
** "Hēi Bǎihé" (Black Lily) in Mandarin Chinese.
** "Duó Mìng Nǚ" (Murderess) in Taiwanese Mandarin.
* The tattoo on Widowmaker's right forearm reads "araignée du soir, Cauchemar", which is French for "spider in the evening, Nightmare". It's a play on an old French superstition that goes "Araignée du matin, chagrin; araignée du soir, espoir". Directly translated it means, "Spider in the morning, grief; spider in the evening, hope." A more literal translation is "If you see a spider in the morning, it's bad luck. If you see a spider in the evening, it's good luck."
** This is in fact evident by the fact that Widowmaker seems to have better luck with her missions at nighttime considering her successful assassination attempt on Mondatta and her failed attempts at Volskaya's assassination and Doomfist's gauntlet's retrieval. The other two missions were failures because of rotten luck/unforseen circumstances, such as Sombra's conspiracy and Brian's bravery. And, more relevantly, both missions were attempted during the daytime while her hit in King's Row was in the evening.
* Widowmaker's voiceline "let them eat cake" is a famous French saying misattributed to Queen Marie Antoinette in response to the peasant's cry in regards to the bread shortage.
* Widowmaker bears resemblance to the ghosts of Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft series, in terms of equipment and the use of mental conditioning.
* One of Nova's skins in Heroes of the Storm is Widowmaker and conversely one of Widowmaker's own skins in Overwatch is Nova. Widowmaker's face can also be found on a color variant of Tychus's armor. The lead hero designer has said that it's unlikely that Widowmaker will be a hero in the game.
* Widowmaker bears some resemblance to Valve's Team Fortress 2 character, Sniper. Both have done something to their family (Sniper abandoned his family to be an assassin, Widowmaker killed her husband), both have sniper rifles and sub-machine guns (however, Widowmaker's rifle is both a sniper rifle and a sub-machine gun, while Sniper's SMG is a separate weapon), both fire tracing shots from their rifles (however, Sniper's normal rifle doesn't fire tracing bullets; it's only when he equips The Machina or the Hitman's Heatmaker that his bullets will start to leave tracers behind), and both can charge their shots while scoped to deal more damage.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Widowmaker at Overwatch Wiki
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