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i am no longer giving anyone the benefit of the doubt on this shit. No one accidentally makes a five armed swastika in 2023
But a previous Blizzard treat may have had a five armed swastika therefore according to the Thermian argument it can't come from anywhere else and the fiction carries all the weight of its context.
This is literally a German character, there are no two possible opinions on why someone would possibly be putting a sonnenrad on him
Personally the symbol reminds me more of this kind of thing:
I don't think there was really any intention behind the symbol other than "it looks kinda cool".
Isle of Man (with too many legs)
Not relating to Rome, it is based ok the Diablo Archangel Imperius who is a villain who wants to wipe out humanity. He also has the same little suns.
So I think you're reaching a bit. Imperius is unambiguously a villain in the same way Diablo or Mephisto is, for reference.
He also has the same little suns.
His suns aren't the same. His suns are like normal suns. The Overwatch version has made it like a Sonnenrad.
Looking at this pic from the wiki, the style of the suns - and number of arms they have - changes from art to art.
Edit: looking closer, the skin seems to have directly swapped the arms for the legs someone upthread posted. Were they trying to make it less nazi-like and failed terribly?
Critical support for omnics destroying the western hegemony
Omnics rose up and the liberal heroes of NATO saved the world by military intervention and the power of "both sides"
Like, the robots disregarding their human-like lifestyle (as a metaphor for western hegemony) is painted as an evil thing. In the universe of Overwatch humanity is the imperial core.
God that is such a busy design. And so little of it relates to Rome. He looks like a tokutsatsu mech.
I mean the Sonnenrad was designed after a real pagan symbol and the Sun cross/wheel is not necessarily a nazi symbol. Although the black sun is.
Theoretically, yes. However, in practice it's kind of a "the Swastika is a Buddhist symbol" kind of argument.
The Sonnenrad is a bit different IMO. It's definitely a distinct symbol of its own, even if based on pagan symbols. The swastika was pretty much coopted as-is.
In a way that's kind of worse. Hundreds of millions of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, etc have their holy symbol coopted wholesale by Nazis to the extent where clueless Westerners still show up in Asia and ask why there's so many swastikas around.
Why, out of all characters, would you give a GERMAN character that outfit and why, out of all the ways to implement it, would you choose to make the sun look MORE swastika like?
I dunno it doesn't really look that sus to me tbh. It looks like just generic "cool buff knight in armor dude" design to me. It's like those "tribal" tattoos to me, it doesn't mean anything it's just there as an accessory.
I guess it's possible the person that made that particular piece of content is secretely fash and it's actually a dogwhistle but I don't see it really. These kinds of motifs aren't really that uncommon.
Those little suns aren't too bad.
Reinhardt is bad because he's GERMAN
It's way more sus that the futuristic German military had elite soldiers that were monarchists and cosplayed as knights.
Sonnerad? You mean Freedom Circles!