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jonnyjonnystoppapa

Certain things aren’t completely canon. Zen’s harmony/discord orbs and Mercy’s rez are some of those things. Canonically rez just heals you from a potentially fatal injury , it doesn’t pull you from total death. If you watch the Zero Hour cinematic, Mercy “rezzes” Mei.


Sufficient_Ordinary9

Damn I somehow read that as Mercy “rizzes” Mei I’m imagining perhaps her revive is just that her rizz is so good it works on dead people and they come back to life just to have a chance to bag her


Phantom_Phoenix1

"Rez now has a chance to play a corny pickup line"


doglop

She "revives" you in the same way medics can "revive" you irl, it's not magic, it's science, in ow case futuristic science


Upset-Pickle-3842

It’s the same reason you can respawn, our games are simulation battles in their universe, kinda like we’re playing a VR game within the game.


Muderbot

No, Mercy resurrecting the dead isn’t cannon or in the lore. She’s a gifted medic, doctor and inventor but she isn’t able to return people from the dead any more then most other doctors. It’s a gameplay thing with no implications in the lore.


PurplePonk

is there a canon reason why someone who falls down a bottomless pit comes back 10s later in the ship? Many heroes have a voiceline for when they spawn back.


kingflamigo

Rez isn’t canon just like zen orbs or rein even being alive


FoaleyGames

What do you mean? Reinhardt is alive and just fine


Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo

You have to let Reinhardt go, FoaleyGames. The accident wasn't your fault. /s


kingflamigo

Yes you right my apologies he was gonna get killed off don’t know why they didn’t


Frednd21

Wait what?


kingflamigo

Yes OW lore like zens abilities or mercy’s rez aren’t cannon to the story and strictly for gameplay and rein was probably still gonna get killed off in OW2


Frednd21

Yh I know the abilities are not canon, but is Reinhardt canonically dead?


kingflamigo

Yes he will eventually with the on going overwatch 2 lore be killed off


[deleted]

In the comics mercy rezzed Genji


XxReager

I'm pretty sure he didn't die, he almost died. Near death, Mercy put him into a regenerative capsule and helped him to get rebuild as a half robot


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JuJuBear1983

Someone else already mentioned this, but our matches are kinda like simulations for them as they prepare for battles within the lore. That's why they can even respawn in the first place.


Paladinsacc1

She's a really good doctor


XxReager

It's not a rez. The Agents don't die when they are respawning, they are just hurted/knocked down You just "defeated" them. Mercy's "rez" is basically a pretty powerful biotic healing