> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.killscreen.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Winston, the Science Gorilla, is in charge - URL: https://www.killscreen.com/winston-science-gorilla-charge/ - Published: 2016-08-12T16:00:14.000Z - Updated: 2016-08-12T16:30:34.000Z - Description: We love Overwatch. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the “Overwatch odes” tag to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post. /// The last tim - Author: Reid Mccarter - Tags: News, overwatch, overwatch odes, winston, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39 *We love* Overwatch*. So we assembled 22 of our best writers and set them to work—a writer to jump into the skin (or robotic shell) of each character. The result is 22 odes. You can use the [“](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/)*[Overwatch](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/)*[ odes” tag](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/overwatch-odes/) to leaf through them all, or use the handy list at the bottom of this post.* /// The last time I went to the zoo, I stood for a long while in front of the gorilla’s enclosure. One of the animals—an enormous guy—was sat with his back to the glass pane that showed his home to passersby. Occasionally he would turn his head around very slightly to glance at the crowds of children and parents gathered only centimeters away from him. The gorilla’s eyes were a deep brown. The expression he made (and I might be projecting; I’m not an expert) was filled with annoyance and frustration. He was too powerful and proud to stand these kids tapping on the glass and yelling for him to turn around. He was too smart to be stuck in a paddock, no matter how big it may have been. he lets it all out Winston, *Overwatch*’s glasses-wearing scientist gorilla, is a cartoon, but he looks and moves an awful lot like a real ape. He’s decked out in a high-tech bodysuit and carries an energy-spewing gun, but he also runs around maps hunched over, giant fists pounding the ground beneath him as he goes. According to the short videos and character bio he stars in, Winston was raised on the moon and genetically enhanced. He came to Earth to use his superbrains for good and serves as the Overwatch team’s de facto leader. In the game’s intro, he rallies his friends with a pretty erudite speech. He’s very collected and cerebral, that Winston. Then, when his special ability is activated, Winston completely loses his cool. He throws himself around, smacking any enemy stupid enough to get close to him. In those moments he’s primal again. He’s a gorilla in a cage that’s too smart to be treated like any other animal. ![Winston](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/w.jpg) For the rest of the match, Winston pushes up his glasses, booms polite phrases like “Pardon me” and “Excuse me for dropping in,” and generally acts far more genteel than the jerks shooting him with bullets, rockets, and lasers. It’s something good, then, that, when enough has finally become enough—when he’s given up on being too smart to care about everyone else tapping on the glass—he lets it all out. When he spins around, glowing red with fury, cold clocking the ants in his wake, Winston allows himself to be the animal everyone thinks he is. When that happens, it’s nice. It makes you want to give him a cheer—“Fuck ‘em up, Winston.” /// ## **Offensive Heroes** **Genji** – [Genji is with you](https://www.killscreen.com/genji-is-with-you/) **McCree** – [Who you kidding? McCree is *Overwatch*‘s true shooter](https://www.killscreen.com/mccree/) **Pharah** – [Don’t play fair, play Pharah, exclusively](https://www.killscreen.com/dont-play-fair-play-pharah-exclusively/) **Reaper** – [In defense of Reaper, the patron saint of mall-goth teens](https://www.killscreen.com/defense-reaper-patron-saint-mall-goth-teens/) **Soldier 76** – [Soldier 76 is here to make everyone else look good](https://www.killscreen.com/soldier-76-make-everyone-else-look-good/) **Tracer** – [A series of limericks about Tracer, because why not](https://www.killscreen.com/series-limericks-tracer-not/) ## **Defensive Heroes** **Bastion** – [Bastion is the machine pointed at the world](https://www.killscreen.com/bastion-machine-pointed-world/) **Hanzo** – [Hanzo “looks like a good man,” my Japanese mom raves](https://www.killscreen.com/hanzo-look-like-good-man-japanese-mom-raves/) **Junkrat** – [I have fallen in love with Junkrat](https://www.killscreen.com/fallen-love-junkrat/) **Mei** – [Here comes Mei, the badass nerd hell-bent on revenge](https://www.killscreen.com/comes-mei-badass-nerd-hell-bent-revenge/) **Torbjörn** – [An ode to hard-working, salt-of-the-earth Torbjörn](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-hard-working-salt-earth-torbjorn/) **Widowmaker** – [Widowmaker made a widow of me](https://www.killscreen.com/widowmaker-made-widow/) ## **Tank Heroes** **D.Va** – [An ode to D.Va, the sassiest dream girl this side of *Overwatch*](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-d-va-sassiest-dream-girl-side-overwatch/) **Reinhardt** – [An ode to Reinhardt, tortured scion of a broken land](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-reinhardt-tortured-scion-broken-land/) **Roadhog** – [An ode to Roadhog is an ode to ugliness](https://www.killscreen.com/ode-roadhog-ode-ugliness/) **Zarya** – [Zarya makes Mother Russia her bitch](https://www.killscreen.com/zarya-makes-mother-russia-bitch/) ## **Support Heroes** **Ana** – [Ana is the protective mother we all want](https://www.killscreen.com/ana-protective-mother-want/) **Lucio** – [Inside the idiot party-bubble of Lucio](https://www.killscreen.com/inside-idiot-party-bubble-lucio/) **Mercy** – [Mercy is the most terrifying character in *Overwatch*](https://www.killscreen.com/mercy-terrifying-character-overwatch/) **Symmetra** – [Go ahead, sleep on Symmetra](https://www.killscreen.com/go-ahead-sleep-symmetra/) **Zenyatta** – [Praise be to Zenyatta, then chill the heck out](https://www.killscreen.com/praise-zenyatta-chill-heck/)