In the best thing Overwatch has brought to the world in years, fans flood the internet with edits of their own pets cosplaying as Jetpack Cat

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IRL Jetpack Cats as far as the eye can see

Bad photoshop of Paws, a black and white cat wearing a pink ribbon, edited onto Jetpack Cat from Overwatch.
(Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment / Future)

Perhaps the best thing Overwatch has given to the world in years is an opportunity for everyone to edit and dress their cats up as a hero, and fans have gripped onto that opportunity like nothing else, flooding the internet with countless IRL Jetpack Cats.

For those out of the loop, Blizzard Entertainment's long-running shooter Overwatch has been enjoying its biggest resurgence ever thanks to a meaty update featuring five new playable heroes, including Jetpack Cat, who is, quite simply, a standard, one brain cell ginger cat riding a weaponized jetpack.

Wanted to join in on the Jetpack Cat cuteness! from r/Overwatch
Turned my cat into jetpack cat from r/Overwatch
i turned my cat into jetpack cat! from r/Overwatch
Jetpack Cat Cosplay from r/Overwatch
My cat is jetpack cat too! from r/Overwatch

And as a bonus extra, I even waded into the wonky photoshop waters to imagine Paws, a very special cat who's no longer with us, as an Overwatch agent. He's the handsome gentleman in the pink ribbon pictured in our headline image.

Needless to say, the Overwatch devs won't be running out of ideas for Jetpack Cat cosmetics anytime soon. Grey tabbies, British shorthairs, and the dozens of fan cats from around the world should give the folks at Blizzard enough fuel to make skins with for years.

I'm also really excited to eventually see other people bring their cats along to nerd conventions in the future, dressed in pilot goggles and a leather jetpack buckle, hopefully.

Hype around Jetpack Cat hasn't exactly subsided since her release, either. The tides totally turned in Overwatch's new faction wars event due to Blizzard dangling feline-themed cosmetics in front of players' noses, but the new support hero is also about to be nerfed as the devs fear she can be "very, very lethal."

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Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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