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.
Fans didn't skip a beat and immediately began turning their own pets into the heroic Jetpack Cat with the power of amateur photoshop and cosplay. Take a look at some absolutely adorable cuties down below (though, I'm not sure I'd be quite so nice to these furballs if they tried to chuck me off a cliff in game).
Wanted to join in on the Jetpack Cat cuteness!from r/Overwatch
Turned my cat into jetpack catfrom r/Overwatch
i turned my cat into jetpack cat!from r/Overwatch
Jetpack Cat Cosplayfrom 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."
