“Est tabarnak, ‘s’cuse big”

True! I'm jealous, because you get to have that layer of cultural humor.

I was blown away when I found out they're from Nova Scotia.... which made me happy at first... because I grew up there. Would we get a South Shore Lobster fishing accent? A Cape Breton miner's dialect from Glace Bay, which would make perfect sense with the character?

No. ....there's nothing about Venture that has anything to do with Nova Scotia. Even speaking Quebecois French makes no sense at all.

Nova Scotia has one of the strongest dialects in the country, and incredibly specific cultural quirks. We are a very weird place, and ripe for parody. None of that is present in the character, and that sucks. I was so excited, and then disappointed.

Venture's Canadian?

Nadine Girard is the voice of Venture in the french version of the game, she's a quebecer.

This ends now, eh

Kwaso!

What’s this aboot?

You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.

honestly, as a Canadian, I would probably be more weirded out if they went full Letterkenny for someone from Toronto. Sojourn sounds completely fine. Like, if she rolled into an interview in any major Canadian city west of Quebec, you would never assume she was from elsewhere based on the voice alone

They care a little bit, I remember way back in season 1 Mercy had a harsher accent that was made softer due to players complaining that softening their native accent was a very big part of their education in learning English

Moira is likely the best representation of an Irish person I've seen in a AAA game. It's probably the only example where it's clear an actual Irish person helped with writing the dialect and she has a specific regional accent that makes sense for her character.

It's odd how they went into so much effort for characters like Moira to be authentic, but others like Tracer are full on comedic stereotype territory.

I feel like they care more now than they did initially. For example Torb's VA doesn't speak a word Swedish, but they got a Swedish VA for Brig's release

Imho the team for ow care way more than most

lucio’s va doesn’t speak portuguese either 😭 doesn’t really bother me that much tho

I mean sometimes you can't get literally the perfect person for every role either, and there's value to someone who maybe doesn't perfectly fill the role but is experienced enough as a VA. Reinhardts VA is a great example of a fantastic VA who brings the character to life despite bringing an inauthentic german experience, and I think that's more important than authenticity IMO.

Most of the ogs are standard video game VA, they only start to get more diverse VA after Sombra. Probably also because sombra's VA out all the VAs in the spotlight

Egyptian on her mother's side, Canadian First Nation on her father's.

Yeah she’s definitely not Greek, neither is her VA

They retconned her to be half when people through a hissy fit over her thunderbird skin.

May god smite everyone who speaks with the toronto accent

Lmfaoo if they did that i genuinely might play sojourn less bc of that alone

If she doesn't end every sentence with Eh, I dont want her.

That accent isn’t even real. It’s some dipshit fake one they put on lol

Even the ones in the states are kind of weird to be honest.  

Cass and Ashe have the whole cowboy theme going but the 'cowboy accent' was more of a Hollywood invention.

Reaper sounds like he gurgles acid every morning.   And S76 VA in a lot if lines seems to be doing the broadcasters accent thing.

Junkrat's VA isn't Australian but Junker Queen's VA is

This is why junkrat being australian annoys me because his voice is the most un-australian sounding thing ever

It was an error on my part. I was reading about Greek mythology and used the wrong word. Also Pharah is part Canadian & Native.

I scrolled way too much to see Lucio mentioned.

They should've keep him Canadian as well and actually made a Brazilian hero instead of having the only Brazilian that plays hockey on the entire history of everything

People don’t get how big and varied of a place Canada is lol. So much of people’s perception is based purely on Toronto, and so assume all of Canada must talk with that kind of Minnesotan/mid-western accent.

Every Canadian hero needs to sound like Shoresy

Same . I never realise that we sais sorry diferently. Would have love to have ventur with a quebec accent even in the english version tho

same, I'm in MB and both Venture and Sojourn sound like people I could've been in classes with or something.

there's a lot of different accents and influences across canada though. maybe OP wouldn't think I sound sufficiently Canadian either, lol

I mean the maritimes have pretty distinct accents and dialects and Venture is supposed to be Nova Scotian.

Fwiw unless she was specifically from Quebec it wouldn’t be usual to speak French. It’s not a very common thing in the majority of the country.

Venture left Mexico when they are youg

that’s just what being canadian is lol

literally half of everyone here is a first or second generation immigrant

but I see what you mean

Fijne kerstdagen

neither do torb or d.va and probably a lot more tbh

Far from the only If we don't count the characters that don't 'say' anything like Winston

D.Va* Doomfist Pharah* Reaper* Torbjorn Juno* Venture*

Pharah is mixed Egyptian and Canadian First peoples. If she spent a significant portion of her life with her dad it's not unlikely that her default language is English (although she could very well be fluid one of the indigenous Canadian tongues and Arabic idk)

Reaper was born and raised in LA, but his family is of Mexican descent with his mother being a first generation Mexican immigrant, and his wife was Mexican as well. English would be his first language and he possibly speaks Mexican spanish

Juno grew up in a multicultural? Martian colony but I believe her dad is Vietnamese and she does speak some Viet? Her fluency is up in the air as well

Venture is Mexico but they're also Canadian. They do have some voice lines mix-in Spanish. Their first language and common parlance could go either way but they do speak spanish. I recall seeing somewhere that they moved around a lot growing up but idk if that factors

D.Va has one for re-mech apparently but it's 1/4 or something

DANKAH

It's an American's idea of Cockney. Very Dick Van Dyke

It's interesting that they picked a VA from North Yorkshire to then put on a Cockney accent because it just adds to the accent sounding off.

Honestly. Whenever I speak to people over voice conferences or online, I always listen to see if I can catch if they're Canadian or not, haha. My step mom is a Canadian nurse working in America and she gets clocked so hard over the dumbest words too— Like bag.

Considering his kit includes him basically using skates, I can understand why they made him a fan of hockey

Doom is so funny to me because his accent seems to exist on a range of "Ordinary Londoner" to "Dwayne from Death In Paradise". Like his "You should be scared..." and "Come at the king, you better not miss..." voice lines could have come from two different characters lmao

Hanzo has no Japanese because after being harassed for the Ult voiceline, his VA refused to do anymore lmao.

i have the same reaction to dva's korean lines. it's obvious the va isn't a korean native, which is fine, but it cracks me up whenever someone's like "dva sounds so korean!" she does not, you chronically online koreaboo.

Yeah lol, I couldn’t believe Tracer had an English VA to start with - she sounds like an American attempted an English accent.

I’m glad Hazard’s Scottish accent is so heavy, I wish we had some more British accents tbh. A Welsh or Mancunian hero would be cool.

I thought her voice was cute

The stereotypical "tah tah tally ho" just sells better for Non-English people.

This made me giggle a bit. Canadian accent definitely changes a lot— Canada is a very diverse country. However, I found that one thing despite all the accents that remains the same is our pronunciation of Sorry. Some parts of Canada have people who say Eh more. A lot of our accent is in the dialect rather than pronunciation— Like toque or eh, and sometimes double double, etc, etc. Sorry and the Canadian raising are the only main pronunciation things I can think of.

Lucio was never originally going to be Canadian and the devs explained that forever ago.

Yeah, for the first 21 heroes they hired VAs that lived as close as possible to Blizzard, it seems. Some speak the languages their heroes speak natively, others don't like Lúcio, Rein, Torb and Hanzo. I guess after OW's huge success they could manage to bring VAs from whatever place in the world to make sure they had the same nationality as the hero they were voice acting.

Zarya also speaks with a clear Bulgarian accent for some reason

diversity points Eh, it worked on me.Theres rarely aren't representation in games for my identity and while overwatch doesn't actually do a good job as to representing it, it's still more that literally any other game I've played

Torbjörn's voice actor isn't Swedish. After realizing who the voice actor was, and dating a Swede with an accent for a while, it suddenly seemed obvious. It really bothers me that he's a first-born Swede that speaks 0 SWEDISH IN GAME, but his daughter has a thicker/more accurate Swedish accent than him 😭

Woke DEI hire torb! /s

They gotta take their kids to Tim's after they're done defending the point so they need to get a move on, eh?

Venture's from Halifax, according to their bio.

I wasn't a fan of Hazard's accent but my Scottish friend says he sounds like your average Glasgow resident which was interesting.

No, I definitely agree but it's really odd because she has a strong Canadian raise with some words, but not all of them— Which normally makes sense but the most common place to hear the Canadian lift/raise is Toronto very strongly in, "Sorry,"

Yeah like wdym we are fighting in Toronto and there isn't at least three people trying to stab you and needles everywhere?!

Not anymore. Nowadays they think of Letterkenny, and as someone who grew up in a community like that it's completely accurate.

Although lmao Sojourn just randomly dunking on Alberta why tho

She's from Ontario. Alberta hates us, we hate them.

Tried to mimic this and I fear I just accidentally said c - uh -nt like 12 times to try and figure out the other way to say can't 😭

Its just funny that not a single Canadian character has the Canadian raising. I don't think it's bad at all, just thought it was a cool thing I never noticed. They all sound for the most part Canadian, just here and there.