#But there's a major difference between: 'This cartoonish and wacky American patriot went on a haha murder spree on bigots'

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I am the No.1 'Medic is a Nazi' headcanon hater. I do not enjoy it in the slightest. Probably the worst headcanon for him...ever, honestly.

For starters, why. It feels so racist and leans further into the evil German doctor stereotype than ever. Not to also mention it's so incredibly uninspired and lame. "Oh yeah he is a weird fucked up guy he must have worked with them–" no??? What?? Why???

It's also just really awkward and not fun. I don't feel the need to explain why having the silly and wacky mad scientist character in the goofy and light-hearted shooter game turn out to be a Nazi is just unfun. Bringing a group in with such real life hatred and bigotry and saying that one of the core cast is or used to be associated with them just crosses a line.

"Oh but the Nazis had a lot of horrible experiments that would be right his alley" and??? That's boring. That's lame. That just makes him less fun all around. What if he wasn't a Nazi? What if you DON'T go for the lowest-hanging fruit, huh? It would be like making Heavy a communist because "he must be one since he was born during or after it was established." It's far more interesting and compelling for them to not be that. Subverts the stereotype for the better as opposed to playing into harmful archetypes.

Just...how about he isn't one? How about we keep the light-hearted and funny hat game with their silly characters free from being associated with a real world group that killed millions? How 'bout that?