#Overwatch would be their Get Out Of Jail-card basically and if OW peeps knew they were just a bunch of jackasses

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Things that’d be hilarious:

If the Junkers’ international crime spree was completely unintentional

Like imagine the two just escaping Australia because the Outback is too dangerous (everyone wants Junkrat’s treasure) and they’ve become wanted criminals for, if nothing more, blowing up at least two buildings belonging to a huge company and possibly murdering its CEO.

So they escape for safety reasons. Go to random parts of the world for the hell of it. Maybe they’re just sitting in the park somewhere doing nothing but some civilian reconizes the two after seeing them on the news and alerts the police. Maybe on occassion Junkrat forgets he left a bomb somewhere and it goes off, alarming the police. Maybe they go to a museum to look at old, historical stuff (Hog’s idea) and Junkrat doesn’t know he's not allowed to touch anything, once again getting the police involved by the museum staff. Maybe Rat wants to try and open a bank account or make a loan for something and the people at the bank think the two are there for a robbery.

Crap like that keeps on happening. Their reputation keeps on getting worse and worse. So they just decide to live up to it because it’s not like they’re gonna be able to get out of it. Like if the police are already there and people are convinced they’re there to steal crap, so they might as well. If they tried to talk things out no one would believe them based on their past criminal reccord, so they’d still get charged with attempted theft and get thrown to jail. So why not go all the way?

I mean Junkrat isn’t opposed to getting a real job and “living legally” (as long as he gets to blow stuff up), he doesn’t really seem to have any motivation for an international crime spree except for maybe telling society to go screw itself. So it’s not like this wouldn’t be a logical explanation.

And it would explain why the stuff they’ve stolen ranges from the Crown Jewels and money to ice cream and plushies. Like no one really cares if Rat broke a vending machine and stole a soda when they’re already wanted for what would probably count as terrorism. And if the police are already there to take the two in because Rat wanted to get a good look at the Crown Jewels, they might as well take them.

Also, on a semi-related note: In A Moment in Crime the reporter comments on the two’s crimespree, asking this: “Is this the work of master criminals or just a couple of idiots?” Like IDK about you but in my experience when that question is made in fiction, the answer is always “idiots”-- with a hint of the “genius” part sparkled on top.

Let’s take Team Rocket as an example; after a ton of episodes it’s easy to see that Jessie, James and Meowth are just a bunch of dorks who always have their plans foiled by Ash and Pikachu, but if it wasn’t for these two they’d actually get away with their criminal acts just great (let’s not forget how their introduction episode gave us a good look at what a huge threat they actually are).

Here it’d be the opposite; the Junkers are being painted as criminal masterminds but in reality they’re just a duo of jackasses going “whoops, welp, lol yolo”