That post you made about Gabriel from the new comic was AMAZING. It makes me think about Reaper because his bio confirms that Reaper existed before the end of OW. (The bio says that he has been around for decades but OW was disbanded in less than a decade) So like Gabriel created Reaper to do undercover stuff so he wouldn’t get in trouble by the higher ups because they wouldn’t know that it’s him????? I’m sorry but my brain is going crazy about this. Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Well, it’s just speculation, but it could be!

I’ve seen a lot of argument back and forth on this idea, mostly having to do with the smoky stuff.  A few thoughts on that front:

1: There’s no mention whether Reaper displayed the wraith abilities prior to the fall of Overwatch.  Could be he didn’t have them then.

2: There’s no mention of when Gabriel got those abilities.  We just assume it happened after the fall of Overwatch.

3: There’s also no mention of whether those abilities are in fact nanite-related.  That’s a sensible fan theory, but it’s still just a fan theory.

In fact, I float you this alternate theory, although I make no claims of how convincing I find it myself.  What if Gabriel’s had the wraith abilities ever since SEP?  What if those are his enhancement?  By way of admittedly extremely thin evidence, I note that neither Jack nor Ana show any surprise about him wraithing around in the Old Soldiers comic, even if Ana does seem shocked by what she sees under the mask.  

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