Overwatch

History of Roadhog

Chopper is a ruthless assassin with a well-deserved reputation for cruelty and wanton destruction.

Mako Rutledge is one of the many people in the Australian outback whose land was seized and used for the construction of an omnium. But in the aftermath of the Omnium Crisis, the government made the questionable choice to offer this land to the omniaks who had nearly destroyed their country, in hopes of establishing a long-term peace treaty. This deal permanently displaced Mako and many of the area's residents: a scattered group of survivalists, solar farmers and people who just wanted to be left alone.

Angry at losing their home, Mako and the other residents violently rebelled. They formed the Australian Liberation Front and attacked the Omnium and its robot population to take back the land that had been stolen from them. Things only got worse until the ALF sabotaged the Omnium's reactor core, which eventually exploded and destroyed the Omnium, irradiating the entire area and scattering twisted metal and debris for miles around.

Mako could only watch his home become an apocalyptic wasteland, and he was changed forever.

To adapt to his new surroundings, he donned a mask and rode his dilapidated motorcycle through the ruined highways of the interior. Gradually, he lost all humanity and the last vestiges of the Mako of old disappeared to make way for Chopper.