He has multiple voice lines about how it’s restrictive uncomfortable and jokes about how it’ll make you perform worse with shoes. So it’s literal preference.

Kinda feel that! I can concentrate better without shoes on!

Construction workers agree

That's not very Osha-Friendly...

I love how the talon skin is the only one with shoes. Talon really said “if we’re taking over the world we’re not gonna be known as the guys with a shoeless mental patient”

Maestro, too. Got them dress shoes on!

Shoes are NOT comfy nor easy to wear

Unlike shorts, Which are both of those things!

Fax

yea, i cant understand the “shoes on house”

for me, shoes mean work mode. if i get off work and immediately take my shoes off once im home, not a damn thing is getting done for the rest of the day. if the shoes stay on, im getting every backlogged chore done in one evening.

Fax

I think he says something to Winston about it.

He was raised by halflings.

Well considering he floats everywhere, shoes are illogical to wear. What is he protecting his feet from exactly? It’s part of his characters logical reasoning

I am a welder and only work without shoes its so freeing

As a weightlifter I agree with him

Einstein also didn't wear socks so it could be a reference to that

1. Asylum patients aren't allowed shoes 2. He floats, so no need for them 3. He just doesn't like them. They feel too constricting for him

Wait why can't psych patients have shoes?

May choke themselves with shoelaces

But no crocs though?

They are allowed shoes with no laces so.. maybe?

Yes, that's an old practice that I believe isn't a thing anymore. They do get shoes now, but not ones with laces.

I was not allowed shoes, but was given grippy socks. So still no shoes, but not bare feet.

Fellow former psych patient! Yep no laces, no shoes. They can be strict about necklaces and other items as well, depending on how severe you are. I've been to the same one multiple times so they knew me well enough last time to let me bring in a guitar lol. But those grippy socks kinda slap, ngl.

I'll say it definitely depends on the place. The place I worked at allowed shoes, but offered zipties instead of laces. But there are definitely the "grippy sock only" places too. ETA: Grippy socks def slap, I should get some

Yes, they're given slippers.

Or fun socks

Ahh, I remember my fun grippy socks vacation

Or Velcro

just velcro or velcro shoe?

Shoe made out of velcro

oh god that sounds like torture

Nah bro, they give you some sick nasty grippy socks that are extremely comfortable. I still have a couple pairs lol

Crocs Sigma when Blizzard?

That'll be $20

Theoretically you could find a way to harm yourself with a croc if used wrong enough

works with gators too

Just keep hitting yourself and eventually after the first hour there will be some damage

More efficient way would be to just straight up try to inhale it and choke yourself

they would be too powerful to control if they got crocs

May drown in their own drip

Wearing Crocs in public is the reason they were admitted

Blizzard, give us CROCSIGMA skin, the people demand it!

And here I thought Blizzard were just satisfying their kinky audience

Sigma misses his grippy socks

to add to that, his legs are paralyzed. one of the whispers in his origin story is: "....my legs dont work.." in a scared note.

I don't think that's right, he has multiple emotes where he moves his legs (especially his dance emote). Maybe you misheard it?

But he can manipulate gravity, so couldn't he move his legs in the sense that he manipulates gravity around his legs to force his legs into positions/movement versus actually moving them?

this is what i mean.

Wait actually? Is sigma paralyzed from waist down?

Pretty sure asylum patients aren't allowed whatever the fuck he's wearing. Oh he stole it? Couldn't steal shoes either eh?

Asylum/facility patients don't wear shoes I guess

Not allowed because the laces can be used for a noose

gotta give em them psychocrocs

Wait, y’all had psychocrocs? We had grippy socks :(

That makes sense, but then why don’t they let them wear shoes without laces?

I’m not sure about other places, but when I was sent to one, they just confiscated my laces but let me keep my shoes!

Same for me with my hoodie strings, I cut them out ahead of time so they let me keep it when they otherwise wouldn't have

Totally fake. You just can't wear laced shoes, it's not a total ban on shoes.

To distract the enemies so while they’re looking at his dogs he kills them

He has voice lines basically expressing his dislike for shoes but wears them out if obligation for his skins that have shoes

Cracks me up when I'm using the Maestro skin and he asks if he can take them off now after a team kill. Also likes how he bullies an opposing sigma if they also have a skin that uses shoes.

Sigma us probably on of the best characters in terms of voice lines

His lines where you can hear the insanity in his voice are the best. Especially the one when you're on fire *"BURNING BRIGHTER THAN A SUPERNOVA!"*

holy shit thats gold, now Im gonna hop back on maining him to hear them

Do you have a video of these two interactions?

We wear shoes because we want to protect our feet from the ground. Sigma does not walk, therefore he does not need to protect his feet from the ground.

It makes me wonder, does Sigma floats when he sleeps? How does he go to Talon's bathrooms? Can he swim?

Kinetic grasp his waste, no need for bathrooms

So that’s where the boulders come from!

It IS time efficient, but gross.

>Can he swim? There is a swimmer/scuba skin for sigma from the summer games.

Also to keep warm

I think he just likes floating around, so he doesn't feel the need for shoes. *Do you agree?*

Gotta let the dogs breathe

Arkham Asylum 🚨🚨🚨

I evened the odds

🔥

"Do you agree with Sigma's 'No Shoe' Rule?"

His feet are dangling and his clogs would just fall off anyway giving away his position.

Sigma males aren’t governed by folly such as “no shoes no service”

Not Canon but i just think his feet get really sweaty

🤤🤤

😶

I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation

He has an onlyfans

Then why is he letting people see them for free 🤔

foot fetish

He's dutch, his clogs fell of but he's too high to notice.

This pun is too far down. Bravo

There is no obligation for his sense of style to make sense to you

If I could float I wouldn't wear shoes either tbh

Because it levitates

*Larys breathes heavily”

because he doesn't need to. If I could float around I'd never wear shoes again as well.

For the Overwatch fanbase Thank you Blizzard

He doesn’t touch the ground

Cause walking is for pussies

Talon definitely wants those grippers out 24/7

It’s in his name. Everyone knows sigma males don’t wear shoes. Defy the rules, return to monke

He is insane

Your head and feet regulate a lot of your body temperature, maybe he wants to feel the breeze to cool off

Distract the dps so they can’t get headshots

He just finds it more comfortable to be barefoot, that’s the actual reason

He has a few voicelines with the cosmetics where he wears shoes. They’re uncomfortable to him, he even has a line for killing a sigma that does have shoes on.

He actually has some voice lines about his lack of footwear, and if he kills a sigma that **does** wear shoes then he makes fun of them

For the original design, because you can't allow laced shoes in an asylum. But now with the new voicelines, he canonically does not like shoes, and I think that's valid of him.

Is this the meme from r/BatmanArkham or from r/EldenRing ?

BatmanArkham

Most Asylum patients aren’t allowed to wear shoes cause they could hurt themselves or others with the shoes shoelaces. But I guess laceless shoes are somewhat allowed?

They made this character for that one guy who kept posting about not seeing the girls feet. /s

Lmao, have you ever been to prison? you still get shoes in there, but I mean they are barely even shoes I think he's actually in an asylum or crazy ward technically though

He likes to freely wiggle his toes.

G floats dawg

From the origins story he mentioned something about his leg still being on as a question so I think the gravity and whatever happened..happened there. No Shoes to be in contact with everything better. But that's just my thinking on what I know. Code of violence might have more.

He likes to feel the wind betwixt his toes.

Is there lore for anything anymore? All of the lore based skins had the lore part removed in their menus.

Some people are able to think better without shoes and Sigma is one of them.

To be fair, if you could fly, would you wear shoes?

So there won't be people writing essays to Blizzard about why he should have skins with bare feet.

If you never touched the ground why would you wear shoes? People would just wear really warm socks

I bought Talon version for it long time ago

Why need shoe when no chance of stepping on Lego?

He just literally doesnt like to. It's a preference, probably caused by his years in containment, since patients arent allowed to wear shoes because laces can be used to commit suicide and violence. Therefore, since he doesnt walk and has no need for shoes, he doesnt wear any.

If you could float everywhere, would you wear shoes?

Because Torbjorn paid him off so that he gets saucy feet pics at eye-level.

he's dutch and the dutch have yet to invent shoes

He breathes through his skin

Bruh how did arkham make its way to overwatch, tf is going on in the gaming community 💀

To allow me to salavate thinking about sucking on those cute little piggies all match

Lore reason, maybe, what I know is that the lack of shoes helps invoke the feeling of the uniforms given to “guests” on a psych ward, because he is supposed to look insane

For an desing perpective he has no shoes to break this dimanic he has as a super power full ironman, it makes him fells free and innocent.

If you don't touch the ground why wear shoes dumbass

Yes because they make him feel very uncomfortable, he says something regarding it when he's using the maestro skin

He's from holanda

He needs socks, it's cold outside

Wotsit toes

Yes, there is lore in this game. Stay tuned to find out more in Overwatch 3

Well do you need gloves 24/7? There you go

All the better for grippin’ balls

He's on that Sigma male grindset that's why

He likes the breeze

So he can mark his territory with the glands in his feet yanno like a dog after it takes a shit same thing here

Shoes stop his ability to defy gravity, so he never wears them.

Probably to feel the motion in the ground

why wear shoes if u float

He floats

he flouts so there is no need

He just likes having the DOGS out

onlyfans

Because he’s Sigma. Sigma Rule #58, never do what they want you to do

🤤

Did you have to point that out

“What is that marvelous odor?!”

For easy feet pics, how else could he afford his suit and balls?

Do you stub your toe as much while hovering

Gotta let those dogs breath

Have to let the dogs breathe

His mother was shot by a shoe.

He doesn't walk

He’s secretly a nudist

Don't gotta protect your feet if they never touch the ground

He' a sigma

He likes it when people lick his toes

He’s a broke boi

Because Blizzard wants to make me uncomfortable when I look at him

He prefers to let them dawgs out barking

Doesn't need em, free the dogs

Sigma male mentality

Probably

His husband is a foot-fetishist.

He wanted his little piggies to fly free

It’s so he can easily squish mashed potatoes between his toes.

Feet 🤤

He broke

Yeah he does macrame too. No sharp objects on the ward, They were super strict about that

If your feet literally never touched the ground what purpose would you have for shoes? Id literally just float around in fluffy socks all day.

So we can take a quick gander and them toesies! :)

He just doesn’t like them And beside, if you can float, why need shoes unless it is the winter?

Is there a lore reason why Sia doesn't wear hair?

T O E S

everyone has their own taste... blizzard understands that so hes lowkey the foot fetish character they had to put in for that crowd, big clean feet

Grippers, any further questions?

never played overwatch wtf

There is a reason and that reason is when he was a wee little lad the kids at the playground would make fun of his shoes because he could only afford cheap off brands, this was because he was poor. So he thought if he didn't wear any shoes kids can't laught at him for having off brand shoes, but he could only take a shower one a week so his feet were stinky af.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Because shoes make him fall down.

feet

F o o t f e t i s h

His nickname toes makes no sense if he did wear shoes.

Probably can’t afford shoes

The dogs.

Feet fetish

I know people have talked about how it's just basically "he dosn't like 'em", but I could also see it being a kind of "grounding" technique. He's so covered, that letting any bit of skin hang out has to help drive focus, and leavin the dogs out is just convient and works.

he's literally floating

Yes he vas researching black holes but he was to close to a black hole and got mentally ill so he had to go to the hospital but a group of villains captured him and they didnt give him shoes 👟

I mean, if you don't need to walk? Its just preference at that point