Mccree’s anger seems a bit off to me. Being upset with Reyes for changing the plan and putting their lives at a higher risk? Understandable. Getting mad at a black ops agent for killing a corrupt man that threatened the safety of the world? Confusing. Mccree is black ops too yet he acts like Reyes killing Antonio was against the Blackwatch code. I know that Blizzard wants to show Mccree reaching his breaking point before leaving all together, but it feels a bit forced in my opinion…

hammeh:

Good spot – this is one I’ve asked myself, but more so on reading the comic then seeing Retribution, as there actually feels a slight difference between McCree’s attitude in both.

Thanks Anon! Love lore questions and debates. I’ll bring all these up in my next Lore Talk (need a better name for this series!) / going through theories video on YouTube 🙂

The comic tone is certainly that Jesse wants to pop a bullet Antonio’s way, where Reyes wants to bring Antonio back alive – perhaps in line with Gerard’s wishes, as they discussed.

Gerard gets hurt, the Blackwatch facility gets attacked – Reyes flips on the spot with Antonio.

The “tone” of the event then is definitely that McCree is upset/angry with Reyes for this.

I think if McCree reconciled himself to Reyes’ plan of “bring him out alive”, only for his boss to then kill the guy (and get the whole Strike Team in trouble), that can explain McCree’s apparent shift in attitude. Or, that it’s a change in Reyes that he finds disturbing/unreliable perhaps. If your commander seems unreliable and is putting you at risk, do you still want to obey their orders?

I think on a wider note, we can’t hold too much station on the “changes” of mood within the event. Otherwise, we have a McCree who is wisecracking with Reyes about Waiters and Band one moment, then really angry at him in the next. Gotta allow the story of the event to have a little room for flavour and fun! 🙂

I think the “how” matters here. Yes, they’re both black ops dudes, but as we see from modern McCree, he clearly doesn’t have a problem with killing people per se – he’s still a gunslinger, after all – but he does believe quite strongly in having a moral “code” about how and when that should be done. So the problem is that Antonio was unarmed and not resisting when Reyes shot him, and Reyes was clearly acting out of anger rather than out of military necessity, which makes it murder in McCree’s eyes.

Also, I think no small part of McCree’s anger is that the way Reyes killed Antonio put McCree and the team in danger in a way that a planned strike wouldn’t have.