Polygon has published a light-hearted piece about Shion, the newest playable hero in Blizzard's Overwatch, focusing on an unexpected literary detail hidden in her voice lines. The writer noticed that one of Shion's customisable lines, "I would not stop for death," is delivered by voice actor Mariko Baika with pointed contempt, and interpreted it as a deliberate swipe at Emily Dickinson's celebrated poem "Because I could not stop for Death." It matters chiefly as an example of the surprisingly rich characterisation Blizzard builds into even the game's throwaway, non-story dialogue.

When the writer asked Blizzard's narrative team whether the resemblance was coincidental, they confirmed it was intentional: Shion's writer had Dickinson's poem in mind when crafting her incidental voice lines. The article frames this as fitting for a hero who survived years of torture at the hands of the Hashimoto, and as consistent with director Aaron Keller's stated aim of making the cast feel like ordinary people with real interests. The writer, already fond of Shion as a fresh take on the vengeful-loner archetype and intrigued by her season-three storyline with Mizuki, says the detail may make Shion their new favourite.