Moira, the new ‘Overwatch’ healer, grew from a simple idea: We need a villain

Blizzard knew two things going in with Moira: She needed to be a healer, and she needed to be a villain.

“If you look at the roster for Overwatch, it has these amazing heroes but not really a whole lot of villains,” Blizzard designer Scott Mercer said in a post-BlizzCon interview.

“I think to really tell a lot of great stories, it’s not just about the heroes. You need to have these great villains for them to face off against. So [Moira’s] a healer, she’s a villain, she’s someone in Talon.”

As Blizzard’s animated origin story tells it, Moira is a geneticist. Ethics don’t concern her, only results. At one point she worked with the Overwatch team, on their covert ops Blackwatch squad, but eventually left when she felt the team’s ethical boundaries getting in the way of her work. Read more…

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