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He is an eccentric astrophysicist who hopes to unlock the secrets of the universe, unaware he’s been turned into a living weapon.
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He is a wandering knight who continues to fight for justice and defend the innocence undeterred by the toll of his age.
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She is a former army sniper who has recently come out of hiding and rejoined the battle in order to protect her loved ones.
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He is a wraith-like terrorist who sets out to kill his former comrades to feed his desire for revenge.
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He is an engineer specializing in weapon design and is determined to keep his inventions from falling into the wrong hands.
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He is a vigilante who aims to bring the enemies who brought down his former organization to the light of justice.
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She is a geneticist who secretly works for Talon and currently resides in Oasis.
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He is a bodyguard and an international criminal who is infamous for being an unforgiving cutthroat with a destructive and cruel nature.
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Sojourn was an Overwatch Captain and the main force behind the Storm Rising mission. She was one of the members recalled in the Recall animated short. She also appears in Ana's origin story and a trailer for Overwatch 2.
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He is a combat medic who made the shrewd decision to make the world a better place, one bandage... or bullet at a time.
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He is a zealous and cunning criminal combatant who wants to drown the world in a future of conflict to "strengthen" humanity.
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The Queen is fierce, resourceful, and no stranger to survival, happy to run headfirst into battle.
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He joined the military looking for glory and was able to do so.
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Before the omnic crisis, Reyes joined the US military.
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She is the leader of the Deadlock Gang and a rebellious gunslinger who's not afraid to get her hands dirty.
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At eighteen, Morrison packed his bags and joined the military.
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He is a mercenary archer who is on the path of redemption to restore his honor and atone for the atrocity he once committed as the heir of a syndicate.
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Before the Omnic Crisis, Torbjörn had gained notoriety for designing weapons systems used by countries around the world.
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She is a nanobiologist and a field medic who always stays at the frontline of wars and crises around the world to heal the wounded and imperiled.
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He is an outlaw gunslinger and former gang member who fights for the principle of righteousness.
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The Soldier Enhancement Program was the American government's controversial and classified super soldier program.
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The Omnic Crisis began when the omniums started producing a series of lethal, hostile robots, which turned against humankind.
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He is a cyborg ninja who has freed himself from his criminal past and the war with his cybernetic body.
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She is an assassin who possesses no emotion except for the satisfaction of her targets' elimination.
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She is a security captain who yearns to protect the world's peace, like the heroes in her past.
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She is a climatologist who is on her own adventure to preserve the environment and ecosystem after waking up from a decade-long cryostasis sleep.
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Von Adler fell in the Battle of Eichenwald.
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We dont see how they died or what could possible caused their death.
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Overwatch was founded at the behest of the United Nations during the Omnic Crisis.
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It is an omnic wanderer formerly built to be a war combatant, who is now travelling to satisfy its curiosity about nature and leave its horrifying past behind.
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She is a hacker who has hidden within the shadows to find a global conspiracy that she once encountered.
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An artist, activist, and inventor, Lifeweaver has created a new form of life that heals wounds and cures illnesses.
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He is a scientist and fighter who possesses the strength and intellect to venture beyond the limit of humanity.
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She is a light-bending architect who weaves her construction in order and perfection to create a better world.
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She is a former weightlifting athlete who had sacrificed her fame and fortune to serve her country and her people in times of need.
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She is a time-jumping adventurer who is always willing to fight for the virtuous in the face of her life-threatening chronal disassociation condition.
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Lúcio is a DJ and freedom fighter hailing from Rio de Janeiro.
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The leader of Null Sector is on a mission to create a better world for Omnics… no matter what it takes.
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Humanity struck peace with the surviving omnics, and peace accords were signed. The Bastion combat units that had served the omnics were rounded up and destroyed bar one, and the Ravager units were hunted to near extinction.
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He is a demolitionist and an international criminal who is being targeted by law-keepers, bounty hunters and other criminals world-wide for the treasure in his possession.
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Bastion was programmed with the mission to attack Stuttgart alongside many other Bastion units, but it was severely damaged during the fight.
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The Australian Government gifts their native Omnics the Australian Omnium to live in, as a sign of goodwill.
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After the Omnic Crisis ended, leadership was handed over to Morrison, who had demonstrated greater leadership potential during the conflict.
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This collection of survivalists, solar farmers, and people who wanted to be left alone, banded together to form the ALF.
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She is a skilled metalsmith and mechanic, who accompanies Reinhardt as he wanders across Europe. She is the youngest daughter of Torbjörn and his wife Ingrid.
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Events continued to escalate until the rebels sabotaged the omnium's fusion core, resulting in an explosion that destroyed the facility, irradiated the region, and littered the Outback with twisted metal and wreckage for kilometers around.
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In an Overwatch sting operation at Route 66, McCree was captured alongside several other gang members. Overwatch was impressed with his skills and gave him the option of becoming a member of Blackwatch rather than going to prison.
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Every few years, the monstrosity would rise from the sea to assault South Korea and its neighbors. The omnic learned from these encounters, often reconfiguring itself in a different form and appearing with new weapons and capabilities. Each incident ended in a stalemate, with the monstrosity defeated but not destroyed.
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He is an omnic guru who wants to prove his purpose of mending the problems between humans and omnics through interpersonal connection and engagement.
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She is a former professional gamer and a mech pilot who is participating in her country's special force to combat a colossal Omnic's devastating invasion.
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Kanezaka is a quiet town nestled in the shadow of Hanamura
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After obtaining her MD and PHD in Switzerland, Ziegler rose to become the head of surgery at a prominent Swiss hospital.
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As the last of the Inti Warriors, Illari is a vessel for the power of the sun. She'll do anything to make up for her past.
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Winston escaped and returned to Earth, where he joined the Overwatch organization.
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He chose to leave the monastery and wander the world, helping those he met to overcome their personal struggles and find inner peace.
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After she was identified as one of the few capable of becoming a light-bending architech, young Satya Vaswani was plucked from extreme poverty.
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Fareeha enlisted in the Egyptian Army.
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He is a resourceful tinkerer with remarkable mechanic skills, who is rolling around the world seeking out his next challenge to overcome.
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She is an evolutionary robot programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence, versatile enough to fill multiple battlefield combat roles.
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Mercy first met Morrison when she was recruited into joining Overwatch as its head medic.
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He awakens in a forest after a decade of inactivity.
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It was mentioned that Hanzo took over the Shimada clan after Sojiro Shimada, their father, had passed away.
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He performed on street corners, in block parties, and as he got older, at a string of legendary underground shows.
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They entered cryostasis to survive until a rescue mission was made.
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Hanzo believed that he had killed his brother, but Genji was rescued by Overwatch and the intervention of Dr. Angela Ziegler.
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In an attempt to kill Gérard, Talon kidnapped her and submitted her to neural reconditioning and torture to turn her into a sleeper agent.
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Lena Oxton was assigned to test a prototype of the fighter. But during its first flight, the aircraft's teleportation matrix malfunctioned, and it disappeared.
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McCree was disgusted with the infighting and quits.
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The Overwatch comic "Legacy" explains that Ana had the opportunity to take out Widowmaker during a mission, but hesitated when she recognized the person she was aiming at. This mistake cost her dearly, as Widowmaker then shot Ana in her eye and left her mortally wounded.
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Reinhardt was forced to retire before Overwatch collapsed, as he was in his late fifties and his Crusader Armor had fallen into disuse. Regardless, he kept the armor and began traveling Europe with Brigitte.
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The chronal accelerator (a.k.a. chronal harness) is a device created by Winston for Tracer. It counteracts the effects of the chronal disassociation she suffered, keeping her anchored in the present. In addition, it gave Tracer the ability to control her own time, allowing her to speed it up and slow it down at will.
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Vishkar imposed controls on the residents in the name of building a more orderly society: enforcing curfews, cracking down on what the company perceived as lawless behavior, and exploiting the populace as a cheap labor force. Sonic technology was used to control the populace.
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The Swiss Headquarters of Overwatch, presumably located in Zürich, was destroyed during the time the organization was under investigation by the United Nations.
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Genji felt repulsed by his mechanical half and left Overwatch when the Shimada Empire finally fell. Genji had wandered around the world for many years, and spent an amount of time with the Bedouins, trying to come to peace with his cyborg body.
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Overwatch was forced to disband due to a botched mission.
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He came to notoriety when he discovered an extremely valuable secret in the bones of the omnium.
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He stole Vishkar sonic technology that had been used to suppress the people, and he converted it into a tool to rally them to action. In a popular uprising, they drove Vishkar out of their neighborhoods.
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The Second Omnic Crisis was a devastation for Russia. The conflict between omnics and humans has claimed over fifty thousand lives.
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She sacrificed personal glory to protect her family, friends, and country.
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After leaving the army with a commendation for distinguished service, she was offered employment with Helix Security International.
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Together, the two went on a crime spree around the world.
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After nearly a decade in cryostasis, Mei wakes up.
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Former Blackwatch operative-turned-vigilante McCree hitches a ride on a hypertrain to Houston in the hopes of skipping town and laying low for a while. But soon after the engine starts, he realizes his trip is going to be anything but "low profile."
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She became a professional StarCraft player, who participated in the WCS Korea Code S League at the age of 16.
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His desire to go legit made him and Roadhog targets for a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
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Anubis is a god program and instigator of the Omnic Crisis.
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Synaesthesia Auditiva is the debut album of Lúcio, which he spent two years working on.
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After the shutdown of Overwatch, he kept the Crusader armor and travelled around Europe to continue to fight for justice with his friend, Brigitte.
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It's well known that Genji was a student of Zenyatta. It was Zen's guidance that enabled Genji to accept his existence as a cyborg.
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Tekhartha was assassinated by Widowmaker during a speech at King's Row, despite the heavy guard he was under and the efforts of Tracer. A statue of him was erected sometime later at King's Row, near the site of assassination.
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D.Va quickly grew in skill to become MEKA's top pilot, even streaming combat operations to her adoring fans.
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Soldier: 76 has been sighted in Dorado.
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LumériCo showed off designs for its latest clean-energy nuclear power plant.
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Ana sabotaged several Talon operations in Egypt, drawing attention from Reaper and his associate Hakim, as well as Jack.
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Despite Talon's apparent failure at Gibraltar, Winston's recall action partly worked in their favor. The recall was sent to former Overwatch agents.
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The gauntlet was locked up while Doomfist was in prison awaiting talon plans to come to fruition.
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She is a guardian omnic who has currently existed for only a month and has already taken the role of her city's protector.