Overwatch/Characters

Overwatch
Overwatch is an task force that was form to protect innocents, during the Omnic Crisis.

Winston
Voiced by: Crispin Freeman

Despite being a super-intelligent, genetically altered gorilla, Winston is one of Overwatch's brilliant scientists.


 * Ape In Space: Winston used to lived in the Horizon Lunar Colony and was this. Though his gorilla contemporaries became killer space apes.
 * Dropped Glasses: In some fights, Winston drops his glasses, or rather they get punch off of his face.
 * Even Heroes Have Heroes: The original Dr. Winston was this to Winston. The scientist told him stories about the human race's ingenuity, integrity, and fleets of heroism.
 * The Hermit: When Overwatch fell, Winston cuts himself out of the world by secluded himself. Yet longs for heroism to return.
 * Hulking Out: Two words: "Primal Rage."
 * Averted. Winston has control of his "Primal Rage" and he can activate it by himself. He doesn't have to break his glasses to do this.
 * In-Series Nickname: Tracer and Winston's close friends nicknamed him "Big Guy."
 * The Lab Rat: During his early days in the Horizon Lunar Colony, Winston assisted the scientists' experiments.
 * Shoo Out the Kids: Winston then tells both Brian and Timmy to go for cover.
 * Super Intelligence: He was one of the gorillas that has increase rapid brain development from the gene therapy, to the point that Dr. Harod Winston took him under his wing and taught him science and told stories about human ingenuity.
 * Smart Gorillas Wear Glasses
 * Omnidisciplinary Scientist: The student of Dr. Winston continues to studies and puts his skills to good use, there's too many examples, but one of them is designing the Chronal Accelerator to help Tracer stay put in time, when other scientists fail to figure out what's wrong.
 * Omnidisciplinary Scientist: The student of Dr. Winston continues to studies and puts his skills to good use, there's too many examples, but one of them is designing the Chronal Accelerator to help Tracer stay put in time, when other scientists fail to figure out what's wrong.

Hammond/Wrecking Ball
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker/Jonathan Lipow

Hammond was one of the test subjects from the Horizon Lunar Colony. After escaping the latter, he became a mech battle champion, and lastly, is on a quest to explore earth.


 * Ace Pilot
 * Curious as a Rodent: His curiosity is so big that Hammond explores during the night.
 * Even going so far to make a spacecraft to explore earth.
 * Little Stowaway: A hamster example, when Winston plotted and got away from the Horizon Lunar Colony, Hammond took this golden opportunity to stoleaway as well.
 * Secret Identity: While Hammond was in the Scrapyard battle arena, he went by the name of "Wrecking Ball."
 * Bonus: No one knew that he's a rodent participating in the mech battles and rising up the ranks.
 * Foreign Cuss Word: Hammond can curse, but the wrecking ball mech refuses to translate hamaster-ese profanity.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Hammond fixes and builds his own spaceships and weapons.
 * Super Intelligence: Because of gene therapy, Hammond's intelligence grew. As well as his curiosity and mech assembling skills.
 * Walking the Earth: Hammond travels the world, sating his huge curiosity, and having his own adventures along the way.

Mei
Voiced by: Elise Zhang

Mei is a climate scientist and one of the eco-Watchpoint members.


 * Diary: Winston advises her to write a journal about her experiences at the Antarctica Eco-Watchpoint and publish it.
 * Living Relic: Mei woke up nine years later to find that her fellow scientists are gone, same with Overwatch, and she's the only one left alive.
 * Older Than She Looks: Mei's appearance hasn't change much, despite being in cryostasis for almost a decade.
 * Robot Buddy: Snowball, nuff said.
 * Reassigned to Antarctica: Mei-Ling Zhou was part of one of Overwatch's eco-Watchpoints, which is located in Antarctica.
 * Sole Survivor: Out of her fellow Eco-Watchpoint scientists that were stranded, Mei's the only one that lived and breathe for another day.
 * Walking the Earth: Mei chose to continue her studies on climate alone and travels around the world to resurrect the eco-network and find out the threats to the earth's ecosystem.

Tracer
Voiced by: Cara Theobold

Lena Oxton was a hot shot pilot and part of Overwatch.


 * Ace Pilot: According to one of the shorts, Lena is a fearless pilot. Before she joined the Overwatch program.
 * Amplifier Artifact: Tracer can use the Chronal Accelerator to speed up her time or slow it down.
 * Back from the Dead: In universe. Everyone thought that Lena Oxton died in while doing Overwatch's experimental flight program. Until, she reappeared several months later.
 * Chaotic Good: She's describe as a "force of goodness", even if it means lawbreaking.
 * Flash Step: Her blinking abilities.
 * Intangible Lesbian: Since Lena suffers from "chronal disassociation", disappearing for hours, even days, and can't maintain her physical form. This makes her a "living ghost."
 * Keet: Lena is the happiest and quickest out of all the characters.
 * Girls Love: In the Tracer: Reflections comic, Tracer's love interest Emily is shown and the two share a kiss at the end.
 * Goggles Do Nothing
 * The Nicknamer: She gave Winston his famous nickname.
 * Power Limiter: The Chronal Accelerator, which keeps Tracer grounded to the present.
 * Vigilante Lesbian: When Overwatch disbanded, Tracer uses any opportunity to fight crime when it presents itself.
 * The Runt At the End: Lena Oxton was the youngest out of all the pilots that were recruited to the Overwatch flight program.

Ana Amari
Voiced by: Aysha Selim

Ana Amari was one of Overwatch's original founders and uses her talents to defend Egypt and those she cares about.


 * Instant Death Bullet: She survived
 * Bounty Hunter: When Overwatch fell, Ana became a bounty hunter, until the recall.
 * Combat Medic: Ana has two weapons, the Biotic Rifle's darts and Biotic Grenades, that earns her the "Combat Medic" title, since they can also heal her allies and restore their health.
 * Eye Scream: She lost her right eye, thanks to her not sniping Widowmaker first. Because,
 * Friendly Sniper: Ana is one of the best snipers that Egypt has produce.
 * Lone Survivor: Ana survived the failed hostage rescue mission out of her unit, since Widowmaker "one shot, one killed" them all.
 * Mama Bear: Ana got this nickname, because she takes care of whatever troops she's assign to.
 * No One Should Survive That: In universe, out of the unit that Widowmaker killed. Ana was the only survivor, but the whole world thought she was one of those victims.
 * We Thought You Were Dead: The whole world assumed that she died during the failed rescue.
 * Some of the reactions from her friends, like Soldier 76, were thinking this.

Soldier: 79/Jack Morrison
Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore

Jack Morrison was one of the original founders of Overwatch.


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 * Badass Grandpa: Jack Morrison still fights despite his age.
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Mercy
Voice by: Lucie Pohl

Dr. Angela Ziegler is Overwatch's brilliant healer, scientist, and peace advocate.


 * Actual Pacifist: Dr. Ziegler is not just a scientist and healer, she's also a staunch peace advocate. Even disapproving Overwatch's militaristic approaches.
 * Auto Revive: Mercy has this ability, Resurrect, to bring KO allies back, complete with full health gauges.
 * Combat Medic: Dr. Ziegler even has her trusty Caduceus Blaster at her side.
 * Flight: Angela's Valkyrie suit gives her flying abilities.
 * Guardian Angel: Mercy is this to her team and Overwatch.
 * Healing Shiv: Her Caduceus Staff may appear intimidating, but it's use to heal allies.
 * Holy Halo: It's part of Dr. Ziegler's angelic costume theme.
 * The Medic: Becoming the head surgeon at a very prominent Swiss hospital and pioneering in a scientific field of applied nanobiology are just some of Mercy's accomplishments that capture Overwatch's eyes.
 * Parents Taken By War: This is what made Angela go the peace keeping route.

Jesse McCree
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer

Jesse McCree is a former Overwatch member, who is now an outlaw, and does his own justice.


 * The Atoner: McCree believes that the can atone for his past sins, by righting what he sees as the world's injustice.
 * The Cynic
 * Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Averted. While McCree was part of the Deadlock Gang, who were trafficking weapons and military hardware in the American Southwest. Overwatch busted and arrested the whole gang.
 * Handicapped Badass: Jesse has a cybernetic prosthetic arm.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: Jesse McCree's sharpshooting skills are so great that he made a name for himself when he was a gangster.

D.va
Voiced by: Charlet Chung

Hana Song (aka D.VA) is a young South Korean, who is part of MEKA.


 * Ace Pilot: Thanks to MEKA recruiting Hana (and other skilled gamers), her gaming skills are needed to pilot the MEKA units.
 * Asian and Nerdy: Wears this to a "T", even is a Gadgeteer Genius to boot.
 * Gamer Chick: Hana Song was one of South Korea's gaming champions. Until she was recruited to MEKA.
 * Hidden Depths: The director and editor of "Shooting Star" states that they were aiming for a side of D.Va that's not being shown when gamers play as her in their gaming romps.
 * You Are Not Alone: Dae-Hyun tells Hana this, even trying to get Hana to open up a bit to sharing her burden. But's its hard for her to even ask for help.
 * Zen Survivor: In "Shooting Star", Hana has a small flashback of D.Va in the midst of battle with other MEKA units, protecting Hong Kong from Omnics. It's brief and to the point, showing that D.Va has some battle scars.

Ray
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Torbjörn
Voiced by: Keith Silverstein

Torbjörn Lindholm is a brilliant engineer and one of the founding members of Overwatch.


 * Gadgeteer Genius: It's to the point that during Overwatch's height, all their weapons and equipment can be traided to Torbjörn Lindholm's workshop.
 * Handicapped Badass
 * Mr. Fixit: He can build and fix things. Later on, Torby feeling that he's responsible went on a quest, determined to prevent his inventions from falling into the wrong hands.
 * The Nicknamer: Not him, but his friends nicknamed him "Torby".
 * Properly Paranoid: Torby distrusts anything Artificial Intelligence, his peers just dismissed this as Lindholm being "paranoid"...Until the Omnic Crisis happened.

Maria Estrada
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Reinhardt Wihelm
Voiced by: Darin De Paul

Reinhardt Wihelm was a champion of a bygone age and one of Overwatch's original founders.

""They're just slowing me down."
 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: During his hayday, Reinhardt was this, and doing it for glory.
 * The Call: In the "Honor and Glory" short,
 * Immortal Hero: The crusaders are suppose to be immortal.
 * The Load: When ordered to get back to his team, Reinhardt answered.


 * Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me: Reinhardt's Barrier Field is this.


 * Glory Days: The short "Honor and Glory" shows an older Reinhardt reminiscing of the old, glory days, and his own regrets as a crusader.
 * Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: A now elderly Reinhardt has a scar running down on his face and an injured eye. And he

Genji
Voiced by: Gaku Space

Genji Shimada is the youngest of the Shimada Clan.


 * Back From the Dead: Dr. Ziegler and the rest of Overwatch saved Genji's life, after Hanzo left him for dead (Hanzo thought he killed his younger sibling).
 * Black Sheep: Despite loving martial arts, Genji is hardly interested in embracing the Yazuka business.
 * Cyborg: Even though Genji is still human, his appearance is more robot.
 * Handsome Lech: In his younger days, Genji had a playboy lifestyle, which is befitting for a rich guy like him.

Kimiko
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Talon
A mysterious terrorist organization and Overwatch's rival.

Doomfist
Voiced by: Sahr Ngaujah

Doomfist (real name Akande Ogundimu) is a mercenary, who believes that plunging the world into countless wars will make humanity stronger.


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 * Cultured Badass: Akande's intelligence and charisma helped him in life, but he also loves competitive martial arts.
 * He Cleans Up Nicely: Doomfist wears a white tuxedo with a rose lapel in the Doomfist: Masquerade comic.
 * The Social Darwinist: Doomfist's reasons for wanting to start wars was this, believing that plunging the whole world into a huge conflict will make the whole human race stronger.

Widowmaker
Voiced by: Chloe Hollings

Widowmaker is one of Talon's most ruthless assassin and sniper.


 * Animal Motif: Everything about Widowmaker are spider themes, most notably the black widow spider.
 * Amazing Technicolor Babe: Widowmaker is this, though
 * Bio Augmentation:
 * Brainwashed and Crazy:
 * Cold Sniper
 * Damsel in Distress: When Talon
 * Emotion Suppression: It's rather forcibly, since
 * "To Moira:"I don't feel - that's the point, isn't it?""


 * Femme Fatale
 * Grappling Hook Pistol: One of Widowmaker's many arsenal. Also, this helps her to get from point A to point B.
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 * The Rival: To Tracer, ever since the early trailers shows her to be a good foil towards her.
 * Sense Freak: In a rare human example, the reason why Widowmaker kills, is so she can feel alive.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: In the Doomfist: Masquerade comic, Widowmaker is seen wearing a black ballgown, a necklace, and her hair is tied in a bun.
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: In the Doomfist: Masquerade comic, Widowmaker is seen wearing a black ballgown, a necklace, and her hair is tied in a bun.

Sombra
Voiced by: Carolina Ravassa

A description of the character goes here.


 * Child Prodigy: Sombra outdid the other kids with her hacking skills.
 * Child Soldier: At an early age, during the Omnic Crisis, she was left an orphaned, she survived by using her hacking skills and computer knowledge.
 * Played straight with thousands of nameless children who are made orphan from the Omnic Crisis. But no none of them has Sombra's gift.
 * I Was Never Here: To some people, groups, and governments, she's nobody and doesn't exist.
 * Manipulative Bitch: Along the way, Sombra finds that people are easily manipulated. She takes advantage of this.
 * Trope: Taking the Knowledge is Power to it's extreme, Sombra continues hacking, even going after bigger targets: governments, politicians, and corporations.
 * Trope: After upgrading, the girl is dead now, but Sombra is born.
 * Trope: She asks Zarya how does she know that her real name is.

Sanjay Korpal
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 * Trope: Sanjay was seen in "Moria Origin Story" with other Talon members, like Doomfist and Reaper. Cementing his true intentions.
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Moira O'Deorain
Voiced by: Genevieve O'Reilly

Moria is one of Talon's top scientists, does things For Science, and healer of the group.


 * Bio Augmentation: Since she experimented on herself...Plus, there's her many achievements.
 * Evil Redhead: Moira is part of Talon, is evil, and redhaired.
 * Evilutionary Biologist: Everything Moira does is for her to find ways to rewrite llife's building blocks, some of her prime examples are Widowmaker and Reaper's death abilities. Their DNA was altered in some way.
 * Evil Laugh: Fitting for Talon's resident scientist.
 * Mad Scientist: Her former colleagues see her scientific methods as questionable.
 * New Tech Is Not Cheap: Moira usually needs funds for her scientifically unethical research. Her saviors are Blackwatch and eventually Talon.
 * Playing with Syringes: Moria wants to push humanity further so much that she

Reaper
Voiced by: Keith Ferguson

Reaper is a mysterious mercenary who hangs out with Talon and has just as mysterious origins.


 * Badass Longcoat: Reaper's more of the evil variety of the badass longcoat.
 * Bio Augmentation: In Moira's Origin vid, can be seen getting augmented to gain special powers.
 * The Grim Reaper: Reaper even wears the mask, longcoat, and whatnot to drive this point home.
 * Guns Akimbo
 * Life Drain: The bodies of Reaper's victims, mostly Overwatch operatives, are husks of corpses, that are pale, cellular degradation, and completely drained.
 * Trope: During a fight where he unmasks himself to Ana, Reaper commented that Overwatch left him to die.

Antonio
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Vialli
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Akinjide Adeyemi
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Hakim
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Neither Groups
These characters' alliance are to their best friends, family, or part of a different group(s) and organizations.

Junkrat
voiced by: Christopher L. Parson

A description of the character goes here.


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 * Handicapped Badass
 * Shirtless Scene: He walks around shirtless.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Junkrat's the personified version of this trope, even stating that there's two things that solves problems "Money and explosions."
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Roadhog
Voiced by: Josh Petersdorf

A description of the character goes here.


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Hanzo
Voiced by: Paul Nakauchi

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Brigitte Lindholm
Voiced by: Matilda Smedius

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Bastion
Voiced by: Chris Metzen

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Orisa
Voiced by: Cherrelle Skeete

Orisa is Numbani's guardian.


 * Badass Automaton: Efi Oladele re-program Orisia to not just be Numbani's protectors, she gave OR15 a heart.
 * Computer Voice
 * Kids and Cute Robots: Averted. In the Orisa origin story vid, eleven year old Efi Oladele, who already aced in robotics and artificial intelligence, used her grant money to get one of the OR15 units and upgraded it.
 * The Last of Her Kind: Orisa is the last of the decommission OR15 units, since the others were destroyed by Doomfist and the remaining ones were scrapped and decommissioned.
 * Robot Name: The OR15.
 * Meaningful Rename: Instead of a robot name, Efi gave her a Hero name. Since every hero needs one.
 * Personality Core: Efi designed one herself and installed it into OR15.
 * Skilled but Naive: Orisa still has so much to learn about the world and her own functionality, despite her being strong and capable fighter. Sometimes she's a liability.
 * Younger Than She Looks: Orisa's only a month old.

Lúcio
Voiced by: Jonny Cruz

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Zarya
Voiced by: Dolya Gavanski

A description of the character goes here.


 * Butch Lesbian: Averted. Aleksandra just has the appearance, like the pink hair.
 * Break the Cutie: Since she grew up in a post-war destruction of her village and the aftermath, which would break any kid.
 * I Gave My Word: Zarya vows to be strong to help people.
 * I Know Your True Name: In the Searching comic, Zarya whispers into Sombra's ear her real name, which is . The hacker's shock expression says all.
 * Noble Bigot: Zarya is racist towards anything Omnic and robotic. It's mainly due to the Omnic Crisis, she grew up in a war torn remote Siberian villain..
 * Pink Haired Girl: Aleksandra is a rare Western version of this, plus, she's strong and passionate in a non-romantic sense.
 * You Are a Credit to Your Race: Zarya actually.

Symmetra
Voiced by: Anjali Bhimani

A description of the character goes here.


 * Handicapped Badass: One of Symmetra's arm is replaced by a robotic prosthetic arm.
 * High Functioning Autism: Jeff Kaplan confirmed a long held fan theory, that Symmetra has high functioning autism.
 * Reality Warper: She does this by manipulating hard-light constructs.
 * Rags to Riches: She was pluck out very extreme poverty and placed in the care and guidance of Vishkar's architect academy, just because Satya Vaswani has the skills needed to become a light-bending architect.

Pharah
Voiced by: Jen Cohn

A description of the character goes here.


 * Badass Army: Fareeha Armari enlisted in the Egyptian army.
 * Like Mother Like Daughter: Pharah dreams of following her mother's footsteps and enter Overwatch.
 * Rank Up: Her persistence and tactical prowess causes her to rise up through the officer ranks.
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Zenyatta
Voiced by: Feodor Chin

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Balderich von Adler
Voiced by: Piotr Michael

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Minor Characters
Those who have small roles, whether they're neutral, part of Overwatch, Talon, or not.

Emily
Emily is currently Lena Oxton's girlfriend.


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Athena
Voiced by: Evelyn Duah

A description of the character goes here.


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 * Robot Buddy: Athena is shown to be friendly to Winston and other members of Overwatch.
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Al-Farouk
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Bayless
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Gérard Lacroix


Gérard Lacroix is one of the members of Overwatch.


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Gabrielle Adawe
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Katya Volskaya
Voiced by: Gulmira Mamedova

A description of the character goes here.


 * Benevolent Boss: Katya is the opposite of the Corrupt Corporate Executive, except for a few things.
 * I Just Want a Friend: She asks this of Zarya and
 * Trope: It's reveal that Katya Volskaya has a daughter, there's not much about happened about her husband.
 * Of the People: Katya is beloved by all of Russia.
 * Trope: The "few things" are that she uses the black market to get and use technology from the omnics. Her own countrymen don't know she is doing this.

Dr. Harold Winston
Voiced by: Greg Chun

Dr. Winston is one of the many scientists of the Horizon Lunar Colony.


 * Generic Name: His name is Harold Winston, it's generic sounding as it can get.
 * Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Harold is part of an expedition colony, that conducts experiments on animals and affects of prolonged living in space.
 * Smart People Wear Glasses: Mainly because Harold is one of the many scientists, so yeah, he'll wear glasses.
 * Parental Substitute: Harold was this to Winston and probably Hammond.
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Hal-Fred Glitchbot
Voiced by: Travis Willingham

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Timmy
Voiced by: Kyle Harrison Breitkopf

A description of the character goes here.


 * Fanboy: Of Overwatch.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Timmy is the excitable, younger brother.
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Brian
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 * Trope: Brian took Doomfist's gauntlet out of the display, so Widowmaker wouldn't steal it.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Brian's the blue one.
 * Megaton Punch: Using Doomfist's gauntlet, Brian punches Widowmaker across the museum.
 * Wait Here: He orders his younger brother to stay in one spot, while he pulls a quick thinking stunt.

Alejandra
Voiced by: Brigitte Kali

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Training Bot
Voiced by: Aaron Phillips

The training bot is from the tutorial mode, teaching the new recruits how to be good Overwatch/Talon/Blackwatch agents.


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Dae-Hyun
Dae-Hyun is one of the Mobile Exo-Force and Hana Song's mechanic.

""You mean the one you wrecked?""
 * Childhood Friend: Dae-Hyun knows Hana Song long before the glitz and glamour, since they both knew each other as kids.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Dae-Hyun has the skills to fix the D.Va mech and other machines (like a hoverbike that he used own).
 * Watch the Paint Job: Hana entered Dae-Hyun's hoverbike in a race, but she destroyed it by overloading it's reactor.

- Dae-Hyun

Sam
Sam was Pharah's Dad and husband of Ana Amari.


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