Summary
Overwatch 2just revealed “The Red Promise,” a narrated comic detailing the backstory of Juno, its newest hero. This charming tale tells of the Martian hero’s origin, and of the events that led her back to Earth to join the cast ofOverwatch 2.
During BlizzCon 2023,Overwatch 2revealed the first two heroes coming in 2024: Venture and Juno. Originally codenamed “Space Ranger,” Juno was described as a high-mobility support hero. Venture came to the game during Season 10, and now, Juno arrives in Season 12, whichgoes live inOverwatch 2on August 20.
Ahead of her official debut,Overwatch 2has revealed Juno’s backstory. “The Red Promise” is a short comic narrated by Xanthe Huynh, the voice actor for Juno, that details the hero’s origin on Mars. The first and only Martian, Juno was born and raised on the Mars base established to terraform the red planet to make it habitable. However, when the project’s benefactors on Earth suddenly cut contact, the scientists realized they were living on borrowed time. They builta ship for theOverwatch 2hero to escape on, but she vowed to return to Earth and find someone to help save her family and her planet.
Overwatch 2 Juno Backstory Comic – “The Red Promise”
WhenOverwatch 2first teased Juno with her crashed ship on the Dorodo map, fans discovered a picture of Mei and her old astrophysicist friend Jiayi, as well as a Morse code signal playing from the pod transmitted the initial “J.” This led manyOverwatch 2players to erroneously assume Space Ranger was Jiayi, when in fact, the new Martian hero is actually Jiayi’s daughter, Juno.
WhileOverwatch 2fans absolutely loved this comic, and find Juno’s journey both heartfelt and compelling, many would have loved to see it animated.Blizzard motion storiesand cinematics are renowned for their quality and cinematography, and many new heroes inOverwatchand its sequel received at least one, if not both.
Unfortunately, recentOverwatch 2heroes have been gradually getting fewer animations pertaining to their backstory as of late. Lifeweaver, Mauga, and Illari got animated motion stories detailing their origins, Mauga and Venture both received short animations – with the latter’s being less than a minute long – and Venture got a narrated comic like Juno, but there haven’t been new character cinematics inOverwatch 2since the game’s release. With much ofOverwatch 2’s story team seemingly having been let go during Blizzard’s layoffsearlier this year, narrated comics like “The Red Promise” may become the new norm.
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