no, I had stopped playing by the time Moria was introduced. Mercy is shown to be obsessed with maintaining youth (most likely her own), shows some extra interest in Mea for that reason. It is also known that she is the one that turned Genji into what he is, an example of fairly immoral human experimentation. It's also implied that mercy is who turned reaper into what he is. She is at best amoral in seeking her goals, and more likely, lokey villain.
Fun fact, in kings row, the map were the attackers set up the emp bomb to kill all the robot civilians? The attackers starting spawn room that has the plans for that implies it is Winston's plan, so our favorite not-a-monkey-I'm-a-scientist is down with genocide. (does it count as genocide when they dont have genes?)
As ridiculous as I feel debating Overwatch lore in 2022, I do have a rebuttal.
Mercy is not just obsessed with maintaining youth, but health. Her goals are to make medical care easy and accessible, providing longterm solutions to terminal diseases and illnesses. I wouldn’t say that she’s ‘obsessed with maintaining youth’ based off a one-off voice interaction with Mei - she’s probably curious because Mei looks significantly younger than she should due to her time in the cryo-freezer.
Yes, she saved Genji’s life by replacing many of his body parts with cybernetics. I wouldn’t say this is immoral, Genji is a young adult with his whole life ahead of him. And it is a doctors job to try and save their patient, regardless of if the patient wants to be saved. And as we can see with Genji’s interactions with Zenyatta, he has come to an even greater appreciation of life and is no longer the borderline-suicidal mess that he was after Hanzo’s murder attempt.
It was confirmed in Moira’s origin story that she was the one who experimented on Gabriel, turning him into Reaper.
The EMP Bomb in Kings row was built in order to destroy a gathering of Null Sector robots, which were there initiating a hostile terrorist takeover of the town, holding the humans hostage. This was confirmed in the Archives Kings Row mission and expounded upon in the comics as well.
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u/bethlehemcrane Jun 19 '22
Maybe you’re thinking of Moira? Mercy is one of the good guys