Juno (Overwatch)

Juno Teo Minh is a character who first appeared in the 2023 video game Overwatch 2, a Blizzard Entertainment–developed first-person shooter, added to the game's roster in a 2024 update. Designed by Daryl Tan, she is a "Support"-class hero. A woman of Chinese Singaporean heritage, Juno was born in a human colony on Mars, and comes to Earth seeking help for her colony which is suffering from diminishing supplies. In the game and related media for the franchise, she is voiced by Xanthe Huynh.

The character has been well received by video game writers and players alike. She has become one of the franchise's more popular characters among those introduced in the sequel, with her in-game pick rate by players noted to be high. Juno's in-game mechanics have also been well received by video game journalists, who have praised her character for rewarding a player's game sense. However, some criticism has been levied toward the character's design due to perceptions of whitewashing of her East Asian features, and complaints of oversexualization.

The concept for the character has its origins in the Overwatch game design team designing a flying hero with abilities that "felt like a fighter pilot", such as lock-on missiles and targeting systems. During Juno's development process, the narrative team was set on a support hero, so they thought about how they could make that goal mesh with the character's gameplay kit shared by the game design team. Also delving into how to make the character a "fighter pilot or space-ranger-style hero", the narrative team considered if extraterrestrial aliens could exist in the Overwatch universe, which led concept artist Daryl Tan to draft a flying character equipped in a space suit.

The narrative developers concluded that this character could be a human from a Martian colony, since within the Overwatch universe humanity had already colonized the moon. As a result, Juno was conceptualized as a "Martian" returning to Earth. In an interview with Polygon, narrative designer Joshi Zhang stated that Juno's upbringing on Mars sparks a nervous, though eager curiosity, with the narrative team landing on "a little quirky, a little anxious, very curious" personality for her, along with a wide emotional range. The back-and-forth collaboration between the art and narrative teams was a development style previously used for other characters, such as Winston.

Juno is a young, slim Asian woman with brown eyes. Her hair is blue in a bob cut that frames her face, with various pink highlights through. Juno's outfit consists of a blue form-fitting space suit with red highlights and a zipped-up orange jacket atop it, while gray gloves cover her hands and a transparent, blue-tinted, fish bowl-like helmet adorns her head. Her boots are white with orange highlights, oversized to accommodate propulsion units around the soles. She has matching white armor on her back and lower arms, with wing-like attachments protruding from the back armor. Like other Overwatch characters, Juno received skins, unlockable cosmetic items to change her in-game appearance. Of particular note, during one of the game's seasonal events, she received a skin to resemble the character Ochaco Uraraka from the anime My Hero Academia, a decision that received praise due to how similar two characters were in terms of design.

The development team teased Juno's reveal at BlizzCon 2023, ten months before her release, notably earlier in the design process than with previous new characters. At the time, they had not yet finalized her gameplay kit or visual design. According to art director Dion Rogers, the latter "felt too on-the-nose as an astronaut". As a result, the armor pieces in her early designs were removed to make her character silhouette resemble other flying characters in the game less. Rogers explained that her final look was inspired by considering what Juno would really wear on Mars if she were to walk on its surface. Zhang also cited lore reasons for the art design changes, explaining that "her suit was created by her mom as an iterative thing that they worked together on". When creating her, particular attention was also put on her expressions and personality, wanting to illustrate her as terrified and overwhelmed to be on Earth, but also very curious. Her manner of speech was also made more unique from other characters, with the writing team having her avoid contractions to emphasize that she came from an environment of professional scientists, and build an atmosphere of "feeling different".

Juno Teo Minh is a medic introduced in the 2023 first-person shooter Overwatch 2. A medic from a colony based on Mars, she is a Chinese Singaporean descendant of scientists who left earth to terraform the planet for future inhabitants, and is the only child of said colony. She was raised collectively by the colony's residents along with her parents, who helped her to build her own suit and tools. Around the time of a robot uprising on Earth known as the Omnic War prior to the events of Overwatch, the colony lost contact with Earth. When supplies began running low, the colony built a shuttle for Juno to return to Earth and find help from the scientist Mei, who was a close friend of her mother. Seeing herself as a godmother for Juno, Mei takes care of her while she is on Earth.

In supplemental media for the Overwatch franchise, she appeared in the comic Red Promise, which detailed her backstory and revealed her mother is Jiayu, a friend of Mei's. It was later followed by a 3D animated short, Control, which illustrated more of her backstory and character.