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While Overwatch has a track record of including characters with diverse identities, we have several concerns about the development of a character built around negative stereotypes of mental illness. When asked about Sigma’s design aesthetic, one of the artists noted that his bare feet were due to the desire to, “…sell the ‘asylum’ look a bit more in many institutions, patients are not allowed to have shoes because they might cause harm with the laces.” Overwatch recently released its latest hero, Sigma, characterized as having “severe psychological damage” and as being “dangerous to himself and others” because of his fractured mind.

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