For those who don’t know, Bob the Angry Zealot is a recurring character and deuteragonist of CarbotAnimations’ Starcrafts series, which are funny animations based on StarCraft gameplay, which evolved into a really cool story.
I know it seems kinda stupid to bring up the idea of a fan-made character to Heroes of the Storm, but honestly, considering that out of all characters they could have possibly brought, Blizzard added Qhira to the game, I think Bob has a lot more chance, because he is most certainly a more popular character. And I’m not even joking, don’t take this as a jab at Blizzard or anything like that.
Considering the game has lost quite a bit of popularity, specially after the professional scene died, I think the idea of bringing a character made by fans wouldn’t be bad at all, we saw Leeroy Jenkins being added to World of Warcraft, even though he was a staged meme. Why not add another character from a fun series that lots of people love?
Regarding his moveset, Bob would definitely be a tank/bruiser, people who watched the series know he is much more durable than any regular zealot. In addition to that, I think his moveset could explore his cartoony nature (yes, he WOULD still look like he does in the animations, except in 3D) and use whatever weird s*** he did in the series as attacks (seriously, I cannot suggest specifics, the series is 7 seasons long).
It wouldn’t take much effort to make his lines, since he mostly just screams, but maybe for his “constant clicking” lines, there could be balloons popping up from him, showing some scenes from the series. Also, it would be really fun to see other Protoss characters interacting with him as a regular protoss, despite his cartoony looks, like complimenting his nerve cords (even though he doesn’t really have), the idea is that they look at him and see the same as them, treating him in a very natural way, while we see that he is a crazy cartoon and he acts as such.
I know its not the most logical thing to implement, but at this point, Blizzard might as well just go all out on craziness if they want to bring attention to the series, not to mention, it would definitely be an unique character, since we don’t have someone that cartoony.