Robin Williams World of Warcraft NPC Revealed (Updated)
by JR Cook - 10 years ago show comments
With Robin Williams passing, Blizzard had said they would be adding him as an NPC to immortalize him in the game. Williams was a known WoW player and gamer by heart (I mean, after all, he named his daughter Zelda).
.@robinwilliams Thank you. You gave us so much joy in our lives, and we hope you enjoyed your time in our world. We’ll see you in-game.
— World of Warcraft (@Warcraft) August 13, 2014
The WoW team has quickly added the NPC and he will be making his debut in the upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor as Robin<The Entertainer>. It is currently unclear on where or what he’ll be doing in game, but his form mimics that of the popular Genie character he was the voice actor for in the Disney animated film Aladdin.
You can check the full details on Robin on Wowhead:
Update: two new NPCs have been spotted with the same name. One, a human female (Robin), is probably a Mrs Doubtfire reference. The other, a human male (Robin), could be…well, any one of the characters Williams played, but is most likely to be the alien Mork, from Mork and Mindy.
thats a boss from the cata expansion..throne of the 4 winds. so pretty sure its not the guy…thou i do hope he gets a blue genie
It is him. The model is used in Throne of the Four Winds, but this NPC is called Robin [The Entertainer] and is not currently in-game.
I think it is wonderful that he played WoW!