I can’t really answer this like answer this because I know lots of characters are popular in the WoW universe, some more so than others, the only ones I personally pay attention to though are the ones I actually like or care about so. Lol.
Aw, thanks! Makin’ me blush.
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To be fair I’m less interested on the reasonings and just the claim I was questioning that Arthas takes the crown for most popular character killed off. Like I’ve never heard of anyone being bummed out they killed Arthas in WOTLK?
Voljin, Varian, even Garrosh fans who are mad at his MOP story progression, all do come to mind for characters who people still are upset we lost though?
My Guess:
Not only will they not kill Sylvanas. They’ll bring back Arthas in some sort of Paladin/pre-lich king fashion and Kael’thas will find redemption and Uther will become top tier Bastion material and … well I have a few more predictions, but I’m going to wait.
Kael is another one I forgot who seems more valid to throw out in the name department of popular characters we killed or have been killed. Arthas is a big question mark to me in relation to the topic of popular killed off characters.
Ewww as someone that has done that Bastion campaign so far, he better not, that’s disgusting and he’s disgusting.
The problem with comparing Arthas to the others is that, while he is probably the most well recognized of the famous characters, he was always a bad guy in WoW and had a really good fall arc in WC3. So everyone was on board with him being evil.
The others (Sylv, Garrosh, Kael) they were good guys. They built up fandoms as good guys and then fell (often in really complex and confusing ways) and now those same fanbases are still kind reeling from trying to keep up with Blizz’s mood whiplashes.
Oh, trust me. He will. He’s up there as a fan favorite for us RTS nerds. I bet we see a lot more of him in later patches.
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I agree with your take on Arthas I’m not really trying to compare him to these others but
The claim that he was one of the popular ones that got killed off is my reasoning for bringing up actual valid names to cite if that’s whats being talked about.
I guess I just found it odd Arthas is being used as an example here and was questioning the validity of it.
I hope he dies like dies, as I said he’s a disgusting person, he doesn’t deserve to even be a Kyrian because nothing about him is good or admirable.
Maybe he likes Arthas and that’s why he mentioned it. I don’t know. Lol.
Wouldn’t surprise me honestly.
To be fair, Arthas is/was extremely popular and there were a lot of players at the time who figured WoW would redeem him at the end of Wrath, so it’s not too far off imo.
He for sure took a weird arc on this. It’s understandable. Vengence and all that, but it’s just weird. Besides for Tyrion, Uther was basically the paladiniest paladin whose ever paladined.
Maybe he’ll reply to you eventually and explain it or yell at you like usually, either way we will all get answers. Lol.
Just goes to show that Paladin’s are shady and not just the Lightbound ones lead by Yrel. Lol.
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Well then that’s what I was asking but I’d call into question how many exactly wanted that I’ve never heard of it personally.
And what’s more how exactly is Arthas qualified to be redeemed by these people but I would imagine their the same people who want Sylvanas dead?
The only difference being like Somand pointed out there are reasons for people who have built up a fandom for Sylvanas. Arthas was never an in game faction leader for a playable race etc, and so far Sylvanas’s stuff like motives has been off screen, so one can be unhappy with how they have written her story into this place.
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Its stated a few times that Arthas’ soul was the first to be taken by Frostmourne. Or at least heavily implied. They could probably use that if they really wanted to.
I agree and have stated as much before. My position wasn’t that Sylvanas doesn’t deserve redemtion and Arthas does. I don’t really have an opinion personally other than redemption stories are over played and I wouldn’t be surprised to see both of them getting redemption stories.
Or at least that Blizzard’s writing team confuses shocking with creative when it comes to establishing character moments.
I’m not sure I’d define the last few xpacs writing as shocking, I’d say it’s more new people ruining previous people’s work because well that’s pretty much what they have done to most older characters, newer ones haven’t been developed enough to be ruined so what they add or change to them makes zero difference but older ones you can spot the difference from a mile away.
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It’s Tirion Fordring in Warcraft.
Spelled with a Y you get Tyrion Lannister.
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That’s fair I wasn’t meaning to assume your stance on the idea just basing my assumption off the fact the one person I have seen put Arthas on a list of “most popular” characters people were upset about being killed? Also has expressed Sylvanas should be killed.
And combining that the only other time I’ve seen Arthas apologists or fans they tend to be MHP fans as well I’m going to assume they too would want Sylvanas to die where as find a reason to explain Arthas getting redemption?
I knew I should have checked, but I was being lazy lol.
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