Genn Greymane: Not A Man You Can Trust

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After his long history of backstabbing the Alliance in WC2, Genn claims he got better and decided to stop lying to everyone. But did he?

-In the Cata war, Sylvanas shoots at Genn, but his son Liam suicidally jumps in front of it.
-Genn’s single personality trait becomes screaming “She took my son! I must have revenge!”
-Genn destroys Sylvanas’ lantern in Stormhiem and says “You took my future, I took yours, my revenge is complete”.
-Slyvanas lets him slump away, as they are equal and he’s no longer her crazed stalker.
-Next time we see Genn he’s back to screaming “She took my son! I must have revenge!”

Should Sylvanas have finished him off?

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I get flash backs of interesting Genn when he continually press Anduin for marriage, waiting patiently for when he suggest his daughter.

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More that the writers can’t think of anything he stands for besides hating Sylvanas.

Once she’s gone, you won’t hear even a wimper out of him, because he’ll have lost his only foil.

Despite the fact he has a family of course.

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Every time he screams about “SYLVANAS TOOK MY FUTURE” I’m like “you have a daughter you sexist bastard.”

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when did this happen?

but i think that he got better, he now is just “my son is dead” and minus the “i must have revenge!”

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Nope.

It’s "You took my son’s future, now I’ve taken yours. "

I honestly don’t get why people argue “but Liam jumped in front of Genn!” as though it absolves her of all responsibility. If you’re driving drunk and hit a kid who’s standing in the middle of the road, you don’t get off by claiming you weren’t trying to hit him.

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During the invasion of UC and in Before the Storm he still seemed locked into stalking her fulltime being his only character trait. I don’t remember how much he was or wasn’t screaming about his son during those though honestly.

Also, your comment in the other thread was the seed for this thread. :smiley:

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I think he did that and got shot down, cause Tess is too different from Anduin apparently. Shame, but I suppose two monarchs from sister nations marrying made too much sense for Blizzard’s writing.

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If someone jumps in front of subway car to kill themselves, we don’t murder the subway driver in revenge. Sylvanas wasn’t trying to hit Liam, he purposefully jumped in front of an arrow in flight to make it hit him AGAINST Sylvanas wishes.

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Anduin is going to meet an until yet unknown Windrunner sister who’s around his age and was secreted from Quel’thalas before Arthas came by whomever and she’s going to fawn over his human potential and they’ll have half blood babies. Oh and she’s also Kael’thas’ love child so she has claim to the throne of Quel’thalas too.

(Blizzard hire me for your writing staff please)

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Claiming I was trying to kill someone else isn’t the greatest defense either.

I was being considerate by using an analogy where she was merely reckless instead of murderous.

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I’d probably find that more interesting than Taelia.

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Please don’t speak for others, Threeslot. My grandfather will know peace once that conductor has blown his final whistle.

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Do you purposely make analogies that don’t actually fit with the narrative?

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Did you miss her name? I’m pretty sure it’s all for the lawlz.

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… screw it, there are no rules anymore. BfA’s story is basically just Fear and Loathing in Azeroth at this point.

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“no officer, i wasn’t trying to kill his son, i was trying to kill the father, i only killed his son by accident” please never become a lawyer.

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Attacking the enemy commander in the middle of a battle is a lot different than murdering a random father in suburbia.

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and? just because her arrow killed someone who was not the intended target, doesn’t make it any better, she was still the one who leased the arrow who killed liam, combined with the fact the sylvanas invaded his kingdom and forced his people from their homes, greymane is completely justified in his hatred of sylvanas.

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She loosed an arrow meant to take Genn’s life.

Liam gave his life to save Genn’s. Had Liam dove the other way comically, or stood still, Sylvanas would have accomplished her intent of taking Genn’s life.

Instead, by his own choice and free will, Liam gave his life to save his father’s.

I can understand Genn feeling raw about it. I don’t discount or dispute that he has reasons to be angry at Sylvanas. I don’t argue the rationale for his rage. But his expressions of his rage make him untrustworthy, as the OP says.

Your comparison is off. Liam was not an innocent bystander who was hit accidentally. He was hit by his own intention.

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