I know that’s a bit of a point of contention here but far as I can tell - there really aren’t too many. There was one bad advisor who turned out to be a dragon, Varian was a bit of a prick in Wrath (albeit for decent reasons), Jania was almost genocidal but got talked out of it. I guess that thicc Kul Tiran noble more recently but uh, well peep spoliers on the Adventurer’s Guide for that one.
And I’m not trying to Red Team winge here. I mean yeah a bit of a pisser they seem to have forgot the main draw of the series post WC3 was humanizing the traditionally monstrous races. I mean hey if you want to be a pretty Paladin slaying the monstrous ugos well, gestures vaguely at most other fantasy settings.
But I digress. I’ve actually encountered a lot of Blue Team villains via user created content in RP servers. And ones a lot more interesting than “Make Azeroth Great Again” Garithos types. Grizzled Stromgardi warriors to set in their ways to see peace as an option, deranged Gnome warlocks who realize no one with authority on them will question an Orc village lost to foul rituals, Kaldorei druids who’ve delved too deep into fur and fang so they hunt often blameless Horde as an outlet for feral aggression.
There’s a lot of fertile ground for evil acts on the Blue Team that I’ve seen explored very well by players. And not ‘well from my perspective’ evil - legitimately heartless and cruel acts driven by sadism. But you just don’t see that in the story too often and frankly it’s baffling. Especially with humans. We’re all humans, we know they suck - turn to page, pick a number at random, in any given history book to see that.
Personally with this Forsaken main I like maintaining my character’s quiet morality in the darker setting. A cannibalistic walking corpse that none the less shows compassion, worry and mercy towards others is frankly interesting to write about.
Whereas with Blue Team I feel like writing a toon that’s nice despite a nightmarish and horrifically violent setting would be, well, factory standard. It makes the Blue Team seem really bland. Milquetoast. I’ll admit the Alliance allied races are threatening to add some flavor but how do you’ve intergalactic Light crusaders and Void cultists on the same team as ethnicities and their troubled relationship isn’t at least the Alliance’s perspective through a whole expansion? Well Blizz’s weird writing I guess.
Now to be clear I’m not trying to yell at Blue Team stans here- some of those examples I noted where from Burning Crusade to illustrate how interesting the Alliance can be in the hands of writers unconcerned with brand. But on the whole don’t you think some outright evil sonsofb/+ches might make things more interesting?
And Light Bless if you’re already out there trying to do it with nothing but TRP3 and hatred in your heart.