yes, the almighty jailor is.
bad writing, Bolvar is probably weaker than Arthas, no more frostmourne, a combination of other problems
this became apparent in bfa’s prepatch. for the entire time bfa was live, every time i logged on Horde i felt like I’m not a good person.
The game should make me feel good about crushing the filthy alliance. instead it did the exact opposite. now the alliance wins because they have friendship on their side >.>
Super-mecha-Arthas-prime is empowering Sylvanas with plot powers so she can pull her mary-sue feats off.
Because she’s a Strong Female Character™.
Repairing it will probably be a big part of the expansion plot, either that, or we actually beat the unleashed Scourge, which would be incredibly stupid.
It’s been mediocre and got slightly better around the time MoP came out, once Metzen left it went from mediocre to actual garbage.
The prototypical Mary Sue is an original female character in a [fanfic] who obviously serves as an idealized [version of the author]mainly for the purpose of [Wish Fulfillment] She’s exotically beautiful, often having an unusual hair or eye color, and has a [similarly cool and exotic name] She’s exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws — either that or her “flaws” are obviously meant to be endearing.
She has an unusual and dramatic [Back Story]. The canon protagonists are all overwhelmed with admiration for her beauty, wit, courage and other virtues, and are quick to adopt her as one of their [True Companions], even characters who are usually antisocial and untrusting; if any character doesn’t love her, that character gets an extremely unsympathetic portrayal. She has some sort of especially close relationship to the author’s favorite canon character — their love interest, illegitimate child, never-before-mentioned sister, etc. Other than that, the canon characters are quickly reduced to awestruck cheerleaders, watching from the sidelines as Mary Sue outstrips them in their areas of expertise and solves problems that have stymied them for the entire series.
From that article btw.
It actually covers all 5 of what I listed above lol
back on topic,
shadowlands is basically
“we have run out of bottom of the barrel gunk to use… GET THE COSMIC CHART OUT OF THE GARBAGE!!!”
Some recent examples of Mary Sues are, Captain Marvel, Batwoman and Rey
Theres also that girl from Dark Fate who nobody cares about
Highlord Bolvar Fordragon
Was not just some dude.
That’s literally the beginning of the article about what the prototype of the Mary Sue was, which has changed over the years for obvious reasons.
to this normie, bolvar is a nobody man
Captain America and Superman also
If you can’t define something off the top of your head, you don’t know what it means.
I’d use urbandictionary, regardless, because it has a wide variety of sources and you can aggregate a median from it.
I love how they skipped showing Sylvanas wreck her way through thousands of scourge because they knew it would look stupid as hell.
The faster this trash character is forever removed from the game, the better.
Full on Dynasty Warriors style.
How did she even have arrows left for Bolvar?
oh the funniest thing,
she just dodges a 2 story tall boulder so casually
I can see why Superman (to be fair i dont know much about him)
But why Captain America?
Before his steroids buff, he actually trained, and even after, and he has failed a lot, even recently (talking about his movie version)
Teleports behind your boulder
“Nothing personal, Bolvar”
And the crowd of edgelords goes wild!
Thrall may have been a mary sue in the purest sense but, the character is hardly what most people call a mary sue these days. He has flaws that has had very catastrophic consequences on the story such as naming Garrosh his successor despite even Garrosh himself saying it was an awful idea and we all know how that turned out. His nature as a more caring, peaceful individual has in a bitter twist of fate, led to atrocities he could have prevented such as Theramore, all of Pandaria, and the death of his childhood friend. Even the fourth war is partially on his shoulders, as instead of going to lead the Horde once again or even just guide it, he hid in Nagrand to contemplate where he went wrong in life.
in legion there was a meme of Illidan being freed from prison that said “break glass in case of emergency / low subs”
I wouldn’t even be surprised if we see Arthas make an appearance
Because none of that training before hand mattered.
Once he became a steroid user over night, he was suddenly great at everything.
There’s a difference between knowing what’s something and explaining something to someone. And you are saying that a place where people add random stuff for fun is your height of sourcing uh?
Yes, that’s why I said he left the role long ago.
They tried that every expac.
Chen for MoP.
Hellscream for WoD.
Sylvanas for BFA and Shadow.
They are just riding on WCIII success to this day. Which is why the whole reforged debacle is more baffling.
Which is why WOTLK was the pinnacle of anything this game achieved