No, but it doesn’t automatically make the things they’ve gone through invalid. It’s not a contest over who had it worst. Anduin was 500% brought up with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he has gone through his fair share of hardships as well.
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Good thing all I said was that he has no right to lecture Sylvanas.
Although on the topic of the forsaken also having this, i’m actually glad not every forsaken character is like anduin and have a range from simple acceptance to actual enjoyment of their new existance
I enjoyed the first half more so than the second half. Second half felt rushed.
I expected the waking dream/nightmare, where he mindlessly hacked the wood apart, to be more important than it was (unless that is what he did to the bandits).
Blizz still is dancing around who he exactly killed/hurt, unless we are to count the number of guilds that broke on his mythic encounter. For example, I half expected that he was forced to take part in the torturing of souls in Torghast and enjoyed it. It is not that Blizz needs to explain spell out everything, but perhaps they could spare a crumb more in detail. At the same type, the callback to the BFA cinematic and the dead soldiers on the dock was a nice detail.
Finally, perhaps this is a juvenile expectation, but I keep expecting some type of payoff or shift. Between Cataclysm (city burned down by a dragon), Pandaria (broken body), Legion (dead parent, demon invasion), BFA (leadership missteps), and Shadowlands (mind controlled), I would expect a lot more anger/rage than constant guilt/sadness at this point.
Right. And I was expecting him to get some depression superpower. Remember when lil’ Anduin went all hero on Garrosh and ended up getting his bum kicked and his bones broken? At the end of it he came out with a spiderman-sense-superpower. I’m really tired of this guy written by Golden, who ironically also brough toxic masculinity into the discussion. There’s no toxic masculinity. There’s just masculinity people like Golden decided it’s toxic and how she was gonna purge it from WoW. And now the WoW story sucks and she’s fired. Draw your own conclusions.
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He’s almost certainly going to get some super special upgrade nonsense in the next 3 expansions since he’s supposed to be the chosen one savior of the universe in the fight against the void.
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Sure there is, it just so happens its wildly overused to mean “this person is a dick and also a dude”, rather than “This person is a dick because they think dudes have to act like this”
Garrosh isn’t an example of toxic masculinity, he’s just an A-hole.
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God I hope that storyline gets killed.
“Oh yeah turns out Space Captain Anduin was just one of those weird timelines, you know how it is.”
He trained and got better with it and more importantly Blizzard like the visual of Anduin using his dads sword. Rule of cool is but it works for what they wanted. What more needs to be explained?
And honestly deserves to to either rest, or go on a sabbatical like Thrall did after Garrosh’s judgement.
I mean, Thrall coming to Anduin kind of mirrors Saurfang going to Thrall, but it hurt a lot to see Thrall have to give up being a dad to his kids, to simply once again be a dad to several bound-together nations of people he once directed.
My issue is that I don’t think he’s ever going to get an “earned” recovery. He’s always going to be our mopey boy, our doubting son, just burdened with being so very awesome but too humble to do anything but save us when the plot demands we’re in peril, but then we go up to him afterwards and tell him–
“Amazing… Anduin you saved us!”
And he’ll just go, “Ahhh, I didn’t. I didn’t think it would work, I was just throwing myself in the way to sacrifice myself so you could get away. That way at least my life had meaning.”
And then I’ll say, “What the hell is your problem man? That’s MY LINE. I’m the depressed and frustrated undead hero barely keeping on in a world that no longer despises me, but doesn’t need me anymore thanks to peacemakers like yourself, and I should be the one who earns his dirt nap. Stop appropriating my role you jack-knave.”
Go be a good king like the people of Stormwind deserve. Stop stealing the beaten but relentless hero role from Death Knights, Forsaken, and Demon Hunters.
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Still waiting on Gnomes to be in a fully rendered cinematic.
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Except he killed already someone in BfA cienematic.
I like how every time something really stupid happens in the lore people excuse it as Rule of Cool. Stupid stuff is stupid, not cool.
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Except in this case the explanation is just plausible, he was bad at sword fighting, he trained and got better. Arthas(considering Anduin is always being compared to him) was not good at sword fighting as well when he was a kid and he learned.
Heaven forbid Anduin not be good at everything.
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I mean if he was as good as you say he is, Rodrik wouldn’t be dead right now.
Like it or not, scenes with Anduin using his father sword is fairly iconic to WoW now and I think Blizzard did the right thing making him a sword fighter.
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Nah, the right thing to do with Anduin was to have him die back in MoP when Garrosh crushed all of his bones.
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Nah, and I hope he remains in the story for as long he keeps annoying his haters.
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I have issues with the word toxic because it’s become one of those words that pretty much means “someone I don’t like” but yeah, we live in the 21st century. If we don’t use blanket statements that represent half of the population like “masculinity” we don’t feel like we contributed to society.
You know what, I agree with you. I think it’s important to show Anduin’s trip to recovery, but once that happens 100% let him go back to being king of Stormwind and give him some kind of well deserved normalcy for a while. He doesn’t need to be on the frontlines saving the world all the time.
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