Funny or stupid, perhaps undeserving.
For me it was Tirion.
Guy was a focus of one of the best expansions in the game.
Then “Don’t worry, imma bubble hear- AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH” drops to fel lava, water drop sound.
Not only that but his death was so quickly forgotten because of the Broken Shore cinematic. Unless you were a pally you didn’t even care what happened to him.
Admiral Taylor.
Many deaths in WoW are pretty comical. Especially if you are a bit detached and objective, and not wholly caught up in the drama. Tirion stands out.
Hell, I used to use… I think it was called Hand of Sacrifice… on my Paladin back in the day just for fun. It used to kill you and put a bubble over a party member for wipe recovery. The Blood Elf death makes me laugh in pretty much all situations (except for the repairs after). It is very dramatic.
As far as circumstances, Zelling was funny. I read a post from someone that Sylvanas sicking Ghouls on his corpse would have really put a capstone on that. Not my idea - but a good one.
Garrosh’s death made me smile, and laugh, but it wasn’t very funny. Just great. Same with Arthas. I never liked either of them. They both seemed very bratty.
This. Guy was killed offscreen only to even the score after Nazgrim’s death, then we never got any kind of closure on who killed him. Plus he didn’t even get the same Death Knight treatment Nazgrim did.
Such an afterthought in a poorly planned expac. Man deserved better.
Divine Intervention is the spell you are thinking of.
Pretty sure Tirion dying was an inside joke at blizzard about metzen retiring at the same time.I think metzen even said Tirion was heavily inspired by his DnD character. Metzen probably suggested he die than have someone else write his stuff same with Varian another one of his personal projects.
Kael’thas’ second death.
“Merely a setback”.
Pretty much demolished him as a character and ensured he would never return.
Yenniku has been the worst.
The soul gem method would’ve worked like with Grom and Bwemba had learned how to cure Zul’s poison by Rise of the Zandalari-- likely the developers have had plans for Vol’jin thus they made it seem his son has an incurable death(?). Granted, I somewhat doubt the
horde community would be interested in a troll named Yenniku.
Rastakhan. Dude’s been in lore for over a decade and he gets killed off in the first damn patch. They gave him the Vol’jin treatment.
Also Vol’jin and Kael’thas.
Does Vol’jin really count? He was more removed as warchief than killed.
I agree with this 100%. Tirion’s death, and the broken shore as a whole, felt like Blizz trying to cash in on some of that Game of Thrones action. The thing is WoW is not GoT, and it just wasn’t executed nearly as well. They just cast aside a core character of one of the most popular expansions so that xXBübleHeárthxX could be the ashbringer.
Part of me says Vol’jin, but he’s pretty much back at this point so I’m less salty about him than I was a couple years ago.
vol’jin + tirion, for tirion i feel like he was killed because they wanted to implement the artifact system and give the player the ashebringer and this would be an especially saddening reason to such a heavy lore character go down for gameplay reasons they didn’t need to implement
Vol’jin by far tirion got his heroic death And it was used to actually depict just how serious the legion invasion was the argent crusade shattered the alliance and horde forces pushed back to the beach. Varian goes out like a beast downing a fel reaver and making his defiant last statement but vol’jin gets stabbed in the stomach and dies I guess? Pretty unfitting end to such a major lore character.
I agree with most of these, and want to add AU Doomhammer.
Like, seriously…that’s Doomhammer? Generic orc #27? And now he’s just dead. Blech.
Oh, and Maraad, same expansion. What a waste, just to prop up a Yrel narrative that never really paid off. Or, actually, turns out to have paid off in her becoming a super villain.
Amber Keenan. My favorite of the SI7 advanced team characters. Dies offscreen in Legion, and you never even see her mentioned again if you aren’t a rogue.
(Side obsevation: the rogue class hall campaign was really Alliance-focused.)
I forgot all about AU Doomhammer. No custom model, no cool plot points, he literally just shows up and dies. What a waste
In their defense, the Alliance just had the foundation for an organization of an underworld, so it’s pretty reasonable for them to take the lead.
I like that one guy in the Scarlet Armory whose dogs eat his face.
Liam Greymane. They built him up to be an amazing character with an epic speech mirroring Winston Churchill’s famous vow to never surrender. I was in awe throughout that event and couldn’t wait to see what they did with him throughout Cata. Then they kill him off five minutes later. This was one of the few times throughout this game’s history where I felt genuinely betrayed by the writers.
Technically Tirion survived that fall into lava; the Argent Crusade finds him during the Ashbringer collection quest, and it turns out he was apparently plucked out of the lava alive, spirited off to the ruined temple at the Broken Shore and subsequently tortured for a while by some of Balnazaar’s inquisitors. He only actually dies from his wounds right after bequeathing the Ashbringer to the player.
But yeah, the impact of the losses in Legion fell pretty flat, considering Gul’dan was thereafter reduced to a footnote in the story of Illidan’s return, while our return to the Broken Shore failed to deliver a proper sense of retribution for our defeat there by being little more than a time-gated stalling measure while Argus was being finished. Worse, since the player factions were mostly sidelined for the rest of the expansion’s focus, the effects of losing a High King and a Warchief in the midst of a worldwide demonic invasion were basically left off-screen and never actively pursued.
Honestly none of the deaths in Legion felt as impactful as they might have; other than Sargeras’ sword the injuries inflicted on the world by the Legion’s invasion have been largely shrugged off, while the current spat between two supposedly crippled factions is made out to cause more lasting damage to the world than a billion demons did by landing all over the planet to spread fel all over and lay waste to everything in sight.