Just based on the trailers, I got the impression that the big dude behind Sylvanas was a prisoner in the Maw, not its master. He’s all chained up, and it would make more sense to me if it was a prisoner trying to escape than if it was the master. What motivation would the Maw’s leader have for upsetting the balance of the afterlife? He would ostensibly have been doing this job for thousands of years, right? Why now, all of a sudden? But I guess they said at Blizzcon that he’s the boss of the place.
Unless the Chains are metaphors/symbolic.
Or the Master is now the Prisoner.
To get this on a less argumentative topic, why is that show so popular? Surely there can’t much conflict or stakes when your hero can defeat everyone in one punch.
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Cause its a show that basically makes fun of over the top animes like dbz and Naruto
I’ve never watched it, but best guess is that it satirizes the anime trope where increases in the protagonist’s power substitute actual character progression.
Ah I get you, it’s more Megamind than Superman.
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Question, have you seen the leaked image of him? That might answer some of your questions! 
Yes I have and no they wouldn’t because that wasn’t the point of asking the question.
To me he looks like a Kyrian honestly
Presumably he could have been imprisoned there as a compulsion specifically to force him to do his job because he couldn’t get out to do anything else.
Until fairly recently, when the whole Sylvanas situation provided him an ally outside his own realm and, through her, the potential to orchestrate his eventual escape by disrupting the workings of the Shadowlands as a whole.
It’s always possible the Jailer was the first “inmate” of the Maw, put there by some agency at the dawn of time (perhaps something of the Light, Void, or both when their conflict sparked the creation of the universe) as part of organizing how Life and Death would work and compelled by his confinement to oversee the management (i.e. containment and torment) of other damned souls.
I just hope he and Sylvanas don’t turn into a rehash of Amon’s schtick. Sylvanas’ talk of “this world being a prison” and “freeing us all” sounds an awful lot like Amon’s pitch that he’s trying to eradicate life because he thinks being alive is just a pointless cycle of unnecessary misery and suffering.
In all honesty, it’s redone so often BECAUSE it’s a pretty common sentiment.
Especially among Immortals.
There’s nothing established for the Jailer, this is just straight up new lore.
Which would be okay, if it didn’t come at the expense of a major lore character since WC3.
i feel like they jailer is uld guds all over again.
in one hand i see a lot of people interested on it because he is mysterious creating tons of theorys about him.
in the other i remember exactly that from the whispers of il’gynoth only to end up in nothing.
just… 
I am pretty sure that is what sylvanas is doing, she doesnt think life is good anymore.
I’m going to go with my garbage idea that the Jailor is the child of Aman’thul and Eonar. All this is based off of time+life ends with death.
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I’m actually really glad their doing something new. I was worried we’d fight the Void Lords next and I’m not sure you can write yourself into a bigger corner than attacking the concept of entropy. Maybe even team up with a reformed Sargeras to do so or something else dumb.
So going in a new direction sounds great. I hope he’s an entirely new concept untethered to any established lore. If it turns out he’s King Terenas or something it’s going to be a let down for me.
From what leaked pictures we have of him (that seem to be perfectly matching what we saw in the Features Preview) he does look a heckuva lot like Aman’thul however it seems it like a bit of a stretch.
I hear what you’re saying but I am still not buying it, I don’t get why people find THAT so popular, honestly. Then again, maybe I should see it to formulate an opinion.
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To be totally fair, I’ve never seen it either.
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Go watch One Punch Man nerds.
Am I wrong for wanting the Jailer not to be just some random evil of an expansion to kill in raid but like the antagonist of the God’s of Nature and Life?
Like there is all this demigods of life and even a Titan of life.
I want a Titan of death, demigods of death and just as Light and Void are in a constant battle, same with this two.
So more than a story of go kill jailer release good/bad souls 
hero, more like a complicated story of restoring lost balance between forces.
(and this is where drust Druids could teach a thing or two to Nelves).