Why is Jaina so powerful?

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Thank you and you are absolutely correct as well.

:cookie:

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(Observation): Born with preternatural talent, she was mentored by the Head of the Council of Six at the time, Archmage Antonidas, the most accomplished human mage in history who was NOT a Guardian. Later, Jaina would fall under the tutelage of an actual Guardian, Aegwynn, for some time. Fast forward to Mists of Pandaria, and her staff acquires the power of Lei Shen the Thunder King, who himself stole that power from the most powerful of the Titan’s Watchers.

(Commentary): It’s a combination of precocious talent, excellent instructors, and powerful items.

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Is she actually stronger then Khadgar though? What about Illidan or Mallfurion? What about Sylvanas at this point? The actual problem isn’t Jania or women being so powerful, it is Alliance being stacked with god mode characters while horde some how keeps bullying them.

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I like her white hair and stuff, she does a cougar thing for me (and her mom too…)

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I blame Star Wars and Disney for the recent trend in ridiculousness when it comes to women and power.

You can make strong and powerful female characters, but also make them plausible and believable. Making females overpowered just for the sake of it kind of defeats the purpose of having powerful female characters in the first place.

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Well it takes 20-40 of us to do so.

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(Commentary): I don’t think it’s really an issue or anything even all that new to be honest. I remember the old X-Men cartoons back in the 90s. Jean Grey, Storm, Scarlet Witch, Rogue, etc… if there was a female character they tended to have the big powers. By contrast most of the powers of male characters were a bit more gimmicky and based in direct combat. Cyclops could shoot laser beams, Wolverine had metal claws and a healing factor, Gambit, Beast, etc…

(Speculative): I imagine it’s largely rooted in older concepts of female characters serving in, “back line,” roles in a combat situation to keep them safe. That’s why one see’s a lot of powerful female characters when it comes to stuff like magic.

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Ignoring the politically charged responses, it’s like how in DBZ Goku et all get super strong when the story calls for it to face stronger and stronger threats.

It’s for the plot and nothing more.

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Jaina’s been studying since the age of 5 under those very same “more devoted” mages for her entire life, add in a storm god in her staff, plus Kalecgos the aspect of magic teaching her new ways to cast spells quickly and furthering her arts and you have the second or third strongest mage in WoW behind Khadgar and Medivh. It shouldn’t come as a shock, she’s been training and studying since she was FIVE well before WOTLK. Just because they don’t SHOW you the studying and training she did most of her life doesn’t mean she didn’t, and for that matter I don’t recall us ever being shown Khadgar or most other mage’s study history either, so why do THEY get a pass? Don’t give a flying buttress about feminism but I am an avid fan of logic (and spock, rest in peace Leonard Nimoy).

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Because the writers favorite race in the game are the humans

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This is the kind of answer I wanted, but she should be older (and uglier) to be more believable.

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(Commentary): Older, perhaps, but uglier?

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Most people focus on how hot she is rather than how strong she is.

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(Commentary): I don’t think I really ever saw Jaina as, ‘Hot.’ Objectively, ‘beautiful,’ sure. Either way, that’s something that just applies to WoW women in general. Should Azshara have been ugly because she was the most powerful Mage of the Highborne Empire? Should Kael’thas have been hunch-backed with one massive eye and one small one and a clawed hand? Even Khadgar, who is supposed to look super old, just looks like a Silver Fox.

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Elves age and appearance are a different topic, but I see your point.

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So should sylvanas after this many years being undead and after being shot and impaled she should be a shambling corpse by now.

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Isn’t Thalyssra like 10,000 years old? Jaina’s studied for a few decades at most, Thalyssra is the First Arcanist of Suramar for literally thousands of years and yet Jaina’s significantly more powerful than her.
There’s no logic on that.
It’s pretty obvious the reason for that is because the writer just like humans more, one of them is openly a human fangirl and has been criticized for her inability to be neutral in her writing before.

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It’s #metoo

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Not just 20-40 randoms either… we’re practically demigods at this point.

Although the lore is a little fuzzy on that, since there’s only one “Champion of Azeroth (i.e. holder of the HoA)” - meaning either the alliance or horde characters are getting whooped by “regular” elite soldiers, not the demigod story character that the player represents.

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call me a sexist but jaina didn’t really explode in power until the woke movement.

If we were trying to follow the lore then we would have a mage like Rhonin defending the alliance. technically Rhonin sacrificed himself in order to confine the explosion of a mana bomb but IMO that was just an easy out for him lore wise to step aside for other mages.

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