Why Sympathy for Sylvanas, but not Garrosh?

Garrosh was trying to empower the Horde by defeating their enemies before the Horde got destroyed. Sylvanas, on the other hand, has consistently tried to destroy us ALL such as at Wrathgate and BFA both using toxic gas, and now in Shadowlands.

Sylvanas is clearly evil and wants to destroy all life, so why does she get the special treatment for her crimes, while Garrosh was put down like a rabid dog?

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But man you don’t get the point

That was not sylvanas that was evil sylvanas :wink: :wink:

She was not herself, just the bad part of ther

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Because bad writing.

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To be fair if Garrosh proved one thing with his ending, it was that he doesn’t need anyone’s sympathy from anyone nor would he care what we or anyone thinks of him. I am sad he got the villain bat but he was what he was.

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Garrosh went to Revendreth to have his chance. He went out like Garrosh should have. He had the perfect ending.

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Think about it this way: Most people like Garrosh’s end. Even me, a person who didn’t really like what they did with Garrosh to begin with, liked his ending better than Sylvanas’s. Most people, outside of Sylvanas stans, do not like this lore development. They tried so hard to ‘save’ Sylvanas’s character that they murdered it.

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Garrosh was a freaking good villain. It was not that lameass morally grey annoyance that Sylvanas is.

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Fan fiction is often very inconsistent.

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Sylvanas has boobehs.

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Garrosh didn’t have his soul split by Frostmourne. He was completely and fully in control of his actions.

Sylvanas on the other hand has only been half in control of her actions (if that). Her selfless “good” side only having been recently reunited with her selfish “evil” side.

Garrosh had it within himself to change. Sylvanas did not. That is why Sylvanas gets sympathy and Garrosh doesn’t.

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Because Garrosh = Toxic Masculinity.

Sylvanas = STRONG WOMEN.

You know it’s true, yet this will cause much REEEEEE.

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Guess I’ll be the one to say that the way Garrosh was handled in SLs was excellent and true to his character until the end. I loved what they did with him and dude went out like a baller.

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Because Garrosh was a stupid orc who did everything he did of his own volition for power and greed.

As much as I find the story rather 2 dimensional even for WoW, she is not ‘clearly evil’. Or at least not entirely. Almost every human being is capable of doing bad things, except that most of us control our baser instincts. In her case her dark instincts were all there was and those were manipulated in a way that appealed to that part of her, when she had no countering decent instincts active.

Garrosh wasnt put down, he was killed by Thrall in a fight (and lets not get into the whole cheat thing because they didnt set any ground rules before they started).

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Genocide is soo girlboss amright

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That really doesn’t matter. Someone trying to actively end all life must be destroyed. It doesn’t matter if she had a nice personality 50 years ago.

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One was killed with bad writing while another was saved with bad writing.

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#JustGirlyThings

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Well, Christie Golden explicity said that Garrosh was evil because he was the orciest orc, and Thrall was good because he was raised by humans. She used Orcs as a toxic masculinity metaphor.

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He was a great villain, but he could have been an even better warchief.

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If only Garry had done this.

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