Know what? I’ll give you that. Undeath is a thousand times better than permanent soul destruction
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If I spent enough time in Ardenweald, I can see myself opting for oblivion
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I’d beg for soul destruction if I was stuck in any afterlife that wasn’t Maldraxxus 
Pretty certain that everything about the Jailer came about during the same time as Thanos’s debut. You remember that time because every single investor to any creative project immediately phoned the CEO and said,
“PUT A BIG STRONG PURPLE/GREY GUY IN IT, AND MAKE IT EPIC LIKE MARVEL DID!”
Everyone had to have their own version of Thanos, and a big epic “final battle” that was completely unearned. That Blizzard also fell under the spell and had to make their own big bald man who has plans within plans but is so strong he could do it all himself should be blatantly obvious to the Story Forums.
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WoW always leans pretty hard into current pop culture (which ends up looking a bit dated by the time the expacs release). It isn’t a coincidence everyone couldn’t shut up about hope during BFA (Rogue One). The Sigils were a little on the nose even for WoW, though.
The weird thing about the thano’s hype is i wouldn’t even call him smart, his plan was like a shower thought
But he was never competent. So it’s different than Sylvanas who was pretty effective in her niche.
It’s still a good story but it’s maybe the story of Stormwind realizing there’s no divine right of kings?
Not really.
She opened her war by destroying the world trade center… But with less people in it.
Yeah, it is a bit suspect no one explained to him he could rewrite reality to always provide enough resources. Or explained to him how reproduction/populations work.
Arthas destroyed Lordaeron, Dalaran and Quel’thalas and tried it with Gilneas. Then he went to Northrend and tried to drown all of Azeroth in Undead.
Garrosh destroyed Theramore and waged war on 3 continents which Pandaria was the worst after his actions released the Sha.
Sylvanas destroyed Teldrassil and then did nothing for 2 years.
She is by far the least awful of those three.
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Same thing with Game of Thrones. When that abomination came out in the screens, other franchises started killing characters off for pure shock value and giving 0 regards to plot and narrative. Reason be damned, sic’em so the fans are surprised.
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Erevien, if she had it her way she would have killed literally everyone and sent their souls to ultra hell to feed the ultra evil nipple guy.
She’s been my bae since WC3 and even by my standards thats some effed up jit.
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Not only did she not do that even after they decided sending souls to the maw was her intention.
She literally never did anything that would have suggested that was her intention.
They could have burnt the tree from the beginning. Full of Night Elves and Worgen. She could have gotten almost all of them. They were not prepared. And half the horde forces would have celebrated her for it. There’d be little Sylvanas shrines in their homes like Irish-Americans with JFK.
My brother, she threw her own troops on a meat grinder on purpose, blighted them and coordinated an entire war which the entire point was to feed souls to the Maw.
I still remember that “The Horde is nothing!” scream from back then. Sure you can make an argument that the full sentence would be “The Horde is nothing in comparison to the powers that be and the unfair chains that binds us even after death” but you can’t convince me she wouldn’t have thrown as many souls as possible to achieve that goal. That’s 100% a Banshee Queen move, just to a higher degree.
Maybe ‘literally everyone’ was too big of a hyperbole, but my point is that she’d have thrown as many souls to the maw as necessary, and if that meant the entire world, so be it.
… What?
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We are still feeling the effects of Game of Thrones, unfortunately.
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Subvert my expectations, daddy.
God, please kill me right now.
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I blame the writer for this, not the character. Afrasiabi made her suddenly cartoonishly evil for his own petty reasons. And then as soon as he left the scene, she stopped actively trying to escalate the war, which you’d think she would have been doing. In fact, she was strangely absent for a patch or two, considering she was warchief at the time.
The writing of BfA is just so bad and disjointed that you can’t really get deep or consistent characterization out of it.
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Oh absolutely. The writing was so terrible that its hard to make any argument that doesn’t end up with “the writers were too busy stealing breast milk to bother with actually doing their job.”
Which is a shame, really.
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Ironically the breast milk thief left long before most of the point most people would call the start of the narrative downturn.
But that’s the joy of setting corporate culture, the company reaps the “benefits” long after you leave.
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You are literally leaving out the part where she knowingly sent all those people who died, and anyone who died in the Fourth War, to the Maw to suffer for all eternity, this included children my dude. That in itself makes her worse than the other two, even if she killed less people.