Women in Warcraft

Wyrmrest Accord
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Monkeys paw: first female Warchief, also a genocidal dictator.

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Basically, yes. Girl power (to kill all life on Azeroth)!

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I think Sylvanas is a bit of the odd one out in all of these female leads, to be fair. They frequently mentioned that the female thing was by accident, and simply a result of the story, and I can really believe that with Jaina et al. I’ve liked Jaina since WC3, and seeing her grow in such a significant way has been awesome, and I really am happy they’ve put her in the spot light. A lot of the females in BFA have felt organically included, in my opinion.

Sylvanas is not one of these characters. I apologize if I sound like one of those “pandering” accusers that have been mentioned, but Sylvanas felt like that to me. She had no reason to be pulled into the spot light of Warchief and it’s only drug her character into the mud. The whole “Spirits told me, mon!” thing just made me think they wanted a lady in charge of one of the factions, and that’s about it.

I like that they’re actually making that a mystery, I suppose. And maybe as the story around that unfolds I will be proven wrong in my assumption, but so far I remain dubious.

On the flip side, though, I really do like all the other female characters in BFA. I think they are all well represented as people and it doesn’t feel like a “guys look!” moment. They deserve this pat on the back.

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I mean, considering three out of five past warchiefs, being a genocidal dictator only means she’s doing her job.

Don’t @ me, Doomhammer stans.

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damn, conjurus just rectum

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Maraad an Yrel were robbed…

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Blizzard is comprised of Pro-English Nobility CONFIRMED

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Pretty much. Even the ones that weren’t overtly pro-genocide were at least pretty cool with it.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll die saying it: Yrel got the villain bat because Ion was butthurt that everybody liked her more than Grom.

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i assume they did the same thing to Garrosh for the same reason, except replace Grom with Thrall

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Can you imagine is illidan was a girl

Dudes enough of a creators pet as is but like

A woman?

I can hear the crying about her being a Mary sue from the alternate universe where it’s true.

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I think you need to check for colorblindness because there are literally people of every color in this game. Blue, Green, Brown, Red, Purple…

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whoosh. :airplane:

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You can be 36 shades of blue and purple but the darkest humans can be is “my great grandmother was cuban”

Real diverse.

I mean I know I’ve made this joke before but really, who are the parents of the actual black kids running around. Because proper skin and hair options don’t exist for adults of npcs or pcs

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I’m still on my phone, but somebody mentioned Nazmir and now I’m reminded of two more things that irritate me.

That the explicitly matrarchical blood trolls are also horribly evil and eat their men is something that would only make me squint for a second if it was all by itself. Like, fine, sure. I’m never going to say that there shouldn’t be female villains, or that matrarchical societies should be represented as being any more inherently awesome than patriarchal ones are(n’t).

But then Nazmir is compounded by Drustvar, where the Good Guys revive an order of inquisitorial killers to combat an all-female enemy who are, conveniently, horribly evil, and who spread their evil through the cunning use of girls’ circles and friendship bracelets, all of which the men are helplessly oblivious to because of Vile Sorcery.

I keep thinking about Lucille Waycrest telling me that the villagers demanding that she be burned, drowned, or otherwise brutally murdered are “good people, no seriously.”

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To be fair, secondary physical characteristics in humans is a result of adapting to an environment over many many generations. If humans all live in basically the same environment in Warcraft, they’re all gonna look more or less the same.

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I always think this: Warcraft’s world does not work like Earth. They don’t have the same physics so they don’t need the same reasoning to explain things.

Humans could be purple and that would be acceptable I’m sure with some explaining. Doesn’t work that way on Earth.

(Saying this in response to Zenrao’s post on adaptation)

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I see your point here, and in some settings I’d agree. But my counterpoint would be that WoW’s setting in particular has a tropical rainforest sandwiched between a tundra and a glacier, so even the fact that its humans originate from north-dwelling giant Vikings doesn’t seem like it would have to prevent the occurrence of non-white groups. The environment changes so drastically between zones that the entire species would have to live in the same one to make this impossible.

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i rather enjoyed the cutscenes of jaina and her mother reuniting. it was heart warming.
as to the magazine? the only word that comes to mind is vanity.

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Humans live in about as varied of a climate as trolls and elves do, but those two races seem to be the eevees of Warcraft. It really doesn’t make sense that say, forest trolls and jungle trolls (who also live in forests) would be different enough to be considered sub species of eachother, but humans would resist the urge to even tan evenly while spreading across azeroth.

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