Your WoW series/show ideas

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The Warcraft movie creates a lot of mixed feelings from people. Many refused to see it, because they already assumed it would be bad (which didn’t help it), others didn’t care for it, and others really loved it and saw it multiple times and got the special dvd+bluray special edition =coughs=

But , even if you love it or hate it. There was a lot of love and passion still realized in it, with the orcs still being highly impressive to me I can’t not enjoy at least that aspect of it

But here comes the prompt and question!!!

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Since we are now seeing that series and shows are the much better path for story telling and more and more people are enjoying show adaptations- what do you think a Warcraft series should focus on?

Should it be a completely original story? Should they try and recreate impactful books like Lord of the Clans, Arthas, or War Crimes?

Should it create a stand alone story that helps expand the universe, like something like the Traveler series?

How would you see it animated? CGI Blizzard Cinematic style? Or 2D Animation, like how the Overwatch show is rumored to be?

What sort of director or artist do you think would push forward good ideas?

I would really love to see this discussed as its very much on my mind!

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Marcus and his sexcapades.

More serious, a group of mercenaries living on Azeroth. Completely detached from the factions and just journeying and doing odd jobs trading stories with one another.

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I mean hey, if they released like an actual mini novel series I’d read those Steamy Romance Novels

But that sounds very fun!!! Something that explores every aspect of the universe and keeps it form being tied to one side. Lets you explore the interesting paths and further the world building. Great idea, Autai!

Sorta like the Traveler in a sense!

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Goblin. Mafia. Crime. Drama.

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A spin off series where Blood Elves do boxing but actually they just charge at each other with their helmet-piercing ears and see whose brain gets stabbed through first.

Serious answer though I’d like them to do the Second War as a show/series. The Warcraft Movie covered the First War PRETTY well, with some logical lore changes to simplify the narrative… But I’d love to see a lore accurate version of the Second War, done in a Game of Thrones kinda style, telling the story over a fairly long period of time, so that the interesting details of WoW’s backstory can be focused on, fleshed out, and maybe even expanded… not limited, as they had to do for the movie.

Also I’d want the story to encompass what happened beyond the Dark Portal with Khadgar. We need more Khadgar.

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So, bear with me here.

I’d actually create a show titled ‘The Huojin’ which would follow the exploits of a Huojin Pandaren in the Horde, probably during the hay day of MoP and beyond.

While there would be Overarching Threats and Looming baddies (like the main two being someone in the Alliance and a the Kor’kron Gestapo). While it would likely have some form of ongoing storyline, the bulk of what is shown on the screen would be this Huojin wandering Kalimdor, seeing the plight of the locals and helping accordingly. The main goal of this would be to tell a smaller, more controlled story in a world already heavily occupied by massive ones.

Season Finale would likely be the Siege of Orgrimmar and them breaking out some companions they made along the way.

Also for more Pandaren representation in general.

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I would love a Second War series, but I would put the war sort of in the background. Instead, follow Thrall growing up in Durnholde, Varian and Arthas growing up in Lordaeron and maybe expand on that relationship more, and Jaina and Kael’thas in Dalaran. Uther would of course feature too.

Other possible protagonists could be Tirion and Eitrigg, and you could do their entire arc (which intersects nicely with Arthas’, who was a juror in Tirion’s trial.)

Depending on how big you want the scope to be you could also maybe work in some Kalimdor stuff or Darkspear stuff too but that might be a bit of a stretch. Another idea I had was perhaps they hint at Thrall’s shamanism early and he has these astral projections that he interprets as dreams where he sees Darkspear fighting naga and murlocs or Tauren fighting Centaur and just doesn’t know what they mean.

Turalyon, Lothar, Doomhammer, Gul’dan etc. would certainly be in the show too but not as the main characters. Follow the war from the point of younger characters, and sort of have the war as part of the backdrop that only increasingly becomes more relevant to the main plot as time goes on. I’d be okay with some retcons too, like maybe Varian being at the last battle or something.

You could end season 1 with the Horde being defeated. Season 2 being about Tirion’s exile, Arthas growing into his power, Varian returning to Stormwind and falling in love with Tiffin, Jaina researching the lethargy (and maybe meets Thrall for the first time when she interviews him after she learns he is unaffected by it - again I’m cool with some retcons.) I imagine a lot of Lord of the Clans happens here and the finale is razing Durnholde.

Season 3 would be about the rise of the plague and the beginning of Warcraft 3, with the finale being the purge of Stratholme.

And basically I’d love for them to ride this thing until the Battle of Hyjal lol. I think the Third War would feature more prominently, obviously.

I would love for this to be CGI in Blizzard cinematic style, but I think animated would work best.

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This is what I would do. Although I’d make it about my own band of characters. >_<

I think Warcraft has prime potential for original characters and stories to blossom in alternate formats outside the main lore surrounding each expansion.

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I’d like to see a paralelling tale of classic WoW questlines done by a slowly growing party of the two factions, maybe with story arcs that occasionally intersect and these groups becoming rivals. Allowing us to see the events of WoW unfold through eyes on both sides whose characters we’ve come to know.

It starts with a human paladin, an orc warrior on opposite sides. The stories switch then to a dwarven hunter and a troll shaman doing their starting zones, then to a gnome mage and an undead warlock, etc. etc.

Each character’s introduction will take place in their starter zone, or a connecting/proceeding starter zone. It’ll have them all find each other through different episodic tales covering some of the longest and most well known questlines from the classic era (comedic centric episode about Mankrik’s wife and how everyone gives the wrong directions on where they last saw her would be my favorite), leading to the raids as the ‘finales’ or connecting conflicts of the story at the end of a given season. And the best part, these raids would be where the two companies join forces, perhaps predictably, but eventually form a sort of cross-faction guild.

I’d hope it would be in more of an animated style akin to the 2003 revival of He-man and the Masters of the Universe (Say what you will about that revival, that style and animation was solid and pretty consistent), and cover the expansions up to perhaps the end of Wrath.

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another warcraft movie that condenses the second war into “stormwind survivors squad up with the north folk, head back down, push orcs back to Draenor, have to close portal behind them”

but it’s all actually CG so we don’t have something like Garona’s Tic Tac tusks, also tease Arthas at the end like they nodded to Thrall at the end of the first one

(and players, with the release of it, can get a Grand Alliance horse with armour like from the movie because holy wow of all things i took away from it, the horse armours were amazing)

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More Gnome lore. They’re underdeveloped and need better writing.

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Reality TV show

Every episode 5 people(mixed races/sex) do something extremely simple together for about 10 minutes of the 30 minute segment. For the remaining 20~ they are interviewed individually and talk privately to the camera about how one(or more) of the people they did the extremely simple task with could have done it better, sucked at it, or should really consider taking advice better with varying degrees of laughter and anger.

Once every few episodes there is a completely new cast.

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Adventures in the Barrens and Ashenvale, where we have a cameo of Chuck Norris and we try to find Mankrik’s wife.

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I would love an animated streaming show. It worked for Castlevania, it can work for Warcraft. The mostly likely approach would be a retelling of the Warcraft story from start to current, but instead/in addition I’d take something following a party of adventurers in the world, with bonus points if they specifically tackle questlines that exist in game. I’m sure they’d be alliance for broad appeal, even if I think Horde would be cooler.

On the topic of the Warcraft movie, I have mixed feelings. A lot of it was neat, but some of the stuff they tossed in that wasn’t from the first game seemed strange, like Dalaran flying during the first war.

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Honestly?

Any show about the setting of Warcraft should not involve the “main” storyline in any way, and should either focus on entirely new characters unrelated to the “main” story or side-characters.

First off, the main story is in absolute shambles right now. Exploring that on any level would be a s**tshow that would lower the quality of the series.

Second, having a side story that codified and cemented the lore might actually help Blizzard writers remember stuff. They seem to forget everything they write down, so maybe a show about adventurers traveling and interacting with all the pieces of lore might help the writers to remember what they just did a few years ago.

Finally, removing the story from the main story allows us to understand how other people have been viewing all this crazy nonsense from the past two decades. I mean, how are villagers in Westfall reacting to the fact that a god the size of a small planet just stabbed Silithus was a giant sword? How are pirates reacting to all the crazy crap that is suddenly flooding out of the ocean all the time? Because Blizzard just keeps getting more and more high-powered in this setting, I’d like to know how creatures that aren’t demi-gods are reacting to all this stuff.

An animated series in the same vein as The Mandalorian or Castlevania would be great, but what would be event better is something more like Season 1 of Wakfu. That’d be amazing.

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warcraft isekai

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I think if they made a series about WoW, it should start from the events of WC3.

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A story following a group of adventurers through Azeroth. A simple RPG campaign culminating in an epic boss fight. The catch would be the group featuring both horde and alliance races.

An Orc Warrior, Belf Priest, Nelf Druid, Gnome Rogue.

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“It looks as though I’ve been transported to…another world!”

~ Anime, 2019

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I’d love a pre first war show on the orcs, clan politics, expand their cultures beliefs and so on. Maybe focus on a young Frostwolf or Blackrock and season one leads up to the last kosh’harg where the ogres delivered the red pox. Could even show how some of the clans worked well alongside the Draenei before the orcs turned on them. If I recall the Rangari were taught by some members of the Laughing Skull, and the Shadowmoon and Draenei got along mostly well up until Gul’dan started playing them.

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