Let me break this down:

Ad-hominem, No True Scotsman, Ad-hominem, Ad-hominem.....

Illidan is part of the Alliance?

Hm. Maybe we shouldn't have raided Black Temple, then.....

Actually, I finally started to like Jaina after she finally sacked up and kicked the traitors out of Dalaran.

Understanding motivation is fine - excusing away all past evil because "buut butttt the demon blood made them do it! You're racist and closed-minded for being angry!" is not.

That's the issue I've got with Metzen's writing since post-WCII:ToD. He's got a clear favorite.

Well, fuck me. You're right.

Look deeper. That's what happened.

Trolls are former humans who started worshipping the Spirits.

Generations of this corrupted them.

Yes, I do know that. But it doesn't really change the overall issue.

Actually, that's cute, but I think in 5 years I've posted in there a total of twice.

I just know my lore - I was a fan of the original RTS games, [I-II] but I feel that starting with WCIII and especially WoW, Metzen's gone down a fanfiction-y road and it gets more obvious with every expansion that he plays favorites.

At least you recognize that we've been given the shaft pretty often. That's more than most people here.

And THANK YOU for being the first person to point out that they did everything they did willingly. Ner'zhul and Gul'dan didn't spoon-feed it to them. They took it because they wanted power.

Sylvannas is tied for my #1…

Anti-Heroes are great.

I'm a guy that genuinely loves anti-heroes; the Byronic Hero is my favorite literary archetype, ever. But the whole the-horde-is-innocent angle really grates at me. It's lazy and it's not realistic.

Post the WC3-ridiculousness, yes.

So, that's a crime now?

Ad-hominem? You stay classy!

Duplicate post due to Kotaku's servers taking a dump was duplicated.

No, we don't kill him. You obviously did not read the announcement for Warlords of Draenor on this very site.

Garrosh is being dragged away in chains, awaiting trial for his crimes - but it doesn't work. He hooks up with a Mage who sends him back in time to Draenor.

He wants the movie's audience to feel for the Orc heroes as much as they do the Human ones.

They are the greater evil, yeah, but from the perspective of the observer on Azeroth, they are a less-immediate threat.

They are always the primary villains, with the exception of one expansion - and if you're talking about MoP, the very very convenient TIME MAGE begs to differ.