“Good” and “bad” are abstract concepts made up by human culture. They do not exist as natural parts of the cosmos.
Therefore nothing is good and nothing is bad. Everything is relative and depends on the point of view.
No conclusion can ever be drawn about anything in life in regard to morality. It always varies.
Basically, nothing makes any sense.
I am going to copy and paste this post every time we start talking about morality because I just love you all guys so much I can hardly contain tears of joy.
Her motives are irrelevant. The Wikipedia quote you posted describes a villain as the antagonist of some protagonist.
Someone that, from the protagonist point of view, constitutes an important evil agency in the plot or in this case, from the Hordes point of view, someone that actively works against them.
Tyrande is considered the Hordes antagonist.
Judging how valid her reasons are for her to be so, is rather pointless and absurd, unless you are expecting the Horde to commit suicide and allow her to kill them without protesting.
Okay I understand your point. I wouldn’t just wonder that this is happened now. Or how do you wanna explain to me that Saurfang himself said that the Horde will bleed for that? They have made her to that person.
Excuse me But if she’s trying to kill me?
I demand the right to protest with all of my might.
Which includes a lot of Violence, murder and tree genocide.
Sylvanas has some extra flags about potentially becoming such, given her abrasive personality and punctual acts of cruelty that alienated a portion of the Horde against her.
But as of now, we don’t have information regarding how much stress will Blizzard put on those aspects or if we are in for a twist that somehow reverses the previous bad stuff.
As of now, she isn’t a game villain.
Because characters are entitled to clash against someone else’s ideals or modus operandi.
That doesn’t mean they are villains.
On a meta level, I find some of Sylvanas reasoning as agreeable. And ingame, we certainly have a few characters that share her view.
I mean if she had never joined the Alliance.
the Horde would never had considered her people a prime threat at their Back Door.
the Night Elves were literally breathing down their necks in location.
And the Alliance would had eventually struck at the Horde.
This was clear from the end of Before the Storm.
And orgrimmar would had been done for.
The only reason the Horde can move “freely”
Is because the nelves are no more breathing down their necks.
Finally having a cause or a good reason does not mean you cannot be a Villain.
Don’t know, but paladin has new awesome animations implemented, including reading from a libram when healing. Am nerdgasming so hard, and I have seen them before, but seeing them ingame, damn!
At this point I want to say that you can’t just name the characters of the opposite faction “evil”. They’re much cooperation also. But do you would call someone evil if you burned down his house without even an excuse or sth. like regrets and he burn dowm yours for that?
Perhaps. But did so from a perspective that rationalised, or tried to, the back and forth of two antagonistic factions at war.
Not as in “they are the bad guys and we are the good guys”.
I understand if the Alliance sees the the Horde leader as antagonists/villains. Just as I understand the opposite view.
That doesn’t mean that taking a subjective point of view from either faction, and pushing it as the objective truth, is a valid approach to define or categorise any character. And preach about said view as being the objective truth.
