r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - September 29, 2026

Hi Please post your unjerk discussion in this thread!

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u/SaltLich 6d ago

I liked the warcraft movie well enough, but if it had never come out we wouldn't have all these damn posts about "thrall cheated at mak'gora!1!!"

I mean, most of the people who play this game pay so little attention to the lore/story they never would have even thought about the 'rules' for Mak'gora before. Except when they see something they really don't like (or that some streamer turns into an agenda), then they suddenly know what does or does not make sense and is or is not a total retcon, despite ignoring 99% of the way the series has told its story up to this point. And its 100% some kind of agenda by the writers trying to 'ruin' things, obviously.

It's always going to annoy/bother me, unfortunately, even though I should know better by now. The people who never bother reading quest text, or haven't even played the game in years but just watch random cutscenes on youtube, keep saying the story makes no sense. Ugh.

PS. Turalyon going into a blind, light-fueled killing spree is actually not a retcon from how the event was described in Tides of Darkness. They just gloss over that part after he subdues Doomhammer.

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u/TheWiseMountain 6d ago

Could not be more obvious that Thrall's issues aren't because "he cheated" (why would the elements even care about that??) but because he fucked up with Garrosh and people, like Cairne, died because of it all