Talk:Taria Wrynn (film universe)

In the gameverse

Is it safe to assume that the character (name) of Taria Wrynn existed (is true) in the main universe considering the movieverse is a separate timeline? Do we add her to her family's infoboxes? --Mordecay (talk) 20:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

On one hand, it's movie-verse. On the other, Blizzard may decide to just go with that character name for the main universe in the future. Personally, I would not add her name to the relevant infoboxes until we can obtain further indications as to which way Blizzard wants to go with it. -- Alayea (talk / contrib) 22:30, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

This character is just Blizz pegging two birds with one stone (or perhaps dodging two stones with one bird). She's the product of their realization of all the racist and sexist undertones that have been persistent throughout Warcraft for over 20 years. There are only a few women of note, and of those, they're just curvy bimbos with "Come F*$@ Me Lips", big hair and skimpy outfits who behave in stereotypically negative female ways. Humans are all white with just varying degrees of sun tans, further reinforced by being depicted as having descended from pseudo-Norse half-giants, and occupy the space of being generically European and stand as the cosmopolitan dominant race above all others. All other cultures are depicted through comically (if offensively) deformed humanoid beings.

And given the Warcraft film's premise was originally going to be much different, this character wouldn't have ever been created to begin with, especially given her absence from the story for 20+ years. She may be mentioned in the game during Legion, due to Varian's continued presence there and following her uninspired obligatory creation for the film, but otherwise I wouldn't think much of her. She's just an attempt to appease people in an effort to avoid having Warcraft being seen as yet another anime-addled white teen kid's fantasy where humans are dominant white people fighting against various inhuman beings of other cultures and are justified in it because the non-whites attacked first, and along the way team up with predominantly white allies with one less-than-white group who are often neglected or pushed aside (draenei).

The film is looking to be little more than Gods of Egypt in terms of quality, and I'm sure it'll start receiving similar racial backlash the closer it comes to release if it gains more and more hype. Murgohr (talk) 15:42, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Wow. All I read was "white white white race white sexism". There's no Africa in World of Warcraft and everything is magical. Why do some people think that they own the right to decide how evolution works in a world of fiction and whether skin complexions are an issue?--KIROCHI) 15:45, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Damn son, you made a profile just to post this rant? "There are only a few women of note" Are we really speaking of the same game here? To me at least, the Warcraft universe is one with strong characters in virtually every race/gender combinations. Although, I suppose, when I actually think about black characters ingame, the first one, to me, that comes to mind is Postmaster Malown.With the lineage that humans have in Warcraft, it's not all that weird though. Even if you don't agree with that direction in the story. To be fair, there are way more characters "of note" that aren't male humans, than characters who are, in the warcraft universe. PeterWind (talk) 01:00, 11 March 2016 (UTC)