#i think garrosh is awesome but many of his hardcore fans are Less Awesome

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World of Warcraft is... nnnnnot the best medium in which to tell nuanced and morally complex character dramas, but setting aside all that, Garrosh Hellscream is a surprisingly decent depiction of a Specific Type Of Guy.

A young man who suffers from depression and misplaced shame, who feels that he is not supported by those around him, who then discovers an ideology that gives him a sense of pride and purpose, at the expense of fueling his anger and resentment of entire groups he now considers to be "beneath" him. He is then given a position of power that he is woefully underprepared for and increasingly abuses it to suppress his own insecurities. He is a scarily realistic antagonist who could have so very easily taken a different path. He is a tragic villain, a disaster created by both circumstance and by choice.

And then you look at the fandom, where half the people saw him as an arrogant snot-nosed brat right from the start, and the other half unironically insists that his "True Horde" fascism and orc supremacy are Based

Worst part is, I understand why the fandom discourse around him is so heated, because that Specific Type Of Guy is one that, unfortunately, is regularly encountered in the Warcraft community

(Never, ever, read Trade Chat)

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