The Absolute State of Blizzard

He got turned into magic energy and was imprisoned, but turning back cause permanent damage or something. Some chick who's either his gf or has a crush on him made him the wheelchair. I bet Blizzard didn't want to make a new asset they'd use only once, so they just reused one and added color.

I get why people aren't happy with it, but some act like it's the worst thing in the world lmao. Blizz is just trying to retire this guy, and having a magic disability is an easy way out without committing to killing him off.

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tumble895@reddit

He's just old and was abducted to different dimention for a period of time before he escaped while the players weakened his "prison". The wheelchair is a gift conjured by his wizard (girl)friend. Not sure if they are actually together or just close.

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ResponsibleSeries411@reddit

Professor x is not cool because of the wheelchair tho.

It's specialy design to nerf him and give mentor vibe

His power is very strong and made lose his hair so you can't have the longue beard for mentor vibe and

strong power + skinny bald = evil

Strong power + buff bald = badass

Solution -> make him cripple in a wheel chair

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MorontheWicked@reddit

If you still play WoW you're disabled anyway

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enceralc666@reddit

>In a fantasy world with dragons magic and impossible shit like being able to resurrect people

Decide to use a chair with wheels on it for characters that aren't poor.

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gdgdgdgdgdvd123@reddit

If I was a cripple with magic powers I'd at least try to make the wheelchair look cool with spikes and skulls that one is legis just something you can take from a hospital and no one would stop you what is this bro

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tumble895@reddit

The wheelchair is a gift made by his female friend.

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gdgdgdgdgdvd123@reddit

Way to make me feel bad. And way to tell me his friend fuggin sucks as an artist. If he was actually a good friend he would telepathically induce dreams that force her to watch pimp my wheelchair on repeat. Cause that'd what real heroes do

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futainflation@reddit

Pimp My Wheelchair reminds me of some 2016 filthy frank shit

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tumble895@reddit

You raise a good point. You should write to blizz and give them some notes lol

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

I don't care about having disabled characters in media, it's whatever. But could they not have chosen something less gay than a flatly colored purple wheelchair? It's like he's sitting on a clear shell gameboy, it's flamboyant as hell and so out of place

Khadgar you deserve better my man

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Starbonius@reddit

From what I heard he's magic. They could have given him a floating throne or something.

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

He's a very powerful mage, he lives in a flying city of other mages where people are constantly flying in on personal flying mounts like hover discs. It's cartoonish that he would be given a wheelchair when he could at least have something he can float on. It'd be a hell of lot more mobile and easy to do his work on a floating disc than something as restrictive as a wheel chair

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RetroTheGameBro@reddit

Idgaf if they want cripples in stuff, representation is fine, but narratively, but they couldn't think of something better than a wheelchair with all the steampunk tech they have? Wheelchairs are actually really inefficient.

A robot spider walker, robot legs, a levitating little platform, an intelligent animal buddy that carries you around, anything?

If it has to be a wheelchair, put some weapons on it or make it morph into some kind of mech, anything!

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PlantationMint@reddit

That's the thing, it's lazy. They did the same thing with veilguard when they included top surgery scars.

Like, really? That's the best you could do?

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Starbonius@reddit

Literall wizard with magic fucking powers couldn't conceive of the ability to make a chair fly.

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LostInAnotherGalaxy@reddit

Don’t forget khadgar was one of the only white men left in the main story for the alliance, too

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PlantationMint@reddit

Danath, Anduin, Turalyon just off the top of my head

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tumble895@reddit

The leader of Alliance, Anduin, is literally a white man. Even if you dont consider him "leading" at the moment, Turalyon who's stepping in is also a white man. Funny how racists just love to create drama for no reason and cry like they are victims.

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LostInAnotherGalaxy@reddit

Khadgar was the leader for multiple expansions, anduin stepped in and is more gay

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tumble895@reddit

He's not paralyzed. You dont have to be paralyzed to utilize a wheelchair. My grandma was never paralyzed but she uses wheelchairs because shes old and standing/walking is tiring.

Asking why dont he just use "magic" to not get tired is like asking why my grandma isnt downing pre-workouts so she can walk around in the mall with us all day. Maybe old people just dont want to and are fine with taking a seat and relaxing? Ever thought about that?

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_witness_me@reddit

is like asking why my grandma isnt downing pre-workouts so she can walk around in the mall with us all day

Spoiler: pre-workouts aren't actually magic, but real magic is.

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LostInAnotherGalaxy@reddit

If whites really looked weak you wouldn’t have to say it. (Just like a certain race is at the bottom of every positive statistic, top of every negative, I don’t even have to say which because you know which) It’s just an outcast-dominated field in video game story writing, and they hate white people because school/university taught them white man bad and 90%of media knows white people can’t strike back without looking like white power people, and historically were in powerful/subjugated other races just like every other country that takes over another. There’s more Africans in slavery today than when Lincoln abolished it and its most Arabic and Chinese slave owners.

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tumble895@reddit

Not saying whites look weak, im saying you do lmao.

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Navy_Pheonix@reddit

Why not one of the women or thrall or someone.

They did. Drekthar was old enough to be wheelchair bound back in Legion.

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Alamasy@reddit

My once beloved Blizzard is dead.

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bublore@reddit

They lost their touch after the great breast milk bust

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PlantationMint@reddit

Turns out their creative juices were breast milk

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NorthernOracle@reddit

Girlbosses everywhere in games now too. Even Forza, the main mechanic in the story is some 20 year old girlboss but can fix any car from any time period and has encyclopic knowledge that would only come with decades of experience.. Same with the event organizer of the Horizon Festival, a festival that would require hundreds of millions in materials, planning, personnel --- you guessed it, run by a 20 year old poc girlboss. It's all so tiresome.

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TraumaPerformer@reddit

Yup. Every game, every piece of media in fact, is fully infected with this virus in the most obnoxious way possible.

I’ve been playing ESO recently, every single quest so far has featured the obligatory all-powerful girlboss surrounded by her pack of wimpy white men. At this point, I can confidently bet that I’ll eat my post-run socks if I encounter just one badass male character in the entire game. And I will never fear of doing so.

I guess you’ve gotta find a way to laugh at it now, because it’s never gonna stop. Like, imagine the state of gaming in ten years from now, if it even still exists.

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untakenu@reddit

0 imagination.

It is like that recent dragon age using the term "non-binary".

I can think of a dozen ways to get around being in a wheelchair, or at least make it cooler. Here are a few:

Spider leg machine. A mechanical chair that has spider legs. That would be sick. Any animal legs 5 do, though
Enchanted armour that supports you, and moves at will. Could provide opportunities if the enchantment was discovered and broken.
Replacing your broken limbs with another body from someone else, frankenstein style. You could even replace it with a lower body of a horse or giant spider, so you're a frankenstein's centaur/drider
Traditional broomstick.
Using fucking healing magic.
An actually cool wheelchair, with weapons and spikes and shit. Like a war chariot. It's still silly, though, since steps exist, and either you're constantly casting flight, or youre stuck.

A wheelchair in a world that doesn't support it, and that could easily fix the underlying problem is just pathetic, decadent and lazy.

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simmobl1@reddit

The worst part is, wasn't everyone raving about the original writer being back "the story is going to be good again" and this is what he comes up with? Jesus

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Plenty-Set-7258@reddit

Morrowind did number 1 back in 2002. Why can’t modern games be at least a little inventive

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ravens52@reddit

Because it’s not about being inventive, but pandering to the dejected and downtrodden. They’d rather do societally odd things for the company and game than do interesting and cool stuff, it’s so fucking weird, but maybe we are looking at this all wrong. Maybe they are maliciously complying with someone’s suggestion and are doing absolutely psychopathic stuff to stick it to blizz.

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ExperienceLow6810@reddit

YAGRUM BAGARN MENTIONED

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nzdastardly@reddit

How about the goblin mech suits? Why would a world with those kind of suits ever want this?!?

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Starbonius@reddit

Of course, the goblin planaquin for the extravagant adventurer

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Starbonius@reddit

Armored leg braces that slot into a suit of jointed plate armor for the artificers among you.

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Candid_Benefit_6841@reddit

Also a good reason to be crippled in various worlds. You were cursed, maybe unjustly, maybe as punishment, and it cannot be simply healed with magic.

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BloodSurgery@reddit

Yeah but choosing to use a wheel chair as a solution seems boring both in and out of universe. So many ways to get something cool to work with and you choose the most boring one in an universe with so many options as DND?

Those kind of curses don't exist so a player plays with them forever is all I'm saying.

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turret-punner@reddit

Now I want to see spider-chairs IRL...

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Earthworm-Kim@reddit

riding a horse or some other cool beast using a special saddle would naturally come before a wooden wheelchair anyway

hell, piggyback on the barbarian would come before that

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Din_Plug@reddit

Piggyback, on a pig.

gif

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untakenu@reddit

Absolutely. Even if they were determined to have a wheelchair, they could still spice it up. Why not have it pulled by a pack of squirrels? What if the chair itself is somewhat sentient and has legs that it gallops around on?

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the_marxman@reddit

Pathfinder solves this. My friend and I were joking that we should cripple one of my characters in order to use the Doc Ock prosthesis device they added with the other accessibility options.

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Winter_Low4661@reddit

Fuck yeah, spider leg machine. I wanna see that one.

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SalvationSycamore@reddit

pathetic, decadent and lazy.

So your average wizard

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AristideBriand@reddit

Or just levitating everywhere as a show of (magical) force, when in reality your legs just don't work.

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teleologicalrizz@reddit

Looks gay to me

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Deimos_Aeternum@reddit

It looks gay because it is

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MrCattsDad@reddit

The reason this is cringe is because it's blatant self inserting and self insertion is cringe, it's that simple.

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Affectionate_Fan3017@reddit

I self insert characters who are strong and handsome and fuck lots of women, is it still cringe?

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SalvationSycamore@reddit

Yes, it shows you will never be happy with your real self and therefore will never find love or happiness. Very cringe.

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johnsmith_42069@reddit

You can really tell how malding someone is in these posts when they reply to nearly every thread passive aggressively

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SalvationSycamore@reddit

That wasn't passive that was just just aggressive. Learn how to read you slug.

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TheIronGnat@reddit

I self insert into your mom

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MrCattsDad@reddit

Playing a character nothing like you IRL? No.

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Contact_Antitype@reddit

Self-inserting is one thing, but why the fuck would you insert your CRIPPLED self? Wouldn't you WANT to walk?

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doxenking@reddit

I wonder if it's people who get a thrill from victimizing themselves, so their escapism IS victimizing themselves.

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Winter_Low4661@reddit

When you live in a place that accommodates your disability, your disability is no longer a disability; it's a fashion statement.

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toxicbooster@reddit

Where did you hear this? It's great, or did you come up with it? Either way I'm using it from now on hahah

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SalvationSycamore@reddit

They want to be happy with their current self, not pretend to be fixed. It's like how the self inserts for ugly otaku losers are also ugly otaku losers and not extremely handsome hyperChads.

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the_marxman@reddit

We're clearly not talking about isekai here

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TheReviewerWildTake@reddit

retail WoW is the cringiest shit ever. On the level of Veilguard.

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Capital_Drummer8397@reddit

It sucks watching something you once loved slowly become lame and gay

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edbods@reddit

EA does that to pretty much everything it touches. command and conquer, battlefield, star wars, and not ea this time, but fallout

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Starbonius@reddit

Fantasy wheelchairs are so dumb because you could do literally anything to replace the ability to walk and it's just modern wheelchair design but medieval

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TomtheWonderDog@reddit

Humiliation ritual is right. He was one of the most powerful magic users in the lore, and essentially the main character back in Warcraft 2 days, and the new wow girlboss character one-tapped him in their first meeting crippling him permanently.

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KingofTheTorrentine@reddit

it's creatively bankrupt, and we know this. Not that wheelchairs shouldn't exist in places like forgotten realms, but that there aren't battle practical alternatives like an exo-sekeleton or a Mecha suit. Literaly shape shifting to something that can walk. Spirit possession. Levitation.

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Adytzah@reddit

People who don't actually read the lore/play the game are getting really mad over this.

The wheelchair was made by his crush for him. He doesn't actually need it, but also doesn't want her to feel rejected or whatever.

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Capital_Drummer8397@reddit

Im well aware of the lore. That doesnt make it any less lame and gay

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Deimos_Aeternum@reddit

The lore has become gay and lame, just like these designs.

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TheBeastlyStud@reddit

"The lore" is written by writers. It could have been any thing that he's floating in but the writers picked some cringy ass wheelchair.

And you mainly see this from the perspective of people who used to play/ do play but are put off by the current state of the story. People who never played don't care because they don't care about WoW.

Are we really going to pretend like Blizzard isn't trying to score diversity and feel good points? Within recent memory there was a string of controversies that they are desperate to fix.

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A_Stoned_Smurf@reddit

That's actually even more gay and retarded.

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raderat@reddit

Why do the wheels spin when he flies around in it?

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Adytzah@reddit

Who cares

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raderat@reddit

I do. That's why I asked.

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Adytzah@reddit

So you can admire his fat 18" rims

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Alex_Sobol@reddit

Blizzard died in 2008

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fezzuk@reddit

People want the character they play in fantasy to be a representative of them IRL ... What's the issue exactly?

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MoistLagsna@reddit

You can be creative while still having a paralyzed character. Why would a mage need a floating spectral wheelchair when they could fly around on a magic carpet or something else more fantasy driven. It’s like driving a 2006 Honda civic IRL and insisting upon driving one in every single car game when you have so many more options at your disposal.

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Deimos_Aeternum@reddit

"There are 892 cars in the game, are you going for the 911 GT2RS, the Ferrari FXX, the Nissan GTR Nismo or the Shelby Mustang GT500?"

"Nah bro, I'm going for the 1998 Hyundai Accent rusty shitbox I have irl"

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Din_Plug@reddit

"DrIvinG a SlOw cAr FAST, is betTEr thAn dRiving a FasT caR sloW." -someone who can't drive a car with any power.

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centurio_v2@reddit

wizards can fly on whatever they feel like its one of the advantages of being a wizard

if terry pratchett put it in one of his books everyone would think its hilarious

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Particular-Zone7288@reddit

difference is Pratchett wasn't a hack diversity hire

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Paradox@reddit

Just a hack

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nzdastardly@reddit

Why would you be paralyzed in a world where divine magic and restoration exists? Or necromancy, for that matter. Every character is literally raised from the dead dozens of times while they play the game. A magic that can restore life and body to people killed by falling into volcanoes is surely able to fix paralysis.

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tumble895@reddit

He's not paralyzed. You dont have to be paralyzed to utilize a wheelchair. My grandma was never paralyzed but she uses wheelchairs because shes old and standing/walking is tiring.

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nzdastardly@reddit

No, it isn't. Pre-workout is a stimulant that helps healthy people perform better. Magic and alchemy in WoW can bring life to dead flesh, graft different types of corpses together to create weapons, and turn one kind of beast into another. I understand that all kinds of people have all kinds of mobility issues in the real world, but in a world where even a lowly goblin can build and maintain a robot colossus suit, there is zero justification for a wheelchair.

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tumble895@reddit

Oh so you are the expert on magic now? 😂 Anything to justify your baby rage when seeing a disabled person huh.

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nzdastardly@reddit

I mean, I did waste a few months of my life playing WoW as a shaman and got to level 70, so yes I guess I am an expert on magic.

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LastCookie123456@reddit

Why is professor x in a wheelchair when he could easily use an iron man suit? If you start questioning the reality of fiction youll end up asking things like why doesnt harry potter us an ak 47

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TheBeastlyStud@reddit

Licending issues mainly.

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bunker_man@reddit

Idk, yahweh had wheels on his floating chariot in 800 bc for some reason. Having wheels on flying magic vehicles because they are inspired by land ones isn't exactly new.

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twofacetoo@reddit

Seriously, I was thinking about this myself the other day, what if it was just written in that healing magic only works while the wound is still 'open', and if it scars up, then it can't be 'undone'? IE: a person gets crippled, while the bones are still broken then healing magic could help them, but after a few days or so, they'll start to set and you'll just be fucked forever

That's the issue with this shit, the constant issue, they never do any work to justify why any of this is happening, they just throw it in and say 'DISABLED PERSON IN A MAGIC WHEELCHAIR!', and if it doesn't fit in the lore, fuck you, only nerds care about that shit

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Deimos_Aeternum@reddit

Seeing that shit would trigger me bad if I were wheelchair-bound

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-DubiousCreature-@reddit

"People want the character they play in fantasy to be a representative of them IRL"

Literally never met anyone who does this that wasnt a woman.

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Liberty_PrimeIsWise@reddit

Right?

I always play as a man when given the choice. Otherwise., I just choose what I think looks cool. Anyone who is completely unable to relate with a character, because that character doesn't look exactly like them, is a fucking idiot. Someone so dense should not be catered to.

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Rambozo77@reddit

It’s the reason everything is crap right now. Trying to please everyone and being over the top trying to not be offensive pleases no one and, ironically, is far more offensive.

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gothicmaster@reddit

I assume people in wheelchairs love to forget about their situation when playing a fantasy game with magic and dragons instead of being reminded about it. But i could be wrong. "Representative" - what a pedantic word.

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thEldritchBat@reddit

Who says that they want the character they play to represent them???

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back_reggin@reddit

Do they? I'm not a big titted anime teen girl in real life.

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Gilgamesh107@reddit

some may say it breaks the logic of the verse

all manner of magic exists in WOW yet they cant fix his legs?

ok lets accept that, why is he in a wheelchair and not some fantasy mount, or magic wings or whatever

fine hes in a magic wheelchair that can float lets accept that. why does it have wheels and look exactly like a modern day wheelchair? why is it bright pink?\

if hes gonna be a magic floating wheelchair, get creative and put magic runes on it or mechanized gears that make it float

why does it look so basic?

all of these things come together and just annoy people when they see it

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LastCookie123456@reddit

Something about gamers not wanting to see undesirables

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fine93@reddit

that's regarded

I don't want the character I play to be lame and pathetic as me...

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DickBlaster619@reddit

I don't want my character to be a NEET?

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TheThalmorEmbassy@reddit

cripples IRL want their video game characters to be crippled

No they don't, but fat fucks with dyed hair who pretend to have a disability and ride around in a scooter with their shitty dog at the grocery store want their characters to be crippled

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crawsex@reddit

Having crippled people in a fantasy landscape is perfectly reasonable. Magic can be expensive, there can be a variety of great reasons the magic doesn't work (ancient curse, natural harm, whatever). Putting a legless jabroni on a floating cloud is a sensible way to solve the issue.

But why the fuck would the floating magical cloud look like a wheelchair???

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_Heracross_@reddit

WoW can explain why the most powerful wizard needs a wheelchair but can't explain why the Black Dragon Flight are responsible for 90% of all violent crimes.

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Deimos_Aeternum@reddit

"We may treat female employees like shit, steal their breast milk and have a glorified molestation room but at least we pretend to not be bigots"

- Blizzard

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circlejerker2000@reddit

what the actual fuuuuuuuuuuucccckkkk

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RufusKyura@reddit

At this point, WoW is just checking the same box that D&D did: "We need wheelchair representation, shove a wheelchair anywhere so that we can pretend we care and possibly get more money!"

Fucking cringe.

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alextherus@reddit

Of course they don't do escapism. They're on a wheelchair, they can't escape anything