And yet I've never seen you say the same about Arthas. Who was a more influential character to WarCraft III fans than Thrall was.Do you know what kills a franchise? Its when you kill off familiar characters and try to replace them.
When they killed off optimus prime in transformers, the outcry was so overwhelming they brought him back.
When they kill of beloved comic book heroes, and try to replace them, they never live up to the previous heroes title.
If your someone who believes the only way to progress a story is to kill all popular characters and replace them with new ones, then your a bloody idiot. This is a piss poor excuse of developing plot, hey, lets kill off all long standing characters and replace then with new ones. Yeah, they worked great when they killed Cairne and replaced with his cut and paste clone son, hes sooooo much more popular.
I'm sorry, but this just pisses me off when people with such inexperience of understanding fantasy storylines thinks there only solution to just kill characters off. It degrades the story and leaves nothing good after. And your boorish excuse for killing them "I don't like them anymore" Well you obviously didn't like them to begin with and so would just sooner see the destroy degrade for it.