But the Horde are constantly saving the world alongside the Alliance. They even turned on the Warchief who wronged her the most, she knows there are plenty of good people among them from her peacekeeping days, and many of the other characters around her seem to understand that the Horde aren't an inherently evil group, and that it's better to work with them than against them.
The whole revenge plot thing works in a closed-off world where one side only ever sees the other as an evil empire on the horizon, but WoW has always painted both factions as more nuanced than that, and the characters are aware of it. Jaina only being able to see things in such black and white terms paints her as either an idiot (which her prior characterisation has established she is not), or an incredibly damaged, emotionally stunted individual. That latter option does seem to be what they're going for, and that's a totally fine place to take a character, but again, it's been five years of nothing but the same one-note Jaina with no substantial exploration of this theme or additional depth beyond "I hate them because they wronged me". That's a really, really boring thing to do with a character who has the potential to be so much more. Either have her grow as a person and start coming to terms with her troubles, or actually dig into how messed up she is and tell a story about that.
Jaina is a character charged with emotional strife and rich storytelling potential, probably moreso than most other WoW characters, but it hasn't gone anywhere in years. What are we going to learn about Jaina as a person after this comic? That she hates the Horde because they were jerks to her and thinks empathy is a weakness? Okay. Great. Already knew that. What now?
Again, I have no idea what else is in the comic and I hope it's something with a little more depth than that, but unless they actually do break the mould with her it just feels like beating a dead horse.
Jaina's adventure to Kul Tiras and her punishment/torture in Thros are kind of about coming to terms with her past, her present, and her future. The current Jaina is kind of twisting in the wind at the moment, unable to rectify her previous decisions with her current circumstances and kind of bouncing between self-loathing and externalized hatred. She gets some development later on in BfA as far as that goes, and seems to make steps towards reconciling who she is with who she was (without seeming as if she's turned herself inside out in the process).
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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I play Horde (well just Blood Elf, not a Horde fan:P) but i really like Jaina's character. She has been through so much, with all the things the Horde has done to her. I believe her anger is justified.
I still hold out help that Jaina would go back to her old ways again. She is still one of my favourite characters in WoW, (outside of Khadgar and Saurfang). But I do enjoy the journey she is on, as long as Blizzard don't make her a raid boss or something.
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Unsubbed since January 2021, now a Warcraft fan from a distance
Jaina is fine. I like her.
The more they (and especially Golden) try to make Jaina sympathetic and misunderstood and show how she is the victim that had to endure so much the more I want to kill her and put her head on a spike outside of Orgrimmar.
I really hope that this guy is right about her, although unfortunately I can't see it happening as long as Golden is writing the story.
Maybe in this comic we'll get the explanation why Rexxar is suddenly full on Alliance hate and 'I'll kill Jaina, even if it's the last thing I ever do!' I mean, yes, he was Horde but he didn't come across as a fanatic lunatic until now, quite the contrary.
If this is the Attitude of Jaina now... this is no longer the Jaina I identified with. If she just becomes another "Screw Peace, Vengeance is Mine!!" I'm done.
I love that Jaina is finally getting more attention. Looks like she wasn't just pouting during Legion, but off being a badass and helping in her own way, which is nice. Jaina has every reason to hate the Horde now and is one of the most sympathetic character in all of Warcraft.
Do we really need yet another reminder of Jaina's growing desires for genocide and concentration camps? We'll be sure to have months of chat-boxes of that in BFA.