Pull Up a Chair in the Arcantina

[Mic_128]

Khadgar is literally no different than Professor X. Charles exists in a universe where there are so many ways for him to regain his ability to walk, and yet the plot has always ensured that he remains wheelchair bound, because that's what people have come to see him as.

Uh, bit awkward, but Xavier hasn't needed/used a wheelchair since House of M back in 2005.

[Bladesyphon]

Uh, bit awkward, but Xavier hasn't needed/used a wheelchair since House of M back in 2005.

I wasn't actually aware of that, which shows how much I've honestly kept up with Marvel outside of the movies and the old X-Men 97' cartoons. Either way, my point was more so that when people think Professor X, they think the man in the wheelchair/hoverchair for the most part.

I am a bit surprised though to hear that Marvel moved away from him being wheelchair bound, since that was a fairly iconic part of his character and his backstory, and it added inclusivity and acceptance to the comics, which was of the core foundations of X-Men at it's inception and early run.

But again, my knowledge of marvel comicwise really doesn't go beyond the 90s era comics so for all I know that's also changed as well.

[Kathranis]

Ground mount only, reduces movement speed to 35% of normal movement speed, can't go up stairs. Funnily enough, even with those conditions you'd still see a bunch of people use it. I know I would!

That being said, still don't understand why they came up with a magic wheelchair for Khadgar instead of the vastly better options that could and do exist in WoW's setting beyond meta inclusivity reasons. I was stuck using wheelchairs, crutches, and canes for nearly a decade because I could barely walk, and I can safely say that I'd never identify more with a character just because they're using magical wheelchairs or crutches. In fact, it's way more insulting to me that Blizz would think that reductively about it... maybe it appeals to people whose only identity is their disabilities, but that's not a healthy thing to embrace.

Yeah, or, y'know, maybe they simply wanted him to be visibly injured and out of commission after a nearly fatal disintegration, and a wheelchair was an easy solution to convey that to players.

Despite what maladjusted, chronically online rightoids say, not every decision made by game designers is part of some woke DEI conspiracy.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Yeah, or, y'know, maybe they simply wanted him to be visibly injured and out of commission after a nearly fatal disintegration, and a wheelchair was an easy solution to convey that to players.

Despite what maladjusted, chronically online rightoids say, not every decision made by game designers is part of some woke DEI conspiracy.

Even ignoring any Injury’s, dudes the equivalent of a 100 year old or older being turned into an old man at 19 and it’s been 40 years since then.

He’s olde physically older then Drek’thar who’s been in a wheel chair since cata.

[Kathranis]

Even ignoring any Injury’s, dudes the equivalent of a 100 year old or older being turned into an old man at 19 and it’s been 40 years since then.

He’s olde physically older then Drek’thar who’s been in a wheel chair since cata.

Yeah. To me it's really simple writing motivations. They wanted to bench him, and used that as an opportunity to do a fake out to give Xal'atath's destruction of Dalaran more gravitas. Revealed he survived but is debilitated and now they can keep him around as a side character.

[Zodiark]

You know what I found amusing to myself. The name. Arcantina. I said this name in a southern Drawl to myself. Kinda sounds like how an old western Cowboy might say "Howdy pardner! Welcome ta Ar-cantina (OUR-Cantina)"