NonGamerWatches #16 WORLD OF WARCRAFT Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords of Draenor, & Legion 

Also "Where they gona drink his blood!?" You pretty much stumbled upon the focal point of Warcraft lore universe. That entire scene was supposed to (and did) play out quite differently, they drank the demon blood and the Orcs became enslaved more or less. The entire plotline of the Warlords of Draenor expansion is about a different timeline, where this happened instead.

Haha "You're hammering stuff into something that's alive?" Don't worry, we rip it back out for him, everything's cool.

"What to do you do to a dragon that flys over and kills you" You get an achievement sweetie

"How does that guy lose?" By throwing four other dragons at him.

Blizzard always knocks their trailers out of the park. Good memories rewatching these.

React to Warbringers: Azshara, Warbringers: Sylvanas and Warbringers: Jaina. Origin of these three female characters from Word of Warcraft. You will like these stories.

"Be friends instead!" *Summed up the entirety of MoP*

"Oh, they're on the same team! So then...they're not on the same team later?" Yeah, that's pretty much WoW lol :p

"How does this guy ever lose??!" With great difficulty...

WE WILL NEVER BE SLAVES!!! Hannah: PREACH, YES LETS GOOO BUT WE WILL BE CONQUERORS. Hannah: Woah wait wut hold up a second can i get out of the car first?

10:50 This one requires some prior knowledge of the Lore 35 Years ago, the Orcs of Dreanor( another planet) were all Enslaved after drinking the Blood of the Demon Lord, Mannoroth( the huge guy with Wings and green blood), wich would make them ANGRY as FUCK and more powerfull, but also would turn them green (Orcs originaly are brown colored) After the Mannoroth used the Orcs and the Horde to conquer Dreanor, their Homeworld, they started to build the Dark Portal, and with the help of another important character on Azeroth( the world in wich Warcraft is located), they started the Invasion of Azeroth and what is knowed as the First War against the Horde. Now lots of things have happened, and 30 years have passed. In the Present day, One of the Horde's Warchief, Garrosh Hellscream(the One with the Jaw painted in black and the Hood), was a bit too Militaristic compared to his predecesor Thrall who was more moderate, and Garrosh litteraly provoked a Schism in the Horde, with those that were of the same mind set has Him, commiting terrible war crimes. He was then captured and sentenced, BUT, in the World of Warcraft you have the Dragons, and they are categorised in different "Flights" or Colors (Blac, Red, Blue, Green, Bronze etc) and the Bronze Dragons, are the Keepers of Time, meaing that they can manipulate or travel through time, off course they are warry of the effects it can have and are Guardians preventing any one to interfere with time, but some fuck ups happens, and because of that Garrosh was able to escape and got through a Time Portal that led him back on Dreanor 35 years ago, before the Orc tribes of Dreanor drank the Blood of Mannoroth and doomed the entire Orc race. He Met his Father who was considered a War Hero for the newer generations in the Horde( he's the One who Killed Mannoroth on Azeroth and liberated the Orcs from his control), and made kinda explained what would happen and how he could change all that. Doing so he created an Alternate timeline that was MASSIVELY different from the current one, and Through the Dark Portal they planned to launch the Invasion of Azeroth again, but a Huge technological and tactical advantage tahnks to Garrosh knowledge. And so You(the player and the other players since its a MAssively Multiplayer game) and some of the most famous people of Azeroth goes through the Portal on the Alternate Dreanor( the current Dreanor as been destroyed by a magic cataclysme, leaving only a bunch of Continent wide crust of lands floating in space, called the Outlands) to try and stop the invasion of the Iron Horde and Garrosh( and ultimatly the Burning Legion and near endless army of Demons that scours the Galaxy to conquer and Burn all the Worlds they encounter, Azeroth been One of the very few worlds that managed to beat them and flip them the bird on a few occasions)

10:48 " They had us in the first half not gonna lie "

Whenever I watch Legion cinematic reactions, and when they say for Varian "Is he going to die?" And then after "oh, they got me for a moment", I start crying

Aight, it's lore time! 1st Cinematic - Cataclysm - The big dragon was one of the original dragon aspects, which were dragons that had been given extreme amounts of power by some of the Titan Keepers (robots that were built with the purpose of imprisoning eldritch monsters, called the Old Gods, that seek to consume the cosmos and plunge it into eternal void). There were 5 aspects which ruled over their respective dragonflights: Alexstraza, the Lifebinder, aspect of life and the red dragonflight; Malygos, the Spellweaver, aspect of magic and the blue dragonflight; Ysera, the Dreamer, aspect of the emerald dream and the green dragonflight; Nozdormu, the Timeless, aspect of time and the bronze dragonflight; and Neltharion, the Earth Warder, aspect of earth and the black dragonflight. Fast forward a few thousand years, and the Night Elves are being dumb mages and are using a massive font of magic, called the Well of Eternity, to summon in the Burning Legion (a massive army of demons lead by the dark titan, Sargeras) and trying to summon in Sargeras himself. Knowing that the Burning Legion is a huge threat to all living things, the 5 aspects get together and decide they need to get involved in order to prevent the Legion from killing everything. Neltharion, who has thrown in his lot with the Old Gods without anyone's knowledge, suggests combining the powers of the 5 aspects into a weapon and using it to stop the Night Elves from being dumb and destroying everything. The aspects agree, and all of them, except Neltharion, infuse the artifact, called the Dragon Soul, with their power, leaving them mostly powerless. Neltharion then uses the Dragon Soul to enslave the red dragonflight, and lay siege to the Well of Eternity, killing members of all dragonflights, most notably the blue dragonflight, which later causes Malygos to go insane. Neltharion is eventually defeated and sent to the earthen plane. Neltharion later comes back from deepholm and allies himself the horde during the second war. He gives the orcs the Dragon Soul and allows the orcs to have dominion over the red dragonflight. The orcs lose control over the red dragonflight, so Neltharion decides to create a diversion so he can steal the red dragonflight's eggs and use them for experiments in creating a new, more powerful dragonflight. This goes poorly, and a mage named Rhonin destroys the Dragon Soul, returning the power of the dragonflights back to where they belong and Neltharion nopes back to deepholme to think about his failure for a few years. He comes back at the start of Cataclysm in that cinematic you saw. 2nd Cinematic - Mists of Pandaria - The Horde and the Alliance end up discovering an ancient land, known as Pandaria, and decide to conquer it. In the process of conquering it, the Horde warchief decides to commit a few war crimes. First, he decides to drop a massive mana bomb on the human city of Theramore (this lead to the death of the archmage Rhonin), which was previously attempting to become peaceful with the Horde, but Garrosh decides to do it anyway because he feels the Alliance has no place in the world. He then decided to grab the Heart of Y'saarj (the heart of a dead Old God) and harness it's power for himself so he can achieve his goals of killing all races on Azeroth except orcs. This leads to several assassination attempts against him, and finally with a siege on the city of Orgrimmar by both the Horde and the Alliance, where Garrosh Hellscream is defeated. The previous orc Warchief decides to kill Garrosh there and then, but the Alliance king, Varian Wrynn doesn't let him and demands that Garrosh stand trial for all his crimes. Unfortunately, not immediately killing a threat in World of Warcraft can only mean that it's gonna come back to bite you on the a** later. So one of the last remaining uncorrupted black dragons, whose name is Wrathion, decides the only way to defeat the Old Gods is with a single united force, which the Horde and the Alliance simply isn't. He wanted one to defeat the other so it could then grow in power and fight to protect the world from the Old Gods, should they ever be freed from their prisons. Luckily for Wrathion, a bronze dragon agrees with him, and they set out to free Garrosh before he can be executed. They decide to send Garrosh to an alternate universe of Dreanor (the orc home world) before the corruption of the orcs by Gul'dan, with the only difference being that Garrosh's mother died before she could give birth to him. Why do they do this? Because they wanted Garrosh to make a new, more powerful Horde that would invade Azeroth, defeat both the Horde and the Alliance, and take over the world so that it could fight the Old Gods. 3rd Cinematic - Warlords of Dreanor - Garrosh goes to the alternate Dreanor, where he convinces his father, Grommosh Hellscream, that Horde will go down a dark path and that he will be the first to send it down that path. When Grommosh is convinced, he decides to help Garrosh unite the orc clans into the Iron Horde. They take Gul'dan and his Shadow Council prisoner and use them to power a new Dark Portal to Azeroth, where the Iron Horde can invade and take over. We invade, destroy the portal, and start a massive war campaign against the Iron Horde. This ends with Garrosh being killed by Thrall, Gul'dan convincing the rest of the Iron Horde to drink the fel blood, and Gul'dan summoning the legion to Dreanor whilst he attempts to open a new Dark Portal to Azeroth. This ends with the death of a Burning Legion lieutenant, and with Gul'Dan escaping. Now, the original story in OUR version of Dreanor is that Gul'Dan convinces Grommosh to drink the blood of Mannoroth (the pit lord demon you saw at the beginning of the cinematic), the Horde follows in his footsteps, which leads to the invasion of Azeroth, and the long endeavor to free the orcs of their corruption by the fel (Burning Legion energy). Ultimately, Grommosh is respected as a hero among the orcs as his sacrifice eventually frees them from enslavement by the Burning Legion. Oh, and Gul'Dan dies within an ancient Night Elf temple which was built on a titan facility and would eventually be where the avatar of Sargeras would be defeated. 4th Cinematic - Legion - The alternate universe version of Gul'Dan escaped to Azeroth, where he begins summoning in the Burning Legion at that Night Elf temple I talked about before, called the Tomb of Sargeras. This leads to the deaths of many heroes, such as Varian Wrynn, the guy you saw at the beginining of the cinematic and Vol'jin, the Warchief of the Horde at the time, who is replaced by Sylvanas (the undead elf archer) later. An archmage named Khadgar decides the best way to defeat the Burning Legion this time is to collect 5 titan artifacts, called the Pillars of Creation. We're also assisted by our order halls, which help us gain special artifact weapons to fight the Legion with and also lead a campaign against the Legion itself. We find out that Gul'dan has stolen the corpse of Illidan Stormrage and is trying to summon the soul of Sargeras into it. Not only that, he's also taken over the city of Suramar and is harnessing the power of one of the Pillars of Creation. We lay siege to Suramar and kill Gul'dan, return the soul of Illidan Stormrage to his body, and begin our assault on the Broken Shore, and the Tomb of Sargeras. When we storm the Tomb of Sargeras, we decide to hunt down Kil'Jeaden, one of the Lieutenants of the Burning Legion, and we kill him on a Legion command ship which is traveling to the Legion home world of Argus. Just as we kill Kil'Jeaden, we arrive at Argus, where everyone is prepared to accept their fate of death because the Legion is officially never able to get back to Azeroth. But Illidan has a special rock (the Sargerite Keystone, I think it was called) which the Legion used to teleport to any known place in the universe, and he teleports us, and the entire planet of Argus back to Azeroth. We then lay siege to Argus and the Burning Throne, where we eventually make our way to the Seat of the Pantheon, we use the world soul of Argus to resurrect the other titans, kill Argus, complete a ritual to imprison Sargeras within the Seat of the Pantheon, and finally defeat the Burning Legion. Illidan stays behind to act as Sargeras's jailer. If you made it this far, congratulations! That was a pain to remember and type. Have a cookie!

3:06 Well we shot him with an artefact we acquaired via jump through time sh*t, then jumped on his back while he was flying and tore off those plates. And then dumped him into giant water vortex in the ocean.

I 100% HIGHLY recommend you watch the animated Cinematic shorts that go along with each expansion starting in Mists of Pandaria. They have a unique art style to them and are VERY narrative, explaining the story and character origins for some of the prominent figures in the expansion much more in depth, so if you like character building those are 100% for you! Mists The Burdens of Shaohao: Prelude (Connection to the Warbringer’s Azshara animated Cinematic later on) Doubt Despair Fear Anger The Sundering (Connection to the Warbringer’s Azshara Animated Cinematic later on) Warlords of Draenor Lords of War: Kargath Grommash Durotan Kil’rog Maraad Legion Harbingers Illidan (Connection to the Burning Crusade Trailer) Khadgar Gul’dan (Connection to the Warlords of Draenor Trailer) Battle for Azeroth Warbringers Jaina Sylvannas (Connection to the Wrath of the Lich King Trailer, Battle for Azeroth Trailer, and Shadowlands Trailer) Azshara (Connection to the previous animated Cinematics, the Burdens of Shaohao: Prelude and the Sundering)

After 14+ years of playing World of Warcraft I've seen these cinematics dozens of times but seeing you experience them for the first time was so refreshing and exciting. Thank you for softening a stone heart. if you ever need a crash course in the lore (or at least an explanation of the cinematics you watched) don't hesitate to ask.

People always claim Mists of Pandaria ripped off kung fu panda but the Pandaren were in the warcraft universe all the way back in Warcraft 3 in 2002 with Chen Stormstout

3:08 "What do you do to a dragon that just flies over you and kills everything underneath?" In the case of Deathwing, We had to jump on his back, rip off those metal plates that got nailed into him, then whack him a time-heisted mega laser.

Ah! I’m so glad you liked them! WoW is my favorite video game and there is so much lore and so much that goes into the story. Deathwing(the fire dragon in the Cataclysm trailer) is the Earthwarder, which is why Azeroth was reacting to his pain. He went mad because of corruption from an Old God and seeks power. His goblin slaves were piecing him together because his body was falling apart from the power he obtained. Mists of Pandaria was my personal favorite expansion. The pandas were introduced way before Kung Fu Panda in I think WCIII? And in Warlords of Draneor(WoD) you go back in time. The orc that said “times change” is the son of the orc with long black hair. He went back in time to stop his people from drinking the demon blood. Nowadays, most orcs have green skin because of the consumption of the demon blood. The son posed as an “oracle” and convinced his father to not drink the blood. In Legion, the guy with black hair is Varian, the former king of the Stormwind, and the father of Anduin. Him and Sylvanas(eyebrows) went to face the Burning Legion. Unfortunately, Varian did die during this battle and now Anduin is the king of the Stormwind.

Cata trailer is what got me to play WoW for the first time. Thought it was the coolest thing ever. XD

gotta say I loved this reaction vid the most :) also, Deathwing, the dragon from the 1st cinematic. he is one of the original 5 dragon aspectes who watched over the world, but got currupted over time. so, he was kinda defeated and his physical form was, well pulled apart.. in a way. the only way he could stay alive and not fall apart was in magma and thanks to his power. hence he is underground in it. the reason why those minions were hammering him and putting iron armor on him was so he can move freely around.

The "Warlords" one is definitely the best if you know the context - basically rewriting the inciting incident for the entire 'modern world' lore of the Warcraft universe. What's great is, yeah, everyone in this cinematic are the "villains" - both the demon and the warlock in every timeline, and all the orcs there and their new army are the 'villains' of the expansion itself. But that moment - "we will never be slaves!" is still goosebump worthy.

It makes more sense if you watch them in the right order. from top to bottom Classic, Burning crusade, Wrath of the lich king, ( Fall of the lich king) Cataclysm, Mysts of Pandaria Warlords of Draenor Legion ('old soldier' can be seen prior to Battle for azeroth to get the timeline correct) Battle for Azeroth, --> lost honor > safe haven > reckoning ( are smaller cinematics that explain the events leading to shadowlands) Shadowlands

As much shit as people give/gave Pandaria that play WoW, I love my Panda Monk still to this day. And I miss Varian.

I know this is an old video, but the top comments don't seem to mention it so thought I'd give a little extra info: In the Legion cinematic, you ask if the Human dies. He does, but a tiny bit later. There is an joint assault on the Broken Isles where the temple that powers the portal through which all these demons come is situated. Just as in the cinematic, there is a common foe and even if we fight between each other, we can also appreciate the old saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". So the plan was for Alliance to go in, with the Horde assisting and protecting their flanks. it goes reasonably well, the Humans push through but then Varian (the human leader) hears a horn sound and suddenly the undead archers covering them withdraws, leaving them vulnerable. Varian feels his newfound trust in Sylvanas was betrayed and his distrust and hatred for her was justified. He then tries to escape but big, massive and evil machine grabs the airship. Varian hands his friend the letter he wrote in the Cinematic with orders to give it to his son, followed by letting go and doing a final last stand to help his soldiers escape to safety. He is then captured and killed by Gul'dan, the creepy dude who wants the orcs to drink the green goo. Now, here is where things get sneaky. Blizzard gave Alliance and Horde different cinematics. Of course we players could easily just go on RU-vid and look them up, but InGame the Alliance players sees Sylvanas's betrayal, followed by Varians death, and of course blames it on her bailing and leaving them to die as if that was her plan all along. The Horde, on the other hand, sees how their own armies are taking very heavy losses. Vol'Jin, the Horde Warchief at the time gets stabbed by a demon and is on the brink of death. For her own people to have a chance at survival, she orders a retreat. If they had remained, they would probably have been wiped out and still it would not have been a guarantee that the "Good" would win and the demons defeated. So her retreat was reasonable. The Alliance cinematic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HerNdsh_H-g.html The Horde cinematic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GE9HVy1vgws.html A lot is the same, but with important differences. And ye, the white Wolf-guy you see in the Alliance cinematic is the same guy as in the Battle for Azeroth cinematic where they assault Lordaeron, Sylvanas city. So him seeing her betray them there, along with Sylvanas being responsible for the death of his son much earlier and the Undead attack on his homelands, his enimosity to her is also easy to understand. EDIT: During all this, Anduin (the boy in the locket, and the guy who leads the armies in the Battle for Azeroth cinematic) struggles big time with both grief of losing his father, but also knowing that he can never live up to all the stuff his father did. He knows he can never be the trusted leader his father was. We follow him through the Human capital and listen as the citizens talk about "What Would Varian Do?" and how they still look up to the father. Anduin knows that he is no fighter and he knows that he cannot be what his father was. So he need to learn a lesson, to become his own King, and not be his father. There's a small cutscene where Anudin visits the place where his father died. Very emotional: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-THSowKTA61Q.html

"What do you do to a dragon that just flies and kills everything underneath?" Well, you get on top.

Two things I think should be said about Warlords of Draenor: 1. That green stuff he was going to drink was demon blood IIRC (more specifically pit lord blood but it doesn't really matter). It turns an orc into a fel orc which makes them immensely more powerful fueled by bloodlust and rage but there's a huge catch. Those who become fel orcs are forced to obey the supplier of the blood. Which is why he said that whole "we'll never be slaves" thing. 2. That world they were on was called Draenor. The majority of WoW takes place in another world called Azeroth. The portal they were building at the end is called the Dark Portal. It connects the two worlds.

Watching these got me really emotional for some reason. World of Warcraft has been such a big part of my life since it came out in 2004 and it's really interesting seeing someone else's reaction to it (I hardly, if ever, watch reaction videos). This was such a treat :) keep up the work

I absolutely loved watching this video! I hope you react to Jaina: Warbringers, Sylvanas: Warbringers, Azshara: Warbringers, Old Soldier, Lost Honor, Safe Haven, Reckoning, and the Shadowlands Trailer! I highly recommend watching them!

I love it when people watch the MoP trailer and say/yell "Kung Fu Panda." The Kung Fu Panda movie came out in 2008. The Pandaren (Warcraft humanoid pandas) made their quiet debut in 2003, during a bonus campaign for Warcraft III's expansion, The Frozen Throne. Funny enough, that character in 2003 is Chen Stormstout and a major character in Mists of Pandaria (MoP) (released 2012). And I think Chen is the Pandaren shown in the MoP trailer.

If you want some context between The Legion Cinematic and the Battle for Azeroth Cinematic, I recommend watching The Broken Shore Cinematic, A Found Momento, and the Warbringers series. There is also several short animated series. The Burden's of Shaohao is about the Pandaren.

To answer your question at 11:52, yes, the portrait of the kid in that compass is Anduin Wrynn - son of Varian Wrynn. That is the guy you saw in the Battle for Azeroth trailer back in May. Anduin Wrynn is currently the King of Stormwind, and King of the Alliance.

"You're hammering stuff into something that's alive?" Yes, they're putting armor on him. As far as eyebrows and swordman being allies, yes. Temporarily (and later we find out not really) because the Demons of the Burning Legion were an existential threat to the entire planet, so... Out of necessity... Yes. To clarify though, that swordsman is Varyn Wrynn. High King of Stormwind and the Alliance, wielding Shallamayne, the sword of the King, and an ancient artifact that was created out of two separate swords (hence why it's separable) named Shalla'tor and elle'mayne, forged 10,000 years prior to this battle, during the first invasion of the Legion to repel the demonic threat.

"How does this guy ever lose?" literally lost to a golden frisbee.

you need to watch the Broken Shore cinematics, they essentially explain why theyre not on the same team anymore

Yes, WOrld of warcraft: Mists of "Be friends instead" pretty much how it went down

So, fun fact, the Pandas in WoW actually pre-date Kung Fu Panda movies. they were introduced in the old strategy games which World of Warcraft is based on.

8:23 This big unit is a demon named Mannoroth, who donated his blood for the orcs to drink with the promise of becoming stronger(one side-effect being the iconic green skin), which turned them into his slaves. The orcs at this point were at war against the technologically advanced draenei. In the original timeline, Grommash Hellscream gladly accepted the offer without question, a desicion he later regretted as the orcs slowly became mindless monsters and slaves to Mannoroth, so he sacrificed himself to kill the demon and freeing his people. In the alternate timeline created in the Warlords of Draenor expansion, his son Garrosh from the future warns him about the outcome and his fate(in addition to bringing schematics of goblin war machines), which makes Grommash question the warlock Gul'dan and kill Mannoroth before drinking the demon blood, leading to the formation of the Iron Horde.

Also, Duncan Jones (director of the movie) is a long time fan of the games, and wanted to do it right, so he started with the very beginning. Sadly it didn't do too well over here in the states, but did very well overseas. There is currently talks of another movie, and someone made a fan poster of Henry Cavill as the Lich King, and people are all about it.

The panda in Warcraft actually predates Kung-fu Panda, but many thinks it is the other way around and think Blizzard got inspired from the movies. I think both were original creations and just happened to be similar.

Yes yes yes!!! The movie is based on the first Warcraft game; they probably wanted to make more films hehe There are three main games, then there’s World of Warcraft, which takes place years after the third one. And yes! For the last trailer, Ponytail dude (Varian Wrynn) is the blond dude’s (Anduin Wrynn) dad, and yes, Ponytail dude and Eyebrows girl (Sylvanas) teamed up to fight a big baddie, but yeah, that was in the past. I’m excited for you to see the Warbringers shorts! There are only three, and it focuses on the backstories of certain female characters (including Eyebrows girl). My favourite one is Queen Azshara’s. Have fun!

"Is the dragon talking? Because he's the only one I'm seeing getting tormented!..apart from everybody with all this property damage." Cata in a nutshell :D

Oh man, the hype leading up to Legion is some of the best gaming experience I ever had. Between THAT trailer and the pre-patch event I've never been more excited about a game, ever. I took two days off work just to play it.

If you still don't know, the WOD was an alternative universe in the cinematic our garrosh hell scream tries to save his alternate universe father grommash (both very proud great warriors) from drinking the blood of manorath and becoming a demon, ultimately to forge a new and stronger horde to rule our azeroth.

12:30 No, not on the same side, just a temporary truce to deal with a threat too big for either side to deal with on their own. This guy (King Varian Wrynn) is the father of the blonde guy (King Anduin Wrynn) you saw in the Battle for Azeroth trailers, opposite of Sylvanas (or "Eyebrows"). The reason behind Anduin becoming King is part of why he and Sylvanas are fighting each other.

Ok, so just a small tidbit. The pandaren were actually in Warcraft 3, they were the original brewmasters. Pandaria was teased as an april fools joke, but the community took to it so well, the devs were like...oh s**t, well, guess we gotta make it now. But it's just funny that they did cause Kung-fu panda was already out.

The fun thing is he didnt actually "lose" before. he was a Pillar of the world, his title is the earth warden and his domain was the elements of the planet. As one of the dragon aspects but he was corrupted and started falling apart with like, chaos god magic sort of. so the armor holds him together and hes trying to rip the world apart

The big dragon loses by us finding a McGuffin to blast him with a giant laser, then land on his back and actually fight a full raid encounter on his spine because he is so big as we dislodge those big armor pieces he had hammered in so we can blast him again with a laser. It was a long process

The cataclysm dragon is named Deathwing that trailer sows the Twilight's Hammer cultist (mad god worshippers) forging armor to keep Deathwing's body together.

What do you do to the massive world-destroying dragon? Well, we uh...we ran back and forth on his back for a bit, and after he was tired of the massage we gave him a pedicure. And that’s how we beat the big bad dragon. Toenail-clipping skillz.

If you like the Mists cinematic there is a hilarious short video of the two who get beaten up having a drink in a pub talking about how they got beat by a panda. P.S you were right it is “tear them all down”

"Everybody's so angry in this world... of warcraft". No lies here.

10:47 they had us on the first half ngl.😂

Everyone loves the panda in the trailer, but the actuall race in wow is garbaggio as hell haha

Lately it's becoming more and more clearer, that Warcraft is not even about Horde vs Alliance, but instead about mortals trying to survive in a cosmos, in which six major forces struggle for domination. Order, Life, Light, Chaos, Death and Void all are represented by godlike beings of immense power, and contrary to what you might expect, neither is a force of good.

It'd be a good thing to know that The Alliance and The Horde are both 'the good guys' and both have done bad things over time to each other. While there are 'evil' Warlords in the Horde such as Garrosh Hellscream and now Sylvanas "Eyebrows" Windrunner, they're not the 'bad guys' per se. If you have to find a singular bad guy that they all fight against, it'd be the demons, the Old Gods, and the Void they came from. As for the dragons; The one you see here is Deathwing, former leader of the black dragon flight named Neltharion. He was driven mad by the Old Gods and now only seeks to destroy everything. The undead dragon was Sindragosa and to my knowledge doesn't have a will of her own as she's an undead dragon, technically she's also more of a wyrm rather than a dragon. I believe Sindragosa used to be the Wife / Prime-Consort of Malygos (The Aspect of Magic) and was a Queen of Dragons herself before. Sindragosa only has 4 limbs while dragons have 6, making her a wyrm. I suppose technically wyrms are a kind of dragon, but you know what I mean.

You are from the same team? Are you gonna be in different team later? Sylvannas Windrunner : Yes.

:"How did you ever loose?" -20 random guys walks into the tawern....

Oh believe me, WoW has so many characters and most of them have really good stories/lore. It's just spread into books and comics. PS: she called Warlock a Priest, I'm laughing so hard now, you made my day 😂

In the Cataclysm cinematic, that dragon you saw was different to Arthas’ dragon, his name is Deathwing and he is the leader of the black dragonflight, who have been corrupted by the old gods, they were hammering metal plates onto him, I don’t quite remember why though .-. In Mists of Pandaria, you recognise the green guy because he’s an orc, a staple race in WoW. Panda man was a Pandaren, a race native to Pandaria, he is a monk and mainly they fight for peace. They were a new race added in the expansion. Warlords of Draenor (Please note I have barely any idea how WoD works it’s a mystery to me) is kinda confusing, it’s set in an Alternate Universe and the time is before the Orcs invaded Azeroth. In the main timeline, the orcs would have drank the blood of Mannoroth (that gross green stuff) and went on to invade Azeroth. Isn’t his timeline, however, Garrosh convinced them not to (he’s the guy who pulled the cloth over his head dramatically) and so Grommash lead his people into killing him instead. They go to invade Azeroth but instead of invading their timeline’s Azreroth, they invade our Azeroth, resulting in us having to cross through to their World and stop them. The legion cinematic, voiceover man is the brunette badass, he’s voicing his letter to his son, the blondie you see in the BFA trailer. Varian and eyebrows weren’t on the same team but the Burning Legion (the ultimate bad guys of WoW) invaded Azeroth and they had to work together, but then eyebrows has to recall the Horde because everyone is dying and the Warchief (at the time) who lead the Horde was fatally injured and everyone was dying, that resulted in Varian dying .-.

Sidenote im sure youve been told, at the VERY end of the warcraf tmovie there is a little boy whos like 7 or 8 ish... THAT boy is this guy. The movie took place before this king was even ten years old, they made a movie about warcraft 1, theres still 2 more games before world of warcraft was made. And there are arguably 8, almost 9 expansions that are roughly a few years spaced out. it would take almost 17 years to get to a movie chronologically where this game is in a movie. THe broken shore invasion would be amazing on screen though

The Warlords of Draenor trailer is SO GOOD because at first glance it's a look at history, the very start of Warcraft 1 And then Angry Boi refuses the demon blood and FUTURE CATAPULTS and spinnybombs start raining down. It be like Hitler getting arrested in the Weimar senate with modern tanks and jets rolling up his SA :D

"SO WHY WASN'T THAT THE MOVIE?! THAT WAS COOOOL!" - said by literally every Warcraft fan about numerous other stories within the world when that movie came out

12:45 Seems like you have seen the Battle for Azeroth cinematic trailer before this one. Long story short it’s been a long complicated back and forth between the two factions “Alliance” & “Horde” for generations. Usually it takes a “World-Ending” scenario for both factions to unite together for the “Greater Good” and it works for a while until something happens to re-ignite the conflict between both factions again. That has been the formula of the Warcraft series since it began as an RTS game up to the present day as An MMORPG. It gets confusing if you’re only looking at the trailers. There’s a lot of context behind all the scenes presented in the trailers which are hype fuel for the players to see what the next expansion of the game is going to be about.

Im a WoW no-lifer. The first trailer features a black dragon that was once named Neltharion the Earth Warder. He is the leader of the Black Dragons and was given dominion over the earth and the deep places of Azeroth by the titans who shaped the world. He was slowly driven insane by the whispers of the Old Gods that were imprisoned within Azeroth after the Titans arrival. (Tons more lore there) So, Neltharion is slowly going mad with the whispers of the old gods, they turn him against the Aspects, other dragons that were also empowered to protect the world of Azeroth. He eventually betrayed them by convincing them to impart portions of their essence into an artifact of his creation (the Dragon Soul) of which he didnt put any of his essence into leaving him at full power and able to dominate the rest using said artifact. The power being fed into him from the Old Gods was too much for his body to handle and it slowly began to tear itself apart, hence the armor plates being riveted into his own flesh to hold him together. After his betrayal he took on a new name... Deathwing. You might be interested in learning about the female dragons, Alextrasza the Aspect of Life from the red dragon flight that protected life and Ysera of the Green dragons known as the Dreamer and eventually the Awakened who protected nature.

Just to give you some context to the Warlords of Draenor cinematic because I haven't seen many comments explaining it: In the regular timeline of the story the orcs drink Mannoroth's blood which does a number of things to them including turning their skin green (thus green orcs in the modern timeline), giving them an insatiable lust for blood & slaughter, and turning them into the pawns of the Burning Legion. The Burning Legion is the main overarching antagonistic force in the Warcraft series. Mannoroth is the big dude with wings that they kill in the cinematic. He is a powerful pit lord, and a very high ranking member of the Legion. So after falling prey to the blood-curse the orcs build the Dark Portal and invade Azeroth where they come into conflict with the humans, thus creating the foundation of the everlasting hatred & mistrust between the humans & orcs, and subsequently the Alliance and the Horde. While these two factions do work together every now and then to take down a common foe (like the Legion), it inevitably always returns to them fighting against each other for one reason or another. So back to the story, after being under the Legion's control Grommash Hellscream (the main orc in the cinematic) eventually kills Mannoroth and frees the orcs from their curse...but at the cost of his own life. His son Garrosh (the bald orc with the 5 o'clock shadow) is made Warchief of the Horde by Grommash's friend Thrall (the previous Warchief). Garrosh however became corrupted by power, and was defeated by the combined efforts of the Alliance & Horde working together again. After his defeat he went back in time (thanks to a Bronze dragon named Kairoz) to Draenor (homeworld of the orcs. Azeroth is the homeworld of the humans and where the majority of the story takes place), and warned his father and the other orcs of what happens to them after drinking Mannoroth's blood. Grommash unites all the orc clans on Draenor and that's where the cinematic begins essentially. Grommash rejects the "gift", but they have prepared to kill Mannoroth. This time Garrosh saves his father before he is killed in the aftermath of the explosion. This event changes the course of history in this alternate world/timeline, which is hinted at when Guldan (the green orc warlock) says, "This was not our destiny" to which Garrosh responds, "Times change". Now the orcs having avoided becoming the Legion's pawns ("We will never be slaves!"), but they intend to invade Azeroth anyway ("...but we will be conquerors.") using the future knowledge/technology brought back by Garrosh. This is the birth of the "Iron" Horde. At the end of the cinematic we see the Dark Portal being built in the distance.

It is always Horde VS Alliance basically. You can choose your faction and race (race belongs to a faction, like the humans belong to the alliance). Sometimes when a ‘great threat’ appears the Alliance and Horde work together. But their ‘teamwork’ and ‘trust’ is messed up and it always ends up in war again after facing the ‘great threat’

Blizzard always out does themselves on these trailers. I am honestly surprised that you have never seen them. Your reactions are priceless! 😊

BEST line in this video: Get outta here rock lobster!

You would actually recognize some characters from Warlords of Draenor in the Warcraft movie since it's roughly about the same time but mostly with other characters as the main focus. They also do face a common enemy in the form of Gul'dan, the "priest" orc, in the movie but it's handled a bit too good vs evil instead of the neutral it's supposed to be

TLDR, basically the planet has Dragon versions of power rangers and one of them got super twisted by evil but he was the one thats in tune with the elements, earth, fire, air, all that stuff. And the other ones who govern Time, and life, and Magic, and Nature, couldnt stop him. Hes the earth warden and an old void god corrupted his mind and he was literally starting to fall apart from the corruption so the armor is a mix of, Metal band aids, armor, and also kind of a cage so he doesnt explode

The problem with the movie is it took place when the Orcs (tusked dudes who wanted to conquer) first came to Azeroth and the Humans / Alliance fought back in short terms. Plus they didn't explain the Guardian so well/ rushed it to the point it got really confusing even for ppl like me who live for WoW lore. They made it to where they had more movies planned for a series which was a mistake. They would have made a lot more money if they focused on one of the more interesting time frames like the Lich King and THEN maybe made a prequel / went back

Reactions to deathwing - priceless 😀

RU-vidr: “how do you kill a dragon that just flies over shyt and kills everything??”😨 Blizzard: “Get on its bacc”🤷🏻‍♂️

If you enyojed these, you'll definitely enjoy the Battle for Azeroth ones because if there was one thing BfA did right, it was the cinematics.

"Eyebrows!" Yup, that's Warcraft-Elves alright.

I recommend watching "The Burdens of Shaohao". It's a 5 part comic style series that tells the backstory of Pandaria (home of the panda people). Blizzard also made other shorts in this same style for subsequent expansions, and they are all fantastic. "Lords of War" is for Warlords of Draenor, and then there are a bunch of one-off shorts that focus on single characters in the "Harbinger" and "Warbringer" series. They are all beautifully done and give a lot of backstory, not only for the expansions as a whole, but for the specific characters that have major story importance in said expansions.

"What to do you do to a dragon that flies over and kills everything beneath him" You shoot him with a magic dragon gun that you stole from the past literally

Have a acommon enemy, they did do that in the movie, but it was just a bit wishy washy in the movie. Didn't really gather the characters and was too fast in general. you should watch it, but keep in mind that it might not be the best. It is a perfectly entertaining for people who really get into stories.

The dead dragon LOL. That is Deathwing. I have played WoW for 15 years, since it first came out in 04. I love watching videos like this LOL

Everybody the "Warcraft" movie Are on Netflix RIGHT NOW! SEE IT!!! its awesome

the movie wasnt bad for what it was, i enjoyed it. The orcs were actually the bad guys at that point because of the curse of the demonblood which was eventually broken. Then they werent the baddies anymore. The burning legion was using the orcs to conquer azeroth. Grom and Thrall killed mannoroth and broke the curse later

12:34 No they were never at the same team. He (King Varian) is leader of the Alliance, while she (Sylvanas aka "Eyebrows") is leader of the horde (actually becomes the leader shortly later in that story). But they fought together here against an almighty common enemy, the Burning Legion.

"What do you do to a dragon that just flies over you and kills everything underneath?" You fly higher, land on him, and kill everything underneath.¹ ¹Four other dragons, one magical mcguffin, Green Jesus, a team of 10-25 murder hobos, and some time travel were also required.

The way you transmit emotions through your reactions, i need more!, well done!

Watching thosound needles flood leaves me in hollow every time.

Warcraft does have 'bad guys' in it but they're not the Horde. They're the Legion and the Void and the Lich King. The Warcraft movie didn't go a very good job of conveying what's a relatively complex storyline. Big green burny guy was member of the Legion, they're all demons basically corrupted by a fallen titan (Tolkien's Morgoth if you're familiar all of the LOTR history). Big burny dragon was driven mad and corrupted by the Old Gods, creatures of the Void (Lovecraftian monsters similar to Cthulhu). Lich King dudes are all undead and have an army (White Walkers meets Sauron).

If you liked all these, you absolutely should check out all the HD story cinematics from the current expansion (battle for Azeroth) and the trailer for the new upcoming expansion (shadowlands). If you do check them out, make sure to do them in order and before the trailer for shadowlands so the story makes sense.

okay so regardless of what people thought about cataclysm in general can we just talk about how great deathwing's voice in the cinematic was and the whole cinematic of the world breaking apart :P one of my favorite moments in wow cinematic history

I was very happy when you say that MOP is your favorite without even understanding anything about the game's lore, I also love this expansion and it is the most beautiful expansion of all, you should watch the animations of this expansion known as "burdens of shaohao ' tells the story of the last pandaria emperor and all the burdens he has to overcome to save his people and his land, it is really beautiful and exciting

thats not the reasons the movies were bad, there are a lot of antagonists, in the movie, the scary green orc with spikes, he serves a giant demonic army known as the burning legion. I would recommend reacting to the new Shadowlands, Afterlives cinematics and more importantly, which I'm surprised you didnt react to already, Warbringers: Sylvanas

Just to comment on how cool you are for having those Buffy's comics on your shelves. Kudos!

2:40 good question, as some one who's play warcraft for almost 14 years now, the whole concept is 10-20 random people destroying the most power deities in the lore. xD

To answer the question "why was this not in the movie". The movie is based upon the absolute first warcraft game which had a verry vague storry that improved with each next game. So i hope that warcraft 2 and 3 will get a good movie / tv series adaptation without pushing an agenda and baised on the lore of the games. Thank you for reading.

I have to say this every time someone mentions the movie. IT WAS MADE FOR FANS. The only cannon depiction of the first war to that point was Orcs vs Humans and they retconned most of that sometime during WOW.

Its funny how terrible the reaction to mists was when it announced, and now has gone down in history as one of the best expacs ever, with great characters and story Also Pandaren inspired Kung Fu Panda if anything not the other way around since pandaren first appeared in 2002

Gul'dan (the orc with the red eyes) is the bad guy in the movie, but there some time travel going on in this version. In this alternate timeline, the orcs don't get enslaved by the Legion (demons like the one who got the axe to the head) because someone went back in time and warned them not to drink the 'Fel'. And yes, that is Anduin in the picture, the prince from the BFA trailer. Make sure you watch the in game scenes from Legion if you want to understand how the horde and alliance once again turned on each other.

azeroth is there Planet in case you were wondering well considering he was one of The aliances most noble But he has had his moments where That subsides in some places

funny thing is,.. When Mists of Pandaria was released, Everyone was hating on Pandas. Then they found out how Strong the Monk class was