An unfortunate meme among the World of Warcraft community involving the Horde'
s Warchief, Sylvanas Windrunner, doing incredibly evil things while the
game's creators, Blizzard Entertainment, defend her actions as being "morally
gray."
Though they never explicitly used these
words in relation to her, they did state during a discussion on her actions that Azeroth operates on different "levels" of
gray, and there's no true good or evil faction. They seem to have tossed this out the window, however, with Sylvanas burning Teldrassil to genocide the night elves on a total whim, and solely to spite a dying woman who told her she can't
kill hope, plagued her own troops to raise their corpses, forsaking their souls for eternity, and now has a dagger of the Old Gods that's totally not a risky thing to do, among other things.
A few quotes about it seen in-game:
"You smell all that morally gray in the air? Smells like child corpses and
depression."
"No no no, genocide is a neutral action, Blizzard said so."
"The narrative this expansion is morally
cringe."
"The writing for her is about as morally grey as the Axis in WW2. Next she is going to be twirling a mustache and throwing
people into ovens. Such a lazy way out to make the horde the bad guys again..."
