I think Arthas turning into the Lich king is one of the best "falling into darkness" story's I've seen, both storywise and execution.. I remember playing WC3 as a kid and didn't really understand what and why it happened and my friend said.. "It's like if Boromir took the Ring and returned home"
@@teabearchurchill5600 there was no mistake. The problem with that cinematic style is that it's straightup impossible to pay at a scale of a movie. The quality of the expansion cinematics would just go beyond any budget that even marvel would have had. So you have to use actors and costumes instead and support it with effects rather than using effects exclusively.
Warcraft movie started from the origins though it's not exactly the same. We're supposed to see Arthas Story on the Third installment but the first one didn't work so yeah. 2nd one was the fall of Illidan if I remember correctly
@@NorthstriderGaming uhh what. Final Fantasy games have been doing it for years, look at Advent Children from 2005. Halo 2 anniversary's CGI cutscenes are almost an hour long in total. Hell, even Capcom has been making full length CGI Resident Evil movies for years. I'm sure it was within their budget to do all CGI if they wanted to. It probably would have been cheaper than hiring a shit ton of actors each with their own hand-made costume and doing make-up every filming session. If Square and Capcom can make full length CGI movies, so can Blizzard, but they just decided not to.
“I would gladly bear any curse to save my homeland. Plus, Frostmourne is an ilvl 300 legendary and my hammer is only an ilvl 213 epic. It’s a totally sweet upgrade, and I still get the expertise bonus cause I’m human! Ohhhh, wait…nevermind. It’s still a sweet upgrade, though…”
This is the power of the interactive gaming.Imagine when we first played with Arthas, it was 20 years ago and still people are reacting to his story.And actually story is not very complicated.
@@timwoods8297 Not at all. Anakins story was one where he wnated to save his love. Arthas was mostly about revenge and later power, power to rule eveyrthing. He never had that sad depressed phase Vader had. Arthas actually enjoyed being evil. Without shitty retcons, Frostmurne just gave him the power to realize his darker desires, 80% of his will was completely his own and he even kills the Litch King at the end and steals all of his power. He tried to take over Azeroth. had he succeeded he would have fought the legion next. His plan was to rule everything.
@@abhabh6896 Чушь,он служил свету ,пока его не предали самые близкие - Утер и джайна.он не думал о власти,он думал как спасти свой народ. А после,когда стал Королем- Личем ,он хотел убить всех ,чтобы иметь возможность противостоять Легиону и сдержать их натиск на Азерот.Даже в конце короля лича - у него нашелся медальон Джайны. И его отец что сказал ? Что без короля - плеть станет ещё опаснее и яростнее,он вполне мог позволить себе уничтожить всех и вся.Но не сделал этого
I like how when Arthas opens the huge gate effortlessly, his two troops hold the gate from closing back from the slam. One uses his hand and the other his pike, nice little detail from the animators, top tier cinematics as always.
It's not just soldiers, it's Falric and Marvin, the two captains who followed Arthas to Northrend and were the first to become death knights at his blade. One of them was a captain in the Alliance campaign in Warcraft 3.
@@uomofocaccina6697 I’ve always thought they could use alternate azeroth as the setting for warcraft 4 After the events of warlords of draenor, since no horde came to attack azeroth, the alliance was never formed…. Kingdoms comprising of humans, elf and dwarves vied for supremacy in the lands with the surviving orcs later coming in
Ironically, Arthas' rise to power, his need to seek vengeance, turning to evil by becoming the Lich King, and his eventual downfall is truly the perfect story of a Jedi falling to the Darkside :D
“The harder you try to save this land the quicker you’ll deliver your people right into their hands”. They turned his determination into vengeance and then into a weapon. Jaina and Uther abandoning Arthas left him vulnerable to darkness and pure manipulation.
Isn't it ironic, both Arthas and Illidan sacrificed their selves to both dark powers just because they wanted to save their people only to do the opposite and damn them to forever darkness.
That's not at all what happened in this story. He does it because he is a self-absorbed brat who thinks is invincible and because someone hurt him personally so he wants his revenge. He ignores every warning from everybody around him from people who are actually good and wise people unlike him but can't do anything because the brat is the king's son. He was not a good person long before he took the sword.
@@ungeimpfterrusslandtroll7155 True. He was a psychopathic narcist even though he was spouting "doing it for my people" bullshit, he wanted power not revenge.
But there is a key difference no matter how much illidan lost he never lost his sight to his goal he always wanted to do the right thing but did it the worst possible way and arthas when he got the frostbourne he lost his sight of what's right and wrong and couldn't fight the darkness Inside him and consumed by the darkness he became the lich king, both are very parallel to each other at the same time very different too
@@tqhung169 i bet they will find a way to bring him back from so ecxpansion near the end of that expansion id say 3 more expansions and something to do with arthas will happen the powers that come to Azeroth are either new and nobody know what they are and have to figure it out or a whole new being or some old titan if not that and old god could come back and rez arthas if he wants to see azeroth crumble it could happen might not but would be cool IMO
@@mattchamberlain6608 I would say that "I can't believe that blizz literally just 'snuffed him out' without so much as a redemption", but that's exactly what they did. They did in favor of the weeb's undead waifu who didn't deserve any kind of story or any kind of redemption. He wanted to make things better for his people, even at great cost. Sylvannas became the very thing she sought vengeance against.
@@mattchamberlain6608 They won't dare to try after the crap they pulled lmfoa, they Literally hyped Arthas to be a part of Shadowlands then just butchered him in like final raid with borderline 0 screen time
@@ghostpinguin Very true. WoW lore actually died with Burning Crusade when they character assassinated Kael and Illidan. A big shame. No good story can ever come out of corpogreed that aims for averageness for sake of popularity.
You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain. That saying suits Arthas perfectly. Also watching these cinematics brings back a lot of memories of the old Warcraft 3 game I used to play. That and the Frozen Throne.
man saying this is like saying the entire china should be nuked because to not spread covid lol, you see in culling of the stratholme that they were killing even not infected people, arthas was always a beeeetch@@Jarekx2007
Sylvanas forgot to mention "After I gave Arthas everything he needed to know about how to get past our defenses and then I powerslid into melee range with him"
In an alternate timeline, after becoming the Lich King, Arthas travelled to the Lands of Rock and was enamored with the power of music, and shred his way with his all-mighty weapon, Frostmourne, making it his makeshift guitar.
The dreadlords would still have had to pretend to be betrayed. Otherwise it would immediately become clear that they were in league with the Lich King.
Arthas was driven to madness by the relentless hordes of the undeath and the vile twisted voice inside his head I can't blame him for becoming this because he felt like he had no choice.
Willing to gamble your soul, to save your people, to be seen as a tyrant, in others eyes, to save those that can be saved, not many can do that. Arthas was rash and had a hard time to listen to others, but legit, he did what was needed at the time, if he had not picked up Frostmourne, I imagine he would've been a great king, leading the Alliance for a long time. But his fall is sad, and what makes him a great character how they did it. What happened to him in Shadowlands is unforgivable, but same time, him being used to make Kingsmourne makes sense, who else could be made into such a force.
What happened to him in the shadowlands could be completely acceptable, if not for the Sylvana's dialogue at the end of his flickering soul, which felt so out of place or ridiculous. Plus the fact that more story chould have been given to him during Shadowlands, other than "Look at this blue crystal I have here in my hands, which I'll use to forge Kingsmourne. The players will never 1+1 this one and find out this is related to Arthas!"... If the point was to give some sort of suspense, they failed by how obvious it was, and denied any kind of development related to the character by doing so.
From the moment one plays the human campaign and witnesses the fall of a character from grace of light into scourge of darkness, whose enemies turn his determination to save his people into vengeance into a weapon; you can’t help but sympathize with such tragedy.
@@Athelarius more then Star wars Skywalker saga Prequel & Sequel. Like prequel Warcraft Reforged the Story Arthas beginning he's a good man he become Death Knight & the Lich King & sequel WoW Bfa & Shadowlands Jaina & Sylvanas tell the truth about Arthas the Lich king his death about what he is done. Thats make me story Sad!
What the hell are you guys talking about? Arthas did all of this in seeking of power. He is an narcissistic asshole, who always just thought about himself, he always could've just came back and not do any of the atrocities that he did. After taking the Frostmourne, it was all too late though. Muradin told him not to take the sword, he killed him, and continued in search for MalGanis like nothing happened. Tell me that's not sociopathic behavior right there.
I'm telling you, the story of Arthas has already been written into a fantastic book, now it just needs a movie. There's definitely enough content for at least one, and it would do so well. But sadly, Blizzard would probably never do it.
The book is amazing. Not only does it give an amazing backstory of Arthas and his horse invincible, but I thought it was incredible seeing the battle from Sylvanas point of view. Really adds more to her character as well
I dont have hope that if a movie was made today, it wouldn't be corrupt by this Hollywood and Washington. Its should just be left until someone who loves this story and world comes along.
I’d say this is one of the best storylines I’ve ever experienced…. We had the privilege of playing the original BC--WotlK transition and it was absolutely magical
more like 3 x 4 hour movies like LotR:extended. but it's too late now. They should've done it around 2010 before hollywood got woked. It would be shit now.
As others stated, it's too late. The more the years go by, the further the American cultural industry moves away from the narrative quality it once demonstrated in fantasy films and games. In a few years' time this environment will be even more infested, not by talent and knowledge of technique, not by erudition in expressing unique and realistic philosophies and cultures, not by eternal and perennial truths, but by the tentacles of ideologies and amorphous distortions of reality, increasingly shoved down consumers' throats.
Don't you love how everyone hates Arthas, even after the reveal that he wasn't in control, but Sylvanus who was only marginally influenced by the Jailer in BFA and Shadowlands is A-OK despite committing similar genocides?
I hate the direction they went with sylvannas in the modern lore, she was so badass and likeable, they made her into like a psycho bitch. I think there's plenty of people that used to like her and now don't
Sylvanas was more than "marginally influenced". If Uther is anything to go by, we know she got her soul split, half of it imprisoned with the other half barely stuck to an undead body. You can see this conflict in that one scene where her Ranger General persona is arguing with the Banshee Queen.
@@ТАДАМ-ю4ж at broken shore? She never "betrayed" Varian. It was a trap all along. She had to withdraw as they were nearly surrounded and Vol'Jin was mortally wounded, otherwise the Horde would end then and there
the way kelthuzad is such a bro to arthas.. is just too cute.. the dude dont need to be his subordinate but the way he speaks and the way he acted near arthas looks like he trully wanted to serve... them shadowlands show us he was actually an asshole.. why.. the dude loves his god dam cat.. he is not evil he is just cruel sometimes.. but he was loyal he was there all the time.. i dont like how he finally dies..
@@sumerian88 nah it wasnt so bad.. the lore was awfull cuz well.. the moment of the milky problem at blizzard and everyone fucked up there.. but the game wasnt so bad.. for me the worst expa was bfa i dont like anything there.. the only fun thing was the curse items.. THE LAST THING..
You forgot the part that after he merge with nerzhul, he destroy the shaman’s spirit inside the helmet, becoming the only personality of the Lich King.
The game had a great way to make us remember. When I was a kid playing the campaign, it was so hard to get over the fact that the very hero of the light (good), the very first character that we played, turned the evil he had hated, killing his friend Muradin the "Mountain King" and murdering his mentor Uther the Lightbringer in the process. Yes, Arthas, the young lad we had grown attachment to, fell to the darkside. He also killed his own father in one of the most iconic cutscene in the history of game. Those were the days...
Illidan onew himself all along and really tried to use his own ambition and talents to do what he considered good in the long run. Arthas wanted revenge and accepted he no longer cared about anything but power, getting worse with time. Illidan is more of an anti-hero, while Arthas is a top tier Supervillain (if this were about superheroes)
Arthas killed Hero after Hero, Antonidas, Uther, Sylvannas, Illidan, all top tier Legendary Heros from their factions and Arthas was so angry, and sought so much revenge that he did EVERYTHING in his power to increase his power and that he did....boy did he ever.. He was alrdy a young and talented Paladin being trained by the very best and was climbing rank fast, he already knew how to rez the dead, heal, but yet had the strength or an Ogre swinging a giant two handed hammer with enchantments on it for years. Once he claimed Frostmourne, he had destroyed every major hero Eastern Kingdoms could muster at the time and even went to Dalaran and killed the Legendary Mage/Priest Antonidas, and made Jaina run away in fear.. Malganis, fell to him, Illidan was slane, nothing was stopping Arthas's revenge.. nothing. He sacrificed many of his own men just to get to Northrend during a Blizzard, and once there, he would not allow them to return until his vengeance was had. His sword (FROSTMOURNE) had taken so many powerful souls that by now Deathknight Arthas had seemingly endless magic and new spells at his command mixed with his former Paladin knowledge he wielded these powers like he was born with them....once he took the Helm of Domination, in one gulp he swallowed down the power of 10,000 Shaman and reached a power that some Gods dare not toy with. He planted his gigantic fortress (ICECROWN) in the Dragon Aspect's backyard like "WHAT?" DARING ANYONE to attack him while surrounded by 1000's of dead dragons and drakes he could rez allday for an army. He already had SINDRAGOSA the Queen of Magic to Malygos and that alone had the Aspects sweating bullets... eventually he would have rezzed GALAKROND once he had enough power, he put a lot into Sindragosa and was regaining power. He was the best Warcraft Raid Boss and the most fearing threat Azeroth ever had. He was 10 of Bolvar....Sylvannas even with the jailers buff was not as strong as the True Lich King....and Bolvar did not have Frostmourne with 1000's of souls in it either, and was only half the Paladin Arthas was. It is EXACTLY the reason Sylvannas told Bolvar "YOU ARE UNFIT TO WEAR THIS CROWN" knowing the power Arthas wielded with it. Tirion had to shatter Frostmourne while the Lich King had his back turned to power Arthas down, and then the spirit of his own father held him in place while they struck him down...He is the only Raid Boss we never truly defeated alone...we had help. Tirion rezzed us after the Lich King killed us.. remember?
@@Clearynotcrazy stratholme was already infected with the grain when jaina and Arthas decided to purge the town, they were going to turn into scourge regardless the ones who were infected, so it was either purge them as they were turning, or let them turn, purge them then but then the rest of stratholme who weren't infected would be attacked by the new scourge
I was in grade school when I played Warcraft 3 for the first time, and Arthas' storyline just blew my mind. I was not ready for a story where the good hero had to do so much messed-up stuff, then turn evil, kill his own father, end up being the Darklord, and win in the end.
@@Steve-s.w to be fair, they had no time to deal with it in an orderly fashion. The plaque was spreading quickly and arthas was afraid that if they didn't purge stratholme quickly, then it might spread further, also the fact that he thought that there still might be uninfected villagers inside stratholme that might get infected if he didn't act fast.
Agree. Arthas bore the responsibility of decision, his friends had the luxury of indignation. The effort to quarantine the city had failed. Some of his seige troops had become infected. If they waited for Jaina to maybe someday find a cure, many more would be lost. Arthas chose the lesser of two evils against an enemy none could defeat.
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"I see... only darkness. As if my entire story will be snuffed out like failed escort quest and replaced with the unending need to cater to the weebs who simp for their undead waifu..." - Arthas, probably.
We always said WOW died with Arthas / Lich King, that's why we come to into this good old days, you can' admit it loool and hope it never dies or it have further alternative story development
what's interesting here is this isnt just nerzhul betraying kil jaeden but retroactively through shadowlands lore the moment arthas stabbed malganis Zovaal also betrayed his alliance with Sargeras.
Arthus left an empty space in all our hearts that NO ONE has been able to fill till date. While killing uther Arthus said "... I intend to live forever", and indeed he shall. Being THE BEST villan and yet being loved unanimously more than any hero this franchise came up with after, is the proof of his immortality. He truly was "The prince that was promised"
Wanted to show this to my baby mamma so she can grasp how cool wotlk was to me. Decided to give her a short intro to arthas before it started. Then proceeded to play almost word for word what I just told her for the first 4 minutes or so. Amazing video.
Arthas always was a hero to me, no matter if he became Lich King, as it is said you either die or live long enough to become the villain. Illidan vs Arthas combat can be epic if made very well in a movie, i can say that it will be the most remembered scene. But the thing is nothing comes just out of imagination, to deliver such a story line and emotion, extreme level of work and great actors are required. I want movie from Reign of Chaos- The frozen throne- Wrath of the lich king, this can be great trilogy with Arthas as the pivotal point. But i dont think anyone of current producers have guts to make this epic in a real epic cinematic manner
This made me shed a few tears.. I love the story and lore of Arthas more then any other game lore, all these years with such a great story from probably the best game developers of all time; Blizzard Entertainment. However seeing how Blizzard is today, makes me so sad I almost want to cry in a pillow, knowing that we are losing so much of what we don't know, of the amazing stories lost forever to greed. Thank you for this video, genuinely a tear jerker for me.
Arthas becoming the Lich King was awesome and also sad as fuck. Dude was literally used like a pawn by forces FAR beyond his understanding and comprehension. From Frostmourne to Ner'Zhul to Sire Denathrius and the Jailer...a literal elder god/cosmic figure that created the runes that were used to bind Arthas. And THEN they turned Arthas into kindling for his forges. Damn. Just damn.
When i first played both W3 games as kid, Arthas's story was the one affected me the most. Back then i hadn't encountered many sad endings in any franchise and i was really expecting Jaina and Arthas to save their kingdom together but when they departed ways and that cinematic with the bells tolling finished i remember feeling actually baffled. Years later when i found out Anakin also became Darth Vader after Clone Wars i once again faced with a similiarly bitter surprise and only then i noticed the resemlence between two characters. Both tried to help the people they were responsible for, Both had the "Wrong Allies" on their side, and both doomed themselves by choosing to heed their counsel in the end. Not to mention the fact that, whatever Padme was to Anakin, Jaina Proudmoore was almost the same to Arthas even though we didn't see much of their romance in the games. Seeing this video just brought back all those bitter memories for me i guess.
There’s not much romance in the game, but the book does give more about the relationship especially before they started on this quest. She even basically rejected Kael’thas for Arthas
@@luisozuna6456 Indeed. They were childhood friends even before Jaina and Kael met and i think it’s safe to assume their affection for each other began back then.
8:50 when you see that cinematic you see how far superior warcraft aesthetic was compared to modern wow cinematics for emotional furries. It was pure epic
Arthas he is a brave and committed hero, unlike Jaina and Uther, who do nothing but run away from problems and blame others, abandoning Arthas when he needs help the most!
poor arthas Now that I think about it, I see that her story ended very unjustly At least Blizzard should have given us a good ending (tnx athelarius for this video I always look at the content in your channel :))
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Please tell me what is the name of the music that starts playing at 18:06 minutes?
@@Max75894 It's a human theme from Warcraft 3
@@jovanljubic9003it's not the same, sounds like a remix. Really want to hear the name of this version.
@@avidviewer4164 I think its this one but a bit slower
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I think Arthas turning into the Lich king is one of the best "falling into darkness" story's I've seen, both storywise and execution.. I remember playing WC3 as a kid and didn't really understand what and why it happened and my friend said.. "It's like if Boromir took the Ring and returned home"
Dude, I got CHILLS. Thank you!
Arthas didn't turn he was controlled and manipulated.
More like anakin
yeah looking at the lich king reminds me of Darth Vader
Too be fair we hadn't seen Star Wars back then, but we had seen Fellowship about 12 times already so 🤷🏻♂️
This is what the Warcraft movie should have been, could have made a Lord of the Rings type trilogy about Arthas, and it could have been MASSIVE.
They still could.
IMO Their biggest mistake was in not giving the movie an animated appearance like yhe cinematics.
@@teabearchurchill5600 there was no mistake. The problem with that cinematic style is that it's straightup impossible to pay at a scale of a movie. The quality of the expansion cinematics would just go beyond any budget that even marvel would have had. So you have to use actors and costumes instead and support it with effects rather than using effects exclusively.
Warcraft movie started from the origins though it's not exactly the same. We're supposed to see Arthas Story on the Third installment but the first one didn't work so yeah. 2nd one was the fall of Illidan if I remember correctly
@@robinsonsupermarket3684 what, they cancelled fall of Illidan.. FML
@@NorthstriderGaming uhh what. Final Fantasy games have been doing it for years, look at Advent Children from 2005. Halo 2 anniversary's CGI cutscenes are almost an hour long in total. Hell, even Capcom has been making full length CGI Resident Evil movies for years. I'm sure it was within their budget to do all CGI if they wanted to. It probably would have been cheaper than hiring a shit ton of actors each with their own hand-made costume and doing make-up every filming session. If Square and Capcom can make full length CGI movies, so can Blizzard, but they just decided not to.
“I would gladly bear any curse to save my homeland. Plus, Frostmourne is an ilvl 300 legendary and my hammer is only an ilvl 213 epic. It’s a totally sweet upgrade, and I still get the expertise bonus cause I’m human! Ohhhh, wait…nevermind. It’s still a sweet upgrade, though…”
but he was cheating because he didn't roll for it
@@yuyangshi-w5c ninja loot at his peak
Wonder if its a part of a overall soulbound set.
@@yuyangshi-w5c Muradin passed on it when he saw the debuff
Arthas preyed to the loot council gods and they listened.
"Never again will you need to collect DKP".
This is the power of the interactive gaming.Imagine when we first played with Arthas, it was 20 years ago and still people are reacting to his story.And actually story is not very complicated.
His story is a straight knock off of Anakin Skywalker
Be it as it may a "knock off", Arthas' adaption of said story is better than Anakin Skywalker's/Darth Vader's as a whole.
@@timwoods8297 Not at all. Anakins story was one where he wnated to save his love. Arthas was mostly about revenge and later power, power to rule eveyrthing. He never had that sad depressed phase Vader had. Arthas actually enjoyed being evil. Without shitty retcons, Frostmurne just gave him the power to realize his darker desires, 80% of his will was completely his own and he even kills the Litch King at the end and steals all of his power. He tried to take over Azeroth. had he succeeded he would have fought the legion next. His plan was to rule everything.
@@abhabh6896 Чушь,он служил свету ,пока его не предали самые близкие - Утер и джайна.он не думал о власти,он думал как спасти свой народ. А после,когда стал Королем- Личем ,он хотел убить всех ,чтобы иметь возможность противостоять Легиону и сдержать их натиск на Азерот.Даже в конце короля лича - у него нашелся медальон Джайны. И его отец что сказал ? Что без короля - плеть станет ещё опаснее и яростнее,он вполне мог позволить себе уничтожить всех и вся.Но не сделал этого
@@abhabh6896 так что,срань про " любовь " Энакина ,даже не близко,к судьбе Артаса.
I like how when Arthas opens the huge gate effortlessly, his two troops hold the gate from closing back from the slam. One uses his hand and the other his pike, nice little detail from the animators, top tier cinematics as always.
Hadn't noticed that before. Nice catch!
It's not just soldiers, it's Falric and Marvin, the two captains who followed Arthas to Northrend and were the first to become death knights at his blade. One of them was a captain in the Alliance campaign in Warcraft 3.
@@Avlionable they're also one of the bosses in Halls of Reflection dungeon back in WotLK
yes i liked that too
Those two are captains of his guard, they later slaughter the entire capital.
Whenever I hear the chorus singing for him I get the coldest chills ever.
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I’ve always believed that Arthas deserved better than what he got in Shadowlands.
We all did...it's a GOT styled ending.
@@lunacy7433 Did you actually watch the video ?
@@eflownesspetan yea I watched granted it wasn’t anything I haven’t seen before playing the game:P
Yes, make poor decisions and still get a good ending. Not how it works.
Unless im missing something.... Arthas didn't get anything in Shadowlands... as he's been dead for ages now... Bolvar got the short end of the stick
At least the bad guys were kind enough to make clear the terms and conditions to wield frostmourne😂. Arthas knew what he was buying.
It may have been a requirement of the magic to work, like Arthas had to knowingly and willingly give in for it to work properly.
Nobody knows really what this kind of things require back,till the damage Is already
done.....😢
I wish we had had more Scourge expansions being the Lich King the main villain. Or a third faction with him as a leader. He deserved more.
we need warcraft 4 with an alternative plot to WoW
@@uomofocaccina6697
I’ve always thought they could use alternate azeroth as the setting for warcraft 4
After the events of warlords of draenor, since no horde came to attack azeroth, the alliance was never formed…. Kingdoms comprising of humans, elf and dwarves vied for supremacy in the lands with the surviving orcs later coming in
No other characters in WoW could instill the hype of his existence just by the song "an karanir thanagor" just as much as how Vader breathing noise
Ironically, Arthas' rise to power, his need to seek vengeance, turning to evil by becoming the Lich King, and his eventual downfall is truly the perfect story of a Jedi falling to the Darkside :D
“The harder you try to save this land the quicker you’ll deliver your people right into their hands”. They turned his determination into vengeance and then into a weapon. Jaina and Uther abandoning Arthas left him vulnerable to darkness and pure manipulation.
Isn't it ironic, both Arthas and Illidan sacrificed their selves to both dark powers just because they wanted to save their people only to do the opposite and damn them to forever darkness.
The road to hell is Paved with good intentions
That's not at all what happened in this story. He does it because he is a self-absorbed brat who thinks is invincible and because someone hurt him personally so he wants his revenge. He ignores every warning from everybody around him from people who are actually good and wise people unlike him but can't do anything because the brat is the king's son. He was not a good person long before he took the sword.
@@ungeimpfterrusslandtroll7155 True. He was a psychopathic narcist even though he was spouting "doing it for my people" bullshit, he wanted power not revenge.
Oh Sylvanas fan boys.
But there is a key difference no matter how much illidan lost he never lost his sight to his goal he always wanted to do the right thing but did it the worst possible way and arthas when he got the frostbourne he lost his sight of what's right and wrong and couldn't fight the darkness Inside him and consumed by the darkness he became the lich king, both are very parallel to each other at the same time very different too
Only Arthas can make WoW great again.
Yeah, but he is gone forever
Not in classic
@@tqhung169 i bet they will find a way to bring him back from so ecxpansion near the end of that expansion id say 3 more expansions and something to do with arthas will happen the powers that come to Azeroth are either new and nobody know what they are and have to figure it out or a whole new being or some old titan if not that and old god could come back and rez arthas if he wants to see azeroth crumble it could happen might not but would be cool IMO
@@mattchamberlain6608 I would say that "I can't believe that blizz literally just 'snuffed him out' without so much as a redemption", but that's exactly what they did. They did in favor of the weeb's undead waifu who didn't deserve any kind of story or any kind of redemption. He wanted to make things better for his people, even at great cost. Sylvannas became the very thing she sought vengeance against.
@@mattchamberlain6608 They won't dare to try after the crap they pulled lmfoa, they Literally hyped Arthas to be a part of Shadowlands then just butchered him in like final raid with borderline 0 screen time
Amazing writing.
The hype that came with Arthas and Wow WOTLK launch is unmatched.
That is thanks to Warcraft 3. Blizzard should have keept WOW as a separate universe and continued Warcraft 4. Such a waste.
@@ghostpinguin Very true. WoW lore actually died with Burning Crusade when they character assassinated Kael and Illidan.
A big shame. No good story can ever come out of corpogreed that aims for averageness for sake of popularity.
And it was last good expansion, both in Wow and Hearthstone.
You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain. That saying suits Arthas perfectly. Also watching these cinematics brings back a lot of memories of the old Warcraft 3 game I used to play. That and the Frozen Throne.
My thoughts exactly.
More like live long enough to have your support structures turn their backs on you. Arthas did nothing wrong at Stratholme.
man saying this is like saying the entire china should be nuked because to not spread covid lol, you see in culling of the stratholme that they were killing even not infected people, arthas was always a beeeetch@@Jarekx2007
Sylvanas forgot to mention "After I gave Arthas everything he needed to know about how to get past our defenses and then I powerslid into melee range with him"
It was Dar'khan who told Arthas how to get past the defenses
@@TheNarghes Not in the original game, no. Darkhan was a retcon.
Ye like a hunter going in melee range of a death knight?Huntard...
She just messed up her slide cancel is all
@@elite_rock_god2292 melee weaving was a thing back then ;)
In an alternate timeline, after becoming the Lich King, Arthas travelled to the Lands of Rock and was enamored with the power of music, and shred his way with his all-mighty weapon, Frostmourne, making it his makeshift guitar.
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"He can't possibly mean to..." Sire Denathrius and the Jailer weren't eye to eye on the plan.
The dreadlords would still have had to pretend to be betrayed. Otherwise it would immediately become clear that they were in league with the Lich King.
@@woldenwolk Im so confused, what are you talking about??????
Arthas was driven to madness by the relentless hordes of the undeath and the vile twisted voice inside his head I can't blame him for becoming this because he felt like he had no choice.
Willing to gamble your soul, to save your people, to be seen as a tyrant, in others eyes, to save those that can be saved, not many can do that.
Arthas was rash and had a hard time to listen to others, but legit, he did what was needed at the time, if he had not picked up Frostmourne, I imagine he would've been a great king, leading the Alliance for a long time.
But his fall is sad, and what makes him a great character how they did it. What happened to him in Shadowlands is unforgivable, but same time, him being used to make Kingsmourne makes sense, who else could be made into such a force.
What happened to him in the shadowlands could be completely acceptable, if not for the Sylvana's dialogue at the end of his flickering soul, which felt so out of place or ridiculous. Plus the fact that more story chould have been given to him during Shadowlands, other than "Look at this blue crystal I have here in my hands, which I'll use to forge Kingsmourne. The players will never 1+1 this one and find out this is related to Arthas!"... If the point was to give some sort of suspense, they failed by how obvious it was, and denied any kind of development related to the character by doing so.
I love Arthas more than anyone else my Hero Protagonist the game childhood😢💔
From the moment one plays the human campaign and witnesses the fall of a character from grace of light into scourge of darkness, whose enemies turn his determination to save his people into vengeance into a weapon; you can’t help but sympathize with such tragedy.
@@Athelarius more then Star wars Skywalker saga Prequel & Sequel. Like prequel Warcraft Reforged the Story Arthas beginning he's a good man he become Death Knight & the Lich King & sequel WoW Bfa & Shadowlands Jaina & Sylvanas tell the truth about Arthas the Lich king his death about what he is done. Thats make me story Sad!
how can you not love Muradin more? ;(
@@TheAnhphuong92 more than not love Uther
What the hell are you guys talking about? Arthas did all of this in seeking of power. He is an narcissistic asshole, who always just thought about himself, he always could've just came back and not do any of the atrocities that he did. After taking the Frostmourne, it was all too late though. Muradin told him not to take the sword, he killed him, and continued in search for MalGanis like nothing happened. Tell me that's not sociopathic behavior right there.
I'm telling you, the story of Arthas has already been written into a fantastic book, now it just needs a movie. There's definitely enough content for at least one, and it would do so well. But sadly, Blizzard would probably never do it.
I still have hopium for some mini CGI TV series, following the success of Arcane, if W3 movie is off the table.. cmon blizzard give us something.
The book is amazing. Not only does it give an amazing backstory of Arthas and his horse invincible, but I thought it was incredible seeing the battle from Sylvanas point of view. Really adds more to her character as well
Well they already did one, wasn't centered entirely on one particular person (Aside from a very particular grey boy)
I dont have hope that if a movie was made today, it wouldn't be corrupt by this Hollywood and Washington. Its should just be left until someone who loves this story and world comes along.
Still remember playing through WC3: Frozen Throne as a kid, amazing storyline
Greatest character created by Blizzard
I hope Arthas story would be adapted in the next Warcraft movie or TV series. Oh that would be so damn epic! 😌
Henry cavill fit on this role
@@melvin112ful Hell yeah! Henry Cavill as Arthas would be amazing 😊👍
In this day and age, he would be killed by Jaina, and she would be the Lich Queen.
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Its insane how freaking good quality the Frostmourne on the pedestal is
I’d say this is one of the best storylines I’ve ever experienced…. We had the privilege of playing the original BC--WotlK transition and it was absolutely magical
It was awesome.
i think the arthas story is best story told in warcraft history.
it is fucking beautiful indeed but i would say the best story is war of the ancients, all 3 books
Novel **Arthas: Rise of the Lich King**
Arthas’s story deserves a full 3 hours mega movie..
more like 3 x 4 hour movies like LotR:extended.
but it's too late now. They should've done it around 2010 before hollywood got woked. It would be shit now.
Arthas' story deserves a movie trilogy
@@Astral-Projector2389 could not say it better
As others stated, it's too late.
The more the years go by, the further the American cultural industry moves away from the narrative quality it once demonstrated in fantasy films and games. In a few years' time this environment will be even more infested, not by talent and knowledge of technique, not by erudition in expressing unique and realistic philosophies and cultures, not by eternal and perennial truths, but by the tentacles of ideologies and amorphous distortions of reality, increasingly shoved down consumers' throats.
Don't you love how everyone hates Arthas, even after the reveal that he wasn't in control, but Sylvanus who was only marginally influenced by the Jailer in BFA and Shadowlands is A-OK despite committing similar genocides?
I hate the direction they went with sylvannas in the modern lore, she was so badass and likeable, they made her into like a psycho bitch. I think there's plenty of people that used to like her and now don't
Sylvanas was more than "marginally influenced". If Uther is anything to go by, we know she got her soul split, half of it imprisoned with the other half barely stuck to an undead body. You can see this conflict in that one scene where her Ranger General persona is arguing with the Banshee Queen.
she was BADASS in legion cinematic. BADASS. But after she betrayed Varian its all over
@@ТАДАМ-ю4ж at broken shore? She never "betrayed" Varian. It was a trap all along. She had to withdraw as they were nearly surrounded and Vol'Jin was mortally wounded, otherwise the Horde would end then and there
@@ricksaburai when does she argue with her human self?
16:31 This rendition of this song is the most heart breaking of all. Love it.
Arthas & illidan two greatest stories ever made , both of them fall into darkness arthas lose his control but illidan didn’t
Not what actually happened in Warcraft 3, Illidan clearly loses control over his actions and goes full beast and Arthas has total control.
@@ghostpinguin nah Illidan was doing things that shows him like a badass demon but in real he was seeking revenge ( Sergares )
the way kelthuzad is such a bro to arthas.. is just too cute.. the dude dont need to be his subordinate but the way he speaks and the way he acted near arthas looks like he trully wanted to serve... them shadowlands show us he was actually an asshole.. why.. the dude loves his god dam cat.. he is not evil he is just cruel sometimes.. but he was loyal he was there all the time..
i dont like how he finally dies..
which time?
@@defaultname7685 the last time..
Shadowlands was a gigantic fuckup.
@@sumerian88 nah it wasnt so bad.. the lore was awfull cuz well.. the moment of the milky problem at blizzard and everyone fucked up there.. but the game wasnt so bad.. for me the worst expa was bfa i dont like anything there.. the only fun thing was the curse items.. THE LAST THING..
You forgot the part that after he merge with nerzhul, he destroy the shaman’s spirit inside the helmet, becoming the only personality of the Lich King.
Well that part was a dumb retconn anyway
Based alpha human race Arthas
"I demand a rematch." -Illidan Stormrage.
One of the best stories EVER. NEARLY 50 now and I'm stil nostalgic over Warcraft III and WoW through Lich King.
There is an opportunity for good profit if they make a 3-4 hour movie out of Artha's story
Or a series of the entire Warcraft 3, and then maybe a movie of the WotLK.
You mean the canceled "Warcraft 2 the movie"?
@@randomguyonyoutube8844 Looks like they abandon the franchise,so instead of nothing,at least a stand alone, careful executed movie would be nice
@@Zografos1984 True
@@Zografos1984 if they did make another film then they should make it cinematic - esque instead of cgi and acting mixed. The cinematics are great
The game had a great way to make us remember. When I was a kid playing the campaign, it was so hard to get over the fact that the very hero of the light (good), the very first character that we played, turned the evil he had hated, killing his friend Muradin the "Mountain King" and murdering his mentor Uther the Lightbringer in the process. Yes, Arthas, the young lad we had grown attachment to, fell to the darkside. He also killed his own father in one of the most iconic cutscene in the history of game.
Those were the days...
That was perfect
The Arthas in my opinion have the best story line in all warcraft
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WC & Wotlk will forever have a special place in my heart. The days were free of worries, now many of us have likely established families and etc
Illidan onew himself all along and really tried to use his own ambition and talents to do what he considered good in the long run. Arthas wanted revenge and accepted he no longer cared about anything but power, getting worse with time. Illidan is more of an anti-hero, while Arthas is a top tier Supervillain (if this were about superheroes)
@@anon_148 cringe tier comment ^
Arthas >>>>>Illidan
What a legendary story and legendary characters. The best gaming storytelling I've seen.
you know.. this kind of Cinematic, they should turn into a TV Series. I would totally watch it.
Arthas killed Hero after Hero, Antonidas, Uther, Sylvannas, Illidan, all top tier Legendary Heros from their factions and Arthas was so angry, and sought so much revenge that he did EVERYTHING in his power to increase his power and that he did....boy did he ever..
He was alrdy a young and talented Paladin being trained by the very best and was climbing rank fast, he already knew how to rez the dead, heal, but yet had the strength or an Ogre swinging a giant two handed hammer with enchantments on it for years.
Once he claimed Frostmourne, he had destroyed every major hero Eastern Kingdoms could muster at the time and even went to Dalaran and killed the Legendary Mage/Priest Antonidas, and made Jaina run away in fear.. Malganis, fell to him, Illidan was slane, nothing was stopping Arthas's revenge.. nothing. He sacrificed many of his own men just to get to Northrend during a Blizzard, and once there, he would not allow them to return until his vengeance was had.
His sword (FROSTMOURNE) had taken so many powerful souls that by now Deathknight Arthas had seemingly endless magic and new spells at his command mixed with his former Paladin knowledge he wielded these powers like he was born with them....once he took the Helm of Domination, in one gulp he swallowed down the power of 10,000 Shaman and reached a power that some Gods dare not toy with.
He planted his gigantic fortress (ICECROWN) in the Dragon Aspect's backyard like "WHAT?" DARING ANYONE to attack him while surrounded by 1000's of dead dragons and drakes he could rez allday for an army. He already had SINDRAGOSA the Queen of Magic to Malygos and that alone had the Aspects sweating bullets... eventually he would have rezzed GALAKROND once he had enough power, he put a lot into Sindragosa and was regaining power.
He was the best Warcraft Raid Boss and the most fearing threat Azeroth ever had. He was 10 of Bolvar....Sylvannas even with the jailers buff was not as strong as the True Lich King....and Bolvar did not have Frostmourne with 1000's of souls in it either, and was only half the Paladin Arthas was. It is EXACTLY the reason Sylvannas told Bolvar "YOU ARE UNFIT TO WEAR THIS CROWN" knowing the power Arthas wielded with it. Tirion had to shatter Frostmourne while the Lich King had his back turned to power Arthas down, and then the spirit of his own father held him in place while they struck him down...He is the only Raid Boss we never truly defeated alone...we had help. Tirion rezzed us after the Lich King killed us.. remember?
Arthas did everything for his people
@@Clearynotcrazy stratholme was already infected with the grain when jaina and Arthas decided to purge the town, they were going to turn into scourge regardless the ones who were infected, so it was either purge them as they were turning, or let them turn, purge them then but then the rest of stratholme who weren't infected would be attacked by the new scourge
Arthas' story is like "What If Boremir Got The One Ring?"
I was in grade school when I played Warcraft 3 for the first time, and Arthas' storyline just blew my mind. I was not ready for a story where the good hero had to do so much messed-up stuff, then turn evil, kill his own father, end up being the Darklord, and win in the end.
that uther scream omfg.. still give me the same chill
The scene where Arthas kills his father was too intense for 9 y.o. me. I was scared to continue the story but couldn't resist it lol.
Ever notice, that for all Uther and Jaina condemn Arthas for his actions at Stratholme neither of them actually seem to have any alternative ideas?
I love that ending where arthas still has a bit of humanity left in him to see kel'thuzad as his friend
Imagine Henry Cavill playing Arthas in an epic WoW movie.
Man that will be so cool
* a series
Wow yes
@@sfitz85 unless it's hbo fantasy series are garbage
I'm not a gay , don't want to imagine that guy in every role 😂
Arthas’ story is in a way synonymous with the iconic quote: you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
I mean what was the alternative to purging stratholme though? Uther? Jaina? Come on now let’s hear it.
wear masks, quarantine etc
@@Steve-s.w to be fair, they had no time to deal with it in an orderly fashion. The plaque was spreading quickly and arthas was afraid that if they didn't purge stratholme quickly, then it might spread further, also the fact that he thought that there still might be uninfected villagers inside stratholme that might get infected if he didn't act fast.
Agree. Arthas bore the responsibility of decision, his friends had the luxury of indignation. The effort to quarantine the city had failed. Some of his seige troops had become infected. If they waited for Jaina to maybe someday find a cure, many more would be lost. Arthas chose the lesser of two evils against an enemy none could defeat.
In the end Uther and Jaina have more blood on their hand than Arthas himself ....
The previous conversation in the throne room talked about implementing strict quarantine
warcraft3 gave me astigmatism. Played this for 10hours straight when i was a kid. Couldnt believe this was 20years ago. And the cinematics are crazy.
Hands down the most masterfully crafted villain of all time.
For the lich king,foul beast!,frostmourne hungers!,i bow to no one!...
3:03 it wasn’t cruel Jaina it was the action for an incurable disease
I'm a year late but, yes. I can't think of a single case in the entire story where anyone was ever actually saved from undeath.
It never gets old…Is it just me?
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"I see... only darkness. As if my entire story will be snuffed out like failed escort quest and replaced with the unending need to cater to the weebs who simp for their undead waifu..." - Arthas, probably.
ahh those line and voices are nostalgic :< I miss you arthas, sylvanas,jaina , warcraft 3 campaign days as well with reign of chaos
I still personally prefer the old classic fight over this felt so much energy and intensity really make you feel everything on the line.
We always said WOW died with Arthas / Lich King, that's why we come to into this good old days, you can' admit it loool and hope it never dies or it have further alternative story development
Arthur should have became the strongest antagonist and wow. The absolute best villain this IP is ever created
This is so good!
The editing is perfect
Lich King "free me"
Also Lich King *immediately sits back down to have another nap
Always wondered how the story would’ve been had we gotten a Warcraft 4. Imagine the cinematic potentional too!
11:22 the best part in whole Warcraft.
One of the greatest story ever. This should be a Netflix series.
what's interesting here is this isnt just nerzhul betraying kil jaeden but retroactively through shadowlands lore the moment arthas stabbed malganis Zovaal also betrayed his alliance with Sargeras.
I mean I agree strathholme was a complete loss. Dunno what Jaina and uther planned to do.
Song at 18:06 is "Last days of the Alliance"
10/10 great work compiling everything. Brings back good memories
Glad you could bake it, Uther
Arthus left an empty space in all our hearts that NO ONE has been able to fill till date.
While killing uther Arthus said "... I intend to live forever", and indeed he shall.
Being THE BEST villan and yet being loved unanimously more than any hero this franchise came up with after, is the proof of his immortality.
He truly was "The prince that was promised"
this story is epic, this story is the best story in whole Video game history.
Wanted to show this to my baby mamma so she can grasp how cool wotlk was to me.
Decided to give her a short intro to arthas before it started. Then proceeded to play almost word for word what I just told her for the first 4 minutes or so.
Amazing video.
If we agree that blizzard are good at something it is cinematics for sure! Legendary finish quote love it!
Arthas always was a hero to me, no matter if he became Lich King, as it is said you either die or live long enough to become the villain.
Illidan vs Arthas combat can be epic if made very well in a movie, i can say that it will be the most remembered scene. But the thing is nothing comes just out of imagination, to deliver such a story line and emotion, extreme level of work and great actors are required. I want movie from Reign of Chaos- The frozen throne- Wrath of the lich king, this can be great trilogy with Arthas as the pivotal point. But i dont think anyone of current producers have guts to make this epic in a real epic cinematic manner
The boy who would be king. Who ended up destroying that which he had swore to protect
Arthas is the best Darth Vader story ever told, or he was if you end the story in WOTLK
Vengeance has come
..Best Line of Arthas..
This made me shed a few tears.. I love the story and lore of Arthas more then any other game lore, all these years with such a great story from probably the best game developers of all time; Blizzard Entertainment. However seeing how Blizzard is today, makes me so sad I almost want to cry in a pillow, knowing that we are losing so much of what we don't know, of the amazing stories lost forever to greed.
Thank you for this video, genuinely a tear jerker for me.
Arthas becoming the Lich King was awesome and also sad as fuck.
Dude was literally used like a pawn by forces FAR beyond his understanding and comprehension.
From Frostmourne to Ner'Zhul to Sire Denathrius and the Jailer...a literal elder god/cosmic figure that created the runes that were used to bind Arthas.
And THEN they turned Arthas into kindling for his forges.
Damn. Just damn.
seeing this again still gives me goosebumps..love this story
When i first played both W3 games as kid, Arthas's story was the one affected me the most. Back then i hadn't encountered many sad endings in any franchise and i was really expecting Jaina and Arthas to save their kingdom together but when they departed ways and that cinematic with the bells tolling finished i remember feeling actually baffled. Years later when i found out Anakin also became Darth Vader after Clone Wars i once again faced with a similiarly bitter surprise and only then i noticed the resemlence between two characters. Both tried to help the people they were responsible for, Both had the "Wrong Allies" on their side, and both doomed themselves by choosing to heed their counsel in the end. Not to mention the fact that, whatever Padme was to Anakin, Jaina Proudmoore was almost the same to Arthas even though we didn't see much of their romance in the games. Seeing this video just brought back all those bitter memories for me i guess.
There’s not much romance in the game, but the book does give more about the relationship especially before they started on this quest. She even basically rejected Kael’thas for Arthas
@@luisozuna6456 Indeed. They were childhood friends even before Jaina and Kael met and i think it’s safe to assume their affection for each other began back then.
Only after so many years, I get the story, and I just stand in awe as how much of a badass and tragic plot Arthas had
I have barely played World of Warcraft, but I always come back to this story since it’s so damn good.
Arthas was the OG breaking bad before the breaking bad.
he should have redeemed himself while being rescued in the maw by us to aid us against the jailer zovaal.
arthas saying friend to kel'thuzad is the last time we see him as human
Sylvanas: Even saying his name makes my body quiver.
Whoa easy there horn toad.
1:41 where can I find this culling of stratholme slowed version music?
8:50 when you see that cinematic you see how far superior warcraft aesthetic was compared to modern wow cinematics for emotional furries. It was pure epic
GOLD. this is absolutely a golden tribute to the greatest Fallen Protagonist in game history!(Opinion)Thanks for the great video!
this was fantastic, only thing id add would be the speech Uther gave to Arthas before his Arthas killed him.
Arthas he is a brave and committed hero, unlike Jaina and Uther, who do nothing but run away from problems and blame others, abandoning Arthas when he needs help the most!
Uther is a hypocrite and Jaina never loved him (to me)
honestly, watching this again after many years make me realize one thing, the only thing Blizzard never disappointed me was the Cinematics :D
The song is truly masterpiece, describe the saddest, loneliness and emptiness of Arthas, like a cry of regret for the hero he once was
Arthas wasn’t wrong. Stratholme was already lost. Plain and simple.
poor arthas Now that I think about it, I see that her story ended very unjustly At least Blizzard should have given us a good ending (tnx athelarius for this video I always look at the content in your channel :))
Blizzards new writers are purposelly disrespecting the old artists of blizzard, nothing can deny that
did you just call arthas a Her ???? this gender shit is getting out of fucking controll
especially danuser.