Sylvanas’ story strays closer to the “bitchify” motif found in the comics mentioned before, wherein her trauma (which is about as close to a rape survivor story as one could get without being literal) turns her into a machine of anger and hate with no emotional resolution. Instead of just focusing her ire towards just Arthas, she uses her un-life to maintain power for herself and her people. She develops deadlier plagues, has no lasting allegiance with anyone, and set upon burning the night elves’ home tree in a genocidal move in order to fuel a continual conflict with the Alliance to overtake them. Her arc has not only emboldened her as a villain but as an empty, monstrous person driven by sadism.