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by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jun 9th 2008 at 10:00AM
According to Lethia of Duskwood, she and some friends were hanging around in heroic Blood Furnace waiting for a replacement to get there when they started snooping through the fel orc paperwork. She found a wanted poster sitting on a table. This face looked very familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. So I asked the whole WOW Insider team what they thought. Possibilities brought up included:
- Guile from Street Fighter
- The Blood Elf Bandit
- Vash the Stampede from the anime series Trigun
- A very badly drawn Zul'jin
The mostly likely possibility would be Zul'jin, but why would the fel orcs in Outland be interested in a troll back in Azeroth? Is there a human somewhere dressed like this? Who do you think is in this picture? (A larger version can be found here.)
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Milktub Jun 9th 2008 11:03AM
Whatever it is, cool. I've been running H BF quite a bit lately (mostly because I've gotten in a groove of being able to do BF and Ramps in about one and a half hours with a good group), and it's beginning to become a new favorite instance.
William Jun 9th 2008 11:30AM
Definitely Chuck Norris.
InsaneAssault Jun 9th 2008 11:33AM
Oh come on, everyone knows thats Guile. The Fel Orcs are planning on kidnapping him in order to learn his Special Forces fighting style. Imagine Fel Orcs being able to do sonic booms, sonic kicks and back breakers? It'll be over!
Idain Jun 9th 2008 11:40AM
He reminds he of the professor in the RPG THe witcher.
Aladek Jun 9th 2008 12:18PM
seriously, first thought when I looked at it was Vash, without even reading the text... and I haven't seen the show in about 2 years.
Pål Jun 9th 2008 12:55PM
I don't even see anything vaguely humanoid in that picture... it looks kinda like an eight-legged white dog humping a chair with an overhang?
Abhinav Kumar Jun 9th 2008 1:15PM
In game it has to be Zul'Jin but it is probably inspired by Trigun.
Jax Jun 9th 2008 1:47PM
Wanted: Deleted Or Compliled
Ten Thousand Unit Reward for the Crimson Binome
Bromnir Jun 9th 2008 6:58PM
You, sir, have won the award for Most Fantastic Obscure Reference. :D It's been far too long since I've thought about that show.
(For those who didn't watch early CG-animated television, I refer you to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot
or more to the point:
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crimson_Binome )
Begonia Jun 9th 2008 1:53PM
Yeah! Can't any of you read Orcish? It's a Rorschach inkblot test.
TequilaJInx Jun 9th 2008 3:41PM
Sure looks like Auron to me
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Auron_artwork.jpg
SBKT Jun 9th 2008 5:01PM
It cllosely resembles Cloaked Vash, actually. It makes sense. It's the Outland and if you've watched Trigun, it could be considered sort of a joke.
I suppose that Outland, which was a fragment of the planet Draenor or some crap might bare resemblance to the planet that Vash and them touched down on at the beginning.
But, this is likely false, it's probably a random drawing some Fel Orc did when they got bored.
Pete Jun 9th 2008 5:48PM
beatles FTW
Eternalpayn Jun 9th 2008 5:53PM
Winnie the Pooh?
My guess is it is a Defias, but that's just because they needed a Wanted poster and reused an old one.
Aerei Jun 10th 2008 12:12AM
Hate to disappoint you all, but it's just a Defias bandit concept sketch from the early design stages of WoW. In fact, that poster is used for wanted posters all over the game world, it's one of like three, total.
PimpyMicPimp Jun 10th 2008 4:19AM
It's me! :O
Suzaku Jun 10th 2008 6:57AM
Just the old Defias Bandit wanted poster, which has been reused over and over on unrelated wanted posters and doodads for quite some time now.
Adal Jun 10th 2008 9:44AM
Reminds me of Van Cleef.. much like Suzaku suggests. Stared at that dodgy hairdo and mask for several minutes in my first ever boss fight.
~ Adal.
Hamtax Jun 10th 2008 9:54AM
Has anyone noticed Sarah Kerrigan's face in the control panel screen of the goblin shredder machines?
anomonys Jun 12th 2008 9:37PM
I bet blizzard has something to translate the language on bottom of paper