@Shrike

Seriously?

Thrall and Varian are the same character.

Garona is a massive 'wtf' of a character.

The Old Gods are obviously lovecraftian.

Arthas, Kael'thas, and Illidan are all roughly the same character with various motives.

Tirion is as Mary Sue as they come.

Don't even get me started on Med'an, who was created by Walt Simonson and Louise Simonson. Nobody jumps on their backs for creating ridiculous characters.

Knaak is a writer who is payed to write what BLIZZARD tells him to write, and his Mary Sue characters are completely evident of that. Blizzard has absolutely NAILED the Mary Sue Character department. To blame Knaak for that is ridiculous. It's like people FORGET that he isn't allowed to make this stuff up, everything he does is the work of Blizzard. The dude even said it himself.

People hate Knaak because he created a NEW Uber character to interact with the already created Uber characters, and for some reason that bothers them.

I strongly dislike Knaaks writing on a technical level. I refuse to jump on the Rhonin hatewagon just because he's a Mary Sue when 95% of all Warcraft characters are special snowflakes in their own rights.