The 2016 Warcraft movie's ending is complex, with King Llane sacrificing himself to help Garona gain respect among the orcs, hoping for peace between humans and orcs. Gul'dan's plan involves draining life from beings for fel magic to open a portal for more orcs to enter Azeroth. The movie's ending sets up future events in the Warcraft universe, including the rise of Thrall and the foundation of the Horde.

2016's Warcraft movie has a complicated ending that can be challenging to understand for someone not familiar with the games. It's based on the 1990s real-time strategy game series by Blizzard Entertainment, which was expanded into the Mmorpg World of Warcraft in the 2000s and remains one of the most popular game franchises of all time. With decades of lore and world-building to go off, Warcraft seemed ripe to be the next big multimedia franchise, but the 2016 film underperformed critically and commercially,...