Feminine Diablo Unveiled at Blizzcon
Posted 20 October 2011 by Elly
We reported earlier the contents of this year’s Blizzcon goody bag and now a larger image of the front cover of the show floor map has surfaced (thanks popez). This image will also be the official poster for the event. Centre and front is a full frontal of Diablo and there is no getting away from it, those are some child-bearing hips ‘he’ has there.
There have been previous mutterings regarding Diablo’s gender. Back in 2009, also at Blizzcon, one of the Pay Per View broadcasts showed a model of Diablo for the official cinematic which looked decidedly feminine. Later, at this year’s Gamescom there was some street art organised by Blizzard which showed a very slim Diablo with obvious hips. For the most part, this was simply put down to the artist’s interpretation, but looking at this latest in-house piece of art, the street artist could well have been working from official concept art. More recently the portrait pictures from the beta show a Diablo with a very delicate jaw line (that’s a spoilerific page btw).
So, what’s the story here? Plot twist? Concept artist with a penchant for hips or too much oestrogen in the local water supply?
Dianablo? Sorry, that’s really the best I could come up with.
Le Feminine Diablo Kinky Rawrrr!!
Le-ahblo, obviously.
How about Adriablo….
SPECULATION
“Centre and front is a full frontal of Diablo and there is no getting away from it, those are some child-bearing hips he has there.”
I couldn’t stop laughing… because it’s true.
Mama D is mad cuz we keep beating up her kid.
Oh….. Poor Poor Leah
Yup. I’m going with “Leablo” until I hear otherwise.
I like it… So would the first two be Albrablo and Aidablo?
I hope that isn’t a spoiler…
Not to negative but… If I would be The Lord of Terror I wouldn’t look like that…
The thigh armor, shoulder pads, wide hips and legs-together lady walk look very much like demon hunter concept art, especially in heavy armor (see link). Maybe it’s the same artist and he likes to draw fantasy chicks. Hail Gynablo!
http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/4743/title/demon-hunter-concept/cat/509
Does that make previous-ablo andrablo?
And wouldn’t it be Gynabla?
Just pulling your leg here.
“And wouldn’t it be Gynabla?
Just pulling your leg here.”
Or spreading them? /facepalm
Touché good sir.
anyone see the pair of green eyes in the background staring at us? Titan!?
mmm could be. My mind went to Protoss.
Probably a pandaren from the new wow expansion… they have been depicted with green glowing eyes several times…
The long waft-y hair suggests undead though. Pandarens definitely do not have hair.
When have undead ever had green eyes? Pandarens indeed have long hair…
http://sonsofthestorm.com/gallery.php?artist=samwise
Look through those pandaren pieces in warcraft and personal… almost all of them have pony tails and some of them have hair down to their shoulders… also there’s the possiblity that it’s a female pandaren…
yeah holy crap what the hell are those eyes! O.O
They already said there won’t be any news on Titan at this year’s Blizzcon. Unless they were just lying to us….but what purpose would that serve?
On second thought I think those eyes at the back are……….Bobby’s Eyes!
Sign of beta!
WTF? Diabla? Blizzard are ****ing imbacils. Way to ruin the story idiots. As if ruining the gameplay wasn’t enough. What a bunch of morons!
Please, it’s morans. As in, “Get a brain, morans!”
The three have always taken on physical characteristics of their mortal hosts… seems pretty in line with the story to me…
It’s probable that Leah - being the daughter of the Dark Wanderer – has some part of Diablo’s spirit/essence residing inside of her and that is brought out and Diablo is resurrected despite having his soulstone destroyed…
I agree with you here. I think this is the story line we are going to receive. Which I have to say, I’d like.
Except with the world stone gone they shouldn’t have to possess anyone and should be capable of coming to sanctuary in their true forms. Also weren’t the three only able to possess people by using the soul stones? Diablo’s was broken just like the other twos.
You didn’t read what I said did you? Diablo wouldn’t need to use a soulstone if part of his soul was implanted in Leah when she was conceived by Aidan (with Diablo already corrupting him) and Adria… The soulstones were destroyed and the spirits of the three were cast into the void… Destroying the soulstones was supposed to be the way of completely defeating them, but they obviously needed a story device to bring back the series’ namesake and so they came up with the character of Leah and her origins (which is why they retconned the identity of the Dark Wanderer) so they could by-pass the soulstone problem and resurrect Diablo through her… It’s definitely more clever than the alternative which would be completely retconning the implications of destroying the soulstones and saying that the previous heroes didn’t really defeat the three at all… Plus it’s a plot device they’ve already kind of used before in the original Warcraft with Medivh being corrupted by Sargeras while in the womb and Metzen likes to reuse story elements in different franchises (compare Kerrigan and Arthas for instance)…
Female Diablo = Diabla.
Or Sheablo?
At least she(ablo) doesn’t have boobs. I fear the rule 34 that will come of this.