StarCraft/Fridge

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 * In Starcraft, when you click on the Terran Academy, you hear this. I never quite figured out what it was supposed to be until a friend of mine realized that it's an Academy, full of learning. Blizzard was making a joke about how people hate school.
 * I was given a similar explanation, but the one I got had that it wasn't just any school, but a military school, with back-breaking chores and whatnot, the kind of stuff that is bound to make newcomers want to scream.
 * I always thought it was some sort of training involving falling from a great height, or else someone falling to their death on an extremely hardcore space-marine training course from hell
 * You may want to remember that the Academy is where you research the Stim Pack. Uh, those screams may not be the students...
 * Remember the majority of the the space marines are re-educated criminals. So the scream you hear may be the re-education.
 * Everyone in the Confederacy has an American accent... except Duran, who has a thick African/Middle Eastern/Indian accent. It wouldn't be a problem, especially since he's not human, except that no one ever questions it.
 * Maybe they have minorities in their military like we have in ours?
 * In Brood War, Gerard Du Galle acts like a complete idiot throughout the campaign; only the PC and Stukov make sure the mission is a success. However, remember that he only really started showing incompetence after Duran joined them, and had time to influence them. Duran, who was able to pose convincingly as a Ghost, who is most certainly not human, and likely has even greater powers then he's shown. Mind Control Du Galle as part of a massive Xanatos Gambit, anyone?

Starcraft II

 * In Starcraft II,
 * A mission in the protoss mini-campaign has a part where you rescue protoss who were stuck mid-warp in time-space due to pylon power being cut off. Just imagine what would have happened to them if Zeratul never restored power...or, for that matter, imagine that happening in any multiplayer game where a player manages to destroy a pylon field before units manage to finish warping in...
 * At first, Hanson's side missions might seem pointless, but in reality, they aren't. When Raynor got the call for help, they were in exactly the same position that Kerrigan was in during the Fall of Tarsonis (thrown under a bus for expediency and in danger). Raynor already knew what it was like to fail to save one person from that fate, so he could not simply leave these people to the same fate. It's also why he sided against Selendis; the last time he gave up when there was still a chance, Kerrigan became the Queen of Blades and the results were completely tragic. Raynor probably believes that if he made the choices he failed to make at Tarsonis, then he can gain solace for failing to save Kerrigan.
 * Alternately, the colony of Agria is in essentially the same situation Mar Sara was at the start of (vanilla) Starcraft. Abandoned by their government with just a rebel force to help them out of their plight.
 * Likewise, the "zerg were corrupted" plot twist seems random, but considering that Duran was manipulating them back in Brood war and already served an ancient being with goals involving the Xel'Naga, it actually makes perfect sense.
 * For a long time, I dismissed the fact that the news was all live as Rule of Funny. But then I remembered something from the novels: The Confederacy ran very heavily edited news posts as fact for a long, long time. Merely passing a law that all news broadcasts must be live would make Mengsk look pretty good.
 * It bugged me that none of the brutalisks seemed to be doing anything particularly important. They were just there being very very big and standings around guarding nothing. Then I realized, Egon can't figure out why the zerg would have such a big creature just standing around, and that's why he wants samples for study.
 * It bugged me that none of the brutalisks seemed to be doing anything particularly important. They were just there being very very big and standings around guarding nothing. Then I realized, Egon can't figure out why the zerg would have such a big creature just standing around, and that's why he wants samples for study.