StarCraft (video game)/Characters: Difference between revisions

No units here, just the main characters of the game and Brood War. (Playable or not)

 

 

 

== Introduced in ''Starcraft'' ==

{{quote|Of course, his role didn't end there: the UED invades, and while Raynor is initially unimportant, the now-freed Kerrigan enlists his and Zeratul's help in defeating the forces of Earth and a new, burgeoning Overmind that will enslave her again. He helps, knowing it's a bad idea, and indeed it was: Kerrigan becomes the undisputed queen of the Zerg, Raynor swears to be the one to kill her, and now the only major forces that don't have Raynor on the hit list are factions of Protoss belonging to Zeratul and Selendis.}}

 

 

* [[The Alcoholic]]: When Reynor isn't fighting, he's usually drinking whiskey. Tychus even refers to him as "that drunk Reynor" at one point.

** In ''Brood War'', he teams up with {{spoiler|Kerrigan and Mengsk}} to defeat {{spoiler|the UED}}.

** In ''Wings Of Liberty'' he teams up with {{spoiler|Valerian Mengsk, and part of the Dominion}} to defeat {{spoiler|Kerrigan}}.

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: With the Protoss, Tassadar, Zeratul, and Fenix in particular. ''Especially'' Fenix.

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: His [[Weapon of Choice]] in the ''Belly of the Beast'' mission is an [[BFG|enormous]] rifle that comes with the amazing "Penetrator Round" ability, with a range even further than the ghosts' "Snipe."

** [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Mengsk uses his control of the media to make Raynor into a vicious terrorist madman. Despite that, people still put their hopes on Raynor when it comes to saving their lives.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: He wants Kerrigan.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Many of Raynor's friends have backstabbed him, and most of those who don't died due to the actions of the backstabbers.

** In ''Wings of Liberty'', the player gets to choose which missions Raynor and the Raiders will take. This affects his relationships with other characters and their loyalties. For the most part, his allies make it out alive: {{spoiler|Tychus}} betrays Raynor, but canonically he trusts {{spoiler|Tosh}}, who joins his crew and remains loyal, while {{spoiler|Hanson and her colonists}} were sent off to a safe life on {{spoiler|Haven}}. For all the danger that they put themselves in and however fragile the ties that bring them together, {{spoiler|Valerian and Warfield}} have managed to survive the events on {{spoiler|Char}}.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: He tried this with {{spoiler|Kerrigan}}. It didn't work until after the events of ''Wings of Liberty''.

** He gets his own miniature version with Matt through out the campaign as he is slowly losing faith in his revolution, especially with Kerrigan back on the scene.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Be it giant cigar of manliness or cigarettes, this man will make you want to take up smoking.

* [[Squick]]: In-universe. In the novels when he sees her infested, Raynor thinks that on some level Kerrigan is even ''more'' alluring and attractive, and is appropriately disturbed with himself for thinking such.

* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Raynor was, as of the end of Brood War, the ''only'' good human character. Realizing this has not been good for his views on humanity in general.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: He was fooled by {{spoiler|Kerrigan}}: While he knew that there would have been a betrayal once they {{spoiler|had defeated the UED}}, what really makes him a sucker is that he didn't expect the betrayal so soon. As it turns out, the plot was bolder and more daring: the moment they had achieved victory, {{spoiler|she went after the Dominion and the Protoss at the same time}}.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Especially in the novels. At the very least, Mengsk started off this way, if the novels and [[All There in the Manual|the backstory in the manual]] are to be believed. Mengsk himself portrays himself as this after he crosses over into outright villainy and it's largely left up to the player's interpretation whether he's purely in it for his own personal gain or if he really believes he's doing the right thing. More and more, it seems he's slipping further into selfishness as time passes.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: The man loves [[A Glass of Chianti|his liquor]], his classical music, his cigars, and plays a mean game of chess, even during his days as a terrorist rebel. His former command ship, a massive Battlecruiser named Hyperion, differs ''greatly'' from normal design standards to accommodate his tastes. To name one such variation, it has wider-than-normal hallways lined with carpets and paintings and lit by wall sconces. Raynor thinks it seems more like a fancy mansion than a warship.

 

 

 

* [[Badass]]

** [[Four-Star Badass]]

* [[Cool Starship]]: His flagship, the Norad II. In ''Brood War'' he commands the new, upgraded Norad III.

* [[The Dragon]]: To Mengsk after Episode I.

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: He's did this to ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Kerrigan]]''.

{{quote|''"Do your worst then, little girl! You ain't takin' Edmund Duke without a fight!"''}}

* [[Jerkass]]: Though its quite obvious the second you hear him talk for the first time, the novelizations turns it up worse - after Raynor defects, his men are being overrun by Zerg and he can't save them. Raynor begs Duke to help them, offering to turn himself in if he does. Duke laughs in his face.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: In the early missions of Episode I. When Jim Raynor helps saving the Backwater Station from a Zerg attack, Duke has him arrested for ''property damage''.

* [[Reliable Traitor]]: He joined the Sons of Korhal rebellion grudgingly, basically at gunpoint, and made his contempt of Mengsk, Raynor and the rebels very clear at every opportunity he got. Mengsk however counted on that pandering to Duke's ambition, greed and lust for power would turn him into a useful ally. He was right.

* [[Save the Villain]]: Despite hating his guts, Jim Raynor saved his life twice. First for the Zerg on Antiga Prime and later from the UED during their assault on Korhal.

* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: Disembarking from your vehicle, unarmed, in the middle of nowhere right during an alien invasion must be a very good idea...

* [[Deep South]]

* [[Explain, Explain, Oh Crap]]:

{{quote|'''Sarge:''' ''It's a Zerglin' Lester, smaller type o' Zerg. They oughtn’t be out this far unless...'' *hears gurgling noises behind him* ''Oh shit!''}}

* [[The Men in Black]]

* [[My Rule Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: When Magistrate Collins starts getting too much in his way, he invokes an obscure law and relives him of command.

* [[Spock Speak]]

* [[State Sec]]

* [[Unperson]]: Heavily implied to happen to anyone who might get a little too talkative about their operations.

 

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Twice, first the Confederacy then Mengsk.

* [[Mission Control]]

{{quote|''"Though we strike at you from the shadows, do not think that we lack the courage to stand in the light."''}}

 

 

{{quote|Zeratul is introduced with a bang: the shadowy Dark Templar achieved the seemingly impossible and murdered a top Cerebrate of the Zerg Overmind. With the knowledge that Dark Templars could permanently harm the Zerg, Tassadar makes a highly-controversial alliance with Zeratul, and the two of them, along with Jim Raynor and Artanis, return to Aiur, where Tassadar uses what he's learned from Zeratul to kill the Overmind. Zeratul then leads the Khalai survivors to the Dark Templar homeworld Shakuras, and eventually forms an uneasy alliance with Kerrigan to fight the rogue Zerg. When she betrays them he banishes her, but she returns later to kidnap Raszagal and blackmail Zeratul into killing the Overmind for her. Zeratul kills Raszagal rather than let Kerrigan control her, and as he leaves he finds Duran's experiments on Hybrids on the dark moon. Canonically, he hasn't been seen since, but resurfaces in ''Starcraft II'', having learned something horrible and ominous.}}

** [[Badass Boast]]: In response to Aldaris being an arrogant [[Jerkass]]:

{{quote|''"You speak of knowledge, Judicator? You speak of experience? I have journeyed through the darkness between the most distant stars. I have beheld the births of negative-suns, and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare."''}}

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Justified since newer players won't know these things, but a lot of his dialogue in his mini-campaign in the sequel is this:

{{quote|''"I can use Blink to cross that chasm."''

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Twice. First he killed Zasz and accidentally told the Overmind the location of Aiur, then he killed the second Overmind giving Kerrigan complete control of the Zerg.

* [[Ninja]]: He is a ninja in everything but name, and is it surprising that he's one of the most popular characters in the series?

* [[You Are in Command Now]]: After he slays Raszagal to free her, but really, he'd be the de-facto commander all along.

 

{{quote|''"My friends, this is our final hour. Not all of us may survive the coming conflict. Yet, death may be a blessing should we fail here. We seek now to destroy a foe that has ravaged its way across the universe consuming all in its path. And now it has reached the end of its long journey. The Overmind has come to destroy all that we hold dear and assimilate us into itself. And I say to thee, this shall not come to pass! Aiur shall not fall! Executor, I stand ready!"''}}

 

 

{{quote|The Executor (Protoss military commander) of Starcraft I, Tassadar was ordered to raze a bunch of Terran planets infested with Zerg. He tried to kill the Zerg while sparing the Terrans, but while his actions were largely successful (though he left alive one person he'd later regret) he fell in with the dark templar, who contrary to their names [[Dark Is Not Evil|were not at all evil]]. Tassadar realized this, and being about the only person in existence to realize the true threat the Zerg posed, enlisted the dark templars' help to defeat the Zerg, with the help of Jim Raynor.}}

{{quote|''"For even in these dark days, there is still the hope of morning. That is why we fight."''}}

 

 

{{quote|Artanis is revealed to have been in Starcraft I by way of the nameless player character; he was the one who allied with Tassadar and joined the two warring Protoss tribes together. Young (262 years old is considered "young" by [[Time Abyss|Protoss standards]]), Artanis idolizes Tassadar in Brood War and strives to be as good and honest as possible. He ultimately takes part in an unsuccessful joint UED-Dominion-Protoss attack on Kerrigan's holdings, and is forced to retreat.}}

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Just like Stukov, he went about telling the others what he knew in the stupidest way possible.

* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: "While you were securing the crystals, I discovered that your Matriarch has been harboring a dark secret! She has been manipulated by de-" ([[Fridge Logic|"De-" what?]])

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]

* {{spoiler|[[Only Sane Man]]}}: In Brood War, he's the only character to see through {{spoiler|Kerrigan's lies}}.

{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' Bill Roper}}

 

 

{{quote|In Brood War he hung out a lot with Raynor, and the two allied with Kerrigan against the UED. Kerrigan eventually betrayed them and killed Fenix.}}

 

{{quote|'''Tassadar''': ''Fenix? It can't be! The Executor told me how you fell before the Zerg! How is that you live and breathe?''}}

* [[Badass]]

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: "The Khala awaits me Kerrigan, and though I am eager to rejoin my brethen ''you will not find me easy prey''.

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: With Raynor.

{{quote|'''Jim Raynor''': ''I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan! For Fenix, and all the others who got caught between you and your mad quest for power!''}}

** ...however, when Zeratul (the only one who wants Kerrigan dead more than Raynor, Mengsk and Fenix together) tells you that {{spoiler|she's important for the universe}}, well... you don't have many choices.

{{quote|''"I do not join. I lead."''}}

 

 

 

{{quote|In the events of Starcraft: Brood War, following the Overmind's death, Kerrigan takes it upon herself to dispose of the remaining 'leaders' of the Zerg Swarm - the Cerebrates - in order to gain control of it while [[Magnificent Bastard|manipulating and deceiving]] all the other factions in the process. In the end, she claims control of the entire Zerg species for herself while crippling most other factions, setting herself up as the self-proclaimed "Queen Bitch of the Universe".}}

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Genre Blind]]: It really wasn't that smart the idea to blindly trust a man infamous for being unreadable, {{spoiler|and whose only remaining family she beheaded}}.

* [[The Lancer]]: To Raynor.

* [[My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That]]: Depending upon how you read the line, if you click on her Ghost unit enough times she sighs:

*** Also, the famous line:

{{quote|''"I don't think so, Admiral. You see, at this point... I'm pretty much the Queen Bitch of the Universe. And not even all of [[Your Little Dismissive Diminutive|your little soldiers]] or spaceships will stand in my way again."''}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins|The Bad Gal Wins]]}}: At the end of the Brood War.

* [[Big Bad]] Of ''Brood War'' (though you play for her as the Zerg) and ''Wings of Liberty''.

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Back to Normal]]}}

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]

* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: She pretty much keeps quiet after ''Brood War'', as evidenced in some of the novels. Although part of what she does is look for ways to make the Swarm stronger.

* [[Power Echoes]]: Actually, ''telepathy'' echoes (every Protoss voice you ever hear has a small echo), but she's human, so she [[Fridge Brilliance|speaks both vocally and with telepathy at the same time]], which is why it's more noticeable with her.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: A 12 on the PI scale (which is normally from 1-10). Her immense psionic power is what drew the Zerg and the Overmind to her.

** [[Telepathy]]: Like all ghosts, of course; most of her psionic power was being suppressed, though.

** [[Your Head Asplode]]: What her unrestricted psionic power did to her mother when she was a child.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Zasz informs her that she is simply a servant to the Overmind and her personal ambitions meant nothing. Kerrigan wouldn't have any of it.

* [[Restraining Bolt]]: She had to remove her Ghost conditioning to become more powerful.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Pretty much the entire point of her actions in Brood War. The woman has a lot of issues to work out with the other main characters. Unfortunately she has a ridiculously powerful alien race at her beck and call, is hinted to be more than a little nuts after her infestation, and the causes of most of her issues happen to be the leaders of the enemy factions opposing her.

* [[Self Fanservice]]: Initially just disturbingly sexy in the first games, but as other artists refined her look, she definitely became more fanservice-y.

* [[Smug Snake]]: To DuGalle, but not to anyone else.

* [[Stripperific]]: In her infested form, while most infested terrans sprout tentacles, Kerrigan somehow manages to grow ''high heels'' on her feet.

* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: ''Twice''. First, by Mengsk, against the Confederation; then, by the Overmind, against Mengsk and humanity in general.

* [[The Virus]]

* [[Voice of the Legion]]: see the [[Power Echoes]] entry above.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Sort of. Her Infested self sports blade-wings that are made of bones and do a lot of damage, but there's no membrane between them. She just uses them as weapons to stab things with greater reach than her claws.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]

{{quote|''"Awaken my child, and embrace the glory that is your birthright. Know that I am the Overmind; the eternal will of the Swarm, and that you have been created to serve me."''}}

 

 

{{quote|The Overmind was the [[Hive Mind]] of the Zerg, directing their actions. It created Cerebrates who acted as its generals, and they in turn created overlords, who control the Zerg directly. Designed by the Xel'Naga to be the perfect creation of the Zerg, the Overmind rebelled against them and nearly succeeded in wiping out their race. It then turned to space, ravaging worlds and stealing the DNA of the native inhabitants and collecting them into the swarm. The Overmind eventually discovered the Protoss, and desperately wanted them in its fold because they, too, were creations of the Xel'Naga, and it believed that taking to Protoss into the swarm would make the Zerg "perfect". Between Tassadar, Zeratul, Fenix, and Raynor, the Overmind was destroyed, leaving the zerg in disarray.}}

{{quote|A second Overmind was formed in Brood War, but it was ''an'' Overmind, not ''the'' Overmind, and was an entirely different entity who was treated more like a [[MacGuffin]] than an actual character.}}

 

* [[Big Bad]]: In the first game.

** [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|In the first Zerg campaign.}}

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]

* [[A God Am I]]: He never claims to be a god, but his manner of speech is very Old Testament.

* [[Going Out With A Smile]]: When Zeratul examines the Overmind's final thoughts, he notices that one of his final emotions was a feeling of peace and satisfaction.

* [[Hive Mind]]

** {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]}}: It is strongly implied in the Protoss mini-campaign in ''Wings of Liberty'' that the Overmind's reason for invading Aiur was this combined with the above.

* [[Power Echoes]]

* [[Take Over the World]]: The Protoss homeworld of Aiur. And any other world it pleases, really.

 

==== Zasz ====

 

{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' Bill Roper}}

{{quote|''"You should know that we represent not one of your ragtag peasant militias, but the combined might of the United Earth Directorate."''}}

 

 

 

* [[And Then John Was a Zombie]]

** {{spoiler|[[Came Back Wrong]]}}

* [[Burial in Space]]: {{spoiler|He gets better}}

* {{spoiler|[[Final Speech]]}}: After {{spoiler|being shot by Duran}}:

{{quote|''"...Gerard... old friend... You do indeed have a traitor in your midst. But it's not me. {{spoiler|Duran}}. He has been playing us both from the start. He convinced you to {{spoiler|destroy the Psi Disruptor, even though it was our best chance at defeating the Zerg}}. And then on Aiur, he {{spoiler|allowed the Zerg to overrun us even as we had the fugitives in our grasp}}. I came here... to activate the one hope we have of defeating them... and you killed me for it (wheezing laugh). {{spoiler|Duran}} is your enemy, Gerard. I suspect (gasp for breath) that he may even be {{spoiler|infested}}, as well. {{spoiler|Use the Disruptor}}, Gerard. (struggling to talk) Finish our operation. Let {{spoiler|my death}} have at least some meaning!"''}}

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: This is actually addressed in the instructions manual, that Stukov is the smarter of the two. And it shows. The UED mission would likely have succeeded if Stukov had been in charge.

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: After being freed from the Zerg, he makes he clear that he wanted no such thing, but joins Raynor & co. anyway.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: He could have done a better job explaining the Psi Disruptor situation to Admiral DuGalle. Heck, the whole UED-Dominion conflict could have been avoided if they would only talk to each other, {{spoiler|as evident from their ill-fated alliance against Kerrigan at the very end of the game.}}

* [[Psychic Powers]]: He is extremely subtly implied to have these, unwittingly. {{spoiler|It might even have been why he was infested.}}

* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: He really didn't need to die to tell DuGalle what Duran was doing, or even go off on his own to make it look like a betrayal—he could have just ''told'' him.

** The campaign implies he did ''try'' to get DuGalle to listen to him, but DuGalle, for some reason (perhaps [[Mind Control]] or just a horrible case of [[Too Dumb to Live]]) never believed him ''until'' he went as far as he did.

* [[The Virus]]

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Blizzard confirmed that "Resurrection IV" is canonical and yet, for some reason, {{spoiler|Infested Stukov and the New Swarm, along with the cure for zerg infestation}}, is ''never'' mentioned in the entire campaign of ''Wings of Liberty''. Likely this was done to avoid [[Continuity Lock Out]], since it's a fairly obscure mission. One could hope that he'll show in ''Heart of the Swarm''.

 

=== Protoss ===

* [[One-Man Army]]: The climax of book two in the Dark Templar Saga describes three armies working together to fight him...''and losing''! The passages describe him killing dozens of Mutalisks with one blast, and Zerglings "toppling like dominoes" at his feet. It isn't until the Protoss unite their powers (see above) that he actually takes any significant damage, and even then it doesn't kill him and he's back on his feet by the climax of the third book.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: He gets sealed inside a psionic crystal along with the Preserver Zamara.

* [[The Voiceless]]: In a few scenes he talks among his alter-egos, but otherwise is entirely silent during the books.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Possibly.

{{quote|During Brood War, Duran appears as the leader of a rebel force opposed to Mengsk's Dominion and allies with the UED. After betraying them and revealing himself to be infested, Duran turns to Kerrigan and helps her take out the UED, then mysteriously vanishes. EVERYTHING you thought you knew about him is turned on its head in the secret mission "Dark Origin", where we learn Duran is working for a mysterious "great power", has engineered a Protoss/Zerg hybrid, and more likely than not isn't even human, much less infested.}}

 

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: To the UED and then Kerrigan.

* [[Heel Face Mole]]: First to the UED, then to the Zerg, and then to the mysterious "greater power" that is mentioned in the quote above.

* [[I Have Many Names]]:

{{quote|''"I have had many names throughout the millennia, young prodigal. You would know me best as Samir Duran."''}}

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