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** Tychus ''really'' likes {{spoiler|the Odin}}, declaring it "the single greatest invention in the history of mankind," apparently so awesome it almost brought a tear to his eye.

** Raynor is very attached to his jukebox, the novel "Devils' Due" covering how he risked a train robbery to get it off the train with their booty, and was enraptured by it the second he saw it.

{{quote| '''Jim Raynor''': ''Tell me why I shouldn't kill you right now.''<br />

'''Valerian Mengsk''': ''Because I can offer you... what you've always wanted.''<br />

* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: If you're having trouble deciding what to spend credits on in the Armory (because you're right--even if you get every research point and complete every mission in the game, you will not get enough credits to buy everything), then once you've gotten your protoss and zerg research maxed out, go redo any previous mission that gave you zerg or protoss research samples, and then check the research console in the lab. You'll gain extra monetary credit for the surplus samples you've collected so far, ''including'' the ones you've already cashed in.

** There's also one in "All In," the [[Nintendo Hard]] final mission. Every so often during the mission, Kerrigan will attack your base and is almost guaranteed to do [[Memetic Mutation|terrible, terrible]] [[The Juggernaut|damage]] when she does. However, there is a glitch that sometimes occurs (still not sure how it's triggered) that results in her approaching the base halfway and then turning back. If this glitch is triggered she'll do this over and over again for the rest of the mission, thereby making it ''a lot'' easier. Other times (if the player chose to do the mission "Shatter the Sky" instead of "Belly of the Beast") Kerrigan will find herself trapped by two or more Nydus Worms and will remain trapped so long as the player refrains from using the artifact to sweep the board. The dark side is that which of the two paths to your base Kerrigan takes doesn't seem to be properly randomized.

* [[Like You Would Really Do It]]: In the ending cutscene, {{spoiler|Tychus is ordered by Mengsk to kill the newly-deinfested Kerrigan}}. We all know it isn't going to work (particularly since {{spoiler|he'd have to go through Raynor to do it}}), but besides that it would also make about half the campaign missions [[Shaggy Dog Story|a complete waste of time]]. And, not to put too fine a point on it, [[Foregone Conclusion|give away the ending of the game as a whole...]] It's also been mentioned in interviews and such that {{spoiler|Kerrigan will be the main character for the zerg campaign}}. With that being said, while {{spoiler|Kerrigan}} dying seemed pretty much out of the question, many fans ''were'' surprised when {{spoiler|the cure worked or at the very least ''appeared'' to have (we won't know for sure until ''Heart of the Swarm''}}, since it was largely assumed {{spoiler|Kerrigan would still be infested in the expansion}}. That hair ain't dreadlocks, though.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: Just looking at [[TV Tropes|This Wiki]] shows how popular General Warfield is, even though his one appearance in the story essentially amounts to {{spoiler|[[Butt Monkey|getting his ass]] [[The Worf Effect|kicked]], although in an admittedly stylish way}}.

* [[That One Achievement]]: "Aces High". All In the final mission is made much more bearable by the fact that every so often you can just use a superweapon to take out all the zerg either attacking your base, or on the way to attack your base. Except that to get this award you need to beat it while only using that item once....

* [[That One Level]]: "All In" and "In Utter Darkness".

** "In Utter Darkness" is an amusing example, as it's technically impossible to lose because it's impossible to win in terms of story--your only objective is to hold out as long as you can, even if you get overwhelmed in the first five minutes you win. The bonus research objectives however require you to defend a key building for ''25'' minutes, and kill a certain number of enemy units, and waves of [[Elite Mooks]] force you to micromanage your forces to deal with them. The [[Difficulty Spike]] is also more noticeable in this mission, because not only do your enemies become stronger as you would expect, but the number of kills for the bonus objective increases, effectively making the mission last longer.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: It's hinted at (and blatantly obvious early on) that {{spoiler|Tychus is being threatened by Mengsk into eventually betraying Raynor}}. When he finally does, it occurs during the last cut scene of the game and the only thing it changes is that {{spoiler|Tychus is now dead}}.

* [[The Untwist]]: {{spoiler|Tychus betrays Raynor}}. The hints are so obvious you'd have to be blind to not see them.