I’m a wow player coming here to ask, because everyone from wow community is saying that a completely morally black character and one of the biggest war criminals from our universe is going to be “Kerrigan 2.0” I have no idea at all what that means except that Kerrigan is a SC character.
Kerrigan was a Ghost (spec ops commando with psychic powers) that worked for Mengsk in SC1 as he lead a rebellion against the Confederacy which ruled the sector.
During the events of the story it’s shown the Confederacy was using their knowledge of an alien race known as the Zerg to perform experiments. By the end of the first campaign it is revealed that Mengsk knew that the Confederacy was doing this and had co-opted their developed technology to use the Zerg against them; it is to this end that he places a transmitter to summon a Zerg swarm to destroy Tarsonis, the capitol of the Confederacy. This beacon is placed by Kerrigan however Mengsk abandons her on the planet and she is captured by the Zerg.
The Zerg infest Kerrigan to create the Queen of Blades. As QoB she leads a Zerg campaign that results in the destruction of the Protoss homeworld and several Terran planets. Over the course of SC1 and BW.
In SC2 the QoB is revealed to be working against a cosmic force that created the Zerg and Protoss (The Xel’naga) but had been manipulated by one of them known as Narud. Reynor (a main character in SC1) leads a campaign against Mengsk who has become a despot that rules over the Terran Dominion. The end result of this rebellion is the gathering of an artifact that, in the end, is used to turn the QoB back into Kerrigan.
HotS
Kerrigan goes back to being the QoB in an effort to use the Zerg to kill Mengsk. This time she retains her humanity though she makes many traditionally immoral decisions to guarantee her success. In the end everyone is just kind of chill with it, except the Protoss, who don’t trust her because she killed tonnes of them and destroyed colony ships.
LotV
The Terran, Protoss, and Zerg become best friends and fight Narud. During this process Kerrigan becomes a god and they win because she’s literally a god now.
For a more precise breakdown of events instead of a quick glossing over, there’s a wiki page: Sarah Kerrigan | StarCraft Wiki | Fandom
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The problem is that the category: “morality” is not something that can be extrapolated to three races that are fighting for supremacy/survival.
What is morally good for one race is the inverse for the other.
Those categories should be applied exclusively in the boundaries of each race separately.
Same thing can be said about Tassadar that incinerated whole Planets from orbit (with human inhabitants togather with Zerg infesation). But Tassadar is a Hero and Martyr/Savior of Protoss Race.
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thank you so much, makes more sense now
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To be honest, her ‘destiny’ in Legacy of Void is ****.
Ending should be: Tassadar, in his spirit form, representing Purity of Form, and Kerrigan, Purity of Essence, in attempt to absord Xel"naga essence of weakened Amon should have die. All three of them will die in this event. Breaking the cycle and leaving Universe to seed itself with essence of Life.
That God-Kerrigan is aweful idea.
Amon* which is the boss of Narud. And now that I think about it, Kerrigan killed much more than Amon ever did, because Amon mindcontrols instead of kills. And old Kerrigan was brutal.
The war criminal thing is essencialy just like Tassadar, they commit mass genocide and call it purification.
It’a a tricky matter. First it depends on who you ask: for Zerg/Terrans was “war-criminal”, for Protoss a Hero.
Then it’s about arithmetic: you sacrifice Millions to save Billions. That principle is widely used even outside ethic/morality realm. Take medicine: if a patient get’s gangrene on the left arm, the arm is promptly amputated in order to avoid sepsis that is fatal in ++90% of cases.
It was done in the spirit of “Yas, Queen, Slay!” and “The future is Female!”, both of which proved to be failing slogans.
This is why you should never make political statements in 21st century art, as they age very, very poorly, in a world that moves faster than ever.
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SC2 is full of woke BS. From “inclusiviness” when robots (purifiers) were given the status of Templar, to crashing the caste system when a Khalai (Karax) was upgraded to Templar…
It’s a long history with all neoliberal venom that is poured in LOTW storyline. One can write a book.
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Way i see it in my head, ending should be:
Tassadar, achieved the ‘Purity of Form’ rank. After combining Khala and Void energies to kill Overmind, his material form died, but spiritual form survived. Understanding that Tassadar became the Purity Of Form, Narud imprisoned him in the Void while he was weak, in place which will become Amon’s dimension.
Kerrigan achieved the rank of ‘Purifty of Essence’ and we know how she did that, and what happened to her during that process.
Because both Narud and Amon were weakened ( Narud by Kerrigan, Amon by Unified Protoss Armada ), their hold of Tassadar’s prison started to fade. His been calling Kerrigan to the Void to face Amon together.
With help of combined forces of all three races, Narud been killed, Tassadar were freed. Together, Kerrigan and Tassadar were trying to absorb Amon’s essence while he was weak. But since the process were forced and Amon resisted, all three died in massive explosion in the Void. In last moment Kerrigan and Tassadar were able to port Armada into the material universe ( SC2 Universe ) sacrificing themselves to end Xel’naga cycle.
Since explosion took place in the Void, a place which exist between all Universes ( Even Warcraft and Diablo universe ), all of those possible Universes absorb the ability to create Life on it’s own accord from shattered Xel’naga essence.
Thats would have been the ending that makes sense to my brains. This God-Kerrigan is bleh, and idea of those Adostra creatures also bleh.
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At least they inadvertently made fun of India
I can’t imagine the amount of arrogance required from representative of an abomination (which they call civilization) that spans less than 2-3 Centuries to pass judgement about Ancient Civilizations that span 20-30 Centuries…
Ignorance and arrogance is an explosive compound.
Not in vain in Ancient Greece Hubris was considered as one of the Capital Sins and was considered no less than …“Transgression against the Gods”.
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Yeah true… who comes up with these ideas…
Instead of Starcraft 2 being about cool space politics between factions(something like Mass Effect) we got an extremely forgettable story about a couple trying to get reunited.
They did the same thing to Diablo 3. They took the cool lore of the prime evils, zakarum, Mount Arreat, and the world stone from Diablo 2, and in Diablo 3 they threw it out the window and instead gave us this whole gotcha thing with a mother tricking her daughter into summoning Diablo. The only one who knew the mothers identity was killed off immediately by butterflies to allow the plot to take place(no exaggeration). Allowing the mother to fool archangels, immortal wizards, and everybody else in the whole universe. Total cringe.
They tried to salvage it with the d3 xpac but the stage was set, one can’t take a smelly turd and shine it up and expect it to be a 5star meal.
tbh Blizzard just had too many egos, and probably still does in some areas. How can anyone hold a straight face and think these were ‘great ideas’ in the company. Couldn’t bring themselves to source proper writers to drive the universe they created, had to do it themselves with a extremely limited comprehension of good writing.
Next they tried to forget all about d3 and d3 xpac and instead tell us the events of what happened directly after diablo2 with diablo: immortal (an upcoming mobile game)… shows some promise, at least they aren’t hammering the same cringe note again and again.
Art is literally always political. Even intentionally remaining politically neutral in a piece of art is a political statement.
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Someone’s been reading fan-fiction. I have found my people.
Politics age poorly, and so does art that is dependant on politics.
People say art is always political, only when they agree with the political statement in said art.
If art was Right Winged, Lefties would cry for non-political art.
Literally all art is political. There is art I dislike because of its politics. I don’t cry for non-political art in the same way that I don’t cry for the Easter Bunny: Because it doesn’t exist.
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Alright. Whats the politics behind a landscape painting of a mountain then.
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The romanticization of nature, and the invoking of nostalgia to return to “the old ways.” That’s just one interpretation (and it’s not necessarily the artist’s intention, but often their works are sequestered for political purposes). Also, there’s the political unconscious (yay, Frederic Jameson), so the guy could have drawn the picture without realizing that he was being unconsciously political (e.g. he drew the mountain landscape because he was feeling nostalgic for past rural traditions).
Was the storyline for Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void bad? Yeah, I agree it was terrible. Kerrigan ascending into god was just awful writing. She’s basically a Mary Sue. But attributing the bad storywriting to “woke” or feminist agenda is just BS itself. This had nothing to do with gender. You can have Raynor ascending to a god and the writing would still have been awful. Just because Kerrigan happened to be female (and let’s be honest, her gender didn’t really matter) doesn’t mean they were trying to be woke or promote some sort of feminist agenda. Seems like people just like throwing the words “woke” and “SJW” around for no reason, except to find a scapegoat.
Awful writing is awful writing, no matter how you look at it. And it has nothing to do with woke, SJW or political correctness.
As for the Purifiers, the problem with them wasn’t that they were trying to be “woke”, the problem was that they had no actual stakes, no actual reason to attain the status of Templar. Were they being enslaved and abused/ill-treated? No. It was just thrown in there without any real reason. If you actually gave them stakes or a proper reason for their motivations to achieve that status, rather than “AI turn smart”, nobody would be complaining about the “woke” or “SJW” agenda. It would be the typical “underdog against the world” story, which is pretty popular (and that’s what made the story of Wings of Liberty better than the other two campaigns). Perhaps you can say that they screwed up by being “woke”, but the problem isn’t so much as “woke” but them just botching it up by not offering proper stakes and motivations, not the political correctness itself.
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Personally i don’t have any issue with Kerrigan (or Vorazun for that matter) turning to Xel’Naga. It was not the reason that i called the recent expansions a bunch of woke and ideological-driven narrative.