I once read that Starcraft, as a whole, is somewhat brought down by the fact that Kerrigan is the "teacher's pet". Her enemies are dumbed down in Brood War, her accountability for horrible crimes is removed frequently, and her fight with Amon is 100% protagonist-centered morality: Amon claims to 'reject the infinite cycle' and that 'he's killed Xel'Naga', and Kerrigan finishes up saying she 'chooses something different [than the infinite cycle]' and kills him (a Xel'Naga). They just couldn't let a good villain be a villain.

Honestly I just hate that her xelnaga form is just a giant naked human woman with Diablo angel wings

What’s funny about Kerrigan becoming a purple super saiyan instead of a manipulator is that they pulled the exact same shit on Sylvanas in Warcraft

In W3 when she was introduced, she was literally just some random zombie with her banshee homegirls trying to survive to the next day. Every single mission was about her manipulating, deceiving and betraying her way to the top of the dogpile of Lordaeron’s power vacuum left after Arthas’ rampage.

Cue 15 years later to her 360 no scoping the fucking Lich King and his armies by herself in the Shadowlands trailer, while slow walking in high heels to badass music.

Blizzard can only write two characters - Goku for heroes, C’thulu-corrupted antihero for villain - and every single character which a writer tries to push outside those boundaries gets promptly put back in the milisecond a new writer gets to write them. It’s sad and ruined a lot of promising characters throughout the years.

kerrigan's entire story is a mess. She became a zerg, got reverted back to terran/human, only to willingly and eagerly turn herself into a zerg again to get revenge for being turned into a zerg in the first place, what the actual f*ck? Oh, and was willing to slaughter countless worlds along the way for a personal vendetta against 1 man. What was her 'punishment' for constant genocide? Oh, yeah, she gets to become basically a God with no reprecussions whatsoever.

Jim simps
Artanis simps
Zeratul simps

An attractive woman in bug cosplay gets everything she ever wants.  Most realistic story ever tbh.

It wasn't even her creating life on new planets by the way, it was Zagara. Who proved to be a far more benevolent heart of the swarm than Kerrigan ever was.
Fucking lmao.

After Legacy of the Void epilogue, we see cutscene where Raynor and Kerrigan (in her factory settings) leaving bar, and nobody saw them again.
I concluded that Raynor developed a master plan to avenge Fenix murder:
he get himself drunk, and offered Kerrigan a ride on vulture bike, so that would most definitely cause DUI crash (without deliberately planning to kill her, so she couldn't read his mind about it), sacrificing himself for the purpose of keeping the promise.
I declare it canon.

Kerrigan: i've killed billions of lives but ill plants some trees to make up for it XD

Remember phoenix died before he could teach the falies of SIMPING.

In short, she's a Mary Sue. The plot bends around her to not only remove obstacles but to forgive her crimes.

How to kill Amon without Kerrigan:
- Steer the Spear of Adun into a collision course with Amon, with enough solarite to kill him
- Use Mengsk's remaining nuclear weapons to weaken Amon and his forces

You know you have a problem when siding with the evil space dictator over your protagonist is the morally correct thing to do.

As Professor Grant said: "Kerrigan doesn't have a personality. She has 12."

As for next video? I'd say either Jimmity or Artanis, since they are the "main characters" of their respective games.

Its staggering to me that zeratul confronts kerrigan to get the prophecy that screams “kerrigan must live at all costs consequences be damned” and that ends up not being a fake out orchestrated by kerrigan

one thing i always hated in #2 is how it starts with Kerrigan teaching the lesson that the zerg are unpredictable and dont do what you expect. Then her whole arc is letting go of her humanity and becoming the zerg. This culminates in her walking into mengsk trap, doing EXACTLY what he expected, to get personal revenge. VERY personal, almost like shes not the zerg at all. If she truly had finally become part of the swarm and not an individual, she would have just sent a bunch of Banelings knocking on mengks door, utterly blind siding him and cementing the point that she is the swarm; so for HER killing him with banelings is exactly the same thing.
but noop.

I was pretty blind to it when I played HOTS as a young infant. But man, replaying HOTS as a 30 year old and listening to Kerrigan's.. personality, if you could call it that, sure was something.

it's a Blizzard fetish apparently, same thing happened to Sylvanas in WOW, killed millions,nobody liked her yet somehow she redeemed hersefl in the end, but with the same harrowing hair pulling script situation ...

Personally, i think Kerrigan in SC1 as a protagonist could have worked IF the writers paid attention to her final words in SC1. She mentions how there will be a time when she will need to test the Terrans and Protoss again, where it then pans out to Amon's star-eye loop facial formation thing. This could have allowed her to be the ultimate Machiavellian character who is still very, very evil but has an overall good-ish end goal (or to be exact, her end goal is her being on top rather than Amon)...which is implied quite a lot to be what she may have been intended to be in WoL before HoTS and LoTV threw that away.

In WoL, Kerrigan makes a lot of mentions on how Jim doesn't know what he's doing by preventing her from getting the artifacts, and she's correct. Narud is also opposing her...which makes no sense in HoTS since by all means if Amon was influencing her then he would have influenced her not to get in the way of procuring the artifacts at all. But she is actively rebelling against Narud in WoL, meaning that she knows of Amon, knows of Narud being Duran, and is actively trying to stop them. There are even a lot of small dialogue continuity errors sprinkled throughout HoTS such as Kerrigan knowing Prometheus Company's role in the Dominion...while having amnesia of everything up Mengsk betraying her which is before the Dominion is even formed. But what if this was used not as shoddily slapdashed rewrites, but on purpose?

What if, most of HoTS' plot carries on as-is, but every once-in-a-while Kerrigans slips up by saying something she shouldn't know, with more and more of the cast catching on as the plot progresses with her snapping at them in denial whenever questioned about it. But then, upon rescuing Raynor, he tries to sell his "bUt YoU arEn'T the Qween ob bwades" nonsense only for Kerrigan to get pissed off and snap at him, revealing that she never had amnesia nor was she ever under Amon's control, finally explaining herself: what if she did all of her heinous things in Brood War to prepare the Dominion and Delaam for Amon's inevitable arrival due to seeing how woefully inadequate they were against the UED? If they got rolled over by some explorer force of a bunch of far-off Terrans, then they'd be 10000% screwed against Amon. So she engineers a cold war scenario where all sides build up their armies and arsenals rather than chill out in peace, unknowingly making themselves more prepared for Amon's arrival until Narud used that arsenal buildup to backfire that advantage. And when Raynor asks why she didn't tell anyone the truth, she'd roll her eyes and point out that only an idiot would have taken her seriously if she said that alien god space cthulu was coming to murder everyone for giggles so she needed to engineer a situation that would get the results she needed, even if it meant making everyone miserable in the process for their own good. Still the queen bitch of the universe without regretting anything, but now she gets the protagonist spotlight.

But no, instead we got a flip-flopping writer's block being tossed around with shallow moral grandstanding nonsense.

Kerrigan died in the final battle.
The ending shows Jim back on the bottle; in a drunken stupor, he sees Sarah return, follows the hallucination, boards a shuttle, and makes a soft landing on the nearest sun. In short, everyone died, and the "happy ending" is just Jim’s delirium tremens shortly before his suicide.

IMO, the issues with Kerrigan's characterisation in SC2 stem from a major lore change: that the Overmind wasn't evil itself, but was under Amon's control. In the original lore found in the SC1 manual, Amon didn't exist. Instead, the Overmind was a Xel'naga creation, devised as a central intelligence for the Zerg, which grew beyond their control and eventually destroyed them. The lore changes made in SC2 retroactively absolve Kerrigan of all responsibility for her actions in Brood War as merely being corrupted by Amon's influence.

My interpretation of the pre-SC2 lore is that Kerrigan is essentially similar to Griffith from Berserk. She wasn't brainwashed into becoming a narcissistic psychopath - she was always like that, or at least always had the potential for great evil. That's a much more interesting plot angle, especially from Raynor's perspective; deep down, maybe he does still want her to be redeemed, but at some point he'd have to face the truth that the person he loved didn't really exist.

Unfortunately, instead we just got 'muh prophecy' and 'lmao, space Diablo'. Thanks, Metzen.