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No. 2669
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>>2625
Well, just like in the first game, the Terran aren't really central to the big universal story going on, just odd players in it all, particularly in regards to Kerrigan.
The core lore battle is basically Zerg and Protoss with the Terran as essentially an outsider.
What was kinda funny was they completely left out the United Earth Directorate.
>>2564
Not very good comparisons at all.
Arthas is corrupted by his own choices, hence becoming the Lich King. He's made to serve the Burning Legion, but actually serves himself. The Scourge betrays the Burning Legion from the onset, hence Kil'jaeden ordering Arthas' destruction by Illidan's hand, which he fails at. Athas is never redeemed. His soul is saved, but he doesn't exactly throw an emperor into the core of a Death Star. He's outright destroyed. His destruction doesn't bring peace, however. Bolvar taking up the mantle of Lich King merely brings the Scourge under control. As you know, peace doesn't happen with the war that breaks out between the Horde and Alliance during the campaign and the eventually return of Death Wing.
Kerrigan is destroyed by the Zerg when she is left to die by her own people on a doomed world. She is remade into the Queen of Blades who is destined to free the Zerg of the bloodlust the Xel'Naga engineering into their DNA. However, the betrayal of the Xel'Naga is not only something not originally planned from the onset, but dependent entirely upon the choices of an outside character not aligned with the Zerg as opposed to the betrayal from within with the Scourge. Kerrigan is not redeemed either. She is cured of the bloodlust(possibly of her infestation as well), but it will take Part II to shed more light.
While Jaina Proudmoore did not support Arthas' genocide of the people of Strattholme, she's not merely a leader that's trying to protect her people from the plague. She was protecting her people from the Burning Legion and now trying to prevent war between the Horde and Alliance to no avail, however she sides with the Alliance when the war comes, willing to fight for her people.
The good doctor is of a science colony looking for a new home. Unfortunately many are plagued with Zerg infestation. She doesn't protect her people at all. You do. She can't protect her people. She leads them, sure, but she's in position to do anything without your help.
Kel'Thuzad is not the driving force behind the plague. The Lich King is. Kel'Thuzad carries out the will of the Lich King with his cultists. He's also not the corrupter of Arthas. The Lich King is. Kel'Thuzad is a powerful lackey, much like Anub'arak.
The Overmind is the very essence of the Zerg bloodlust, created entirely to coordinate the Zerg's invasion of the galaxy by the Xel'Naga. He serves a higher power unwittingly, but eventually creates his own way out, so to speak by creating Kerrigan. If anything, the Overmind is more like the Lich King, a powerful Psionic force that controls a vast army of nigh unstoppable creatures bent on destroying all life at the will of their masters... Although the Scourge has its own will from the onset unlike the Zerg which gains its own will, presumably, when Kerrigan is cured.
Jim Raynor is no Uther Lightbringer. Jim Raynor is corruptable and often falters from his quest for justice. The man is a shade of gray. Uther Lightbringer is Lawful Good, to put it in old DnD terms. He is loyal to a fault to good and only good and does not stray an inch from good. Raynor is a pirate and a leader of mercenaries as well as participating and aiding a rebellion led by an evil man. Uther never does such a thing. He always fights for good in every instance, never for profit or for political power. Raynor loses the will to fight for mankind. Otherwise he's not in the emotional mess he's in at the beginning of the campaign and throughout much of SC1.
If anything, Tassadar is an Uther like character.
The Xel'Naga are the creators of everything. They made the Protoss. They made the Zerg. They made the universe. The Burning Legion are a faction led by a corrupt Titan trying to consume all the energies of the universe. They didn't and don't create anything. They corrupt things, like the orcs, but they don't build worlds, create races, etc. The Titans do though. ;)
Tosh is a psychopathic pirate whose only interest in you is furthering his own aims. He really does not become an ally at all, but an enemy cloaked in the shadows.
Vol'jin is a leader of an entire race loyal to the concept of the Horde as a peaceful faction for the outcast of the world and does not embrace Garrosh's vision of an expansionistic belligerent Horde. He only remains a member of the Horde at the wishes of Thrall who tells him to keep an eye on Garrosh and keep the Horde from going down the dark path(much like with the Tauren and their reasoning for staying with the Horde).
The last one is just lulz.
YES, Blizzard uses archetypes. It's the reason it's such a successful company. Not only can they produce quality gameplay, but they use story elements that have been staples since the Epic of Gilgamesh, thousands of years ago.
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