History Awesome / StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid

* Fans complained Protoss "unit under attack" responses were wimpy ("We cannot hold!" / "Fall back to the shadows!"). ''Legacy'' gave them suitably more badass lines ("We embrace the glory of battle!" / "Let our enemy know our fury!").

* When Artanis comes to Karax's rescue on Aiur, he doesn't mess around. He finishes the encounter by tearing a zergling to shreds ''with his bare hands'' in a GoryDiscretionShot. [[spoiler: You can tell that he's [[TranquilFury channeling all the rage and grief he feels over Zeratul's death.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''The Firstborn shall fear you '''[[DefiantToTheEnd no longer!!]]''''']]

* When Alarak takes a break from being a walking CrowningMomentOfFunny with all of his snarky trolling, he has these moments too:

** It is capable of manufacturing everything the Protoss can think of in such a scale that you won't even notice it when [[spoiler: Shakuras is blown up]]. Remember: [[spoiler: All those structures you are warping in were originally built on Auir for quick deployment. After Auir was lost, Shakuras became the new manufacturing hub. After it is blown up, only the Spear of Adun remains; and it is capable of rivalling the construction of an entire planet's worth of SufficientlyAdvancedAlien engineers.]]

** For that matter, the final mission itself. [[spoiler:It directly mirrors "In Utter Darkness" with the zerg under Amon's control assaulting the Protoss from all directions as they defend themselves, their heroes leading them as a unified front. But while they were just holding out as long as they could before dying with "In Utter Darkness," here they're defending the Keystone as it charges to expel Amon from the Khala, which will be a crippling blow for him and free the rest of the Protoss from his control.]]
** And a FridgeBrilliance mission for ''why'' [[spoiler:the final mission mirrors "In Utter Darkness": the zerg are ''all Amon has left'': the Tal'darim have betrayed him, Moebius Corps is destroyed, with the latter he lost his source of Hybrids, and without Aiur's psi-matrix he can't warp in large numbers of reinforcements from the Golden Armada, sending handfuls of ships at you as they arrive after taking the long way there. He's throwing everything he has at you not to finish the Protoss off, but out of desperation to stop them before the Keystone finishes charging.]]

** Remember those ridiculously powerful Brutalisks and Leviathans from the campaigns? Abathur can turn ''any of his units'' into one of the two if it collects enough biomass. Combined with his Mend ability and Swarm Queens to keep units alive, he can potentally have ''an entire army of Brutalisks and Leviathans'' to completely steamroll anything that tries to go up against him.
** Alarak gets the Tal'darim arsenal, including calling in the Death Fleet to lay waste to everything in its path. And unlike the other Protoss commanders, Alarak isn't watching from orbit. Instead, he marches into the fray himself and rips the enemy to shreds, empowered by his units, and so long as he has his servants to sacrifice, he will [[WhyWontYouDie not go down.]] And then you get to his Ascendants, which can with a certain upgrade turn themselves into what is basically a single-Templar Archon.

-->'''Kaldalis:''' From one who is being ''sent'' to die! I will be among the first to spill Zerg blood! I am ''Akhundelar'', the tip of the spear!
-->'''Artanis:''' ''Akhundelar''... [[SuicideMission few will survive the first wave]]. ''Why''?!

** The cutscene that precedes the mission. An exhausted Kerrigan is getting flung around by a Hybrid, but then Artanis leaps in and starts effortlessly picking the monster apart. And just when it looks like the Hybrid is about to make a comeback, Kerrigan gets her second wind, impales the Hybrid from behind with her psionic-charged wing blades, hoists it into the air and ''tears it in half''.

* In that same cinematic, [[spoiler: the lone surviving]] Zealot standing tall before [[spoiler: literally thousands of Zerg]], with an expression that's practically ''[[BringIt daring]]'' them to do their worst. ''Fear is for the enemy'' indeed.
** He glances back at the warping-in pylon, then slowly looks back at the Zerg and you can tell his thoughts have gone from "I'm TakingYouWithMe" to "[[CurbStompBattle we win]]".
* Kaldalis (the one-eyed Zealot) readies his psi-blades... and then the Pylon behind him finishes warping in. Cue first a few, then a dozen and then ''hundreds'' of flashes of light as an entire ''army'' warps right into the field around him. For all the 100 gate proxy pylon jokes, it's a truly awesome moment that shows that despite the setbacks the Daelaam have suffered, they are still not a force to be trifled with.
** Made even better as Kaldalis and the army charge into battle, Protoss still warping in all around, and begin carving up Zerg, with Artanis' narration making clear that Aiur ''will'' be theirs again.

** Kaldalis actually lags behind two of the newcomers in the final charge, only to put on a burst of speed and leap ahead of them to be the first into battle. And that's ''after'' being the last survivor of the vanguard force.

* Anytime you use one of your co-op player abilities to come to the rescue of your partner. Whether its' [[GunshipRescue calling down the]] ''[[GunshipRescue Hyperion]]'' to shore up a defensive line, using the [[KillSat Purifier Beam]] to soften up an enemy attacking force or [[BigDamnHeroes sending in your commander personally]] to cover a retreating force, it'll just reinforce that you're not just working alongside each other, you're in this together.

---> '''Artanis''': My will is not so easily broken, Amon! The Firstborn shall fear you '''''no longer!''''

---> '''Artanis''': My will is not so easily broken, Amon! The Firstborn shall fear you '''''no longer!'''''

* When Vorazun and [[spoiler:Alarak]] fight their way through the Citadel of the Executor to destroy the [[spoiler:psi-matrix power unit]], they find the door to it is sealed, when [[spoiler:Alarak]] has an idea and orders Vorazun to guard him while he charges energy. You're expecting him to charge power to break down the door, right? '''Wrong'''. [[spoiler:He charges power and blasts a laser ''through'' the door into the power unit and obliterates it]]. Even Vorazun is stunned.
* Three words. [[spoiler: En Taro Artanis. Double points for Artanis being the first ever living Protoss that is honored/addressed this way, because the phrase ("in honor of" in Khalani) usually reserved for dead legends among their race: Adun, Tassadar and Zeratul.]]

** Fenix enters Co-op in ''style''. Not only does he come with three separate bodies, each with their own different abilities, but he commands a group of six Protoss champions. ''Every single one'' of those champions is a character seen previously, drawing from sources as old as the Nintendo 64 version of the original game (Taldarin), Enslavers (Mojo and Warbringer), and as new as ''Reclamation'' and the Legacy of the Void opening cinematic (Kaldalis), prologue missions (Talis) and the campaign itself (Clolarion). It really gives you the impression that you're commanding true heroes of the Protoss, each with their own unique abilities. And if any of them die, their AI personality can just [[BodyBackupDrive jump into another body]] and get back in the fight.

* The epilogue campaign has [[spoiler: all three races entering the Void itself to get rid of Amon for good. Fighting him on his home turf is tough, but between the three races, they pulled it off.]] It was also an awesome subversion of the NotQuiteDead trope. Blizzard ''loves'' to bring "killed" villains back to life, and [[spoiler: Amon]] had the perfect excuse of [[spoiler: belonging to an entire race where DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist]]. Given his importance to the lore and the certainty of a Starcraft III, he seemed a shoo-in for a [[RecurringCharacter Recurring Villain]].[[spoiler: [[GenreSavvy Yet Raynor, Artanis, and Kerrigan refuse to put up with that crap]], and [[DefiedTrope go the extra distance to ensure that the bastard won't be coming back]].]]

--> '''Artanis''': I am activating emergency shields! / [[OrbitalBombardment Face the power of the ''Spear of Adun''!]]

--> '''Nova''': Eyes up! Our ride's here! / [[NukeEm Painting the target.]]

--> '''Artanis''': I am activating emergency shields!
--> '''Vorazun''': I am stopping time, now! Be ready to attack!

* When Artanis comes to Karax's rescue on Aiur, he doesn't mess around. He finishes the encounter by tearing a zergling to shreds ''with his bare hands'' in a GoryDiscretionShot. [[spoiler: You can tell that he's [[TranquilFury channeling all the rage and grief he feels over Zeratul's death.]]

* When Artanis comes to Karax's rescue on Aiur, he doesn't mess around. He finishes the encounter by tearing a zergling to shreds ''with his bare hands'' in a GoryDiscretionShot. [[spoiler: You can tell that he's channeling all the rage and grief he feels over Zeratul's death.]]