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Just a hunch...

** He calls himself "''a servant of'' a far greater power", so he's likely 'just' a high-ranking underling of [[spoiler:the [=VitD=].]]

Or at the very least possessed by or an avatar of it.

* If Kerrigan isn't cured, then everyone is doomed, including herself and the swarm. [[spoiler:Part of the Overmind's plan entails that she be returned to normal in order to break the control of the zerg by The Voice and/or Xel'Naga's]]

[[spoiler: Nothing in the ending cutscene actually suggests her being "cured." Yes, she no longer has her chitinous armor and wings; that is the obvious effect of the Xel'Naga artifact "working." However, she is still the same person (assuming she didn't get a nice mindwipe as another gift from the artifact). She is still a massively powerful psionic, who can most likely still control the remaining Zerg (we do have an expansion about that coming up, after all). She is, admittedly, very weak in the cutscene, but this could easily be due to the psionic backlash of just having most of an entire race (of which she could see into every single "mind" if she wished) wiped out in a mere few seconds. She's still got some people, quite possibly including Raynor, who she wants to kill. As for her line "... Jim?"; she's called him that before when in full Queen of Blades mode, so her calling him that now is no evidence of a HeelFaceTurn. Finally , her resting in Raynor's arms is because she is literally exhausted.]]

**** It's also on the official website. Though on [[http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/taurenmarine.xml an April Fools page]]. SoYeah.

[[spoiler:The hair is just hair. It's dead, like regular hair, and unlike the wings, the glowing eyes, the high-heels, and the chitin; once it dries up and falls off she'll be completely back to normal.]] Naaah, there's no way the laws of storytelling would let that be true.

**[[spoiler: Perhaps Heart of the Swarm means the Swarm gets a heart. A human heart.]]

**Seems reasonable... but I'm guessing [[spoiler: Raynor's Raiders will be fighting with the good guys too.]] I could even see [[spoiler:the Zerg getting their own version of In Utter Darkness where they ''and'' the Protoss go down, thereby proving they have to rescue Raynor/Valerian/just to twist the knife, Arcturus.]]

*** Alternate theory: the campaign takes place immediately after the end of Wings of Liberty, but most of the actual missions are [[spoiler: Kerrigan narrating flashbacks to Raynor. Possibly the final act is Kerrigan regaining control of the Zerg and using them for good (well, good for everyone who isn't Arcturus Mengsk, the poor doomed bastard).]]

** Possibly {{Jossed}} by the blurb on the single player screen once you've finished the game, witch invites the player to [[spoiler:Discover the fate of Kerrigan and the swarm]] in the upcoming expansion.

Here's an interesting theory, based on the ending of StarCraft II. [[spoiler: The Xel'Naga artifact cured Kerrigan of her infestation, but at the same time it made her into a Zerg-Human hybrid. You can tell she still has some Zerginess by her hair in the ending cutscene. She's still the Queen of Blades, and thus in control of the Zerg, but the artifact's power allowed her to regain her humanity, so she - and by extension, the Zerg - are good guys now. This is the wrench to be thrown in the Dark Voice's plan - having the otherwise mindless Zerg used against him - and it's also the setup for the Heart of the Swarm campaign, wherein Kerrigan figures out how to control the Swarm while fighting off the imposing threat of the Dark Voice.]]

** Possibly {{Jossed}} by the blurb on the single player screen once you've finished the game, witch invites the player to [[spoiler:Discover the fate of Kerrigan and the swarm]] in the upcoming expansion.

This is basically the only way it can really be done, since Wings of Liberty ended with [[spoiler:Kerrigan being de-Zerged, and all Zerg on the Zerg capital world Char - and thus, most of the entire Zerg race - being obliterated by the Xel'Naga artifact. Because Heart of the Swarm wouldn't be fun playing as a faction that's been reduced to a leaderless, tiny remnant force that would be no better than nonsentient animals without a guiding Hive King or Queen]].

No proof but it does make sense.

* Also, Kerrigan is referred to as an "agent of the prophecy" of the Xel'Naga's return. With Kerrigan being one of, if not the most powerful psychic in the galaxy as an Infested Terran, a true hybrid would likely be powerful enough to be the "perfect being" that the Xel'Naga were searching for.

** Similarly, Ulrezaj is ''also'' working for the Dark Voice, whether directly or through Duran. The Dark Templar Saga confirmed that Ulrezaj was involved with creating Hybrids and was working for someone or something else; it seems highly unlikely they're not connected.

[[spoiler: Tosh refers to Hanson as a "honey pot" repeatedly and says that she was basically a time bomb waiting to go off once she and the infested colonists reached the core worlds. She only sprouted claws and tentacles once she was blown; that would assume that some infested Terrans are able to hide their condition, though. ''Alternate'' explanation: she wasn't infested in the "Haven's Fall" scenario, but due to desperation to prove her cure worked, she infected herself and it kind of went out of control. Matt did say that "she's desperate to save her people."]]

[[spoiler: The mission plays out the Protoss' last stand against the Hybrids and Dark Voice, in a timeline where Kerrigan has been killed. Since she's not dead in the current timeline, the Zerg will now fight alongside the Protoss when they confront the Hybrids, who will possibly now have an entire tech tree of Hybrids to make up for the fact that they won't have the Zerg with them. Alternately, the Hybrids will have mind-controlled Terrans serving them.]]

[[spoiler: Narud is Duran spelled backwards. Curing Kerrigan is part of his XanatosGambit.]]

[[spoiler: Narud is Duran spelled backwards.]]

from the bonus mission we learn [[spoiler: Mensk is creating hybrids, the same hybrids that will eventually be used by the Dark Voice to destroy everything]] he learned how and got the tech to do so from Duran who is just using Mensk to build up a hybrid army for the Dark Voice who he is an agent of.