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After 7 years and 7 seasons, the series finally ended with the release of the grand finale on 21st December 2019.



* DeadlyDodging: This is how the brave little Zergling does most of its fighting in "GG No Re", baiting enemies into attacking each other while trying to hit it as it bounds around. [[spoiler:It eventually defeats the twin Derpfestors by getting their tentacles to strike each other, locking them in simultaneous Neural Parasites forever.]]



* EnemyMine: Repeatedly [[DefiedTrope defied]] by Bob the Angry Zealot, who refuses to ally with the Terrans and Zerg even in the face of total annihilation at the hands of the Derpfestor's Red Army. [[spoiler:Even in the grand finale he still slaps away the hand Patches offers him and beats him up, until Patches intervenes to save him from the traitorous Administrator, leading Bob to finally ally with Patches.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In the grand finale, Crackhead lures the entire enemy army away from the Zerg Hive where Patches, Medic and the brave little Zergling are battling the Derpfestors and gets them to chase him back into their own base, burning Stims (which hurt him) to stay ahead of them. As he collapses and the army gathers around him to finish him, he covers the red dot of the Ghost's nuke, which annihilates the entire army along with Crackhead.]]



** Again in ""GG No Re" when [[spoiler:the brave little Zergling [[DeadlyDodging gets the Derpfestor and its newloy-born twin to hit each other with their Neural Parasite tentacles at the same time]], [[LogicBomb permanently brain-locking them both as they both try to control each other]].]]



* KilledOffForReal: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Bob was apparently annihilated in "My Life For Aiur" as his body was recovered, rebuilt into an Immortal and, after the Immortal was disabled, healed back to full health as a Zealot again by the Medic. [[spoiler:Played straight by Crackhead, who sacrifices his life in the finale to bait the red army into a nuke.]]



* LogicBomb: What ultimately undoes [[spoiler:the Derpfestor and its newly-hatched twin in "GG No Re" when they get baited into using Neural Parasite on each other at the same time, paralyzing them both forever as they each simultaneously control the other. They're last seen together in straightjackets in an asylum in the ending.]]



* NukeEm: [[spoiler:How the red army is finally defeated in the grand finale.]]



** [[spoiler:Bob [[ADeathInTheLimelight finally pushes his too far]] in [[MeaningfulName "My Life For Aiur"]].]]

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** [[spoiler:Bob [[ADeathInTheLimelight finally pushes his too far]] in [[MeaningfulName "My Life For Aiur"]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], however, as he comes back in "GG No Re", first as an Immortal, then as himself again.]]
** [[spoiler:Crackhead is killed in a HeroicSacrifice at the end of "GG No Re".
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** The climax of Bob and Patches' battle against the traitorous lightning-shooting Administrator in "GG No Re" is taken straight from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', complete with a sudden shaft for Bob to hurl the Administrator down (although the BigNo the Administrator shouts is actually Vader's [[MemeticMutation memetic one]] from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'').
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* BigDamnHeroes: happens a few times, the biggest example is season 7. The huge derpfestor army is bearing down ion the small remaining forces of the three races, than a bunch of dark templar are warped in using minerals stolen back from the executor, than medic girl returns with forces from SC1, making a much more even fight.
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* BittersweetEnding: The series finale. [[spoiler:Derpfestor and the Executor are stopped, but Crackhead sacrificed himself to ensure the Red Army's defeat. However, the Zerg have reunited with Kerrigan, Bob is welcomed as family by the Probes, and Patches and Medic Girl are finally together with a child.]]

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* ArcVillain: The rogue Adjutant is the BigBad of Seasons 6, leading a purple army of Terrans. It is defeated by the end of the season, being replaced by the returning series BigBad, Derpfestor.



** BigBadDuumvirate: The seventh and final season sees the BigBad position is shared between the returning Derpfestor and the Obnoxious Executor, who underwent a FaceHeelTurn in season five.

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** BigBadDuumvirate: The seventh and final season sees the BigBad position is shared between the returning Derpfestor and the Obnoxious Executor, who underwent a FaceHeelTurn in season five.
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: It doesn't cover all of them, but Zergling and Ultralisks behave in ways quite similar to them.

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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: It doesn't cover all of them, but Zergling and Zergling, Ultralisks and Abathur's Ravagers in CooP behave in ways quite similar to them.
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* DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: InUniverse, the Protoss commander in episode 1 of season 3 is considered this.
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* MostAnnoyingSound: The Protoss commander in episode 1 of season 3 is considered this in universe.

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* MostAnnoyingSound: The DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound: InUniverse, the Protoss commander in episode 1 of season 3 is considered this in universe.this.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Derpfestor started life as a nameless infestor, but from Season 3 onward is now the recurring BigBad.
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* BadassFingersnap: A High Templar does this while casting Feedback on an Overseer, saving a fellow Dark Templar from certain death.
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** BigBadDuumvirate: The seventh and final season sees the BigBad position is shared between the returning Derpfestor and the Obnoxious Executor, who underwent a FaceHeelTurn in season five.

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* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:As Bob dies, he repeats one last time "My... life... for... Aiur..."]]



* HonorBeforeReason: When the alliance of the Blue Terrans and the Purple Zerg approach the Teal Protoss with an offer for them to join them against the overwhelming power of the Red team, Bob furiously tears up their offer and drives Crackhead away before giving the remaining Protoss forces a RousingSpeech and leading them in a rage-fueled suicidal attack. [[spoiler:This time it actually gets him killed.]]



** [[spoiler:Bob [[ADeathInTheLimelight finally pushes his too far]] in [[MeaningfulName "My Life For Aiur"]].]]



* RousingSpeech: Parodied in "My Life For Aiur", where Bob gives one of these to the surviving Protoss forces which just consists of him screaming incoherently at the top of his lungs with blood in his eyes. DoubleSubverted when it moves the Protoss so much it brings them to tears and they all follow him into the jaws of death itself.



* TakingTheBullet: Defied in "CyclOwned", where Bob the Zealot tries to block the cyclone's rockets from assailing his team's Nexus, but the game's mechanics causes them to miss him.

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* TakingTheBullet: Defied in "CyclOwned", [="CyclOwned"=], where Bob the Zealot tries to block the cyclone's rockets from assailing his team's Nexus, but the game's mechanics causes them to miss him.

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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxBdTrz--8 A total graphical overhaul]] of Starcraft 2 into the art style of Star Crafts is now available on the Starcraft 2 Arcade.

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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxBdTrz--8 A total graphical overhaul]] of Starcraft 2 into the art style of Star Crafts is now available on the Starcraft 2 Arcade.
Arcade. Blizzard has also released ''[[https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/starcraft-cartooned StarCraft: Cartooned]]'', a GameMod for ''VideoGame/StarCraft Remastered'' that renders the entire game in Carbot style.



* EdibleAmmunition: "Got 99 Probelems" shows a Probe assaulting a floating barracks by throwing cheese at it. A few episodes later, "Core Values" takes a more brutal approach by depicting an SCV ''shoving'' a piece of cheese on an enemy Probe's "eye" and squeezes it.
** It gets even funnier considering "cheesing" is an etymology in VideoGame/StarCraft describing the techniques featured in said episodes.

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* EdibleAmmunition: "Got 99 Probelems" shows a Probe assaulting a floating barracks by throwing cheese at it. A few episodes later, "Core Values" takes a more brutal approach by depicting an SCV ''shoving'' a piece of cheese on an enemy Probe's "eye" and squeezes it.
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it. Note that "cheesing" is an etymology a fanspeak term in VideoGame/StarCraft describing the techniques featured in said episodes.



* WaterIsAir: Season 6. Although some terran characters have some sort of mechanism in their suits that allow them to breathe and the protoss don't breathe air through mouths, it still can't be explained why the zerg can still survive underwater and how some machinery can still work.

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* WaterIsAir: Season 6. Although some terran characters have some sort of mechanism in their suits that allow them to breathe and the protoss don't breathe air through mouths, it still can't be explained why the zerg can still survive underwater (although that can be {{handwave}}d by them evolving gills or something, [[LegoGenetics because the Zerg probably could do that if they tried]]) and how some machinery can still work.



* ZergRush: Of course. Parodied in "ZvsZ" where the swarmhosts just unleash an endless wave of locusts that lasts ''several episodes.''

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* ZergRush: Of course. Parodied in "ZvsZ" "[=ZvsZ=]" where the swarmhosts Swarm Hosts just unleash an endless wave of locusts Locusts that lasts ''several episodes.''
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For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to WebAnimation/WowCraft or WebAnimation/HeroStorm. There's also a currently fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled 'Underwatched' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, '[=DiabLoL=]'.

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For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to WebAnimation/WowCraft ''WebAnimation/WowCraft'' or WebAnimation/HeroStorm. ''WebAnimation/HeroStorm.'' There's also a currently fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled 'Underwatched' ''Underwatched'' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, '[=DiabLoL=]'.
''[=DiabLoL=]''.
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** One episode has a Zerg hive being raided by Hellions... riding on other Hellions. Every time one of them got shot off their mount, [[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie They would both transform and switch places]]. The third time it happened, they straight up played the Transforming sound effect.

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** One episode has a Zerg hive being raided by Hellions... riding on other Hellions. Every time one of them got shot off their mount, [[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie They would both transform and switch places]]. The third time it happened, they straight up played the Transforming sound effect.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: As cute as the animation is, it's still a war game, so many units (including the cute Zerg and the human Terrans) are killed in each episode. Some deaths, such as dissolving in Baneling acid or being impaled through the head by the spike on a Nexus, are especially gruesome.
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For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to WebAnimation/WowCraft or WebAnimation/HeroStorm. There's also a currently fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled 'Underwatched' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, 'Diablols'.

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For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to WebAnimation/WowCraft or WebAnimation/HeroStorm. There's also a currently fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled 'Underwatched' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, 'Diablols'.
'[=DiabLoL=]'.
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** It gets even funnier considering "cheesing" is an etymology in StarCraft describing the techniques featured in said episodes.

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** It gets even funnier considering "cheesing" is an etymology in StarCraft VideoGame/StarCraft describing the techniques featured in said episodes.



** The ending of Season 3's finale shows a chase scene involving Bob the Ragelot, Sgt. Patches, Crackhead and an SCV where the Terran theme for StarCraftI is played in the background. Guess in what game would season 4 take place?

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** The ending of Season 3's finale shows a chase scene involving Bob the Ragelot, Sgt. Patches, Crackhead and an SCV where the Terran theme for StarCraftI VideoGame/StarCraft is played in the background. Guess in what game would season 4 take place?



* TimeTravel: The premise of season 4 is that the four StarCraft 2 Terran units from season three's finale have somehow ended up in the Brood War era StarCraft.

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* TimeTravel: The premise of season 4 is that the four StarCraft 2 VideoGame/StarCraftII Terran units from season three's finale have somehow ended up in the Brood War era StarCraft.VideoGame/StarCraft.



** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in StarCraft I)

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** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in StarCraft I)VideoGame/StarCraft)
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For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to WebAnimation/WowCraft or WebAnimation/HeroStorm. There's also a currently fledging and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled 'Underwatched'.

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For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to WebAnimation/WowCraft or WebAnimation/HeroStorm. There's also a currently fledging fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled 'Underwatched'.
'Underwatched' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, 'Diablols'.

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* OverlyLongGag: The [[MookMaker Swarm Host]] battle at the end of Season 3, Episode 10. To wit: the battle goes on for half a minute and continues as the ending screen comes up... and is still going as the ending screen disappears after about a minute. Then it goes on for '''five more minutes after that'''. And it's '''still going''' several episodes later.

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* OverlyLongGag: The [[MookMaker Swarm Host]] battle at the end of Season 3, Episode 10. To wit: the battle goes on for half a minute and continues as the ending screen comes up... and is still going as the ending screen disappears after about a minute. Then it goes on for '''five more minutes after that'''. (For reference, episodes usually only last a minute and a half to two minutes.) And it's '''still going''' several episodes later.



* PistolWhipping: It's not uncommon for Marines to use their Gauss rifles as bludgeoning tools.
* PlotArmor: The MauveShirt characters get to survive things that would kill regular units several times over. A particularly blatant example occurs in "Colossal Mistake", where Patches and Crackhead (the two recurring Marines) are the only survivors of a Disruptor bomb that blows up an entire clump of Marines.



** The marine's [[BFG gauss rifles]] generally automatic fire that doesn't do much more than smart, but have been seen at times to fire a single shot capable of going right through a man.

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** The marine's [[BFG [[{{BFG}} gauss rifles]] generally automatic fire that doesn't do much more than smart, but have been seen at times to fire a single shot capable of going right through a man.
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* AssShove: A raven in "Spineless Coward" launches a missile at a queen straight at her behind where she poops out creep for the fleeing spine crawler.
-->'''Raven''': Systems primed. (Naughtily squints its "eyes")

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* TakingTheBullet: Defied in "CyclOwned", where Bob the Zealot tries to block the cyclone's rockets from assailing his team's Nexus, but the game's mechanics causes them to miss him. There is probably [[PlotArmor]] going on.

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* TakingTheBullet: Defied in "CyclOwned", where Bob the Zealot tries to block the cyclone's rockets from assailing his team's Nexus, but the game's mechanics causes them to miss him.
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** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in [[Starcraft StarCraftI]])
** Season 5: [[SpaceZone]]

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** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in [[Starcraft StarCraftI]])
StarCraft I)
** Season 5: [[SpaceZone]]SpaceZone

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* TakingTheBullet: Defied in "CyclOwned", where Bob the Zealot tries to block the cyclone's rockets from assailing his team's Nexus, but the game's mechanics causes them to miss him. There is probably [[PlotArmor]] going on.



** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in StarCraftI)
** Season 5: FloatingContinent/SpaceZone

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** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in StarCraftI)
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** Season 5: FloatingContinent/SpaceZone[[SpaceZone]]
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** Season 5: FloatingContinent

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** Season 5: FloatingContinentFloatingContinent/SpaceZone
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: If there happen to be the four terran infantry units together in one scene: Marine(sanguine), Reaper(choleric), Marauder(phlegmatic), and Ghost(melancholic)
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** The ending of Season 3's finale shows a chase scene involving Bob the Ragelot, Sgt. Patches, Crackhead and an SCV where the Terran theme for StarCraftI is played in the background. Guess in what game would season 4 take place?


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* WaterIsAir: Season 6. Although some terran characters have some sort of mechanism in their suits that allow them to breathe and the protoss don't breathe air through mouths, it still can't be explained why the zerg can still survive underwater and how some machinery can still work.
** Subverted in "Hellfired", where a group of hellions tries to assault a pack of zerg, only for their flamethrowers to not work. Double Subverted later on where a stalker attacks a barracks until it emits fire due to damage.
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** Season 2: LethalLavaLand

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** Season 2: LethalLavaLandLethalLavaLand (ConvectionSchmonvection applies here)



** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again)

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** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again)(again, but it takes place in StarCraftI)



** Season 6: UnderTheSea (cue SuperNotDrowningSkills apply here)

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** Season 6: UnderTheSea (cue SuperNotDrowningSkills and WaterIsAir apply here)

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* EldritchAbomination: The Zerg Overmind and then Season 3's Zerg Hatchery.

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* EdibleAmmunition: "Got 99 Probelems" shows a Probe assaulting a floating barracks by throwing cheese at it. A few episodes later, "Core Values" takes a more brutal approach by depicting an SCV ''shoving'' a piece of cheese on an enemy Probe's "eye" and squeezes it.
** It gets even funnier considering "cheesing" is an etymology in StarCraft describing the techniques featured in said episodes.
* EldritchAbomination: The Zerg Overmind and then Season 3's Zerg Hatchery.
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* VideogameSetting: Every season has one.
** Season 1: GreenHillZone
** Season 2: LethalLavaLand
** Season 3: ShiftingSandLand
** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again)
** Season 5: FloatingContinent
** Season 6: UnderTheSea (cue SuperNotDrowningSkills apply here)

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