History Awesome / StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid

** It also serves as a complete counterpoint to how the Protoss began their struggle against the threat Amon presented in the original campaign, being divided among themselves as the Conclave would rather watch the Protoss fight fruitlessly against the Overmind and go into a civil war as a final desperate attack is committed by Tassadar just to buy Artanis and his people some time to survive and find refuge in the lands of their enemy only for their divisions to cause a second bloody civil war that resulted in the deaths of Fenix, Raszagal and Aldaris. Here they are more united than ever against the Zerg and Amon's forces and they will win and be free from Amon's control

** It's a gigantic[[note]]Official sources list it as 74 kilometers long. For comparison, the Zerg Leviathans Kerrigan used in Heart of the Swarm are between 7-10 km long.[[/note]] Arkship designed at the height of Protoss civilization, housing a legion of that age's greatest warriors and cultural minds who voluntarily left behind everything they knew to be put into stasis aboard it. Why? Because the ancient Protoss who built it ''had the foresight to realize their GoldenAge might not last'', and that instead of just [[HeadInTheSandManagement resting on their laurels]] their entire lives, they should do everything in their power to give their descendants a fighting chance even in the absolute darkest of times.
** How advanced were the ancient Protoss? Take one look at the Spear of Adun's power core and you'll know. It's a bona-fide DysonSphere around a ''synthetic'' star. The ancient Protoss were so advanced that they could ''build'' miniature stars to harvest energy from, and given how Protoss "eat" sunlight for nourishment, this means it can also sustain the entire Arkship's population with its light

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0kcHS0Tcu0 This scene]] as Artanis is about to overload the Xel-Naga Temple of Shakuras resulting in blowing it up is pretty awesome itself. After he overloads the temple, a bunch of Zerg overrun him. He manages to take them on, but he gets buried under a pile of Zerglings. He then channels Dark Templar energy to take out the rest of the Zerg right before the explosion occurs, with even an UnflinchingWalk occurring. Artanis gets warped out fortunately.

** That ''"But none of us are ever truly alone."'' line above? That gets spoken after Artanis is buried under the pile of Zerglings, and it ends with him re-igniting his psi-blades ''through the skulls of two Zerglings'' before hurling the entire pile away. And he follows that by annihilating the remaining Zerg with a gigantic psionic storm. RankScalesWithAsskicking indeed.
* Kerrigan gets an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome in the Xel'naga Temple on Ulnar. While she's shown struggling against a single hybrid, she later mentions that she's been fighting them for days. Kerrigan is now so powerful that the Hybrid, a race that canonically annihilates all opposition in their path and against whom the best solution before they can annihilate your entire army is the liberal, concentrated application of heavy firepower, are reduced to throwing as many Hybrid at the Queen of Blades as possible in order to wear her down through attrition and hope that, eventually, one of them gets lucky. Essentially the Hybrid were reduced to doing a ZergRush on the Queen of the Zerg.

--> “You stood alone, as dark templar, risking your life for the many. You have walked as we have. You have walked the shadowed path already Artanis. You no longer have the Khala. You, are dark templar.”
** That ''"But none of us are ever truly alone."'' line above? That gets spoken after Artanis is buried under the pile of Zerglings, and it ends with him re-igniting his psi-blades ''through the skulls of two Zerglings'' before hurling the entire pile away. And he follows that by annihilating the remaining Zerg with a gigantic psionic storm. AuthorityEqualsAsskicking indeed.

---> '''Alarak''': Tal'darim! [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority By the Rite of Rak'shir, I am your Highlord!]] Listen and obey! Ma'lash promised you lies. There is no ascension. The Tal'darim will never be uplifted and become hybrid. Amon betrayed us, and for this, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis He. Must. Die!]]

* Even in the Prologue, Talis, a praetor who we only know for a short time, launches into a [[YouShallNotPass You Shall Not Pass]] against the masses of Tal'darim and hybrid so Zeratul could escape the temple and go on to save their people before making a presumed [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]], and as she does, in true, badass Protoss fashion, Talis looses a massive "[[BattleCry FOR AIUR!]]", which almost blew out this troper's speakers.

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* While indeed the whole game itself presents an entire arsenal of awesome moments, it is even noteworthy that it brought back [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic several Protoss themes]] from the first game in their remastered form.
* 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.").
* In melee, many units got improved, some with a touch of GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** The Battlecruiser is now able to perform [[WarpDrive tactical jumps]] just like the Hyperion demonstrated in VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm! You don't even need vision on your destination to use it, and it makes the Battlecruiser ''much'' less of a risk to invest in.
** The Zerg Lurker made a return in [=LotV=] after returning in the Heart of the Swarm campaign, and now boasts a respectable siege range, plus bonus damage to armored targets, making it like a cross between the Impaler and Lurker from the aforementioned campaign.
** The Protoss Dark Templar gained the ability to blink once you research the upgrade, much like the Dark Templar hero Zeratul.
* In the ''Legacy of the Void'' campaign, Raynor laments the men he lost assembling the Keystone/Xel'Naga Artifact. However, a player set out to show that with much difficulty, you can beat the gameplay portions of ''VideoGame/WingsOfLiberty'' with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMlvGhwX8y8 zero losses]].
** Same player went on to not only [[VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm dismantle Mengsk's entire empire]] without [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEevZBb6kY losing so much as a broodling]], but also rendered the Protoss BattleCry of 'My Life For Aiur' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRfPyKpRbM entirely moot]].
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-->'''Artanis''': "My brethren, hear me! [[DarkestHour For there is little time left]]. [[TheRemnant All that remains of our race, of our civilization, are those that stand beside you now]][[MindControl and those corrupted on the surface below]]. [[HigherTechSpecies Our kind once stood as stewards of a galaxy full of promise]]. In our pride and division, we failed that sacred charge and [[DyingRace fell to ruin]]. The Khala, designed to bring unity, ultimately only aided those divisions. Its hope was a lie. Today, that lie must come to its end, And with it, our [[CantArgueWithElves prejudice and arrogance]] must become a thing of the past. [[RousingSpeech For we now fight in the belief that our kind has not seen its end. That we Protoss can stand bound by a belief in unity. And that we Protoss can forge a mighty new civilization]]. [[FireForgedFriends Trust each other in the fight ahead]]. [[BackToBackBadasses Strike as one will]]! [[RousingSpeech Let our]] LastStand [[DefiantToTheEnd burn a memory so bright that we will be known throughout eternity]]"

** It is capable of manufacturing everything the Protoss can think of in such a scale that you won't even notice it when Shakuras is blown up. All those structures you wre warping in which were originally built on Aiur for quick deployment, and then in Shakuras? After the latter is blown up, only the Spear of Adun remains; and it is capable of rivaling the construction of an entire planet's worth of HigherTechSpecies engineers.

** Nova's first prestige, Soldier of Fortune, finally enables her to field a large army: more specifically, although her maximum supply remains the same, she can now pick one part of her tech tree and massively speed up production from it, at the cost of slowing down everything else even further. She can now choose to lead a full company of elite infantry, an army of vehicles, or a massive squadron of starships and planes.

** Alarak's third prestige, Shadow of Death, is the most extreme example: For a small price, you can call in the Tal'darim Mothership that stays with you throughout the rest of the game, and even better yet, said mothership can actually build Destroyers. After all these years of being mocked as the Death Taxi for its underwhelming firepower, the Death Fleet has finally become the ultimate weapon that truly deserves its grandiose name. His second prestige, Tyrant Ascendant, while overshadowed by the Shadow of Death, is not something to be taken lightly either; at the cost of the ability to summon the Death Fleet, it halves the cooldown of Empower Me, which lets Alarak draw on the strength of his (and his ally's) army, turning his abilities into a true force of destruction. The near complete loss of mobility is a surprisingly small cost when your slow army can nearly instantly tear down anything it comes into contact with and grind the rubble into dust.

* The first mission in the main campaign involves the Protoss going all-out in reclaiming Aiur, in all its suitably epic glory. Granted it doesn't last long, due to Amon corrupting the Khala, but nonetheless you catch a glimpse of the Protoss at their best even for a relatively brief moment. Made especially awesome by this mission blowing the opening missions of the other campaigns straight out of the water in terms of sheer scale. ''Wings'' had Raynor and a squad of Marines performing minor sabotage, and ''Heart'' had Kerrigan derailing Valerian's lab experiment. ''Legacy'' instead opens with ''a huge Protoss army sweeping across the surface of Aiur, destroying everything in their path''.

** How advanced were the ancient Protoss? Take one look at the Spear of Adun's power core and you'll know. It's a bona-fide DysonSphere around a ''synthetic'' star. The ancient Protoss were so advanced that they could ''build'' miniature stars to harvest energy from, and given how Protoss 'eat' sunlight for nourishment, this means it can also sustain the entire Arkship's population with its light
** It is capable of manufacturing everything the Protoss can think of in such a scale that you won't even notice it when Shakuras is blown up. Remember: 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 rivaling the construction of an entire planet's worth of HigherTechSpecies engineers.

** The Spear of Adun is MadeOfIndestructium. This is a vessel capable of going up against multiple ambushing Terran battlecruisers and coming out victorious looking only a little worse for wear. Only the ''entire'' Golden Armada ramming it does any meaningful damage, but even ''that'' was still repairable (The vessel is back in shape in the epilogue campaign).

* The first mission in the main campaign involves the Protoss going all-out in reclaiming Aiur, in all its suitably epic glory. Granted it doesn't last long, due to Amon corrupting the Khala]], but nonetheless you catch a glimpse of the Protoss at their best even for a relatively brief moment. Made especially awesome by this mission blowing the opening missions of the other campaigns straight out of the water in terms of sheer scale. ''Wings'' had Raynor and a squad of Marines performing minor sabotage, and ''Heart'' had Kerrigan derailing Valerian's lab experiment. ''Legacy'' instead opens with ''a huge Protoss army sweeping across the surface of Aiur, destroying everything in their path''.

For the original ''[=StarCraft=]'', see [[Awesome/StarCraftI here]].

For ''Wings of Liberty'', see [[Awesome/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty here]].

For ''Heart Of The Swarm'', see [[Awesome/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm here]].

!!Trailers and pre-release cinematics

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!!Meta

** Same player went on to not only [[VideoGame/HeartOfTheSwarm dismantle Mengsk's entire empire]] without [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEevZBb6kY losing so much as a broodling]], but also rendered the Protoss BattleCry of 'My Life For Auir' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZRfPyKpRbM entirely moot]].