History TearJerker / StarcraftIIWingsOfLiberty

* The flashback where we have to watch Mengsk's betrayal of Kerrigan from her perspective, literally the exact dialogue from the first game. Surrounded by zerg, her team all dead, running out of energy and ammo and backed into a corner as she slowly realises that help isn't coming. We watch her break and she just stands there as the zerg finally catch up to her, resigned to her death.

--> '''Artanis''': Kerrigan... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone How could we have known]]?

--> ''"[[spoiler:I had a brother on Tarsonis, I had a brother....]]"''
* From the next-to-last cinematic: [[AuthorExistenceFailure M. Koiter]].[[note]]For those who don't know, Michael Koiter was an artist working at Blizzard on both VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft and Starcraft II. He died at 19 of heart failure.[[/note]] From a Wastonian perspective, Private Koiter was from Mar Sara, meaning that he was one of the colonists you liberated in the very first mission of the game, but didn't make it to the end.
* Though you may have had a pretty good idea that something like it would happen, you probably still felt bad when [[spoiler:Raynor had to kill Tychus to defend deinfested Kerrigan]].
** And to make the matter worse[[spoiler:, this could all be Tychus consciously deciding that [[SuicideByCop it's better to die by Raynor's hands than to give Mengsk that satisfaction]].]]
*** It becomes very obvious [[RewatchBonus on a repeat playthrough]] that [[spoiler:his expression when he asks Horner "You tellin' me they were shacked up?" isn't surprise, it's ''horror''. Tychus realized right then this wasn't a matter of just convincing Raynor to get the artifacts and then doing his job at the end, and he spends the whole game trying to convince Jim that Kerrigan needs to die, so they won't cross each other at the end. To no avail.]]

** And then, after Protoss are destroyed, Amon [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness destroys]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Zerg.]] All three playable races are wiped now...
* The reason Infested Terrans have timed life. [[spoiler: it's how long it takes them to work up enough HeroicWillpower to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves.]]]]

* From the next-to-last cinematic: [[AuthorExistenceFailure M. Koiter]].[[note]]For those who don't know, Michael Koiter was an artist working at Blizzard on both WorldOfWarcraft and Starcraft II. He died at 19 of heart failure.[[/note]] From a Wastonian perspective, Private Koiter was from Mar Sara, meaning that he was one of the colonists you liberated in the very first mission of the game, but didn't make it to the end.

* The flashback where we have to watch Mengsk's betrayal of Kerrigan from her perspective, literally the exact dialogue from the first game. Surrounded by zerg, her team all dead, running out of energy and ammo and backed into a corner as she slowly realises that help isn't coming. We watch her break and she just stands there as the zerg finally catch up to her, resigned to her death.

** And then, after Protoss are destroyed, Amon [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness destroyes]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Zerg.]] All three playable races are wiped now...

* The flashback where we have to watch Mengsk's betrayal of Kerrigan from her perspective. Surrounded by zerg, her team all dead, running out of energy and ammo and backed into a corner as she slowly realises that help isn't coming. We watch her break and she just stands there as the zerg finally catch up to her, resigned to her death.

** And then, after Protoss are destroyed, Amon [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness? destroyes]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Zerg.]] All three playable races are wiped now...

* The reason Infested Terrans have timed life. [[spoiler: it's how long it takes them to work up enough HeroicWillpower to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves.]]]]

* From the next-to-last cinematic: [[AuthorExistenceFailure M. Koiter]].[[note]]For those who don't know, Michael Koiter was an artist working at Blizzard on both WorldOfWarcraft and Starcraft II. He died at 19 of heart failure.[[/note]]

** And to make the matter worse[[spoiler:, this could all be Tychus consciously deciding that [[SuicideByCop it's better to die by Raynor's hands than to give Mengsk the satisfaction]].]]

* Donny's breakdown. All the more compelling because up to that point Donny had been carrying water of Mengsk like it was going out of style, and even Kate, who would normally jump at any chance to get back at Donny for being a dickhead to her for the majority of the story, chooses not to rub this one in his face[[spoiler: when he realizes that his loss of family on Tarsonis is apparently made possible by Mengsk as well]]:

* Donny's breakdown. All the more compelling because up to that point Donny had been carrying water of Mengsk like it was going out of style, and even Kate, whom Donny has been an asshole to for the majority of the story, chooses not to rub this one in his face[[spoiler: when he realizes that his loss of family on Tarsonis is apparently made possible by Mengsk as well]]:

--> '''Artanis''': Kerrigan... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone How could we have known]]?

* Donny's breakdown. All the more compelling because up to that point Donny had been carrying water of Mengsk like it was going out of style, and even Kate, whom Donny has been an asshole to for the majority of the story, chooses not to rub this one in his face[[spoiler: when he realizes that Mengsk is responsible for his loss of family on Tarsonis]]:

* Donny's breakdown. All the more compelling because up to that point Donny had been carrying water of Mengsk like it was going out of style, and even Kate, whom Donny has been an asshole to for the majority of the story, chooses not to rub this one in his face.
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* Donny's breakdown. All the more compelling because up to that point Donny had been carrying water of Mengsk like it was going out of style, and even Kate, whom Donny has been an asshole to for the majority of the story, chooses not to rub it in his face.

* Donny's breakdown. All the more compelling because up to that point Donny had been carrying water of Mengsk like it was going out of style:

* The entirety of ''In Utter Darkness'', with the Terrans technically extinct and the Protoss holding out in their last base, thanks to all that hammy dialogue. The thought that you must technically lose (let the Zerg destroy your troops and base) once the Archive is sealed and the Zerg kill counter has reached 1500 to win didn't help either.

* From the next-to-last cinematic: [[AuthorExistenceFailure M. Koiter]].[[hottip:*:For those who don't know, Michael Koiter was an artist working at Blizzard on both WorldOfWarcraft and Starcraft II. He died at 19 of heart failure.]]