History Trivia / Starcraft

** Fighters (wraiths, scouts, and mutas) would swoop and bank, with beautiful contrails trailing behind them as they fought. You can probably guess why that was cut, as nice as it looked.

** Mutalisks used to spit acid instead of glaive wurms.
** The zerg hatchery already was going to upgrade itself in 3 tiers, but it looked like a big tumor with long tusks randomly peppered around it instead of a castle made out of meat. It also always had that very unfortunste-looking orifice in the middle. At one point, the Hatchery used the Lair sprite and the Lair used the queen's nest sprite. The Spore Colony used the Evolution Chamber sprite.
** The Spire was called the "Scoria."
** Scourges couldn't be spawned by themselves, they popped out of dying Guardians and were called "Avengers." They were also dominated by a huge, gaping maw and a pair of worm-like appendages, similar to wings.

** A structure called the "Weapons Plant" was present, and used the Engineering Bay sprite.

** Fighters (wraiths, scouts, and mutas) would swoop and bank, with beautiful contrails trailing behind them as they fought. You can probably guess why that was cut, as nice as it looked

** Hydralisks had a squid-like crest and {{Arm Cannon}}s.

** The zerg hatchery already was going to upgrade itself in 3 tiers, but it looked like a big tumor with long tusks randomly peppered around it instead of a castle made out of meat. It also always had that very unfortunste-looking orifice in the middle.

** The Science Vessel used to have cranes or claw arms coming out of the three pods on its base. It msy even have been a walker.
** Siege Tanks looked like something straight out of ''Command & Conquer.''

** Hives had fronds.

** Scourges couldn't be spawned by themselves, they popped out of dying Guardians and were called "Avengers."

** The Science Vessel used to have cranes or claw arms coming out of the three pods on its base.

** Marines were called "Marauders" and had a grenade launcher ability. Blizzard couldn't balance it, and it now only appears in cinematics. Another option Blizzard toyed with was to give them [[MoreDakka man-portable autocannons]] instead of assault rifles (incidentally, this could be why the "Infantry Weapons" button is a picture of a minigun).

** Marines were called "Marauders" and had a grenade launcher ability. Blizzard couldn't balance it, and it now only appears in cinematics. Another option Blizzard toyed with was to give them [[MoreDakka man-portable autocannons]] instead of assault rifles.

** Marines were called "Marauders" and had a grenade launcher. Blizzard couldn't balance the ability, and it now only appears in cinematics.

** The Goliath had a flamethrower and could aim its missiles at ground targets. This was considered too much firepower for one unit, so the flamethrower became its own unit-the Firebat. The sprite was also thought to be too skinny, and was bulked up a bit.

** The Goliath had a flamethrower and could aim its missiles at ground targets. This was considered too mu h firepower for one unit, so the flamethrower became its own unit-the Firebat.

* {{Trope Namer|s}}: The ''Franchise/StarCraft'' series is the TropeNamer for:

* {{Vaporware}}: ''Starcraft: Ghost''.

* CreatorsPet: Blizzard loves Nova. She's repeatedly emphasized to be one of the most powerful Ghost agents in history, with psionic powers rivaling Kerrigan before her infestation and completing training in a record two and a half years; she received two novels and a graphic novel series focusing on her; and she features in ''Starcraft II'' in cameos that serve no real purpose except to have her in the game, then is the focus of the trilogy's first mission pack. Yet for all the attention Blizzard gives her, fans have a lukewarm reception and don't care for her.

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* CreatorsPet: Blizzard loves Nova. She's repeatedly emphasized to be one of the most powerful Ghost agents in history, with psionic powers rivaling Kerrigan before her infestation, she received two novels and a graphic novel series focusing on her, and features in ''Starcraft II'' in cameos that serve no real purpose except to have her in the game. Yet for all the attention Blizzard gives her, fans have a lukewarm reception and don't care for her.

* CreatorsPet: Blizzard loves Nova. She's repeatedly emphasized to be one of the most powerful Ghost agents in history, with psionic powers rivaling Kerrigan before her infestation, she received two novels and a graphic novel series focusing on her, and features in ''Starcraft II'' in cameos that serve no real purpose except to have her in the game, and for all the attention Blizzard gives her, fans have a lukewarm reception and don't care for her.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: competitive ''Starcraft'' is absolutely dominated by South Koreans. Of the ten most successful tournament players in the world (as measured in dollars earned via tournament play), only one of them is a "foreigner"--that is, a player who grew up outside Korea. It's something of a RiteOfPassage now for a foreign player to defeat a Korean in tournament play.
* NovelizationFirst: ''Starcraft: Ghost'' had a {{prequel}} novelization called "Nova", which was released in 2006, and was supposed to come out simultaneously with the game. The proper novelization called "Spectres" didn't come out until early 2011. And both are apparently canon, given the events of Nova's cameo.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: competitive ''Starcraft'' is absolutely dominated by South Koreans. Of the ten most successful tournament players in the world (as measured in dollars earned), only one of them is a "foreigner"--that is, a player who grew up outside Korea. It's something of a RiteOfPassage now for a foreign player to defeat a Korean in tournament play.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: competitive ''Starcraft'' is absolutely dominated by South Koreans. If you hear an e-sports commentator refer to a player as a "foreigner," they don't mean that he grew up in Korea--they mean he grew up ''outside'' Korea.