Kerrigan vs Narud - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Cinematic

[@ПророкМухоед]

"I'm everything you lost...I'm everything you never had" -- this phrase always gets me. Very deep.

[@yudelkisacosta547]

Es de los diálogos más épicos que se tiraron en el juego

[@zes7215]

wrgg

[@nolanstockwell2896]

"I am everything you never had" -Narud talking about starcraft: Ghosts

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Still too soon....😭

[@mateorivera2323]

narud premium user

[@nolanstockwell2896]

Well that escalated quickly.

[@skykiller5081]

+Nolan Stockwell Wasn't Starcraft: Ghosts about Nova?

[@alok3883]

+Nolan Stockwell narud is duran, it is flip flop name

[@Luxai]

That symbolism at the end though. Everything you once were... everything you clung to... it's dead, and all you can do it moving on. Life isn't over, even when your past is dead. It can go on, and you can survive.

[@samusaran13372]

you 15 years old and think this is deep? sloppy writing. sc1 story >>>>

[@Luxai]

@@samusaran13372 I'm 34, how old are you, son?

[@MrRepoman197]

Man I like this scene. Kerrigan became the primal queen of blades with amazing power and yet she was only barely able to kill Narud here! She almost died in the process!

[@garammaru3272]

Samir Duran/Emil Narud is Xel'naga, the race with vast psionic abilities. Though Duran/Narud was definitely lower tier compare to Xel'naga of Amon or Ouros level caliber but I'd say his power is still stronger than at least Ulrezaj. Also, we should remember what Kerrigan fought was just a puppet. Duran/Narud's real body was at the Void all along. It is possible considering that body was just an avatar, it could've been weaker compared to his real strength. I think Xel'naga temple amplified connection between the avatar and real body in the Void. Perhaps that's why he said to Kerrigan "You know nothing about Xel'naga." Maybe he meant, compared to his real strength, Primal Queen of the Blades (at this point, Kerrigan's Psi Index is at least 14~15, thus other than Ulerzaj or Tassadar and Adun with power of Twilight, there shouldn't be any character who can fight her equally in direct combat) is still inferior to lower tier Xel'naga like himself.

[@AvatarWanTV]

As a huge StarCraft fan, I love this story line so far. It's amazing.

[@SupremeFFS]

Avatar Wan Nice name.

[@AvatarWanTV]

L3ndzo83 It's totally subjective. I think you're still nostalgic about the first Starcraft 1. Nothing wrong with that. SC1 was very brutal and I loved it. But in my opinion, I just loved the backstory of how the Zergs began. The PRIMAL ZERGS were the pure one. They were eluded and remained independent constantly evolving creatures. The Zergs you miss are the corrupted ones. Kerrigan enters the primordial spawning pool and transforms into a primal Queen of Blades, having full control over her will. Now that's a pretty epic story. If you don't agree, the least you can do is agree to disagree.

[@PabloYaos]

Avatar Wan Yeah honestly I cannot see how you could possibly say that on a worst place that as a comment to this video. They chose to reunite everyone that Duran has wronged, but not to mention Duran by name just so that newcomers don't feel lost in the new lore. That is one of my main gripe with the new story, the other one being... Well, many things, but first and foremost the horrible, terrible writing. I will take a leap and say the whole "overmind is a good guy and kerrigan was a solution to a problem" might have been a somewhat decent story to explore, but it's so. badly. presented, that it didn't convinced any of the fans of the first game. Thing is I think the presentation of the story is EVEN WORSE than the story itself, and many fails to see that.

[@malikkarolina951]

I agree with you. )Altough I have never played Starcraft 1) I thing the plot of WoL and HotS are amazing. 😀

[@SupremeFFS]

Karolina Malik Same, I'm sure LOTV will probably be the best one to end it with.

[@OnlyDeathIsEternal]

I expected Narud to turn into Duran for a few secs to make it more personal, I think Blizz missed a chance here.

[@DarknessIsThePath]

Righteous Act He could be resurrected you know, his body is still there...

[@OnlyDeathIsEternal]

NC Quadraxis If Amon cares about his followers.

[@DarknessIsThePath]

Righteous Act True, perhaps the Taldarim might have the technology too if they too care that is...

[@OnlyDeathIsEternal]

NC Quadraxis I do not think the protoss have the technology to resurrect dead.

[@musbnuts1084]

+Righteous Act they did res fenix once with a dragoon

[@Kcimor78]

Kerrigan is like a dream girl, they way shes a galactic monster but she loves and talks so sweet to Jim, shes and angel near him but devil everywhere else.

[@josephcox98]

Kerrigan: evolved to be better than any other Zerg, is equipped with high heels

[@cainyourkids]

+Zagara The Gamer Well the Queen Bitch of the Universe has got to keep up with the latest trends, y'know

[@josephcox98]

+Darth Kenji next thing we know, Artanis is gonna be taking selfies and Raynor will be doing the whip

[@cainyourkids]

Haha. I can imagine Raynor now. "Watch me whip, watch me shoot a dozen Dominion assholes." Zeratul would be that Instagram guy who posts too many sentimental, Tumblr-ish crap.

[@josephcox98]

+Darth Kenji XD lol

[@alok3883]

+Darth Kenji fucking LOL, i can not stop laughing hahahaa

[@allenkim96]

Watching this clip again, I am still amazed at the cinematic quality of it. The facial expressions, the emotions, the surreal nature of the doppleganger Narud, all of it is at the level of Hollywood, and perhaps even better given some of the crap that we see in theaters these days. Blizzard, just start making full-length feature films already.

[@dawsonoo7]

one of the best cutscenes! I only wish he would have shapeshifted once into Samir Duran so we'd see him and maybe hear his old voice one more time "So be it!"

[@ezrabraman6437]

Agreed

[@JerkyMurky]

I never really thought about how symbolic it is, Zerg Sarah killing the Human Sarah (Narud) is sarah killing off the last human part of herself. She has to. the human part of sarah has to die for her to be able to do what is necessary in the end. Brilliantly written blizzard, as always.

[@Tazkar]

Actually she didn't, as the big difference between this Kerrigan Queen of Blades and the one the Overmind originally created is she still has a conscious, she can feel remorse for her actions which is a very unzerglike mentality. She demonstrates this remorse several times in the campaign.

[@Doncroft1]

I caught and appreciated the symbolism as well.

[@ravenandthecrow]

I actually love the story. It is much better than what we see in movies most of the time. Besides, had anyone been betrayed like Sara Kerrigan was, then zergified, turn into a king or queen of zergs while under the influence of an entity; then free by the only person the king of zerg or queen of zerg was in love then believe that the lover is dead killed by the a**hole who betrayed in the first place, I am pretty sure alot of people would of snapped after all this crap and go on a king or queen of zerg rampage.

[@vorval96]

I like to think that Blizz either didn't know what Narud should look like or were just to lazy to model a new high polygon entity so they made him a shapeshifter lol

[@joeyflubbermuffin7227]

what an incredible cinematic. This is truely on the level with those blizzard cinematics.

[@rozmarinideas5340]

It IS a blizzard cinematic. :)

[@elasolezito]

That Kerrigass though...

[@kranianus5559]

dem butts.

[@noragreen109]

She sashays up to her enemies

[@AquaLantern]

Amon's returning? Better call Korra :)

[@Michaelds18]

or a more competent avatar

[@AquaLantern]

She saves the world from darkness once (just like Aang), saves Republic City and all it's innocents 3 times, succeeds in bringing the spirits back to the world, stops a global terrorist organization, overthrew a tyrannical dictator, and helped bring back the Air Nomads from near-extinction, ALL while dealing with the worst possible life and enemies the world could possibly throw at her. I think she'd be perfect for the job ^_^

[@Alpharius180]

LordManda2 we need the Spess Marines

[@lukealvarez8359]

@@AquaLantern only Korra didn't fight a god and neither did Aang even the magical plot armor can't save Korra there

[@zoltanzsomi694]

Just to clarify it all:Amon is a selfish xel'naga who wants to reshape the world in his image,and the dark voice is an ancient beig inprisoned by the xel'naga in the void. Narud/Duran serves Amon, not the voice. The hybrid are needed because the xel'naga cant have kids the normal way, so they gifted 2 races with pureness(of form and essence) and make hybrids from them to create next generations of xel'naga . Amon and friends sped up this process, so the hybrid are much weaker than xel'naga

[@chicagoboy888]

Amon is the Dark Voice. The being that was imprisoned by the Xel' Naga in the void is The Voice in the Darkness. According to Blizzard, Dark Voice and Voice in the Darkness are two separate entities. The hybrid is something created exclusively by Amon and his followers, it's actually a bastardization of the Xel' Naga's process of finding two races to begin the next cycle. The Xel' Naga's process was supposed to have the two races merge naturally over a period of thousands of years, a non-invasive process in which they would simply awaken with the sentience and memories of the Xel'Naga becoming them. Amon's hybrids completely undermines the master plan of the other Xel'Naga.

[@kael13]

chicagoboy888 Which is an annoying and huge retcon of the original story given in Starcraft.

[@mgalds1427]

Okay, now first off for the people who are saying shit about SC2. if you didnt like it, don't play it. simple enough. also: for everyone who is saying "NARUD ISNT DURAN YOU DUMBshit HEAS A XEL NAGGHAH" There is evidence to them being the same entity. A) Narud is duran backwards and vice-versa. B) During brood wars, Duran talks to zeratul about the hybrids, and about how they are the end of a cicle, and the culmination of their history. During HoTS, Narud(The xel'naga we see later) is running a hybrid facility. C) Duran, during Brood wars is known as a "infested" terran that serves kerrigan. (even though he has no clear sign of infestion, he helps kerrigan on many things that would speed up the hybrid process.) D) if you didn't notice they are the same person by now, you have a problem.

[@Sammy102093]

Another thing to mention is in that secret Brood War chapter, Duran says he's an agent for a higher power

[@mgalds1427]

Yea.

[@lilchad961]

and we see a hybrid too x)

[@jimhuffman9434]

The only problem I have with SC2 is that it's missing the dark feel Starcraft and Brood War had

[@Chaffee738]

I always thought that giant worm thing was a leviathan tentacle: same as those slamming through the hull when you go to rescue Raynor. Either way it's so badass. It was strange to note that Stukov says nothing about Narud being one and the same as Duran. I believe he even mentions Duran once? But he never says Narud and Duran are the same entities. Even though Blizzard had pretty much confirmed it. Perhaps there's more to it than we had been speculating....

[@ezrabraman6437]

When you kill Marie for real in into the void stumps says “good night you son of a bitch” in reference to what duran said when he shot him, he also just talks about how much he hates narud, he probably doesn’t like to think about it because dying and being revived as a monster and experimented on is traumatic

[@ezrabraman6437]

Not Marie, narud autocorrect is retarded

[@FiftyStates5]

That's because the writing for this game was atrociously bad

[@lucassykim]

1:30 Now THAT'S what an ultimate from Kerrigan should look like instead of that stupid, useless Ultralisk.

[@lucassykim]

storm rider Did I ever say it wasn't? What I meant was I want one of Kerrigan's ultimate abilities in HotS to summon a Nydus Worm just like the video.

[@stormrider1663]

lucassykim sorry to be such a dick and yea that would be cool :)

[@xthor86]

storm rider Just use her other one ^^. Much better anyway hehe.

[@Titiantree]

nydus worm is zagara's ult

[@RandyOrlok]

+RPGUzbekistan fa g roleplayheaven found u here ahah

[@jimmyjager]

Holy fricking shiiiit!! Kerrigans just so unbeleiveable powerful it give me shivers.

[@mistersmiley9425]

Fucking Niadra better return in Legacy of the Void.

[@zachg3563]

Ikr

[@hybridxxl]

+NOD Gaming Im pretty sure hes dead

[@darksidelead]

A lot of minor heroes never made it to the final game.

[@mistersmiley9425]

I'm just happy they referenced her in one of the trailers.

[@gezaszenogrady2030]

+NOD Gaming She will get surely DLC

[@karlmeisner99]

It just occurred to me that: Narud = Duran spelled backwards

[@GreedSentinel]

Yep the one from SC 1, hate him for what he did for stukov

[@blacksnow7106]

Greed Sentinel and when you learned what he did for Stukov during the timeskip?

[@GreedSentinel]

StarCraft 1 - As Duran (naruD) - attack/killed Stukov... (at least when he was human)

[@kofola9145]

@@GreedSentinel It was no Duran, it was a shitty plot twist.

[@Nyrufa]

@@GreedSentinel What, made him unfathomably powerful? Abathur says that Stukov's modifications were second only to the Primal Queen of Blades in power. Meaning that Duran made Stukov even more powerful than Kerrigan was at the time she was evil!

[@WolfgerLion]

Kinda wished Narud was in the from of Duran more from SC1 so I would feel like they could have been more Betrayal Dialog of him and Kerrigan

[@AlienDark12]

Is Kerrigan hot or is it just me XD

[@pkjei]

definitely not infest kerrigan

[@derpherp9258]

No kerrigan is pretty hot

[@BuzzKirill3D]

Yeah, it's weird man. It's almost like her character was designed to look hot

[@Cro1232cro]

Nebuchadnezzaurus Yeah but they made the boobies look wierd :C

[@appstore7702]

العراق يعر يجيب مطر أبو هرارن كبير

[@Jaysnipes]

2:00 The transition to being pinned down. That psychic push that freezes Kerrigan in the air then the sound effect of the pisonic blade. Masterpiece.

[@4sim57]

also in the bonus mission he revels to zeratul that he has many names thourgh out the millenium. thus hinting that he could be a shapeshifter

[@jordanbush7605]

Why does everyone hate SC2 just because they threw in romance? Am I the only sucker for romance? And don't you EVER compare this to Twilight with their cardboard characters and shitty actors. SC2's voice actors are awesome and you'd be an idiot to say Raynor or Kerrigan don't have personality. Hah.

[@HowDyaYouLikeMeNow]

Romance in StarCraft? You probably like to eat ice cream on your burgers, too.

[@markiic]

Its not about romance, its about turning starcraft into another "the end is nigh, but prophecy told about savior so we must work tofether" type of story as opposed to "everybody for himself, free for all" type of deal which was in Brood War. Missed opportunities in place of a cookie cutter fantasy storyline in space setting

[@SCKronos]

What I think is BA, is Duran in that bonus mission says "For I have seeded the Hybrid on many, many worlds." And in the bonus mission for SC2, Raynor finds one of these laboratories on an asteroid, almost EXACTLY like the one Zeratul found.

[@orange3023]

1:40 kerrigan did a summoning jutsu :D

[@promero14]

i was quite dissapointed i didn't see duran's real form

[@newera478]

Actually Duran's human form is Emil Narud and trueform is shown in these episodes in SC2:HotS just before this cinematic.

[@mishiara5499]

still would be great to have seen it in this. After he died turning back to orgin form?

[@newera478]

Mikael Kvarnheden You mean Duran's body should have turned to look like his true form after he died? That actually would have been cool.

[@mishiara5499]

yeah thats what i ment :)

[@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin]

Mikael Kvarnheden I think the reason they didn't go with that is because the cinematic shot of near-death Kerrigan lying next to the dead body of her past self has WAAAAAAY to much dramatic value.

[@FuryOfTheSwarm]

many say SC! is better than SC2, until they go back and play the original. Nostalgia is always fun in memory,

[@KalvinEllis]

"Face me, Narud. It's over" That's a hero talk, Sarah. Don't hurt your image. lol

[@iHaveGrudgeAgainstUT]

bt she isnt the villain anymore, Hive-born Kerrigan and Primal Kerrigan have completely different personalities

[@thoranzalarvhazen4250]

Imagine if instead of dying someday, Jim Reynor actually just replaces Kerrigan and he becomes the first KING OF THE SWARM. I really like that idea honestly. A dark, corrupted version of ol'Jimmy. Cowboy Zerg.

[@TheRedtubeuser]

if you ever played the first starcraft, and its expansion. you would know its the same entity. especially if you played the secret lvl's. when duran is confronted by zeratul, he talks about working for a power older the Kerrigan.

[@angelusumbra5741]

Oh man, Narud REALLY screwed up when he wore Raynor's face. Get him Sarah. Destroy that filth.

[@Drkblaze484]

this cinematic is so good also the mission before this cinematic .... oh god I'd say it's even better than the final mission and the final cinematic

[@Ghostx339]

...great, now i wanna play heart of the swarm again... hate watching cinematics on youtube sometimes... -_-

[@Mangaman1100]

Yeah X3 I'm replaying HOTS again myself.

[@Keilink]

2:52 typical bug behaviour when dying x) Amazing cinematic .... Blizzard ~

[@JustSomeGuyInAChairIDunno]

Jesus, Blizzard fans really are the most whiny people out there aren't they? Never happy and when they find even the tiniest flaw in a game they pretend it's the end of the world ... Accept it people: this is a great game. (I know I'm generalizing here, but when I look at the comment section I can't help but feel this way)

[@thinhvo3893]

This game was overall great, people like to stick to their old game and think the original was the best.

[@TheVixalazio]

It's great if you can tolerate awful cheese , terrible characters or love shitty disney shlock.

[@NerdilyDone]

Words cannot express how much this cutscene hurts me.

[@ChrisHaastrup]

Oh.... i thought i was special, Figuring out that Duran is Narud, and that he is making Hybrids, all by myself

[@egalomon]

Yeah, I just realized it now... half a year after finishing the game. I am stupid. :D

[@ChrisHaastrup]

BW, or 2?

[@egalomon]

2. I never thought about Narud is backwards Duran. I mean, yeah, I remember him, being another Zerghumanthing, but I never thought about him as being the one in this cinematic :D

[@ChrisHaastrup]

Me neither, in BW i was just like. "OK i guess he's evil"

[@dawsonoo7]

What gave it away for me was the way he talked.. the echoing.. Duran talked teh same way when he revealed he's not human nor zerg.. when facing Zeratul at the end of Brood War.. then I realized the name was backwards.. would have been nice if they mentioned it in the game.. I mean Duran did "work" for Kerrigan for a while in BW.. she should remember him and realize who he is.

[@SAOAWDGMN1977]

9 battlecruisers,POWER OVERWHELMING

[@IhsaanS]

I don't remember this when playing Heart of the Swarm...

[@mikelankelo98]

I love those cinematics, i just wish they were longer :p

[@TheYoungWolfI]

As a huge StarCraft fan, I'm pretty disappointed with the story's quality, compared to SC1 and Brood War. So the one on one fight scene cinematics do little for me. I keep hoping for huge battle scenes, like the intro to Heart of the Swarm, but longer, or the intro to the cancelled SC Ghost. Imagine an army of zealots lining up for battle as overlords and zerlging can be seen approaching quickly in the distance. The battle could be long and desperate for the Protoss, but won by them with archons or colossi showing up just in time. I'm more curious to see what happens in Terran politics or a Protoss campaign (like a crusade) to win back Aiur and other planets. I don't care about Amon and the hybrids anymore. We all know what'll happen: flashy final fight, Amon loses. Blah blah blah. Epic like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars right? No.

[@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin]

Blizzard really does need to get a department of their animation squad to go full time into development of theatrical releases. A few Broodwar documentaries, with a real canonical scale associated with them would be cool, since ya'know that's basically like the Starcraft equivalent of making a WW2 documentary, and those are pretty common. Also, a final, locked down version of Diablo's lore, cause they've jumped around so much in that universe that I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the Demons and Angels are granted their divine powers by little insectoid aliens that latch onto their brains. >_>

[@shayoko6]

the idea may be ok for a pure cinematic media but not a game a game is about playing not watching that said i liked the 1v1s it gave you a idea of what it meant to be a hero in the sc universe the lvl of ability they have its only a opinion watching mass fodder battle would be more entertaining i like both neither is better its just a preference also i recall a rumer somewhere about a sc mmo officially being made by blizzard never been one to care about mmos personally still could be a cool idea

[@xxlCortez]

Well, the "influence" of Amon that made Kerrigan bad is just not believeable for me, along with Tassadar's return. They kinda ruined it.

[@shayoko6]

tassadars return was fine it not only makes sense because they are a higher species then human but that death means nothing to them Dragoons are made from dead protoss o.o

[@xxlCortez]

Akemi Homura Dragoons made from badly wounded protoss, not dead ones. And if death would mean nothing from them, Zeratul wouldn't be so surprised seeing Tassadar and Fenix could also be brought back.

[@NealX]

Definition taken from Wikipedia: Amon is a Marquis of Hell who governs forty infernal legions. He appears as a wolf with a serpent's tail who can breathe fire, or as a man with dog's teeth in a head like a raven, or as a raven-headed man. He tells of all things past and future.

[@emmanuelk2568]

i liked it, but i wish they could at least made narud turn to duran as he looked in brood war. And see kerrigans reaction of that.

[@zoltan3554]

or turn into a giant penis with some limbs with slight ressemblance to abathur.

[@TheRedtubeuser]

that's if stukov connected the two faces and names. 1. narud/duran is a shapeshifter 2. narud has a more powerful mind, and can probably keep stukov from reading his thoughts (if you remember, human sarah Kerrigan, was able to read jim raynors thoughts)

[@LocustaVampa]

Disappointing that they made Kerrigan a sympathetic character after all. She was much better suited for Queen Bitch of the Universe. She lost all her bang with the voice change it would seem.

[@richardberner585]

I wonder if is the voice change, or the writing. But yes, Kerrigan was not the same character in sc2, in any of her forms.

[@WillWassmann]

Heart of the Swarm Patch 2.0.7 - Unit Balances - Zerg Nydus Worm role has been changed from mass transport unit to single unit mount with lunge attack.

[@YellowDice]

Not sure how a ghost mercenary ends up being the most evil thing in the starcraft universe.

[@d0nj03]

I don't know what ever gave you the idea she was a "mercenary". Sarah Louise Kerrigan was trained in the Confederacy's ghost program and reached the rank of lieutenant in their army. After that she turned against the Confederacy and joined the Sons of Korhal as a rebel fighting out of conviction that the Confederacy was corrupt and had to be opposed. She never fought for money like a mercenary. Little did she know that the leader of the rebels, Arcturus Mengsk, had political ambitions of his own and would turn out to be just as corrupt as - if not more than - the Confederacy itself.

[@JW-pq1ml]

Yup. Kerrigan was never a mercenary. :D

[@YellowDice]

I was talking about Samir Duran (in sc1 he was a ghost reskin with more damage and cloak duration) and now he's a shapeshifter that assists the "Void" to destroy everything? Really? and I wouldn't really call Kerrigan powerful, she just has hordes of Zerg on her side. The terran and the protoss could easily take her out if they really tried.

[@JW-pq1ml]

Lol no minigunexo. She was chosen by the Overmind because of her psionic potential. Have you not played SC brood war or SC2? In brood war, the last level for zerg, she destroys Menkgs base, Artanis' base, and General Dugalle's base. She's arguably the most powerful creature in the galaxy.

[@d0nj03]

minigunexo Well after all the destruction they inflicted on this story in SC2 that would be the least of my concerns. :) How about the fact that they turned an epic sci-fi story of galactic proportions into a cheesy love story with a sci-fi backdrop? How about the fact that they traded the awesome central consciousness of an entire race - the Overmind - for a new leader that used to be simply a very efficient offensive unit "borrowed" via infestation from another race and who had a very short evolution and adaptation as a Zerg? (The HotS trailer told me everything I needed to know about what they had done to the concept of the Zerg leader: "Armies will shatter, worlds will burn, vengeance will be mine!"? Really? Sounds like a cartoon villain.) How about the fact that they borrowed the concept of Sargeras from the WarCraft lore - the single member of the world-creator race who once turned rogue and corrupted one of the lesser races, turning them into the "villain race" of the game and who is now coming back from the dead or from some mysterious faraway place or prison? (Amon=Sargeras, The Zerg=The Orcs, did they really think the fans wouldn't see through that?)

[@winged_insect]

Oh Hey Duran Welcome Back To The Series!

[@EdwardRichtofen935]

It's just that we know him best as Narud. lots of people think he is Duran as well. He kinda is but the life of Duran and Narud never existed, it's only just been shapeshifts.

[@JKLluch]

So... Zerg queens evolve high heels?

[@marlonelias]

Yup!.!. That's what she get for being strong and independent woman!.!. Lol!.!.

[@zoltan3554]

very disappointing She should have evolved a thumb akin to a bird but the thumb mobile still not able to go too low. not like an entire higheel kinda thing. disgusting.

[@how2risen401]

Its not mutation or zerg evolution. Kerrigan is basically a mobile zerg cerebrate, and as such she can manipulate her form.

[@youzonk7692]

@@how2risen401 idk if it's just fan theory or not, but i never seen her changing form directly in the battle to fit her situation. imagine this, if she can manipulate her form, why did she choose to wear high heels?

[@joshuafischer684]

@@youzonk7692 Because she's the Queen Bitch of the Universe and can do what she wants

[@nikolaizetrov617]

Kerrigan zerg form is thicc and hot I commend the character design they really thought it well.

[@patrickbartash4825]

that whole fight scene was dragon ball z practically

[@aaronwinrock8164]

God damn, this is why people who have never even played StarCraft like Kerrigan. Shes definitely one of Blizzard's best characters.

[@d0nj03]

People who have never played StarCraft know nothing of Ghost lieutenant Sarah Marie Kerrigan, or that the Overmind was a much more amazing creature that only dumb hollywood-esque popcorn-intoxicated decision-making could ever attempt to replace with a "queen bitch of the universe" wearing high heels. Same stupidity that had late-stage writers for Star Trek replace the awesome Borg central/collective consciousness with a measly individual "queen", also wearing high heels in one representation.

[@umbrella12]

Man will be awesome if Narud turns in to DUran with the exact image of the original starcraft and fight with Kerrigan

[@Arthaslepeureux]

It's funny that Narud also think about the little package of cigarette on Raynor arm.

[@dweliq]

Its fun watching them fighting around slash trash talking but the brood war story had much more depth. The SC2 story is emotional so its mostly aimed at dumb masses while brood war story was logical and characters and their decisions made perfect sense. Its rare to see stuff like that even in movies.

[@GreatWolfGrimnar]

No theyre the same being. Narud is a shapeshifter and can take whatever form he needs to fulfill his task. Duran isn't dead. he basically assumed another identity to fulfill his mission. Narud is also Duran spelled backwards.

[@Maccrack2]

Not tossed out, they are still there on earth. They are mentioned in this game.

[@J3r03n123]

Goddamn, that voice. Tricia Helfer; one of the best voice actresses.

[@richardberner585]

I can't say she is bad, but I like the sc1 voice actress more. Her voice acting is one of the reasons Kerrigan was so cool back then.

[@oceanwavesrelaxing3315]

Human kerrigan is hot.

[@deadIycandy]

Zerg too

[@jimhuffman9434]

I didn't know Raynor had red eyes and psychokinesis, that's interesting...

[@AlithAnar]

Idiot

[@johnathanmurphy6911]

Narud was already smart and powerful, I believe he did capture some of the QoB's power in last campaign...he fought very well here vs Kerrigan, One shotting he Nydus Worm, Changing faces with deception many times, using telekinesis and stabbing Kerrigan.....he did as good if not better than Zeratul. Very good fight.

[@bakkendorfff]

Duran was awesome in Broodwar but at that time the world did not know of his motives so he could play around the leaders of UED and Kerrigan this just for me proves he was more cunning when concealed

[@AntonLennikov]

It’s only me, or others also feels that blizzard decided to save a bit on developing new characters models for this cinematic?

[@Hedgepook]

Narud. Sandstorm.

[@stevewilson20]

Goosebumps. Every Time. Narud is one of the most interesting antagonist in the gaming world.

[@CCKeNeNSC]

Duran disapperars after Stukov is killed. It is revealed that Duran is "infested" and etc. Duran later helps Kerrigan to take control of the swarm, then disappear later in the game (IIRC) So Duran could have transformed into Nurad. It is revealed in a bonus mission for Zeratul in Brood War that Duran jobbed with a zerg/protoss hybrid, so I'm pretty sure Duran = Nurad, just a different form. Duran helped Mengsk to power, helped Kerrigan to power, and all this to create hybrid and Amon return

[@KALBACKA885]

Так и есть что Дюран это и есть Нарут

[@Matthew-Anthony]

Blizzard really need a to bring back Fenix. StarCraft is just not the same without him.

[@TheRedtubeuser]

they are the same, if you ever got to the secret lvl in starcraft 1 expansion. duran talks about serving a power older than Kerrigan. also, blizzard doesn't waste time adding ppl for now reason. and they like to build storylines on characters they have already made.

[@MDUmairKh]

As usual haters have invaded the comment section.

[@Toastmaster_5000]

+Umair Khan To be fair, there was a lot of potential to make this scene more compelling. At the very least, getting a glimpse of Duran would've been all it needed to satisfy SC1 players. The problem, though, is this game came out so late that Blizzard couldn't really rely too much on the original story, because newcomers wouldn't understand that. That being said, I still think this is one of the best scenes in the series.

[@alok3883]

+Umair Khan what hater, i am starcraft fans since teenager with starcraft brood war. i just criticized blizzard have lost some creativity

[@phantomninja01]

Graphics glitch at 2:36. Narud has no head.

[@bearistotle2820]

No, it is just weird lighting. You can see the red hair if you look closer.

[@Chaffee738]

To this day I have difficulty figuring out which are in-game cutscenes and which are pre-rendered cinematics. This one for example looks like a cinematic but Raynor's model is clearly a cutscene one. The only two videos I can certainly tell as cinematics are the intro and the outro. Guess Blizzard's cutscene technology improved vastly.

[@MossoDaBanana]

anyone notices the smoke coming out of narude's "holes", like, idk but as a shapeshifter duran *cof cof, narud could have healing properties since he's not a zerg, protoss or terran :P

[@-Big_Big]

i was hoping that sarah somehow got the mimic abilty from him (zerg essence steal and all that from her new uber zergness) - to give raynord a proper goodbye in the ending as herself one last time.

[@xxlCortez]

I was hoping that Duran not going down that easely. He was so enigmatic and cunning that he should have been kept at the end of the series. Well... he can may still make a surprise appearance.

[@warbossgrotsmasha23]

the way narud shapeshifted in this scene is pretty darn obvious that he was duran :) blizzard even said so that he'll appear in heart of the swarm and he made a brief appearance in wings of liberty as emil narud top dog at mobius foundation

[@idealsAREisomorphic]

It is so extremely badass when she's screaming. Intoxicating

[@skulltag2630]

Narud... MORE LIKE DURAD

[@TheRedtubeuser]

if stukov connected the dots. 1. he is a shapeshifter 2. he has a more powerful mind than stukov, so he can probably keep stukov from reading his thoughts

[@timemonkey]

And here we see why he didn't make a direct move against her in Brood War. Only time he gets the upper hand is when he manipulates her emotions, which wouldn't have worked before her human mind was restored.

[@TonTon-uj2gm]

Seems like her wings are the strongest part of her.

[@lukassinterklas]

Dang if Narud is really Duran, I was hoping that Blizzard would give him a slight cameo of his Terran Ghost appearance. Maybe show it in the cinematic when he was fighting Kerrigan...

[@Nick1Nintendo]

It depends on what you consider canon. With a realistic scale, most SC2 units wouldn't fit on the game screen, so there's a lot of adjusting there (for examples, Marines the size of Mutalisks). I consider the cinematics canon, and in the cinematics, Leviathans are MUCH bigger and bulkier. Also, look at the HotS intro (where a Leviathan rains drop pods on Korhal, Tank gets crushed by Ultralisk, etc. etc.). The Nydus Worm depicted there in the big face-off is roughly the same size as here.

[@Yourand]

This is actually some deep stuff right there. The look-alike motif is very common in literature and other media. The idea that you only truly know yourself when you see yourself from the outside. Its a form of a coming-of-age ritual I guess. So when 2:00 happens, I really got goosebumps. The way Kerrigan handles the situation is also vaguely reminiscent of Prince of Persia (I know, right?) or Wizard of Earthsea - you need to embrace your Shadow to become all you truly are. Good job, Blizz!

[@marc789]

it would have een a little better if narud would transform into duran when hes getting punched

[@idealsAREisomorphic]

Watching Kerrigan being the most badass woman ever turns me on something fierce

[@Grimpeh]

I think he's right actually. I can't remember exactly where it is said but Kerrigan tells Iszha to get the Leviathan to 'secure' or 'envelop' their base. Or something along those lines :P I'm 95% sure it's the Leviathan's tentacles!

[@DarknessIsThePath]

It's kind of funny how Narud has green eyes first, then red, then darkness, same with the Xel'Naga buildings, first they are green lit and in the cinematic they are blue :D

[@estefanolivares4159]

I wasn't sure if Kerrigan had any feelings left for Raynor. That was surprising. Good thing Zergs have healing factors.

[@jayhosh8126]

I love the way she says "Your God is dead."

[@draco19283]

They were talking about the person Narud turned into. That's Sarah before all the corruption.

[@matluxor1]

Duran you are back

[@DorianMichaelsIII]

Funny-- in Brood War, clicking on Artanis enough resulted in these quotes: "This is -not- Warcraft in space! It's so much more!"

[@LightningJPGIsBestLightning]

obviously duran

[@Thanos_aka_Imperius]

2:33 for literally alien eyes