Reckoning: Kerrigan and Raynor Kill Mengsk. Final Mission (Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Ending)
Augustgrad was defended by three strong-points preventing zerg forces from entering the city from the outside, although Sarah Kerrigan and her own zerg had already entered the city, along with the Hyperion and Raynor's Raiders. Powerful Dominion defenses such as Sky Fury Squadron, Pride of Augustgrad battlecruisers and the Odin, plus groups such as Alpha Squadron and Sons of Korhal marines were present to defend Mengsk's Palace from the zerg. Kerrigan's forces were able to destroy the three main Dominion entrenchments, which subsequently enabled Zagara, Dehaka, and Alexei Stukov to send their own troops into the city to reinforce Kerrigan. The joint zerg-Raider forces were able to fight their way to Mengsk's Palace where they shattered the palace gates. Kerrigan entered it alone to deal with Mengsk... Final mission "Reckoning" from 'Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm' PC game... Gameplay on Normal... ► Watch more Starcraft videos: bit.ly/1b1W2yY.
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Revenge is always worth every effort.
is kerrigan that green girl on the cover of the first game?
@@nunyabuziness1162 Yes
I loved how Raynor put down both his normal visor and the blast visor when Kerrigan got back up. He knew things were going to get messy.
Yeah lol. He does the same thing in the original Heroes of the Storm trailer, although he has an epic smirk when it he does it there. I have to say, Raynor might just be my favorite VG character of all time. His voice acting was perfect. Just perfect.
oh wow, good eyes, never noticed that.
I love how Blizzard does such attention to detail for character things
legit went "NOPE" and covered his eyes lol
Thanks for this comment man. Never noticed that 'til I read this and went back and watched that. So good. XD
They still could marry and have children. Not really pretty children, but lot of them.
pretty sure she turned her appearance human again after she basically became a god.
ye, didnt her shadow & voice turn up in that bar Jim used to hold up in at the end?..
Yeah it did but it also showed red hair blowing in the wind when she walked in which leads me to believe she looks human again
aye, heh no spawning pool fun for Jim Raynor
I would let abathur turn me into an efficient zerg and be the king of the swarm and marry kerrigan. she is a damn beautiful zerg
"Always was" -- i shed a tear.
Niño Paulo Reblando I did to... That moment where they both pretty much admited the love they have for, each other. But circumstance would not allow them to be together
Me too 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
"I go to face him, having renounced everything, my humanity, my identity, the man I loved, but I will not face this enemy alone. I am the SWARM" That's bound to stir up some goosbumps
Just going to note: Imagine just how weird it'd be to be one of Raynor's people and have the swarm just running past you, the same one you've fought for years.
When the Queen of Blades turns from evil to good.
Tom Especially after they worked with the Zerg and got betrayed like twice.
Also weird when a baneling saved you from the Odin.
@Matthew Caughey yeah, it was when they got invaded by the zergs. Better fight together against a foe of both of you and later handle the war between them.
And then this Zergling followed me home as my pet. His name shall be Zergy. Who’s a good flesh eating guard zergling
23:13 lol Jim puts on the second visor because he knows things about go down down.
2 prime examples of why you should not make "final speech" before you kill your rival.
Rule #6 for Being an Evil Overlord: I will not gloat over my enemies predicament before killing them.
it's ego.
IKR
If only villains didn't have a massive ego then half the films we know would end up with the bad guy winning
@@excilionator1721 but then they wouldn't hear your lovely plan and gloating before they die.
The look on Kerrigan's face after 23:30... the animation team's done a good job with her subtle facial expressions
"Thank you Jim. For Everything." "My Pleasure, darlin'. Always was." AUGH, I TEARED UP. I ALWAYS DO. He loves her and wants to keep her with him, but he knows he can't. She knows she can't stay either.
Volant Caedis bawlz like a baby
it's not gonna happen if Jim didn't kill tychus
" I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan. For Fenix and all the others who got caught between you and your mad quest for power ! " Lovely indeed !
Fenix: With respect, Friend Raynor, but......WHAT THE FUCK!! Bros before ho's!
The way she left was beautiful.. Put a tear in ma eye.. sad too..
I really like Zagara. She knew the best way to eventually get control of the swarm was by being the most loyal servant there is
It paid off too. (Spoiler warning) When Kerrigan became a Xel’naga and killed Amon, she named Zagara as her replacement.
I do not think she was THAT interested in power once she realized Kerrigan is a very strong leader, and what kind of shoes Zagara would have to fill if she took the reins. So, she 'evolved' into those by learning from Kerrigan.
Vision. She knew that the Swarm would be at its strongest as Kerrigan continued to build and unify it. She wanted to lead THAT swarm, the one Kerrigan had already unified and built into greatness, not some fragment that she would struggle to keep together. Until that happened the smartest thing Zagara could do is support her efforts to reunite the Swarm and wait for her turn. Also Kerrigan spared her the first time because she was already impressed by Zagara's intelligence and lateral thinking in trying to talk Kerrigan out of killing her way back when. That was a step the Zerg had NEVER taken before. She was impressed that a natural born Zerg would decide to try to talk things out, even as a last resort, and decided that she wanted to encourage the Zerg to evolve in that direction.
Is she that one zerg who was tasked by kerrigan to attack a protoss ship?
@@aspopulvera9130 No, that one special brood mother was a plot point unacknowledged in LotV, which is a shame because now we don’t know what happened to that Protoss transport.
24:43 the man ,the myth, the legend.
Main reason why I play him in Heroes of the storm
Scott Sterling?
@@alejandroyava Ya done good kid. Ya done good...
More like a shit friend.
ولحين عذب الناس ب دنيا قبل الخره
“Nice quote. I’ll engrave it on your tombstone.” She recycled what she said to Fenix, and dumbed it down for Arcturus.
the misty look they both had in their eyes... the i love u still look. even at the end " it was my pleasure... always was." i shed a tear the first time i saw it
The part where Jim steps in to save Sarah is awesome, but the best part is where you can see the seething hatred for Mengsk on her face as she gets up before she assaults him. Great cutscene.
Snake4175 ikr I been waiting kill Mengsk and see him died for a long long time after what he did to Jim and Sarah
Mengsk used to be an officer of Terran Confederacy and led Son's of Korhal. So he is expert at using CMC suit and Gauss Rifle. If he had CMC suit, he could've at least resist Raynor's attack. Of course, he never expected someone other than Kerrigan to barge into his office. Even if Kerrigan brought some Zergs with her, he could've finished them off with Xelnaga Artifact, but it was ineffective against humans.
"Always was." Right in the feels
The final cinematic, always affects me.
same man, almost always get goosebumps
Love it how Jim puts the blast shield over his visor as Kerrigan goes to town, as if to say "yep, shit's about to get messy"
21:58 When a macro zerg thinks he can rush a micro terran.
underrated comment x,D
Blizzard always has some of the best cinematics.
Oh yeah! They take their time... Lots of it...
Not anymore mhaha 😈
Even after all these years, the cut scenes (non cgi) still look great. Blizzard's art department did a great job
20:50 I can not shake the feeling that they cut out a Hero Mission right there.
LITERALLY IMAGINE IF THAT WAS A MISSION OMG
"Oh no! My arch nemesis appears to have an ace in their sleeve! Guess I`ll just stand perfectly still for solid 15 seconds"
i need a starcraft movie NOW
Andy B amen to that brother
Never...coz all movie based in games sucks.
please not, some fuckhead will destroy the starcraft franchise forever :D
clintinterface and like it's not destroyed/forgotten already?
We’re all waiting for it
23:20 - "You can never suffer enough for all the lives you ruined Arcturus" The sheer and utterly delicious cynical hypocrisy .. how I absolutely love it. The brutal irony is definately not lost.
You're absolutely right!
Due mengsk ultimately being responsible for Kerrigan becoming the queen of blades. The blood of everyone she has ever killed is ultimately on his hands just as much as hers.
@@djcuevas1057 Technically Mengsk wanted the Zerg to basically kill her, but even he never suspected that they'd actually capture & infest her with the essence of zerg powers. It would've been more funny had she retained her rifle while keeping her blades.
Yvette Szentesi are you guys forgetting that she was literally being manipulated by Amon and had no control of her actions.
to be fair, she didn't say she was avenging those other lives, but merely mentioning that her own life was also screwed over by Mengsk. It's was purely revenge, hardly any avenging.
23:36 You will be remembered as the emperor who sacrificed his life for nothing! Really blizzard, why does every major death have to be a touch of explosion?
Because Blizzard animators secretly watch Transformers movies.
*Directed by Michael Bay
Pierced twice in both shoulders then explodes... I knew Varian's death was a bit familiar lol
R.E.Venge you just had to mention varian
For the alliance??????
*_You made us all into monsters._* *E P I C*
Epic? More like cliche as fuck. Idk what happened to the writing team but SC2 Kerrigan is so generic it hurts.
Raynor and Kerrigan is one of the best love stories of all time. :( It just really sucks that LOTV left us in the damn dark at the end.
Kerrigan: "You found me beautiful once" Raynor: "Honey, You got real ugly..."
Ah, yes evil dead was a good movie series
Still hot
@@MrJustonemorevoice She kind of reminds me of Sil from the 90's scifi movie Species.
@@LordMalice6d9 With a much better character
@@MrJustonemorevoice The original Starcraft came out only a couple years after Species. So I always thought Infested Kerrigan's design was inspired by H.R. Giger's Sil.
What pep talk does Rayner give his troops when telling them to kill terrans in order to cover his zerg girlfriend's invasion?
I doubt his resistance troop need any more pep talk. They must have kill thousands of Mensk troops by then. This is like the thing they have been fighting for all this time, Mensk downfall.
have you ever looked into the world? humans kill each other for less...
Probably the same one as when he murdered thousands of Terrans back when he teamed up with the protos and the zerg in brood wars, man thinking back I don't even know if we play as the "good guys"
The same pep talk that Winston Churchill gave when he said "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." Basically, Mengsk was hated above ALL villains to where Raynor's Raiders would rather Zerg eat him and his followers alive than keep him on his throne. They must've also concluded that the idea of living under Kerrigan's potential terror the 2nd time around won't be as bad.
Well, being Jim Raynor I'm sure it was a really good one.
This was truly an awesome final battle. A combination of all the Zerg forces fighting in one ultimate push.
Once all the different Zerg forces got into the Palace district, Mengsk was SO screwed.
16:04, auto-translate on Dehaka LOLOL!!!!
"We will feast upon their _asses."_
This is what happens when you do weird voice acting
Snowdrop - hello fellow human Even without the weird accent it would probably say that. Auto transcription doesn’t simply translate word for word (it’s too difficult for a computer), but rather looks at how the word is used in the sentence. “Essence” doesn’t usually fall the the very end of a sentence, so it looked for a word with similar sound patterns that does.
AWriterWandering the e does sound quite a bit like a though so i believe the voice acting had a big part
The dahaka in prince of Persia warrior within?
Oh my Raynor comin to save me
Whats up queen of blades!
The ending is basically a Star Wars reference.
My pleasure darling....Always was.
Mengsk dies like agent Smith in Matrix Revolutions
No, Like Gul'Dan on WOW Legion
Narrow ETT I resent that!
Then they had sex, made a lot of broodlings, and lived happily ever after ... THE END
Imagine a hybrid with the best parts from both sides.... Jesus that thing would be almost as terrifying as a zerg/protoss hybrid but with character traits of raynor and kerrigan mixed. It would be one stubborn little fucker xD
@@Darknessblade4me Depends how they're raised. Hopefully Raynor's traits will keep them from mauling the human race on Korhal.
@@rlouie05 you know they had some freaky zerg sex too.
@@terrencedouglas375 They did it before she got infested. Trouble here is, she's practically immortal but his expected lifespan is 150+ years. Bet if it came to it, she'd rush to his side and infest him to keep him alive and he'd be bitterly thankful but forever upset at her too for making him part-zerg too.
Oh you know Jim enjoyed that zerg-infested pussy
1:30 "Rip and tear, until it is done."
Great love story. Kerrigan and jim, soulmates. I still remember how she was betrayed in starcraft 1, what a fantastic story line.
*Warps in making an attack run on the Dominion Forces with all Turbolasers blazing*
The fact that Jim put the blast visor and normal one down meant he knew shit was about to get really messy
god damn those eyes that she look at Raynor when she said " thank you Jim , for everything "... those are human eyes.. ... holy fuck blizzard ...
22:11 mengsk: scv Defense tower: siege tank Kerrigan: zerg swarm (hydras, ultras, lings, banes, roaches, swarm hosts, queens and lurkers) Raynor: brood lord
I loved this mission as much as the last mission in wc3 roc ;) Many races fighting vs a single strong force ;3
The paint in his helmet is really something symbollic you know, it's like The Punisher but unique to distinguish it as Raynor.
is there any more of this story? . So so much captivating, I love it from the books not the game. Highly anticipate for more of the lore. In the book the relationship between the characters is so strong and well depicted. Especially this between Raynor and Kerighan
is there any book abot them?
CJake3 149K subscribers [Kerrigan enters Mengsk's inner office in his palace on Korhal; he has a cigar in his teeth and what looks like a lighter in his hand as he turns and stands to face her.] Arcturus Mengsk: "Hello, Kerrigan. I've been waiting for you." Sarah Kerrigan: [smirking] "I'm surprised you haven't tried to escape." Arcturus Mengsk: "Escape?" [chuckles evilly] "My dear, I'm afraid you've got it all wrong." [Mengsk reveals the "lighter" to be a control switch, as the Xel'Naga artifact raises from a compartment in the floor; he presses the control, blasting Kerrigan with energy, which causes her to writhe and scream in pain and agony.] Arcturus Mengsk: "Really. Did you think I'd keep an animal like you close to me without some kind of insurance policy?" [gives Kerrigan another painful jolt] "Clearly, you are my greatest failure. Now, at long last... you will die!" [Mengsk is suddenly grabbed from behind by a power-armored Jim Raynor, the switch in his hand crushed as he's lifted off the floor.] Jim Raynor: [raising his visor] "Change of plans." [Raynor angrily hurls Mengsk across the room and draws his pistol, but steps back as Kerrigan advances on the fallen emperor, impaling him against the wall with her draconic wing-spikes.] Sarah Kerrigan: [seething with rage] "You can never suffer enough for all the lives you've ruined, Arcturus." Arcturus Mengsk: [hatefully spatting at her through clenched teeth] "I made you into a monster, Kerrigan!" Sarah Kerrigan: [retorting, before delivering the finishing blow] "You made us all into monsters." [Kerrigan reaches out with one hand, unleashing a spike of psionic energy into Mengsk's head. Mengsk screams as the power explodes within him, vaporizing him and destroying his office. That backstabbing and treacherous son of a bitch Arcturus Mengsk definitely deserved what was coming to him in the end. He totally had it coming for a long time. Remarkably, Raynor and Kerrigan are unscathed.] Sarah Kerrigan: [gazing up at the swarm in the sky] "Thank you, Jim... for everything." [Kerrigan levitates into the air to join the swarm.] Jim Raynor: "My pleasure, darlin'." [smiles] "Always was." [The scene goes to space, approaching a deep blackness in the void.] Sarah Kerrigan: [voiceover] "I now see my true enemy. He waits for me in the void, wielding powers I cannot imagine. I go to face him, having renounced everything: My humanity. My identity. The man I love. But I will not face this enemy alone. I am the Swarm."
her all words are pure gold
Love the jumping ultralisks at 17:31
Well as they say, a man is most vulnerable when he thinks he’s won when his enemy is down but not dead.
longest Novel in my life, I am still loving this
Jim Raynor. Sarah Kerrigan. The People's Hero and the Queen of Blades. Both people who suffered, who lost everything to a madman's selfishness and sense of self-superiority. And they both beat him. Together.
Kerrigan:i am the swarm Norn quen:laughs in tyranid
0:54 Valerian and Matt were both like "Jimmy, we need to talk about your gf"
Jim Raynor you sexy beast
wang jon Mine >:c
You wanna piece of me, boy?
Commanding Kerrigan on the battlefield: zap, zap, zap Kerrigan in the cinematics: Nearly invincible, destroys whole buildings with a thought. Me: Where was THIS during the mission??? Kerrigan in the cinematic: Oh, btw, I'm just gonna fly now. Me: Wait, you're an air unit? WTF?
so for all her talk and determination, she still needed raynors help in the end.
She got cocky. That's always been her Achilles heel
Connor Stickels like raynor
Women always need men to sort out the hard stuff. Hieheueheueu
I mean, you don't expect people to just have Xel'naga artifacts hidden away for ultra-specific scenarios, do you? Mengsk is crafty as hell.
9:52 Awww she loved the dude a lot.
The burrowing ultralisk is terrifying lol
Epic, just epic, and his love is beautiful.
He wants that zerg pussy
This mission is wholesome. Vengeance is sweet.
My favorite couple in all of gameing history.
+Vlad the Impaler You and Kerrigan would make a great couple too, she also likes to impale people
Thanks,but I am no where near good enough.
I agree. For him that would be a fate worse then death
And master chief and Cortana is definitely one too
Abathur and Kerrigan, I ship them
Still a better love story than twilight
I want to point out that out of the 3 campaign missions of Starcraft II. Raynor's last mission is the hardest because your expected to defend it alone, given the only help you have is the artifact that annihilates any zerg nearby. No help from any other Terran Commanders whatsoever... In Kerrigan's mission, you have the help of your underlings, Stukov, Dehaka and Zagara plus Raynor to cover your left flank. ( I noticed that Raynor sends out a shit load of units later into the mission ) In Artanis' mission, you get to defend with the other Protoss Commanders, Karax, Alarak and Vorazun. Although they may be useful in holding off early without assistance, once their structures die out, they don't rebuild. I also haven't noticed if they rebuild their forces either but I know they use their abilities atleast.
She was kind of uncharacteristically slow to react there. I think she had plenty of time to run him through between the time he said "You've got it all wrong" and the time it took for him to click the button, the floor to open up, and the weapon to rise up out of it. But, I suppose then we wouldn't get the awesome Raynor entrance. ;)
To be fair, I think it was just a momentary shock upon recognising the Keystone, the same artefact that bought her down on Char.
Imagine if at the end instead of Jim Raynor it was just some random marine.
Expectations subverted.
*Random Dominion Marine grabs Mengsk's shoulder:* "Sir the zerg have breached the--" *Accidentally breaks the remote.* "Oh... hope that wasn't important sir."
Who would watch the entire movie? .... if it was made :). Anyway, this has got to be one of the most heartbreaking love stories of all times and yet ... somehow ... it´s just how it has to be.
I don't think you could squeeze this into a 90 minute movie. This is miniseries material.
@@hagamapama Judging from the recent Halo tv show which I actually find decent there is one problem, costs. Sci Fi is extremely expensive to make, Starcraft would be a step up from Halo in terms of costs. I am sure they thought about it, you would need Avatar budget to make a good Starcraft mini series. That´s not going to happen.
2:28 A Terran Battlecruiser is inbound on your location. OP
Valerian then becomes Emperor. Yeah, try telling the population that a person which invaded their homeland ALLIED WITH A ZERG INVASION FORCE is their emperor. I don't think that could realistically be a stable or popular government.
People doesn't have to know that, probably they don't either, for them Valerian was "evacuating civilians"
That is why the UNITED EARTH DIRECTORATE will be the true owner of the Koprulu Sector colonies!! The fleet you saw was basically recon....
It worked for mengsk
Everyone hated Arcturus, and the zerg came, killed him then immediately left. That would come off as more of an oddity than an outrage.
@@howlingdin9332 They came, massacred thousands of soldiers... hardly "everyone hated arcturus", this guy made a high tech power from the few backwater colonies that were the Confederation in Starcraft in only 4 years. Not a single of Mengsks soldiers defect or betray him during the entire fight (or campaign that I remember, for that matter).
So the most powerful creature in the Universe is actually not the symbiont of Protoss and Zerg, as all have thought. But HUMAN with Zerg, who defeated even Xel-Naga
Don't let her go Don't ever...let her go...
General: hey lets piss of the most powerful psi op ever to exist and kill the only reason she gave up being the queen of blades. Mengsk: That's stupid... im in. *LESS THAN A MONTH LATER KERRIGAN OBLITERATES KORHAL, KILLS THE GENERAL, RECLAIMS THE SWARM AND KILLS MENGSK WITH JIMS HELP* Mengsk: mistakes were made... I... REGRET... EVERYTHING.
Ahh, This is much better than GoT8
Jim is such a damn boss
Everyone Sarah kerrigan is now a Heroic Autobot!
I will make you pay for what you did to Mengsk!
@@AgentA113 oh? Mengsk was the one who did all this
@@theg.r.s.enterprise9021 but didnt you know what kerrigan did to Arcturus's Father?!
"My pleasure darling. Always was." That's a pretty epic closing line.
I really need to finish this series. I bought a new computer back in 1998 because my old computer wasn't able to play the original Starcraft. I was not going to be denied. It was the best purchase I had ever made.
Every-time I play Terran and purge Zerg/Protoss all I hear is the Final Solution by Sabaton. P U R G E T H E X E N O
FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR SANGUINIUS! PURGE THE ALIEN!
this scene brought tears to many people ... damit blizzard ..
That look back of Jr and horner was classic like "you started this you should see it through" or "your girl is finishing your work for you". Hahaha
Even though this is starting to become an "oldish" game (Ps4 was 3 years from releasing in 2010), the visuals and voice acting are still absolutely top notch.
Yeah. Imma replay all the starcraft campaign now
"just stay out of my way" most use catchphrase of the year
Kerrigan's infestation gave her high heels.
Wait... she could fly?! Why didn't she do that more often?
Not enough energy
We need the magistrate to complete the trio
The final mission for zerg is total chaos and it gives the player a huge advantage over the terran by a long shot
Try it on Brutal. The Dominion never lets up the pressure on yours or Raynor's base, and running out of resources is a real possibility towards the end.
23:34 YOU'RE FACE ASPLODE!
I remember seeing the rough cut of the final scene and I wished that they had kept some more of the dialogue from it.
Even after all these years I don't get how Raynor sneaked up on Mengsk in that suit...
He was there all along, just pretending to be a decoration.
Mengsk: *Laughs in Coop*
You failed me, Mengsk!
spread the creep like no tomorrow to speed up movement & it might've been helpful to have auto vespine with filter to free up the unit count for attack forces, it also might've help to have infestors take control of the mech & airforce
stanglider01 or putting buildings on hotkeys for quick unit building. If I had to take a guess on ladder what there ranking is I would have to say bronze to low silver
I did like the ending except i dont know why but there is something always off to me about sarah flying away although it was pretty cool
Someday in a future StarCraft (if there's a future StarCraft) we're gonna encounter a machine intelligence that'd make the zerg look like a bundle of plushies. I can imagine a massive wave of nano machines just flowing across a planet. Dismantling it and all things on it to the atomic scale, so machine could repurpose the material to its needs.
I wonder if people's view of Kerrigan would changed if she got the face of a Hydralisk in the conversion.
mengks did not gg.. he a bad sport.. :(
Sarah didn't glhf at the beginning either
Mengsk is a ragequitter. Got mad when the UED and Raynor beat him too ;)
@@WhiteFangofWar When Mengsk lost to the UED, Raynor rescued Mengsk from capture alongside a Protoss strike force. The Brood War was a strange time.
"Long Live The Queen!!!" 20:38 (ALL ZERGS CELEBRATING)
if u hate mengsk so much, why kill him? transform him into a zerg and have him ur slave for eternity :D
@ecchi squid As do I
With a Critical Eye was better he died for all his ugliness
That would have been an epic twist.
I think its too dangerous to keep mengsk alive, even if he will be infested. The type of person to keep a Xel'naga artifact close just as a counter measure should never be trusted.
@@jumaribernelquinto5071 You aint wrong there pal, but keep in mind, even Stukov who is the most advanced and powerful Infested Terran stands no chance against Kerrigan.
Rest in peace Dominion soldiers, I mean they probably had family and they died fighting these monsters called Zergs.
Scarlet Crusade They were just following commands and orders to fight the threats they thought. I feel also sad for them
Yes. RIP all those brave men and women who fought for the safety of their family, friends and nations
But who cares about depicting true humans with personalities and feelings,right? Don't even give them faces or customized gear like in Starcraft 1 because as we all know that if you cover the face then it is not a human anymore! And to offset that deep and grim subject just add another 100 ways for them to die as horrifically and spectacularly as possible and hope that the sheer spectacle makes people forget about the as before mentioned grim subject(and PRAY that it doesn't nail the point in harder).
I am pretty sure Kerrigan could use her ghost abilities to sneak and assault Mengs, alone. For all I seen her in game, she could pull that. If that was RPG game, probably that how it would go, but is RTS, and there had to be major battle. The plot is only excuse for them :D.
I like the story of Mengsk's abuse against Kerrigan. He used Sarah's human weaknesses to persuade her that she was a beast and she deserved nothing but despise. Jim compensated for that by believing in her, so Mengsk took him away from her at her darkest hour. It also hurt to hear that Jim broke up with her despite the rescue, thus admitting she was hopeless. In this scene, Mengsk, dominating again, still tries to persuade her that she is a failure and a monster. But Kerrigan, finally having matured psychologically, parries that guilt suggestion by stating that it was Mengsk who ruined countless lives and that it's not Kerrigan's fault that she became what she is now.