History Monster / StarCraft

** [[MadScientist Dr. Stanley Burgess]] is a {{sadist}}ic Terran Dominion scientist who personally oversaw the neural resocialization of Jin-ho Lim, a Terran of Asian ethnicity who opposed the Terran Dominion but was conscripted into the Dominion Marine Corps. After the operation, Stanley ordered the now-docile Lim to kill his wife and fellow Terran Dominion opposer, Anna, and he complied by shooting her in the face without a moment's hesitation. He also was responsible for the creation of the Terran/Protoss Gestalts by implanting the organs of captured Protoss into Terrans controlled by neural conditioning and neural inhibitors. His project came to an end after one of his subjects, Gestalt Zero, was freed from his neural inhibitors by a dying Protoss and stabbed him to death, [[IronicEcho ironically echoing one of his previous comments]]: "I should warn you...this is probably going to hurt."

* [[PsychoSupporter Ma'lash]] is the brutal leader of the [[Characters/StarcraftTaldarim Tal'darim]] and one of Amon's most loyal servants. Ma'lash willingly assists Amon in his attempt to cleanse all "lesser" life forms in the entire universe. When Ma'lash discovers that this includes his own people, he still goes along with Amon's plans, manipulating them with false promises of ascension in the process. When one of Ma'lash's underlings discovers his treachery and challenges him to a duel, Ma'lash spends long hours destroying his [[MindRape mind]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture body]] after defeating him instead of killing him quickly, a fate he has condemned many of his other fallen opponents to. Ma'lash also sends his forces to raid Daelaam colony worlds and kidnap people from them, so that he could hand them over to Narud`s laboratories to be subjected to deranged experiments where most of them die. [[ItsAllAboutMe Willing to sacrifice his own people for personal gain]], Ma'lash stands out as a vile individual even by the standards of the Tal'darim.

* [[EvilOverlord Amon]], The Dark Voice/The Fallen One, is the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise as a whole and the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid Legacy of the Void]].''. A fallen Xel'Naga who broke the noninterference policy towards other races, Amon sought to shatter the eternal cycle all races were bound to by genetically altering the young Protoss to suit his needs. Finding and enforcing a HiveMind slavery on the Zerg, Amon unleashed the ravenous swarm on the other Xel'Naga when they attempted to stop him from creating Protoss-Zerg hybrids that would be used to annihilate all other forms of life. The Xel'Naga were destroyed, but Amon was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned within the Void]]. Retaining some influence over the Zerg, Amon was responsible in part for their rampages over the galaxy that claimed countless lives. When freed, Amon had his agents murder the rest of his sleeping enemy Xel'Naga, while also marshaling his forces in the heretic Tal'Darim; Protoss who worshiped him in hopes of "ascension," that was only, as Amon knew, horrible death in the end. Amon corrupted the telepathic network of the Protoss, the Khala, possessing multiple Protoss and forcing them to fight their own brethren and then directed his forces to cleanse the universe of all other life he could not control. Even while claiming good intentions in ending the cycle races are bound to, a protoss who touches Amon's mind revealed [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist the truth]]: Amon is filled with nothing but intense loathing towards all the other races and [[OmnicidalManiac wishes them to suffer and die]] for the sake of his twisted megalomania.

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* "[[TheChessmaster Samir Duran]]"[=/=]"[[TheHeavy Emil Narud]]", Amon's [[TheDragon follower]], is a Xel'Naga who disguised himself as a Terran soldier, allowing the Zerg to overrun the Earth forces in several battles, killing many. When the officer Alexei Stukov realized what Duran had done, Duran [[FrameUp framed Stukov as a traitor]] and had him murdered. Allying with Sarah Kerrigan and her Zerg, Duran assisted her in many of her schemes and gave her the idea to blow up the Nerazim capital's power grid which killed many Protoss. Duran helped the Zerg become the dominant power in the Koprulu Sector because it served his purposes, not caring about the billions that would perish as a result. Duran also [[MadScientist conducted torturous, lethal experiments on countless beings]] to create the Protoss-Zerg hybrids to free Amon from the Void and end all life in the universe. One of his test subjects was the resurrected Alexei Stukov, whom he tortured for years. Devoted to Amon's nihilistic ambitions and seeing all other beings as pawns in his grand game, Duran achieved a level of damage in the galaxy few could match in order to free his master and bring about the end of all other species.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[Ezekiel Daun] don't just kill. He drags it out. Likes to torture his victims in every way possible afore he kills 'em. He knows just where and how to hurt."]]

->''"Amon's ascension is our oblivion. He means to erase everything the xel'naga wrought. Including us. He wants us'' all ''scattered to dust, along with every planet and every star. That is His final goal."''
-->--'''First Ascendant Nuroka''', about '''Amon''', ''[[http://media.blizzard.com/sc2/lore/ascension/ascension.pdf Ascension]]''

The [[VideoGame/StarCraft Koprulu Sector]] is inhabited by many, including some {{Complete Monster}}s.
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* [[EvilOverlord Amon]], The Dark Voice/The Fallen One, is the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise as a whole and the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid Legacy of the Void]].''. A fallen Xel'Naga who broke the noninterference policy towards other races, Amon sought to shatter the eternal cycle all races were bound to by genetically altering the young Protoss to suit his needs. Finding and enforcing a HiveMind slavery on the Zerg, Amon unleashed the ravenous swarm on the other Xel'Naga when they attempted to stop him from creating Protoss-Zerg hybrids that would be used to annihilate all other forms of life. The Xel'Naga were destroyed, but Amon was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned within the Void]]. Retaining some influence over the Zerg, Amon was responsible in part for their rampages over the galaxy that claimed countless lives. When freed, Amon had his agents murder the rest of his sleeping enemy Xel'Naga, while also marshaling his forces in the heretic Tal'Darim; Protoss who worshiped him in hopes of "ascension," that was only, as Amon knew, horrible death in the end. Amon corrupted the telepathic network of the Protoss, the Khala, possessing multiple Protoss and forcing them to fight their own brethren and then directed his forces to cleanse the galaxy of all other life he could not control. Even while claiming good intentions in ending the cycle races are bound to, a protoss who touches Amon's mind revealed [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist the truth]]: Amon is filled with nothing but intense loathing towards all the other races and [[OmnicidalManiac wishes them to suffer and die]] for the sake of his twisted megalomania.
* [[TheDragon Amon's follower]] , the unnamed Xel'Naga best known as Samir Duran or Emil Narud, disguised himself as a Terran soldier, allowing the Zerg to overrun the Earth forces in several battles, killing many. When the officer Alexei Stukov realized what Duran had done, Duran [[FrameUp framed Stukov as a traitor]] and had him murdered. Allying with the Zerg, Duran helped the Swarm overrun entire worlds, all while [[MadScientist experimenting on captives]] to create the Protoss-Zerg hybrids Amon sought in order to help free his master from the Void. Devoted to Amon's nihilistic ambitions and seeing all other beings as pawns in his grand game, Duran achieved a level of damage in the galaxy few could match in order to free his master and bring about the end of all other species.
* [[TheChessmaster Emperor Arcturus I Mengsk]] is [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist initially portrayed as a well-meaning freedom fighter]] against a corrupt government that murdered his entire family before nuking his world, and willing to take morally dubious methods to defeat them such as taking their Psychic Beacons and using them against the Confederacy to lure the Zerg to their bases. But when he leads the assault on Tarsonis and [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope uses these same beacons]] to lure the Zerg to a heavily populated world, he shows that [[ItsAllAboutMe he's more fixated with revenge and personal power]], sending Kerrigan down to stop the Protoss from distracting the Zerg from wiping out all of the old families and then abandoning her when the Zerg overwhelm her position, resulting in her transformation into the Queen of Blades. Afterwards, he uses the power he has gained as Emperor of the newly established Terran Dominion to oppress any political protesters, continue the Confederacy's experiments on civilians and ordering the death of the last of the old families, a group of teenagers who weren't even aware of what had happened. After Kerrigan is transformed back, Mengsk makes a concerted effort to kill her, even going so far as attempting to [[OffingTheOffspring kill his own son Valerian]] for helping her; when Kerrigan finally comes for his head, Mengsk resorts to nuking his own capital in order to slow her down, despite the fact that it was the nuking of Korhal that caused his rebellion against the confederacy. Selfish, {{hypocrit|e}}ical and cruel, Mengsk showed that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans can sometimes be the biggest monsters of all]].

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* "[=StarCraft=]: Hybrid" and ''[=StarCraft=]: Uprising'': In this short story and eBook respectively, Sarah Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm, [[BreakTheCutie forced the young girl]] to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and [[SadisticChoice gave her the option]] of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. When this didn't work, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father, who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers, in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized--a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories--turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the MindRape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.
* ''[=StarCraft=] II: Devils' Due'': In this novel, [[{{Sadist}} Ezekiel Daun]], while a relatively minor character, is utterly monstrous. Daun is a BountyHunter and [[PsychoForHire mercenary]] who, unless his clients specify otherwise, will [[ColdBloodedTorture torture his victims]] to draw out their death, and makes it theatrical by terrifying them and [[MindRape using psychological warfare]] before he moves in for the kill. He also records all his deaths as holograms, both to watch in his spare time for the memories and to show his future victims to terrify them even more.
* ''[=StarCraft=]: Frontline'': In this four-part comic series, [[MadScientist Dr. Stanley Burgess]] is a sadistic Terran Dominion scientist who personally oversaw the neural resocialization of Jin-ho Lim, a terran of Asian ethnicity who opposed the Terran Dominion but was conscripted into the Dominion Marine Corps. After the operation, Stanley ordered the now-docile Lim to kill his wife and fellow Terran Dominion opposer, Anna, and he complied by shooting her in the face without a moment's hesitation. He also was responsible for the creation of the terran/Protoss Gestalts by implanting the organs of captured Protoss into terrans controlled by neural conditioning and neural inhibitors. His project came to an end after one of his subjects, Gestalt Zero, was freed from his neural inhibitors by a dying Protoss and stabbed him to death, [[IronicEcho ironically echoing one his previous comments]]: "I should warn you...this is probably going to hurt."
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* [[EvilOverlord Amon]], The Dark Voice/The Fallen One, is the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise as a whole and the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid Legacy of the Void]].''. A fallen Xel'Naga who broke the noninterference policy towards other races, Amon sought to shatter the eternal cycle all races were bound to by genetically altering the young Protoss to suit his needs. Finding and enforcing a HiveMind slavery on the Zerg, Amon unleashed the ravenous swarm on the other Xel'Naga when they attempted to stop him from creating Protoss-Zerg hybrids that would be used to annihilate all other forms of life. The Xel'Naga were destroyed, but Amon was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned within the Void]]. Retaining some influence over the Zerg, Amon was responsible in part for their rampages over the galaxy that claimed countless lives. When freed, Amon had his agents murder the rest of his sleeping enemy Xel'Naga, while also marshaling his forces in the heretic Tal'Darim; Protoss who worshiped him in hopes of "ascension," that was only, as Amon knew, horrible death in the end. Amon corrupted the telepathic network of the Protoss, the Khala, possessing multiple Protoss and forcing them to fight their own brethren and then directed his forces to cleanse the galaxy of all other life he could not control. Even while [[WellIntentionedExtremist claiming good intentions]] in ending the cycle races are bound to, a protoss who touches Amon's mind revealed the truth: Amon is filled with nothing but intense loathing towards all the other races and [[OmnicidalManiac wishes them to suffer and die]] for the sake of his twisted megalomania.

* [[TheChessmaster Emperor Arcturus I Mengsk]] is initially portrayed as a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning freedom fighter]] against a corrupt government that murdered his entire family before nuking his entire world, and willing to take morally dubious methods to defeat them such as taking their Psychic Beacons and using them against the Confederacy to lure the Zerg to their bases. But when he leads the assault on Tarsonis and [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope uses these same beacons]] to lure the Zerg to a heavily populated world, he shows that he’s more fixated with [[ItsAllAboutMe revenge and personal power]], sending Kerrigan down to stop the Protoss from distracting the Zerg from wiping out all of the old families and then abandoning her when the Zerg overwhelm her position, resulting in her transformation into the Queen of Blades. Afterwards he uses the power he has gained as Emperor of the newly established Terran Dominion to oppress any political protesters, continue the Confederacy’s experiments on civilians and order the death of the last of the old families, a group of teenagers who weren't even aware of what had happened.

The [[Franchise/StarCraft Koprulu Sector]] is inhabited by many, including some {{Complete Monster}}s.

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->''"Amon's ascension is our oblivion. He means to erase everything the xel'naga wrought. Including us. He wants us
''all'' scattered to dust, along with every planet and every star. That is His final goal.

->''"Amon does not see death as failure. He sees death as the highest ideal. I have seen it in His heart....What did He name our dueling grounds? The Pits of Ascension. He'' mocks ''us. Amon does not celebrate the winners. He salutes the losers.'' They ''are the ones who ascend in His eyes. He makes us carve each other into bits because that is His plan for us all."''

* "[=StarCraft=]: Hybrid" and ''[=StarCraft=]: Uprising'': In this short story and eBook respectively, Sarah Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm, [[BreakTheCutie forced the young girl]] to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and [[SadisticChoice gave her the option]] of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father, who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers, in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized--a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories--turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the MindRape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.

* [[EvilOverlord Amon]], The Dark Voice/the FallenOne, is the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise as a whole and the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid Legacy of the Void]].''. A fallen Xel'Naga who broke the noninterference policy towards other races, Amon sought to shatter the eternal cycle all races were bound to by genetically altering the young Protoss to suit his needs. Finding and enforcing a HiveMind slavery on the Zerg, Amon unleashed the ravenous swarm on the other Xel'Naga when they attempted to stop him from creating Protoss-Zerg hybrids that would be used to annihilate all other forms of life. The Xel'Naga were destroyed, but Amon was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned within the Void]]. Retaining some influence over the Zerg, Amon was responsible in part for their rampages over the galaxy that claimed countless lives. When freed, Amon had his agents murder the rest of his sleeping enemy Xel'Naga, while also marshaling his forces in the heretic Tal'Darim; Protoss who worshiped him in hopes of "ascension," that was only, as Amon knew, horrible death in the end. Amon corrupted the telepathic network of the Protoss, the Khala, possessing multiple Protoss and forcing them to fight their own brethren and then directed his forces to cleanse the galaxy of all other life he could not control. Even while [[WellIntentionedExtremist claiming good intentions]] in ending the cycle races are bound to, a protoss who touches Amon's mind revealed the truth: Amon is filled with nothing but intense loathing towards all the other races and [[OmnicidalManiac wishes them to suffer and die]] for the sake of his twisted megalomania.

* Amon, the Dark Voice, is the BigBad of the franchise as a whole. A fallen Xel'Naga who broke the noninterference policy towards other races, Amon sought to shatter the eternal cycle all races were bound to by genetically altering the young Protoss to suit his needs. Finding and enforcing a hive-mind slavery on the Zerg, Amon unleashed the ravenous swarm on the other Xel'Naga when they attempted to stop him from creating Protoss-Zerg hybrids that would be used to annihilate all other forms of life. The Xel'Naga were destroyed, but Amon was imprisoned within the Void. Retaining some influence over the Zerg, Amon was responsible in part for their rampages over the galaxy that claimed countless lives. When freed, Amon had his agents murder the rest of his sleeping enemy Xel'Naga, while also marshaling his forces in the heretic Tal'Darim; Protoss who worshiped him in hopes of 'ascension,' that was only, as Amon knew, horrible death in the end. Amon corrupted the telepathic network of the Protoss, the Khala, possessing multiple Protoss and forcing them to fight their own brethren and then directed his forces to cleanse the galaxy of all other life he could not control. Even while claiming good intentions in ending the cycle races are bound to, a protoss who touches Amon's mind revealed the truth: Amon is filled with nothing but intense loathing towards all the other races and wishes them to suffer and die for the sake of his twisted megalomania.
* The unnamed Xel'Naga best known as Samir Duran or Emil Narud, was Amon's follower who disguised himself as a Terran soldier who allowed the Zerg to overrun the Earth forces in several battles, killing many. When the officer Alexei Stukov realized what Duran had done, Duran framed Stukov as a traitor and had him murdered. Allying with the Zerg, Duran helped the Swarm overrun entire worlds, all while experimenting on captives to create the Protoss-Zerg hybrids Amon sought in order to help free his master from the Void.Devoted to Amon's nihilistic ambitions and seeing all other beings as pawns in his grand game, Duran achieved a level of damage in the galaxy few could match in order to free his master and bring about the end of all other species.
* Arcturus Mengsk is initially portrayed as a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning freedom fighter]] against a corrupt government that murdered his entire family before nuking his entire world, and willing to take morally dubious methods to defeat them such as taking their Psychic Beacons and using them against the Confederacy to lure the Zerg to their bases. But when he leads the assault on Tarsonis and uses these same beacons to lure the Zerg to a heavily populated world he shows that he’s more fixated with [[ItsAllAboutMe revenge and personal power]], sending Kerrigan down to stop the Protoss from distracting the Zerg from wiping out all of the old families and then abandoning her when the Zerg overwhelm her position, resulting in her transformation into the Queen of Blades. Afterwards he uses the power he has gained as Emperor of the newly established Terran Dominion to oppress any political protesters, continue the Confederacy’s experiments on civilians and orders the death of the last of the old families, a group of teenagers who weren't even aware of what had happened.

* "[=StarCraft=]: Hybrid" and ''[=StarCraft=]: Uprising'': In this short story and eBook respectively, Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.

* "[=StarCraft=]: Hybrid" ''[=StarCraft=]: Uprising'': In this short story and eBook respectively, Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.

* Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm, from the "[=StarCraft=]: Hybrid" short story and the ''[=StarCraft=]: Uprising'' eBook, forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.

->''"Amon does not see death as failure. He sees death as the highest ideal. I have seen it in His heart. What did He name our dueling grounds? The Pits of Ascension. He mocks us. Amon does not celebrate the winners. He salutes the losers. They are the ones who ascend in His eyes. He makes us carve each other into bits because that is His plan for us all."''

[[caption-width-right:350:"Somebody wants you dead. That's fine by me. But he didn't stipulate how you were to die. Nor how long it should take. That was left up to me to decide. And we got all night." Ezekiel Daun [[{{Sadist}} loves torture]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Somebody wants you dead. That's fine by me. But he didn't stipulate how you were to die. Nor how long it should take. That was left up to me to decide. And we got all night."]]

* Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm, from the "StarCraft: Hybrid" short story and the ''StarCraft: Uprising'' eBook, forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.

** Amon, the Dark Voice, is the BigBad of the franchise as a whole. A fallen Xel'Naga who broke the noninterference policy towards other races, Amon sought to shatter the eternal cycle all races were bound to by genetically altering the young Protoss to suit his needs. Finding and enforcing a hive-mind slavery on the Zerg, Amon unleashed the ravenous swarm on the other Xel'Naga when they attempted to stop him from creating Protoss-Zerg hybrids that would be used to annihilate all other forms of life. The Xel'Naga were destroyed, but Amon was imprisoned within the Void. Retaining some influence over the Zerg, Amon was responsible in part for their rampages over the galaxy that claimed countless lives. When freed, Amon had his agents murder the rest of his sleeping enemy Xel'Naga, while also marshaling his forces in the heretic Tal'Darim; Protoss who worshiped him in hopes of 'ascension,' that was only, as Amon knew, horrible death in the end. Amon corrupted the telepathic network of the Protoss, the Khala, possessing multiple Protoss and forcing them to fight their own brethren and then directed his forces to cleanse the galaxy of all other life he could not control. Even while claiming good intentions in ending the cycle races are bound to, a protoss who touches Amon's mind revealed the truth: Amon is filled with nothing but intense loathing towards all the other races and wishes them to suffer and die for the sake of his twisted megalomania.
** The unnamed Xel'Naga best known as Samir Duran or Emil Narud, was Amon's follower who disguised himself as a Terran soldier who allowed the Zerg to overrun the Earth forces in several battles, killing many. When the officer Alexei Stukov realized what Duran had done, Duran framed Stukov as a traitor and had him murdered. Allying with the Zerg, Duran helped the Swarm overrun entire worlds, all while experimenting on captives to create the Protoss-Zerg hybrids Amon sought in order to help free his master from the Void.Devoted to Amon's nihilistic ambitions and seeing all other beings as pawns in his grand game, Duran achieved a level of damage in the galaxy few could match in order to free his master and bring about the end of all other species.
** Arcturus Mengsk is initially portrayed as a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning freedom fighter]] against a corrupt government that murdered his entire family before nuking his entire world, and willing to take morally dubious methods to defeat them such as taking their Psychic Beacons and using them against the Confederacy to lure the Zerg to their bases. But when he leads the assault on Tarsonis and uses these same beacons to lure the Zerg to a heavily populated world he shows that he’s more fixated with [[ItsAllAboutMe revenge and personal power]], sending Kerrigan down to stop the Protoss from distracting the Zerg from wiping out all of the old families and then abandoning her when the Zerg overwhelm her position, resulting in her transformation into the Queen of Blades. Afterwards he uses the power he has gained as Emperor of the newly established Terran Dominion to oppress any political protesters, continue the Confederacy’s experiments on civilians and orders the death of the last of the old families, a group of teenagers who weren't even aware of what had happened.

** Kerrigan's hated instructor, Lieutenant Rumm, from the "StarCraft: Hybrid" short story and the ''StarCraft: Uprising'' eBook, forced the young girl to use her exceptional psionic powers by injecting a kitten with a tumor-causing chemical, and gave her the option of destroying the kitten's tumor or euthanizing it. When she wasn't willing to fall to his demands, Rumm threatened to shoot the kitten himself. Still uncompliant, Rumm decided not to shoot and left the kitten to die slowly and painfully. Taking more drastic measures, he brought in her father (who had become brain-damaged as a result of Kerrigan's accidentally unleashing her psionic powers) in an adjacent cell to hers and threatened to inject him with the same chemical if she didn't use her psionic powers. When she still refused, threatening to use the power to kill herself and her father, Rumm forced her to be neural resocialized (a form of brainwashing technology used to enforce obedience and shape new memories), turning her into a loyal puppet of the Terran Confederacy. Even after the mind-rape, he continued to mentally torture her for over a year.
** ''[=StarCraft=] II: Devils' Due'': In this novel, [[{{Sadist}} Ezekiel Daun]], while a relatively minor character, is utterly monstrous. Daun is a BountyHunter and [[PsychoForHire mercenary]] who, unless his clients specify otherwise, will [[ColdBloodedTorture torture his victims]] to draw out their death, and makes it theatrical by terrifying them and [[MindRape using psychological warfare]] before he moves in for the kill. He also records all his deaths as holograms, both to watch in his spare time for the memories and to show his future victims to terrify them even more.
** ''[=StarCraft=]: Frontline'': In this four-part comic series, [[MadScientist Dr. Stanley Burgess]] is a sadistic Terran Dominion scientist who personally oversaw the neural resocialization of Jin-ho Lim, a terran of Asian ethnicity who opposed the Terran Dominion but was conscripted into the Dominion Marine Corps. After the operation, Stanley ordered the now-docile Lim to kill his wife and fellow Terran Dominion opposer, Anna, and he complied by shooting her in the face without a moment's hesitation. He also was responsible for the creation of the terran/Protoss Gestalts by implanting the organs of captured Protoss into terrans controlled by neural conditioning and neural inhibitors. His project came to an end after one of his subjects, Gestalt Zero, was freed from his neural inhibitors by a dying Protoss and stabbed him to death, [[IronicEcho ironically echoing one his previous comments]]: "I should warn you...this is probably going to hurt."

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