History WebAnimation / StarCrafts

* PatrioticFervor: The Liberator's is taken UpToEleven - their Defender Mode is represented by the ship raising a Statue of Liberty that shoots laser beams out of the torch. While "The Star-Spangled Banner" plays in the background.

** Whenever there's a group of idle Hydralisks, one of them is waving at the camera. Taken UpToEleven in the "Legacy of the Void" intro, where one is waving as he bursts out of the ground in an ambush.

* LightmareFuel: The Cyclone is essentially a demented [[WesternAnimation Thomas the Tank Engine]] that shoots missiles, played both for absurdity and [[UncannyValley freakiness]]. Especially with the ''Thomas'' theme playing in the background as it gleefully demolishes a Nexus.

** The rogue Terran Adjutant, upon being destroyed in the season 5 finale, quotes Transmutate from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars.''

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:As Bob dies, he repeats one last time "My... life... for... Aiur..."]]

* VideogameSetting: Every season has one.
** Season 1: GreenHillZone
** Season 2: LethalLavaLand (ConvectionSchmonvection applies here)
** Season 3: ShiftingSandLand
** Season 4: GreenHillZone (again, but it takes place in VideoGame/StarCraft)
** Season 5: SpaceZone
** Season 6: UnderTheSea (cue SuperNotDrowningSkills and WaterIsAir apply here)
** Season 7: GreenHillZone (WhereItAllBegan)

* BigBadDuumvirate: The series has two main villains, Derpfestor and Obnoxious Executor. Initially, Derpfestor is the BigBad of Season 3, leading the Red Army against all three factions until he's defeated in the finale. Derpfestor returns, seemingly back on the Zerg's side in Season 5 but Obnoxious Executor underwent a HeelFaceTurn and began hoarding all the minerals for himself, with implications that he and Derpfestor are secretly working together. Season 6 has the Executor working with a Rogue Adjutant, which is heavily implied to be controlled by Derpfestor. Derpfestor and the Executor finally take center stage as the main villains in the final season.

* AffectionateParody

Produced by Carbots Animation, ''Star Crafts'' (two words) is a animated web series available either through [[https://www.youtube.com/user/CarbotAnimations Youtube]] or the [[http://www.carbotanimations.com/starcrafts/ Carbots Animation Website]] released on roughly a weekly basis on Saturdays (more recently moved to a bi-weekly basis, along side Carbots other series, ''WOW Craft''). In each short little episode (they generally run only a minute or two on average), the three armies wage the war you'd expect, but not quite in the way you might expect them to wage it, with hilarious results.

For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to ''WebAnimation/WowCraft'' or ''WebAnimation/HeroStorm.'' There's also a currently fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled ''Underwatched'' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, ''WebAnimation/{{DiabLoL}}''.

For other web series' developed by Carbots Animation, head over to ''WebAnimation/WowCraft'' or ''WebAnimation/HeroStorm.'' There's also a currently fledgling and ongoing series based on ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' titled ''Underwatched'' and a new series based on the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, ''[=DiabLoL=]''.

* BigFriendlyDog: The Ultralisks.

** The rogue Terran Adjutant, upon being destroyed in the season 5 finale, quotes Transmutate from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars.

* ShoutOut: Quite a few. Perhaps most notably, before a Templar and a Dark Templar combine into an Archon, they perform the last few steps of the ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ original]]'' FusionDance.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Derpfestor, after having been "Killed" at the end of Season 3, sends out a message consisting of "[[ColorCodedArmies Red]] is not Dead, followed by an image of himself.

* TorchesAndPitchforks: Most of the time, a group of {{Worker Unit}}s trying to run an enemy out of their base will be carrying standard angry mob gear.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: It doesn't cover all of them, but Zergling, Ultralisks and Abathur's Ravagers in [=CooP=] behave in ways quite similar to them.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** [[invoked]]Everyone gets it at least a little, but the Zerg are subject to it the most. For example, the Queens act like loving mothers to the smaller zerg units, Infestors act like fat children, Zerglings act like lovable rambunctious little puppies, Ultralisks are like big, rather dumb, dogs, and Overlords are apathetic to everything happening. Every zerg unit except for the Roach has thus far been deemed "adorable" by fans.
** In a similar vein, most protoss units seem to have some level of cruel streak to them. The zealot and archon are always in a state of anger, immortals are the epitome of TranquilFury (except when facing zerglings), and more recently sentries are seen to be master-level trolls. Even the Advisor character (which isn't a game unit) has slowly become a combination of CriticalAnnoyance and TheNeidermeyer. The only exception is the stalkers, who feel like they're SurroundedByIdiots most of the time.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: It doesn't cover all of them, but Zergling, Ultralisks and Abathur's Ravagers in CooP behave in ways quite similar to them.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]]Everyone gets it at least a little, but the Zerg are subject to it the most. For example, the Queens act like loving mothers to the smaller zerg units, Infestors act like fat children, Zerglings act like lovable rambunctious little puppies, Ultralisks are like big, rather dumb, dogs, and Overlords are apathetic to everything happening. Every zerg unit except for the Roach has thus far been deemed "adorable" by fans.

* ArtEvolution: The quality of the designs, as well as the scale of the episodes, has improved drastically over the duration of the series.

* AutobotsRockOut: In Season 2 Episode 22 "Crude Brood", a Brood Lord (flying siege unit) starts rocking out to the music after attacking.

* BlackBeadEyes: Almost all of the Zerg units. The only exceptions this far are the Roach (GlowingEyesOfDoom), Viper, Mutalisk(both seem to have CartoonyEyes), Corruptor(has no visible eyes at all), and Overseer (has [[AnimalEyes eyes resembling a cat or snake]]). In addition, the Terran Marauder also sports these.

* CallBack: Episodes frequently reference things that happened in previous ones, such as an SCV trying to get revenge on a probe and the Halloween episode was chock full of ones to the original ''Brood War''.

* ConstructAdditionalPylons / YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Season 3's premiere episode runs through the whole gamut of the [[TropeNamer Protoss advisor's]] quotes, including these two.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The Derpfestor. Its first introduction was to put on a display not unlike a small child ignorant of the battle going on, but since then has single-handedly destroyed a nexus, fungaled an entire protoss deathball, and used a neural-parasited battlecruiser to physically crush a stalker.
** And now in the preview for season 3, it had decided to [[StartMyOwn stake out on its own]] by using the bases of all 3 races.

* TheDreaded: The Reaver in season 4, [[PersonofMassDestruction and with right reason]].

* EmergencyTransformation: True to the game, a Dark Templar and a High Templar combine into a fearsome Archon during an intense battle with the Terrans. Unfortunately, this proves to be a near-lethal mistake, as a single Ghost EMP takes out all of its shields at once.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During Season 2, Derpfestor makes off with multiple worker units (Eating Larva in Episode 10, and capturing an SCV and a Probe in TheStinger of episodes 13 and 18 respectively). This all leads into Season 3, where he uses said Larva (One of which spawned into a Drone), Probe, and SCV, to build himself an army of all 3 races.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The red Viper unit makes heavy use of its Consume[[note]]converts 200hp from a friendly building to restore 50 energy[[/note]] ability to continue its one-bug campaign of trolling the enemy teams. [[spoiler:This backfires ''horribly'' at the end of Season 3 when it drains the last standing structure on the combined army, resulting in an instant loss condition.]]
** Again in ""GG No Re" when [[spoiler:the brave little Zergling [[DeadlyDodging gets the Derpfestor and its newly-born twin to hit each other with their Neural Parasite tentacles at the same time]], [[LogicBomb permanently brain-locking them both as they try to control each other]].]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: The Season 2 finale has the Zealot single-handedly taking down a Battlecruiser and going down with it into the lava. In the background, a Mothership Core can be seen using [[TeleportationRescue Mass Recall]], hinting at his survival.

* MusicalEpisode: Season 3, Episode 7 comes about as close to it as possible for a series with 2-minute long episodes and hardly any genuine dialogue.

* OverlyLongGag: The [[MookMaker Swarm Host]] battle at the end of Season 3, Episode 10. To wit: the battle goes on for half a minute and continues as the ending screen comes up... and is still going as the ending screen disappears after about a minute. Then it goes on for '''five more minutes after that'''. (For reference, episodes usually only last a minute and a half to two minutes.) And it's '''still going''' several episodes later.

* PlotArmor: The MauveShirt characters get to survive things that would kill regular units several times over. A particularly blatant example occurs in "Colossal Mistake", where Patches and Crackhead (the two recurring Marines) are the only survivors of a Disruptor bomb that blows up an entire clump of Marines.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: A couple of times in the season 2 finale. Patches the marine's diving into a tempest shot, the Derpfestor using a Neural Parasited battlecruiser to crush a stalker, and the Corruptor one-shotting a carrier.

* SteppingStonesInTheSky: During the series finale: [[A Brood Lord only seals its fate by fighting against a recently-resurrected Bob, as he just uses the launched broodlings to climb up to the Brood Lord and take it down.]]

* UnderTheSea: Season 6 takes place in an underwater stage, to which they fall to from the end of season 5.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Season 3, Episode 6 is based on an actual game of Starcraft played by Carbot where he cheesed a Protoss player into submission with Widow Mines.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: see ConstructAdditionalPylons above.

* DisneyVillainDeath: The end of the Derpfestor at the end of season 3.

* KilledOffForReal: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Bob was apparently annihilated in "My Life For Aiur" as his body was recovered, rebuilt into an Immortal and, after the Immortal was disabled, healed back to full health as a Zealot again by the Medic. [[spoiler:Played straight by Crackhead, who sacrifices his life in the finale to bait the red army into a nuke.]]

* BigBad: Season 1 and Season 2 ignore the canonical Starcraft lore, choosing instead to focus on the multiplayer shenanigans between all three races. Thus, Starcrafts as a whole, didn't really have a main antagonist for a while. However, as of Season 3, [[spoiler: the Derpfestor has decided to make its bid for world domination, using units (team color: red orange) from all three races as its personal army.]]
** BigBadDuumvirate: The seventh and final season sees the BigBad position shared between the returning Derpfestor and the Obnoxious Executor, who underwent a FaceHeelTurn in season five.

** Again in ""GG No Re" when [[spoiler:the brave little Zergling [[DeadlyDodging gets the Derpfestor and its newloy-born twin to hit each other with their Neural Parasite tentacles at the same time]], [[LogicBomb permanently brain-locking them both as they both try to control each other]].]]

* BigDamnHeroes: happens a few times, the biggest example is season 7. The huge derpfestor army is bearing down ion the small remaining forces of the three races, than a bunch of dark templar are warped in using minerals stolen back from the executor, than medic girl returns with forces from SC1, making a much more even fight.