Gamebreaker: The original game had no answer to the power of the Mutalisk ball, which is why the Brood War expansion had to introduce anti-air flying units for each race (Corsair, Valkyrie, and Devourer) just to have a counter against Mutalisk spam.The sequel made the Xel'naga the central focus of the trilogy and made the Terrans' storyline more directly connect to them, making things more fantasy-oriented and earning the ire of many fans. The franchise can be classified as Science Fantasy, with the Terrans more fitting in the "science" part of the trope, the "fantasy" elements were for the Xel'naga, and the Zerg and Protoss straddled the two in their own ways.The original game had the same problems in smaller doses (especially when it comes to the Brood War expansion), but fans don't get as upset about it as the sequel's instances. The sequel's story has been criticized by a faction of the fanbase for problems such as retcons, plot holes, and cheesy and cliched dialogue.Fanservice as a Cute Monster Girl, she has Barbie Doll Anatomy with no visible nipples or sex organs, spiked protrusions of bone covering her body, infested tendrils for hair, and overall looks a bit too monstrous to actually be sexually appealing. Fetish Retardant: As much as Blizzard tries to make Kerrigan into Ms.The other races make their plating from those same crystals. Canonically, the zerg eat mineral crystals because they require the, well, minerals to grow healthy bones and teeth. Zerglings don't just kill terrans and protoss, they eat their stuff too.Fanon: All Zerg can be reincarnated, not just Cerebrates and Tarrasques.Fandom-Specific Plot: Rather than Cerebrates or Broodmothers, it's very common to see rogue Zerg broods being led by psionically gifted infested Terrans, like Kerrigan (albeit these are rarely as powerful as her), in fanfics and fan campaigns, mostly since Most Writers Are Human.A sane man simply doesn't bring up the two together on the majority of forums. Fandom Rivalry: With Warhammer 40,000.Also, some of the seasoned players do not take too well to being teamed up with new players, even going as far as to verbally abuse the newbie and even bullying the newbie into leaving the game, by means of attacking the newbie's base, despite the newbie being an ally. Trying anything new would result in the game quickly ending for you and/or your allies shunning you. Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Apparently the tactics to playing the game in Multiplayer are set in stone.It pays homage to tons of sci-fi tropes and stories and purposefully invokes and copies them in some places.
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Cliché Storm: The series has always been accused of being this.Debates about Nova's worth in the story can get ugly, and we haven't even getting started on her performance in Heroes of the Storm. The other camp, especially those who didn't bother reading her story consider her a wasted space, a tool of Arcturus Mengsk's dictatorial Dominion tyranny, a second rate Ghost compared to Kerrigan and/or ' only there for fanservice on horny gamers'. which was mostly chronicled in printed works thanks to StarCraft: Ghost's cancellation. On one camp, Nova is an Ensemble Dark Horse, a character with interesting personal story arc and Character Development.Examples include elitist "progamers" vs "casual gamer noobs".Her redemption arc in Starcraft II further divided the fandom between fans who preferred her as a villain versus those who liked seeing her redeemed, those who thought her redemption was well-handled versus through who didn't, and those who thought new revelations about her actions as a villain help make her redemption easier to swallow versus those who saw it as a sloppy way to retcon her actions as not being her fault. Base-Breaking Character: Sarah Kerrigan - the fandom is divided on if she became an irredeemable monster as the Queen of Blades, or if she was a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who was Driven to Villainy.