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> “Starcraft having the Zerg based on Tyranniads” Oh, I always assumed they were based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers? And likewise, the Terran marine

> “Starcraft having the Zerg based on Tyranniads” Oh, I always assumed they were based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers? And likewise, the Terran marines in StarCraft are clearly very similar to the Mobile Infantry in Starship Troopers…

simonjgreen 3y ago
I think the timeline is the other way round there :)
- Reason077 3y ago
  Well, Starship Troopers (the novel) came out in 1959. Warhammer didn't arrive till 1983. But I guess it's plausible that the depiction of the Arachnids in the 1990s film adaptation took some inspiration from the Tyranids. Which, in turn, might have been inspired by the novel's Arachnids...
  - kergonath 3y ago
    Yes, they clearly are tyranids in the film (which is really not that faithful to the book; both are quite different stories).
- pigeons 3y ago
  Starship Troopers came out in 1959.
YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
Tyranids are based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers [1]. Space Marines are based on Star Wars Stormtroopers. Not to say Darth Vader himself. Have a gander at their helmets! _____________ [1] My source for that is the first novel in the Horus Heresy series. In one episode, some marines are on a far-away planet fighting a race of "megarachnids" which are very clearly some kind of forward force of the Tyranids. "Very clearly" given that the Marines are basically slaughtered. They get better. The internet tells me the planet was called Murder. The internet also is categorical that the megarachnid are a different species than the tyranids, but far as I can tell nobody has any real reason to say that, they all seem to just state it as a fact without further justification. So I says they were early 'nids.
lovich 3y ago
Warhammer 40k took a bunch of influences like Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, The Eternal Champion, A Death World Triology, and more. StarCraft was definitely based on 40k with Zerg being tyranids, Terrans being the imperium with their marine unit looking like an ultramarine, and Protoss being like the elder because employees at blizzard wanted to make warhammer games and tried to get games workshop to license it. They altered it just enough to be different when games workshop declined. You can see some of that in Warcraft as well with their orcs being green
ilyt 3y ago
I think lineage is Starship Troopers -> WH40k -> Starcraft.

simonjgreen 3y ago

I think the timeline is the other way round there :)

Reason077 3y ago
Well, Starship Troopers (the novel) came out in 1959. Warhammer didn't arrive till 1983. But I guess it's plausible that the depiction of the Arachnids in the 1990s film adaptation took some inspiration from the Tyranids. Which, in turn, might have been inspired by the novel's Arachnids...
- kergonath 3y ago
  Yes, they clearly are tyranids in the film (which is really not that faithful to the book; both are quite different stories).
pigeons 3y ago
Starship Troopers came out in 1959.

YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago

Tyranids are based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers [1]. Space Marines are based on Star Wars Stormtroopers. Not to say Darth Vader himself. Have a gander at their helmets! _____________ [1] My source for that is the first novel in the Horus Heresy series. In one episode, some marines are on a far-away planet fighting a race of "megarachnids" which are very clearly some kind of forward force of the Tyranids. "Very clearly" given that the Marines are basically slaughtered. They get better. The internet tells me the planet was called Murder. The internet also is categorical that the megarachnid are a different species than the tyranids, but far as I can tell nobody has any real reason to say that, they all seem to just state it as a fact without further justification. So I says they were early 'nids.

lovich 3y ago

Warhammer 40k took a bunch of influences like Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, The Eternal Champion, A Death World Triology, and more. StarCraft was definitely based on 40k with Zerg being tyranids, Terrans being the imperium with their marine unit looking like an ultramarine, and Protoss being like the elder because employees at blizzard wanted to make warhammer games and tried to get games workshop to license it. They altered it just enough to be different when games workshop declined. You can see some of that in Warcraft as well with their orcs being green

ilyt 3y ago

I think lineage is Starship Troopers -> WH40k -> Starcraft.