Throughout the campaign, Tychus always gave the personality of a battle-hardened war veteran tired of fighting and living as a slave for others. I think this was his way of saying goodbye at least on his own terms.
Actually, I think Tychus accepted the deal just to help Jim out...even if he wanted his freedom, he knew that Jim would have hunted him down to get his vengeance. Also, if Tychus really wanted to kill Kerrigan, I don't think he would have had any problems doing so without letting Jim react fast enough to save her and take him out. Since he knew he would never get the chance to be truly free, he simply chose to make the best use of his remaining life span: help his friend.
@Doctor Doc, MD in lore its to save energy. "helmut down" mode is apparently a high energy thing to do. Also it provides minimal protection, the main purpose is to provide an advanced combat hud for the wearer. obviously it would protect from rocks and punches, but not a gun as you see multiple times in cinematics marines getting domed through the helmet by bullets.
Exactly. If Tychus truly was going to kill Kerrigan, he would of shot Jim in the back and then executed Kerrigan. I think he what he did was to die at the hands of someone he considered his brother instead of being Mengsk's puppet.
If you think about it: what guarantee did Tychus have that Mengsk would uphold his (Mengsk) end of the bargain. Mengsk was not exactly the most trustworthy of people
Tychus was letting Jim make the choice, he knew he wasn't the right person to decide on something that important. He gave him the opportunity and got dealt a bad hand. He could always reappear but I'm not sure you'd ever be able to continue to do his character justice working with the good guys. I think the story was a testament to his character, in the end he knowingly sacrificed himself for a cause his friend truly believed in.
@@alm5851 right but he did give Jim the choice. If Tychus REALLY wanted to kill Kerrigan, he would have done it the moment he had that sight on her forehead. You don't hesitate and pause for the kill, you go and take the shot as soon as you can. Tychus and Jim are good friends, but Tychus got stuck dealt a bad hand: Kill Kerrigan which sets him free, but betrays his friend, or don't and he is stuck in his "prison". Also, dickhead Mengsk is watching as well via Tychus' suit. The suit is rigged to kill Tychus on the spot under Mengsk's command. Tychus gave Jim the choice, hence the dialog they had.
The Gauss rifle has burst and semi-auto fire mode. Tychus made his choice not to shoot multiple but just once to make his best friend have a good reason to kill him. He knew that Raynor would easily deflect the shot so he did. Sophisticated man he is...
The fact he kept trying to get Raynor to give up on his mission to save Kerrigan and just leave with their money indicates he really didn't want to have to go against his old pal.
I think he said he is fighting himself over something he doesn't wanna do so i guess Gabriel tosh just know or see that this Tychus Findlay is forced to work for Mengsk or he just feels it like Zeratul's first meet
Not just that, After the mission of Hijacking the Odin, Matt found out that the suit had a killswitch that would kill Tychus, they just didn't know who had the finger on the trigger
You could see in his yes, Tycus was never going to shoot kerigan, he was ready to die and he wanted Raynor to be the one to do it instead of Mengsk, this is what true brotherhood looks like
Wow, poor Tychus. He was pretty much screwed regardless of what he did. I guess it's better to have a friend kill you rather than some psychopath who's in control of your suit do it (It's a bit like Of Mice And Men when George kills Lennie rather than let Lennie get lynched)
Earlier in the game, Matt tells Raynor about why Tychus can't leave his suit, and they find out that its wired to all his major organs, so if Mengsk presses a button, he dies. In that situation, Tychus is a dead man anyway.
@@crestfallensunbro6001 i figure all marines would have implants to use a marine suit..... tho in the lore the Dominion marines are also all convicts who are imprisioned in the suits When they wrote Tychus they just kidna went with that initial concept and adapted it to the story.
@@Broockle Nah, we've seen marines in and out of their armor before with no implants to control the suits. Raynor is one of them, actually (albeit former). There are implanted aggression inhibitors - though those aren't universal. Not all of the Marines are convicts. Even the Confederacy had only about a 50% criminal conscript rate.
@@DSFARGEG00 Oh, I thought the Confederacy mainly used convicts. Other than Raynor himself and his men I didn't think we know anyone who isn't a convict fur sure.
If Tychus wanted to kill Sarah, he had done it already. I saw his eyes and claim that he wanted Jim to end his tragedy life, and Jim knew what to do next
They are men of honor. Tychys gave raynor a chance to make his decision and not underhand the brotherhood that they for so long had together. He coulda have easily just killed her on sight but he didnt.
If nobody hasn't note this, I'll tell you: You remember raynor wanted to kill Mengsk by his pistol, saving 1 shoot (you see this when he met valerian) And as tychus is controlled by Mengsk, we could say that, metaphoric, Raynor killed mengks, cause it wasn't really tychus ideas, just he had to follow orders or he dies. At the end yes, raynor "kills" mengsk dominion and give Tychus the wings of liberty And the second, when Raynor knew tychus made the deal with the devil, the conversation is two side meaning, they seems talking like raynor understod tychus choices and gonna kill him, and tychus seems like he was gonna kill kerrigan, but at the same time, when Raynor says "we all gonna our choices to make", he means the decision that tychus chose, knowing he signed his dead sentence. As tychus says: "Damm shame" you can see in his eyes sadness, as knowing he was going to die, so the phrase means it's a shame he has to die like that. At the end, that's the wings of liberty
It is clear that Tychus gives Rynor enough time to make his decision, a decision that Tychus himself did not want to make, I can almost feel Tychus closing his eyes resignedly when Rynor got in the way and blocked his shot towards Sarah, Asshole, rude, despicable, but not bad to the core, that's certain
Tychus is a true warrior. Walking into his own end knowingly, submitting to fate, and being loyal to his friend until the end. He served his purpose until the end, which he basically spent his last days of freedom helping Raynor to save Kerrigan. He redeemed his past and his honor. He will not be remembered, he will never be understood. For that makes Tychus Findlay even more honorable than any other Protoss.
+sha grimm Tychus is an incredible asshole. But he has character, at least as much as Raynor, if not more. I was hoping they would bring him back some way. LOL half zerg Tychus... that would piss him off.
"Well, shit. That just happened." "Yeah. What do we do now? "Dunno. Try to forget, I guess." "I'm glad you said that. I've got just the thing..." *pneumatic hiss of space-cooler* "Thank God for cold fusion."
I just finished the novels Heavens' Devils and Devil's Due. And Jim killing Tychus hits harder after learning how much they went through together and how much Tychus cared for Jim and how he sacrificed his freedom for him on Devil's Due's climax.
Tychus is truly bittersweet-war veteran. He’s stuck in the middle as a soldier. In the end he definitely chose to be killed by his ol’ friend than Mengsk, because he saw Jim as a true soldier with heart. Besides that, Tychus’ already dead when he sign up.
Poor Tychus, as he said he made a deal with the devil, only difference between mengsk and the devil, is the devil at least keeps 'his' end of the bargain, Mengsk, he probably woulda pushed the button anyway just so that Jim would suffer even 'more' if he didnt die. That's why in my opinion first he 'hesitated' and waited so long, it wasn't a western showdown, if Tychus really wanted to kill Kerrigan, he coulda shot while Jim's guard was down, didn't need to 'ask' Mengsk if he was watching or not. Tychus gave up the deal with Mengsk, so that at least his friend would know 'why' he was doing what he was doing, and could hear the regret in his voice. Its like what Tychus said, he went to jail for jim, and Jim owed him, thats why Jim trusted him so much because he was his friend and trusted him with his life 'despite' his criminal record. Tychus went to jail while Jim got a new life as a Marshall, he knew he owed Tychus and wanted to help him out however he could, 'like old times'. So when it came down to the final moment, Tychus waited, waited as long as he could, gave Jim all the time he needed to react, and he only wanted his friend to know, he wasn't doing it because he wanted to, it was cause he had 'no choice'. Any man will pay 'any' price when their life is on the line, forget his freedom. So at the end, he chose to deny Mengsk his prize, a dead kerrigan while she's human and helpless, he chose the '3rd' option, die by his friend, rather than die by mengsk because he either broke the deal or because Mengsk decided to break the deal just to watch Jim suffer more. Plus i think Tychus knew, deep down perhaps, that the Kerrigan who was lying helpless and human, wasn't the Queen of Blades anymore, she was in essence 'a new woman', a different Kerrigan, not the butcher who slaughtered her allies when it was convenient, who betrayed 'everyone' who even dared to trust her, and slaughtered a retreating enemy who had no hope of fighting back. In HoTS, she isn't that queen of blades, she lets Warfield's men go after she's beaten them back and forced them to flee char. She only kills those 'necessary' to ensure her survival, and when Mengsk taunts her with Jim being alive, despite spreading news across the dominion that he's dead, she doesn't trust his word, but even if there was a 'SLIM' chance jim was alive, she threw her swarm to rescue him, despite knowing that the man she loved... would hate what she became to save him. So in the end, Tychus was the real hero of Wings of Liberty, not Jim. He may have made a deal with the devil, but sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil, but sometimes thats what it takes to be the hero.
One thing that's also mentioned by Kerrigan in Hots is When she talks to Izha about gambles, and the mentions "The thing about gambles is that sometimes you lose."
for some reason those last few seconds feel special. that music when the camera moves up and you can see the cruisers in that one opening in the clouds and others burning.
+Demigodish4o3 That's probably why he waits before shooting. He was jailed, then realeased and could kill all he wanted with his former best friend. He had a good ride and knows Jim will react, and just let fate decides who will be faster.
and in story Tychus sacrifice his freedom to keep raynor ending up in prison.. that's why he is in that marine prison reconditioning cinematic trailer.
Seeing Raynor walk off alone makes me wonder if he also killed the rest of that team. I mean, there should be soo many people pissed at Kerrigan at that point.
A part of me just wishes this was the end of Starcraft 2. It has more finality to it than all other campaigns combined to me. When I beat it the first time I darn near broke into tears, both out of sadness and happiness. I miss Tychus, but I knew he wanted Jim to kill him there. RIP Tychus. "Ragna-rock-n'-roll." -Tychus Findlay
My belief is Tychus didn't want to kill her but had to for his freedom. That being said, he couldn't betray his friend, and let Jim decide his fate. I don't think Jim held a grudge further into the plot. He felt sad for his friend's death, but understood that there was no point in losing tears: everyone is trapped by their destiny.
It's en emotionally powerful scene tbh. Him using the single bullet of that pistol in the way he did symbolizes that he felt saving Kerrigan was more important than his grudge against Mensk. I love the Starcraft universe just for its characters.
wow i just noticed that voice talking to tychus is mengsk... damn. And Jim... wow, he has a pistol that can one shot a hero marine. That's IMBA right der.
I know this has been brought up a few times but I believe Tychus was in fact trying to plead with not only Raynor but also Mengsk. If you notice he asks Mengsk if he was reading all of this, like kerrigans change and such, in a way saying is it still necessary to which Mengsk says you have your orders and thus shows he can kill Tychus. In that moment he could've unloaded on Kerrigan but instead slowly draws the pointer up, again pleading even though he should know by now Raynor wouldn't allow it. When Raynor responds with anger and ultimately says we all got our choices to make and unclapse his gun I believe Raynor did it like a warning and with Tychus having no other choice and regret he says its a damn shame, slowly pulling the trigger for Raynor, his now friend to end it.
Tychus didnt want to kill her.. he could have shot her without warning... Also the angle was blockable by Jim. He knew that he would die but he chose how.
He was one of the most charismatic character and certainly the most funny motherfucker with an attitude of the whole serie. I was so angry when they killed him to save the genocidal queen bitch. Just burn her and find another way to kill Amon. I'm sure Zeratul was powerful enough to channel the Xel'naga energy.
Nolan Leahy Doubt that was Jim intention when he killed Tychus, Jim been wanking over Kerrigan pic even before Zeratul told him about Amon. Bitch ass Jim only want to get laid
Poor bro spent 13 years in the freezer taking the heat for Raynor, to get betrayed by Jim while trying to execute the worst mass killer in the history of humanity. Damn shame.
"I made a deal with the devil, Jimmy." This is actually a much more telling line than you might think. "She dies, I go free." Is not what a deal with the devil is. It's quite the opposite, a deal with the devil has you reap the benefits right now, but you have to pay for them in the future. But Tycho *has* made a deal with the devil. He was given the information about the Xel'Naga artifacts. He helped Jimmy find and assemble them. Through his connections to Moebius, he got Raynor's Raiders funding for their rebellion against Mengsk, put crown-prince Valerian into a position to become the rightful ruler of the Dominion *and* set Jimmy up to redeem the Queen of Blades herself. All for the small price of his soul, which the devil came to claim in this moment.
He allowed his best friend to kill him. This is real friendship and he had no choice. It was kill or die but he still gave him the choice to let him kill her or die by his hands.
Okey, Tychus never wanted kill kerrigan. And i think the only way stopping this was dying by raynor. Tychus found the best way to end this. He was wasted...
Wiki: He were shot in the face and died, and Tychus' Armor were holding his major organs up and going, so if he shot Sarah he would be killed by Raynor, if he were not to, Mengsk would turned of his armor and he would die, so I think it was on purpose to fight with Raynor against the zerg until where he had to make his choice: Betray his friends, or make Raynor kill him so he died on his own terms, thats the reason why he gives Raynor a choice to block the bullet and shoot him.
@AbyssalZones I tend to think of it this way: 1) Tychus described his employers as "those Moebius boys". Who else do we know who's involved with the Moebius Foundation? 2) Who else has a vested interest in the removal of threats to his own ambitions? 3) Tychus isn't too bright. Who else would want Tychus to think he was being employed by Mengsk, and would reasonably have access to, oh, voice synthesiser technology? 4) Who stands to gain by making Mengsk look like the villain?
When Jim rolled over to shoot Tychus in the face he rolled on top of Kerrigan. I hope her (now feeble) legs don't mind half a ton of marine combat suit rolling on top of them.
Tychus had all the time to kill Kerrigan AND Jim... if he actually wanted to. But from the story, we all know Tychus never really wanted to hurt Jimmy as he was his best friend. Tychus knew he was on burrowed time. The only thing he could do was choose how he wanted to die. He prefered to die at the hands of his own friend than at the feet of his worst enemy.
Tychus only had to ask the Protoss , friends jim, to release him from that suit them abundance technology to make it smooth . And so I think that only with his mind could do .
But Moebius could kill him while he was asking the Protoss to help him... They see everything what Tychus does and they are able to kill him all the time.
What?? You do realise that they track every step Tychus makes. If they noticed that he wanted to get rid of the suit they would've killed him instantly
what got me was I heard metal on metal with that shot. if it was lead vs flesh and bone we wouldn't have heard that, so I understand now why they brought tycus back as a coop commander
Darn you Jimmy...you didn't even care your old buddy at all...even didn't do anything despite knowing he had this 'gun pointing at his head' all the time
I can't wait for Heart of the Swarm and see how this awesome story continues. Honestly I was expecting Starcraft 2 to be one of these crappy rushed "casual" games that are ruining awesome franchises (like Empire Total War or CnC 4 Tiberian Twilight) I'm glad I was wrong, Starcraft 2 actually turned out to be one of the best games I've ever played, not only in terms of presentation, details, easter eggs, gameplay, EVERYTHING. Few games come out as polished as this one.. Blizzard quality...
