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Spineless Coward
Season 6, Episode 15
Air date July 21st, 2018
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Spineless Coward is the fifteenth episode in the sixth season of StarCrafts. It is the one-hundred twenty-seventh episode overall.

Plot[]

The episode starts with a lone drone being battle-hungry as he looks at the main terran base. Around the outskirts of the base, four marines are playing a StarCraft-based role-playing game, with fourth marine as dungeon master. A marine player throws a dice, and its indefinite outcome makes him jump joyfully while others cheer. They notice a drone up ahead. The drone screams cutely and morphs into a building in progress.

The marines leave the game and go into the barracks to grab their weapons. It turns out that they are using kitchen and cleaning utensils. They "shoot" around randomly using mop, duster and spatula, and one of the marines wearing frying pan as helmet use a pair of pan lids as cymbals. However, this bursts the morphing building. Thinking they have defeated an interloper, they cheer triumphantly by dancing in different styles.

However, a drone sound is heard. It is revealed that the building was a diversion that he actually cancelled its process to create a creep around it. He morphs into a building, the spine crawler. The crawler stabs two of the marines, respectively uses one of them to strike the third marine, and another to whip the fourth marine until the stabbed marine is slung into the underwater "sky" faraway.

The defense structure gets revenged by a siege tank in siege mode. Spine crawler uproots crawls away, although it is extremely slow without a creep on the ground. When it takes damage, the queen arrives to assist as she defecates creep (without a creep tumor), allowing it to crawl faster. Raven appears and launches an anti-armor missile. The missile hits the queen's bowels...awkwardly when it throws her off the screen half-shown with missile still lugging her. Spine crawler crawls out of the creep, now being slow again.

Raven mischievously comments, "Systems primed".

Epilogue[]

Queen holds a medicine bottle called "ExLax", whose instruction is to "take 1 per 12h. Psionic Boost!". She takes a pill.

Characters[]

Trivia[]

  • The title of the episode is a second time "Spineless" is written after "Spineless Defence" when it is about spine crawlers.
    • The title is shown as double negative, since the term "spineless" is also a relative synonym for "coward".
  • This is the first time in the series where a drone expresses an angry face other than being cute and joyful.
  • Marines use household utensils like a mop which was shown in two Season 5 episodes.
  • Three of the dance moves by three marines are taken from StarCrafts Mod (and "You Fired") except two of the dancing marines are updated with kitchen pans on their heads.
  • This is the second time queen's bottom is shown. First was in "The Twelve Days of StarCrafts".
  • Oddly, creep tumor isn't used when a queen creates creep by herself.
  • This is the first episode in the series displaying sexual innuendo.
  • "Psionic Boost" ability doesn't exist in any StarCraft games. It only defines an ability from protoss (such as an archon) with "psionic" abilities.

In-game References[]

  • A drone is morphing building before spine crawler. It is a zerg trick that hatchery is mutated first to spread small area of creep during its process before cancelling and changing to another structure quickly on a decaying creep.

Cultural References[]

  • Marines playing a role-playing game is a parody of Dungeons & Dragons whose strategy is about players with stat and skill papers for their character roles using small figurines while a Dungeon Master with a three-fold guide tells them a story and setting for the characters about possible outcomes using dices.
  • ExLax is a parody of Dulcolax, a brand name for laxatives which are cathartics used to speed up bowel movement.
    • A pill from ExLax bottle is blue, referring to viagra pills which are usually colored blue.

Video []

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StarCrafts S6 Ep 15 Spineless Coward

StarCrafts Episode list
Season 1 ProbelemSupply BlockMicro MarineZerg BMChoked UpA Hellion of a HarassRoach ApproachRoach PoachScouting FactorOnslaughtHalloween Special 2012Shes the BombSpore LoserThe BWC 2012Attention SeekerShadow of a ColossusNASL 4 Grand FinalsMarine TrainingThe True Meaning of StarCraftEpic Mule TimeThe BanePhoenix DownI SpyUneggspectedThree For AllHeart of the Swarm Opening
Season 2 Season 2 Episode 0GL HFGot 99 ProbelemsReaping the BenefitsCore ValuesMine for the TakingSpawning Pool PartyPest ControlHellraiserFog of WarUndermine the OvermindNuclearedPower OverwhelmingMutalatedThunder and LightningDeathBallUnstoppableA Swarm WelcomeUnaVOIDableWin of the CenturyTrust the Nidas TouchThat So RavenHalloween Special 2013It's Nerfing TimeCrude BroodOracle OraKILLThe Twelve Days of StarCraftsBurning TideValentine's Day Special
Season 3 Season 3 Episode 0Not Enough MineralsCheeselingBase to BaseProxologistHatch MatchA Miner Probelem (alternate)You FiredNexus HoldemTvTZvZPvPAll for OneBustedCarrier CareerHalloween Special 2014NimbusA StarCrafts CarolDoomDropBeat by CreepTeam WorkArchon ModeGroup HugOverlord OverloadProtoss PartyAlliance
Season 4 Season 4 Episode 0BroodWar in a NutshellBroodWar Ep 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) • WCS Season 3 FinalsHotS & WoL in a NutshellLegacy of the Void OpeningKerrigan & Karax
Season 5 Season 5 Episode 0Game of DronesReaping RewardsAdeptationNova Covert OopsSplashRavager RavengerFreedom FightersSpineless DefenceAbathur & VorazunJimmity & AlarakStarCrafts Mod OpeningHalloween Special 2016CyclOWNEDColossal MistakeNova & StukovHome AloneNation Wars 2017 Grand FinalsArchOnslaughtThe Magic BoxInChargeMineral Line UpLurking AboutOrders are OrdersExecutive DecisionsThe DuelFenix & ZagaraDehaka & SwannThe Fall
Season 6 Season 6 Episode 0The New TerranThe New ZergThe New ProtossBuild OrdersDeep FeelingsMira & ArtanisDeep ImpactNation Wars 2018StarCraft 20th AnniversaryEvolution CompleteHellfireLabotossDo You Even Lift?"Care Again" ft. Kyle OkalyAn Arm and a LegSpineless CowardA Worm WelcomeTychus & SwannDeep TroubleZeratul & Raynor
Season 7 The Beginning of the EndRed is not DeadProtossedMy Life For AiurCruise ControlDefeatThe Beginning of the End (Ep 6)GG No Re

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