They didn't evolve that way, they were set on this path artificially by the Xel'naga through uplifiting (so they can't really be called "wild animals" anymore), but it was the Overmind who made the conscious decision to consume and assimilate everything in the galaxy, including his creators to preserve/spread the "purity of essence".Gaidin wrote:I don't think they were pulling for evil zerg. Or even noble zerg. At least not until Kerrigan came along. The zerg are basically wild animals. Animals whose nature is to basically assimilate everything. This vastly different from the borg commentary earlier as they don't strike me as a fundamental nature so much as a choice they made to shift how they function millenia ago. The zerg evolved, and their methods were their fundamental nature.
That's totally like the Borg, only they call the latter "perfection".
Revenge never seemed to be much of a priority for Kerrigan, if it was she wouldn't have allowed Mengsk to rebuild his League. No, her goal was to become "Queen Bitch of the Universe" by pwning everyone all at once.Like many naturally wild predators(at least conceptually as might be expected from a story), the Overmind didn't want something controlling it. Enter the assimilation of Kerrigan. This is where the evil comes in. She's a human who basically had the predatory nature of the zerg, combined with its sheer lack of human morality and ethics, imprinted on her brain, but she still had her human thoughts, at least as a personality. She is where the evilness of the zerg comes in I think. Largely until she took over, there actions were all about assimilating the next useful organism into the Hive. She took over, and it became about a cross between revenge and ruling the universe(until she disappeared for half a decade after Brood War).
