Jim Raynor

General James Eugene Raynor
StarCraft character
Raynor as he appears in StarCraft II.
First game	StarCraft (1998)
Created by	Chris Metzen James Phinney
Designed by	Chris Metzen
Voiced by	Robert Clotworthy
Fictional profile
Species	Terran
Affiliation	Raynor's Raiders
Position	General of the Terran Dominion Captain of the Hyperion Leader of Raynor's Raiders Mar Sara confederate marshall

General James Eugene "Jim" Raynor is a fictional character and a major protagonist in Blizzard Entertainment's science fiction StarCraft series. Raynor is a predominant character in the science fiction real-time strategy video games StarCraft and Brood War, and is a player character in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Outside video games, Raynor appears in the novels Liberty's Crusade and Queen of Blades, while his backstory is explored in the novels Heaven's Devils and Devil's Due. Robert Clotworthy voices the character in all video game appearances.

Created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, Raynor is loosely based on a character of the same name in the 1991 film Rush. Metzen conceived Raynor to represent the ordinary man in a series populated with politically motivated characters. Raynor's physical appearance was designed by Metzen himself. A Terran in his thirties, Raynor is a former soldier and outlaw who eventually becomes a marshal on a backwater colony world. Raynor joins Arcturus Mengsk's revolution against the oppressive Terran Confederacy but becomes disillusioned with Mengsk's genocidal tactics, forming his own paramilitary group to challenge Mengsk's tyranny.