History Characters / DarthsAndDroids

* TheRolePlayer: Friend of Ben's from a drama course. Joined the game as a role play exercise. The other players don't mind it most of the time, but she [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0572.html occasionally takes it too far]] for them.

* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: He still creates Darth Vader.[[[spoiler:.. by corrupting Padmé with ambitions to rule the Galaxy.]]

Anakin was a young slave boy who worked in Watto's junkyard on Tatooine. Originally an unimportant throwaway character that the GM inserted merely for colour in one scene, Annie took over playing him after the Jedi took Anakin with them, leaving his mother behind on Tatooine. He became a Jedi padawan, apprenticed to Obi-Wan, and later became a Jedi Knight.

* IAmTheNoun: [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0626.html "I am the legend."]]

!!''"The Moon Ghost" / [[spoiler:Anakin]]''

* TheCorrupter: The ghost has been driving Palpatine mad over the years.

* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler:As it turned out, despite apparently dying on Naboo, Anakin's body was recovered by Palpatine, and harvested for its midi-chlorians, while Anakin's spirit endured.]]
* TheParanoiac: [[spoiler:Anakin's paranoia has only gotten worse thanks to his death. By the time he reappears, he believes even Padmé never loved him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Well, not ''walking'', but, yes. Their presence, and [[spoiler:that they're Anakin is a big twist.]]

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Pays great attention to the most minute of details to use to his advantage -- starting from taking notes of the GM's scrolling screen intro to actually deciphering Pete/R2-D2's beep language to realize that he's being hacked.

** Most of Ben's characters tend to be more grounded OnlySaneMan types like himself; even Hux is usually very deadpan. In Episode VIII, Ben decides to switch things up and plays Rose as a trigger-happy CloudCuckoolander who eagerly goes along with the latest insane plan and boasts about hearing imaginary voices. The other players are a bit nonplussed, unsurprisingly.

* TheRoleplayer: One of the few who actually ''tries'' to keep in-character and out-of-character knowledge separate.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is introduced as a Jedi padawan, apprenticed to Qui-Gon. He later becomes a Jedi Knight and Anakin's master. By the time of ''A New Generation'', is an aging Jedi Master who has been living as a hermit on Tatooine for 19 years. He died on the Peace Moon, using Force Transcend to become a cloud of midi-chlorians that retained his personality.

* LawfulGood: As a Jedi, Obi-Wan should be this in-universe. Ben does well with the Good half, not so much with the Lawful, but still better than Jim.

* TooPowerfulToLive: Being the only character who played through three entire consecutive campaigns and leveled up accordingly, Obi-Wan was the only character who could conceivibly hold his own against Vader in ''A New Generation''. His death solidified Vader's threat [[spoiler:as Padmé was almost nearly the same level as Obi-Wan, and thus she just as vastly overleveled the party as Obi-Wan did]], and forced Ben to switch to Chewbacca, a considerably lower leveled character.

* HypercompetentSidekick: More competent than "Greedo"/"Han", at least. The two seem to get along most of the time, though Chewbacca does occasionally get annoyed when his partner does something stupid, like [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0755.html thoughtlessly lowering their remuneration]].

* SureLetsGoWithThat: His attempt at running a serious dramatic campaign (based off ''Film/ZeroHour1957'') turns into a more action-comedy campaign (''Film/Airplane''). He apparently rolled with it and the group had a lot of fun.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In addition to having a degree, in Episode IV he appears to be playing a one-dimensional goofball... only to reveal that this was an ''in-character'' act. [[spoiler: Not only that, but while playing Han he has betrayed his party five times and gotten away with it simply for the in-character reward money his EngineeredHeroics earned.]]

* MeaningfulName: Jim being one letter off from Jin. No longer meaningful as of Qui-Gon's death. [[spoiler: And gets meaningful again a lot later, when he takes over the NPC "Bria Tharen" in the ''Rogue One'' campaign and immediately renames her "Jyn".]]

** Driving the Rebels from Hoth (as well as their last four bases) [[spoiler: although unlike the other examples, this ''was'' actually something he was aiming to do and not just him screwing things up, as it was part of the character he was playing]].

** [[spoiler: By the time of the sequel trilogy, he's all the way up to "Xasha", and becomes "Yanni" and finally "Zeppo" over the course of the comic. By the time they attack the Peace Moon, he kills what the [=DM=] says is just a nameless trooper and so then ''[[TheNameless declares he now has no name]]''. He reverts to his "Han Solo" identity right before being killed by Kylo Ren.]]

** During the TimeSkip between Episode IV and V, he played [[spoiler: Batman]].

** While he openly admits that [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0192.html he's happy to kill innocent NPCs]], he does care about loyalty between players, and is just as shocked as Corey when [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1111.html it turns out that]] [[spoiler: Han and Chewbacca]] were traitors. When Pete had R2 try to abandon the group back on Hoth, he intended this to be an OutOfCharacterMoment that would make the others realise that R2 must have something wrong with him, but instead they just assumed this was the sort of despicable behaviour one would expect from a {{Munchkin}}. Subverted in that, in the [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0778.html game-within-a-game scene]], R2 makes his hologrammatic character murder Chewbacca's, who is an ally of his - but Pete could argue that this is one more remove from reality, and that, while R2 himself wouldn't behave like that, he might want to play a character who does.

* ShockAndAwe: He's incredibly fond of that shock probe of his.[[spoiler: Given that it's hooked up to the Lost Orb, aka ''the power source of the Peace Moon,'' it's basically a taser that can shatter continents. He's attached to it for a very good reason (and not just literally).]]

Briefly played Shmi before taking over Anakin Skywalker, then switched to Princess Leia in ''Episode IV'', later doubling as Darth Vader. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Vader is actually Padmé in this universe, not Anakin, which means that Annie inherited this character from Jim.]] She plays Cassian in the Rogue One campaign. In ''Episode VII'' when everyone creates new characters she plays Finn.

* KansasCityShuffle: Uses this like mad, particularly in the third campaign where Anakin plays Palpatine and the Jedi against each other, trying to turn himself into the second most powerful man in the galaxy. The other players don't always know what's going on either; it appears the only person Annie has actually briefed on her plans for Anakin is The GM. [[spoiler: Ben noticed, but only brought it up during their climactic fight on the ruins of Naboo.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: A much more credible threat than he ever was in the films. He refuses to beg for his life when Anakin massacres the Separatists, and then [[spoiler: makes his return in Episode 5]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: A rabid believer in the free market. [[spoiler: Even as a computer virus, his parts compete against ''one another'', believing this kind of Darwinian competition is only making them stronger.]]
* HiveMind: Subverted. [[spoiler: His virus form has tons of iterations, but they all work independently from each other, and sometimes against each other due to his rabid belief in market competition.]]
* InvincibleVillain: Always manages to evade justice and cause trouble all over again. [[spoiler: And now that he's become a living and virtually ubiquitous computer virus, the heroes have no realistic hope of ever defeating him for good. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by the DM's notes, which always specify that Gunray should escape to be used in later campaigns.]]

* TheVirus: In later parts of the story, [[spoiler: he replicates his uploaded consciousness throughout the galaxy, mockingly noting that he's "gone viral."]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His primary motivation is to avenge the death of [[spoiler: his detective partner Darth Maul, as well as his wife Zam Wesell]].

* YouKilledMyFather: Jango wants to kill Obi-Wan [[spoiler: for killing his detective partner, Darth Maul; then once Obi-Wan kills Jango, his son Boba comes after him]].

* BizarreAlienBiology: Constantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by him, using metaphors referring to human anatomy and then mentioning he lacks that certain part of anatomy. Also, in the ''Rogue One'' comic, [[spoiler: he looks more like a tentacled monster, as the comic uses Bor Gullet as a stand-in for him, which may be a larval form he has... though his own words on the topic might indicate that it's a form of VoluntaryShapeshifting to a limited degree]].

* CatchPhrase: "Trust me." Never before has that simple phrase been so chilling.

* CatchPhrase: Tends to interject his statements with "'ow you say".

* {{Catchphrase}}: "You'll die", or variations thereupon, usually involving looking at things (like the sky).

* CatchPhrase: Calling people "good buddy".