History Characters / KnightsoftheOldRepublic

* MeaningfulName: Some of the randomized names can be pretty meaningful if you want them to be. [[spoiler: Oh, and Darth Revan really is a ''revenant'' - someone who returns from the dead. You can get some ''revenge'' too, if you choose the Dark Side path. In universe, it's derived from Revanchism, the ideology of seeking to retake land lost in war, essentially what Revan did during the crusades.]]

* MeaningfulName: Some of the randomized names can be pretty meaningful if you want them to be. [[spoiler: Oh, and Darth Revan really is a ''revenant'' - someone who returns from the dead. You can get some ''revenge'' too, if you choose the Dark Side path.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's the most reluctant to kill the Padawans and advocates waiting as long as possible, saying that they should contact the Council about their vision before acting. He still does it in the end, but murdering his student clearly affects him more than the others.

** The times a player character gets anything resembling approval from him? In the first game, [[spoiler: he's relieved you were able to bring Juhani home]]. In the second game, he ''almost'' apologizes if you run the LS option [[spoiler: and defend Khoonda successfully from the mercenaries].

* StupidEvil: He joined the Sith because he didn't believe they were as bad as Republic propaganda says, and because he blamed his father for not being able to save his mother from dying...despite the fact that ''The Sith killed his mother in the first place.''

* BrutalHonesty: When Mission asks him how Taris rates as a place to live in the eyes of an experienced spacer like him, he tells her outright that Taris has a huge amount of social inequality and discrimination that makes it one of the worse places he's seen.

* DeadpanSnarker: He is one.

** If you mouse over the 'force bar' in-game, he actually has force points, whereas every other non-jedi character does not.

* CatFolk: Comes with being a Cathar.

* PettingZooPeople: She's a Cathar, albeit one of the Juhani subspecies, which are more human-looking than other Cathars.

* {{Troll}}: While their personality is mostly up to the player, the ammount of times when you can mess with somebody for no good reason is quite remarkable. [[spoiler: It probably has something to do with their previous personality - see below.]]

* WouldHurtASenior: When angered by Kreia in the sequel, he makes it clear that he doesn't discriminate on age. But to be fair, he's fairly old himself at that point.

* PlayerCharacter: [[CaptainObvious Duh.]]

* BrokenPedestal: Several of them, in fact. If you decide to betray the Hidden Beks for the Black Vulkars, Mission will initially be against the idea because she looks ups to and idolizes Gadon, however the Vulkars will then reveal that it's common knowledge how Gadon and the Beks don't respect Mission in the least and keep her and Zaalbar around
as mascots. This is enough motivation to not turn on the player should they betray Gadon. Then of course there's the scenario with her brother...

* InsaneAdmiral: Saul is an utterly ruthless bastard who, after defecting to the Sith and becoming the Admiral in charge of their fleet, has razed multiple worlds. He also takes a lot of pleasure in torturing the player, Carth and Bastila, with Bastila saying the Dark Side's taken its toll on his mind.

* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: [[PlayedForDrama Played For Drama]] Krynda Draay has a vision in which the First Watch Circle execute their Padawans. She suffers a stroke, rendering her unable to move. Subsequently, Haazen imprisons her in a crystal oubliette to keep her alive in stasis, where she experiences the Padawan massacre repeatedly. Krynda barely endures the torment because of her desperate hope that her son [[Lucien Draay KnightTemplar]] will never commit murder. When she is removed from the stasis pod and Lucien tells her the truth, that he did not kill any Padawans, he ordered their murders. Outraged and horrified, she tells him no mission is worth the lives of younglings, and asked Lucien who had led him to believe that murdering the Padawans was the right thing to do. She is horrified when Lucien says she had, and that he had done it to carry out her mission—by any means necessary. Realizing that her teachings had led her son to murder his students, Krynda claimed that she had been wrong the entire time. In her last moments, she told Lucien to accept his mistakes and face the future with humility.

* NotSoDifferent: To Zayne, both of them having been inept Padawans and best friends with the most talented one in the group. The difference is that Haazen took it for granted that he would succeed, while Zayne accepted his likely failure.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:She has a change of heart about Zayne after he tries to rescue her despite everything she and the Covenant had done to him. Unfortunately, her hand then gets caught on some wreckage and when she ignites her lightsaber to cut it off, Gryph assumes that she's trying to attack Zayne and detonates the bombs in the Jedi Tower, killing her.]]