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** To both Darth Malgus and Darth Jadus, as all three are Sith who believe the Empire needs major reform. Out of these, Darth Malgus is the most confrontational, as he hijacks Ilum's resources to launch an all-out civil war that he loses badly. [[spoiler:He only survives after being brainwashed to obey the new Sith Emperor's (either Acina or Vowran) will, and once he breaks free of ''that'', continues to openly plot against the Empire.]] Jadus also masterminds an incredibly ruthless plan of launching weapons of mass destruction on his own people, all so he can terrorize the galaxy ''and'' the Dark Council into obeying his will. However, he consciously avoids provoking open war, and would rather just go into hiding if Cipher Nine convinces him he can't win (although unlike Malgus, it's also possible to side with him). Darth Marr is the most restrained and least power-hungry of them all, only putting his plans into action after the Dark Council's suffered enough losses to be put on the backfoot, and never seeks more power for himself, being only concerned for the good of the Empire.
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: {{Averted|Trope}}: the Imperial hero can comment that Acina is rather attractive and healthy looking for a Sith Lord on the Dark Council. She jokes that recruitment for the Sith might be better if everyone looked like her, but why she looks so healthy is unexplained. She looks beautiful as an older woman as well.

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* EvilMakesYouUgly: {{Averted|Trope}}: the Imperial hero can comment that Acina is rather attractive and healthy looking for a Sith Lord on the Dark Council. She jokes that recruitment for the Sith might be better if everyone looked like her, her (and there are other atractive Sith out there as well), but why how she managed to retain her good looks so healthy is unexplained.unexplained, especially since she's not a particularly noble person in any respect. She looks beautiful as an older woman as well.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The PlayerCharacter can extend her an offer to join the Republic, but she politely declines because she cares about the Empire too much.[[spoiler: That, and she finds the Republic to be too inefficient as compared to the Empire. Averted as of ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'', as she found the Empire just as inefficient.]]

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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The PlayerCharacter can extend her an offer to join the Republic, but she politely declines because she cares about the Empire too much.[[spoiler: That, and she finds the Republic to be too inefficient as compared to the Empire. Averted as of ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'', as she found the Empire just as inefficient.inefficient, but hasn't let go of her ruthlessness and dark side leanings.]]
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: [[spoiler:He'll do this to an Imperial-aligned character from Ossus onwards, especially if you play Dark-sided. He's visibly saddened and aghast at the war crimes committed by the Sith Empire, but make it clear that he doesn't believe ''you'' could be capable of doing such things...even if you allowed or encouraged such atrocities instead of using your influence to curtail them.]]

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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: [[spoiler:He'll [[spoiler:Provided you keep him around, he'll do this to an Imperial-aligned character from Ossus onwards, especially if you play Dark-sided. He's visibly saddened and aghast at the war crimes committed by the Sith Empire, but make it clear that he doesn't believe ''you'' could be capable of doing such things...even if you allowed or encouraged such atrocities instead of using your influence to curtail them.]]

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* {{Expy}}: Of Darth Vader. His design even looks like a more modern, updated look for a post-Mustafar Anakin.



* LargeAndInCharge: While bosses being abnormally tall is pretty common in [=MMOs=], the guy is no less imposing as a "normal" NPC - he dwarfs even a body type 3 male.

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* LargeAndInCharge: While bosses being abnormally tall is pretty common in [=MMOs=], the guy is no less imposing as a "normal" NPC - he dwarfs even a body type 3 male. He also seems to weigh a ton judging by the sounds he makes just by walking or jumping around.



* MadeOfIron: He survived a grenade exploding in his face, among other things.

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* MasterSwordsman: After being defeated in ''The False Emperor'', the player character notes that his lightsaber technique was flawless. Makes sense after all, considering that Malgus is widely considered one of the strongest Sith the Empire has ever produced.
* MadeOfIron: He survived a grenade exploding in his face, a explosive blast of Force energy throwing him into a mountain, and a beating so severe that he was considered ''dead'' for multiple years, among other things.things.
* MagicKnight. Like all Force Users, but Malgus has the unique distinction of being this gameplay wise. He fights with a mixture of Sorcerer style lightning attacks and elaborate combos with his lightsaber.


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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Malgus possesses the red-yellow eyes of a Sith who is fully immersed in the Dark Side, which is interesting considering how calm and collected he is usually.
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* ScaryBlackMan: While you normally can't tell [[(TheFaceless for obvious reasons,)]] under his mask/hood he's a [[BaldOfEvil bald black guy.]]

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* ScaryBlackMan: While you normally can't tell [[(TheFaceless ([[TheFaceless for obvious reasons,)]] reasons,]]) under his mask/hood he's a [[BaldOfEvil bald black guy.]]
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* ScaryBlackMan: While you normally can't tell [[TheFaceless for obvious reasons,]] under his mask/hood he's a [[BaldOfEvil bald black guy.]]

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* ScaryBlackMan: While you normally can't tell [[TheFaceless [[(TheFaceless for obvious reasons,]] reasons,)]] under his mask/hood he's a [[BaldOfEvil bald black guy.]]
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* ScaryBlackMan: While you normally can't tell [[TheFaceless for obvious reasons,]] under his mask/hood he's a [[BaldOfEvil bald black guy.]]
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* DepravedBisexual: It's strongly implied she's bi, and givne she's a hedonistic Sith...

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* DepravedBisexual: It's strongly implied she's bi, and givne given she's a hedonistic Sith...



* CreepyMonotone: A trait shared by all of the Dread Masters, though his tone is noticibly more high-pitched than the others.

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* CreepyMonotone: A trait shared by all of the Dread Masters, though his tone is noticibly noticeably more high-pitched than the others.



* EvilutionaryBiologist: Apparently, if her ravings about wanting to turn the operations group in Dread Fortess into cyborgs - and therefore, reach their 'full potential' [[spoiler:like her]] - is to be believed.

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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Apparently, if her ravings about wanting to turn the operations group in Dread Fortess Fortress into cyborgs - and therefore, reach their 'full potential' [[spoiler:like her]] - is to be believed.



* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:After the Imperial Explosive Conflict Cutscene, he states that the Dread Masters are driven by a 'higher purpose' than the Empire itself. During the Republic Oricon ending cutscene, he states that the Dread Masters were 'enslaved' by a 'higher purpose,' perhaps aluding to them either being [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] to a GreaterScopeVillain, or, perhaps, they were simply victims of SanitySlippage caused by their [[MindRape own powers]].]]

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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:After the Imperial Explosive Conflict Cutscene, he states that the Dread Masters are driven by a 'higher purpose' than the Empire itself. During the Republic Oricon ending cutscene, he states that the Dread Masters were 'enslaved' by a 'higher purpose,' perhaps aluding alluding to them either being [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]] to a GreaterScopeVillain, or, perhaps, they were simply victims of SanitySlippage caused by their [[MindRape own powers]].]]



* PointyHairedBoss: While a competent administrator, [[spoiler:she doesn't seem to have the right instincts to be the leader of an Intelligence outfit, ''twice'' failing to notice moles right under her nose: first Agent Kovach, then much later Theron Shan. Admittedly, she was only a couple of months or so into her role as the Minister of Sith Intelligence when Agent Kovach infiltrated her budding organisation (a organisation that she had to built up) and went straight into dealing with Ziost.]]

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* PointyHairedBoss: While a competent administrator, [[spoiler:she doesn't seem to have the right instincts to be the leader of an Intelligence outfit, ''twice'' failing to notice moles right under her nose: first Agent Kovach, then much later Theron Shan. Admittedly, she was only a couple of months or so into her role as the Minister of Sith Intelligence when Agent Kovach infiltrated her budding organisation organization (a organisation organization that she had to built up) and went straight into dealing with Ziost.]]



* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: If romanced, her letters to the PlayerCharacter comes across as this.[[spoiler: Absolutely willing to tear apart Odessen, forests and all, after the Commander went missing in Visions of Dark, her letter after Umbara was this as well, not to mention Nathema intro, where she vocalised her opposition to anyone taking the Commander away from her.]]

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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: If romanced, her letters to the PlayerCharacter comes across as this.[[spoiler: Absolutely willing to tear apart Odessen, forests and all, after the Commander went missing in Visions of Dark, her letter after Umbara was this as well, not to mention Nathema intro, where she vocalised vocalized her opposition to anyone taking the Commander away from her.]]
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Valkorion electrocutes him right at the start of Knights Of The Fallen Empire. He comes back several chapters later as a force ghost, but, being a ghost, can only advice the player and act as a QuestGiver.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Dark Side option for dealing with Thana Vesh at the end of the Imperial Taris questline. Given her interactions with your character, it's hard to imagine anyone actually letting her live. (Arguably, letting her live is a light side option because it ''undermines'' the Empire by allowing her incompetence to continue!)

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Dark Side option for dealing with Thana Vesh at the end of the Imperial Taris questline. Given her interactions with your character, it's hard to imagine anyone actually letting her live. (Arguably, letting her live is a light side option because it ''undermines'' the Empire by allowing her incompetence to continue!)
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: [[spoiler:He'll do this to an Imperial-aligned character from Ossus onwards, especially if you play Dark-sided. He's visibly saddened and aghast at the war crimes committed by the Sith Empire, but make it clear that he doesn't believe ''you'' could be capable of doing such things...even if you allowed or encouraged such atrocities instead of using your influence to curtail them.]]
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* NobleDemon: She is loyal to the Sith and the Empire and can't be dissuaded [[spoile:until the Osuus storyline]], but she is very honorable and kind nonetheless.

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* NobleDemon: She is loyal to the Sith and the Empire and can't be dissuaded [[spoile:until [[spoiler:until the Osuus storyline]], but she is very honorable and kind nonetheless.
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* NobleDemon: She is loyal to the Sith and the Empire and can't be dissuaded, but she is very honorable and kind nonetheless.

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* NobleDemon: She is loyal to the Sith and the Empire and can't be dissuaded, dissuaded [[spoile:until the Osuus storyline]], but she is very honorable and kind nonetheless.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: His reasoning [[spoiler:for potentially turning on the Sith Warrior in the Nathema Flashpoint is that they betrayed their duty as Emperor's Wrath by opposing and killing off Valkorion. Never mind that Valkorion was an OmnicidalManiac who planned to annihilate even the Sith Empire for his own selfish reasons, something that ''every other Sith Lord'' caught on to and rightfully turned against Valkorion for.]]
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* YouMonster[=/=]EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:His reaction to the Dark Side option at the climax of the Imperial side of the Makeb questline. Considering what it is [[OmnicidalManiac what]] [[KillEmAll that]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom is]], it's kind of justified.]]

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* YouMonster[=/=]EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:His reaction to the Dark Side option at the climax of the Imperial side of the Makeb questline. Considering what it is [[OmnicidalManiac what]] [[KillEmAll that]] that [[EarthShatteringKaboom is]], it's kind of justified.]]



* FallenHero: Zig-zagged; he was once the charismatic Jedi Knight who led his fellow Jedi to save the Republic from the Mandalorians. Then he [[WellIntentionedExtremist betrayed the Republic in order to strengthen them to fight the True Sith.]] Then he was betrayed by his best friend. He would redeem himself by saving the Republic again, this time from his EvilFormerFriend. Then he would face the Emperor alongside his past allies & a [[TokenEvilTeammate Sith Lord]]. He was betrayed once again and had to watch his closest allies die in front of him. He would suffer AFateWorseThanDeath for the next 300 years before being freed from his prison. By now he has fallen back to [[PragmaticHero the Dark Side again]]. Now his solution is to [[KillEmAll exterminate all who have Sith Blood]]. After encountering a group of the Empire's finest [[spoiler: and being killed, he would have an internal conflict of whether to [[PassingTheTorch move on and let the current Knights of the Republic complete his quest]] or [[RevengeBeforeReason exact revenge against the monster who stopped him from being with his family]]. His good half chooses to move on while his dark half refuses. His dark half begins using his own corpse in order to resurrect the Emperor by sacrificing an entire planet so he can kill him permanently, and he's still being manipulated by the [[ManipulativeBastard being he's trying kill no less!]]]] By the end of ''Shadow Of Revan'' he can only reflect on the horrors he's committed & how much [[WellIntentionedExtremist his actions]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog were ultimately in vain]] before merging with his good half. He is ultimately known as [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Revan ''the Prodigal Knight.'']]

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* FallenHero: Zig-zagged; he was once the charismatic Jedi Knight who led his fellow Jedi to save the Republic from the Mandalorians. Then he [[WellIntentionedExtremist betrayed the Republic in order to strengthen them to fight the True Sith.]] Then he was betrayed by his best friend. He would redeem himself by saving the Republic again, this time from his EvilFormerFriend. Then he would face the Emperor alongside his past allies & a [[TokenEvilTeammate Sith Lord]]. He was betrayed once again and had to watch his closest allies die in front of him. He would suffer AFateWorseThanDeath for the next 300 years before being freed from his prison. By now he has fallen back to [[PragmaticHero the Dark Side again]]. Now his solution is to [[KillEmAll exterminate all who have Sith Blood]].Blood. After encountering a group of the Empire's finest [[spoiler: and being killed, he would have an internal conflict of whether to [[PassingTheTorch move on and let the current Knights of the Republic complete his quest]] or [[RevengeBeforeReason exact revenge against the monster who stopped him from being with his family]]. His good half chooses to move on while his dark half refuses. His dark half begins using his own corpse in order to resurrect the Emperor by sacrificing an entire planet so he can kill him permanently, and he's still being manipulated by the [[ManipulativeBastard being he's trying kill no less!]]]] By the end of ''Shadow Of Revan'' he can only reflect on the horrors he's committed & how much [[WellIntentionedExtremist his actions]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog were ultimately in vain]] before merging with his good half. He is ultimately known as [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Revan ''the Prodigal Knight.'']]



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: His plan for winning the war may just rival the very Empire he's fighting in terms of how [[KillEmAll extreme it is]].

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: His plan for winning the war may just rival the very Empire he's fighting in terms of how [[KillEmAll extreme it is]].is.
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* KnightTemplar: She ''hates'' the Empire and has a lot of good reasons to do so, but her methods and attitude veer heavily into this.

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* KnightTemplar: She ''hates'' the Empire and has a lot of good reasons to do so, but her methods and attitude veer heavily into this. [[spoiler:The fact that she'll even turn on a Light-sided Republic Outlander for ''daring'' to discuss an alliance with the Sith Empire in ''Knights of the Eternal Throne'' serves as a rock-bottom moment that firmly establishes her as someone beyond reason.]]
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her role as a physically powerful, pragmatic member of the Dark Council that wants the Sith to rise above their internecine struggles effectively makes her a belated successor to Darth Marr.
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* CoolPet: She has a giant Flutterplume as a pet.
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* MoreDakka: His WeaponOfChoice is a large, explosive-firing weapon (either a blaster cannon, rocket launcher, or a GrenadeLauncher).

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* MoreDakka: His WeaponOfChoice weapon is a large, explosive-firing weapon (either a blaster cannon, rocket launcher, or a GrenadeLauncher).
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* HiddenDepths: Thana could've killed or at least attacked the player multiples times during the Taris storyline, but ultimately opted to just talk smack and then leave at every chance. This seems to imply that for all her threats, she really did see their rivalry as a friendly competition. [[spoiler: At least until the ''player'' decides to kill her in the final mission.]]
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* {{Troll}}: For Republic players from ''Onslaught'' onwards, as a lone Sith amongst Jedi, she enjoys teasing Arn and Tau by leaning into the whole menacing Sith stereotype.

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* {{Troll}}: For Republic players from ''Onslaught'' onwards, as a lone Sith amongst Jedi, she enjoys teasing Arn and Tau by leaning into the whole menacing sinister Sith stereotype.

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* UndyingLoyalty: By the lead up to to Onslaught, she is 100% loyal to the PlayerCharacter in whatever they do. When she tells them that they will need to soon pick a side again in the Republic/Empire war, if asked if she would really be willing to side against the Empire, she states that she would happily do it since her loyalty now lies with you than the Empire.

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* {{Troll}}: For Republic players from ''Onslaught'' onwards, as a lone Sith amongst Jedi, she enjoys teasing Arn and Tau by leaning into the whole menacing Sith stereotype.
-->'''Lana:''' ''(On meeting Arn on Onderon)'' I so rarely get to menace innocent young Jedi anymore.
* UndyingLoyalty: By the lead up to to Onslaught, ''Onslaught'', she is 100% loyal to the PlayerCharacter in whatever they do. When she tells them that they will need to soon pick a side again in the Republic/Empire war, if asked if she would really be willing to side against the Empire, she states that she would happily do it since her loyalty now lies with you than the Empire.

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* CrusadingWidow: If he is killed/captured by the Bounty Hunter, then his widow shows up in The Nathema Conspiracy for revenge.



* VengefulWidow: If he is killed/captured by the Bounty Hunter, then his widow shows up in The Nathema Conspiracy for revenge.
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* TalkingToYourself: His voice actor also plays Darth Andru, [[spoiler:who is one of the Force ghosts riding around in the Sith Inquisitor's head by this point]].
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* MrExposition: Narrates [[spoiler:the Terror From Beyond operation]]. After the Republic Oricon ending cutscene, [[spoiler:hestumbles out of Dread Fortress, alive, babbling incoherently about how the Dread Masters were chains that uplifted one another. He was as much a victim of the Dread Masters' powers as anyone else.]]

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* MrExposition: Narrates [[spoiler:the Terror From Beyond operation]]. After the Republic Oricon ending cutscene, [[spoiler:hestumbles [[spoiler:he stumbles out of Dread Fortress, alive, babbling incoherently about how the Dread Masters were chains that uplifted one another. He was as much a victim of the Dread Masters' powers as anyone else.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Darth Marr as the phsyically powerful, pragmatic member of the Dark Council that wants the Sith to rise above their internecine struggles.
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* EvilerThanThou: It's heavily implied that Grand Moff Kilran will murder anyone who stands in the way of his plans, including '''Sith'''. During the Black Talon flashpoint, if you antagonize Kilran too much he'll start subtly threatening your character, either by implying that he'll destroy your ship if you don't engage the Brentaal Star or, after the mission, that he's in such a good mood that he ''won't'' poison you for your insolence. Considering that he's a loyal, high ranking member of a society where Force Users are considered the ruling class, it's...odd to say the least.


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* VillainOfAnotherStory: Kilran is a certified monster whose committed innumerable atrocities both during and after the Great Galactic War, but his role in our stories is rather minimal.
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* KnifeNut: Attempts to fight Malgus with a combat knife.

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