History Characters / StarWarsTheatricalLegends

* CartwrightCurse: A rather unfunny trend in the EU is if that you're set up to be Obi's love interest, you'll end up dying in his arms. All three women he has admitted to loving have died in his arms.

->Played by: Julian Glover (Ep.V)

* OffingTheOffspring: His having [[TheForceUnleashed Starkiller]] and [[ReturnOfTheJedi Luke]] try to murder Vader after defeating him in two separate occasions can easily be interpreted as this after ''Literature/DarthPlagueis''. See LukeIAmYourFather[=/=]NiceJobFixingItVillain for the circumstances behind this.

[[folder:Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious]]

[[folder:C-3PO and R2-D2]]

!Other Rebel Alliance members

[[HumansAreWhite The only black guy in the Galaxy.]] Well, him and Mace, that is. Though introduced as a somewhat shady former business partner of Han's, he ends up [[DefaultToGood Defaulting To Good]] when Vader tramples all over him. He later flies the ''Millennium Falcon'' in the Battle of Endor; the ship used to be his, until Han [[LostHimInACardGame won it off him]].

[[folder:IG-88]]

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[[folder: Luke Skywalker]]

[[folder: Han Solo]]

[[folder: Leia Organa]]

[[folder: Chewbacca]]

[[folder: Lando Calrissian]]
!!Lando Calrissian
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[[caption-width-right:251:''"I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Billy Dee Williams (Ep.V-VI)

-->''"Yeah, I'm responsible these days. It's the price you pay for being successful."''

[[HumansAreWhite The only black guy in the Galaxy.]] Well, him and Mace, that is. Though introduced as a somewhat shady former business partner of Han's, he ends up [[DefaultToGood Defaulting To Good]] when Vader tramples all over him. He later flies the ''Millennium Falcon'' in the Battle of Endor; the ship used to be his, until Han [[LostHimInACardGame won it off him]].
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* BadassGrandpa: Even in his sixties, he will still happily help out his friends whenever they need it.
* HappilyMarried: After a few years of searching for the right woman, he settled down with Tendra Risant.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Obi-Wan Kenobi]]

[[folder: C-3PO and R2-D2]]

!!Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)

[[folder: Mon Mothma]]
!!Mon Mothma
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[[caption-width-right:350:''" The Emperor's made a critical error, and the time for our attack has come."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Caroline Blakiston (Ep. VI) & Genevieve O'Reilly (Ep. III)

An important political figure who founded and led the Rebel Alliance. Later becomes Chief of State of the New Republic after the downfall of the Empire.

* AscendedExtra: Plays a large role in ''Legends'' fiction that takes place before, during, and after the Galactic Civil War.
* BigGood: Better demonstrated in ''Legends'' than in ''Return Of The Jedi''.

[[folder: Gial Ackbar]]
!!Admiral Gial Ackbar
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's a trap!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Timothy M. Rose (Ep.VI)

A fish-person from a species called the Mon Calamari, Ackbar appears in the last hour of ''Return of the Jedi'' but, like Wedge, has gone on to be a pivotal member of the ExpandedUniverse. He commands the Rebel fleet during the Battle of Endor, during which he famously pronounced "It's a trap!".

* AllThereInTheManual: His given name, Gial, was first mentioned in ''The Essential Guide To Warfare''.
* CharacterDeath: Dies of old age near the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War.

[[folder: Wedge Antilles]]
!!Wedge Antilles
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Cut to the left, I'll take the leader."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Denis Lawson (Ep.IV-VI) & Colin Higgins (briefly in Ep.IV)

A starfighter pilot, Wedge appears in all three Original Trilogy movies, despite having no particular role, importance or PlotArmor. For this reason, he is a major figure in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, where he is often referred to as the finest pilot in the galaxy, by virtue of having survived more Death Stars than anyone living or dead. Played by Denis Lawson, except for the one scene when he isn't.

* BadassNormal: Especially in the ''Legends'' storylines.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In the ''Legends'' storylines, "another story" ends up being told quite often.

[[folder: Crix Madine]]
!!General Crix Madine
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-> Played by: Dermot Crowley(Ep. VI)

A former Imperial Intelligence officer who defected to the Rebels, supplying valuable knowledge and information crucial to their success in the battle of Endor.

* HeelFaceTurn: The circumstances of his defection from the Empire are depicted in the first ''VideoGame/RogueSquadron'' video game.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Courtesy of the much-maligned ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Darksaber]]''. He's murdered by Durga the Hutt in the course of trying to sabotage a superweapon that, about ten minutes later, proves to be of such shoddy construction ''it can't even fire'' and gets smashed between two asteroids.

[[folder: Biggs Darklighter]]
!!Biggs Darklighter
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-> Played by: Garrick Hagon(Ep. IV)

Luke's BigBrotherMentor from Tatooine. He left to join the Rebel Alliance prior to the events of A New Hope. He and Luke meet again upon finding out that they're both set to take on the Death Star in the battle of Yavin together. Sadly, Biggs is shot down by Imperial fighters.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Never mentioned in the films after his untimely demise in ''A New Hope''. Sadly, this also expands to most ''Legends'' stories.

[[folder: Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious]]
!!Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine (Darth Sidious)
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[[caption-width-right:292:''"So be it...Jedi. If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed! Young fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side."'']]

->Played by: Ian [=McDiarmid=] (Ep.I-III; VI, and the rerelease of V)
->Voiced by: Clive Revill (Ep.V, original version)

-->''Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy! Let the hate flow through you.''

Also known as Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith. [[BigBad The man pulling the strings]] [[MagnificentBastard from the very beginning]], and working to subvert Anakin to TheDarkSide. Originally a Senator from Naboo, he was eventually nominated Chancellor of the Republic and ruled with great popularity and acclaim. During the Clone Wars, he began to take emergency war-time powers on himself. All of this would've been pretty UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill if he hadn't secretly been UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler; he played both the Republic and the Separatists against each other, wiped out the Jedi, and came out on top. Though Palpatine is one of the most important characters in the franchise, he doesn't appear in all six films; he missed Episode IV, just like Yoda did.

* AntagonisticOffspring: He actually bullies his dad and mom to get what he wants when his father bans him from racing ever again (and [[DrivesLikeCrazy for good reason]]).
* TheAntiChrist: Heavily implied to be this in various sources, including the ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel. Reading his childhood background on Wookiepedia feels like reading something from ''Film/TheOmen''.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He was heavily implied in various sources and confirmed in ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' to have come from a noble background. The specific noble house was the "House of Palpatine." Deconstructed as it's implied to be one of the less well-known noble houses.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]], although not by AsskickingEqualsAuthority, surprisingly.
* BadBoss: Vader implies in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' that the Emperor is even worse of a boss than himself. The ExpandedUniverse confirms it, actually killing an engineer seven times, each more horrifying than the last, just because he made a mistake with the Death Star that resulted in it being blown up. The novelization and deleted scenes for ''Return of the Jedi'' establish that he had ordered Moff Jerjerrod to destroy Endor if the Rebel forces succeeded in capturing the shield generator, regardless of how many of his troops died as a result.
* BloodFromTheMouth: In ''Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison'', Palpatine had blood running from his mouth and nose because of his being infected with Aorth-6. Unlike most examples, [[ForegoneConclusion he ultimately doesn't die from it]].
* TheCaligula: While not this in the main story, his resurrection in the Dark Empire arc has him playing this trope very much straight from then onwards, as he has become so insane that he ends up not having his empire being successful under his reign. It is also heavily implied in ''DarkEmpire'' (and confirmed in ''The Essential Atlas'') that the reason for his increased insanity had to do with his constant transference of his soul into clone bodies.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Palpatine hated his father because he viewed his father as being grossly incompetent and responsible for his misfortune. Eventually, [[SelfMadeOrphan he does far more than simply "call him out" for it.]]
* ConMan: Palpatine, in many ways, is one. He cons everyone (Anakin, Padme, the Republic, the Senate, the Trade Federation, Darth Plagueis, the Rebel Alliance, even Jar Jar) in order to get what he wants: revenge on the Jedi and control of the galaxy. Then, he tries to con and corrupt Luke and it all falls apart.
* ConsummateLiar: Palpatine/Sidious was shown to be skilled enough at deception and manipulation to render even Plagueis' attempts at probing Palpatine via the Force to be null and void, although his being strong in the Dark Side at an early age would probably be another reason for this as well.
* TheCorrupter: He served as this Anakin, earning his trust and leading him astray in order to turn him into Darth Vader.
* DeceptiveDisciple: Palpatine/Darth Sidious is an inversion, who instead deceives and abuses his disciples. The [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] reveals that Palpatine never intended to be replaced by an apprentice at all; rather, he concocted a complex scheme to achieve practical immortality through the use of [[DarkEmpire clone bodies]]. Taking on apprentices seems to be somewhat of an amusing diversion to him.
* DemonicPossession: Palpatine's last resort for survival in ''Empire's End'' was to possess Anakin Solo on Onderon, and it would have worked if an already dying Empatojayos Brand didn't intercept his spirit's trajectory in a variation of TakingTheBullet.
* DirtyOldMan: Some sources mention that, while the Galactic Emperor, he kept concubines and given his age, it's unlikely that they'd be as old as him. Still, others say that he was completely asexual as he felt that he would be disgraced by physical contact with his inferiors.
* [[DoNotCallMePaul Do Not Call Me Cosinga]]: He's strongly implied to have been born Cosinga Palpatine II, after his father. However, Palpatine hated his father so much that he dropped his first name and is henceforth known only by his last name.
* DraggedOffToHell: After a fashion, his ultimate fate in the EU. After his death in ''Return of the Jedi'', he's still powerful enough to [[GrandTheftMe body-hop]] for a while. After the main characters kill him a couple times, Jedi Master Empatojayos Brand (an Order 66 survior [[KarmicDeath no less]]) pulls a HeroicSacrifice and uses his death to [[TakingYouWithMe drag]] Palpatine to the afterlife, where every Jedi who ever lived and died are able to ''throw'' Palpatine into Hell once and for all.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: He ended up crashing his speeder as well as committing manslaughter against two pedestrians.
* EnfantTerrible: He went to some of the most prestigious schools in the galaxy, but usually ended up expelled shortly after joining up for petty misdemeanors and his crimes, regardless of whether they were minor or not, were extensive enough that, had he not been the son of a nobleman nor his father bribe the authorities, he would have spent time in a correctional facility. Then he committed manslaughter while driving his speeder recklessly.
* EtTuBrute: His murder of Darth Plagueis qualifies as such, as Plagueis certainly didn't intend for the Rule of Two to be followed.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Apparently, Palpatine would have hated himself if he used illusions to break his opponent's will, going by what Mara Jade commented upon. Given this is ''[[TheSociopath Palpatine]]'' we're discussing, he probably meant before using physical torture first.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Palpatine experiences RapidAging from his use of the Dark Side, to the point that he has to regularly transfer his soul to new bodies. He first got that way from getting the crap shocked out of him when Mace Windu deflected his force lightning back at his face. Though it was also known that it was his true form and that he was hiding it all this time.
* EvilRedhead: His natural hair color is red.
* FantasticRacism: Used in the ExpandedUniverse to explain why, in a galaxy filled with aliens, the Empire only ever hires humans. Somewhat vague on whether he himself believed this, or merely fostered it because [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans it made the galaxy easier to control.]]
* FromASingleCell: The method in which he revived himself involved transferring his spirit into clone bodies of himself and continually doing so until his ultimate demise. This process was also heavily implied to have increased his insanity to Caligula levels.
* AGodAmI: Inverted, he believes himself [[GodOfEvil to be the Dark Side incarnate]]. Given the little amount of the story revealed for the upcoming Darth Plagueis novel (where he felt a shift in the Force shortly after murdering Plagueis and communicates with it), it's very likely that his belief is well-founded.
** By the time of DarkEmpire, however, he's become the closest thing to a [[PhysicalGod Physical]] GodEmperor that the series has due to his revival. Proof of this was the fact that he could generate Force Storms (the wormhole variety) simply by his own will, without any apparent drain on his force abilities. [[note]]To put it in perspective, only one Sith Lord before him, Darth Rivan, had ever utilized this sort of power, and it was only with the aid of the darkstaff, which required all of his force power to even utilize the ability; it decimated his entire army with him at the "eye" of the storm and he ended up being traveled to the Light and Darkness War in the future where he ended up dying somewhat ironically (ie, he was killed easily by a force user, whether it was a Jedi or a Sith is never specified).[[/note]]
* HumanoidAbomination: Darth Sidious was already one of the most powerful Force users of all time and is believed to have mastered all known Force abilities and invented new ones. He could do things like feed off the life essences of billions and create Force Storms, wherein he would rip open the time-space continuum with his sheer will alone and create a hyperspace wormhole capable of killing a world. He was even strong enough to cloud the vision of the entire Jedi Order. By the time of his final death in ''DarkEmpire'' he had become a nexus of the Dark Side itself and was tearing holes in reality with his very existence.
** When Darth Tenebrous briefly merged with Darth Plagueis after the latter "betrayed" him, he accessed a vision of Plagueis' death at the hands of Palpatine, his future apprentice. It's strongly implied that he was genuinely horrified at how evil Palpatine was, given that his first action upon seeing it was to escape from Plagueis' body in a panic.
* ImmortalityImmorality: The specific method in which he managed to come close to accomplishing this: He has people across the galaxy (including Alderaanians shortly after their planet's destruction) transferred to Byss, which served as a darkside conduit in order to sap their life energies to strengthen himself, he has Leminisk executed and revived seven times just to train himself to use essence transfer into his clones in case his original body ends up dying, made clones, and is capable of doing so even to non-clones and overwrite their original personalities just to ensure he is ensured immortality.
* KarmaHoudini: Gets away with every crime (or at least gets an extremely tiny in proportion punishment such as expulsion for delinquent behavior from various universities) that he committed, no doubt due to his father's paying off the right authorities. Even Hitler, the guy Palpatine was partly based on, had to do time for his part in the Beer Hall Rebellion.
** LaserGuidedKarma: Fortunately, Palpatine gets hits by this ''hard'' by the time of the Battle of Endor. Also HoistByHisOwnPetard and a DisneyVillainDeath at the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* LargeHam: As any EvilOverlord DrunkOnTheDarkSide needs in both Episode III and VI.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Palpatine was disgusted enough by his father that he changed his name so that his only name is his family name ("Palpatine"). It's heavily implied, although not explicitly stated, that his full name prior to the name change was "Cosinga Palpatine II."
* LackOfEmpathy: So much so he's forgotten the strength that one can draw from the love for their children. Ironically, his own father had attempted to buy his love, but he rejected it, because his father apparently wasn't willing to look at his own weaknesses.
* LukeIAmYourFather[=/=]NiceJobFixingItVillain: Variation: the novel DarthPlagueis had Palpatine/Darth Sidious participating alongside his master, Darth Plagueis, in a Sith experiment where they would attempt to forcibly manipulate the Midi-chlorians to create for them the ultimate sith weapon. The experiment failed, and the Midi-chlorians then decided to strike back and conceive Anakin Skywalker as a means to destroy the Sith once and for all. Also, early versions of ''RevengeOfTheSith'' intended for Palpatine to tell Anakin that he created him from the midichlorians, but it was cut when Lucas redid the entire script.
* MultipleChoicePast: Although Palpatine claims that he hailed from Naboo, it has been speculated that the identity of Senator Palpatine and thus most of his past had actually been fabricated. Although the novel DarthPlagueis now confirms that Palpatine was indeed born and raised in Naboo, and was a part of a lesser noble house.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: Strongly implied to be the cause of his power increase by the time of his revival in DarkEmpire.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If he and Darth Plagueis didn't attempt to influence the midichlorians to create the ultimate Sith weapon, the midichlorians wouldn't have essentially bit back and created Anakin to destroy the Sith.
** Also, had he, via Vader, not backstabbed Starkiller upon successfully capturing the Rebel leaders, they probably wouldn't have a Rebellion to deal with.
* OffingTheOffspring: His having [[TheForceUnleashed Starkiller]] and [[ReturnOfTheJedi Luke]] try to murder Vader after defeating him in two separate occasions can easily be interpreted as this after ''Literature/DarthPlagueis''. See LukeIAmYourFather[=/=]NiceJobFixingItVillain for the circumstances behind this.
* OnlyOneName: Is only referred to as Palpatine, or Darth Sidious. However, the prequel novel DarthPlagueis seems to imply that his full name is Cosinga Palpatine II.
* PhysicalGod: By the time of ''DarkEmpire''; the endnotes state that by the time of his final death, his mere existence was causing holes in reality to open, even though Palpatine is only human.
* ProperlyParanoid: He feared the fact that his enemies were constantly nearby, which resulted in his unwitting creation of the Rebel Alliance. Considering what nearly happened to him very early in the Empire's history (where Gentis launched a MilitaryCoup against him with poison gas), this paranoia was somewhat justified.
* PsychopathicManchild: Implied to be what he became as an adult, albeit a high-functioning variation of the trope in ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'', see EnfantTerrible.
* SanitySlippage: At first, while definitely not a good person, he at least was sane enough to both manipulate both sides into landing him with power, framing the Jedi to be exterminated, and actually having very firm grip over the Empire, and acknowledging his mistakes. However, shortly after his first death at Endor and continuously reviving himself, he ends up losing a lot of his sanity.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: His father often paid off the right people to make several of his misdemeanors "disappear."
* TheScrooge: Was implied to be this in [[http://web.archive.org/web/20081217231344/http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/players/news_archive.vm?id=68147&month=current an article]] for ''StarWarsGalaxies'' dating December 12, 2008, where he mentions "Bah, humbug!" at one point relating to the Star Wars equivalent of Christmas Day, [[Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial Life Day]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: Portions of Palpatine's backstory were revealed, showing that he came from a noble house called Palpatine, and that he murdered his father, his mother, and his younger siblings (although his father was no saint, being apparently violent). He also admits while murdering his father that he desired to murder at the very least his father since he was a baby.
* SpoiledBrat: His childhood was primarily his father bribing the proper authorities to prevent them from taking legal action against Palpatine whenever he committed a misdemeanor, and his gift of a speeder was also closer to a bribe.
* TheStarscream: To Darth Plagueis, killing him after getting him extremely drunk to the point that he fell asleep.
* TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior: He was a frequent delinquent with an expulsive history that was extremely vast, and the actions he committed were even stated to be severe enough that, had he not been a nobleman's child, he would have been sent to a reform facility. He also enjoyed committing manslaughter against two pedestrians.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Paplatine and Banking Clan big shot Hego Damask (alias Darth Plagueis) meant for Padme to be a martyr, and had to quickly resort to this when she escaped Naboo brought along a nine-year-old [[SpannerInTheWorks hydrospanner in the works]] (Anakin Skywalker), who they discovered was a side effect of Plagueis' experiments.
* YouHaveFailedMe: It's heavily implied in ReturnOfTheJedi, and confirmed in the Expanded Universe, that Palpatine was even more horrific in how he punishes those who fail their task than even the TropeNamer, Darth Vader.

[[folder: Admiral Kendal Ozzel]]

[[folder: General Maximilian Veers]]

[[folder: Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus]]

[[folder: General Grievous]]

[[folder: Jango Fett]]

[[folder: Zam Wesell]]

[[folder: Tusken Raiders]]
!!Tusken Raiders
->Appear in Ep. I-II-IV.
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Also known as Sand People. Nomadic, primitive humanoid sentients indigenous to Tatooine, where they are often hostile to local settlers.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' expands a bit on this. Once you manage to talk with one of the tribes, it seems like hatred of all other races is a fundamental aspect of Sand People culture, and one of the main reasons why they are all so violent and unwilling to negotiate with outsiders.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The ''only'' instance of them ''not'' being completely murderous bastards was in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 1'', and that tribe was pretty brutal until Revan convinced them to make peace with the settlers. In every other instance though, Tusken Raiders are, to the man, unrepentant murderers and monsters.
** Played with: Anakin's slaughter of the Tusken tribe in Episode II (including the women and children) is still portrayed negatively.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter[=/=]EveryoneHasStandards: Some of them--one of the Jedi in ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' was an orphaned farm girl raised by Tuskens.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: They use banthas as mounts.
* MalevolentMaskedMen
* OralTradition: This is how the Sand People have kept their history since ancient times. Interestingly, their oral tradition differs from most in that to prevent inaccuracies in its telling between generations, incorrect recitation of the oral history is punishable by death, and the keeper of the histories known as the Storyteller, is raised from birth for the sole purpose of memorizing the Oral Tradition exactly from the previous Storyteller.
* PoisonedWeapons
* WeaponOfChoice: The Gaderfii, or the Gaffi Stick. Each one is unique to each warrior, since they are custom built from whatever salvage the Sand People can find at hand.
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[[folder: Boba Fett]]
!!Boba Fett
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Jeremy Bulloch (suit, Ep.V-VI); Daniel Logan (child, Ep.II), Temuera Morrison (Special Edition, Ep.V-VI); Jason Wingreen (original voice, Ep.V-VI)

One of the poster children of TooCoolToLive, Fett is a Mandalorian. He was introduced in ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' but was too cool to stay there, which is saying something considering that the Holiday Special is practically the incarnation of DorkAge. Once entrenched in canon, he played a minor role in Episode V as the man who succeeds in capturing Han Solo for Vader and/or Jabba the Hutt; while he's later defeated by Solo and eaten by the Sarlacc, his [[strike:awesome armor and inscrutable demeanor]] PopularityPower makes him manly enough to fight his way out, allowing him to (again) play a major role in the EU. He also appears in Episode II as a child, specifically a clone of Jango Fett being raised by the man as his son; Jango's death in that film is Boba's StartOfDarkness.
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[[folder: IG-88]]

[[folder: Greedo]]

[[folder: Jabba The Hutt]]
!!Jabba the Hutt
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This bounty hunter is [[VillainCred my kind of scum]]: fearless and inventive."'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Larry Ward (Ep. VI)

A very, ''very'' large slug-creature (it took something like 6 puppeteers to control him), leader of a major criminal organization, and the one to whom Han is deeply in debt to after a botched spice run. He was in the script for Episode IV, but it wasn't until VI that technology progressed enough to make him look like anything more than a half-inflated balloon; the Special Edition Ep.IV restores the deleted scenes graced by a [[SerkisFolk completely CGI]] Jabba. Also had a cameo in Episode I.

* BilingualDialogue: According to the novelization, Jabba understands many languages, but he only speaks Huttese as a sign of greatness.
* DepravedBisexual: He had male pleasure slaves too, according to the Expanded Universe.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: According to the EU, this is true of all Hutts. [[BrainBleach You're welcome]].
* ImAHumanitarian: In an EU comic, Jabba devours a woman who was holding him captive.
* MarsNeedsWomen: Despite being a ''hermaphroditic gastropod'', humanoid females seem to be his primary lust objects. (Though, according to A.C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy, other Hutts who know Jabba consider this to be an unusual and rather distasteful fetish.)
* NonActionBigBad: In ''Return of the Jedi'', though the EU rectifies that somewhat, showing that when no other options are left, Jabba can ''move''.

[[folder: Podracer Pilots]]
!!Podracer Pilots
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[[caption-width-right:250:Left to right: Ben Quadinaros, Gasgano, and Clegg Holdfast.]]

Along with Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba, sixteen other pilots participated in the Boonta Eve Classic of ''The Phantom Menace''. Placing second was Gasgano, with Aldar Beedo, Ebe Endocott, Elan Mak, and Boles Roor also finishing the race, in that order. Competitors who failed to finish included Ben Quadinaros, Mawhonic, Ratts Tyerell, Ody Mandrell, Clegg Holdfast, Mars Guo, Teemto Pagalies, Neva Kee, Dud Bolt, Ark "Bumpy" Roose, and Wan Sandage.

[[folder: Lobot]]

To return to the Character page for the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, go '''[[Characters/StarWarsExpandedUniverse here]]'''.
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Introduced in ''A New Hope'' as "Ben Kenobi," Obi-Wan begins Luke's Jedi training and sets him on his course as savior of the galaxy. He fought in the Clone Wars and, as Anakin's teacher, was deeply involved in Anakin's [[FaceHeelTurn fall]] to TheDarkSide. While Anakin is indisputably the MainCharacter of the series, Obi-Wan [[{{Deuteragonist}} runs a close second]], and is one of only four characters to appear in every {{film}} of the series. he has a funny name

Introduced in ''A New Hope'' as "Ben Kenobi," Obi-Wan begins Luke's Jedi training and sets him on his course as savior of the galaxy. He fought in the Clone Wars and, as Anakin's teacher, was deeply involved in Anakin's [[FaceHeelTurn fall]] to TheDarkSide. While Anakin is indisputably the MainCharacter of the series, Obi-Wan [[{{Deuteragonist}} runs a close second]], and is one of only four characters to appear in every {{film}} of the series.

->'''Played by:''' ChristopherLee (Ep.II-III)

Tropes specifically applying to the characters based on their appearances in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' can be found '''[[Characters/StarWarsTheCloneWars here]]'''.

* AbusiveParents: His father, Darth Vader, lops off Luke's hand in a lightsaber duel and then has the audacity to ask him to join TheDarkSide with him so they can rule the galaxy together.
* AcePilot: Luke has a Death Star to his credit.
* {{Adorkable}}: His ''awful'' 1970's hairstyle really helps.

* AntagonisticOffspring: To [[DisappearedDad Darth Vader]].
* AnArmAndALeg: Luke gains an artificial limb in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* {{Archetype}}: Luke is a textbook hero, designed right out of the book [[TheHerosJourney The Hero With A Thousand Faces]].
* [[ArtificialLimbs Artificial Hand]]: Replaces the one he lost fighting Vader in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* AudienceSurrogate: Mostly in ''A New Hope''.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Luke's original surname was "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Starkiller]]", but after a reworking of the character it was changed to Skywalker, which is still pretty cool and more fitting.
* {{Badass}}: As the lead character in the Original Trilogy.
** {{Ambadassador}}: At the beginning of ''Return Of The Jedi''.
** BadassInDistress: He finds himself with this problem during ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
** BreakTheBadass: When Vader reveals that he is his father.
** HandicappedBadass: Played with in ''A New Hope'', when he trains with a blindfold and then refuses to use his targeting computer when shooting the Death Star. Played straight in ''Return Of The Jedi'', after he's lost his hand and gained a cybernetic one in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
** TookALevelInBadass: Notably during ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and at the beginning of ''Return Of The Jedi''.
** BadassBeard: Apparently sports one during the Sequel Trilogy, in line with becoming a Jedi Master.
* BashBrothers: With Han.
* BerserkButton: When Darth Vaders suggests that he should turn [[LongLostSibling Leia]] to TheDarkSide, Luke goes from being a TechnicalPacifist to TheBerserker.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Has the highest kill count in the entire series when you factor in his single handed destruction of the Death Star.
** Luke is trying to fight Vader calmly and peacefully. Until Vader threatens to corrupt [[BerserkButton Leia]]. Luke promptly bellows, charges, beats Vader down and lops off his hand.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's only the big brother by about six or seven minutes, tops, but Luke definitely qualifies. He's all [[AllLovingHero redeeming]] and peaceful and unflappable in the face of evil despite a million reasons not to be, but all bets are off when the BigBad makes an impotent, hinted threat towards [[BerserkButton his sister]]. Suffice to say, [[UnstoppableRage he doesn't react well.]]

* BigNo:
** When [[MentorOccupationalHazard Obi Wan]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3IVpiO7zZo is killed]] in ''A New Hope''.
** A classic one occurs in ''The Empire Strikes Back'', when Luke discovers that Darth Vader is his father.
** This is used in the style of a BigNever in ''Return Of The Jedi'', in the final duel when Vader suggests to turn Leia to the DarkSide.
* BizarreHumanBiology
* BlackCloak[=/=]InTheHood: This is how he makes his entrance to Jabba's palace in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* BromanticFoil: With Han. Luke is an idealistic farm boy and Han is a cynical mercenary.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Leia, his twin sister.
* CelibateHero: As of ''Return Of The Jedi'', thanks to the reveal that Leia was his sister.
** Averted by Luke's NewJediOrder in the post-''Return Of The Jedi'' ExpandedUniverse and by the Jedi of the Old Republic era, where marriage between Jedi is allowed, and manage to successfully return back to prominence despite violating the previous order's teachings.

* TheChosenZero: Minor example in ''Return Of The Jedi'': He [[InsistentTerminology keeps referring to himself]] as a Jedi Knight. Nobody, friend or foe, take him seriously in this claim. Which is not to say that they don't give him respect for his actual talent and leadership, they just think he's being a bit pretentious, like a kid in our world who proclaims himself a modern-day samurai.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Luke was orphaned twice. Luke probably wouldn't have joined Ben Kenobi in rescuing the princess if the Imperial Stormtroopers hadn't killed his uncle and aunt.
* CoolSpaceShip: The Incom T-65 X-wing starfighter.
* CoolSword: Luke's green lightsaber is unique within the series.
* DarkIsEvil: Deconstructed. Luke wears black throughout ''Return Of The Jedi'' (as opposed to brighter colors) to represent his turmoil and struggle over a possible FaceHeelTurn. When he overcomes the Emperor's temptations and causes the destruction of the Sith, his black coat falls open to reveal it had a white lining, meaning that he was ''always'' wearing white the whole time.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Luke vs. Vader. Not only is Vader [[EvilIsBigger taller and bigger]], he's also much more skilled and experienced with the Force. It's almost a ForegoneConclusion that Luke will lose the first duel.
* DeadpanSnarker: Luke has his witty and sarcastic moments.
* DeathFakedForYou: Alongside Leia, their births were kept secret after Padmé died in childbirth, also making Padmé's corpse appear as if she died before she gave birth.
* DecoyProtagonist: Luke can actually be seen as this trope of the saga as a whole: he's clearly set up as the hero of the original trilogy, but when viewed alongside the prequel trilogy, it becomes clear that the series is actually about his father Anakin's rise, fall, and eventual redemption.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: In ''A New Hope'', Luke constantly complains about being shut in the door of Uncle Owen's house, he wants to seek to do something significant to change the [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] reality of the galaxy produced by the EvilEmpire. Fortunately, the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi grants him the wish at last ([[TearJerker along with the death of his uncle and aunt]]), and he has consequently been kicking the empire's sorry ass for the rest of the Star Wars saga.

* DontThinkFeel: A major part of his Jedi training.
* DorkKnight: Starts off like this. Over time - maybe because of TheReveal in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' - he becomes more composed and sober. Parts of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse prove, though, that his adorkable side didn't really die.
* TheDulcineaEffect: For Leia, especially in ''A New Hope''.
* EasyEvangelism: Luke accepts everything that Obi-Wan tells him about his father, the Jedi and the Force without question, even though he only just met the guy, who had a reputation as a crazy hermit. This does help speed the story along. Luke's belief only starts stretching during Yoda's lessons.

* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Father?]]: His reaction when he learns that Darth Vader is his father and had fallen to TheDarkSide.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Throughout the last stage of the Battle Of Endor, Luke goes out of the way to say that he'll die along with everyone else on the Death Star II, and has calmly accepted the fact. He ends up dropping the "dignity" part of this when he refuses to kill his father and is subsequently tortured by the Emperor, as he begs for Darth Vader to save his life. It works, and it allows ''Anakin'' to FaceDeathWithDignity. In the end, Luke lives after all.
* FailureHero: In ''The Empire Strikes Back''. Absolutely nothing goes his way throughout the film, and his attempt to save his friends at Cloud City ends with them saving ''him''.

* FarmBoy: Luke was raised as a "moisture farmer" by his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru before answering the CallToAdventure.

* GoodCounterpart: To [[EvilCounterpart Darth Vader]].
* GoodIsNotSoft: Especially in ''Return Of The Jedi''. For a film that showed the heroes as more IncorruptiblePurePureness, some viewers were surprised to see Luke using powers generally associated with the Sith like the Force Choke. In this instance, it was used to demonstrate he was sliding towards TheDarkSide.
* GrewASpine: When he leaves Yoda's training to rescue Han and Leia on Bespin.

* TheHero: George Lucas patterned him on "The Hero's Journey". Luke fits this trope so well that psychology textbooks show a picture of him in reference to the archetype of a hero. In parts of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, variations on "I won't leave you here. I have to save you" are his catchphrase.
** The fact that Luke is the hero archetype was deliberate because GeorgeLucas is said to have been heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell's [[TheHerosJourney ''The Hero With a Thousand Faces'']]. He does subvert TheHero trope in one major way though - he DidNotGetTheGirl and TheChick (Leia) ends up with TheLancer (Han) instead for [[BrotherSisterIncest one reason or another.]]
* HeroesPreferSwords: Luke receives a sword when he is about to leave his life on Tatooine to become a hero.
* HeroesWantRedheads: His wife, Mara, has red hair.
* HeroicBSOD: After Luke escapes from Vader and is rescued by Lando and the others in the Falcon, Luke has a major one. In the Falcon's cockpit as the heroes try to escape from Bespin, he's clearly filled with despair, whispering, "Ben, why didn't you tell me?" It doesn't help that Vader was using the Force to more or less "torture" Luke with the previous reveal of Vader being Luke's father.
* HeroicLineage: Luke's father, [[TheChosenOne Anakin]], was a Jedi before him. Luke later followed in his father's footsteps and became a Jedi himself.
* HeroicWillpower: Fighting the Empire, Yuuzhan Vong, Sith and more and emerging alive should require more of this than any single person could have.
* HiddenBackupPrince: Alongside Leia.
* HonorBeforeReason: Luke's unconditional love and faith in the humanity of Darth Vader, his father, is seen as at best stupid and at worst suicidal by the rest of the galaxy, was what saved his father and the ''Star Wars'' Galaxy.
** Simultaneously giving us the second greatest CrowningMomentOfAwesome in the franchise, and setting his father up to give us the greatest one.
** Luke actually throws away his lightsaber so that he is defenseless against being tortured to death by Palpatine, rather than kill Vader and go to TheDarkSide.
*** Then again, the Emperor was very explicit about his intended end state of Luke falling to the dark side.
** Except, at least the part about Vader, it was hardly stupid — for a talented and trained Force Sensitive, it is far more reasonable to trust your feelings and instincts. Luke states on more than one occasion that he can sense the good in Vader, and there's little reason to doubt this is true.
*** And you don't have to be force-sensitive at all to see ahead of time that Luke's faith wasn't completely misplaced. "It is... too late for me, son" isn't a line you'd expect to hear out of someone who is completely heartless or beyond saving.
** Also, joining [[LaResistance the Rebel]] attack on the Death Star despite its low chance of success, as {{lampshaded}} by Han.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: ''A New Hope'' begins with Luke saying that he wants to leave home to join the Rebellion. It's bittersweet when he gets his wish.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: His last fight with Vader in ''Return Of The Jedi''. Vader actually told him that it was too late for him and did take him to the Emperor, but in the end it worked.
* IcyBlueEyes[=/=]InnocentBlueEyes: Luke has blue eyes that can swing from innocent to icy at fancy's whim.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: In ''Return Of The Jedi'', Luke refused to kill his father Vader, because he realized that doing so would make him no better than he (Vader) was.
* InASingleBound: In ''The Empire Strikes Back'', as Luke's Jedi training progresses, he learns to use new powers like the Force jump, which comes in handy during his fight with Vader.

* TheIdealist: Has an idealistic view of the galaxy.
* IdealHero: Especially in contrast to [[AntiHero Han Solo]] and [[AntiVillain Darth Vader]].
* IncestSubtext: With Leia in ''A New Hope''. Of course, at the time that the movie released, their status as siblings was not established.
* JumpedAtTheCall: He wanted to get off Tatooine as soon as he could, even if it wasn't it the way he expected.
* KungFuJesus: Since he's a MessianicArchetype who's also a Jedi.
* LastOfHisKind: He is the said to be the last Jedi knight to be alive from Yoda's death to the foundation of a new Jedi Order.

* TheLeader: Luke is a combo of Type II and Type IV.
* LeeroyJenkins: In ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and to a lesser extent in ''A New Hope''.
* LightIsGood: Luke often wore white or lighter coloured clothing.
* LimbSensationFascination: Luke gets a new hand at the end of ''The Empire Strikes Back''. After being pricked with a needle to check pain sensation, he flexes his fingers a bit and clenches a fist while examining his bionic hand.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played straight, with the everpresent concern that Luke would end up [[InTheBlood like his father before him]]. But looking at the prequels and the ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', it becomes clear that in terms of personality, he's more like his mother, Padmé. He has that same apparently unfounded belief in the goodness of Vader, and though he can certainly get dangerous when there's call for that, he tries diplomacy first. He handles things his own way, and that's almost never Anakin's way; late-set books actually voice the opinion that he's become passive and reactionary instead of proactive. How much of this can be attributed to genetics versus his upbringing is debatable, but he's more like his mother than he initially seems.
* LittleNo: Luke says this before it turns into a BigNo after Vader reveals that he is his father.
* LivingLegend: The guy blew up the Death Star on his first official day of joining the Rebellion. Top '''that'''.
* [[LukeYouAreMyFather Leia, You Are My Sister]]: In ''Return Of The Jedi'', she on some level had ''always'' known that she and Luke were siblings. Luke telling her validated that lingering notion.
* TheLoad: In ''The Empire Strikes Back'', although it actually makes him more likable. Over the course of the film, Luke is actually the cause of the invasion of [[SingleBiomePlanet Hoth]] (Vader sensed him and immediately determined it was a [[LaResistance Rebel]] stronghold); the ambush on Cloud City and subsequent torture of Han; and the crew of the ''Millenium Falcon'' had to go back to rescue Luke.
** As well, Han Solo had to risk his own life to rescue Luke from a blizzard on Hoth after Luke went to investigate the Imperial Probe Droid (and was nearly eaten by a Wampa for his trouble).
* LongLostRelative[=/=]LongLostSibling: To Leia. Luke is her twin brother.

* MadDictatorsHandsomeSon: Luke never turns to the Dark Side like his father.
* ManInWhite
* MasterSwordsman: He is definitely one in ''Return Of The Jedi'' and [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse afterwards]].
* TheMcCoy: Luke is more the [[WideEyedIdealist naïve farm boy]] (TheMcCoy) and Han the more sensible, pragmatic one (TheKirk, since he says Kirk-like things such as "NeverTellMeTheOdds") but there isn't really a TheSpock-equivalent. Obi-Wan is less cynical than Han, and Leia abandons the entire Rebel Alliance just to save Han in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
** Luke does eventually become TheKirk, but only in ''Return Of The Jedi''. Because he has controlled emotions. For example, Obi-Wan told him that he has to kill his father in order to bring peace, but Luke a logical suggestion that maybe he can be saved because Vader didn't kill, and if was truly evil he would have killed him. His [[TheLeader leadership]] skills have also improved over the last two movies.

* MentorsNewHope: In ''A New Hope'', Luke is being taught by Obi-Wan, who also taught [[TheDarkLord Darth Vader]] before Vader went to TheDarkSide.
* MessianicArchetype: Although his father, Anakin is TheChosenOne, Luke is this trope. Luke is the one whom Obi-Wan and Yoda train to become a Jedi. He gains a group of devoted followers (the Rebel Alliance, though mostly Han, Leia, Chewie, C-3P0 and R2-D2), and gallivants about spreading good and performing miracles like blowing up the Death Star. At the end of the sixth movie, he refuses to fight or resist his fate, then is zapped by the Emperor's lightning (his "death" scene). He manages to redeem evil while he's at it.
** Ironically, other Jedi expected both of them to bring balance to the Force. Perhaps they did, but it took a ProphecyTwist (Anakin having children and turning evil) or two to get them there.
* MissingMom: Luke's mother, Padmé, died during childbirth.
* TheMusketeer: It's not as obvious as other examples of this trope but Luke [[SwordAndGun carries his blaster and lightsaber into battle together]] (mostly evident in the climax where goes from shooting Stormtroopers to dueling with Vader). It's the only movie in which he does this as well as the only time in the entire film franchise we see a Jedi or Sith doing it.
* NiceGuy: The nicest in the entire Star Wars saga. It allows him to have faith in Anakin Skywalker, even when Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi have long since given up hope on "Darth Vader".

* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Noble to Han's Roguish.
* NotSoDifferent: Him and Vader. Luke gets his NotSoDifferent moment when he cuts off his father's artificial hand. Luke sees that he has just repaid Vader's violence in kind, but also sees his own prosthetic hand as symbolizing the possibility that he's becoming like his father. This was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] earlier in ''The Empire Strikes Back'', when Yoda sends Luke into a cave to be attacked by a masked warrior brandishing a lightsaber, looking much like Darth Vader. Luke quickly defeats the warrior, decapitating it. The warrior's mask falls off, and its face is exactly like Luke's. Yoda pointed out before Luke went in that the cave only contains what you take into it (i.e. it shows you yourself, and your weaknesses) in fact telling Luke he won't need his weapons. Luke completely ignored him, leading to that sequence.
* OrphansOrdeal: In both ''A New Hope'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back''. This is a dual orphan plot in that Luke is raised by "relatives", and tries to avenge the man who "killed his father" as well as seek his own identity. He wishes he wasn't an orphan but after he finds out that Big Bad is his father in the Luke, I Am Your Father scene then he wishes he WERE an orphan.
* ParentalAbandonment
* PeopleJars: His healing in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* PhysicalGod: As Grand Master of the New Jedi Order in the ExpandedUniverse, possibly even moreso than his father could've hypothetically been.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Leia. Luke is a blonde, blue-eyed, calm, mild-mannered, naive, mystical, religious Jedi Knight. Leia is a brunette, brown-eyed, quick-tempered, sharp-tongued, worldly-wise, shrewd, practical politician.
** The StarWarsExpandedUniverse shows Luke having trouble teaching Leia to be a Jedi. What worked for him (he got a lot of Jedi qualities) won't work for her. Hot temper is not something a Jedi knight ought to have. Especially since she's pregnant with Han's baby while trying to learn.
* PrettyBoy: Much like his father, Anakin.
* PsychicPowers: Luke has mastered them by the start of ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* RageBreakingPoint: Luke had already been through enough by the time the climactic battle in ''Return Of The Jedi'' rolls around. But he knew that getting furious now would lead to TheDarkSide. Vader and the Emperor taunt him, but he stays calm. But then Vader [[RelativeButton is about to threaten to do something terrible to the last family he has]], Luke lets out a BigNever, cutting off Vader's sentence, and wails on him, coming very close to killing him.
* RecklessGunUsage: Watch very closely as Luke Skywalker [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/373.html first ignites his lightsaber]] in ''Star Wars: A New Hope'' — he doesn't know how long the beam is and yet is pointing it at Obi-Wan.
* RefusalOfTheCall: In ''A New Hope'', Luke expresses a wish to get off Tatooine but refuses the call due to his current situation ("Alderaan? I'm not going to Alderaan. I've got to go home. It's late, I'm in for it as it is!"). He's later forced into it when his uncle and aunt are killed, because "There's nothing here for me now." (he kinda has a point there)
* RookieRedRanger: Luke doesn't join the Rebellion until the final battle in ''A New Hope''.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Han. Luke is the Sensitive Guy to Han's Manly Man.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Luke was separated from his twin sister Leia at birth in order to be protected from their father (Vader).
* SiblingTeam: With Leia, his twin sister. Also see BrotherSisterTeam.
* SiblingYinYang: With Leia. While Luke is more calm, cool and collected, Leia is more passionate, stubborn and hot headed. See PolarOppositeTwins.
* SneakyDeparture: After the Battle Of Hoth, Luke forsakes going to the rendevous point in order to look for Yoda on Dagobah.
* TheSouthpaw: Mark Hamill is left-handed so [[CaptainObvious therefore Luke is too]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luke just happens to wound Vader in the same way Vader wounded him, thus making Luke realize [[WhatHaveIBecome what he had almost become]]. The Emperor really wasn't helping his own cause, either.
* SupportingProtagonist: Although he is TheHero of the Original Trilogy, Anakin remains TheChosenOne. Luke's role was to lead his father down the path of redemption in order to complete his destiny.
* SwordAndGun: He uses both his blaster and lightsaber in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' before only using his lightsaber in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Towards Vader.
* TakeAThirdOption: In ''Return Of The Jedi'', Luke has the option of joining either the Emperor or Vader and killing the third wheel - either of which will mean a fall to the Dark Side and the extinction of the Rebellion. What does he do? He chooses to FaceDeathWithDignity, and in the process inspires his father into DeathEqualsRedemption - which also saves his own life.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: He asks Obi Wan about his father, Anakin. Obi Wan tells him... [[FromACertainPointOfView some of the truth,]] but famously leaves out some key details.
** Later, Luke asks Leia about their mother, but Leia only remembers a few very vague warm feelings. The prequels later reveal that Leia, being born a few moments before Luke, didn't spend any more time with Padmé than Luke did before her death.
* TrainingFromHell: With Yoda.
* TrueCompanions: With Han and Leia throughout the original trilogy.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: The [[JediTruth efforts]] to keep Luke from being like his father (who, [[ItWasHisSled as we all know]], went evil) occupy three separate characters: Owen, Ben Kenobi, and Yoda.
** In ''Return Of The Jedi'', Luke realizes that he's dangerously close to invoking this trope after he cuts off Vader's cybernetic right hand and looks down at his own cybernetic right hand. This prompts him to deactivate and discard his lightsaber so that he won't be tempted any further.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Luke has to choose between staying on Dagobah and completing his training with Yoda, or going to rescue his friends on Cloud City.
* TheUnchosenOne: Luke is very much TheUnchosenOne. He had to work hard to get what he had. There is also the fact that he went up against his father Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader and TheChosenOne. Anakin was lauded as TheChosenOne ever since he was a child, and experienced first-hand both the positives and negatives of the Jedi Order. Darth Sidious (Palpatine) targeted Anakin for exactly this reason, amplifying the negatives and downplaying the positives until the Jedi's own Chosen One became the Sith's greatest weapon. Luke, on the other hand, experienced the exact opposite and became a hero because of it.
** Seeing Luke tortured led Vader to HeelFaceTurn and kill the Emperor, helping bring peace to the galaxy. Thus, fulfilling the prophecy of the "one who will bring balance to the Force", all thanks to Luke.
* UpbringingMakesTheHero: [[FarmBoy Luke]] goes from cleaning up droids to destroying the Death Star. While it helps that [[TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne The Force was strong with him]], his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen gave him the kind of stable family life that helped him resist TheDarkSide.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: With Leia in ''Revenge Of The Sith''.
* WeaponOfChoice: His father's blue lightsaber until he lost it against Vader. He made himself a green one afterwards.
* WhatTheHellHero: After the first of Han's LeeroyJenkins moments on the Death Star, Luke calls him out on his recklessness.
* WideEyedIdealist: In contrast to Han's cynicism.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Vader is his real father.

* AcePilot
* AntiHero: Han starts out as an UnscrupulousHero in ''A New Hope''. He eventually becomes a KnightInSourArmor.
* ActionHero
* AndIMustScream: At the end of ''The Empire Strikes Back'', when he was frozen in carbonite.
* AsteroidThicket: See AcePilot. In ''The Empire Strikes Back'', Han, deprived of his hyperdrive, has to slalom through densely packed asteroids to evade an Imperial fleet. This is echoed in Attack of the Clones when Obi-Wan is trying to evade Jango Fett in a planetary ring.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal: Han is not Force-sensitive, but a great pilot and fighter. Han briefly went up against Darth Vader himself and was the one who eventually killed Boba Fett (well, as far as the movies go).
** BadassGrandpa: In the ExpandedUniverse.
* BashBrothers: With Luke.
* BattleCouple: With Leia throughout the original trilogy.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Leia.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Since Han and Leia will presumably get married, Luke and Han become this.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Develops one towards Luke. Despite always calling him "kid" and having doubts about Luke's plans, Han becomes fond of Luke early on and often goes out of his way to protect or rescue him. In ''EmpireStrikesBack'', he risks his own life by going out into dangerously low temperatures to find Luke after he doesn't return to the rebel base.
* BigDamnHeroes: A classic one towards the end of ''A New Hope''.

* BloodBrothers: With Chewbacca. While Han most likely didn't think so when he first rescued Chewie, Chewbacca felt [[IOweYouMyLife he had a "life debt" to Han]]. At first, the "brotherhood" was mostly one way but as they traveled together and Han learned more about Chewie and the "life debt", they became true BloodBrothers.

* BromanticFoil: With Luke. Han is a cynical mercenary while Luke is an idealistic farm boy.
* TheCaptain: In the loosest sense of the word.
* ChangedMyMindKid: Luke and Han come to odds over the attack on the Death Star. Luke is the young idealist, ready to die for a cause. Han is the old cynic who sees it as suicide. When Han saves Luke from Darth Vader at the last minute he grows as a character, finding his loyalty to his FireForgedFriend is important enough to risk his life for.
* CharacterDevelopment: He eventually turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Most notably at the end of ''A New Hope'', but there are a couple of other examples.
* CoolStarship: The ''Millennium Falcon''.
* CombatPragmatist: While not a Jedi, he is not completely incompetent without his blaster. As demonstrated in Empire he knows how to use a lightsaber even if it was briefly. In Jedi he was able to take out a Scout Trooper with his bare hands.
* TheCynic: In contrast to Luke's WideEyedIdealist.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDogShotFirst: TropeNamer.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The original version of his encounter with Greedo (shooting him before he could aim his weapon) was meant to show that he was a ruthless CombatPragmatist. [[ExecutiveMeddling This was later changed in order to keep the MPAA from raising the film's rating.]]
* TheFerryman: In ''A New Hope'', Han explicitly [[NotInThisForYourRevolution only signs on to give Luke and Obi Wan a ride]] to the planet Alderaan to take the [[MacGuffin Death Star plans]] to Bail Organa, and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for a considerable fee at that]]. He gets caught up in the rest of the adventure when they are captured by the Imperials and he ends up helping rescue Princess Leia.

* GoodGunsBadGuns: Han's signature DL-44 is really a rebuilt broomhandle Mauser, normally a 'bad guy' gun.
** Then again, it is often overlooked that Han Solo is not a hero — he's a smuggler. A smuggler with a bad-tempered partner (known to pull people's arms off if beaten at holo-chess), a highly illegal ship, and who has mastered the art of the subtle draw in order to be able to blow away the amateur bounty hunters that come after him if he screws up a smuggling job (no matter which version you believe, Han was definitely drawing his gun under the table and pointing it at Greedo's crotch for several seconds while Greedo talked). This was another clue that Han [[GoodIsNotNice is NOT a nice guy.]]
* GoodIsNotNice
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GuileHero
* TheGunslinger
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chewie.
* HollywoodAtheist[=/=]FlatEarthAtheist: Han also evidently doesn't believe in the Force either, but his tone seems to be relatively less contemptuous than Motti's[[note]]the Imperial officer whose lack of faith Darth Vader finds so disturbing[[/note]], despite that the consequences to Solo for such contempt would clearly be milder. This may be typical of the times he lives in, as the Empire has done its best to suppress knowledge of the Force.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Idea Guy]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* {{Jerkass}} --> JerkassFacade --> JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KnightInSourArmor: After he joins [[LaResistance the Rebel Alliance]]. Han definitely becomes one the end of ''A New Hope''; and he fills a SourSupporter role for the rest of the Original Trilogy. In stores of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, it's seen that before the original trilogy, Han was once fairly idealistic, though never to the point of being wide-eyed.
* TheLancer: He's a sourpuss mercenary with a blaster to contrast the noble farmy boy with the lightsaber.
* LeeroyJenkins: Mostly when he's trying to escape from the Death Star in ''A New Hope'', and Luke (somewhat of a Leeroy Jenkins himself) calls him out on it. Han's response? "Bring 'em on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around!"

* NeverTellMeTheOdds: The TropeNamer.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Roguish to Luke's Noble.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Dinner with Vader in Cloud City.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: TropeNamer, although eventually he decides that the revolution is worthwhile after all.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: At the beginning of his character arc.
** Justified in ''A New Hope'', as the large sum of money did equate to his life, as otherwise, Jabba the Hutt would have kept the death mark on his head or ''worse''.
* {{Polyglot}}: Though not as reliable as C-3PO, being able to interpret Chewbacca's bellowing and Jabba's belches definitely counts for something.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Luke. Han is the Manly Man to Luke's Sensitive Guy.
* ShadowArchetype: To Luke in ''A New Hope''. Luke is young and naive, empathic, believes in the Force, and is a great pilot; Solo is OlderAndWiser, self-centered, a FlatEarthAtheist, and is also a great pilot. Later on, Vader is Luke's ShadowArchetype.
* SourSupporter
* StealthInSpace: Han's successful attempts at hiding from Star Destroyers in ''The Empire Strikes Back''. Somewhat realistic, as he simply turns off most of the power to the ship, which makes it incredibly difficult to detect.
* TemporaryBlindness: He finds himself with this problem after he was freed in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* TrueCompanions: With Luke and Leia throughout the original trilogy.
* WatchThePaintJob: Han's very reluctant to hand over the keys to the ''Falcon''.
* WeaponOfChoice: ''DL-44'' heavy blaster pistol.

* AbusiveParents: Her father is [[DarkMessiah Darth Vader]], the guy who tortured her TWICE.
* ActionGirl: Leia [[StormingTheCastle fights her way out of the Death Star]], chokes Jabba to death with her own chains and joins the Rebel strike team for their mission on Endor.
-->''Somebody's got to save our skins!''
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She claims to [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan like nice men]] but she fell for the 'scroundel'.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Towards Vader.
* {{Badass}}
** {{Ambadassador}}: Just like her mother, Padmé.
** BadassNormal: In the original trilogy. Leia has her moments, notably in her first encounter with Vader where she not only lies to his face, but talks to him like he's an idiot. She later strangles Jabba to death. (The fact that she later turns out to be Force-sensitive notwithstanding.)

** BadassPrincess: The first thing she does in ''A New Hope''? Shooting a [[{{Mooks}} stormtrooper]] in cold blood.
** DamselOutOfDistress: Manages to hold out against Vader's interrogation techniques, snarks Luke when he barges into her holding cell, [[IndyPloy Improvises an escape when the boys manage to get everyone trapped]], tries her darndest to thwart the bounty sale of [[DistressedDude Han]] after he gets carbonited, and endures GoGoEnslavement at the hands of the [[SarcasmMode wonderfully charming]] Jabba The Hutt in order to be in the prime position to kill him when all hell breaks loose. She's not a wallflower, for certain.

* BattleCouple: With Han throughout the original trilogy.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In ''A New Hope''. When imprisoned on the Death Star, Vader turns up to interrogate Leia with a droid fairly bristling with syringes. As the the door closes on them, it's clear that she's about to be tortured for information. And yet the next time we see her, she looks perfectly fine, without so much as a puncture wound or a hair out of place.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Han.
* BigDamnKiss: With [[BelligerentSexualTension Han]] ''and'' [[IncestSubtext Luke]].
* BigShutUp: Leia to C-3PO after he's about to tell the odds for a second time in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* BigWhat: After finding out that despite her (feigned) cooperation, Tarkin intends to destroy Alderaan anyway.
* BraidsOfAction: In ''Return of the Jedi''.
* BrainyBrunette: Much like her mother, Padmé. Leia is very intelligent and articulate.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Luke, her twin brother.
* BrownEyes: Like her mother, Padmé, a physical trait she shares with her.
* TheChick: Leia is the ActionGirl variation. Leia is in firefights in all of the original trilogy's films, and tries to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, later killing Jabba by herself.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Leia has to prove herself as a successful leader, similar to that of her mother, Padmé.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: "Maybe you'd like it back in your cell, your highness." Though she was pointedly critiquing their lack of planning rather than something irrelevant. Interestingly, Han in turn gripes about the results of Leia subsequently pulling their fat out of the fire — granted, they're in a dianoga-infested trash compactor.
* DamselInDistress: Initially trapped on the Death Star. Then it's inverted when she takes charge of her rescue mission and rescues her rescuers, thus making her a DamselOutOfDistress instead.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She remembers her mother's death (despite being only a baby at the time), saw her adoptive homeworld destroyed as a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo, has seen one son KIA and the other do a FaceHeelTurn (much like Leia's father, Anakin)— his twin sister was forced to kill him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Leia is one of the most snarky and sarcastic characters in the series.
* DeathFakedForYou: See Luke. Done to protect them from Palpatine.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Towards Tarkin in ''A New Hope''.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her relationship with Han in ''EmpireStrikesBack'' is an example, as she starts out rather icy to him but by the end, is declaring her love for him.
* DoomedHometown: Her hometown of Alderaan due to an EarthShatteringKaboom.
* [[TheDutifulSon The Dutiful Daughter]]: Luke sees Leia as this, as Leia was a part of The Rebellion while he was in Tatooine.
* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Lando?]]: Her reaction to Lando being forced to sell out Han to Vader, so that Cloud City will not be invaded.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: The plot of the series could have been exactly the same were Leia not a princess (the princess of a planet that [[DoomedHometown is brutally destroyed in the first movie!]]), and yet she is. It doesn't hurt that she is proof that AuthorityEqualsAsskicking... when Luke comes with Han and Chewie to break her out of jail, she takes charge of her own rescue and gets them safely out of the prison block.
* ForcedToWatch: Leia is forced to watch Alderaan's, her hometown, destruction.
* GenerationXerox: Leia's very similar to her mother, Padmé, in lots of other ways, being a PoliticallyActivePrincess, RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething, BrainyBrunette ActionGirl.
** However, while in looks and career choice, Leia and Luke resemble the same sex parent, in personality and temperament, Leia is much more like Anakin and Luke like Padmé. Indeed, Luke and Padmé have almost identical lines at times (usually about Anakin/Vader).
* GoodIsNotNice: Leia may fight on the good guys side, but she is not to be messed with.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoGoEnslavement: Her skimpy slavegirl costume in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* HappilyAdopted: At the end of ''Revenge Of The Sith''.

* HeroicLineage: Her father, [[TheChosenOne Anakin]], was a Jedi before he became corrupted and turned to TheDarkSide. Her twin brother Luke is also a Jedi. Though one son died and another went Dark Side, her daughter became known as the "Sword of The Jedi".
* HiddenBackupPrince: Along with Luke.
* HotBlooded: Leia is feisty, passionate, opinionated and hot tempered, much like her father, Anakin.
* IceQueen: In the beginning. She eventually mellows out, mostly thanks to her relationships with both Luke and Han.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The one character in the original trilogy who ''almost never misses''.
* IncestSubtext: With Luke. They had ShipTease in ''A New Hope''.
* InsultBackfire: Leia calling Han a "scoundrel."
-->'''Han:''' "Scoundrel"? I like the sound of that.
* LaResistance: Leia is part of the [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]].
* LightIsGood: Frequently seen wearing white or lighter clothing.

* LongLostRelative[=/=]LongLostSibling: To Luke. Leia is his twin sister.
* MadeASlave: See GoGoEnslavement.
* MeaningfulName Leia means "ruler" in Assyrian.
* MissingMom: Leia's mother, Padmé, died during childbirth.
* ModestRoyalty: Leia spends more of her time in either her white outfit or more practical clothing.
* MotivationalKiss: In ''A New Hope'', Leia gives Luke a peck on the cheek "for luck" before he tries to swing over a precarious gap.
* MsFanservice: Leia is appealing to the male audience.
* OdangoHair: Her famous "cinnamon bun" hairstyle in "A New Hope".
* OnlySaneWoman: In ''A New Hope''.
* ParentalAbandonment
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's only 5'1" (155 cm), but kicks lots of ass.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Luke. Leia is a brunette, brown-eyed, quick-tempered, sharp-tongued, worldly-wise, shrewd, practical politician. Luke is a blonde, blue-eyed, calm, mild-mannered, naive, mystical, religious Jedi Knight. Interestingly, Leia's personality takes after Anakin, while Luke's personality is much more like Padmé.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Is a senator (until Palpatine disbands the Senate), and then an important member of the rebellion.
* ProperLady: Much like her mother, Padmé.
* PursuedProtagonist: In ''A New Hope'', Leia is being pursued by a Star Destroyer on her way to deliver the plans of the Death Star to the rebellion. Using R2, she tries to send them to Obi-Wan Kenobi. They instead end up in the hands of FarmBoy Luke, which kick starts the adventure.
* RapunzelHair: When Leia finally lets her hair down in ''Return Of The Jedi''. For many viewers, this resulted in a Fridge Logic moment when we contemplated how she got all that hair into those hairstyles we'd seen in the previous movies. There's a webpagediscussing that her hairstyles would be impossible with that length of hair anyway. Possibly justified in that ROTJ is the last movie, and only there do we see it down, so it's probable that her hair was much shorter in the previous two movies and was growing during that time.
* RebelLeader
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's very active both as a member of the Imperial Senate before the events of ''A New Hope'', and a substantial defacto leader of the Rebellion once she's outed as an enemy of the Empire. She's also the first named character to score a kill on a Storm Trooper, and the last.
* SadisticChoice: Although no kidnapping was involved, the choice faced by Princess Leia of giving up the location of the Rebel base or watching her home planet of Alderaan be destroyed by the Death Star was a perfect example. Especially since, in a notorious KickTheDog moment, Grand Moff Tarkin ordered the planet destroyed anyway after Leia gave a false location in hopes of keeping the Rebellion alive. Tarkin's reasoning? "Dantooine is too remote to give an effective demonstration." Alderaan, on the other hand, was a core world.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Leia was separated from her twin brother at birth in order to protect them from their father (Vader).
* SexSlave: To Jabba the Hutt in ''Return Of The Jedi'' (but thankfully, Jabba died before [[FanDisservice any sex could take place]]).
* SiblingTeam: With Luke, her twin brother. Also see BrotherSisterTeam.
* SiblingYinYang: With Luke, her twin brother. While Leia is more passionate, impulsive and hot headed, Luke is more calm, cool and collected. See PolarOppositeTwins.
* SpoiledSweet: Just because she is a princess doesn't mean she's completely spoiled nor a mean girl.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sure, she may seems like as though as she was [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]], but she is actually a NiceGirl on the inside.
* ThereIsAnother: She is actually Luke's sister and a Force-sensitive.
* TrueCompanions: With Luke and Han throughout the original trilogy.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B; the only person she's not polite to is Han.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: With Luke in ''Revenge Of The Sith''.
* UptownGirl: For Han. You'd think a former street kid and smuggler would consider the Princess of Alderaan and high-ranking Rebel commander well out of his league. But Han's can be very persuasive when he wants to be.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: To Han.
* WomanInWhite
-->'''Carrie Fisher:''' It's not really possible to write out a list of Princess Leia's likes and dislikes. I do know her favorite color, though, it's white. She wears white all the time.

* ActionHero
* {{Adorkable}}
* AntiHero:
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable: Resembles a teddy bear... an eight foot tall teddy bear who can rip your arms off as easily as breathing.
** BadassBandolier: It carries spare ammunition for his bowcaster.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Han, as Lando Calrissian's windpipe found out the '''hard''' way.
** Also, don't win any game against him. [[LetTheBullyWin Really, don't.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* TheBigGuy: He's huge and strong and carries a big blaster.
** Peter Mayhew got the role simply by politely standing up as George Lucas entered the room. Lucas craned his head back to look him in the eye, and said "I think we've got it."

* BloodBrothers: With Han.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Once Chewie ''likes'' you, he isn't shy about showing it.
* CuddleBug: Chewie really likes to hug the people that he loves, and making him no less manly in doing so. It also makes him a good warm-up blanket to any friends of his who were recently unfrozen and still chilled to the bone.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Beat him in a board game, he'll tear your arms off.
** There's some implication that Han and Chewie were just teasing C-3PO though.
* DoesNotLikeShoes - or, for that matter, clothes.
* DorkKnight

* FullFrontalAssault: Just be glad Wookiees have so much hair.
* GeniusBruiser: He may look uncivilized, but Chewbacca is a decent pilot and really more technologically inclined than Han. He plays dejarik (the ''Star Wars'' equivalent of [[SmartPeoplePlayChess chess]]), if not at R2-D2's level of skill. Yet he's fully capable of ripping arms off when angered.
* GentleGiant
* TheGlomp: When he's happy to see you.
* IWillTearYourArmsOff: In Wookie parlance, this is known as "losing ''gracefully''".

* MoralityPet: Even in the beginning, when Han is almost a DesignatedHero, Chewbacca is the stalwart friend who knows Han can be a better person if he tries.
* MrFixit
* NiceGuy
* NumberTwo
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy

* SidekickExMachina: Chewbacca (and two ewoks) hijacks an Imperial walker and rescues Han and Leia during the Battle of Endor. That one move was the pivotal moment that led the Rebels and Ewoks to victory: From there, they turned the tables on the Imperial ground forces, tricked the remaining garrison to open the back door, allowing them to blow up the shield generator, opening the way for the besieged fleet in orbit to finally do what they went there to do: destroy the second Death Star.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess
* SoreLoser
* StarfishLanguage[=/=]TheUnintelligible: Chewie's only lines are growls, barks, and grunts. The script actually had lines of dialogue for Peter Mayhew to recite in order to make the other characters reactions to him more genuine.
* WeaponOfChoice: Bowcaster (Wookiee crossbow).

* TheAce: Subverted.
* AntiVillain: The only reason he cooperates with Darth Vader in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' is to ensure the safety of the people of Cloud City. Of course, he eventually gets out of this and becomes a hero once he figures out that Darth Vader is lousy at keeping his end of the bargain.
* TheAtoner: Joins the Rebellion due to his guilt over selling out Han.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassCape
** BadassMustache
* BlackBestFriend: He and Han are old friends.
* ChivalrousPervert
* DeadpanSnarker
* DefaultToGood
* FrontlineGeneral: Makes general in ''Jedi'' and leads Gold Flight during the attack on the Death Star II.
* LovableSexManiac
* NoodleIncident: "He's forgotten all about that. I hope."
* ReformedCriminal
* ReverseMole: In ''Return Of The Jedi'', he disguises himself as one of Jabba's guards, and ends up being crucial in the skirmish over the Great Pit Of Carkoon.
* SaltAndPepper: With Han.
* SharpDressedMan
* SixthRanger
* SoulBrotha: Though less offensive than most.
* TheStoolPigeon:
--> '''Lando''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "I...had...no...choice!!"]]
--> '''Leia''': [[SarcasmMode Oh we understand him, don't we Chewie? "He had no choice!!"]]
* SupportingLeader: Leads the assault on the Death Star in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Han himself. Lando's appearance was calculated to replace Harrison Ford should he choose not to return. As it turned out, Lando still ended up piloting the ''Falcon'' into another Death Star.
* TokenMinority: Lando is the only black guy in the galaxy until the Prequel Trilogy was released.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: "You truly belong with us among the clouds." Smooth talker.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo

* ActuallyIAmHim: When he admits to Luke his real name is Obi-Wan.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: As the first Force Ghost shown in the films.
* TheAtoner: For training the man who destroyed the Jedi Order.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: The Trope Namer, in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
-->'''Luke:''' How did my father die?
-->'''Obi-Wan:''' A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.
* {{Badass}}: The only Jedi to have fought ''three'' powerful Sith warriors and lived to tell the tale. He defeated two of them.
** {{Ambadassador}}: Though negotiations may be on the short side.
** BadassBeard: He grew one after becoming a Jedi Knight (and later, Jedi Master).
** BadassBoast: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
** BadassGrandpa: Still retains some fighting skill despite his age in ''A New Hope''.
** OneManArmy: In his GloryDays. Took on General Grievous and his droid army alone and won.
** RetiredBadass: By the time of ''A New Hope''.
* BashBrothers: With Anakin in ''Attack Of The Clones'' and ''Revenge Of The Sith'', before Anakin does a FaceHeelTurn.

* BigBrotherInstinct: To Anakin, especially in ''The Phantom Menace''.
* BigBrotherMentor: To Anakin. He even refers to Anakin as his brother in ''Revenge Of The Sith'', while Anakin tells him he is like a father to him in ''Attack Of The Clones''.
* BigGood: Alongside Yoda in the classic trilogy.
* BigNo:
** In ''The Phantom Menace'', after Qui-Gon was killed by Darth Maul.
** He's also heard yelling one at Anakin in a premonition that Yoda has in ''Attack Of The Clones'', although the premonition doesn't reflect an actual conversation that takes place so much as it represents Anakin's fall from grace.
* BondOneLiner: ''"[[CallForward So uncivilized]]."''
* BodyguardingABadass: Watches over and protects Luke for 19 years as Luke grows up on Tatooine. Somewhat [[{{Subverted}} subverted]], as Luke didn't take a [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass until later.]]
* CainAndAbel: With Anakin, with Obi-Wan being the Abel to Anakin's Cain. This is more evident and obvious at the end of ''Revenge Of The Sith'' when Obi-Wan refers to Anakin as his brother and that he loved him before he turned to the Dark Side.

* TheChessmaster: His attempts to steer the plot in the direction he wants by keeping information from Luke end up not working, as Luke [[SpannerInTheWorks screws up his plans]] [[GoneHorriblyRight for the better.]]
* CoolOldGuy: From ''A New Hope'' to ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* CoolStarShip: ''Delta-7 Aethersprite-class'' light interceptor in ''Attack Of The Clones'' and ''Eta-2 Actis-class'' light interceptor in ''Revenge Of The Sith''.
* CoolSword: His blue lightsaber.
* CynicalMentor: To Anakin again. Despite this, he still seemed pretty shocked when Anakin falls to TheDarkSide.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially in the prequel trilogy. Ewan [=McGregor=]'s Alec Guinness impersonation managed to produce some of the driest irony ever captured on celluloid.
* DeceptiveLegacy: Obi-Wan tells Luke his father is dead. It all depends on your point of view. The audience knows he turns out to be Darth Vader; but from Obi-Wan's point of view, his friend Anakin died (and was mourned) after the events of ''Revenge Of The Sith''.
* DespairEventHorizon: Over Anakin's fall to TheDarkSide. It is obvious that this is something that Obi-Wan never recovers from emotionally and psychologically. It haunts him nineteen years later.
* TheDeterminator
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Especially in the prequels.
* DoesNotLikeGuns: Until he's [[CombatPragmatist forced to use one]] against Grievous. Even though one saved his life, he still quickly throws it away in disgust over how uncivilised it was.
* DoomedByCanon: Or rather, obligated to stay alive to be killed by Vader in the original trilogy.
* EccentricMentor: Although this applies more to Yoda, this trope was actually one of the early concepts for [[TheObiWan Obi-Wan]] himself (even after Sir Alec Guinness had already been chosen for the role). Remnants of this remain, as Uncle Owen claims to Luke that Kenobi is merely a crazy old man, and Han later calls the Jedi Master a "damn fool."
* ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge: TropeNamer when discussing the Lightsaber with Luke in ''A New Hope''.
* FantasticRacism: He does not consider droids to be "alive" despite evidence of droids having personalities and feelings.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Why do I think you're going to be the death of me, Anakin?"
* FromACertainPointOfView: The TropeNamer.
* GenreSavvy
* GloryDays: Only a pale shadow of the warrior he once was, much like Anakin is.
* GuileHero: His in-universe nickname is ''The Negotiator'' (which is slightly ironic when one of the senior Jedi that he reports to is played by [[Film/TheNegotiator Samuel L. Jackson]])
* TheHero: While ultimately the saga as a whole is about Anakin, Obi Wan is quite clearly the main heroic character of the Prequel trilogy to Luke's Original.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Like all Jedi, Obi-Wan uses a lightsaber as his WeaponOfChoice.
* HeroicBSOD: In ''Revenge Of The Sith'', Obi-Wan slowly falls into one as he and Yoda see the full extent of the massacre in the Jedi Temple. He's tipped over the edge when he sees a hologram proving that Anakin is responsible but, being [[TheStoic Obi]]-[[TheDeterminator Wan]], manages to keep going and [[TragicBromance fight the man]] [[HeterosexualLifePartners he's loved as a brother.]] He finally lets his emotions come out after he's defeated Vader and, although he keeps going, it's clear from that point onwards that he's tipped over the DespairEventHorizon. Even nineteen years later, it's clear that he hasn't fully recovered and he NEVER got over what happened to Anakin.
* HermitGuru: Obi-Wan is an old Jedi Master who has lived in Tattoine for the past twenty years. He, alongside Yoda, does his part in training Luke to become a Jedi Knight.
* HeroicSacrifice: A subtler version when he throws the fight against Vader to allow his friends to escape.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Anakin, after the latter becomes a Jedi Knight. The novelization of ''Revenge Of The Sith'' in particular really brings out the closeness of their friendship.
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Obi-Wan rescuing Luke from the Sand People.
* JacobMarleyWarning: Gives this to Luke before leaving to face Vader.
* JediMindTrick: The TropeMaker. Obi-Wan's statements that get him past the Stormtroopers in Mos Eisley is the most famous example, but he also may use a version of this while on the Death Star while disabling the tractor beam. The movie doesn't clarify if he used telekinesis to generate a sound in the next room, or if he used a mind trick to make the guards think that they heard a noise. Given how quickly they decide to look for an innocuous-sounding plink, Obi-Wan seems to at least have used the "mind trick" to influence that decision.
** In ''Attack Of The Clones'', Obi-Wan uses this to get rid of a guy trying to sell him death-sticks (according to Wookieepedia, the guy really did go home and genuinely rethink his life as he was told to, though after a while he fell back into his old ways).
* KnightErrant: Will go where ever he's sent.
* LegendaryInTheSequel: An interesting inversion: he's legendary in the ''original'', and the prequels establish why he is.
* LetsGetDangerous: At first, Obi Wan seems to be little more than a wizened old man, who may have once been a warrior of the Clone Wars, but is now, well, an old man who lives in a hovel. Then we get to the cantina scene, where said old man whips out a lightsaber, deflects blaster shots and lops a man's arm off. You can tell from the look on Luke's face, that's the moment when he starts to take the whole 'Jedi' thing seriously.
* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates: Obi-Wan does this when he says "Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
* ManipulativeBastard: An interesting example, since Obi-Wan is unquestionably on the side of the good, but he does attempt to manipulate Luke into unknowingly killing his own father (although it should probably be taken into account that the father in question is an unrepentant mass murderer who wants to turn Luke to the Dark Side and kill all his friends and allies).
* MartialPacifist
* MasterSwordsman
* TheMentor: To both Anakin and Luke. Let's just say it worked out a lot better with the latter student.
* MentorArchetype
* MentorOccupationalHazard: In ''A New Hope'', he dies trying to hold back Darth Vader to let Luke escape.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: He knew how to turn into a Force Ghost, after all.
* MyGreatestFailure: Anakin's fall.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When Obi-Wan dies, his body disappears, leaving behind an empty robe.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sneaking aboard Padmé's ship as she leaves to Mustafar fills Anakin with such an anger when he sees him that Anakin Force chokes Padmé, ultimately causing her death.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Obi-Wan is a samurai, a ninja, a knight and a wizard.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: With Anakin. Obi-Wan is the Noble to Anakin's Roguish.
* TheObiWan: TropeNamer.
* ObiWanMoment: TropeNamer - well, sort of - because the trope was actually named after a comment made on the Film/XMenTheLastStand director's commentary track at the eventual fate of a major mentor figure in that movie franchise, but it was in reference to ''this'' character from Star Wars.
* OfficerAndAGentleman: He holds the title of General in the Grand Army of the Republic as well as being a Jedi Master.
* OldMaster: In ''A New Hope''.
* OlderAndWiser: Obi Wan starts off as an apprentice to Qui Gon Jin, but becomes more of a wise and experienced Jedi master, culminating in him teaching Luke, his [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil former]] [[WeUsedToBeFriends padawan's]] son, about the Force in the beginning of ''A New Hope''. Luke goes through a similar development going from a whiny teenager in ''A New Hope'', to a wise, up-and-coming Jedi master himself in ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* ThePaladin
* TheParagon
* ParentalSubstitute: Obi-Wan becomes this to Anakin, considering that Anakin has never had a father.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: In ''Attack Of The Clones'', Obi-Wan's brief meeting with Jango Fett, to the point that Boba Fett's origin story contains a comparison between that conversation and a sword fight.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: See FantasticRacism above.
* ThePowerOfLegacy: Obi-Wan refrains from telling Luke about his father's true nature. Luke thinks of whoever his father is as a hero.
* ProdigalHero: Obi Wan exiles himself to watch over little Luke from a distance, and then returns to the first line to be his mentor.
* PsychicPowers
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Anakin's Red.
* TheSmartGuy
* SpiritAdvisor: To Luke after his death.
* TheStoic: Has one of the suckiest lives (and [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning afterlife?]]) of any character in fiction, but remains calm, never complains, and usually keeps his emotions well in check. When he starts screaming or gets visibly upset, you know crap just got real.
* StoneWall: The EU establishes that Obi-Wan is the definitive master of Soresu, the most defensive lightsaber style. This allows him to perform feats like (during his fight with Grievous) blocking ''twelve lightsaber strikes a second''.
* StudentAndMasterTeam: With Anakin in the Prequel Trilogy and Luke in the Original Trilogy. Obi-Wan was the student to Qui-Gon in ''The Phantom Menace''.
* TakeUpMySword: His entire goal was to set Luke up as a Jedi so he could succeed where Obi-Wan failed.
* ThanatosGambit: Obi-Wan to Vader: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
* TragicBromance: He never gets over what happened to Anakin, '''ever'''.
* [[UniversalDriversLicense Universal Pilot's License]]: Even though he explicitly says he hates it.
* UnreliableExpositor: In regards to Darth Vader and telling Luke the truth about him.
* WeaponOfChoice: Blue lightsaber.
* WellDoneSonGuy: In ''The Phantom Menace'', there was a scene where Obi-Wan apologized Qui-Gon for criticizing his sometimes peculiar actions (taking Jar Jar with them and betting their ship on Anakin winning the Pod Race). Qui-Gon quickly praised Obi-Wan for his willingness to learn and told him he would someday become a greater Jedi than Qui-Gon himself ever was. The novelization added other moments where Qui-Gon was critical of Obi-Wan's callousness (making jokes during combat) and lack of foresight (forgetting to turn his lightsaber battery off before jumping into swamp water), as well as the fact that Qui-Gon was known for seeking the "will of the Force" over the immediate issues.
* XanatosGambit:
** Obi Wan is polite enough to warn Vader that "if you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine" before [[ObiWanMoment setting Vader up to do just that]].
** Obi-Wan's mission to kill General Grievous is described as one of these (as well as a UriahGambit) in Novelization. Obi-Wan succeeds and kills Grievous? That's one less pawn that Palpatine would otherwise have to dispose of later. Grievous kills Obi-Wan? One less Jedi in Palpatine's way. The end result of the battle is rather irrelevant; the entire point was to make sure Obi-Wan wasn't on Coruscant, where he would otherwise likely be able to stop Anakin from turning to TheDarkSide.
* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: In ''Revenge Of The Sith'', Obi-Wan laments to Anakin when the latter turns to TheDarkSide, stating that he was supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them.

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!!Leia Organa
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!!Luke Skywalker
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!!Han Solo
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!!Chewbacca
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!!Lando Calrissian
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!Rebel Members

* AsideGlance: C-3PO.
* BadassAdorable: R2, especially in the prequel trilogy.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: R2. In ''Revenge Of The Sith'', R2 is captured by two Super Battle Droids who call him a "stupid little Astrodroid". Cue R2 [[KillItWithFire spraying them with oil and firing his jets]]. Result: two extra crispy and very much dead Super Battle Droids.
* BigGuyLittleGuy
* BilingualDialogue
* BreakoutCharacter: R2-D2.
* ButtMonkey: 3PO.
* {{Camp}}: C-3PO's defining characteristic.
* [[CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them]]: It's clear that without R2 around, 3PO tends to end up being captured, partially disassembled or thrown on the scrap pile within a ''day''.
* CaptainObvious: C-3PO provides lines such as, "It's entirely possible that this asteroid is not entirely stable."
* CranialProcessingUnit: Played straight for C-3P0 (as seen in ''Attack Of The Clones'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back''), but subverted by R2, if receiving a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] from a starfighter without suffering permanent memory damage is any indication.
* CuteMachines: Primarily R2-D2.
* DeadpanSnarker: R2's dialogue is dripping with this, even though he speaks a machine language the audience cannot interpret. It really takes off in the EU.
** A great example comes early in ''A New Hope'', after 3PO throws a hissy-fit and intentionally goes the ''other'' way into the desert, simply to spite him, the scene ends with R2 furiously muttering under his breath in irritation.
* DemotedToExtra: C-3PO in the prequel trilogy.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: It's against C-3PO's programming to impersonate a deity. It's not that he doesn't know how, it's that ''it's expressly hardcoded in his programming.''
* TheDragAlong: C-3PO in every movie.
* EyeLightsOut: C-3PO.
* GuyInBack: R2-D2 in ''A New Hope'', during the final battle. To add to the drama, he is badly damaged during the final trench run.
* HypercompetentSidekick: R2-D2. Particularly if viewed as specifically C-3PO's sidekick. In the original trilogy, he hacks the Death Star main computer to show its internal lay-out and shut down the trash compactors, keeps Luke's X-wing flying, and functions as a spy and monitoring station. He's also shown a number of times to be particularly brave and determined. In the prequels, it's the same story again: repairing a ship in hard vacuum while other droids blow up around him, flying, and once again hacking in the enemy's flagship.
** In the Expanded Universe, Artoo continues this trend. He's effectively saved planets and civilizations of the Galaxy numerous times thanks to saving Han, Luke, Leia, or whoever he's with repeatedly despite great personal risk to his tiny droid self. It's all the more impressive that he accomplishes this without really having any direct defenses of his own.
* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: C-3PO is prone to this, and very annoying about it.
* KidAppealCharacter
* MadeOfIron: Pun aside, R2 and 3PO are surprisingly durable droids. In the climax of ''A New Hope'', R2 took a direct hit from a ''Tie Fighter laser'' and lived to tell the tale, in spite of getting some clearly visible (but repairable) damage from it. In ''Empire'', 3P0 gets blown to pieces by a laser blast, only to be assembled back together no worse for wear with no real tools on hand. In ''Attack of the Clones'', he gets his head callously knocked off and hardwired onto another droid body accidentally, but this has no adverse effect on his hardware in the long run, and R2 is able to remove and rewire his head back to his normal body with a simple tool on hand.
* LetTheBullyWin: 3PO telling R2 to "let the Wookiee win".
* TheLoad: C-3PO. Somewhat justified however, in that he's freely admits he's "little more than an interpreter".
* LosingYourHead: Happens to 3PO in ''Attack of the Clones'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* TheNavigator: One of Artoo's functions as an astromech.
* OnlySaneMan: R2-D2 seems to cater to this, especially considering he never had his memory wiped and is fully aware of everything that has taken place since ''The Phantom Menace''.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: R2. In ''Revenge of the Sith'', he proved that he can take care of robots twice his size.
* PlotCoupon: R2's message from Leia, and the Death Star plans he carried.
* RobotBuddy
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Arguably, C-3PO is the Sensitive Guy to R2-D2's Manly Man.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: C-3PO.
* SilentSnarker: R2, judging by C-3PO's reactions to what he's saying, is quite the DeadpanSnarker.
* TheSmartGuy: R2, though 3PO has his moments.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: R2.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: See-Threepio or C-3PO? Artoo-Deetoo or R2-D2? See-Threepio or See-Threepizero?
** WordOfGod: [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes]]. (Except for the last one, which is a little more obvious when you spell it out that way.)
* StarfishLanguage[=/=]TheUnintelligible: R2-D2.
* SupportingProtagonist: In the first third of ''A New Hope''.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Droids]]
* TranslatorBuddy: 3P0 for R2.
* UnreliableNarrator: Creator/GeorgeLucas established early on that the movies are the story as told by R2 to an alien race. This probably explains why he gets a lot more heroic moments in scenes where he's alone.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With each other.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Droids, like R2-D2 and C-3PO, are established as having hopes, fears, desires, and moments of insight or creativity, however, they are often treated as property and discriminated against.
* WithFriendsLikeThese

* BigGood: For the one scene she gets in ''Return of the Jedi''.
* LethallyExpensive: "Many Bothans died to bring us this information."
* MinorMajorCharacter: The leader of the Rebel Alliance... Though she only shows up in this role for ''Return Of The Jedi''.
* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: She feels very responsible for the Bothans that died.
* RebelLeader[=/=]LaResistance: As the leader of the Alliance To Restore The Republic.
%%* WomanInWhite

* CaptainObvious: "It's a trap!"

* FishPeople: His race, the Mon Calamari, are actually one of two sentient aquatic races on their homeworld.
%%* FourStarBadass
* FrontlineGeneral: In most of his appearances he's personally commanding Rebel or New Republic naval forces in the field.
%%* MyBrainIsBig
%%* TheStrategist
%%* SupportingLeader

%%* AcePilot
%%* ActionSurvivor
%%* {{Badass}}
%%** BadassNormal: Especially in the EU.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Less so in the first two, but listen to him during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMvadAFqLQ the Battle of Endor]]. His is the most glacially calm voice used.
* ExactWords: Wedge is the only ([[ExpandedUniverse on-screen]]) pilot to survive both Death Stars because he's the only pilot to ''fly'' against both Death Stars; and Luke and Han, the only others who could even have qualified, weren't flying because they had more important things to do. Once again, though, this merely underscores Wedge's BadassNormal status.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: One of the most popular EU characters.
* MauveShirt: To the point that a common alternative name for this trope is "Wedge-type character".
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the first movie, Lucas dubbed another actor's voice over his lines. In ''Empire'', Lawson affected an American accent before switching to his native Scottish accent for ''Jedi''.

%%* FourStarBadass

%%* BadassMustache
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Never mentioned in the films after his untimely demise in ''A New Hope''.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Has all sorts of his own adventures while Luke is stuck on boring old Tatooine, much to Luke's annoyance.
* MauveShirt[=/=]SacrificialLamb: In the movie, he's mentioned as being a longtime friend of Luke's - which makes his death that much more saddening.
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!!Lando Calrissian

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