History Characters / StarWarsTheatricalLegends

* : Some of his greatest feats are: Walking directly on top of a lava flow, during the Yuuzhan Vong War took on over a hundred enemy troops who individually could take on hundreds of Republic soldiers and cut them down with such alarming speed that fellow Jedi could only see Luke's after-image, manipulating the gravity of a black hole and moving it so as to prevent it from destroying the Galactic Republic's forces and sends it back to the enemies who cast it, and defeating a resurrected Emperor Palpatine in single combat. By the time Luke is in his prime it becomes easily understood why Luke became the Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, one even more powerful and wise than Yoda ever was.

* AdaptationalBadass: He's a great deal more powerful and has significantly more adventures than he does in the current canon.
* AllLovingHero: ExpandedUniverse may differ, but consider that upon discovering his father is a Sith Lord and one of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, he decides—against the advice of everyone—that Dad can be saved from the Dark Side. He turns out to be right. For the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Luke was this in the early years but starting with the Legacy era he does such things as advocating torture. The mantle was passed on to his son Ben, who wants to redeem people who his father would rather kill.

* BigGood: Luke in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', most notably the novels. According to George Lucas' WordOfGod Anakin had the potential to become far more powerful than Emperor Palpatine, but due to his injuries on Mustafar had difficulty realizing that potential during his lifetime. Luke inherits that power and realizes it to the point where he becomes the most powerful Force User who has ever lived in the entire Star Wars canon. Luke has countless feats to his name but some that stand out include: Walking directly on top of a lava flow in order to impress an apprentice, during the Yuuzhan Vong War took on over a hundred enemy troops who individually could take on hundreds of Republic soldiers and cut them down with such alarming speed that fellow Jedi could only see Luke's after-image, manipulating the gravity of a black hole and moving it so as to prevent it from destroying the Galactic Republic's forces and sends it back to the enemies who cast it, and perhaps most impressive of all defeating a resurrected Emperor Palpatine in single combat by cutting off his hand which is especially notable as Palpatine is considered the most powerful Sith user and one of the greatest lightsaber duelists who ever lived. By the time Luke is in his prime it becomes easily understood why Luke became the Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, one even more powerful and wise than Yoda ever was.
* CelibateHero: Averted by Luke's Literature/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. Also averted by Luke himself, as he eventually marries Mara Jade and has a son with her.
* ChickMagnet: Notoriously so, in ironic defiance of the old Jedi Code.
* CrusadingWidower: [[DefiedTrope Defied.]] After killing Lumiya in anger, he realized that Mara's death blinded him and risked falling to the Dark Side. As a result, he had to let Jaina challenge Jacen.

** Arguably taken a step further in the ExpandedUniverse, in which Luke decides there's no such thing as a 'light side' and 'dark side', only the Force, henceforth using the Force entirely as he sees fit. Later, after a certain incident, he comes to the rapid conclusion that he's made a terrible mistake, and cuts himself of from the unsavory elements of the Force. In some ways, reflecting how Anakin came to embrace the Dark Side, only to repent and slay the Emperor.

** Luke's final temptation to join TheDarkSide hinges on him being his father's son and heir to his evil. Luckily, he inherited a few traits from his mom too.

* TookALevelInBadass: Luke was definitely no pushover in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' considering he defeated Darth Vader, but by the time he reaches the peak of his power, he's pretty much what the Chosen One could have been. Not only did he defeat a resurrected Darth Sidious, but with Darth Krayt he also defeated Abeloth, an EldritchAbomination the Son and the Daughter had to work together to fight.

** His strict and orthodox teachings and methods to deal with Anakin, often criticizing him for his arrogance and mistakes, caused Anakin to go to Palpatine as a father figure who would understand and encourage him better, making Anakin more vulnerable to Sidious' manipulations and to the Dark Side.

* AllTheOtherReindeer: Not terribly popular with other padawans as a Jedi. The closest thing he had to a friend was Obi-Wan, and his attempts at imitating Yoda's teaching style often left Anakin feeling ''more'' isolated, something Palpatine was only too happy to take advantage of.

* BeingEvilSucks: Anakin learns just a little too late the ultimate cruelty of the Sith, after having betrayed everything he's ever worked for, broken his wife's heart, apparently killed her, and been horribly mutilated after losing a fight with his friend and mentor when he ''could'' have been saving Padmé (or just not attacked her at all). Now, because of his selfish actions, he's going to be alone, burning in his own self-loathing. ''Forever.''

* BrokenAce: Even before the whole "fell to the Dark Side" things, Anakin had it rough. Little social contact, recurring nightmares, attempts on his life and an accidental murder before he hit thirteen...

* FantasticRacism: He really hates Sand People, after they killed his mother. A'Sharad Hett's attempt to resolve this... did not work.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Subverted. After his redemption by Luke, and the forgiveness of his son, his final thoughts are of those of his daughter, hoping that Leia could know that he came back to the light. In a chance to ensure she knows, his force ghost appears to Leia sometime after the Battle of Endor, in her apartment. While he makes an attempt to connect with his daughter, Leia is unable to reconcile the atrocities he has committed, and the suffering of billions over the galaxy at his hands, her torture included. While he begs her to reconsider, warning her he may never be able to see her again, Leia refuses. Though later in life, while she is unable to fully forgive him, Leia does come to terms that Anakin was once a good man before falling to the dark side, naming her son, Anakin Solo, after him in tribute to the man he once was.
* InformedAbility: When he joined the dark side, some sources said that he was on the same level as people like Yoda or Sidious. Considering that he lost to Obi-Wan, that's hard to believe.

* RedBaron: Anakin became known as "The Hero Without Fear" during the Clone Wars; ironic, considering that Anakin's original flaw that galvanised his fall to the Dark Side was the abundance of fear that Yoda sensed in him as a boy. Not that he actually was, but problems start ensuing when he really does do away with any fear. Including fear of being ''wrong''.

* Greed: Typical of neimoidians, his main motivation when it's not his safety is his obsession to get more riches and power.

** Though he had no choice but to stop his former comrade from killing Luke and other innocents on Tatooine at the head of the Tuskens, him maiming and unmasking A'Sharad Hett in front of his fellow Tusken and then exiling him from Tatooine would have very disastrous consequences for the galaxy, as Hett would eventually fully fall to the Dark Side and become the Sith Lord Darth Krayt.

* ItsPersonal: Jango's rivalry with Montross escalates dramatically when he finds out that Montross killed Jango's best friend Rozatta.

* AdaptationalBadass: Sidious of the canon is far from being a weakling, but in legends his powers reach physical God levels.

* TheChosenOne: He was destined to be the greatest and most powerful Sith Lord in the history of the galaxy, being the Sith'ari, the Dark Side equivalent to the Chosen One. Though this is how [[TheNarcissist Palaptine]] sees himself as, rather than outright stated.[[note]]He is, in fact, [[TheUnchosenOne mistaken]]; it was eventually confirmed that Literature/DarthBane, the creator of the Rule of Two, was the Sith'ari.[[/note]]

* TheDreaded: Is by far the most feared of the separatists, inspiring even more fear than even Dooku, due to his great brutality and savagery both as a warrior and a general, having killed many Jedi and countless clones, and ravaged many planets to the point that many planets have surrendered to him just with the appearance of his ship.

* InformedAttribute: Some character biographies for Mace tend to claim that he had a prominent sense of humour, presumably derived from a single (and not particularly witty) quip he made towards Dooku in ''Attack of the Clones''. Suffice to say, this is not at all reflected in his intensely stoic and foreboding demeanour seen throughout the movies and most EU works.

* CombatPragmatist: During the first animated series he appeared in, Dooku explicitly trains Grievous to fight like this: he's supposed to use surprise, fear, intimidation, and power to overwhelm his opponents, and to flee when that doesn't work.

* EvilDebtCollector: Grievous worked as a debt collector for the Intergalactic Banking Clan to raise money for the reparations his planet had to pay to the Yam'rii prior to his conversion into a cyborg.

* AlreadyMetEveryone: ''Revenge of the Sith'' reveals that he was already friends with Chewbacca during the Clone Wars. Later in the timeline, other EU media has shown that several other characters had already encountered Yoda on Dagobah before Luke arrived there, most notably Qu Rahn and Starkiller (or, more accurately, [[CloningBlues his identical clone]]).

* HurtingHero: Feels that ItsAllMyFault for Anakin pulling a FaceHeelTurn and the galaxy falling under the rule of the Sith. In fairness, he's not entirely wrong, but he has to learn to let go of his failures before Qui-Gon agrees to teach him the secrets of the Whills.

%%* HappilyMarried: To Han, in the EU.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The novelization has him happy that the Separatists are largely alien in membership, for it was his (and he thought Sidious') plan to be 'captured' by the Republic, then be reformed and turn against the 'alien menace'. He fully expected a human-dominated Empire to rise from it.

* YouHaveFailedMe: The trope namer. He was so notorious for it in the Empire, the "Death Star" novel actually has a moment of him using the Force to ''calm down'' a subordinate absolutely terrified of having to bring him some bad news. Years after his death, Pellaeon would repeatedly note how incredibly stupid it was to kill promising officera for minor mistakes.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted in the novel, where he initially objects to blowing up Endor, due to the imperial troops stationed there, only to give the order to fire as soon as he gets angry. Standards he does not have.

* EvilIsNotPacifist: In both version, Jerjerrod's an officer and a willing participant in war crimes; in the novel he goes a step farther, and is a ColonelKilgore who doesn't want the war to end.

* HateSink: Every piece of ''Legends'' media that features him seems to be dedicated to having him be as much of an utter bastard as possible, from callously shrugging off vehicular manslaughter as a young adult to treating his Empire underlings in the most pointlessly cruel way possible. His own abusive father holds him in contempt because of this and even other Sith Lords are repulsed by his evil. This is in contrast to the movies and canon works where while he's an irredeemable monster, he also has a good amount of levelheadedness and charisma to even it out.

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.

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* TheAntichrist: Heavily implied to be this in various sources, including the ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel. Palpatine is introduced as a young son of a nobleman who exhibits prodigious intellect and a proportionately high disregard for common morality. He is also said to be a delinquent, having a history of petty crime and being directly responsible for the deaths of two individuals as well as someone who is willing to murder his entire family without too much prompting. In the prologue, Palpatine admires the constellations that dot Coruscant's eastern sky just before the sun rises, i.e. the ''morning stars''. If that's not Revelation-y enough for you, he refers to the Dark Side in his thoughts as the "beast" that will bring about the "end times". Reading his childhood background on Wookiepedia feels like reading something from ''Film/TheOmen''.

* CelibateHero: Averted by Luke's Literature/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.