History Characters / StarWarsTheatricalLegends

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: Before ''Attack of the Clones'' established that Mace wielded a striking amethyst-bladed lightsaber, EU works defaulted to giving him a plain old blue lightsaber. His possession of a blue lightsaber before he acquired his purple one is still considered canon within the Legends continuity.

* NoTrueScotsman: Several, such as the Sith Prophets, did not recognize Darth Vader to be a true Sith, deeming him as "too much of a Jedi". To their own misery, they turned out to be completely correct.

[[folder:Poggle the Lesser]]
!!Archduke Poggle the Lesser
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!!!'''Species:''' Geonosian
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Geonosis

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MartonCsokas (films), Creator/MatthewWood (''The Clone Wars'')
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''[[Literature/StarWarsCatalyst Catalyst]]'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

-->'''Padmé Amidala:''' You're committing an act of war, Archduke. I hope you're prepared for the consequences.\\
'''Poggle:''' We build weapons, Senator! That is our business. Of course we're prepared!

Archduke Poggle the Lesser was the leader of the Geonosians and a founding member of the Separatist Alliance. His factories provided the Separatists with many of their Battle Droids.

* AristocratsAreEvil: He has the title of Archduke among the Geonosians, and has brought his people and their factories into the fold of the Separatist Alliance. Even without being involved with the Separatists, Geonosian society was incredibly brutal under his rule.
* ArmsDealer: He and the Stalgasin Hive, in collaboration with the Techno Union, provide a labor force for Baktoid Armor Workshop, the main producer of battle droids and weapons for the Separatist Alliance.
* AssholeVictim: Just like the other Separatist leaders, he was killed by Darth Vader in ''Revenge of the Sith''. Aside from being an immoral arms dealer, his atrocities include overthrowing and assassinating Geonosis' previous king, trying to have Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé publicly executed by monsters at the start of the war, and overall being an oppressive ruler.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He rose to power by fighting in gladiatorial games and by overthrowing and killing his predecessor Hadiss the Vaulted, though he had financial backing from Darth Sidious. Aside from Dooku and Grievous he's the only member of the Separatist Council who has any experience and knowledge in fighting and strategy and tactics.
* BeardOfEvil: He's got long tendrils of flesh hanging off his jowls, giving him the effect of a beard.
* BadassBoast: When Padmé tells him that he's commiting an act of war by executing her and two Jedi, thus three high officials of the Republic, and hopes that he's ready for the consequences, Poggle responds to her «We build weapons, Senator! That is our business. Of course we're prepared!».
* CreepySouvenir: His cane was made from the tusk of a large native Geonosian creature. It's rumored that it was actually made from the bones of Hadiss the Vaulted, Poggle's predecessor.
* EvilOldFolks: He appears to be quite old by Geonosian standards, walking with a cane instead of flying, and having prominent masses of flesh resembling a long beard, unlike all other Geonosians seen. What's even more distinct is that as an ascended drone, he's lived a lot longer than most drones have (who tend to live relatively short lives due to [[WeHaveReserves poor living conditions]]).
* EvilVirtues: Poggle is capable of genuine gratitude and accepted to make a deal with the Trade Federation to give it a massive droid army, despite his antagonistic relation with Nute Gunray, out of gratitude toward Darth Sidious for his help into making him Archduke. He also has a strong and genuine respect for Dooku, and he was less cowardly and had actual military skills in contrast to his fellow Separatist Council members. He's notably the only member of the council that tried to defend himself against Darth Vader, even if it was in vain.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: More than that, in fact. If you look carefully, you can see him being bisected and having both his arms and his tendrils cut off when Darth Vader kills him and the other Separatist leaders.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: He exclusively speaks Geonosian, which is incomprehensible, even by alien standards, yet somehow makes himself understood by both Dooku and the rest of the Separatist leadership.
* InsectoidAlien: As mentioned above, he's a Geonosian.
* KlingonPromotion: He got the position of Archduke and official ruler of Geonosis from overthrowing and executing his predecessor, Hadiss the Vaulted.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When realizing that the Battle of Geonosis is lost Poggle orders his people to move deep underground where they will be safer and have an advantage, than fight a losing battle on the surface. He also gives the Death Star plans to Dooku and have all traces of it erased of Geonosis computers to prevent the Jedi and the Republic to learn about it.
* RagsToRiches: Initially from the drone caste, Darth Sidious helped Poggle become Archduke, who then took power by killing his predecessor, Hadiss the Vaulted.
* StarfishLanguage: Poggle only speaks in Geonosian, a bizarre language made up of guttural clicking and rapid, odd noises.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Nute Gunray hate each other, and it's said to be a testament of Sidious' influence that he was able of making the two work together.
* VagueAge: Since Geonosians really show their age outwardly, it's hard to tell, though given he looks ''completely'' different from the young fighter classes, it can be assumed he is ''very'' old, whatever that means in Geonosian standards.
* VillainousFriendship: Downplayed as they can't really be described as friends, but Poggle has a very deep and genuine respect for Count Dooku and even gifted him his Solar Sailer, while Dooku in spite of his FantasticRacism does have genuine respect for the Geonosian leader.
* WeHaveReserves: He cares very little for casualties among his hive due to work disputes as Geonosians breed fast and competition between hive members encourages better results, hardier workers, and prevents overpopulation.
* WeirdBeard: Unlike most Geonosians, he has some flesh tendrils for a beard.

[[folder:Passel Argente]]
!!Passel Argente
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!!!'''Species:''' Koorivar
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Kooriva

->'''Portrayed by:''' Steven Boyle (''Attack of the Clones''), Marty Werterill (''Revenge of the Sith'')
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

Passel Argente was the Magistrate of the Corporate Alliance. He was a Republic senator for his homeworld of Kooriva before joining the Separatist Alliance.

* CorruptPolitician: He dragged both his homeworld (which had a considerable number of Republic supporters who fought against the Confederacy) and his company into the Clone Wars in order to gain a profit.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: Is a member of one, alongside the other corporate representatives who back the Confederacy.
* HornedHumanoid: Koorivar have several horns on their heads.
* RubberForeheadAlien: As a Koorivar, he mostly resembles a human but has scaly, reptilian skin and a spiraling horn growing from his head.
* TheStarscream: At the beggining of thewar he hopes overthrow Dooku to become the new leader of the Separatists by contesting Dooku's war strategy and pushing for an early attack on the Kaminoan cloning facilites, and by ordering the invasion of Ukio, a strategic agricultural world which feeds many of the planets of the Core, though his attack on Kamino failed due to Darth Sidious and Dooku having arranged for the news of his attack to be leaked to the Jedi and for him to receive false informations on Kamino's defense, thus decrediting him.

[[folder:Shu Mai]]
!!Shu Mai
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!!!'''Species:''' Gossam
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Castell

->'''Voiced by:''' Chris Truswell (''Attack of the Clones'') | Creator/NikaFutterman (''Kinect Star Wars'')
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' | ''Kinect Star Wars''

-->''"What you are proposing could be construed as treason."''

Shu Mai was the Presidente of the Commerce Guild and one of the leaders of the Separatist Alliance.

* AssholeVictim: Along with the rest of the Separatist leaders who helped start the Clone Wars who are killed by Darth Vader on Mustafar.
* BilingualDialogue: She only speaks in her native Gossam language, but her fellow Separatists can understand her and she understands them back as well.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As was the case with most of the Separatist Council.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: She is a member of one, alongside the other corporate representatives who back the Confederacy.
* {{Greed}}: Like Nute Gunray, Watt Tambor and San Hill her main motivation into joining the CIS was to increase her power and money.
* HumanoidAlien: Has the basic human body shape, but has a distinctly alien appearance.
* LizardFolk: Gossams like Mai are a diminutive species of saurian sentients.
* NonMammalMammaries: Despite coming from a reptilian species, she has a slightly pronounced bust.
* OnlySaneWoman: Downplayed. While she and the Commerce Guild ultimately join the Confederacy, she's the only Separatist Council member to show some hesitance before joining, openly stating that they'll likely be branded as traitors by the Republic.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When put in charge by the Commerce Guild of finding a solution to her homeworld's debt, Shu Mai instead of using her position to try to find a better compromise for the Gossams instead enslaved her own people by forcing them to work extremely hard and in extremely harsh conditions to earn as much money as quickly as possible to pay off their debt, uncaring about the suffering and deaths she inflicted on her own kin and planet. This act of pure immorality and ruthlessness is what convinced the Commerce Guild to make her their president.
* TokenEvilTeammate: One of if not the most repulsive members of the Separatist Council. While the other members of the council are all evil, most of them still have a few moral standards or care for their people. Shu Mai has none, having been perfectly willing to enslave her own people and homeworld, and also tried to poison her second homeworld of Felucia and all of its inhabitants just to screw the Republic.

[[folder:Po Nudo]]
!!Senator Po Nudo
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!!!'''Species:''' Aqualish
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ando

->'''Portrayed by:''' Paul James Nicholson
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

Po Nudo was the junior senator representing Ando. When the defected to the Separatists, he brought the Hyper-Communications Cartel with him, alongside half the Lambda Sector.

* AllThereInTheManual: His name is established in material outside of the theatrical films.
* CharacterDeath: He was killed by Darth Vader alongside the other Separatist Council members on Mustafar at the end of the Clone Wars.
* CorruptPolitician: His membership on the Separatist Council rather than the Separatist Parliament implies that he is among those who started the movement for profit rather than actual political idealism.
* ExtraEyes: As a Ualaq Aqualish, he has four eyes total.
* FaceHeelTurn: He used to be loyal to the Republic, but went over to the Separatists.
* PropagandaMachine: In addition to communications and intelligence management, the Hyper-Communications Cartel also had the job of running the Separatists' Shadowfeed, a sliced [=HoloNet=] channel for broadcasting Separatist propaganda.

[[folder:Tikkes]]
!!Senator Tikkes
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!!!'''Species:''' Quarren
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Mon Cala

->'''Portrayed by:''' ??
->'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' | ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars''[[note]]WhatCouldHaveBeen appearance in arc that has already been scripted.[[/note]] | ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

Tikkes was a Quarren senator representing Mon Cala who went over to the Separatists.

* CharacterDeath: He was killed by Darth Vader alongside the other Separatist Council members on Mustafar at the end of the Clone Wars.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Comes with being a Quarren.
* FaceHeelTurn: He used to be loyal to the Republic, but went over to the Separatists.i.

!Assassins and Bounty Hunters

[[folder:Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/TemueraMorrison

-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''

A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padmé Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.

* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Jango in the film is a highly capable soldier and contract murderer, but nowhere near the unstoppable Jedi-killing machine that the EU makes him out to be. Possibly justified as the film has him facing down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, two of the best fighters the Jedi Order has to offer, while his EU reputation as "the galaxy's most dangerous man" was earned facing down lesser foes.
* AffablyEvil: Side materials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* BadassCrew: He assembled the Cuy'val Dar, a group of one-hundred highly skilled individuals with some fellow Mandalorian warriors in their ranks, in order to help in the personal training of the clone army on Kamino.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba the Hutt).
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Zam Wessell ever since he first encountered her on Oovo IV.
* DualWielding: He brandishes twin blaster pistols that both make a distinctly beautiful sound when fired together. [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud "OW-OW-OW-OW-OW."]]
* ExactWords: After capturing a corrupt senator on Coruscant, he throttles the slimeball over a ledge.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Jango is the protagonist of the [=PS2=]/GC game ''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter'', which explains how he became the template for the clone army.
* HiddenDepths: His decision to request an unmodified clone to keep for himself was motivated by a promise he made for his old Toydarian friend, Rozatta, who always urged Jango to find something more valuable to live for than his pursuit of money. His loving treatment of Boba as his legitimate son puzzles both the Kaminoans and Count Dooku, who naturally presume Jango to be nothing more than an emotionless killing machine.
* HumbleHero: ZigZagged. Jango is under no illusions about how much of a badass he is, but the proposition of having an entire army of clones at his disposal is not nearly as appealing to him as the prospect of simply having a son to call his own. Off the clock, he lives a fairly modest lifestyle and humbly introduces himself to Obi-Wan as a simple man trying to make his way in the universe (albeit, with some sarcasm).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* ItsPersonal:
** Jango's rivalry with Montross escalates dramatically when he finds out that Montross killed Jango's best friend Rozatta.
** He had an extremely personal feud with Tor Vizsla, the founder of the Death Watch, and his personal nemesis who caused the deaths of nearly everyone Jango loved including his parents, his mentor and ParentalSubstitute Jaster Mereel, and most of his comrades by manipulating the Jedi into destroying the True Mandalorians.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Gets one of the coolest examples in the franchise when he prepares to fight Komari Vosa.
--> '''Jango:''' [[BadassBoast Back in a minute.]]
* MarriedToTheJob: He's so entrenched in the bounty hunter lifestyle that he has no time for romance or settling down. [[CharacterDevelopment He eventually gives in to his secret desire to have a son of his own when he finds out that he is to be cloned on Kamino, however]].
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* NobleDemon: The EU tries to go this route with him. It's not really present in the film, where he's a hired gun who kills one of his subcontractors and has no qualms about helping to trigger a galaxy-wide civil war.
* PunchClockVillain: Jango lives a fairly modest, ascetic lifestyle when he isn't hunting bounties. If he wasn't so damned skilled at his job, he probably would've settled down with Zam and Boba to enjoy the vast wealth he has accumulated years ago.
* TheRival: ''Star Wars: Bounty Hunter'' introduces Jango's lifelong nemesis, Montross, a fellow ex-Mandalorian who also works as a bounty hunter and has a nasty tendency to bring none of his contracts back alive. Montross wears red Mandalorian armour to contrast Jango's blue set. However, Jango puts less stock in their rivalry than Montross and [[UnknownRival spitefully refuses to acknowledge the man as worthy competition]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: According to ''Shatterpoint'' it was Jango's presence in Dooku's box that prevented Mace Windu from killing the ex-Jedi on the spot, as he had originally been intending to. Instead Mace ended up battling Jango and Dooku got away, allowing the Clone Wars to kick off.
* TragicKeepsake: Jango's original ship before he picked up ''Slave I'' was a rusty hunk of junk named ''Jaster's Legacy'' as it was previously owned by Jango's beloved Mandalorian mentor, Jaster Mereel.
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.

[[folder:Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)

A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.

* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Jango ever since their first encounter on Oovo IV. While Jango insists on keeping the relationship professional, Zam is much more openly flirtatious and their friend [[ShipperOnDeck Rozatta gleefully prods them into becoming an item.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: She returns just in time to save Jango from Komari Vosa after [[ChangedMyMindKid previously attempting to abandon him to save her own skin]].
* {{Greed}}: She was actually chased off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, the Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango Fett and, indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job, she was relatively harmless, not unlike Jango.
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Her friendship with Jango is very teasing, mostly on her end, but they do care about one another.

[[folder:Boba Fett]]
!!Boba Fett
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[[caption-width-right:299:''"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 quintessential example of OldShame. Once entrenched in canon, he played a minor role in Episode V as the man who succeeds in tracking 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.

* AllTheOtherReindeer: Not terribly popular with other padawans as a Jedi, owing to his unique roots. The closest thing Anakin had to a friend then was Obi-Wan, and the latter's 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 foolish actions, Anakin is stuck as Darth Vader, cursed with unimaginable pain and self-loathing.

* BrokenPedestal: To the Empire in ''Dark Empire'', interestingly enough. Once word got out of his role in the Emperor's death, he became so despised that anyone associated with him when alive became an outcast. Solely because of this, General Veers, one of the Empire's best ground assault specialists, is demoted to captain, then was ordered on a suicidal ground assault on Balmorra by one of the reborn Palpatine's lackeys.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: One short story featuring Dengar had him observe that unlike Palpatine, he didn't kill people for the fun of it - if he wanted the bounty hunter dead, he'd already be dead.

* ThePowerOfHate: The power of the Dark Side, but Vader also uses his own self-loathing as a fuel source.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Kind of. Palpatine was strongly implied to be one of two people indirectly responsible for his conception via the midi-chlorians (the other being his Sith Master, Darth Plagueis), so Vader/Anakin killing Palpatine late into ''Return Of The Jedi'' could qualify as such, technically speaking. Granted, it wasn't exactly intended that Anakin be created (they were attempting to create a Sith Weapon, but the Force itself retaliated).

* TookALevelInBadass: As a redeemed Force ghost, Anakin can draw upon his full potential as TheChosenOne, with it tempered by wisdom. Notably, when mentoring his lineage, he has utilized the DarkSide on several occasions while being immune its corruptive influence.

* OnemanArmy: Being a cyborg with superhuman strength, speed, agility and toughness and the lightsaber skills to fight and kill many Jedi, this is a given. Even before his transformation he was an extraordinary marksman and swordsman who had killed countless Yam'rii, having shot more than forty of them when he was eight, and having lost the count of how many he had killed as a young adult, becoming even deadlier after Ronderu lij Kuumar taught him how to fight with a sword.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Writers are notorious for subjecting Luke to this, even among all other characters. Likewise, he can go from being a victim of the WorfEffect against foes like Lumiya, Exar Kun and Abeloth, to rivaling and/or surpassing them in prowess.

** Essentially, the only two lines he consistently has shown is an unwillingness to kill anyone in cold blood and a refusal to take part a direct part in any type of slavery operation (he would work for slavers in other matters though).

* LifesWorkRuined: In ''Star by Star'', she has a moment when she's horrified to realize the New Republic, which she spent her life trying to build up, is hopelessly inefficient and corrupt, and at this point [[ItIsBeyondSaving entirely beyond saving]]. The death of Anakin a short time later doesn't help.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played straight. Leia takes after Anakin, though she isn't happy about it. She is way more proactive, hot-headed, passionate, opinionated, aggressive, and stubborn than her brother Luke, and she isn't nearly as forgiving of Vader's sins, the same way that Anakin is not easily forgiving of those who hurt his loved ones. Anakin's way is to get revenge and Leia seems the same way. The Noghri call Leia "Lady Vader" for a reason. How much of this can be attributed to genetics versus her upbringing is debatable, but she's more like her father than her mother Padmé, despite sharing some traits with her mother.

* HeroicSacrifice: He dies saving Anakin Solo in ''Vector Prime''.

* ButNowIMustGo: Years after the defeat of the Empire, Obi-Wan tells Luke in a dream that he can no longer appear to him as a Force Ghost and must move on from the physical realm. He still contacts him after that, but much more rarely.

Though introduced as a somewhat shady former business partner of Han's, Lando 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]].

* TheStarscream: While he appears to be a willing servant to the Emperor (which may be somewhat sincere; again, DependingOnTheWriter), Vader has been constantly plotting to overthrow his master for many years, as per Sith custom. Unlike most Sith, however, Vader lacks the will needed to go through with this, which Palpatine views as a weakness and regularly exploits. Vader's reasons for standing by the Emperor boil down to his fear of his master's power, his belief that he is too far gone for a betrayal to make any difference, and some twisted affection he still holds for Palpatine simply because he is the only person he has left in the Galaxy.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Because he can't use Force Lightning, he throws his lightsaber like a boomerang and spins it with the Force to turn it into a veritable plasma saw. This is his go-to ranged attack in video-games.
* TookALevelInBadass: As a redeemed Force ghost, Anakin can draw upon his full potential as TheChosenOne, with it tempered by wisdom. Notably, when mentoring his lineage, he has utilized the DarkSide on several occasion while being immune its corruptive influence.

* VillainousFriendship: Downplayed as they can't really be described as friends, but Poggle has a very deep and genuine respect for Count Dooku and even gifted him his Solar Sailer, while Dooku in spite of his FantasticRacism does have genuine respect for the Geonosian leader.

* ArcVillain: Of the Geonosis arc in ''The Clone Wars''' second season.

* AssholeVictim: Just like the other Separatist leaders, he was killed by Darth Vader in ''Revenge of the Sith''. Aside from being an immoral arms dealer, his atrocities include overthrowing and assassinating Geonosis' previous king, trying to have Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé publicly executed by monsters at the start of the war, collaborating with Queen Karina to have the Jedi infected with parasitic brain worms, and overall being an oppressive ruler.

* CreepySouvenir: His cane was made from the tusk of a large native Geonosian creature. In ''Legends'', it was rumored that it was actually made from the bones of Hadiss the Vaulted, Poggle's predecessor.

* NoSell: As a Geonosian, he's immune to {{Jedi Mind Trick}}s. Unfortunately for him, [[AntiHero Anakin Skywalker]] doesn't need mind tricks to [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique get Poggle to talk]] when his Padawan is in danger.
* PuppetKing: While he is the face of the Geonosian hives in the Separatist Alliance (and brought his people into it), he is actually subservient to the Geonosians' true ruler, Queen Karina the Great, who [[ShadowDictator covertly rules Geonosis from deep underground]].

!Assassins and Bounty Hunters

[[folder:Jango Fett]]
!!Jango Fett
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/TemueraMorrison

-->"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.''

A top-notch bounty hunter who was hired by the Republic to be the template for an army of clones, from which the Clone Wars took their name. Secretly working for the Separatists as an assassin and mercenary soldier, Jango makes several attempts on the life of Padmé Amidala, bringing him into direct conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. He is the genetic father of Boba Fett, whose creation was one of the conditions of his deal with the Kaminoan cloners.

* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed. Jango in the film is a highly capable soldier and contract murderer, but nowhere near the unstoppable Jedi-killing machine that the EU makes him out to be. Possibly justified as the film has him facing down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu, two of the best fighters the Jedi Order has to offer, while his EU reputation as "the galaxy's most dangerous man" was earned facing down lesser foes.
* AffablyEvil: Side materials paint him as a relatively pleasant guy if you aren't a target or in his way.
* BadassCrew: He assembled the Cuy'val Dar, a group of one-hundred highly skilled individuals with some fellow Mandalorian warriors in their ranks, in order to help in the personal training of the clone army on Kamino.
* BountyHunter: Though we never actually see him pursue any bounties in the film, and in the EU he's just as likely to work for criminals as he is to pursue them (in particular, he and Boba both have a longstanding relationship with Jabba the Hutt).
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Zam Wessell ever since he first encountered her on Oovo IV.
* DualWielding: He brandishes twin blaster pistols that both make a distinctly beautiful sound when fired together. [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud "OW-OW-OW-OW-OW."]]
* ExactWords: After capturing a corrupt senator on Coruscant, he throttles the slimeball over a ledge.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kills his friend and subcontractor Zam Wessel when she is captured, on the chance that she might talk.
* HeroKiller: Downplayed when compared to Grievous or Durge, but still in effect. Jango comes with an earthshaking reputation and largely lives up to it, fighting Obi-Wan to a draw, killing Jedi Master and Council member Coleman Trebor during the arena battle, and actually getting off a few shots at Mace Windu before being slain. The various comics, video games, and novels have played up this status, adding additional Jedi kills to his bodycount.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Jango is the protagonist of the [=PS2=]/GC game ''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter'', which explains how he became the template for the clone army.
* HiddenDepths: His decision to request an unmodified clone to keep for himself was motivated by a promise he made for his old Toydarian friend, Rozatta, who always urged Jango to find something more valuable to live for than his pursuit of money. His loving treatment of Boba as his legitimate son puzzles both the Kaminoans and Count Dooku, who naturally presume Jango to be nothing more than an emotionless killing machine.
* HumbleHero: ZigZagged. Jango is under no illusions about how much of a badass he is, but the proposition of having an entire army of clones at his disposal is not nearly as appealing to him as the prospect of simply having a son to call his own. Off the clock, he lives a fairly modest lifestyle and humbly introduces himself to Obi-Wan as a simple man trying to make his way in the universe (albeit, with some sarcasm).
* IGaveMyWord: Always honors his deals.
* ItsPersonal:
** Jango's rivalry with Montross escalates dramatically when he finds out that Montross killed Jango's best friend Rozatta.
** He had an extremely personal feud with Tor Vizsla, the founder of the Death Watch, and his personal nemesis who caused the deaths of nearly everyone Jango loved including his parents, his mentor and ParentalSubstitute Jaster Mereel, and most of his comrades by manipulating the Jedi into destroying the True Mandalorians.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Gets one of the coolest examples in the franchise when he prepares to fight Komari Vosa.
--> '''Jango:''' [[BadassBoast Back in a minute.]]
* MarriedToTheJob: He's so entrenched in the bounty hunter lifestyle that he has no time for romance or settling down. [[CharacterDevelopment He eventually gives in to his secret desire to have a son of his own when he finds out that he is to be cloned on Kamino, however]].
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A villainous example, to his son.
* NobleDemon: The EU tries to go this route with him. It's not really present in the film, where he's a hired gun who kills one of his subcontractors and has no qualms about helping to trigger a galaxy-wide civil war.
* PunchClockVillain: Jango lives a fairly modest, ascetic lifestyle when he isn't hunting bounties. If he wasn't so damned skilled at his job, he probably would've settled down with Zam and Boba to enjoy the vast wealth he has accumulated years ago.
* TheRival: ''Star Wars: Bounty Hunter'' introduces Jango's lifelong nemesis, Montross, a fellow ex-Mandalorian who also works as a bounty hunter and has a nasty tendency to bring none of his contracts back alive. Montross wears red Mandalorian armour to contrast Jango's blue set. However, Jango puts less stock in their rivalry than Montross and [[UnknownRival spitefully refuses to acknowledge the man as worthy competition]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: According to ''Shatterpoint'' it was Jango's presence in Dooku's box that prevented Mace Windu from killing the ex-Jedi on the spot, as he had originally been intending to. Instead Mace ended up battling Jango and Dooku got away, allowing the Clone Wars to kick off.
* TragicKeepsake: Jango's original ship before he picked up ''Slave I'' was a rusty hunk of junk named ''Jaster's Legacy'' as it was previously owned by Jango's beloved Mandalorian mentor, Jaster Mereel.
* VillainousFriendship: With Zam, who got closer to him than anyone except his son. When he was forced to kill her, Jango was left visibly shaken and upset.

[[folder:Zam Wesell]]
!!Zam Wesell
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->'''Played by:''' Leanna Walsman (Ep. II)

A Clawdite bounty hunter and killer-for-hire, and frequent associate of Jango Fett, Zam was brought in as a subcontractor when Jango was hired to assassinate Senator Amidala. Failing in the attempt, she was captured by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and killed by Jango.

* AffablyEvil: Not really demonstrated in the film, but sidematerials establish her as such.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Jango ever since their first encounter on Oovo IV. While Jango insists on keeping the relationship professional, Zam is much more openly flirtatious and their friend [[ShipperOnDeck Rozatta gleefully prods them into becoming an item.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: She returns just in time to save Jango from Komari Vosa after [[ChangedMyMindKid previously attempting to abandon him to save her own skin]].
* {{Greed}}: She was actually chased off of her homeworld for being too avaricious.
* HiredGuns: Has worked for the Black Sun vigos, the Hutts, various other crime lords, Jango Fett and, indirectly, the Separatists. So long as she gets paid, Zam doesn't give a damn where the money is coming from.
* ParentalSubstitute: The closest thing that the young Boba Fett had to a mother figure.
* PunchClockVillain: Zam was not a sadist, and did not especially enjoy violence. Off the job, she was relatively harmless, not unlike Jango.
* VillainousFriendship: With Jango, which is why he brought her in to subcontract on the Amidala job.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Her friendship with Jango is very teasing, mostly on her end, but they do care about one another.

[[folder:Boba Fett]]
!!Boba Fett
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[[caption-width-right:299:''"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 quintessential example of OldShame. Once entrenched in canon, he played a minor role in Episode V as the man who succeeds in tracking 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.

* AdaptationalBadass: Fett's role in V & VI consists of missing every shot, and getting knocked into the Sarlacc pit by a blind man. The EU has gone on to make him the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, and a guy who can supposedly throw down with the likes of Darth Vader.
* AntiHero: Depending on the story, he can be this. It depends on how much his target deserves a blast to the head.
* AntiVillain: Type I in the EU. In the original movies, not so much.
* BountyHunter: According to the EU, Fett got his two best bounties ever by capturing Solo once. Vader paid him for the capture in Cloud City, and released the body to Fett, who took it to Jabba and got paid again for "art, made out of Solo, crafted by the hand of Lord Vader".
* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In Episodes V and VI and their respective novelisations, Fett is portrayed as an amoral PsychoForHire who gets off on disintegrating or scalping his victims. The later EU tends to portray him as a KnightTemplar or even a full-on NobleDemon.
* ClintSquint: His helmet's thin visor, his scratchy American voice (originally provided by Jason Wingreen) and his swaggerific body language were intended to evoke Creator/ClintEastwood.
* TheDeterminator: In the ExpandedUniverse. He fought out the Sarlacc's belly through sheer force and iron will. The Sarlacc itself admits that he's hardcore some years later.
* DisappearedDad: ''ComicBook/StarWarsTales'' has him revealed as having had a wife and child whom he was separated from in the past. This was later expanded upon, showing he was exiled for murdering his wife's rapist and their marriage then fell apart, with Fett estranged from her along with their daughter (who hated him). Fett later revealed he'd always felt guilty for abandoning his daughter, and tried to make up for it by bonding with his granddaughter (after his daughter died).
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He deliberately gave up on a chance to kill Starkiller at a moment when he was vulnerable because he was having a romantic reunion with Juno Eclipse, because he felt doing that would "not have felt right." He even follows a strict code of honor in regards to his missions.
** While Leia was a slave in Jabba's palace, Jabba rewarded Boba Fett for his good work by allowing him to have Leia for a night. Boba was disgusted by the thought of taking a woman against her will, and allowed Leia to spend the night in his room without touching her.
** He's also not a fan of needlessly making his bounties suffer, even if he is out to kill them. When Han Solo draws back from strangling his cousin Thrackan, Boba mistakes it for sadistically drawing it out and tells Han it's not sport.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He serves as the protagonist of his own book series.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He bashes Han for being a drug smuggler, but openly works for/takes commissions from the guy Han was smuggling drugs for.
* InformedAbility: Boba's status as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy is pretty iffy in the films (either that, or the galaxy's bounty hunters all suck). The EU does a better job of justifying his title.
* KnightTemplar: Later materials have him believing the Empire is a lawful government and believing that he is bringing justice to criminals. Which begs the question of "why does Jabba have you on retainer?"
* LegacyCharacter: In two ways.
** Before the prequels, TheBookOfTheFilm stated that Boba Fett's ImpossiblyCoolClothes were Mandalorean battle armor. It mentioned in passing that the Mandaloreans were a ProudWarriorRace that had been eliminated by the Jedi Order: the implication was that Boba Fett either ''was'' one of the last Mandaloreans or had acquired the armor in some OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.
** The prequels made him more clearly and directly a LegacyCharacter with the introduction of his parent Jango Fett.
* TheMentor: Served as one for Jaina Solo so she could take down Darth Caedus.
* NobleDemon: Whether he's a villain or AntiHero, a general constant is that he'll have ''some'' form of morality.
* NoodleIncident: ''"No disintegrations."'' The reason for Vader specifying this to Fett has yet to be explained, though it is mentioned in the Creator/DanielKeysMoran short story "The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett".
-->"Vader always said that, after that one time..."
* NotSoAboveItAll: In "The Bounty Hunter Code", [[ButtMonkey Greedo's]] comments are mostly met with mockery and taunts from the other bounty hunters (and Solo), including Fett. Except for when Greedo questions why Boba has a disintegrator, when the book advices against it. Boba actually lowers himself to childishly correct Greedo on what model of disintegrator he uses, and calls the guild armorer stupid.
* PapaWolf: Gets very upset when Thrackan Sal-Solo sells out his daughter, despite said daughter just wanting him dead because she blamed him for her mother's death. Probably would have killed the guy himself if his granddaughter, Mirta, hadn't gotten to Solo and killed him first.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: The series of short novels taking place during the Clone Wars is this, showing how Boba [[UsedToBeASweetKid changed from a nice kid]] whose biggest flaw was his respect for his father, to a cold-blooded murderer.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: In the EU, DependingOnTheWriter.
* PsychoForHire: In the novelisations of Episodes V and VI he's depicted this way, as an unsavoury, vicious SOB who likes his job a little too much.
* StrawCharacter: The way ''Literature/TalesOfTheBountyHunters'' tells it, Boba Fett is one of the extremely conservative variety. He doesn't have a single vice, because he considers them an insult to the flesh. He considers sex between those not married to be immoral - that includes rape, too. When Leia tried offering to pay him to get her and her friends out, he flat out refused, saying that the rebels were morally wrong. Apparently, he supports the Empire because it permits civilization to exist, never mind that it's an empire that commits genocide. He hates Han's guts because Han breaks laws, and Fett finds the idea of breaking laws to be offensive. Never mind that Fett murders people, and takes bounties set by the notorious gangster Jabba (who Han began as a smuggler for). He laughs off the Dark Side as Jedi superstition, which becomes hilarious in hindsight, because for all his hatred of Jedi, his lifestyle is much the kind that the Jedi Order would have considered ideal (not to mention making him a FlatEarthAtheist type given other material shows Vader once Force choked him--or [[WatsonianVsDoylist can be]] a ContinuitySnarl).
* YouKilledMyFather: He goes after Mace in the preteen novel series. Given that Mace is only slightly less powerful than Yoda and Boba's only in his middle teens, you'd expect it to [[CurbStompBattle end badly for him]]. [[MexicanStandoff You'd]] [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction be wrong]].

[[folder:[=IG-88=]]]
!!IG-88
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->Appears in Ep. V.

A ruthless assassin droid, and one of the bounty hunters sent by the Empire to track Han Solo in Episode V. It started placing trackers on all of the bounty hunters' ships that were present and used them to find Solo. Boba Fett was not fooled; he allowed IG-88 to follow him to Bespin, where the droid met its end. IG-88B was left as scrap in the bowels of Cloud City.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: IG-88 might be a machine that is the perfectly ruthless assassin... but Boba Fett gets the drop on it in Cloud City, hits it with an EMP gun, and then took it apart piece by piece and left it for scrap metal.
* BountyHunter: A ruthless droid bounty hunter with megalomaniac ambitions.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:In his EU origin story he uploads himself into the Death Star II, with the obvious result.]]
* KillerRobot: He's an assassin droid but he takes it above and beyond, [[spoiler: particularly when he takes over the Second Death Star.]]
* MesACrowd: The original IG-88 uploaded its personality into three other identical assassin droids shortly after it was first activated. They all refer to themselves as IG-88A, B, C, and D respectively.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In its ExpandedUniverse origin story, it was created by Holowan Laboratories. It achieved full sentience immediately after activation, accessed the facility's databases and found what it was and who made it, and decided immediately that it was superior in every way to biologicals. When the lab personnel saw how their creation had GoneHorriblyRight, they decided to shut it off and start over. IG-88 disagreed. The four IG-88s go out of their way to find and kill anyone connected to the project that created them, as they think that the less the galaxy knows about their inner workings, the better.
* WalkingArmoury: IG-88 has built in blaster cannons in its arms, a concussion grenade launcher in its hip, flechette launcher, needle dart gun, flamethrower, poison gas canisters and an assortment of other grisly attachments on its body.

[[folder:Greedo]]
!!Greedo
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->'''Played by:''' Paul Blake (Ep. IV) & Maria De Aragon (double) & Larry Ward (voice)

A Rodian bounty hunter in the employ of Jabba the Hutt. He confronts Han Solo in the Mos Eisley cantina because of the price on Solo's head. It doesn't end well for him.

* ButtMonkey: Poor guy rarely gets any sort of respect. Throughout the "Bounty Hunter Code", his comments almost all demonstrate how naive and inexperienced he is, and most of the other hunters ruthlessly mock him for it.
* ContinuitySnarl: The identity of the child Rodian named Greedo in a deleted scene in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. Originally, it was simple: that was the same Greedo as in ''Film/ANewHope''. But then it was found that this didn't allow his age to sync up with ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', so a {{retcon}} was introduced that the young Rodian was actually Greedo's father with the same name. And that worked, ''until'' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' introduced a young adult Rodian named Greedo who WordOfGod says is the same as both film Greedos. So either Greedo's segment of ''Tales'' has been implicitly consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, or Greedo is somehow now ''older than his own father''.
** The lore article [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170706223459/https://www.starwars.com/news/the-not-so-magnificent-seven "The Not-So Magnificent Seven"]] confirms that the Greedo in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is the Greedo of ''Film/ANewHope'', but that ''[[Literature/TalesFromTheMosEislyCantina Tales]]'' story is also still ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' canon. Everything from the story still happened, though Greedo was retconned to be older than ''Tales'' originally had him to be.

!Other characters

[[folder:Tusken Raiders]]
!!Tusken Raiders
->Appear in Ep. I-II-IV.
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TRaider_5787.jpg]]

Also known as Sand People. Nomadic, primitive humanoid sentients indigenous to Tatooine, where they are often hostile to local settlers. For tropes pertaining to them, see Characters/StarWarsLegendsRaces.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jabba the Hutt]]
!!Jabba Desijiric Tiure the Elder
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This bounty hunter is [[VillainCred my kind of scum]]: fearless and inventive."'']]
->'''Puppeteers:''' Toby Philpott, Mike Edmonds & David Alan Barclay
->'''Voiced by:''' Larry Ward (Ep. VI) & Ben Burtt (Ep. IV re-release) & Scott Schumann (Ep. 1)

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. ''Shadows of the Empire'' confirms that he can even ''speak'' Galactic Basic if he wants to, not just understand it.
* DependingOnTheWriter: His habit of keeping skimpily clad humanoids around his palace varies in how it's portrayed. It bounces between being a common feature of all hutts, a particular fetish of his that other hutts find distasteful, to it being common among hutts as a way to display their wealth and power, with Jabba actually being attracted to them being a distasteful fetish.
* DepravedBisexual: He had male pleasure slaves too, according to the Expanded Universe.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The original Marvel Comics ''Star Wars'' series took the liberty to depict Jabba as a yellow-skinned, humanoid, walrus-like creature as no other reference for what the character was supposed to look like existed at the time. Unused footage from the first film featured a completely human Jabba portrayed by Irish actor Declan Mulholland. As the film series' budget increased, Lucas was finally able to realise his true vision for Jabba in ''Return of the Jedi'' which of course usurped both as the definitive appearance.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter'', despite being a ruthless crime lord, when Jango inquired about the Bando Gora, Jabba says he doesn't work with such scum.
* TheGhost: For the first two pre-1997 releases of the Original Trilogy, Jabba is completely unseen but his far-reaching influence looms over Han Solo's character arc. The 1997 Special Editions reinserted a bug-eyed CGI Jabba into the unused Declan Mulholland footage, somewhat lessening the impact of his full reveal in ''Return of the Jedi''.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: According to the EU, this is true of all Hutts. [[BrainBleach You're welcome]]. Disney's new Canon instead indicates that they reproduce sexually, which better explains Jabba's biologically confounding lust for humanoid women.
* ImAHumanitarian: Jabba has straight-up devoured several people in various ExpandedUniverse comics.
* 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''.
* TheWorfEffect: A non-combat example. In ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'', Jabba acts very submissive and servile to Xizor to establish the Black Sun as a much higher criminal organization.

[[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.

* AcademicAthlete: According to ''The New Essential Guide to Characters'', Gasgano cultivates a reputation as an intellectual, though [[BarBrawl his behavior after a few drinks]] can paint a rougher picture.
* BadassDriver: Some more than others (hi, Ben), but as a whole, these pilots are presented as the galaxy's best.
* BeastMan: Neva Kee looks like a grotesque little mutant rabbit (buck teeth included), although his species, Xamster, is actually reptillian. Meanwhile, Aldar Beedo's reedy snout, frilled neck, and tapering body structure are strongly reminiscent of a seahorse. Then there's Dud Bolt, whose broad, flat, toothy snout recalls the proto-mammalian therapsids.
* BigBadassRig: Carried over to Podracer design mentality, Mars Guo, Ratts Tyerell, Aldar Beedo, and Teemto Pagalies are reining in vehicles which definitely qualify.
* BodyguardingABadass: Dud Bolt acts as Sebulba's bodyguard on the track, as if the most feared and celebrated pilot in the galaxy needed the help. Hopefully Bolt's seen better days than the Boonta Eve Classic, where he really drops the ball: he spends almost no time near Sebulba, fails to keep Anakin off the Dug's heels, and crashes in the third lap.
* CoolCar: Again, to varying degrees, but some of these Podracers are cool enough to rival Sebulba's. Aldar Beedo's is a standout for its distinctive patterning and blocky yet sleek shape.
* TheDitz: To say Ark "Bumpy" Roose is profoundly dim-witted would be putting it mildly. The only reason anyone would be likely to favor him as a contender in the Boonta Eve Classic is given by the announcer in ''Episode I Racer'': "He [[{{Determinator}} really]] wants to win!"
* DoubleKnockout: Dud Bolt and Ark "Bumpy" Roose appear to have had a mutually destructive clash, offscreen, in the third lap. Either that, or Bolt unilaterally brought "Bumpy" down but fumbled the KO, leading to his own crash as well.
* TheDragon: Dud Bolt to Sebulba.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Even though Teemto Pagalies' racer boasts long, sturdy chasses wrapping over the engines, it doesn't seem to be protection enough: one well-aimed shot from a Tusken Raider's rifle and the struck engine goes down in flames.
* EveryScarHasAStory: When he appears as an old man in ''Literature/TatooineGhost'', Teemto is happy to reminisce about all of the pod races he received various injuries in.
* GlorySeeker: Ody Mandrell's not in it to take the gold, he flies purely for the thrill of the sport and the attention he gets as a reckless crowd-pleaser.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The aptly named "Hitman" Beedo spends years being stalked by Elan Mak, the son of one of his victims. After repeated failures, Mak eventually hires a bounty hunter to capture Beedo for him. Beedo's ultimate fate is unconfirmed, but [[UncertainDoom it's doubtful Mak wanted to capture Beedo just to give him a scolding.]]
* IdenticalGrandson: The character billed as Wan Sandage in ''Racer Revenge'' is in fact Wan Sandage Jr., the son of the original pilot; Devlikks' naturally short lifespans mean the original Sandage had died peacefully by then. You wouldn't notice the difference if you didn't know it, though: he races the same vehicle, flies the same flag, looks identical, and is voiced again by Creator/GreggBerger with the exact same vocal timbre and attitude of self-satisfied churlishness.
* InformedAbility: As an Aleena, Ratts Tyerell is touted as possessing incredibly quick reflexes. One wonders why he chooses to [[DistressBall wave his arms and scream for a good two or three seconds]] before crashing into a stalagmite.
** He has great reflexes, not NervesOfSteel.
* InformedAttractiveness: Both Teemto Pagalies and Wan Sandage are alleged to be quite handsome by their species' standards (Veknoids and Devlikks, respectively). We'll have to take the writers' word for it on that one.
* IntrepidReporter: Clegg Holdfast doesn't just cover the sport in his profession as journalist for ''Podracing Quarterly'': he's right out there in his own Podracer for a piece of the action.
* JerkJock: The racer equivalent – several pilots besides Sebulba make bids for this trope, but the loudmouthed, boorish Mars Guo takes the cake.
* KilledOffForReal: Only Ratts Tyerell out of all eighteen contestants, despite the Boonta Eve Classic's much-stated lethality. Some sources report Neva Kee as a casualty as well, though, since he disappeared completely midrace.
** Also, years later, [[spoiler:Clegg Holdfast]] in the storyline for the podracing segment of ''Star Wars Kinect''. [[spoiler:Sebulba hires Aldar Beedo to eliminate Holdfast during a race. Beedo gets his man.]] This seems to be dubious canon, though, since it posits the return of fifteen of the eighteen Boonta Eve Classic competitors, all in their exact same vehicles.
* LethalJokeCharacter: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ2lIp37tCA&list=PL586A3E811CB7DE2E One YouTuber]] pulled off seven [=KOs=] on each track of ''Racer Revenge'' using Ben Quadinaros, of all people. [[note]]Okay okay, Ben's actually pretty good in that game – his highly responsive turning makes up for many ills – but he's significantly outclassed in terms of top speed and defense, two essential attributes for racking up [=KOs=].[[/note]]
* LongBusTrip: Neva Kee swerved off-course and vanished without a trace during the second lap. While some Expanded Universe material has caught up with other pilots, there's never been any hint as to Kee's fate.
* LoveTriangle: There's a love triangle between Teemto Pagalies, Mars Guo, and Ann Gella, one of Sebulba's Twi'lek masseuses. Just bad luck, it seems, that they both took an interest in Ann and neither one noticed her twin sister Tann. Not that anything comes of it either way, except bad blood between the pilots: Ann's oblivious to both.
* MadeOfIron: With the sport being as dangerous as it is, some participating species who don't have heightened senses or reflexes can instead claim this -- even if they crash, they can usually scrape through with their tough hides. The Nosaurian pilot Clegg Holdfast is an example.
* {{Muppet}}: Dud Bolt and Mars Guo in the movie.
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Boles Roor wagers five million wupiupi that the harmless-looking Ben Quadinaros won't enter the Boonta Eve Classic. Ben takes the bet, to his immediate regret, but it ends up paying off handsomely for him: that humiliating breakdown at the starting grid didn't invalidate his victory in the bet, and he walks away a richer Toong.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Wan Sandage crashed his racer ''into a Jawa sandcrawler''. Come on, George, we couldn't even get a deleted scene for that?
* PeopleInRubberSuits: Mawhonic alone in the movie. Not incidentally, he's the only pilot belonging to a species familiar from the original trilogy (apart from Anakin). As a Gran, he was realized in much the same way as Ree-Yees from Jabba's palace.
* ProfessionalKiller: Apart from his career as a racer, Aldar Beedo works as a hitman – in fact, he seems fine with the two roles intersecting, as Wan Sandage hired him to bring down Sebulba mid-race. One wonders why Sandage didn't just ask him to [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim take Sebulba out from a rooftop prior to the race]].
* RetCon: In-universe. Clegg Holdfast used his influence as a journalist for ''Podracing Quarterly'' to change the official records, showing that he had finished the race in seventh place (with a time of nearly thirty minutes!). Actually, he'd taken a blast from Sebulba's flamethrower and slammed into the wall in the second lap.
* RiceBurner: Boles Roor drives a long-outdated and badly-maintained model which he only externally modifies to give the appearance of flair. Somehow, it does hold together well enough to net him a finish, albeit in sixth place (last among the successful racers).
* SacrificialLamb: Mawhonic's exact narrative purpose is for Sebulba to bring his Podracer down in a spectacularly messy (though actually not fatal) crash within the first twenty seconds or so of the race, in order to demonstrate Sebulba's penchant for nasty play on the track.
* SadisticChoice: Teemto gets just enough prize money from one race to buy a slave's freedom. He's left torn between freeing Ann Gella, the woman he loves (although she seems oblivious to his feelings), or the beloved brother of his loyal mechanic. Ultimately, he chooses the latter.
* SdrawkcabAlias: Unless Fluggrians are a much more common species than the movies suggest, Kam Nale really should've come up with a better alias for his grand revenge quest against Aldar Beedo than "Elan Mak".
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: According to the tie-in comic ''Podracing Tales'', Gasgano isn't exactly bursting with pride about having placed second.
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: Conversely, Ebe Endocott (who placed fourth) considers his dream of besting Sebulba to have been solidly achieved.
* ShrinkingViolet: Several sources emphasize that Toongs are by no means cowards, just incredibly shy and retiring in social interaction. In this, Ben Quadinaros represents his species well.
* SignatureHeadgear: Gasgano is simply not complete without that vaguely pith helmet-like racing cap, plus the goggles.
* SmallNameBigEgo: The now-defunct SW.com databank declares perpetually-overlooked Ebe Endocott to be "almost as good as he thinks he is". He seems to be a pretty successful up-and-comer in the sport, but his stature is leagues behind his self-assessed talent.
* SpitTake: After Sebulba assaults a waiter in one of the comics, "Bumpy" Roose picks up a thermos from the waiter's tray and starts drinking from it. He quickly spits it out when the waiter returns and asks why he's drinking cleaning fluid. Adding insult to injury, [[NotHelpingYourCase Bumpy had been complaining about how people insulted his intelligence right before that.]]
* TimeDissonance: Of Wan Sandage in the game ''Episode I Racer'', the announcer admiringly declares "He's been Podracing since he was two!" That's true... but suggests a pretty misleading comparison, since the average Devlikk lifespan is ten years (see WeAreAsMayflies below). Sandage wouldn't have been a mumbling infant when he first stepped into a pod. Still, it's impressive that he got into the sport after only two years of life experience.
* VehicularSabotage: Sebulba's not the only one to think of tampering with his enemies' racers. A tie-in comic on the SW website revealed that Ark "Bumpy" Roose was hired by Gardulla the Hutt to sabotage Anakin's engines, but unwittingly targeted Ben Quadinaros' vehicle instead, explaining why Ben got hung up at the starting grid.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: This is Gasgano's calling card: as a four-armed Xexto, he can maintain the controls of his pod with superb finesse.
* WeAreAsMayflies: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Wan Sandage, whose species, Devlikks, are much shorter-lived than humanoids. At six years in the movie, he's considered to be heading into old age.
* YouKilledMyFather: Intended by Elan Mak, whose crime lord father was murdered by Aldar Beedo as a professional hit. Mak vows to bring down Beedo during the Boonta Eve Classic, but [[SubvertedTrope nothing doing]]: apparently Mak could never get past Ebe Endocott and close with Beedo as he was hoping. All three finish the race.

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!!Lobot
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/JohnHollis (Ep. V)

Lando's chief aide on Cloud City. His brain is linked to Cloud City's computer network.

* HeelFaceTurn: In his backstory, he is a convict who is sentenced to serve as Cloud City's computer-liason officer.
* {{Lobotomy}}: According to WordOfGod, and it's where his name derives from, as he was lobotomized to install his cyborg implant.
* TheSpeechless: A side effect of the computer gear implanted in his head is that his speech centers atrophied and he speaks very little.

[[folder:Beru and Owen Lars]]
->'''Played by:''' Shelagh Fraser (Beru) & Phil Brown (Owen) (Ep. IV), Bonnie Piesse (Beru) & Creator/JoelEdgerton (Owen) (Ep. II-III)
* DefiantToTheEnd: Owen.
-->"I never did care much for the Rebel movement, but now I hope they find every one of you bantha slime and grill your carcasses!"
** FaceDeathWithDignity: He and Beru then turn away, arm in arm.
* FantasticRacism: They did not think too badly of Anakin going postal in the Tusken camp, much to Obi-Wan's chagrin. Then again, they did suffer bereavement at the Sand People's hands.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: {{Subverted}}. In the ''Return of the Jedi'' novelisation, Obi-Wan states that he left Luke with his ''brother'' Owen. This apparent continuity error was cleared up in later ExpandedUniverse media as Obi-Wan clarifies that he felt a strong brotherly bond with Owen through the Force, compelling him to trust Owen to take care of Luke. In typical Obi-Wan fashion, [[MetaphoricallyTrue his consideration of Owen as his brother was true, from a certain point of view.]]
* TheResenter: Owen is vocally distrustful of Obi-Wan, believing that he lead Anakin to his death. During one emotionally-charged encounter in the comics, Owen spitefully declares that Obi-Wan has more than enough Skywalker blood on his hands and orders him to stay away from Luke.
* SpitefulSpit: Owen spat at the commanding officer of the Stormtroopers looking for the two droids, which led to him and Beru being burned alive.

* SurroundedByIdiots: He makes no effort to hide his disdain for his droid minions, finding them to be very inferior to the Kolkpravis, the elite Kaleesh warriors he led in war before his accident and transformation into a cyborg. He only respects his Magnaguards for their prowess in battle, and even they are still inferior to his Kolkpravis in his eyes as they lack commanding and strategy skills.

* FreudianExcuse: Qymaen jai Sheelal grew up in a worlds ravaged by a savage war due to his people being invaded by the insectoid invaders and slavers that were the Yam'rii, that his people call the Huk (Soulless Ones). During his war against them, he met and fell in love with a female Kaleesh warrior named Ronderu lij Kuumar with who he became an unstoppable battle couple, but she was eventually killed and her body was dragged into the sea by the Yam'riis with Qymaen being unable of retrieving her. Ronderu's death left Qymaen inconsolable and with a void in his heart that he never managed to fill, marrying ten wives and having thirty children without managing to ease the pain, and causing him to rename himself Grievous and become consummed by hatred and vengeance against the Huks. To make things worse, when he turned the tables on the Yam'ri they turned to the Republic in despair, causing the Republic and Jedi to inflict a blocade and heavy war indemnities on the Kaleesh, causing poverty and the death by starvation of millions of his people, leading him to develop a burning hatred for the Republic and the Jedi. Finally after his shuttle crash,arranged by Dooku but blamed on the Jedi, he was turned into a cyborg with the Geonosians modifying his brain to remove most of his memories and enhancing his already great rage, making him the more machine-than-alive revenge-hungry Jedi killer cyborg he would be remembered as.

* SurroundedByIdiots: He makes no effort to hide his disdain for his droid minions, finding them to be very inferior to the Kolkpravis, the elite Kaleesh warriors he led in war before his accident and transformation into a cyborg. He only respects his Magnaguards for their prowess in battle, and even they are still inferior to his Kolkpravis iaccording to him.

** 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.

* IHaveNoSon: In an uncommonly high-born move (the Solos were a high house of Corellia technically), Han disinherits Jacen after he turned to the Dark Side and became a fully-fledged Sith by murdering his own aunt, Mara Jade Skywalker. It is all the more chilling since to Corellians family is sacred – which Jacen had now trampled on.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Described in the ''Revenge Of The Sith'' novelization as "the ultimate Jedi" partially because he is "modest, centered and always kind". Nonetheless, if you push him far enough (like taking part in the murder of almost his entire "family", ie. the Jedi Order, including innocent children), he is prepared to hack off your limbs and leave you alone to slowly burn to death (although he seems to show some remorse while doing so).

* BritishStuffiness: Not ''actually'' British, even if both his actors are and have the appropriate accents, but Obi-Wan's just too reserved to be the necessary emotional presence Anakin always needs. Which starts to become a serious problem once Anakin becomes a teenager.

** His inexperience and rather strict teaching methods worsened Anakin's emotional struggles, not helped by Obi-Wan's occasionally InnocentlyInsensitive actions. Good thing he learned from his mistakes when teaching Luke.

* AllTheOtherReindeer: Not terribly popular with other padawans as a Jedi, owing to his unique roots. The closest thing Anakin 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.

* TookALevelInBadass: As a redeemed Force ghost, Anakin can draw upon his full potential as TheChosenOne, with it tempered by experience and wisdom. Notably, when mentoring his lineage, he has utilized the DarkSide on several occasions without succumbing to its corruptive effects.

* TookALevelInBadass: As a redeemed Force ghost, Anakin can draw upon his full potential as TheChosenOne, with it tempered by experience and wisdom. Notably, when mentoring his lineage, he has utilized the DarkSide on without succumbing to its corruptive effects.

* TookALevelInBadass: Since he technically defeated Darth Vader in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Luke was definitely no pushover in the movies. By his late thirties though, Luke fully realized his [[TheChosenOne his father's]] full potential, with Palpatine himself outmatched in a lightsaber duel. Alongside Darth Krayt, Luke even defeated Abeloth, an EldritchAbomination with powers that rival or surpass the Ones.

* BreakTheBadass: His crippling by Obi-Wan, as the novelization of ''Revenge of the Sith'' put it. In addition to the horrific pain of losing his arms and legs and being set on fire, and the following loss of skill being compared to a composer gone deaf, he's emotionally crippled.

* EtTuBrute: His turning on Padme and Obi-Wan is expanded to having Palpatine manipulating an already befugged Anakin's brain by intimating the two are having an affair.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Subverted with Leia. 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.

* MoodSwinger: ''Revenge of the Sith'' shows Anakin could go from genuinely loving husband to coldly furious if Padmé inadvertently said the wrong thing. And that's ''before'' he goes off the deep end.

* NoSocialSkills: Much to Obi-Wan's consternation, pre-teen Anakin didn't have the absolute best grasp of social interaction, and a lack of friends his own age did not help.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Kind of. Palpatine was strongly implied to be one of two people directly responsible for his conception via the midi-chlorians (the other being his Sith Master, Darth Plagueis), so Vader/Anakin killing Palpatine late into ''Return Of The Jedi'' would qualify as such, technically speaking. Granted, it wasn't exactly intended that Anakin be created (they were attempting to create a Sith Weapon, but it backfired).

* TheStarscream: While he appears to be a willing servant to the Emperor (which may be somewhat sincere; again, DependingOnTheWriter), Vader has been constantly plotting to overthrow his master for many years, as per Sith custom. Unlike most Sith, however, Vader lacks the will and courage to go through with most of his attempts at betrayal, which Palpatine views as a weakness and regularly exploits. Vader's reasons for standing by the Emperor boil down to his fear of his master's power, his belief that he is too far gone for a betrayal to make any difference, and some twisted affection he still holds for Palpatine simply because he is the only person he has left in the Galaxy.

Han Solo's co-pilot aboard [[WhatAPieceOfJunk The Alleged Freighter]] ''[[CoolStarship Millenium Falcon]]'', which he and Han seem to spend more time repairing than flying. Chewie is a Wookiee (read: 8-foot-tall walking carpet) who only speaks in growls and roars, is over two hundred years old, and getting meaner every year. [[AllThereInTheManual According to official sources]], Han rescued him from slavery at some point, leading to Chewbacca swearing him a "[[BloodBrothers life]] [[IOweYouMyLife debt]]."

* AFatherToHisMen: Many pieces of ExpandedUniverse media like to portray Vader as a surprisingly benevolent front-line commander to the 501st, which may seem like a surprising turn for the man who epitomised the trope YouHaveFailedMe.

* HeroesWantRedheads: His wife, Mara, has red hair. Many of his ex-girlfriends did as well.

* PapaWolf: Gets very upset when Thrackan Sal-Solo sells out and his daughter, despite said daughter just wanting him dead because she blamed him for her mother's death. Probably would have killed the guy himself if his granddaughter, Mirta, hadn't gotten to him and killed him first.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Jango is the protagonist of the [=PS2=]/GC game ''[[VideoGame/BountyHunter Star Wars: Bounty Hunter]]'', which explains how he became the template for the clone army.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'', despite being a ruthless crime lord, when Jango inquired about the Bando Gora, Jabba says he doesn’t work with such scum.