History Characters / StarWarsTheatricalLegends

* 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.)
*** She became aware of her Force-sensitive condition and Luke made her [[TookALevelInBadass a Jedi Knight]] in the Expanded Universe.
** NeverMessWithGranny: In the Expanded Universe.

->'''Portrayed by:''' David Prowse (1977-1983), Hayden Christensen (2005), Creator/JamesEarlJones (voice)

* 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 StarWarsExpandedUniverse, 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 the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, 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.

* 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 [[ComicBook/DarkEmpire clone bodies]]. Taking on apprentices seems to be somewhat of an amusing diversion to him.

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.

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* 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]].

->'''Played by:''' John Hollis (Ep. V)

** As if trying to make him as thoroughly dislikable as possible, Emperor Palpatine is revealed to be one of these in addition to being a racist, mass-murdering totalitarian maniac. This can be shown by the Galactic Empire's high degree of misogyny. This, combined with the alien persecution, resulted in the Empire often being referred to as having "Non-huMan policies. The sexist policies that plagued the Empire encouraged Major General Corvae to establish the Firebird Society to prove that females were effective and capable soldiers for the Imperial Military.

* 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.

** ''The Book of Sith'', that presents his own thoughts, confirms the latter view. Bottom line, Palpatine himself may not have personally been xenophobic against aliens, given how his own master, apprentice(Maul), and even aides have included different aliens. But he's still more than willing to allow humanocentrism to flourish in order to divide the galaxy and make it easier for him to control.

* BilingualDialogue: According to the novelization, Jabba understands many languages, but he only speaks Huttese as a sign of greatness.

->'''Played By:''' Billy Dee Williams (Ep.V-VI)

* BadassGrandpa: He is still a crack shot and AcePilot in his sixties, with his granddaughter Allana often along for the ride.

Leia was the (adopted) daughter of Bail Organa and followed his footsteps in becoming the Senator of the [[DoomedHometown planet Alderaan]]. She also followed him into the [[LaResistance Rebel Alliance]], which led to her imprisonment on the Death Star, where two young men and a Wookiee [[HonorBeforeReason with more heroism than sense]] (Luke and Han) broke her out. Then it became clear that she's an ActionGirl in her own right, and things got ''really'' interesting.

* BadassGrandpa: Even in his sixties, he will still happily help out his friends whenever they need it.

* 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''.

* PhysicalGod: By the time of ''ComicBook/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.

* 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''.

* JerkassWoobie: Most of the cantons patrons agreed that Greedo was an obnoxious {{Jerkass}}. However, if one accepts ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' as canon, its obvious he had a terrible life, and Han killing him almost seems merciful. [[spoiler:His father died opposing a bloodthirsty tyrant, so his family had to live in hiding. As a teen, a battle between the Imperials and rebels killed his mother, younger brother, uncles, and the rest of his clan. He fell in with the bounty hunter Warhog Goa, thinking of him as a mentor. Goa had been paid by the tyrant to arrange Greedo's death. And then, after his death, the bartender Wuher hacked him up and used him to flavor a special drink for Jabba the Hutt.]]

JerkassWoobie: Most of the cantons patrons agreed that Greedo was an obnoxious {{Jerkass}}. However, if one accepts ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' as canon, its obvious he had a terrible life, and Han killing him almost seems merciful. [[spoiler:His father died opposing a bloodthirsty tyrant, so his family had to live in hiding. As a teen, a battle between the Imperials and rebels killed his mother, younger brother, uncles, and the rest of his clan. He fell in with the bounty hunter Warhog Goa, thinking of him as a mentor. Goa had been paid by the tyrant to arrange Greedo's death. And then, after his death, the bartender Wuher hacked him up and used him to flavor a special drink for Janna the Hutt.]]

JerkassWoobie: Most of the cantons patrons agreed that Greedo was an obnoxious {{Jerkass}}. However, if one accepts ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' as canon, its obvious he had a terrible life, and Han killing him almost seems merciful. [[spoiler:His father died opposing a bloodthirsty tyrant, so his family had to live in hiding. As a teen, a battle between the Imperials and rebels killed his mother, younger brother, uncles, and the rest of his clan. He fell in with the bounty hunter Warhog Goa, thinking of him as a mentor. Goa had been paid by the tyrant to arrange Greedo's death. And then, after his death, the bartender Wuher hacked him up and used him to flavor a special drink for Janna the Hutt.]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/HarrisonFord (Ep.IV-VI)

* FallenHero: Grievous was a hero on his homeworld, at least, prior to the accident that ruined him.

* WeAreAsMayflies: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Wan Sandage, whose species, Devlikks, are not longer-lived but rather much shorter-lived than humanoids. At six years in the movie, he’s considered to be heading into old age.

A smuggler originally hired by Obi-Wan to provide him transport to [[DoomedHometown Alderaan]], Han (and his CoolShip, the ''Millenium Falcon'') became central to the fate of the galaxy. An AcePilot with a [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic streak]] and [[IWorkAlone no particular loyalties]] ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]), Han was played by Creator/HarrisonFord, who [[ThrowItIn improvised many of the character's best lines]].