History Characters / TheForceUnleashed

* BadassBoast:
-->(''to Boba Fett'') "He is no Jedi. A Jedi controls his emotions and his powers. But Starkiller... he knows no restraint. He will bring an entire Star Destroyer on your head, if that's what it takes to kill you."
-->(''to Boba Fett'') "Your contract with Vader will last only as long as it serves TheEmpire. Eventually, you will be an outlaw too. And then, Vader will be hunting ''you''."

* BigNo: Galen screams a [[DefiantToTheEnd defiant one]] at Emperor Palpatine as his FamousLastWords before detonating all of his Force power and throwing Palpatine's Force Lightning right back in the old Sith Lord's face, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath rejecting the Dark Side of the Force]] and bringing ruin to all of Palpatine and Vader's plans.

* BigNo: Galen screams a [[DefiantToTheEnd defiant one]] at Emperor Palpatine's as his final word before detonating all his Force power and Palpatine's Force Lightning right back in the old Sith Lord's face.

* MasterSwordsman: Starkiller can match fully trained Jedi Masters, as well as Darth Vader himself, in lightsaber combat, despite being a teenager who taught himself to fight to survive.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He seems to be present at a lot of really large events in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' canon as well as rubbing elbows with a lot of really important and fan favorite characters. He helps found the Rebel Alliance, was chosen to be their first leader, sacrificed himself to save it, and their logo is actually his family crest.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He seems to be present at a lot of really large events in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' canon as well as rubbing elbows with a lot of really important and fan favorite characters. He helps found the Rebel Alliance, was chosen to be their first leader, and their logo is actually his family crest.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: He seems to be present at a lot of really large events in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' canon as well as rubbing elbows with a lot of really important and fan favorite characters. He helps found the Rebel Alliance, and their logo is actually his family crest.

* ProperlyParanoid: Not trusting the clone troops saved his life.

* TheDragon: For Jabba in the non-canon Tatooine DLC, which takes place after the Dark Side ending. He's also this for Vader in the second game, being hired to capture Juno Eclipse and lure Starkiller back to Kamino for the final battle, though the clone never encounters Fett.

** The argument Kota uses to calm Galen down when [[spoiler: Palpatine tries to goad the latter into falling back to the Dark Side by slaying him]].

* TheAce: Starkiller is a virtually unstoppable engine of mass destruction and beats nearly anyone he ends up against. His connection with the Force is so strong he can tear down a Star Destroyer, kill a Sarlacc with lightning, and hold his own against Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine.

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Starkiller remains the only Star Wars character who has ever physically overwhelmed and defeated ''both'' Dark Lords of the Sith, [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon Darth Vader]] and [[BigBad Darth Sidious]] respectively, in all out battles. Justified, in that as a powerful Sith Apprentice he was directly trained in a grueling manner in the Dark Side and Sith arts [[TykeBomb since childhood]] by Darth Vader, for the purpose of assassinating Vader's enemies, including helping him overthrow the Emperor. Furthermore, during the battle on the Death Star [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder both Sidious and Vader]] are evidently hoping to use Starkiller to kill and replace the other Sith Lord, thus [[DividedWeFall not both facing him at the same time]], in which case they almost certainly would have beaten him.

** Starkiller built his own lightsaber with little to work with but spare parts, which he wields it with a reverse grip. As such, it looks like a prototype of Darth Vader's saber and has the same red color. Later in the game, Starkiller switches the color to blue in order to pass himself off as a Jedi. In the novelization, Vader provides Kota's lightsaber to replace Starkiller's (lost in the depths of space), with Starkiller eventually replacing Kota's green crystal with a blue one.

* DistressedDamsel:
** Starkiller rescues her from imprisonment on the ''Empirical''.
** [[spoiler:In the sequel, Boba Fett is hired to kidnap her and lure Starkiller into a trap.]]

* DistressedDamsel: Was being used as a hostage by the Empire to ensure her father's corporation and had to be rescued by Starkiller. She's defiant and snarky the entire time, and is nothing even close to ruffled by the time Starkiller arrives, even informing him that she doesn't need a pilot to fly herself home.

* AffablyEvil: In addition to being programmed to regularly try to kill Starkiller, PROXY is also his best friend, and is genuinely sweet to Juno. Once the programming that compels him to try and kill Starkiller is gone, he's a straight-up NiceGuy.

* CloningBlues: He spends a lot of time in the second game angsting over whether or not he is the original Starkiller or a clone before deciding it doesn't matter.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: An in universe example. While his family emblem was adopted for the Rebel Alliance and he was venerated as a martyr, it is heavily implied Starkiller's original status as a ruthless Jedi hunting Sith Apprentice of Darth Vader who was ordered to found the Rebel Alliance to trap them and ended up saving its leaders instead was altered to be more palatable to the masses he inspired by the leaders of the Alliance who knew the truth, after his turn at the end of his life to the Light Side of the Force. His identity was instead presented to the public as being an unknown Jedi who came forth to save them aboard the Death Star, as highlighted in the Epitaph of the Unknown Jedi:

** To Darth Maul as well, having had the same horrendous, abusive upbringing as him from being kidnapped in childhood, with [[AbusiveParents Vader]] deliberately copying [[EvilOldFolks Palpatine's]] methods for raising and training Maul and replicating them on Galen. Furthermore, Starkiller's ship the ''Rogue Shadow'' is based in part on Maul's Sith Infiltrator ship the ''Scimitar''. Also similarly to Darth Maul, Starkiller is used as a tool by his Master for his grand plan and then abandoned/discarded as a Sith Apprentice the moment he outlives his usefulness. In a way he is Darth Maul if Maul had not fallen so completely to the Dark Side and became a fully fledged Sith Lord and later a ruthless criminal leader, and instead turned against his Master entirely and towards the Light Side of the Force as a Jedi. Symbolically, Starkiller even fights and defeats PROXY's secret training program of Maul in the course of the first game as he is gradually turning away from the Dark Side and more towards the Light Side.

** His Sith Master Darth Vader ultimately becomes one when he decides to betray Starkiller instead of going through with their long time plan to defeat the Emperor together, trying to kill Starkiller and leaving him for dead, leading to his turning against the Order of Sith Lords and turning their plans against them, turning to the Light Side of the Force, at the cost of his life.

** He was initially one to Senator Bail Organa as well, who he had saved along with his daughter Princess Leia and inspired him to at last formally put together the Rebel Alliance, and choosing Starkiller to be its leader. When Starkiller's deception is revealed, he considers Starkiller to be a traitor, but after he sacrifices his life to save the Rebel Alliance leaders aboard the Death Star, and learns from Juno and PROXY the complete truth about Galen Marek, he becomes a RebuiltPedestal, leading to the Organas choosing to make the symbol of the House of Marek the symbol of the Rebel Alliance.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: An in universe example. While his family emblem was adopted for the Rebel Alliance and he was venerated as a martyr, it is heavily implied Starkiller's original status as a ruthless Jedi hunting Sith Apprentice of Darth Vader who was ordered to found the Rebel Alliance to trap them and ended up saving its leaders instead was altered to be more palatable to the masses he inspired by the leaders of the Alliance who knew the truth, after his turn at the end of his life to the Light Side of the Force. His identity was instead presented to the public as being an Unknown Jedi who came forth to save them, as highlighted in the Epitaph of the Unknown Jedi: