History ComicBook / DeathLiesAndTreachery

** Fett guns down two of Ry-Kooda's henchmen even after they plead that they never wanted to go after him and only did out of fear of Ry-Kooda. Granted, they're former members of Bar-Kooda's crew, so it might be more of a KickTheSonOfABitch moment, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation but as shown with Magwit, not all of Bar-Kooda's crewmen had a choice in the matter.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Fett and Boz, the former literally just has to kick the latter to defeat him]].

* DistressedDamsel: Anachro when she is taken captive in the second issue.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Wim Magwit possesses a device he calls "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Magwit%27s_mystifying_hoop Magwit's mystifying hoop]]" and uses as a handheld PortalDoor in his act as a stage magician. One would be inclined to think that this is just an illusion since no media in Franchise/StarWars had ever demonstrated that such technology exists, but there's nothing fake about it; the hoop is a short-range [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_transmitter matter transmitter]] that he stole from "a rather strange alien", technology which remained unique in the setting until ''seventeen RealLife years later'', where it showed up in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic as part of a [[AbusivePrecursors Rakatan]] prison complex on Belsavis. The potential applications of this device, which he understands well enough to repair and maintain '''on his own'', boggle the mind, and there are only two possible explanations as to why he hasn't sold it for ludicrous amounts of money: [[WhatAnIdiot it hasn't occurred to him]] that any of the various galaxy-wide [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] would ''beg'' him to take their money so they could reverse-engineer and patent it. Or, he ''has'' considered it, but [[JustifiedTrope decided that the risk was too great]] because he realized that entities like rival megacorporations, the Hutts, TheEmpire, and the Rebel Alliance would stop at ''nothing'' to obtain the technology for themselves once word got out.

%%* BigGuyLittleGuy: Ry-Kooda and Boz.

%%%%* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Fett and Boz]].

%* DistressedDamsel: Anachro.

* NotSoDifferent: Gorga and Orko. When his wife tries to get Gorga to admit this, the most he'll acknowledge is that both he and Orko hate each other.

%%* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Boba Fett!"]].

%%* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Wim and his wife.

** Gorga's majordomo runs away and dies rather than help Gorga during the climax. Gorga angrily yells that he's fired, but later rehires him to help Gorga and his family get back to town.

* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: [[spoiler:Boba is hired to kill Orko in the third book but spares Orko's life in exchange for a bribe bigger than the bounty on Orko. Soon after Boba leaves, Orko is simultaneously given a poisoned sandwich by his aide and attacked and ripped apart by Ry-Kooda.]]

** Boba's treatment of innocent FamilyMan magician Wim Magwit is stunningly nasty. He forces Magwit to help him catch Bar-Kooda by exploiting how there's a minor bounty on Magwit for his time as a member of Bar-Kooda's crew even though he was more of a prisoner than anything else. When Magwit says that he'd rather plead his case before a judge, Boba threatens to kill him and claim he tried to escape. Then, after Magwit does help him, Boba abandons him on Bar-Kooda's ship near an exploding bomb and a crew of angry pirates who want to kill Magwit for helping Fett. When Magwit manages to survive anyway and calls him out for this, Fett unrepentantly [[ExactWords says he promised he'd let Magwit go, he just didn't say where]]. He then adds that Magwit should be grateful that Fett gave him a chance to save himself, no matter how bad the odds were.
** When the pirate Toxus Li's crew [[UndyingLoyalty all die defending him from Fett even though the bounty is on Toxus alone and not them]] Fett mocks them for it.

** Orko's son-in-law Gorga hires Boba Fett to kill Orko. He changes his mind and tries to call Boba off upon discovering that his wife is pregnant, but he can't reach Boba. Ironically, Boba betrays Gorga and offers to spare Orko's life in exchange for the money Gorga offered, plus 100,000 credits.
** Orko's mistreated servant Hisroot tries to stab him in the back and then poison his sandwich but is interrupted both times.

** Gorga's majordomo runs away and dies rather than help Gorga during the climax. Gorga angrily yells that he's fired but later rehires him to help Gorga and his family get back to town.

*** NinetiesAntiHero

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Bar-Kooda for the first issue; Ry-Kooda for the series overall]].
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Ry-Kooda and Boz.
* BlackComedy: There's very little humor to be found that ''isn't'' this.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Fett and Boz]].

* DistressedDamsel: Anachro.
* TheDreaded: Bar-Kooda.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This series was released before the hutts were revealed to be a OneGenderRace that reproduced asexually, so most of Gorga's plotlines, [[spoiler:especially Anachro's pregnancy]], may seem more than a little odd for newer fans.

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Wim]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:"Boba Fett!"]].

* HappilyMarried:
** Gorga and Anachro.
** Wim and his wife.
* TheHerald: Boz.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Ry-Kooda's fate.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Between two hutts, and yes, it's every bit as weird as it sounds.

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Bar-Kooda]]
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Wim Magwit possesses a device he calls "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Magwit%27s_mystifying_hoop Magwit's mystifying hoop]]" and uses as a handheld PortalDoor in his act as a stage magician. One would be inclined to think that this is just an illusion since no media in Franchise/StarWars had ever demonstrated that such technology exists, but there's nothing fake about it; the hoop is a short-range [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_transmitter matter transmitter]] that he stole from "a rather strange alien", technology which remained unique in the setting until ''seventeen RealLife years later'', where it showed up in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic as part of a [[AbusivePrecursors Rakatan]] prison complex on Belsavis. The potential applications of this device, which he understands well enough to repair and maintain '''on his own'', boggle the mind, and there are only two possible explanations as to why he hasn't sold it for ludicrous amounts of money:
* [[WhatAnIdiot It hasn't occurred to him]] that any of the various galaxy-wide [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] would ''beg'' him to take their money so they could reverse-engineer and patent it.
* He ''has'' considered it, but [[JustifiedTrope decided that the risk was too great]] because he realized that entities like rival megacorporations, the Hutts, TheEmpire, and the Rebel Alliance would stop at ''nothing'' to obtain the technology for themselves once word got out.
* SiblingYinYang: Bar-Kooda and Ry-Kooda.
* SickeningSweethearts: Gorga and Anachro.
* SpacePirates: Bar-Kooda
* SpannerInTheWorks: Fett to Gorga.
* TheStoic: Fett, pretty much all the time.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Wim and his wife.

* VillainProtagonist: Boba Fett, though he's protayed as a morally gray figure not a villain.

* WorthyOpponent: How Fett views Ry-Kooda

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Wim Magwit possesses a device he calls "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Magwit%27s_mystifying_hoop Magwit's mystifying hoop]]" and uses as a handheld PortalDoor in his act as a stage magician. One would be inclined to think that this is just an illusion since no media in Franchise/StarWars had ever demonstrated that such technology exists, but there's nothing fake about it; the hoop is a short-range [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_transmitter matter transmitter]] that he stole from "a rather strange alien", technology which remained unique in the setting until ''seventeen RealLife years later'', where it showed up in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic as part of a [[AbusivePrecursors Rakatan]] prison complex on Belsavis. The potential applications of this device, which he understands well enough to repair and maintain '''on his own'', boggle the mind, and there are only two possible explanations as to why he hasn't sold it for ludicrous amounts of money: It hasn't occurred to him that any of the various galaxy-wide [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] would ''beg'' him to take their money so they could reverse-engineer and patent it, or he ''has'' considered it but [[JustifiedTrope decided that the risk was too great]] because he realized that entities like rival megacorporations, the Hutts, TheEmpire, and the Rebel Alliance would stop at ''nothing'' to obtain the technology for themselves once word got out.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Wim Magwit possesses a device he calls "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Magwit%27s_mystifying_hoop Magwit's mystifying hoop]]" and uses as a handheld PortalDoor in his act as a stage magician. One would be inclined to think that this is just an illusion since no media in Franchise/StarWars had ever demonstrated that such technology exists, but there's nothing fake about it; the hoop is a short-range [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_transmitter matter transmitter]] that he stole from "a rather strange alien", technology which remained unique in the setting until ''seventeen years later'', where it showed up in VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic as part of a [[AbusivePrecursors Rakatan]] prison complex on Belsavis. The potential applications of this device, which he understands well enough to repair and maintain '''on his own'', boggle the mind, and there are only two possible explanations as to why he hasn't sold it for ludicrous amounts of money: It hasn't occurred to him that any of the various galaxy-wide [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] would ''beg'' him to take their money so they could reverse-engineer and patent it, or he ''has'' considered it but [[JustifiedTrope decided that the risk was too great]] because he realized that entities like rival megacorporations, the Hutts, TheEmpire, and the Rebel Alliance would stop at ''nothing'' to obtain the technology for themselves once word got out.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Wim Magwit possesses a device he calls "[[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Magwit%27s_mystifying_hoop Magwit's mystifying hoop]]" and uses as a handheld PortalDoor in his act as a stage magician. One would be inclined to think that this is just an illusion since no media in Franchise/StarWars had ever demonstrated that such technology exists, but there's nothing fake about it; the hoop is a short-range [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Matter_transmitter matter transmitter]] that he stole from "a rather strange alien" and understands well enough to both operate and repair on his own. The potential applications of this device boggle the mind, and there are two possible explanations as to why he hasn't sold it for ludicrous amounts of money.
** It hasn't occurred to him that any of the various galaxy-wide [[MegaCorp megacorporations]] would ''beg'' him to take their money so they could reverse-engineer and patent it.
** He ''has'' considered it but decided that the risk was too great because he realized that entities like rival megacorporations, the Hutts, TheEmpire, and the Rebel Alliance would stop at ''nothing'' to obtain the technology for themselves once word got out.

''Death, Lies, and Treachery'' is a 3-part miniseries from the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse that was collected in TPB in 1998. Like ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' before it, it featured art and (very stylized) coloring by Cam Kennedy. Unlike ''Dark Empire'', however, this new series opted not to focus on Luke, Han or Leia, and instead placed bounty hunter Boba Fett (whose grisly death-by-sarlaac-ingestion had been undone, courtesy of the previous miniseries) in the starring role.

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