History Comicbook / KnightsoftheOldRepublic

* CompleteMonster: Chantique, Demagol, and Haazen all qualify. Demagol is a Josef Mengele style scientist who kills countless men women and children in a vain attempt to replicate his work, and is described as havbing no empathy whatsoever. And He sold his own child into slavery for disrupting his school (which caused his wife to kill herself.) His daughter, Chantique, ultimately turns into just as much of a monster as he does. She mind rapes Zayne,manipulates him into trying to abandon his friend Jarael, forces him to fight a slave he befriended, and when the slave killed himself SHE MOCKS HIM ABOUT IT. She leaves him alive purely so that he can drive Jarael away (which works.) Oh, and she buries all of her classmates alive. Haazen causes every atrocitity in the first 35 issues, psychologically damages Lucien, and tries to destroy the jedi just to piss on the grave of a man he already murdered.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Far too many for this page. A partial list can be found at [[Awesome/StarWars Moments of Awesome: Star Wars]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Copious, especially in the introductory story-arc.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Zayne Carrick telling Gryph that he's going to be a Jedi of the People and not let people who slip through the cracks suffer because of the Jedi Council's high handedness. Effectively choosing his friends over a Jedi Knighthood.
** Gryph telling the Jedi Covenant that they never knew Zayne at all if they ever believed he could hunt them down and murder them.
** Zayne and Shel's reconcilliation in Knights of Suffering, especially considering the fact that she was planning to kill him less then 15 minutes earlier. Of course, her crying into his shoulder while hugging him probably helped to establish this atmosphere.

** Don't forget Mandalore!

* EvilIsSexy: Chantique's outfits are eerily similar to some of the stuff Emma Frost wears, as well as dominatrix outfits in general.

* FanPreferredCouple: Zayne and Jarael. [[spoiler:At least, they started ''out'' as this since fans thought Zayne would end up with Shel. Safe to say the last issue made ''a lot'' of fans happy]].

** After [[spoiler:saving Zayne from the Jedi Covenant in the introductory story-arc]], Jarael seems incapable of defeating anything other than {{Mooks}}, and has to be rescued by the main characters from the Mandalorians, Lord Adasca, a rogue assassin droid ...
*** To be fair, it has been made abundantly clear that only the most powerful Jedis or Sith can have a chance alone against a small group of Mandalorians - Jarael got ambushed by a whole ''platoon'' of them.

* HarsherInHindsight: The Jedi Covenant see a vision of a Sith lord dressed in a red environmental suit. At first, and given the events later, they're considered to have interpreted the vision wrongly. [[spoiler: Alek wears one at the end of the flashpoint arc. The comic even calls attention to it.]]
** After preventing the orbital bombardment of Serroco from being a total holocaust by calling in bogus tornado warnings and causing the native aliens to retreat to underground bunkers, Carth tells Zayne that "I hope, if it comes down to it, that someone would play the same trick on my family." He later loses a wife and son when his own captain defects and glasses his homeworld.

* MagnificentBastard: Haazen, though he becomes more of a SmugSnake when he's within INCHES of victory.
* MoralEventHorizon: Chantique crosses this during Destroyer, when she mindrapes Zayne, screws with his head, forces him to kill his friend, and causes him to drive Jarael away. Adding to the cruelty is the fact that Zayne fails to realize that he's been played until right after it's too late. Not even the fact that her father sold her into slavery, or the fact that Jarael doublecrossed her justifies the cruelty she shows Zayne during those two issues.
** Raana Tey does when she tries to manipulate Shel into killing Zayne. Before she was kind of sympathetic, as her madness was caused by her guilt for what she had done. Manipulating an innocent girl into trying to kill an innocent man caused this troper's views to switch from pity to "Kill this ***** now."

** It also pays in dividends. Zayne is able to make friends out of pretty much everyone whose not a complete asshole by simply being a pretty swell, upstanding guy. And almost everyone he helps ends up returning the favor. Even Cassus Fett. [[spoiler:Even Lucien Draay]]
* NightmareFuel: Demagol's experiments. The Exgorths. The way that the Crucible tries to break Zayne Carrick.
** Haazen's... "[[{{Squick}} reconstruction]]". ''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:HaazenRebuilt.jpg GAH.]]''

* ShockingSwerve: The hints had been dropped so steadily and for so long that [[spoiler:Demagol having switched places with Rohlan]] probably qualifies as TheUnreveal. But the fact that he's also [[spoiler:Jarael's childhood mentor and Chantique's father]]? ''Nobody'' saw ''that'' coming. And yet, in retrospect it [[FridgeBrilliance makes perfect sense]].

* TearJerker: Zayne has two of these in issue 6; the first when he sees his girlfriend's betrayed face in the crowd, and when he learns that his friends never really believed in him. Yeah, he get's better, but still.
** "The people! The people!"

* TooGoodToLast: ''Knights of the Old Republic'' ended after fifty issues. Suspicion that this is due to a [[ViewersAreMorons Readers Are Morons]] brand of ExecutiveMeddling is very high.

* TheWoobie: Zayne Carrick's life continually goes from bad to worse.
** To be fair, his luck slowly got better after Knight's of Suffering. And it went even lower in Destroyer, when Zayne had to kill a guy in self defense and experienced one of the most depraved Mind Rapes in Star Wars history.
** Snout qualifies big time. He's forcibly turned into a killing machine and forced to experience the memories of over 1000 years of pain and misery, and is forced to fight the one person who showed him any compassion in many years. Ultimately he kills himself rather then murder his friend even though he could have easily done it.

* LateToTheParty: The reason for Zayne's survival of the Padawan massacre.

* MagnificentBastard: Haazen, though he becomes more of a SmugSnake when he's within INCHES of victory. YourMilageMayVary, as his motivation causes many to view him as a CompleteMonster

* ComedicHero: Zayne Carrik, worst Padawan in Jedi history. [[IGotBetter He gets over it]] pretty fast, though, proving that his incompetence was more than anything due to a neglectful Master.
* ConMan: Gryph Hierogryph is one of these. More specifically, of the SnakeOilSalesman variety.
** Actually, all of the heroes have been one at one time or another.

The writer of the series, John Jackson Miller, is producing a continuation, or spin-off of the comics, ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic: War'', [[http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/NYCC_Dark_Horse_Announces_New_Title_141122.asp in which]] Zayne Carric [[TheCallKnowsWhereyouLive "has been drafted" into]] the Mandalorian Wars.

* LawfulNeutral: Lucien's about as dark as this gets, often verging on LawfulEvil. The only thing that keeps him out of there is his belief that he is doing the right thing and his horror when he realizes [[spoiler:Haazen's]] been playing him for a fool all along.

* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Alek. Better known by the alias he eventually adopts, Darth Malak.]]

*** To be fair, she is ''just'' a talented fighter and not a trained ex-Padawan or experienced Mandalorian warrior like some of her pals and often face overwhelming enemies like an entire army of Mandalorians.
**** In Shel's case, it's not easy to kill someone even if you are a trained soldier, and she's just a civilian who has no choice but to fight. Plus, it helped that Zayne massively deconstructed her motivation for wanting to kill him by a.) forcing her to face that she really had no clue as to why she thought he was guilty, and b.) showing genuine grief over her brother's death, which is not exactly the kind of things darksiders do.
* FetishFuel: Jarael is a curvy white skinned elf-girl.
** Jarael is fetish fuel to a lot of the characters IN THE COMIC. Lots of characters show a more than passing interest in the Sexy Elf Chick.
** While not quite the same level, Shel does have pretty large breasts
*** Chantique. I mean, she's the Emma Frost of the Star Wars universe.

*** To be fair, she is ''just'' a talented [[spoiler:[[strike: Force-sensitive]]]] fighter and not a trained ex-Padawan or experienced Mandalorian warrior like some of her pals and often face overwhelming enemies like an entire army of Mandalorians.

''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' is a 2006 monthly comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. It is part of their 20th anniversary retooling of its long-running Star Wars series. It takes place in the same timeline as [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic the video games of the same name]], eight years prior to the first game.

* Two-DSpace: Forming a ring of ships over the equator of Corruscant is supposed to prevent any ships from reaching the planet.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Far too many for this page. A partial list can be found at [[CrowningMoment/StarWars Crowning Moment: Star Wars]].

* {{Heart Is An Awesome Power}}: [[spoiler:Zayne's "learning disability" with the Force turns out to be the ability to have probibility swing his way.]]

* BornLucky: Zayne's apparent [[BlessedWithSuck disability with learning the Force]] actually swings probability in his favor. [[FridgeBrilliance That's probably why he survived the killing of the Jedi Padawans in the beginning of the series,]] setting the whole comic in motion.

* CompleteMonster: Chantique from the Crucible. Let's see: She strangles a guy to death when he tries to back out of working with the Crucible (admittedly the guy was a JerkAss but still), shows an extremely depraved lust for violence, mindrapes Zayne by showing him memories from another prisoner, condemns him for not being a sadistic loon who kills for the sake of killing and forces him to commit his first kill, thereby BreakingTheCutie. She also mocks him about it by using Zayne's own words. And she seems to be doing it all for a chance to get revenge on Jarael. The Jedi Covenant members at least believed that they were doing the right thing. She and the other psychos in the Crucible know full well that their hurting others for the sake of being evil, and still do it. And to top it off, she murdered all of her fellow students BY BURYING THEM ALIVE!!!!!!
** Demagol is as well; heck even if he hadn't performed Josef Mengele style experiments, he'd still qualify for selling his own daughter into slavery (which caused his wife to kill herself), for no other reason then because she was disruptive to his school. Haazen also qualifies due to the sheer selfishness of his actions.

* BaitAndSwitch: See {{Jossed}} below. [[spoiler:The writers seem to have ''intentionally'' made readers think that characters were really characters from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' (the games) and subverted a fictional case of YoungFutureFamousPeople. Krynda Draay sounds like Kreia, has precognitive/clairvoyant powers, and is half-Miraluka like Kreia is implied to be in KOTOR II; Haazen looks like Darth Sion; Lucien Draay is even offered the title of Darth Sion, fits the definition of a "scion," and was originally named "Lusion"; and Zayne just seems important enough to be someone big later on like Nihilus, which would also be an ironic contrast to his personality. None of these people ended up having any direct consequence to the plot of the games. Alek does unexpectedly end up becoming Darth Malak though.]]

* BlindSeer: miraluka Q'Anilia

*** Chantique. I mean, she's the emma frost of the star wars universe.

* MagnificentBastard: Haazen, though he becomes more of a SmugSnake when he's within INCHES of victory. YourMilageMyVary, as his motivation causes many to view him as a CompleteMonster

* BeserkButton: Chantique mocks Jarael about what she did to Zayne. Jarael....doesn't take it very well. And by not very well I mean "savagely beat Chantique into submission and stand over her ready to deliver the death blow."

* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Alek. Better known by the alias he eventually adopts, Darth Malek.]]