History Franchise / StarWarsLegends

* [[CalvinBall UnintelligiBall]]: Throughout the EU, Sabbacc has received some pretty detailed rules, making it difficult to follow scenes that focus on a sabbacc game.[[note]]It's like blackjack with tarot cards (major arcana are negative) where the idea is to get 23, -23, or a Fool, 2 (or Empress, as in the tarot card Empress, not the Queen), and 3 (or Emperor, as in the tarot card, not the King): 023, with nothing else. Cards randomize. Now they've added Legates, which are worth eleven but beat a Page or whatever it's called. Okay, yeah, it's complicated. Court cards are all by rank, not just tens.[[/note]]

* [[VillainOfTheWeek Superweapon of the Week]]: The early Legends novels set after ''Return of the Jedi'' went way overboard with stories involving the villains digging up or making a new superweapon in the vein of the Death Star, including the World Devastators, the Eclipse Class Star Destroyer, the Galaxy Gun, the Centerpoint Station, the Sun Crusher, and the Darksaber. By the time of the latter, the formula had clearly worn out it's welcome with critics and fans, which prompted the later novels to shake things up with new villains like the Yuuzhan Vong.

** Han Solo is one of ''Star Wars''[='=] best examples. He pals around with Jedi--including, eventually, his own children--and always manages to more than hold his own.
** Boba Fett has certainly earned himself a reputation as a badass. The man took on '''Darth Vader''' and did better than most Jedi (mostly because he survived intact). Boba has badass dialogue at times as well.

** [[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge]] [[AcePilot Antilles]] - Only pilot in the universe to survive BOTH Death Star runs... and still kicking 25+ years later. Per the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', explicitly not Force-sensitive, and yet widely considered the finest fighter pilot in galactic history.
* BadBlackBarf: Mnggal-Mnggal zombies drool and vomit dark gray goo. Worse, the goo is in fact Mnggal-Mnggal itself, and it can go on to infect the new victims.

** The first major Sith BigBad is the prototypical Dark Lord, Naga Sadow, ruler of the original Sith Empire during their very first major conflict with the Jedi Order. He's not the ''first'' Sith Lord- not by a mile- and several other Sith from his era would cause problems for the galaxy- but he is the first one from the original Sith Empire to declare war on the Republic.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: The ''Errant Venture'', the Maw, Centerpoint Station, Dathomir...If it exists, it will either [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment be completely forgotten about]] or become a central plot element repeatedly.

*** After rescuing Torve both Han and Lando Calrissian filled Torve in on how Han came to own the ''Millennium Falcon'' - namely that the two had been playing sabacc for several hours and Lando had run short of cash, so Lando offered him the pick of any ship from his spaceship sales lot, figuring that Han would go for one of the newer luxury ships instead of the old freighter Lando had quietly been upgrading on the side. But Han instead picked the old freighter upon winning the game.

* DecapitatedArmy: Averted. The death of the Emperor at the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' did not result in the immediate end to the war or the Empire, with various Imperial officers, warlords, and other officials, such as Ysanne Isard, taking the reins.

** In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', the Sith Order is a mess of this during the class stories: the tenures of new Dark Council members sometimes last only weeks before an upstart (usually their apprentice) overthrows them. With the Sith Emperor in seclusion, this has the SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that the Sith Empire is woefully underprepared for the resumption of open war with the Republic--in part because Darth Baras intentionally provoked the Republic to war early to discredit his master Darth Vengean. The Ilum arc even has a full-on attempt at a MilitaryCoup by Darth Malgus. Ultimately, Darth Marr and the Sith Inquisitor PC end up forcing a measure of reform, forming a BigBadDuumvirate to take effective control of the Dark Council.

* DisturbingStatistic: Luke is disturbed to learn that over a million people were on the Death Star when he destroyed it.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Nomi Sunrider in ''Tales of the Jedi'' until Master Thon manages to convince her that they're as much a tool as the Force, not just weapons.

** The ''Dark Empire'' sourcebook released for the tabletop RPG in the '90s established that Palpatine had a distant 11-year-old great-niece named Ederlathh Pallopides, which would imply Palpatine was from nobility or a royal family. Well… the ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' novel would say Palpatine ''is'' from a noble family, except he killed them all when he was young. Ederlathh was also never brought up again.

* EndlessDaytime: Ryloth, the Twi'lek homeworld, a [[TidallyLockedPlanet tidally locked planet]].
* EscapeBattleTechnique: If you fight Yoda, you have one of these. Usually a combination of Force Speed and distracting Yoda by endangering someone in the vicinity.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: After being kills and resurrected countless times by the Emperor, Bevel Lemelisk is finally captured by the New Republic and is told by Wedge that, in no uncertain terms, he will be executed for building the Death Star. Bevel's response? "At least make sure you get it right this time."
* FalseProphet: Dark Side practicioners (usually Sith) lie for their own gain constantly.
** Darth Baras' EvilPlan is to deceive the entire Sith Empire into believing that he is the Voice of the Emperor, whose job is to speak on [[ShadowDictator The Emperor's]] behalf. If he were to succeed, he would become the defacto ruler of the Sith Empire, and everyone would worship and obey him just as they would The Emperor.

** On Tatooine, Jawas are the lowest-regarded nonhuman species that can still be considered part of society. Subsisting mainly as scavengers, they're regarded as foul-smelling pests, and can be abused or even killed with little consequence -- especially in urban areas like Mos Eisley and Anchorhead. It's for this reason that most prefer to live in hidden fortresses and sandcrawlers out in the deserts, where they generally fare much better - though this leaves them under threat of attack by the Tusken Raiders.

* ShapeshifterLongevity: The Shi'ido are a powerful shapeshifting species that - according to ''The Essential Guide to Alien Species'' - can live for up to five hundred years; their members aren't considered fully mature until they turn ''sixty'', and can't mimic non-humanoid species until the age of a hundred and fifty. Senior Anthropologist Mammon Hoole - AKA Uncle Hoole of the ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' series - has been a scientist for decades prior to the events of the original trilogy, and is skilled enough to have taken on truly massive forms like Hutts and Whaladons.
* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: According to [[Literature/GalaxyOfFear Senior Anthropologist Hoole]], this is how his fellow Shi'ido keep outsiders from getting too interested in their home planet; whenever explorers begin snooping around, nearby Shi'ido transform into hideous monsters in order to intimidate them into leaving - and that's if they don't just [[{{Objectshifting}} shapeshift into rocks and trees]] so they can pretend nobody's home. Consequently, in ''The Star Wars Essential Guide To Species'', the illustration of a Shi'ido is depicted right in the middle of a transformation into something terrifying; in fact, this practice is apparently so common that the only image of a Shi'ido in ShapeshifterDefaultForm available to in-universe texts is that of Hoole himself.
* ShaggyDogStory: The Boba Feet comic story ''Jawas of Doom'', where Fett escapes the Sarlacc Pitt but has amnesia now, falling into the hands of Jawas who mistake him for a Droid. The Jawas' sandcrawler was then attacked by Han and Leia, in an attempt to rescue R2-D2, who the Jawas had also picked up somehow. After helping Han rescue R2, Fett suddenly remembered he hated Han Solo--just in time for the Sandcrawler to drive directly into the Sarlacc Pit! Fortunately for Fett, he would truly escape from the Sarlacc in a future story.

** This is partially justified/averted with Kashyyk. Partially averted in that we see that it has oceans, beaches - the areas around which are not so dense, i.e. the trees are only huge rather than ginormous, etc. It is partially justified in that ''KOTOR'' explains that Kashyyk plants were effectively fed steroids when the Rakata's agricultural farming went a bit... out of control.
** Knights of the Old Republic makes it clear that Tatooine is a desert planet before the player even leaves the enclosed settlement.

** The Arkanians are aloof, arrogant, and obsessed with politeness, not to mention tall and willowy with ProphetEyes. They consider themselves superior to all other races and try and improve themselves further with [[{{Transhumanism}} cybernetics and genetics]]. Though they are featured most heavily in the ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'' comics, two Arkanian Jedi appear in ''Yoda: Literature/DarkRendezvous'' — a Padawan AlphaBitch whose arrogance hides insecurity about the war, and a Jedi Knight who leaves the Order over her concerns about the militarization of the Jedi. Obi-Wan and Anakin try to talk her into staying, but she [[CantArgueWithElves runs philosophic rings around them]].
* SpaceOrcs:

* VillainousLegacy: There is an entire subgenre dealing with the immediate aftermath of ''Return of the Jedi'' - just because the Emperor is dead doesn't mean there's nobody who is interested in continuing the Empire.
* VillainousLineage: Jacen follows in his grandfather's footsteps. When he learns how to use the Force to see the past he becomes obsessed, spending countless hours watching Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side. He's desperate to do what Anakin had set out to do without making the same mistakes. Jacen becomes like what Darth Vader could have been had he just killed Palpatine at the start and ruled the Empire by himself.

** Hilarious example with Boba Fett. Due to WolverinePublicity, he became a central character in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. Unfortunately, the EU had gone to strenuous lengths to preserve his mystique up to that point, most notably in [[TheFaceless refusing to ever reveal or describe his physical appearance]]. Come ''Attack of the Clones'', it turns out [[CloningBlues he has the most common face in the galaxy.]] ''ComicBook/StarWarsInfinitiesTheEmpireStrikesBack'' celebrated the occasion by having the first scene of an unmasked Boba Fett, with Lando walking into his office in Cloud City to find Fett with his helmet off and [[SmugSnake his feet up on Lando's desk]].

** The role was [[BigBadDuumvirate shared]] between [[MagnificentBastard Grand Admiral Thrawn]] and [[CloningBlues Joruus C'baoth]] for Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy. A succession of major and minor villains followed, such as [[TheBaroness Admiral Daala]], [[AntiVillain Admiral Pellaeon]], and the spirit of Exar Kun, plus a couple of Hutts, rogue Imperials, Dark Jedi and one or two AlwaysChaoticEvil alien races, as TheEmpire devolved into a VestigialEmpire, and eventually signed a peace treaty with The New Republic. Everything finally seemed peaceful, until...

* AnythingThatMoves: Zeltrons seem to live and breathe this trope, to the point that it might be considered [[PlanetOfHats a cornerstone of their culture...]]

** The Great Sith War specifically lasted, on-and-off, one ''thousand'' years. By the end of it, much of the Republic was in ruins, and regular folk everywhere were getting just a little damn sick of Jedi. It ended when Darth Bane tricked most of the Sith into wiping themselves out, after which point the Republic just called time.

* ''[[Literature/DarkRendezvous Yoda: Dark Rendezvous]]''

** Although tempting to say "If it isn't a Sith, it's a Mandalorian", the only Mandalore that ''really'' earned being called a BigBad is Mandalore the Ultimate. The last known Taung (original Mando species) to claim the [[LegacyCharacter title]], [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Mandalore the Ultimate]] re-consolidated the clans under the Neo-Crusader banner and fought against the Republic in the Mandalorian Wars.

* [[/index]]The original ''Infinities'' series were AlternateUniverse comics (or to borrow a Creator/DCComics term, {{Elseworlds}}) retelling the original trilogy but each with a PointOfDivergence during one of the films.[[index]]

** The Ones, also known creatively as the Force Wielders. Beings truly ancient beyond understanding, said to be Celestials, the first Precursors of the Star Wars Galaxy. Their power in the Force is so great that they can, without hyperbole, be considered embodiments of their respective sides: [[NeutralEvil The Son]], [[NeutralGood the Daughter]] and [[TrueNeutral the Father]]. And that's not even mentioning the [[ChaoticEvil Mother]].

* ''Literature/HandOfThrawn''

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* ''WebComic/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' (tie-in webcomics)

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[[AC:Legacy era (37-138 ABY]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hoth_chocolate Hoth chocolate]]. [[FridgeLogic And before you ask how cocoa beans can grow on Hoth]]: It's just regular hot chocolate with tauntaun milk.

* PunchClockVillain: A recurring theme of the OT-era EU is that there are a hell of a lot more Imperials that believe [[LawfulEvil more in the Empire's Lawful side than its Evil side]], fighting the Rebels/New Republic out of professionalism and patriotism rather than hatred and often displaying disdain or resentment for more monstrous compatriots and leaders. These often pull a HeelFaceTurn, but there are exceptions, chief among them Captain, later Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, Grand Admiral Thrawn's flag captain in ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' who is eventually made supreme commander after Daala [[GeneralFailure takes one defeat too many]] in ''Literature/{{Darksaber}}'', and remains staunchly loyal to the Empire to the end. This despite him being the first on the Imperial side to sue for peace with the Republic in ''Literature/HandOfThrawn''.

* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Played with. While no one's likely to forget Alderaan anytime soon, a lot of folks are quite willing to agree that it was the Emperor, Vader, and most especially Tarkin who pulled the trigger on that one, and aren't holding the Empire as a whole responsible for it. But then we have Kyp Durron, who went Dark Side and literally blew up a sun. Whether or not he's a KarmaHoudini very much [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer.]] The Yuuzhan Vong also committed a ''very'' long list of atrocities on the galaxy in the New Jedi Order books, but get left to live in peace by the end of the series after a species-wide HeelFaceTurn, though it's strongly implied that a lot of groups aren't going to be quick to forget or forgive.

* N-canon (Non-Canon): Anything that contradicts the movies, such as ''[[WhatIf Infinities]]'', [[NoCanonForTheWicked all Dark Side endings in the video games]], a majority of the stories from ''ComicBook/StarWarsTales'', and any [[VideoGame/SoulSeries cross]][[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars overs]]. Also ''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars'' and ''VideoGame/AngryBirdsStarWars'', for obvious reasons. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Game mechanics are also included in this list.]]

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Second Imperium from ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' as a result of a retcon due to the events of ''Literature/HandOfThrawn''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' Seasons 1-6 (2008-2014)[[note]]As Season 7 came out after the ''Legends'' decanonization, it is not considered canon to ''Legends''.[[/note]]