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* ...Hey! We've got '''three''' comics left to guess this stuff, so ''start guessing already!''
** '''Two''' more comics...
** This is your '''last chance''' to guess the differences in the universe, so cash in now!
*** I was going to propose something about ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' but it seems moot at this juncture... at least until they start on ''Rogue One''.

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** %%** '''Two''' more comics...
** %%** This is your '''last chance''' to guess the differences in the universe, so cash in now!
*** %%*** I was going to propose something about ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' but it seems moot at this juncture... at least until they start on ''Rogue One''.



*** Essentially confirmed as of [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1467.html 1467: Ladies and Lentil-men]].
* [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1397.html 1397: I caught a rare Wookieecuu]]: Corey is planning a campaign following on from hers that is based on Big guns. It will possibly include bigger guns.
* [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1467.html 1467: Ladies and Lentil-men]]: There was a little-girl hacker who "turned the fences back on", and the party were playing as "robot dinosaurs".

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*** Essentially confirmed as of [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1467.html 1467: Ladies and Lentil-men]].
* [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1397.html 1397: I caught a rare Wookieecuu]]: Corey is planning a campaign following on from hers that is based on Big guns. It will possibly include bigger guns.
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darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1467.html 1467: Ladies and Lentil-men]]: There was a little-girl hacker who "turned the fences back on", and the party were playing as "robot dinosaurs".




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** After a long absence for most of ''Rogue One'' and all of ''The Muppet Show'', the plot thread was picked up again [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1851.html when Episode VII started]]. Corey delivered on the big guns he promised, and Sally played the villain. The players shot her character with one of her own guns, but then Sally got "creative".

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* Not likely, unless he decides to give up playing Poe.


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[[WMG: Pete will play Rey.]]
As R2-D2 is out of commission for the entirety of The Force Awakens, Pete will have to create a new character. The character he creates is an inexplicably powerful, [[Munchkin hyper min-maxed]] Force user. As Rey is infamous in the Star Wars fandom for being a MarySue, it lines up too perfectly. Alternatively...

[[WMG: BEN will play Rey.]]
To anyone who HASN'T seen TheForceAwakens, Lor San Tekka isn't exactly long for this world. Apart from Pete, he's the only player whose long-term character HASN'T been revealed. It's entirely possible that he could create Rey as a replacement for Lor.
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[[WMG:In ''Episode IX'' the droid-clone of Valorum will come back in the form of [[spoiler: Emperor Palpatine.]]]]
Consider, [[spoiler: Palpatine]] never detaches from his [[BuffySpeak support rig thingy]] opening up the possibility that he's just a puppet for a mechanical mastermind. We know that Valorum's clone eventually converted himself entirely into a droid and was "dissatisfied with the limitations of his organic body. '''Including looking like Valorum'''."

It would be ''entirely'' in character for a clone of Valorum who didn't like looking like Valorum to [[spoiler: steal the corpse of a beloved leader and puppet it around in an attempt to command more respect.]]

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[[WMG: If the group does a game based on ''Series/TheMandalorian'':]]
* Pete is The Mandalorian. His name and backstory went unrevealed for so long because [[TheMunchkin Pete]] never bothered to give him either. "Not allowed to remove my armor" is '''exactly''' the kind of "flaw" Pete would find appealing, since it only impacts those irrelevant social interactions while meaning he's always maximally prepared for all combat encounters.
* Sally is Kuil.
* Jim is Cara Dune. He wanted to play Padme again. . . [[TheRealMan his way]].
* Ben is IG-11. Sticking to his character's programmed dictates with the dedication of the true roleplayer, it [[spoiler:gets his character killed. Twice.]]
* Annie plays a string of bounties, bounty hunters, and other potential allies that Pete screwed over for XP, loot, money, or some or all of the above. [[spoiler:The Mythrol, Greef, Fennec Shand and/or Toro, Xi'an (or any of the crew from "The Prisoner", really), and so on.]]
* The Child is an [=NPC=] Pete was ''supposed'' to just had over for the bounty. The GM added The Child's amazing Force skills on the fly to get Pete out of an encounter the GM had scaled for the whole party, who Pete had promptly ditched (or frozen in carbo-- er, alcohol). Pete then decided The Child was of maximum utility to keep with him, instead of any of the other player characters. Because [=NPCs=] don't get XP. Annie gets rigtfully, royally pissed at Pete for continually selling out, literally selling, attempting to kill, or successfully killing her helpful [=PCs=] while keeping the ugly GM-fiated frog.
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[[Wmg: Annie's acting career will never really get going...]]

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[[Wmg: Annie's acting career will never really get going...]]
... but she will do well as a screenwriter. Much like Carrie Fisher struggled as a non-Star Wars movie star, but was quite successful as an author and script doctor.

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[[WMG:Alternately. Corey's campaign is The Mandalorian]]
Guns? Check. Bigger guns? Check. The Mandalorian's action heavy, episodic style has been compared to a video game The group wanted to keep going while Jim and Annie were on their honeymoon, so they let Corey take a stab at a simple, short campaign. Corey's a novice gm, so he re-uses the setting and archetypes. Mandolorian comes after RotJ but uses none of the characters of it. The Child even fits the whole clone story of the muppet arc.
The usual gm took a stock bounty hunter and created an elaborate tragic backstory. Pete minmaxed The Child to create the ultimate force user who at the cost of also being a baby. Sally is Cara and Ben is Kuil and IG11 (the two are never in action at the same time). But they have to miss most of the sessions due to a family emergency. They make it back for the grand finale. Everyone has a blast, and Corey is encouraged to study game design.



[[folder:Alternately. Corey's campaign is The Mandalorian]]
Guns? Check. Bigger guns? Check. The Mandalorian's action heavy, episodic style has been compared to a video game The group wanted to keep going while Jim and Annie were on their honeymoon, so they let Corey take a stab at a simple, short campaign. Corey's a novice gm, so he re-uses the setting and archetypes. Mandolorian comes after RotJ but uses none of the characters of it. The Child even fits the whole clone story of the muppet arc.
The usual gm took a stock bounty hunter and created an elaborate tragic backstory. Pete minmaxed The Child to create the ultimate force user who at the cost of also being a baby. Sally is Cara and Ben is Kuil and IG11 (the two are never in action at the same time). But they have to miss most of the sessions due to a family emergency. They make it back for the grand finale. Everyone has a blast, and Corey is encouraged to study game design.
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[[folder:Alternately. Corey's campaign is The Mandalorian]]
Guns? Check. Bigger guns? Check. The Mandalorian's action heavy, episodic style has been compared to a video game The group wanted to keep going while Jim and Annie were on their honeymoon, so they let Corey take a stab at a simple, short campaign. Corey's a novice gm, so he re-uses the setting and archetypes. Mandolorian comes after RotJ but uses none of the characters of it. The Child even fits the whole clone story of the muppet arc.
The usual gm took a stock bounty hunter and created an elaborate tragic backstory. Pete minmaxed The Child to create the ultimate force user who at the cost of also being a baby. Sally is Cara and Ben is Kuil and IG11 (the two are never in action at the same time). But they have to miss most of the sessions due to a family emergency. They make it back for the grand finale. Everyone has a blast, and Corey is encouraged to study game design.

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[[WMG: Rey will be played by a new member of the gaming group]]
It's a tradition at this point for the trilogy's protagonist to be played by a newcomer. Rey's player will be a work friend of Annie's, a writer struggling to find steady jobs the same as her, who joins the group to get experience with cooperative writing and dealing with a pre-established setting. They'll be specifically drawn to join the group because after hearing the story of the campaign they become fascinated by [[spoiler:Palpatine's story]] and think there's more to be told there.



[[WMG:Rey will be [[spoiler:Palpatine's granddaughter]] and she will know it from the start]]
And her character motivation and fascination with the old heroes will be [[spoiler:wanting revenge on Anakin's bloodline for how Anakin caused the downfall of her grandfather and tarnished of his good name]].




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*** Now that the Original Trilogy is finished, it seems unlikely. It's up for debate on whether the Republic or the Empire was worse, with the Empire possibly being in the lead because of Darth Vader mass executing Imperial troops on a whim and Palpatine being completely mad. Good propaganda shouldn't leave you questioning whether the new regime was really better than the old one.
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[[WMG:When they get to ''The Rise of Skywalker'' Palpatine will be replaced by Nute Gunray]]
Or Nute will possess Palpatine.
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[[WMG:A throwaway line about paper being evil will pay off in ''The Last Jedi'']]
Pretty obvious, really, but it deserves to be said. In [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1763.html one strip]] in the Muppet Show campaign, the Yoda clone says that certain ancient Jedi texts were written on paper, causing the midi-chlorians within them to be corrupted. Hence why the original Yoda would attempt to destroy these texts in ''The Last Jedi'', and why Luke would be tempted to kill Ben, and end up isolating himself for years: he has been following corrupted texts. This would also turn the revelation that Rey took the Jedi texts before Yoda could torch them from an uplifting ending to an [[OhCrap ominous cliffhanger.]]
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[[WMG:The characters' appearances are, sometimes, similar to the players']]

I'm guessing the players based their characters on themselves, to a certain extent.
* Obi-Wan started out looking like the "real" Ben does. After he comes back from his travels, he's got a "cool beard" and, perhaps, long shaggy hair - that's why he plays Chewie. Remember, Ben dressed up as Doctor Zaius for Sally's protest.
* Sally started out playing Jar Jar Binks when she was an awkward little girl - Jar Jar's odd stride was similar to hers, and his ears were inspired by her pigtails.
* Jim is Han Solo. Han's expressions match him too well for him to look like anyone else. He's handsome, too, which explains how the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} manage to attract Annie.
* Annie looks like Shmi. For her first character, Annie assumed she'd have to play someone similar enough, so she just opted for a character who looks like herself, only middle-aged. Actors often play characters older than their actual ages, so Annie was planning on using make-up to make herself look older.
* Corey looks like Luke. He assumed the "game" would include a character design menu, but when it was revealed it was up to his imagination, he just settled on his own appearance.
* Pete, on the other hand, isn't short or stocky, he just designed R2-D2 to take advantage of the sci-fi scenario. He does, however, hide under his electronic gadgets so much, you can ''kinda'' see the resemblance.
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*** Or [[TheDogShotFirst Alderaan shot first]]...

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*** Or [[TheDogShotFirst [[AdaptationalSelfDefense Alderaan shot first]]...
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[[WMG: There wwill be a nested universe based on ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'']]
A possible name is is "Villains and Ventures". Character predictions:
* Jim: Brock, always in the mood for a fight.
* Ben: Doctor Venture, trying to make the role work.
* Pete: Helper - can't speak, but has some impressive armament.
* Annie: Dean, reacting like a teenage boy would, in that situation, aiming for realism.
* Sally: Hank. She decides the game is boring, and decides to act like Batman. Or like a HardBoiledDetective.
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And they will be called [[Literature/TheNewTestament Matthew and John]].

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And they will be called [[Literature/TheNewTestament [[Literature/TheBible Matthew and John]].

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* Confirmed, Mark is a clone of Luke.

[[WMG:There will be mention of two more of Luke's clones.]]
And they will be called [[Literature/TheNewTestament Matthew and John]].

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** Alternately (copied from The Force Unleashed's WMG page):
*** It was meant to be a stealth espionage campaign. Then the GM made the mistake of letting [[TheMunchkin Pete]] play a Jedi.
*** Annie is playing Juno. The character with the deepest background and most emotional turmoil. Plus, her BelligerentSexualTension with Pete's Jedi, which seems to be a hallmark of her characters.
*** Jim is playing Rham Kota. His "brilliant" plan to randomly attack Imperials until Vader shows up, then take him out. When Pete went ahead and "killed" him, he talked with the GM and arranged to be blinded instead, so he could sit back in the spaceship and pester Pete with "brilliant" plans over the comlink. The GM agreed because, hey, pestering Pete.
*** Sally is PROXY. She liked playing C-3PO so much, she wanted to play someone like Threepio, but cooler. Pete walked her through the droid construction rules. He was very disappointed when she took the flaw "Programmed to kill one specific being," instead of something like "Bad at Dance," until she pointed out that her target was Pete, and she'd be so thoroughly unable to kill him that it would never come up in play. Pete had never been more proud of her.
*** Ben is Bail Organa. Again missing for a few sessions, he showed up, took over that character, and tried to nudge the story back on track by suggesting clandestine meetings and sabotage of Imperial facilities. Then Pete decided to yank a Star Destroyer out of the sky.
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** And Anakin's [[PsychoticSmirk devious smile]] in 520 adds more evidence that he's playing both sides. Maybe in this canon, the Emperor will be the puppet of Darth Vader? That [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome would be incredibly awesome, actually.]] Or, hey, why not? Adding a new WMG...

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** And Anakin's [[PsychoticSmirk devious smile]] in 520 adds more evidence that he's playing both sides. Maybe in this canon, the Emperor will be the puppet of Darth Vader? That [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome would be incredibly awesome, actually.]] Or, hey, why not? Adding a new WMG...
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* [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1497.html Confirmed]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1498.html in the most]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1499.html beautiful]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1500.html fashion]].

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* [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1497.html Confirmed]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1498.html in the most]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1499.html beautiful]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1500.html fashion]].
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* Confirmed, Jim plays Han (after Captain Antilles dies). Ben picks up Chewie after Obi-Wan's death.




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* Jossed. Ben takes over Chewie from the GM instead.




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* [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1497.html Confirmed]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1498.html in the most]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1499.html beautiful]] [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1500.html fashion]].
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[[WMG:In the improvised campaign that takes place after ''Rogue One'' but before ''The Force Awakens'', Luke gets cloned.]]
The ''Star Wars'' sketch in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' ends with Luke Skywalker meeting his "cousin" Creator/MarkHamill, appearing next to each other (with a blue screen effect). Since in the campaign ''The Muppet Show'' takes place in the cloning facility on Kamino, "Mark Hamill" can easily be a clone of Luke. Bonus point if in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:the "Luke" trying to kill Kylo Ren is not Corey's character, but his evil clone created in this campaign]].
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* Jossed, probably, by the reveal that Jabba had a larval stage in ''Rogue One''.


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[[WMG: ''Solo'' is just going to be pages of Jim explaining his character's backstory.]]

If they didn't break the "the campaign happens in chronological order" for ''Rogue One'', they aren't going to do it now. And they can't go the "reminiscing about a past adventure" route again, because we're specifically told Jim created Greedo/Han for ''New Hope''. But we know he spent ages writing the guy's history, and he's not going to want that to go to waste. Probably with occasional interruptions from the GM to remind him it has to be consistent with the established universe.

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Finally, by the end of the series, no one will fit the same niche as they started. GM will become the TheBrain, Jim TheThespian, Annie the Munchkin, Pete TheLoonie, Ben TheRealMan, and Sally the GM.

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Finally, by the end of the series, no one will fit the same niche as they started. GM will become [[TheSmartGuy the TheBrain, Brain]], Jim TheThespian, [[TheRoleplayer the Thespian]], Annie the Munchkin, {{Munchkin}}, Pete TheLoonie, {{the Loonie}}, Ben TheRealMan, {{the Real Man}}, and Sally the GM.
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[[WMG: Jim will play Rose after Han dies.]]
It will be a good parallel to how he initially switched to playing Han after his character died at the beginning of A New Generation, and we know that Jim has the mindset of "a good backstory protects my character from death," so having his new character have the backstory of her sister tragically dying would work. It could work as a way to reference the backlash to Rose and her and Finn's subplot.
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*** We have confirmed he is in fact OneOfUs. So the specific jossing was probably intentional.

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*** We have confirmed he is in fact OneOfUs.JustForFun/OneOfUs. So the specific jossing was probably intentional.
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In [[www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0650.html strip 650]] it's shown that Anakin was saved, [[spoiler:but Padme becomes Darth Vader]]. He is given cybernetics that might let him become [[starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Snoke a guy who is "about 6 feet tall"]]

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In [[www.darthsanddroids.[[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0650.html strip 650]] it's shown that Anakin was saved, [[spoiler:but Padme becomes Darth Vader]]. He is given cybernetics that might let him become [[starwars.[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Snoke a guy who is "about 6 feet tall"]]

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[[WMG: The ship Rey ravages in the beginning of ''The Force Awakens'' is Pete's dreadnaught.]]
While most parts of it were used to build Mos Eisley, she's raiding the leftovers. Even better if Rey is played by Pete who wants to restart his dreadnaught.

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[[WMG: The ship Rey ravages in the beginning of ''The Force Awakens'' is Pete's dreadnaught.dreadnought.]]
While most parts of it were used to build Mos Eisley, she's raiding the leftovers. Even better if Rey is played by Pete who wants to restart his dreadnaught.
dreadnought.

[[WMG: In ''The Force Awakens'', Kylo Ren will be [[spoiler:possessed by the spirit of Anakin, who will also be the true villain of the third trilogy]]]]
It is heavily indicated that [[spoiler:Anakin can only possess blood relatives, such as his son Luke]], and Kylo Ren (assuming his backstory isn't radically changed) is [[spoiler:Anakin's grandson, through Leia and Greedo/Han]]. Kylo's [[AxCrazy canonical behavior]] in ''The Force Awakens'' will thus be played as a symptom of [[spoiler:possession]].
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[[WMG: The nested "in the universe the players inhabit, _____ does not exist" strips will continue on to ''TopGear'']]
Building on a WMG on the WMG/TopGear page, the presenters of that show are very RPG character-ish, and one could even figure out who'd play what:

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[[WMG: The nested "in the universe the players inhabit, _____ does not exist" strips will continue on to ''TopGear'']]
''Series/TopGearUK'']]
Building on a WMG on the WMG/TopGear WMG/TopGearUK page, the presenters of that show are very RPG character-ish, and one could even figure out who'd play what:
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* What was the subject matter of nerdy {{YouTube}} videos?

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* What was the subject matter of nerdy {{YouTube}} Website/YouTube videos?
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[[WMG: The nested "in the universe the players inhabit, _____ does not exist" strips will eventually finish [[{{Tron}} on]] [[TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} the]] [[Literature/{{Neuromancer}} internet]].]]

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[[WMG: The nested "in the universe the players inhabit, _____ does not exist" strips will eventually finish [[{{Tron}} [[Franchise/{{Tron}} on]] [[TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} the]] [[Literature/{{Neuromancer}} internet]].]]

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