History Webcomic / DarthsAndDroids

** Annie's feelings after she and Jim roleplay Padme's death scene also have certain... overtones. Especially if one removes the words "in character".

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0435.html This strip,]] where Pete's hacking attempts quickly become suggestive of. . . something else.
-->'''Pete''': This shouldn't take more than 6.2 seconds.\\

* [[TheRoleplayer The Brain]]: Ben, playing Obi-Wan Kenobi during the prequel trilogy, and once he dies in Episode IV he takes over Chewbacca from the GM. He starts the sequels as Lor San Tekka before moving on to General Hux. He prefers to think rationally before acting, comes up with sane plans, but is quick to resort to fast-talking the GM if nothing else works. Also [[LampshadeHanging points out the unlikelihood]] of situations they run into. At some point since Episode III he stopped coming to game sessions, but he eventually returns for Episode IV (as a result, he winds up missing the ''Rogue One'' campaign).
* TheRealMan (though arguably with a side-order of TheLoonie even stronger than Sally's): Jim, initially playing Qui-Gon Jinn, then, after the death of Qui-Gon, Padmé Amidala. In Episode IV, his early characters (including Captain Antilles) wound up being {{Mauve Shirt}}s, until he settled in as "Han Solo".[[note]]The Creator/HarrisonFord character, though in the strip his and Greedo's names were switched until Jim shot first and stole the Solo identity. [[BlatantLies This in no way came back to bite him eventually.]][[/note]] Those "early characters" were apparently all in ''Rogue One'', starting with "[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Kyle Katarn]]" (Saw Gererra) before picking up "Bria Tharen" (Jyn Erso) and Bail Organa from the GM. In the sequels, he's Poe Dameron and [[BackupTwin his twin brother Allan]]. He's a gung-ho, enthusiastic player, [[LeeroyJenkins often blindly rushing into danger]]. He's [[IdiotHero also prone to humorous misunderstandings of the setting, bizarre and obviously incorrect explanations,]] and creation of {{Plot Tumor}}s. His insane plan regarding the pod race must be [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0098.html seen]] to be believed (yet he's also pursuing a Ph.D. in geophysics; in Pete's words, he relaxes by doing things that let him turn his brain off and surprises the other players [[ObfuscatingStupidity when they realize that he's]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass not as stupid as his play style suggests]]).

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: This has been happening to Jim's characters. First Qui-Gon, then Padmé (though she was able to last a full two campaigns before passing). In Episode IV he went four-for-four, including Kyle Katarn and Captain Antilles, and they teased a fifth when Jim decided to name his new character "Greedo" [[spoiler:until it was revealed that "Greedo" was Han Solo by a different name.]] It looked like another death was coming when Lando said Han didn't survive the carbon-freeze at the climax of ''Empire Strikes Back'', but he was lying. In ''The Force Awakens'', Poe Dameron is killed off pretty quickly and Jim's next character is killed ''before he even appears'' thanks to the players going OffTheRails and having Niima destroyed in an air strike, forcing him to resort to using Han again.

* MagicAmpersand: The title of the webcomic follows this convention.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Hilariously used by a ''droid'', of all things, [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0175.html here]].

* AnimalStampede: In "[[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2063.html No Gnus Is Bad News]]", when Rey gets Kylo Ren trapped in a gorge, Corey jokes that they'd need [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing a stampede of wildebeests]] to kill him. Pete at least hopes the GM takes the joke seriously and rolls for a random herd of wildebeest.

* TheRealMan (though arguably with a side-order of TheLoonie even stronger than Sally's): Jim, initially playing Qui-Gon Jinn, then, after the death of Qui-Gon, Padmé Amidala. In Episode IV, his early characters (including Captain Antilles) wound up being {{Mauve Shirt}}s, until he settled in as "Han Solo".[[note]]The Creator/HarrisonFord character, though in the strip his and Greedo's names were switched until Jim shot first and stole the Solo identity. [[BlatantLies This in no way came back to bite him eventually.]][[/note]] Those "early characters" were apparently all in ''Rogue One'', starting with "[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Kyle Katarn]]" (Saw Gererra) before picking up "Bria Tharen" (Jyn Erso) and Bail Organa from the GM. In the sequels, he's Poe Dameron. He's a gung-ho, enthusiastic player, [[LeeroyJenkins often blindly rushing into danger]]. He's [[IdiotHero also prone to humorous misunderstandings of the setting, bizarre and obviously incorrect explanations,]] and creation of {{Plot Tumor}}s. His insane plan regarding the pod race must be [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0098.html seen]] to be believed (yet he's also pursuing a Ph.D. in geophysics; in Pete's words, he relaxes by doing things that let him turn his brain off and surprises the other players [[ObfuscatingStupidity when they realize that he's]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass not as stupid as his play style suggests]]).
* TheLoonie: Sally, playing Jar Jar Binks in Episode I. By the time the Episode II campaign started, she decided Jar Jar was stupid, and bounced around several characters before mainly settling on C-3PO and Yoda. She then played K-2SO in ''Rogue One'' and Kylo Ren in the sequels. She's Ben's kid sister, who he once brought to a game session when their parents weren't home. As she's grown up, she's matured into a social activist. Many of the wacky elements of the setting, such as the Gungans (including her own character), Toydarians, and an elected 14-year-old queen, are products of her wild imagination; the GM seems to have largely left the task of designing settings and alien races to her, in acknowledgment of the fact that she is more creative with such things than he is. Sally is also pure awesome in a can, given that she was able to accomplish the flat-out impossible feat of making Jar Jar Binks ''likable''.

** Finally in the sequel trilogy it's revealed Corey got to host his own campaign, which started as ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' but ended up becoming ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' once Sally got involved with the worldbuilding.

* NoodleIncident:
** The [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0149.html Sashimi Incident.]] Each Episode also involves references to a Noodle Incident that happened in the interim since the last one, always involving a non-''Star Wars'' campaign that's eventually revealed to be based on another famous movie:

** ''Rogue One'' and Episode VII: A campaign run by Corey that the GM described as "different" and involved CombiningMecha and lots of guns. Ben was a reluctant leader, Pete played a woman from a destroyed planet with an evil prince stalking her, the GM was a techie girl initially disguised as SweetPollyOliver, and Sally played the villain. Corey turned out to be way too hands-off, with Pete demanding his own mecha (which ended up going to Ben), Sally's character "trigger[ing] the apocalypse" to see his dead wife, everyone melting into "a global goo of human consciousness", and the group replaying the final two sessions to make sense of the story. It [[spoiler:started as ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', and eventually warped into ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']].

* EasterEgg: Many readers may still be completely unaware that the Irregulars have already done a take on ''Film/{{Solo}}'', since the link to the first page is hidden in the transcript at the bottom of [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2191.html this page]] (when Jim presents the notes of his "awesome backstory"; the link is him saying "Here it is.") There was really no announcement that they were even doing this one.

** In a similar vein, [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1071.html Lando's aide]] answering as "Robot". [[spoiler:His name may actually be "Lobot", as in the film, but this is a hint that Nute Gunray has infected him and so, like Pete, he switches "L" and "R" around.]]

-->'''Ben:''' Sally, this is serious. You need to play it seriously.\\

** So armor-piercing that it facilitates his WalkingTheEarth, followed by becoming the mentor in the process.

** Anakin started as [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0061.html a random kid made up on the fly]] when the players went off the rails, the GM had not even thought up a name for him. Later, Annie took over the character for herself.
--->'''Pete (upon meeting Anakin):''' Clearly a completely unimportant NPC.

* {{Gaslighting:}} This is another element in Annie/Anakin's deception plot in Episode III, twisting past events to put Anakin in a better light and manipulate the other Jedi.

'''Anakin:''' What? Er... No. Of course not. Who told you that?\\

** Anakin started as a random kid made up on the fly when the players went off the rails, the GM had not even thought up a name for him. Later, Annie took over the character for herself.

** The above is foreshadowed all the way back to Episode IV, when [[spoiler:just after escaping the Peace Moon, R2 starts switching Rs and Ls around in discreet ways, as in "Let your hatred glow", "The ship's on the blink". Nute's virus infected him when he tried downloading the Peace Moon plans.]]

'''[[spoiler:Dryden Vos]]: Haha! No, any defence you give would just confuse matters.\\

* KickTheSonOfABitch: During the Rogue One arc, when Jim asks [[TokenEvilTeammate Pete]] if he can "kick Krennic's corpse" along with destroying the data tower. [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1739.html Pete finds a way.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Brilliantly and ''literally'' invoked during the Rogue One arc, when Jim asks [[TokenEvilTeammate Pete]] if he can "kick Krennic's corpse" along with destroying the data tower. [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1739.html Pete finds a way.]]

* TakeThat: Many, directed at the original films.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Discussed in this strip (ironically titled [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0762.html "Karl Marx Hates Your Guts"]]):
-->'''Ben:''' You buy stuff at full price, you sell at half.\\
'''Pete:''' First Law of Equipment Trading.\\
'''Corey:''' So all these traders out there are making 100% profit on every transaction? You'd think they'd have banded together and taken over the Galaxy by now.\\
'''Pete:''' What, kind of like some sort of... [[CaptainObvious Trade Federation]]?

* ShootTheLock: As in the film, Han shoots out the lock of his own ship to escape the Rathtars. The GM decides to put it down to a percentile roll to see if he succeeds, and somehow it does, much to his and Ben's utter bafflement.