Line #35 YMMV/DarthsAndDroids


1	* AccidentalInnuendo:
2	** This moment after Jim's unusually skillful [[spoiler:roleplaying]]:
3	--->'''Jim:''' That was my best [[spoiler:death]] ever!\
4	'''Annie:''' It was amazing. I've never felt so comfortable letting myself go [[spoiler:in character]] before. I never found anyone I could trust.\
5	'''Jim:''' Trust '''me.'''
6	** In [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0375.html this]] strip, Jim suggests that Padmé and Anakin burrow underneath the sand to escape from the arena, an idea which flusters Annie and causes them both to become tongue-tied. The intent of it is that Annie is reluctant to say Jim's idea is crazy, which Jim realizes and apologizes for. [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=4510 Several readers]] assumed that "burrowing underneath the sand" was [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces an euphemism]], and Annie was embarrassed by ''that'' implication.
7	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
8	** Did Vader blow up the planet to rid the galaxy of the pain of [[spoiler:her]] love? Or [[spoiler:is it because Padmé, who was Jim's character, wanted to be ''really sure'' that Bibble would get what was coming to him?]]
9	** The DM in [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0332.html these]][[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0333.html strips.]] Did he really have a "family emergency or whatever"? Or was he frustrated with the group and decide to take a day to cool off?
10	* AssPull: The revelation that [[spoiler:Darth Vader is Padmé]] brought some grumbling from readers, mainly because [[spoiler:[[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0651.html the original robotization strip]]]] turned out to be a carefully {{Quote Mine}}d version of [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1156.html what actually happened]].
11	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: This [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0395.html strip.]] Padmé "dies" in the desert then we abruptly switch to screencaps of ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. (It was an AprilFoolsDay comic, but without a date posted on the page it's not obvious when reading the comic archives.)
12	* BizarroEpisode: The {{crossover}} campaign with ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', starting with Episode 1759 and taking place in the Kamino cloning facilities, somehow manages to be ''even more weird'' than the rest of the comic. The weirdness is justified by the GM improvising the entire story without any preparations.
13	* CargoShip: R2-D2 and his beloved dreadnought. Hilariously Pete apparently ships this ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice in-universe]]''. And after his dreadnought is out of the picture, he ships him with ''the Peace Moon.''
14	* CrazyIsCool: General Grievous has been reimagined as a WarriorPoet who recites menacing poetry while trying to destroy Obi-Wan.
15	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
16	** [[spoiler: The Peace Moon blowing up Naboo]] results in way more BlackComedy than would be expected.
17	--->"Shore leave to Naboo has been canceled."
18	** There's also Darth Vader's treatment of Daine Jir:
19	--->'''Vader''': [[HeKnowsTooMuch Kill everyone who knows]].
20	--->'''Jir''': Oh my, sir! Even ''[[TooDumbToLive me?]]''
21	--->'''Vader''': (Stares blankly at him for a moment) [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yes.]]
22	** General Grievous's death, in which he quotes both ''Blade Runner'' and ''Citizen Kane'' while he's ''burning to death from the inside''.
23	** Anakin killing the young Padawans and Padmé being horrified by it? Tragic. Pete mentioning that the Padawans were 2500 XP each, causing Jim / Padmé to suddenly be impressed with how many times Annie must have leveled up? Hilarious.
24	** When Zam's hand is cut off, there's a moment of unintentional and awkward BlackComedy.
25	--->'''[[PunchClockVillain Zam Wessel]]:''' Now how am I going to feed my boy?
26	--->'''Obi-Wan:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Oh Anakin, did you pick up her hand before we left the bar?]] ''{{Beat}}'' Oh. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial That wasn't related to your last question, by the way]].
27	* GeniusBonus: The fact that the Geonosis factory sequence was added in by Pete acting as a substitute GM is even funnier if one is aware that it wasn't part of the original movie script, but was added during production.
28	* GrowingTheBeard: The shift from "this is an amusing little comic" to "this is some seriously impressive writing" very clearly happened during Maul's seven-strip monologue beginning in [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0181.html strip 182]], in which Maul explains all the machinations that were going on behind the scenes throughout the campaign, and how the player characters unintentionally screwed everything up by not thinking things through, changing everyone's perceptions of events up to that point.
29	* HarsherInHindsight:
30	** The RunningGag of Jim's characters [[TheyKilledKennyAgain constantly dying]], usually by the end of a campaign. [[spoiler: Jim ultimately ends up playing Han Solo by the time the comic gets to the original trilogy]]... and in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', [[spoiler:Han is killed by Kylo Ren.]]
31	** The "Jim always dies" gag also feels eerily prescient of ''Film/RogueOne'' [[spoiler:and its infamous EverybodyDiesEnding]]. This one actually got lampshaded in the comic, by having [[spoiler:various characters from ''Rogue One'' be the ones that Jim got killed between Episodes III and IV]].
32	** This [[https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0484.html strip]], where Mace Windu chews out the gang for causing a lot of collateral damage and unintentionally killing a lot of innocent people while crashlanding the ''Invisible Hand''. In the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode, "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E7DangerousDebt Dangerous Debt]]", the Martez sisters (who live on Coruscant themselves) reveal that their home was destroyed and their parents were killed in a similar accident as a result of Jedi negligence during an action-packed chase, and the sisters are not happy with the Jedi Order for [[HeroInsurance not making reparations for the damage they were partially responsible for]].
33	** Without thinking, Jim gets Palpatine's name wrong as "Puppeteen" the moment they meet and more than once after that. [[spoiler:Over time, Palpatine and Anakin's roles become reversed as driving force of villainy and confused puppet.]]
34	** In one episode, Sally (who roleplays Jar Jar and has tired of playing) declares she wishes for Jar Jar to jump under a bus. Later, Ahmed Best (who played Jar Jar in the prequels) revealed he nearly killed himself over backlash towards the character.
35	* HilariousInHindsight:
36	** [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0045.html In this strip]], Jim is admonished about even thinking about wearing Amidala's dresses, just in case they had good armor class. Now Jim ''is playing'' Amidala.
37	** ''Literature/LukeSkywalkerAndTheShadowsOfMindor'' features a ShowWithinAShow biopic that bears a downright ''scary'' resemblance to ''Darths & Droids'', like claiming Palpatine was good guy manipulated by Vader or that [[spoiler:Vader was not actually Anakin Skywalker]].
38	** In a few ''Phantom Menace'' strips, Qui-Gon is obsessed with "casting Summon Bigger Fish". In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Jar Jar does just that in one episode.
39	*** This carries over into ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' when, in the series finale, [[spoiler:the hero summons a gigantic pod of space whales to help deal with Thrawn.]] Technically not fish, but definitely in the spirit of the trope.
40	** Darth Vader's assuming of the name "Vader" (Dutch for "father") becomes this following strip 1152 following the reveal that [[spoiler:Darth Vader is Padmé, Luke and Leia's ''mother'']]. Knowing Annie, this could very well have been intentional.
41	** [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0736.html And here I didn't think you had any balls]] becomes this once you know that [[spoiler:Vader is Padmé, so, of course, she physically doesn't.]] And, of course, [[spoiler:Annie]] knows it...
42	** The rant about Darth Maul's character arc and how he was meant to be a really important recurring character. At the time, it was making fun of how Maul, despite [[EnsembleDarkhorse his great popularity]], only appeared in [[Film/ThePhantomMenace one movie]]. Then, years later, ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' wound up [[NotQuiteDead bringing Maul back]] and he would indeed go on to be one of the most important and recurring villains in the ExpandedUniverse before [[spoiler:finally getting a second movie appearance in ''Film/{{Solo}}''.]]
43	** Similarly, the rant about Zam Wesell not taking advantage of her shapeshifting becomes this after the ''The Clone Wars'' episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E1HolocronHeist Holocron Heist]]", which featured another member of Zam's species doing just that. Granted, they still had a point about it not being used often, but it ''was'' used that time.
44	** The Darth Vader reveal and the gag of Jim's characters always dying became a little funnier after ''The Force Awakens'' included both Captain Phasma ([[spoiler:another woman in masculine armor]]) and [[spoiler:the death of Han Solo, Jim's current character. To make this even more funny, Han Solo died at the hands of Kylo Ren... who idolized Darth Vader... who in this universe was ''Padmé,'' Jim's ''second'' character]].
45	** Morgan-Mar also [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=8892 went on record to state]] that ''The Force Awakens'' had managed to copy one of the future plot points they were planning for ''Return of the Jedi'' (which was only just finishing the escape from Jabba at the time), though [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=8892&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90 he won't be revealing what that plot is]] until the actual ''Force Awakens'' adaptation.
46	** Ever since all the way back in Episode I, Jim has been mishearing/mispronouncing "Jedi" as "Cheddar." Then at Star Wars Celebration 2016, the planet [[Film/RogueOne Jedha]] was unveiled, sounding even more like cheddar cheese.
47	** Jim wanted Padmé to inherit his laser sword [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0198.html when he took over her character]]. As it turned out, [[spoiler: she did eventually get her own laser sword, when she became Darth Vader...]]
48	** The TimeSkip campaign described in ''Return of the Jedi'' involved theme park robots having TurnedAgainstTheirMasters. The players were referring to [[spoiler:''Film/JurassicPark'']], but then the TV version of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' starts up and has that exact premise.
49	** Sally's focus on droid rights when playing C-3PO becomes this after [[spoiler: ''[[Film/SoloAStarWarsStory Solo]]'' where L3-37 is constantly talking about the same.]]
50	** In the first ''A New Hope'' [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0672.html strip]] Pete says that they would have got away with the plans scott-free in the (unshown) previous session if a Star Destroyer hadn't appeared out of nowhere right in their path. Come ''Rogue One'' and that's now canonically ''exactly'' [[HyperspeedAmbush what happened]].
51	** Pete claims [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0796.html here]], during the Episode IV arc, to have been aboard the Peace Moon for its first test-firing. At the time, this was a weasel for how he could have programmed back doors in the computers, and the GM went along with it. The ''Rogue One'' adaptation retcons that Pete wasn't at the ''first'' test, but the second time it fired, he was near enough that he was able to wirelessly hack the computer after all.
52	** In 2013, two years after the ''Revenge of The Sith'' campaign wrapped up, ''The Making of The Return of The Jedi'' came out. There is a transcript of a story session where Creator/GeorgeLucas mentions how he envisioned episode III playing out. Specifically Anakin had already fallen to the Dark Side (possibly offscreen between episodes II and III) but was working undercover with Palpatine to undermine the Republic and destroy the Jedi. This is pretty much how Annie plays Anakin in the ''Revenge of The Sith'' campaign, though she takes it up to eleven and even Palpatine is nothing more than a pawn in her scheme.
53	** TheRant in [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1593.html this strip]] mentions the dangers of jumping to lightspeed, especially when the ship is ''aimed'' at something... [[spoiler:Come ''Film/TheLastJedi'', this precise scenario happens with the Resistance's ''Raddus'' against the First Order's ''Supremacy'']]. For the record, the strip was written on November 24, 2017, three weeks before that film was released.
54	** In the body text of [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0543.html strip 543]], the Irregulars observe that many of the hijinks that dungeon-crawling adventurers get up to are quite stressful and that Game Masters should try making players roll for all sorts of stress-induced trauma, before concluding that this sounds like a bad idea. Fast forward four years and ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is released, featuring this '''exact''' mechanic as the core of its gameplay, and is met with great acclaim from players.
55	** While [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0307.html discussing]] the GM's use of accents to quickly distinguish [=NPCs=] from each other in TheRant, it's suggested that [[ManOfAThousandVoices voice actor]] Billy West would make a good GM. The idea of voice actors playing tabletop games later achieved great popularity with ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''.
56	** In [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1312.html strip 1312]], released three years before ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', thousands of transcended Jedi hitch a ride on Luke's X-Wing from Dagobah.
57	** In [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1757.html strip 1757]], the gang decides Wedge must have taken Yoda's Force ghost to Kamino to clone him a new body. Well, [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda, anyone?]]
58	** Speaking of ''The Mandalorian'', a major recurring plot point/joke in ''Darths & Droids'' is normal people gaining Force powers through Midichlorian transfusions. Season 2 of ''Mandalorians'' reveals, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Moff Gideon]] is attempting to actually do that exact thing in canon... except [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome all his test subjects so far have died from organ failure due to their bodies rejecting the Midichlorian-infused blood]].]]
59	** Also speaking of the Mandalorian, in [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0016.html strip 16]] we are introduced to Tuna Booze Oil, a drink brewed in isolated fishing communities, presumably made from fish. Come episode 4 of the Mandalorian we are introduced to an isolated fishing community where they brew Spotchka, a blue drink brewed from their local fish.
60	** [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/hypnotoads/0050.html The alternate universe]] strip about ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' mentions that in that strip's universe, ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' ends up getting an unpopular revival. One has to wonder if it was predicting ''[[Series/ReBootTheGuardianCode The Guardian Code]]''.
61	** Annie/Princess wonders in [[https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1513.html #1513]] what might happen as far as Force powers for any offspring she and Han might have. Fast-forward to ''The Force Awakens'' arc, where [[spoiler:Rey, rather than Kylo Ren]] is revealed as Han's child, presumably with Leia.
62	** Back in 2012, when ''Darths And Droids'' began Episode IV, the Irregulars characterized Owen and Beru Lars as gun-toting doomsday preppers. '''Ten years later''', the finale of ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' revealed [[spoiler:Beru at least ''was'' a gun-toting prepper, having stashed several rifles in case the Empire came for them and Kenobi couldn't help.]]
63	** The battle on Hoth has an AT-AT pilot complaining that the controls were built for someone with four arms. Five years later, ''Film/{{Solo}}'' gave us a pilot with four arms.
64	** In Episode VI, Leia complains that "we really want to be on the Peace Moon, not this forest moon." Then, Episode VII retcons the Forest Moon as the ''real'' Peace Moon. So, she was actually there all along...
65	* HoYay: Officially, Darth Maul and Jango Fett are just close friends and partners, but the way Jango gushes about and obsesses over Maul sometimes veers into this.
66	* IKnewIt:
67	** The WMG that Jim plays Padmé when Qui-Gon dies.
68	** [[spoiler:Naboo is Mustafar. That is, there is no Mustafar, but Naboo takes its visuals.]]
69	** [[spoiler:Naboo is also Alderaan. That is, it's Naboo, not Alderaan, that's destroyed by the Death Star/Peace Moon in Episode IV. That being said, Jango mentions that there ''is'' a real Alderaan elsewhere in the galaxy.]]
70	** Pete's job involves a suit and tie, speeches, and "lying bastard[s] with silver tongue[s]". [[spoiler:Yep, [=R2-D2=] is an EvilLawyerJoke.]]
71	* JerkassWoobie:
72	** Jango Fett is reimagined as a rather sad man desperately trying to avenge the death of his best friend, Darth Maul. Given that Maul only died because of the party's incompetence, it's hard not to feel for Jango, even if he takes his vengeance ''way'' too far.
73	** Kylo Ren. Between [[spoiler:Anakin maiming him]] as a kid and [[spoiler:Greedo murdering his father to steal his identity]], he's just one more victim of the party's foolishness.
74	* MemeticMutation:
75	** Invoked. DMM encourages readers to spread "Jar Jar, you're a genius," across the net. As noted, the comic provided the ''very first instance of that sentence on the entire interweb.''
76	** Also, the "SummonBiggerFish" spell, which gained a good deal of popularity after the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode "Bombad Jedi". It then went the other way around, with screencaps from "Bombad Jedi" used for "SummonBiggerFish" [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0670.html here]].
77	--->"That Jedi has summoned a monster!"
78	* MoralEventHorizon: Darth Vader crosses it [[spoiler: when he blows up Naboo with the Peace Moon.]] This is especially so following the later reveal that Darth Vader [[spoiler:is not Anakin Skywalker, but Padmé Amidala]], meaning that Vader [[spoiler:blew up her own homeworld]].
79	* NightmareFuel:
80	** The [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0606.html revelation]] that Anakin is not only pure evil...[[spoiler:[[DarkMessiah but always has been.]]]]
81	** The reveal that Nute Gunray is not only alive... he's managed to turn himself into a purely digital life form, capable of taking over computers and machines, endlessly replicate himself, and that he's still out there. In fact, if he plays his cards right, he's essentially immortal.
82	* ParanoiaFuel:
83	** Funnily brought up by Han. "Some of my best friends are shapeshifters... as far as I know."
84	** The comic openly lampshades the existence of, and then lack of any follow up on, the existence of said shapeshifters in the canon universe.
85	** There's a scene on the ''Invisible Hand'' where Pete starts asking if he sees any droids from where he's hiding. The non-answers the GM gives him eventually lead to a scene where Pete races into the other characters, screaming about how "I can't see them, they must be right behind me!"
86	* PeripheryDemographic: Thanks to the author writing transcripts for each comic, the series has a notable following for the visually impaired as one of the few accessible web comics. The author himself encouraged this type of response and has made calls for other comics to make them accessible for their benefit.
87	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
88	** Jar Jar, who was originally [[TheScrappy the most hated character]] in all six movies. So much so that at least one reader actually hoped that the writers could [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/draakslair/viewtopic.php?t=2429&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 find a way to insert him into the other five movies.]] At the end of the ''Revenge of the Sith'' game [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0642.html Yoda notes that]] ''Jar Jar was the only one who wasn't acting like a fool''. Though this is kind of weakened by the fact Sally plays both Yoda and Jar Jar.
89	** The Irregulars note that they actually checked on the Internet, and the phrase "Jar Jar, you're a genius!" appeared precisely ''nowhere'' beforehand. Now it gets several hundred Website/{{Google}} hits.
90	** This was so well done that [[spoiler: when Vader blew up Naboo with the Peace Moon]], the forum's first reaction was [[spoiler:"Oh my god, he just killed Jar Jar! YouMonster!"]]
91	** Although Jar Jar wasn't inserted into the original trilogy, the Irregulars found a way to include him in ''Rogue One''. They got around the lack of screenshots of him by only his voice appearing through a telecommunication device.
92	* TheScrappy: As admitted by WordOfGod and a complete inversion of the character as portrayed in the movies, there is an attempt to invoke this effect upon R2-D2. Whether or not this is successful will be left to the readers.
93	* SeasonalRot:
94	** An increasing opinion is that the comic began losing its edge starting around the time of the original trilogy. It seems to be divided between those who think the group has lost most of their quirks and follies and become too generic for the kind of chaos known in campaign comics, those who think the comic isn't poking enough fun at the holes in the movies and those who are just upset there are no more insults to the prequel trilogy. The generally-accepted reason is that, unlike the prequels, the original trilogy films are just too good to be easily mocked (or, at the very least, difficult to mock without making the same jokes that everyone else has made).
95	** Even those who liked the original trilogy strips may find ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' arc a bit too {{filler}}-y while the comic's writers were waiting for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' before writing the strips based on the Sequel Trilogy.
96	* TearJerker: Before the battle of Hoth, Luke's co-pilot Dak tells him about how he met the perfect girl and they intend to retire and settle down on Alderaan. While you'd expect the players to make fun of how obviously this sets him up to die, when his and Luke's speeder crashes, Corey legitimately tries his best to save him, nearly at the cost of his own life, but to no avail.
97	-->'''Luke/Corey:''' I'm getting Dak out. C'mon, buddy, you're gonna see Alderaan.
98	* WinBackTheCrowd: Interestingly, after the sequel trilogy began, many fans believe that the series has reclaimed the satirical edge it lost in the original trilogy, now that it has the opportunity to exploit the plot holes of the sequel trilogy, as done with the prequel trilogy. The way the comics connect all the way back to the prequel trilogy where the sequels [[CanonDiscontinuity essentially ignored them]], have funny jokes that completely transform the plotlines, and create fun new characters out of existing ones have all contributed to winning it back for many.
99	* TheWoobie: '''Palpatine''' of all people. In stark contrast to the real movies, Palpatine here is a friendly, lovable ReasonableAuthorityFigure who is slowly driven mad and manipulated into terrorizing the galaxy by a man he thought of as a friend.

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