Line #26 YMMV/XWingSeries


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: The novel series started out as a tie-in to the [[VideoGame/XWing video game]].
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3	** Lampshaded in-universe when Elassar is first introduced. Is he genuinely bonkers, or is he playing it up to impress his new squadmates?
4	** The possibility of Isard being entombed on ''Lusankya'' for life is something that's brought up a couple times in-universe. She was ''probably'' killed by Iella...but even New Republic officers in-universe agree that the idea has a certain poetic justice.
5	* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard]] is Empress in all but name after the death of Palpatine, having risen to her position by betraying and [[{{Patricide}} killing her own father]]. Brutally oppressing nonhumans and ordering strikes against the Rebels, Ysard has her rivals assassinated, while having countless people taken aboard her ''Executor''-class Super Star Destroyer, the ''[[MileLongShip Lusankya]]'', and tortured to be mindless drones or [[ManchurianAgent sleeper agents]]. Worse still, Isard ordered the [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke creation of the Krytos Plague]], which causes infected nonhumans to die horribly, and set it loose on Coruscant before the Rebels captured it. This was so that the New Republic would both bankrupt itself trying to treat the infected and tear itself apart along species lines, as resentment towards immune humans rose. When Coruscant falls, Isard flees on the ''Lusankya'', tearing out of the heart of Coruscant and slaughtering untold numbers of innocents. Willing to torture countless sapient beings and tear the galaxy apart in her quest for power, Isard repeatedly demonstrates why she is worthy of the moniker "Ice-Heart".
6	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: After the Emperor's death at Endor, the Rebel Alliance's military strategy has devolved into a race to [[CapitalOffensive seize Coruscant]], with Fey'lya and the Bothans jockeying for the honor on one side, and Ackbar counseling sound caution on the other - creating a close resemblance to the Allies' rush to seize Berlin and end UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, with [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton Patton]] and [[UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery Montgomery]] each furiously advocating his respective plan over the other's, and several voices urging [[UsefulNotes/DwightEisenhower Eisenhower]] to reach Berlin before their Soviet "[[WeAreStrugglingTogether allies]]" could.
7	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tycho Celchu. Stackpole didn't know he would become so popular when he created him. And in a way, Wedge Antilles, who has a small but devoted set of fans. There's also Wes Janson, who was offscreen for the first four books, reached this status incredibly quickly when he replaced Tycho as Wedge's "on-screen" second-in-command and brought the funny with him. [[EnsembleDarkHorse/StarWarsLegends See here for a bigger list]].
8	--> '''Janson''': Performing a puppet show while flying is a felony on some worlds.
9	* HarsherInHindsight: Go [[HarsherInHindsight/StarWarsLegends here]].
10	* HilariousInHindsight: Go [[HilariousInHindsight/StarWarsLegends here]].
11	* NarmCharm:
12	** Isard's line "I am Iceheart, I do not burn" is rather narmy, but it also fits her pretentious, overbearing nature rather well.
13	** There's also some of Kirtan Loor's trying to be TheDreaded, which may come off as narmy, but they also serve to show how he's not nearly as much of a bigshot as he thinks he is.
14	* NightmareFuel:
15	** ''Wraith Squadron'': Seeing the effects of {{Gaslighting}} from the victim's perspective is not pleasant. It's easy to see how [[spoiler:Grinder]] might have ended up passing out from shock over the squadron's counter-prank.
16	** The [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrifically gruesome deaths]] caused by the Krytos plague are pure BodyHorror. Made even worse in that it was specifically engineered to exploit the Republic's compassion so that they'd exhaust themselves trying to cure everyone instead of writing them off as a loss like TheEmpire would. Moreover, it was specifically designed not to effect humans, meaning that it exploits the concept of FantasticRacism by turning non-humans against the human leaders within the New Republic.
17	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Warlord Zsinj originated in ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' as a one-note LargeHam villain. The ''Wraith Squadron'' trilogy {{retcon}}s him into a reasonably competent commander who sometimes plays up buffoonery as ObfuscatingStupidity. And also because he really ''enjoys'' hamming it up, ''especially'' in the company of people who can actually figure out how much of his persona is an act.
18	* TheWoobie: At various times Iella Wessiri, Tycho Celchu, Tyria Sarkin, Lara Notsil, Myn Donos, Piggy, and Dia Passik all count as this, whether of the iron, stoic, or original variety.
19	* {{Woolseyism}}: Arguable, but Russian versions of novels have a lot of text that wasn't in the original - it really debeigifies Stackpole's books, making them much more entertaining to read.

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