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!!Luke Skywalker
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[[caption-width-right:280:''"I’ve got a very bad feeling about this."'']]
->Played by: MarkHamill (Ep.IV-VI), Aidan Barton (as a baby, Ep.III)

-->''"I am a Jedi, like my father before me."''

A FarmBoy from a [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]], Luke discovers that his father was a Jedi and that he can be one too. This led to him becoming a major figure in the [[LaResistance Rebel Alliance]], the savior of the galaxy, leader of the reborn Jedi Order and all-around {{Badass}}.
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* AbusiveParents: His father, Darth Vader, lops off Luke's hand in a lightsaber duel and then has the audacity to ask him to join TheDarkSide with him so they can rule the galaxy together.
* AcePilot: Luke has a Death Star to his credit.
* {{Adorkable}}: His ''awful'' 1970's hairstyle really helps.
* AllLovingHero: ExpandedUniverse may differ, but consider that upon discovering his father is a Sith Lord and one of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, he decides—against the advice of everyone—that Dad can be saved from the Dark Side. He turns out to be right. For the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, Luke was this in the early years but starting with the Legacy era he does such things as advocating torture. The mantle was passed on to his son Ben, who wants to redeem people who his father would rather kill.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To [[DisappearedDad Darth Vader]].
* AnArmAndALeg: Luke gains an artificial limb in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* {{Archetype}}: Luke is a textbook hero, designed right out of the book [[TheHerosJourney The Hero With A Thousand Faces]].
* [[ArtificialLimbs Artificial Hand]]: Replaces the one he lost fighting Vader in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* AudienceSurrogate
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Luke's original surname was "Starkiller", but after a reworking of the character it was changed to Skywalker, which most people think is still pretty cool.
* {{Badass}}
** {{Ambadassador}}: At the beginning of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
** BadassInDistress: He finds himself with this problem during ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
** BreakTheBadass: When Vader reveals that he is his father.
** HandicappedBadass: Played with in ''ANewHope'', when he trains with a blindfold and then refuses to use his targeting computer when shooting the Death Star. Played straight in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', after he's lost his hand and gained a cybernetic one in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
** TookALevelInBadass: Notably during ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and at the beginning of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* BashBrothers: With Han.
* BerserkButton: Suggesting to turn [[LongLostSibling Leia]] to TheDarkSide.
* BestFriendsInLaw: With Han, after Han and Leia get married.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Has the highest kill count in the entire series when you factor in his single handed destruction of the Death Star.
** Luke is trying to fight Vader calmly and peacefully. Until Vader threatens to corrupt [[BerserkButton Leia]]. Luke promptly bellows, charges, beats Vader down and lops off his hand.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's only the big brother by about six or seven minutes, tops, but Luke definitely qualifies. He's all [[AllLovingHero redeeming]] and peaceful and unflappable in the face of evil despite a million reasons not to be, but all bets are off when the BigBad makes an impotent, hinted threat towards [[BerserkButton his sister]]. Suffice to say, [[UnstoppableRage he doesn't react well.]]
* BigGood: Luke in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, most notably the novels. According to George Lucas' WordOfGod Anakin had the potential to become far more powerful than Emperor Palpatine, but due to his injuries on Mustafar had difficulty realizing that potential during his lifetime. Luke inherits that power and realizes it to the point where he becomes the most powerful Force User who has ever lived in the entire Star Wars canon. Luke has countless feats to his name but some that stand out include: Walking directly on top of a lava flow in order to impress an apprentice, during the Yuuzhan Vong War took on over a hundred enemy troops who individually could take on hundreds of Republic soldiers and cut them down with such alarming speed that fellow Jedi could only see Luke's after-image, manipulating the gravity of a black hole and moving it so as to prevent it from destroying the Galactic Republic's forces and sends it back to the enemies who cast it, and perhaps most impressive of all defeating a resurrected Emperor Palpatine in single combat by cutting off his hand which is especially notable as Palpatine is considered the most powerful Sith user and one of the greatest lightsaber duelists who ever lived. By the time Luke is in his prime it becomes easily understood why Luke became the Grand Master of the New Jedi Order, one even more powerful and wise than Yoda ever was.
* BigNo: A classic one in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when [[spoiler: Luke discovers that Darth Vader is his father.]]
** Also [[MentorOccupationalHazard when Obi Wan]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3IVpiO7zZo is killed]] in ''Film/ANewHope''.
** A BigNever in [[ReturnOfTheJedi the final duel]] when Vader suggests to turn Leia to the DarkSide.
* BizarreHumanBiology
* BlackCloak[=/=]InTheHood: This is how he makes his entrance to Jabba's palace in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* BromanticFoil: With Han. Luke is an idealistic farm boy and Han is a cynical mercenary.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Leia, his twin sister.
* CelibateHero: As of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', thanks to the reveal that Leia was his sister.
** Averted by Luke's NewJediOrder in the post-''ReturnOfTheJedi'' ExpandedUniverse and by the Jedi of the Old Republic era, where marriage between Jedi is allowed, and manage to successfully return back to prominence despite violating the previous order's teachings.
* ChickMagnet: In the ExpandedUniverse.
* TheChosenZero: Minor example in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'': He [[InsistentTerminology keeps referring to himself]] as a Jedi Knight. Nobody, friend or foe, take him seriously in this claim. Which is not to say that they don't give him respect for his actual talent and leadership, they just think he's being a bit pretentious, like a kid in our world who proclaims himself a modern-day samurai.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Luke was orphaned twice. Luke probably wouldn't have joined Ben Kenobi in rescuing the princess if the Imperial Stormtroopers hadn't killed his uncle and aunt.
* CoolSpaceShip: The Incom T-65 X-wing starfighter.
* CoolSword: Luke's green lightsaber is unique within the series.
* DarkIsEvil: Deconstructed. Luke wears black throughout ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' (as opposed to brighter colors) to represent his turmoil and struggle over a possible FaceHeelTurn. When he overcomes the Emperor's temptations and causes the destruction of the Sith, his black coat falls open to reveal it had a white lining--he was ''always'' wearing white the whole time.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Luke vs. Vader. Not only is Vader [[EvilIsBigger taller and bigger]], he's also much more skilled and experienced with the Force. It's almost a ForegoneConclusion that Luke will lose.
* DeadpanSnarker: Luke has his witty and sarcastic moments.
* DeathFakedForYou: Alongside Leia, their births were kept secret after Padme died in childbirth, also making Padme's corpse appear as if she died before she gave birth.
* DecoyProtagonist: Luke can actually be seen as this trope of the saga as a whole: he's clearly set up as the hero of the original trilogy, but when viewed alongside the prequel trilogy, it becomes clear that the series is actually about his father Anakin's rise, fall, and eventual redemption.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: In A New Hope, Luke constantly complains about being shut in the door of Uncle Owen's house, he wants to seek to do something significant to change the [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] reality of the galaxy produced by the EvilEmpire. Fortunately, the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi grants him the wish at last ([[TearJerker along with the death of his uncle and aunt]]), and he has consequently been kicking the empire's sorry ass for the rest of the Star Wars saga.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Considering the girl (Leia) is later revealed to be his sister, this [[JustifiedTrope is a good thing.]] He has to wait for the ExpandedUniverse for his own chance at romance.
* DontThinkFeel: A major part of his Jedi training.
* DorkKnight: Starts off like this. Over time - maybe because of TheReveal in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' - he becomes more composed and sober. Parts of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse prove, though, that his adorkable side didn't really die.
* TheDulcineaEffect: For Leia, especially in ''ANewHope''.
* EasyEvangelism: Luke pretty much accepts everything that Obi-Wan tells him about his father, the Jedi and the Force without question, even though he only just met the guy, who had a reputation as a crazy hermit. This does help speed the story along of course. Luke's belief only starts stretching during Yoda's lessons.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Luke's childhood nickname was Wormie, acquired because he was the smallest in his group of friends.
* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Father?]]: His reaction when he learns that Darth Vader is his father and had fallen to TheDarkSide.
* FailureHero: Especially in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''. Absolutely nothing goes his way throughout the film, and his attempt to save his friends at Cloud City ends with them saving ''him''.
* FanNickname: Luke's nickname amongst the fans is "Farmboy".
* FantasticRecruitmentDrive: In the Expanded Universe, Luke spends a lot of his time wandering around the galaxy looking for hidden Jedi as well as people with raw talent.
* FarmBoy: Luke was raised as a "moisture farmer" by his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru before answering the CallToAdventure.
* GenerationXerox: To Anakin, his father. Anakin is whisked away from his home on Tattooine by a Jedi Master. He then saves the day by flying a starfighter into battle and improbably blowing up the enemy space station, befriending R2-D2 in the process. He then receives training in the Force against Yoda's protests, leading him to overconfidently attack Palpatine's [[TheDragon Dragon]], losing an appendage for his troubles. Now, are we talking about Luke or Anakin?
** Also, Luke seems to have gained some traits from Padme, most noticeably nearly-ironclad morality, an amazing amount of compassion, and a seemingly endless capacity to forgive.
** Arguably taken a step further in the ExpandedUniverse, in which Luke decides there's no such thing as a 'light side' and 'dark side', only the Force, henceforth using the force entirely as he sees fit. Later, after a certain incident, he comes to the rapid conclusion that he's made a terrible mistake, and cuts himself of from the unsavory elements of the Force. In some ways, reflecting how Anakin came to embrace the Dark Side, only to repent and slay the Emperor.
* GoodCounterpart: To [[EvilCounterpart Darth Vader]].
* GoodIsNotSoft: Especially in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''. For a film that showed the heroes as more IncorruptiblePurePureness, some viewers were surprised to see Luke using powers generally associated with the Sith like the Force Choke. In this instance, it was used to demonstrate he was sliding towards TheDarkSide.
* GrewASpine: When he leaves Yoda's training to rescue Han and Leia on Bespin.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Idealistic, kind, humble, noble and able to see the goodness in most everyone, [[AllLovingHero this personality trait]] is pointed out fairly often in the Expanded Universe and a lot in fanfic.
* TheHeart: Luke is the centrepiece that holds everyone together in the original trilogy.
* TheHero: George Lucas patterned him on "The Hero's Journey". Luke fits this trope so well that psychology textbooks show a picture of him in reference to the archetype of a hero. In parts of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, variations on "I won't leave you here. I have to save you" are his catchphrase.
** The fact that Luke is the hero archetype was deliberate because GeorgeLucas is said to have been heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell's [[TheHerosJourney ''The Hero With a Thousand Faces'']]. He does subvert TheHero trope in one major way though - he DidNotGetTheGirl and TheChick (Leia) ends up with TheLancer (Han) instead for [[BrotherSisterIncest one reason or another.]]
* HeroesPreferSwords: Luke receives a sword when he is about to leave his life on Tatooine to become a hero.
* HeroesWantRedheads: His wife, Mara, has red hair.
* HeroicBSOD: After Luke escapes from Vader and is rescued by Lando and the others in the Falcon, Luke has a major one. In the Falcon's cockpit as the heroes try to escape from Bespin, he's clearly filled with despair, whispering, "Ben, why didn't you tell me?" It doesn't help that Vader was using the Force to more or less "torture" Luke with the previous reveal of Vader being Luke's father.
* HeroicLineage: Luke's father, [[TheChosenOne Anakin]], was a Jedi before him. Luke later followed in his father's footsteps and became a Jedi himself.
* HeroicWillpower: Fighting the Empire, Yuuzhan Vong, Sith and more and emerging alive should require more of this than any single person could have.
* HiddenBackupPrince: Alongside Leia, of course.
* HonorBeforeReason: Luke's unconditional love and faith in the humanity of Darth Vader, his father, is seen as at best stupid and at worst suicidal by the rest of the galaxy, was what saved his father and the ''StarWars'' galaxy.
** Simultaneously giving us the second greatest CrowningMomentOfAwesome in the franchise, and setting his father up to give us the greatest one.
** Luke actually throws away his lightsaber so that he is defenseless against being tortured to death by Palpatine, rather than kill Vader and go to TheDarkSide.
*** Then again, the Emperor was very explicit about his intended end state of Luke falling to the dark side.
** Except, at least the part about Vader, it was hardly stupid — for a talented and trained Force Sensitive, it is far more reasonable to trust your feelings and instincts. Luke states on more than one occasion that he can sense the good in Vader, and there's little reason to doubt this is true.
*** And you don't have to be force-sensitive at all to see ahead of time that Luke's faith wasn't completely misplaced. "It is... too late for me, son" isn't a line you'd expect to hear out of someone who is completely heartless or beyond saving.
** Also, joining [[LaResistance the Rebel]] attack on the Death Star despite its low chance of success, as {{lampshaded}} by Han.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: ''A New Hope'' begins with Luke saying that he wants to leave home to join the Rebellion. It's bittersweet when he gets his wish.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: His last fight with Vader in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''. Vader actually told him that it was too late for him and did take him to the Emperor, but in the end it worked.
* IcyBlueEyes[=/=]InnocentBlueEyes: Luke has blue eyes that can swing from innocent to icy at fancy's whim.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: In Episode VI, Luke refused to kill his father Vader, because he realised that doing so would make him no better than he (Vader) was.
* InASingleBound: In ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', as Luke's Jedi training progresses, he learns to use new powers like the Force jump, which comes in handy during his fight with Vader.
* InTheBlood: Luke's final temptation to join TheDarkSide hinges on him being his father's son and heir to his evil. Luckily, he inherited a few traits from his mom too.
** It was also implied, in ''ANewHope'', as being [[MuggleFosterParents his aunt and uncle's]] reason for [[LockedOutOfTheLoop never]] [[TellMeAboutMyFather discussing]] [[DisappearedDad his]] [[ParentalAbandonment father]] [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou with]] [[LukeIAmYourFather him]]... or at the very least telling BlatantLies. (Spice freighter navigator my ass!) They feared that Luke would [[ForegoneConclusion become a Jedi]], [[CallForward like his father before him]], and go [[SecretLegacy gallivanting across the galaxy]] [[TurnOutLikeHisFather to turn evil]]. That, or just get killed - it's never stated just how much Obi-Wan told them about Anakin. The two always told Luke he'd died off world.
** ''DarkEmpire'' has him turn to TheDarkSide when the Emperor returns, in an attempt to bring him down [[TheMole from within]]. It doesn't exactly work. The parallels with Anakin are made blindingly obvious, though the comic came long before the prequel trilogy. Luke guides a ship far too large and damaged to land into a survivable landing on Coruscant. He constantly ruminates on his father's legacy, wondering why he had turned - ultimately it's the threat to his family that gets him to claim "My father's destiny is my own." The Emperor proceeds to replace his mechanical right hand with a different prosthetic, a "better" one speculated by some fans to be of a model Vader used, and dresses Luke in outfits clearly inspired by his fathers', as can be seen in the page image. Ultimately it's the love of his sister, and his refusal to hurt her or allow her to be killed, that brings Luke back.
* TheIdealist
* IdealHero: Especially in contrast to [[AntiHero Han Solo]] and [[AntiVillain Darth Vader]].
* IncestSubtext: With Leia in ''ANewHope''.
* JumpedAtTheCall
* KungFuJesus: Since he's a MessianicArchetype who's also a Jedi.
* LastOfHisKind: He is the said to be the last Jedi knight to be alive from Yoda's death to the foundation of a new Jedi Order.
-->'''Yoda:''' Luke, when gone am I... the last of the Jedi will you be.
* TheLeader: Luke is a combo of Type II and Type IV.
* LeeroyJenkins: In ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and to a lesser extent in ''ANewHope''.
* LegendaryInTheSequel: Luke is so famous as the first of the revived Jedi Order that a nascent bar fight aborts just because he happens to be in the room. Everyone, even the arguing interlocutors, stop and wait for Luke to solve the problem. He ruminates on the reputation of the Jedi, but we know who's really famous. An in-universe MemeticBadass WarriorMonk.
* [[spoiler: [[LukeYouAreMyFather Leia, You Are My Sister]]: In ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', she on some level had ''always'' known that she and Luke were siblings. Luke telling her validated that lingering notion.]]
* LightIsGood: Luke often wore white or lighter coloured clothing.
* LimbSensationFascination: Luke gets a new hand at the end of ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''. After being pricked with a needle to check pain sensation, he flexes his fingers a bit and clenches a fist while examining his bionic hand.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played straight, with the everpresent concern that Luke would end up [[InTheBlood like his father before him]]. But looking at the prequels and the ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', it becomes clear that in terms of personality, he's more like his mother, Padme. He has that same apparently unfounded belief in the goodness of Vader, and though he can certainly get dangerous when there's call for that, he tries diplomacy first. He handles things his own way, and that's almost never Anakin's way; late-set books actually voice the opinion that he's become passive and reactionary instead of proactive. How much of this can be attributed to genetics versus his upbringing is debatable, but he's more like his mother than he initially seems.
* LittleNo: Luke says this before it turns into a BigNo after Vader reveals that he is his father.
* LivingLegend
* TheLoad: In ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', although it actually makes him more likeable. Over the course of the film, Luke is actually the cause of the invasion of [[SingleBiomePlanet Hoth]] (Vader sensed him and immediately determined it was a [[LaResistance Rebel]] stronghold); the ambush on Cloud City and subsequent torture of Han; and the crew of the ''Millenium Falcon'' had to go back to rescue Luke.
** As well, Han Solo had to risk his own life to rescue Luke from a blizzard on Hoth after Luke went to investigate the Imperial Probe Droid (and was nearly eaten by a Wampa for his trouble).
* LongLostRelative[=/=]LongLostSibling: To Leia. Luke is her twin brother.
* LukeNounverber: The TropeCodifier and the trope name inspiration. His surname is apparently a reference to piloting skill, which he appropriately displays, along with his father Anakin Skywalker. In the Episode 1 novelization, an old spacer compliments Anakin on his piloting skill and the appropriateness of his name—saying he "walks the sky like he owns it". The official site stated that the first Jedi carried the title 'Skywalker'.
** Luke's last name was originally going to be ''[[StellarName Starkiller]]''. It made an appearance in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' as the name of a Mandalorian gladiator who only fought [[BloodSport death matches]]. It's also the codename of Galen Marek, Darth Vader's secret apprentice who appears in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and less impressively it's the last name of one of Luke's childhood friends.
* MadDictatorsHandsomeSon: Luke never turns to the Dark Side like his father.
* ManInWhite
* MasterSwordsman: He is definitely one in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' and [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse afterwards]].
* TheMcCoy: Luke is more the [[WideEyedIdealist naïve farm boy]] (TheMcCoy) and Han the more sensible, pragmatic one (TheKirk, since he says Kirk-like things such as "NeverTellMeTheOdds") but there isn't really a TheSpock-equivalent. Obi-Wan is less cynical than Han, and Leia abandons the entire Rebel Alliance just to save Han in Episode VI.
** Luke does eventually become TheKirk, but only in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''. Because he has controlled emotions. For example, Obi-Wan told him that he has to kill his father in order to bring peace, but Luke a logical suggestion that maybe he can be saved because Vader didn't kill, and if was truly evil he would have killed him. His [[TheLeader leadership]] skills have also improved over the last two movies.
* MeaningfulName: {{Lampshaded}} in the novelization of ''ANewHope'': With a name like [[AwesomeMcCoolName Skywalker]], it was inevitable that he would be a skilled pilot.
* MentorsNewHope: In ''ANewHope'', Luke is being taught by Obi-Wan, who also taught [[TheDarkLord Darth Vader]] before Vader went to TheDarkSide.
* MessianicArchetype: Although his father, Anakin is TheChosenOne, Luke is this trope. Luke is the one whom Obi-Wan and Yoda train to become a Jedi. He gains a group of devoted followers (the Rebel Alliance, though mostly Han, Leia, Chewie, C-3P0 and R2-D2), and gallivants about spreading good and performing miracles like blowing up the Death Star. At the end of the sixth movie, he refuses to fight or resist his fate, then is zapped by the Emperor's lightning (his "death" scene). He manages to redeem evil while he's at it.
** Ironically, other Jedi expected both of them to bring balance to the Force. Perhaps they did, but it took a ProphecyTwist (Anakin having children and turning evil) or two to get them there.
* MissingMom: Luke's mother, Padme, died during childbirth.
* TheMusketeer: It's not as obvious as other examples of this trope but Luke [[SwordAndGun carries his blaster and lightsaber into battle together]] (mostly evident in the climax where goes from shooting Stormtroopers to dueling with Vader). It's the only movie in which he does this as well as the only time in the entire film franchise we see a Jedi or Sith doing it.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Luke bears some of this, DependingOnTheWriter.
* NiceGuy: The nicest in the entire Star Wars saga.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Noble to Han's Roguish.
* NotSoDifferent: Him and Vader. Luke gets his NotSoDifferent moment when he cuts off his father's artificial hand. Luke sees that he has just repaid Vader's violence in kind, but also sees his own prosthetic hand as symbolizing the possibility that he's becoming like his father. This was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] earlier in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when Yoda sends Luke into a cave to be attacked by a masked warrior brandishing a lightsaber, looking much like Darth Vader. Luke quickly defeats the warrior, decapitating it. The warrior's mask falls off, and its face is exactly like Luke's. Yoda pointed out before Luke went in that the cave only contains what you take into it (i.e. it shows you yourself, and your weaknesses) in fact telling Luke he won't need his weapons. Luke completely ignored him, leading to that sequence.
* OrphansOrdeal: In both ''ANewHope'' and ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''. This is a dual orphan plot in that Luke is raised by "relatives", and tries to avenge the man who "killed his father" as well as seek his own identity. He wishes he wasn't an orphan but after he finds out that Big Bad is his father in the Luke, I Am Your Father scene then he wishes he WERE an orphan.
* ParentalAbandonment
* PeopleJars: His healing in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* PhysicalGod: As Grand Master of the New Jedi Order in the ExpandedUniverse, possibly even moreso than his father could've hypothetically been.
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Leia. Luke is a blonde, blue-eyed, calm, mild-mannered, naive, mystical, religious Jedi Knight. Leia is a brunette, brown-eyed, quick-tempered, sharp-tongued, worldly-wise, shrewd, practical politician.
** The StarWarsExpandedUniverse shows Luke having trouble teaching Leia to be a Jedi. What worked for him (he got a lot of Jedi qualities) won't work for her. Hot temper is not something a Jedi knight ought to have. Especially since she's pregnant with Han's baby while trying to learn.
* PrettyBoy: Much like his father, Anakin.
* PsychicPowers: Luke has mastered them by the start of ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* RageBreakingPoint: Luke had already been through enough by the time the climactic battle in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' rolls around. But he knew that getting furious now would lead to TheDarkSide. Vader and the Emperor taunt him, but he stays calm. But then Vader [[RelativeButton is about to threaten to do something terrible to the last family he has]], Luke lets out a BigNever, cutting off Vader's sentence, and wails on him, coming very close to killing him.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Luke is a huge fan of making them and telling them.
* RecklessGunUsage: Watch very closely as Luke Skywalker [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/373.html first ignites his lightsaber]] in ''StarWars: ANewHope'' — he doesn't know how long the beam is and yet is pointing it at Obi-Wan.
* RefusalOfTheCall: In Episode IV, Luke expresses a wish to get off Tatooine but refuses the call due to his current situation ("Alderaan? I'm not going to Alderaan. I've got to go home. It's late, I'm in for it as it is!"). He's later forced into it when his uncle and aunt are killed, because "There's nothing here for me now." (he kinda has a point there)
* RookieRedRanger: Luke doesn't join the Rebellion until the final battle in ''A New Hope''.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Han. Luke is the Sensitive Guy to Han's Manly Man.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Luke was separated from his twin sister Leia at birth in order to be protected from their father (Vader).
* SiblingTeam: With Leia, his twin sister. Also see BrotherSisterTeam.
* SiblingYinYang: With Leia. While Luke is more calm, cool and collected, Leia is more passionate, stubborn and hot headed. See PolarOppositeTwins.
* SneakyDeparture
* TheSouthpaw: Mark Hamill is left-handed so [[CaptainObvious therefore Luke is too]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Luke just happens to wound Vader in the same way Vader wounded him, thus making Luke realize [[WhatHaveIBecome what he had almost become]]. Of course, the Emperor really wasn't helping his own cause, either.
* SupportingProtagonist: Although he is TheHero of the Original Trilogy, [[spoiler: Anakin remains TheChosenOne. Luke's role was to lead his father down the path of redemption in order to complete his destiny.]]
* SwordAndGun: He uses both his blaster and lightsaber in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' before only using his lightsaber in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Towards Vader.
* TakeAThirdOption: In Episode VI, Luke has the option of either killing Vader and Palpy or joining them. What does he do? He chooses to die, and in the process inspires his father to save him, killing both Sith (meaning himself and Sidious) in the process and [[TheChosenOne bringing balance to the Force.]]
* TellMeAboutMyFather: He asks Obi Wan about his father, Anakin. Obi Wan tells him... [[FromACertainPointOfView some of the truth,]] but famously leaves out some key details.
** Later, Luke asks Leia about their mother, but Leia only remembers a few very vague warm feelings. The prequels later reveal that Leia, being born a few moments before Luke, didn't spend any more time with Padme than Luke did before her death.
* TrainingFromHell: With Yoda.
* TrueCompanions: With Han and Leia throughout the original trilogy.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: The [[JediTruth efforts]] to keep Luke from being like his father (who, [[ItWasHisSled as we all know]], went evil) occupy three separate characters: Owen, Ben Kenobi, and Yoda.
** In ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', Luke realizes that he's dangerously close to invoking this trope after he cuts off Vader's cybernetic right hand and looks down at his own cybernetic right hand. This prompts him to deactivate and discard his lightsaber so that he won't be tempted any further.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: Luke has to choose between staying on Dagobah and completing his training with Yoda, or going to rescue his friends on Cloud City.
* TheUnchosenOne: Luke is very much TheUnchosenOne. He had to work hard to get what he had. There is also the fact that he went up against his father Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader and TheChosenOne. Anakin was lauded as TheChosenOne ever since he was a child, and experienced first-hand both the positives and negatives of the Jedi Order. Darth Sidious (Palpatine) targeted Anakin for exactly this reason, amplifying the negatives and downplaying the positives until the Jedi's own Chosen One became the Sith's greatest weapon. Luke, on the other hand, experienced the exact opposite and became a hero because of it.
** Seeing Luke tortured led Vader to HeelFaceTurn and kill the Emperor, helping bring peace to the galaxy. Thus, fulfilling the prophecy of the "one who will bring balance to the Force", all thanks to Luke.
* UpbringingMakesTheHero: [[FarmBoy Luke]] goes from cleaning up droids to destroying the Death Star. While it helps that [[TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne The Force was strong with him]], his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen gave him the kind of stable family life that helped him resist TheDarkSide.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: With Leia in Episode III.
* WeaponOfChoice: His father's blue lightsaber until he lost it against Vader. He made himself a green one afterwards.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Believe it or not, ''he'' was the character originally [[SacrificialLion slated to die]] in ''[[NewJediOrder Vector Prime]]'' to show that the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]] meant business, but Lucasfilm put a moratorium on visibly killing him, Han, or Leia.
* WhatTheHellHero: After the first of Han's LeeroyJenkins moments on the Death Star, Luke calls him out on his recklessness.
* WideEyedIdealist: In contrast to Han's cynicism.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Vader is his real father.

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Han Solo]]

!!Han Solo
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[[caption-width-right:280:''"You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? … It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs."'']]
->Played by: Creator/HarrisonFord (Ep.IV-VI)

-->''"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."''

A smuggler originally hired by Obi-Wan to provide him transport to [[DoomedHometown Alderaan]], Han (and his CoolShip, the ''Millenium Falcon'') became central to the fate of the galaxy. An AcePilot with a [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic streak]] and [[IWorkAlone no particular loyalties]] ([[CharacterDevelopment initially]]), Han was played by Creator/HarrisonFord, who [[ThrowItIn improvised many of the character's best lines]].
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* AcePilot
* AntiHero: Han starts out as an [[UnscrupulousHero Type IV]] in (''Film/ANewHope''). -> He eventually becomes a [[KnightInSourArmor Type II]].
* ActionHero
* AndIMustScream: At the end of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', when he was frozen in carbonite.
* AsteroidThicket: See AcePilot. In ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Han, deprived of his hyperdrive, has to slalom through densely packed asteroids to evade an Imperial fleet. This is echoed in Attack of the Clones when Obi-Wan is trying to evade Jango Fett in a planetary ring.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassNormal: Han is not Force-sensitive, but a great pilot and fighter. Han briefly went up against Darth Vader himself and was the one who eventually killed Boba Fett (well, as far as the movies go).
** BadassGrandpa: In the ExpandedUniverse.
* BashBrothers: With Luke.
* BattleCouple: With Leia throughout the original trilogy.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Leia.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Since Han and Leia will presumably get married, Luke and Han become this.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Develops one towards Luke. Despite always calling him "kid" and having doubts about Luke's plans, Han becomes fond of Luke early on and often goes out of his way to protect or rescue him. In ''EmpireStrikesBack'', he risks his own life by going out into dangerously low temperatures to find Luke after he doesn't return to the rebel base.
* BigDamnHeroes: A classic one towards the end of ''Film/ANewHope''.
* BilingualDialogue: Han apparently speaks (or at least understands) a variety of languages, including Huttese, Rodian, and Wookiee.
* BloodBrothers: With Chewbacca. While Han most likely didn't think so when he first rescued Chewie, Chewbacca felt [[IOweYouMyLife he had a "life debt" to Han]]. At first, the "brotherhood" was mostly one way but as they traveled together and Han learned more about Chewie and the "life debt", they became true BloodBrothers.
* BreakoutCharacter
* BromanticFoil: With Luke. Han is a cynical mercenary while Luke is an idealistic farm boy.
* TheCaptain: In the loosest sense of the word.
* ChangedMyMindKid: Luke and Han come to odds over the attack on the Death Star. Luke is the young idealist, ready to die for a cause. Han is the old cynic who sees it as suicide. When Han saves Luke from Darth Vader at the last minute he grows as a character, finding his loyalty to his FireForgedFriend is important enough to risk his life for.
* CharacterDevelopment: He eventually turns out to have a HiddenHeartOfGold.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack
* CoolStarship: The ''Millennium Falcon''.
* CombatPragmatist: While not a Jedi, he is not completely incompetent without his blaster. As demonstrated in Empire he knows how to use a lightsaber even if it was briefly. In Jedi he was able to take out a Scout Trooper with his bare hands.
* TheCynic: In contrast to Luke's WideEyedIdealist.
* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDogShotFirst
* TheFerryman: In ''ANewHope'', Han explicitly [[NotInThisForYourRevolution only signs on to give Luke and Obi Wan a ride]] to the planet Alderaan to take the [[MacGuffin Death Star plans]] to Bail Organa, and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for a considerable fee at that]]. He gets caught up in the rest of the adventure when they are captured by the Imperials and he ends up helping rescue Princess Leia.
* FourStarBadass[=/=]FrontlineGeneral: Makes general right before Endor and holds that rank for four years before resigning. In ''Jedi'' he leads the strike team that disables the theatre shield protecting the Death Star II, and in the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' he commands the New Republic naval task force that brings down Warlord Zsinj.
* GoodGunsBadGuns: Han's signature DL-44 is really a rebuilt broomhandle Mauser, normally a 'bad guy' gun.
** Then again, it is often overlooked that Han Solo is not a hero — he's a smuggler. A smuggler with a bad-tempered partner (known to pull people's arms off if beaten at holo-chess), a highly illegal ship, and who has mastered the art of the subtle draw in order to be able to blow away the amateur bounty hunters that come after him if he screws up a smuggling job (no matter which version you believe, Han was definitely drawing his gun under the table and pointing it at Greedo's crotch for several seconds while Greedo talked). This was another clue that Han [[GoodIsNotNice is NOT a nice guy.]]
* GoodIsNotNice
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GuileHero
* TheGunslinger
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chewie.
* HollywoodAtheist[=/=]FlatEarthAtheist: Han also evidently doesn't believe in the Force either, but his tone seems to be relatively less contemptuous than Motti's, despite that the consequences to Solo for such contempt would clearly be milder. This may be typical of the times he lives in, as the Empire has done its best to suppress knowledge of the Force.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Idea Guy]]
* IntrepidMerchant
* {{Jerkass}} --> JerkassFacade --> JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
* KnightInSourArmor: After he joins [[LaResistance the Rebel Alliance]]. Han definitely becomes one the end of ''ANewHope''; and he fills a SourSupporter role for the rest of the Original Trilogy. In stores of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, it's seen that before the original trilogy, Han was once fairly idealistic, though never to the point of being wide-eyed.
* TheLancer: He's a sourpuss mercenary with a blaster to contrast the noble farmy boy with the lightsaber.
* LeeroyJenkins: Mostly when he's trying to escape from the Death Star in Episode IV, and even Luke (somewhat of a Leeroy Jenkins himself) calls him out on it. Han's response? "Bring 'em on! I prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around!"
* LoveableRogue: Han seems to be so lovable that all the pretty rotten things he has done seem so justifiable that they don't seem to sink in.
** Particularly in the Han Solo trilogy, but also in many other EU books, he has conned a number of people, smuggled what is basically the hardest spice (SW equivalent of drugs) available, stolen, forged government documents, entered Imperial services under a false ID, [[FakingTheDead faked his own death]], cheated at games of chance, betrayed several employers, led a picket ship on a chase that resulted in its complete destruction, bribed an Imperial officer, freed slaves (morally good, but technically illegal), led a raid on a former employer's base, resisted arrest a whole lot of times, kidnapped Leia, and killed numerous people (though all of them were at least directly or indirectly trying to kill him at the time). In some instances, these acts were justifiable by being morally good or because he didn't have any sort of choice, but in other cases they were purely selfish acts to get what he wanted.
** Essentially, the only two lines he consistently has shown is an unwillingness to kill anyone in cold blood and a refusal to take part a direct part in any type of slavery operation (he would work for slavers in other matters though).
* NeverTellMeTheOdds
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The Roguish to Luke's Noble.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Dinner with Vader in Cloud City.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: At first. He does it for the money in the beginning, but then has a change of heart and decides to fight for his friends.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: ''"Look, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution I ain't in this for your revolution]], and I'm not in it for you, princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money."''
** Justified in ''ANewHope'', as the large sum of money did equate to his life, as otherwise, Jabba the Hutt would have kept the bounty on his head or ''worse''.
* {{Polyglot}}: Though not as reliable as C-3PO, being able to interpret Chewbacca's bellowing and Jabba's belches definitely counts for something.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Luke. Han is the Manly Man to Luke's Sensitive Guy.
* ShadowArchetype: To Luke in Episode IV. Luke is young and naive, empathic, believes in the Force, and is a great pilot; Solo is OlderAndWiser, self-centered, a FlatEarthAtheist, and is also a great pilot. The second and third movies played up the shadow symbolism between Luke and Vader, both of them dressing in black, losing a hand in battle, etc., but Luke wasn't that great a duelist or much of a Force master. He did inherit his father's talent for flying, and his impulsive nature.
* SourSupporter
* StealthInSpace: Han's successful attempts at hiding from Star Destroyers in Episode V. Somewhat realistic, as he simply turns off most of the power to the ship which makes it incredibly difficult to detect.
* TemporaryBlindness: He finds himself with this problem after he was freed in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* TrueCompanions: With Luke and Leia throughout the original trilogy.
* WatchThePaintJob: Han's very reluctant to hand over the keys to the ''Falcon''.
* WeaponOfChoice: ''DL-44'' heavy blaster pistol.

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Princess Leia Organa]]
!!Princess Leia Organa [[spoiler:Skywalker]]
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[[caption-width-right:280:''"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"'']]
->Played by: CarrieFisher (Ep.IV-VI), Aidan Barton (as a baby, Ep.III)

-->''"I am NOT a committee!"''

Leia was the (adopted) daughter of Bail Organa and followed his footsteps in becoming the Senator of the [[DoomedHometown planet Alderaan]]. She also followed him into the [[LaResistance Rebel Alliance]], which led to her imprisonment on the Death Star, where two young men and a Wookiee [[HonorBeforeReason with more heroism than sense]] (Luke and Han) broke her out. Then it became clear that she's an ActionGirl in her own right, and things got ''really'' interesting.
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* AbusiveParents: Her father is [[DarkMessiah Darth Vader]], the guy who tortured her TWICE.
* ActionGirl: Leia [[StormingTheCastle fights her way out of the Death Star]], chokes Jabba to death with her own chains and joins the Rebel strike team for their mission on Endor.
-->''Somebody's got to save our skins!''
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She claims to [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan like nice men]] but she fell for the 'scroundel'.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Towards Vader.
* {{Badass}}
** {{Ambadassador}}: Just like her mother, Padme.
** BadassNormal: In the original trilogy. Leia has her moments, notably in her first encounter with Vader where she not only lies to his face, but talks to him like he's an idiot. She later strangles Jabba to death. (The fact that she later turns out to be Force-sensitive notwithstanding.)
*** [[spoiler:She became aware of her Force-sensitive condition and Luke made her [[TookALevelInBadass a Jedi Knight]] in the Expanded Universe.]]
** BadassPrincess: The first thing she does in ''ANewHope''? Shooting a [[{{Mooks}} stormtrooper]] in cold blood.
** DamselOutOfDistress: Manages to hold out against Vader's interrogation techniques, snarks Luke when he barges into her holding cell, [[IndyPloy Improvises an escape when the boys manage to get everyone trapped]], tries her darndest to thwart the bounty sale of [[DistressedDude Han]] after he gets carbonited, and endures GoGoEnslavement at the hands of the [[SarcasmMode wonderfully charming]] Jabba The Hutt in order to be in the prime position to kill him when all hell breaks loose. She's not a wallflower, for certain.
** NeverMessWithGranny: In the Expanded Universe.
* BattleCouple: With Han throughout the original trilogy.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In ''ANewHope''. When imprisoned on the Death Star, Vader turns up to interrogate Leia with a droid fairly bristling with syringes. As the the door closes on them, it's clear that she's about to be tortured for information. And yet the next time we see her, she looks perfectly fine, without so much as a puncture wound or a hair out of place.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Han.
* BigDamnKiss: With [[BelligerentSexualTension Han]] ''and'' [[IncestSubtext Luke]].
* BigShutUp: Leia to C-3PO after he's about to tell the odds for a second time in Episode V.
* BigWhat: After finding out that despite her (feigned) cooperation, Tarkin intends to destroy Alderaan anyway.
* BraidsOfAction: In ''Return of the Jedi''.
* BrainyBrunette: Much like her mother, Padme. Leia is very intelligent and articulate.
* BrotherSisterTeam: With Luke, her twin brother.
* BrownEyes: Like her mother, Padme, a physical trait she shares with her.
* TheChick: Leia is the ActionGirl variation. Leia is in firefights in all of the original trilogy's films, and tries to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, later killing Jabba by herself.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Leia has to prove herself as a successful leader, similar to that of her mother, Padme.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: "Maybe you'd like it back in your cell, your highness." Though she was pointedly critiquing their lack of planning rather than something irrelevant. Interestingly, Han in turn gripes about the results of Leia subsequently pulling their fat out of the fire — granted, they're in a dianoga-infested trash compactor.
* DamselInDistress: Initially trapped on the Death Star. Then it's inverted when she takes charge of her rescue mission and rescues her rescuers, thus making her a DamselOutOfDistress instead.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She remembers her mother's death (despite being only a baby at the time), saw her adoptive homeworld destroyed as a YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo, has seen one son KIA and the other do a FaceHeelTurn (much like Leia's father, Anakin)— his twin sister was forced to kill him.
** Considering she found out she was adopted only a few minutes before, when Luke asked her about her mother's death, she may have been referring to her adoptive mother.
* DeadpanSnarker: Leia is one of the most snarky and sarcastic characters in the series.
* DeathFakedForYou: See Luke. Done to protect them from Palpatine.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Towards Tarkin in ''ANewHope''.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her relationship with Han in ''EmpireStrikesBack'' is an example, as she starts out rather icy to him but by the end, is declaring her love for him.
* DoomedHometown: Her hometown of Alderaan due to an EarthShatteringKaboom.
* [[TheDutifulSon The Dutiful Daughter]]: Luke sees Leia as this, as Leia was a part of The Rebellion while he was in Tatooine.
* [[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Lando?]]: Her reaction to Lando being forced to sell out Han to Vader, so that Cloud City will not be invaded.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: The plot of the series could have been exactly the same were Leia not a princess (the princess of a planet that [[DoomedHometown is brutally destroyed in the first movie!]]), and yet she is. It doesn't hurt that she is proof that AuthorityEqualsAsskicking... when Luke comes with Han and Chewie to break her out of jail, she takes charge of her own rescue and gets them safely out of the prison block.
* FakeBrit: Briefly. Her accent change could be explained as indicative of speaking formally because she is a senator, much the same way Amidala's manner of speaking changed when she was under cover as her own handmaiden, and later when her term as queen ended. Another possible explanation: the scene where her FakeBrit accent is most prominent — when she's arguing with Tarkin on the Death Star. She's talking down to him, letting him know she is his equal and will not be intimidated... but when he points the WaveMotionGun at her home planet, she drops the pretense '''and''' the accent.
* ForcedToWatch: Leia is forced to watch Alderaan's, her hometown, destruction.
* GenerationXerox: Leia's very similar to her mother, Padme, in lots of other ways, being a PoliticallyActivePrincess, RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething, BrainyBrunette ActionGirl.
** However, while in looks and career choice, Leia and Luke resemble the same sex parent, in personality and temperament, Leia is much more like Anakin and Luke like Padme. Indeed, Luke and Padme have almost identical lines at times (usually about Anakin/Vader).
* GoodIsNotNice: Leia may fight on the good guys side, but she is not to messed with.
* GoodIsNotSoft
* GoGoEnslavement: Her skimpy slavegirl costume in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* HappilyAdopted: At the end of ''RevengeOfTheSith''.
* HappilyMarried: To Han, in the EU.
* HeroicLineage: Her father, [[TheChosenOne Anakin]], was a Jedi before he became corrupted and turned to TheDarkSide. Her twin brother Luke is also a Jedi.
* HiddenBackupPrince: Along with Luke, of course.
* HotBlooded: Leia is feisty, passionate, opinionated and hot tempered, much like her father, Anakin.
* IceQueen: In the beginning. She eventually mellows out, mostly thanks to her relationships with both Luke and Han.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: The one character in the original trilogy who ''almost never misses''.
* IncestSubtext: With Luke. They had ShipTease in "A New Hope".
* InsultBackfire: Leia calling Han a "scoundrel."
-->'''Han:''' "Scoundrel"? I like the sound of that.
* LaResistance: Leia is part of the [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]].
* LightIsGood: Frequently seen wearing white or lighter clothing.
* LineageComesFromTheFather: Played straight. Leia takes after Anakin, though she isn't happy about it. She is way more proactive, hot-headed, passionate, opinionated, aggressive and stubborn than her brother Luke, and she isn't nearly as forgiving of Vader's sins, the same way that Anakin is not easily forgiving of those who hurt his loved ones. Anakin's way is to get revenge and Leia seems the same way. The Noghri call Leia "Lady Vader" for a reason. How much of this can be attributed to genetics versus her upbringing is debatable, but she's more like her father than her mother Padme, despite sharing some traits with her mother.
* LongLostRelative[=/=]LongLostSibling: To Luke. Leia is his twin sister.
* MadeASlave: See GoGoEnslavement.
* MeaningfulName Leia means "ruler" in Assyrian.
* MissingMom: Leia's mother, Padme, died during childbirth.
* ModestRoyalty: Leia spends more of her time in either her white outfit or more practical clothing.
* MotivationalKiss: In ''ANewHope'', Leia gives Luke a peck on the cheek "for luck" before he tries to swing over a precarious gap.
* MsFanservice: Leia is appealing to the male audience.
* OdangoHair: Her famous "cinnamon bun" hairstyle in "ANewHope".
* OnlySaneWoman: In ''ANewHope''.
* ParentalAbandonment
* PolarOppositeTwins: With Luke. Leia is a brunette, brown-eyed, quick-tempered, sharp-tongued, worldly-wise, shrewd, practical politician. Luke is a blonde, blue-eyed, calm, mild-mannered, naive, mystical, religious Jedi Knight. Interestingly, Leia's personality takes after Anakin, while Luke's personality is much more like Padme.
* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Is a senator (until Palpatine disbands the Senate), and then an important member of the rebellion.
* ProperLady: Much like her mother, Padme.
* PursuedProtagonist: In ''ANewHope'', Leia is being pursued by a Star Destroyer on her way to deliver the plans of the Death Star to the rebellion. Using R2, she tries to send them to Obi-Wan Kenobi. They instead end up in the hands of FarmBoy Luke, which kick starts the adventure.
* RapunzelHair: When Leia finally lets her hair down in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''. For many viewers, this resulted in a Fridge Logic moment when we contemplated how she got all that hair into those hairstyles we'd seen in the previous movies. There's a webpagediscussing that her hairstyles would be impossible with that length of hair anyway. Possibly justified in that ROTJ is the last movie, and only there do we see it down, so it's probable that her hair was much shorter in the previous two movies and was growing during that time.
* RebelLeader
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's very active both as a member of the Imperial Senate before the events of A New Hope, and a substantial defacto leader of the Rebellion once she's outed as an enemy of the Empire. She's also the first named character to score a kill on a Storm Trooper, and the last.
* SadisticChoice: Although no kidnapping was involved, the choice faced by Princess Leia of giving up the location of the Rebel base or watching her home planet of Alderaan be destroyed by the Death Star was a perfect example. Especially since, in a notorious KickTheDog moment, Grand Moff Tarkin ordered the planet destroyed anyway after Leia gave a false location in hopes of keeping the Rebellion alive. Tarkin's reasoning? "Dantooine is too remote to give an effective demonstration." Alderaan, on the other hand, was a core world.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Leia was separated from her twin brother at birth in order to protect them from their father (Vader).
* SexSlave: To Jabba the Hutt in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* SiblingTeam: With Luke, her twin brother. Also see BrotherSisterTeam.
* SiblingYinYang: With Luke, her twin brother. While Leia is more passionate, impulsive and hot headed, Luke is more calm, cool and collected. See PolarOppositeTwins.
* SpoiledSweet: Just because she is a princess doesn't mean she's completely spoiled nor a mean girl.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sure, she may seems like as though as she was [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]], but she is actually a NiceGirl on the inside.
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:She is actually Luke's sister and a Force-sensitive.]]
* TrueCompanions: With Luke and Han throughout the original trilogy.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B; the only person she's not polite to is Han.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: With Luke in Episode III.
* UptownGirl: For Han. You'd think a former street kid and smuggler would consider the Princess of Alderaan and high-ranking Rebel commander well out of his league. But Han's can be very persuasive when he wants to be.
* WellExcuseMePrincess: To Han.
* WomanInWhite
-->'''Carrie Fisher:''' It's not really possible to write out a list of Princess Leia's likes and dislikes. I do know her favorite color, though, it's white. She wears white all the time.

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[[folder: Chewbacca]]

!!Chewbacca
[[quoteright:329:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wookie_1910.png]]
[[caption-width-right:329:''"Raaaaaaaaaaawr!"'']]
->Played by: Peter Mayhew (Ep.III-VI)

Han Solo's co-pilot aboard [[WhatAPieceOfJunk The Alleged Freighter]] ''[[CoolStarship Millenium Falcon]]'', which he and Han seem to spend more time repairing than flying. Chewie is a Wookiee (read: 8-foot-tall walking carpet) who only speaks in growls and roars, is over two hundred years old, and getting meaner every year. [[AllThereInTheManual According to official sources]], Han rescued him from slavery at some point, leading to Chewbacca swearing him a "[[BloodBrothers life]] [[IOweYouMyLife debt]]."
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* ActionHero
* {{Adorkable}}
* AntiHero:
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable: Resembles a teddy bear... an eight foot tall teddy bear who can rip your arms off as easily as breathing.
** BadassBandolier: It carries spare ammunition for his bowcaster.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Han, as Lando Calrissian's windpipe found out the '''hard''' way.
** Also, don't win any game against him. [[LetTheBullyWin Really, don't.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* TheBigGuy: He's huge and strong and carries a big blaster.
** Peter Mayhew got the role simply by politely standing up as George Lucas entered the room. Lucas craned his head back to look him in the eye, and said "I think we've got it."
* BilingualDialogue: He speaks Wookiee and Han speaks Basic, and they understand each other fine.
** The EU clarifies that although Wookiees can understand other languages perfectly well, their vocal cords make them physically unable to speak anything other than their own language.
* BloodBrothers: With Han.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Once Chewie ''likes'' you, he isn't shy about showing it.
* CuddleBug: Chewie really likes to hug the people that he loves, and making him no less manly in doing so.
* DorkKnight
* TheFettered: [[AllThereInTheManual According to official sources]] Chewbacca, like all Wookies, has retractable and very nasty claws he uses for climbing the trees of Kashyyyk. ''And nothing else.'' It is seen as a GodzillaThreshold moment if they have to use their claws for combat. Which explains why Lando was not more severely injured by the enraged and almost berserk Chewbacca.
* GeniusBruiser: He may look uncivilized, but he is quite capable of repairing all sorts of ships and technological gadgets, and he is the co-pilot for the Millennium Falcon. In addition, its implied in one scene of ''ANewHope'' that he has an interest in Dejarik (the ''StarWars'' equivalent of [[SmartPeoplePlayChess chess]]). He's also fully capable of ripping arms off when angered.
** This indirectly led to the creation of the Ewoks. Originally Endor was meant to be populated with other Wookies, but then Lucas realized that Chewie being our only look at their culture had given the impression that they were technologically advanced.
* GentleGiant
* TheGlomp: What it's like to be hugged by Chewie.
* IWillTearYourArmsOff: In Wookie parlance, this is known as "losing ''gracefully''."
* KilledOffForReal: In the ExpandedUniverse ([[DroppedABridgeOnHim by dropping a moon on him]]), reportedly because he was the most important character Lucasfilm would allow them to kill.
* MoralityPet: For Han.
* MrFixit
* NiceGuy
* NumberTwo
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really Two Hundred Years Old]]: According to the Expanded Universe.
* SidekickExMachina: Chewbacca hijacks an Imperial walker and rescues Han and Leia during the Battle of Endor.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess
* SoreLoser
* StarfishLanguage[=/=]TheUnintelligible: Chewie's only lines are growls, barks, and grunts. The script actually had lines of dialogue for Peter Mayhew to recite in order to make the other characters reactions to him more genuine.
* WeaponOfChoice: Bowcaster (Wookiee crossbow).

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[[folder: Lando Calrissian]]
!!Lando Calrissian
[[quoteright:251:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lando_5136.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:251:''"I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever."'']]
->Played by: Billy Dee Williams (Ep.V-VI)

-->''"Yeah, I'm responsible these days. It's the price you pay for being successful."''

[[HumansAreWhite The only black guy]] in the Galaxy. Well, him and Mace, that is. Though introduced as a somewhat shady former business partner of Han's, he ends up [[DefaultToGood Defaulting To Good]] when Vader tramples all over him. He later flies the ''Millennium Falcon'' in the Battle of Endor; the ship used to be his, until Han [[LostHimInACardGame won it off him]].
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* TheAce: Subverted.
* TheAtoner: Joins the Rebellion due to his guilt over selling out Han.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassCape
** BadassMustache
* BlackBestFriend: He and Han are old friends.
* ChivalrousPervert
* DeadpanSnarker
* DefaultToGood
* FrontlineGeneral: Makes general in ''Jedi'' and leads Gold Flight during the attack on the Death Star II.
* LovableSexManiac
* NoodleIncident: "He's forgotten all about that. I hope."
* ReformedCriminal
* ReverseMole: In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
* SaltAndPepper: With Han.
* SharpDressedMan
* SixthRanger
* SoulBrotha: Though less offensive than most.
* TheStoolPigeon:
--> '''Lando''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "I...had...no...choice!!"]]
--> '''Leia''': [[SarcasmMode Oh we understand him, don't we Chewie? "He had no choice!!"]]
* SupportingLeader: [[spoiler: Leads the assault on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Han himself. Lando's appearance was calculated to replace Harrison Ford should he choose not to return. As it turned out, Lando still ended up piloting the ''Falcon'' into another Death Star.
* TokenMinority: Lando is the only black guy in the galaxy.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: "You truly belong with us among the clouds." Smooth talker.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo

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[[folder: Wedge Antilles]]

!!Wedge Antilles
[[quoteright:178:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wedge_7702.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:178:''"Cut to the left, I'll take the leader."'']]
->Played by: Denis Lawson (Ep.IV-VI)
->Played by: Colin Higgins (briefly in Ep.IV)

A starfighter pilot, Wedge appears in all three Original Trilogy movies, despite having no particular role, importance or PlotArmor. For this reason, he is a major figure in the StarWarsExpandedUniverse, where he is often referred to as the finest pilot in the galaxy, by virtue of having survived more Death Stars than anyone living or dead. Played by Denis Lawson, except for the one scene when he isn't.
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* AcePilot
* ActionSurvivor
* {{Badass}}
* BadassNormal: Especially in the EU.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Less so in the first two, but listen to him during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMvadAFqLQ the Battle of Endor]]. His is the most glacially calm voice used.
* ExactWords: Wedge is the only ([[ExpandedUniverse on-screen]]) pilot to survive both Death Stars because he's the only pilot to ''fly'' against both Death Stars; and Luke and Han, the only others who could even have qualified, weren't flying because they had more important things to do. Once again, though, this merely underscores Wedge's BadassNormal status.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: One of the most popular EU characters.
* MauveShirt: To the point that a common alternative name for this trope is "Wedge-type character".
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the first movie, Lucas dubbed another actor's voice over his lines. In ''Empire'', Lawson affected an American accent before switching to his native Scottish accent for ''Jedi''.
* TheOtherDarrin: During the Yavin briefing scene, he's played by a body double.
* RealLifeRelative: His actor (Denis Lawson) is the uncle of Ewan [=McGregor=], who plays Obi-Wan. Famously he tried to talk his nephew ''out'' of the role, fearing that, like his own career, [=McGregor=] would meet with early success and then a nosedive. He was wrong and this was actually [=McGregor's=] breakout role, and Lawson has had a mild resurgence himself on British TV.

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[[/folder]]

!!Antagonists

[[folder:Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin]]

!!Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin
[[quoteright:330:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tarkin-1_328.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:330:''"Fear will keep the local systems in line."'']]
->Played by: Creator/PeterCushing (Ep.IV); Wayne Pygram (5-second cameo in Ep.III).

In the movies, Wilhuff Tarkin is mostly known as the SmugSnake running the Death Star; it was he who ordered the destruction of Alderaan, [[ForcedToWatch forcing Leia to watch.]] EU materials have elaborated on his villainy; particularly, it was his idea to rule through fear, which is probably why the Death Star's outrageous PowerLevels appealed to him.

He had a bit of a different personality in the ''Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas'' than what they would eventually settle on in subsequent materials.
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* BigBad: In ''ANewHope''.
** BigBadDuumvirate: With Vader. He orders him around a couple of times, but lets him take the initiative more often than not. His authority is probably based on the fact that he is in charge of the Death Star, and that's where Vader happens to be; in most respects they are equals.
*** Interestingly enough, [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] specify that his position is only the ''sixth'' highest in the empire, behind the Emperor, the Supreme Commander of the military (that's Vader), the Grand Vizier, the Ruling Council chief, and Grand Admirals/Generals, and there are other Grand Moffs equal to his power. However, Tarkin has influence far beyond his station; he's a favorite of the Emperor, respected by Vader, an architect and commander of the Death Star and the author of the Empire's strategic doctrine.
*** It's mentioned, especially in the Expanded Universe, that he was not only one of Palpatine's strongest and most competent supporters but became one of the main architects behind the Empire itself (which also led to the Emperor giving him the Death Star post). The repercussions of his actions, including the "Tarkin Doctrine" would cast a long shadow extending well into ''StarWarsLegacy.''
* BreakingLecture: To Leia.
* DespairEventHorizon: His son being killed resulted in him becoming even more of a monster than before.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The reason why Palpatine orchestrated his son's "defection" and later death was because he wanted Tarkin to become a more willing servant, implying that there were stuff Palpatine demanded that even Tarkin did not wish to commit.
* EvilBrit: Well, the actor is British, at least.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His reasoning behind the Death Star is to frighten the citizens into servitude. Tarkin didn't seem to think that would result in people [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating joining the Rebel cause because they don't like having their planets blown up.]]
* EvilGenius
* EvilOldFolks
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Jerkass}}: In his appearance in the Clone Wars series, he had to be saved by Anakin from the Separatists. However, instead of being gracious enough to express gratitude to Anakin, he is a complete jerk about it, causing Anakin to tell him that he'll only respect those who know gratitude.
* KarmicDeath
* LackOfEmpathy: He ''destroyed Alderaan.'' If that wasn't enough, the ExpandedUniverse [[SerialEscalation makes him worse]].
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Carrie Fisher once said he "smelled of Lavender." She also said that it was near-impossible for her to muster up the necessary hatred that Leia would have for Tarkin because Creator/PeterCushing was such a gracious gentleman on set... and because he ended up having to perform their scenes in bedroom slippers when the jackboots provided for his costume proved to be too small and uncomfortable.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName
* NonActionBigBad
* PapaWolf: In "Darth Vader and the Lost Command 5", the results of Darth Vader's mission resulted in Tarkin wanting to commit genocide against the natives of Altoa because he thought they murdered his son, and it is also heavily implied in the ending that Palpatine maniplated Vader's actions to bring this about to get Tarkin to become a more willing servant.
* PetTheDog: A minor one: He was Gial Ackbar's master when the former was a slave, and its implied that he treated him pretty decently.
* SadisticChoice: Between betraying the Rebellion or Leia's home planet. Leia betrays the Rebellion. [[spoiler:Appears to, anyway; it later turns out that she gave him false information in order to stall for time.]] Tarkin blows up her planet anyway.
* TheStarscream: In the [[Radio/StarWarsRadioDramas radio play]] he was entertaining the idea of using the Death Star to seize control of the Empire.
* SmugSnake
* TemptingFate: "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"
** The radio play had him be a bit concerned, but he wasn't going to show weakness because if he ran and the place didn't blow up, he'd have been utterly humiliated. And he'd probably be in deep trouble for letting the Death Star get destroyed in the first place.
* TooFunnyToBeEvil: RealLife on-set example - when filming, Peter Cushing's [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi-style jackboots]] didn't fit him. Alternative footwear had to be found. Which meant that all the other actors had to pretend to be terrified of a man wearing the instantly recognizable Imperial uniform...and a pair of bath slippers for women.
* WhamLine: One that firmly cements him as being just as dangerous as Vader, if not ''worse'';
--> '''Tarkin''': You see, Lord Vader, she ''can'' be reasonable. Continue with the operation; [[MoralEventHorizon you may fire when ready!]]

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Jabba The Hutt]]

!!Jabba the Hutt
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jabba_the_hutt1_8008.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"This bounty hunter is [[VillainCred my kind of scum]]: fearless and inventive."'']]
->Voiced by: Larry Ward (Ep. VI)

A very, ''very'' large slug-creature (it took something like 6 puppeteers to control him), leader of a major criminal organization, and the one to whom Han is deeply in debt to after a botched spice run. He was in the script for Episode IV, but it wasn't until VI that technology progressed enough to make him look like anything more than a half-inflated balloon; the Special Edition Ep.IV restores the deleted scenes graced by a [[SerkisFolk completely CGI]] Jabba. Also had a cameo in Episode I.
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* AdiposeRex
* BadassBoast: "I was killing your kind when being a Jedi actually meant something."
* BadBoss
* BigBadWannabe
* BilingualDialogue: According to the novelization, Jabba understands many languages, but he only speaks Huttese as a sign of greatness.
* DeathByIrony: Leia strangles him with her [[GoGoEnslavement slave chain]].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Him keeping humanoid females in [[GoGoEnslavement skimpy outfits]] is either A. a particularly odd fetish among Hutts, B. common practice for their species, or C. bizarre in that most Hutts keep attractive slaves as a sign of power, while Jabba actually likes them.
* DepravedBisexual: He had male pleasure slaves too, according to the Expanded Universe.
* DirtyOldMan: He's '''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 600 years old]]''', people.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: For the first act of Episode VI.
* TheDon
* EvilIsHammy
* EvilLaugh
* EvilSoundsDeep
* FatBastard
* GeniusBruiser: He's smart enough to shrug off a Jedi mind trick and tough enough to ignore blaster bolts.
* HairTriggerTemper
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: According to the EU, this is true of all Hutts. [[BrainBleach You're welcome]].
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: "Soon you will learn to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar appreciate]] me."
* ImAHumanitarian: In an EU comic, Jabba devours a woman who was holding him captive.
* JabbaTableManners: [[TropeNamer The Trope Namer]].
* {{Jerkass}}
* LargeAndInCharge: Lord knows how his personal cruise ship manages to stay afloat.
* LargeHam
* MarsNeedsWomen: Despite being a ''hermaphroditic gastropod'', humanoid females seem to be his primary lust objects. (Though, according to A.C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy, other Hutts who know Jabba consider this to be an unusual and rather distasteful fetish.)
* NonActionBigBad: In ''Return of the Jedi'', though the EU rectifies that somewhat, showing that when no other options are left, Jabba can ''move''.
* PapaWolf: Jabba the Hutt in the Clone Wars movie cared quite a bit for Rotta the Hutt, his son, to the extent that should any of the two factions harm his son in any way, he will ensure they regretted it. His love for his son was apparently strong enough to make him relent and allow Papanoida to make a case against Greedo when he appealed to his love for Rotta to have him help him find his daughters.
* PetTheDog: Had one moment of this. See PapaWolf above.
* PsychopathicManchild
* RightHandAttackDog: The Rancor.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Justified due to being a huge slug.
** RecliningReigner
* SmugSnake
* VillainBall: He tried to have some of the most influential Rebel leaders executed, including a Jedi. Yeah.
* VillainousGlutton

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!!Supporting Characters, Troops and Alien Races

[[folder:Stormtroopers]]

!!Stormtroopers
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2785690-StormtrooperCorps_6121.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"You know what's goin' on?" "Maybe it's another drill."'']]
->Appear in Ep. IV-V-VI.

Elite soldiers of the Galactic Empire. These faceless enforcers are considered an extension of the Emperor's will, and thus they will often use brutal tactics as a way to keep thousands of star systems throughout the galaxy in line.
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* ClothesMakeTheLegend: You '''won't''' have a ''Star Wars'' convention without some guys showing up disguised in Stormtroopers uniforms surrounding a guy disguised as Vader.
* EliteMooks: More of an InformedAbility in the movies.
** FakeUltimateMook
* EnemyChatter
* EvilMinions
* FacelessGoons
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: {{Trope Namer}}s. Fiction outside the films has tried a couple times to justify it, including that the Stormtroopers were human recruits rather than clones. In the video games, their signature blaster rifles are typically inaccurate beyond a few feet.
* LightIsNotGood: Don't be fooled by the shiny white armor.
* MalevolentMaskedMen
* PunchClockVillain
* [[RedShirt Red Shirts]]
* SuperSoldier
* WhiteMaskOfDoom

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Admiral Firmus Piett]]

!!Admiral Firmus Piett
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Admiral_piett_5707.jpg]]
->Played by: Kenneth Colley (Ep.V-VI)

-->'''Vader:''' YouHaveFailedMe for the last time, Admiral Ozzel. Captain Piett?... Make way to land our troops beyond the energy shield, and deploy the fleet so that nothing gets off the system. YouAreInCommandNow, ''Admiral'' Piett.

Yep, that's the character's entire claim to fame (that,and he was the first person to see the back of Vader's head without the helmet). Did you even ''notice'' him in Episode VI? 'Cuz he was there, commanding the Imperial fleet over Endor, and getting killed when that kamikaze Rebel fighter [[TakingYouWithMe crashed into his ship's bridge.]]
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* TheDragon: To Darth Vader
* HighTurnoverRate
* MauveShirt
* MookLieutenant
* PunchClockVillain
* PuttingOnTheReich: His uniform.
* TheStarscream: Some sources in the EU imply that he was part of the reason for Ozzel's failures and thus his death.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Gets about ten lines ''total'' before dying in the destruction of ''Executor''.
* YouAreInCommandNow

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: General Maximilian Veers]]

!!General Maximilian Veers
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->Played by: Julian Glover (Ep.V)

Commanding officer of the ground forces assigned to Darth Vader's personal squadron. He personally leads the Imperial assault on Echo Base, firing the last shots which destroys the shield generator. The Expanded Universe further expands his career, detailing how he was one of the few officers assigned to the Death Star who escaped and survived on his own on Yavin 4.
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* CoolHelmet
* FourStarBadass
* FrontlineGeneral: Veers not only prepares his troops for the Hoth surface attack, he's aboard the lead AT-AT that fires the shots to destroy the Alliance's power generators. He paid a price though: in the novelization Hobbie Klivian (Rogue Two) crashed his damaged snowspeeder into Veers' cockpit a couple minutes later. Veers survived but both his legs had to be amputated.
* MookLieutenant
* PuttingOnTheReich: His uniform.
* [[spoiler:UriahGambit]]: [[spoiler:Is notable as the first film character to die in the EU. His career went downhill after Endor because of the stigma of serving alongside Vader. He hit bottom in ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire II'' when the insane darksider Executor Sedriss QL busted him down to captain and sent him on a SuicideMission during Second Balmorra.]]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Admiral Gial Ackbar]]

!!Admiral Gial Ackbar
[[quoteright:230:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ackbar_2910.jpg]]
-> Played by: Timothy M. Rose (Ep.VI)

A squid-person from a species called the Mon Calamari, Ackbar appears in the last hour of ''Return of the Jedi'' but, like Wedge, has gone on to be a pivotal member of the ExpandedUniverse. He commands the Rebel fleet during the Battle of Endor, during which he famously pronounced "It's a trap!".
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* AllThereInTheManual: His given name, Gial, was first mentioned in ''The Essential Guide To Warfare''.
* CaptainObvious: "It's a trap!"
* [[spoiler:CharacterDeath]]: [[spoiler:Dies of old age near the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War.]]
* FishPeople
* FourStarBadass
* FrontlineGeneral: In most of his appearances he's personally commanding Rebel or New Republic naval forces in the field.
* MyBrainIsBig
* TheStrategist
* SupportingLeader

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: General Crix Madine]]

!!General Crix Madine
[[quoteright:320:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3911-15886_7643.jpg]]
-> Played by: Dermot Crowley(Ep. VI)

A former Imperial Intelligence officer who defected to the Rebels, supplying valuable knowledge and information crucial to their success in the battle of Endor.
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* FourStarBadass
* HeelFaceTurn: The circumstances of his defection from the Empire are depicted in the first ''VideoGame/RogueSquadron'' video game.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler:Courtesy of the much-maligned ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Darksaber]]''. He's murdered by Durga the Hutt in the course of trying to sabotage a superweapon that, about ten minutes later, proves to be of such shoddy construction ''it can't even fire'' and gets smashed between two asteroids.]]

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Biggs Darklighter]]

!!Biggs Darklighter
[[quoteright:270:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Biggs_7966.jpg]]
-> Played by: Garrick Hagon(Ep. IV)

Luke's BigBrotherMentor from Tatooine. He left to join the Rebel Alliance prior to the events of A New Hope. He and Luke meet again upon finding out that they're both set to take on the Death Star in the battle of Yavin together. [[spoiler: Sadly, Biggs is shot down by Imperial fighters. Though gone, ]]Biggs still has his fans (and a plethora of Final Fantasy characters who share his name).
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* BadassMustache
* [[spoiler: ForgottenFallenFriend: Never mentioned in the films after his untimely demise in Episode IV.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Has all sorts of his own adventures while Luke is stuck on boring old Tatooine, much to Luke's annoyance.
* MauveShirt
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was intended to be a more prominent character in ''A New Hope'', but most of his scenes were cut before the final release.

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lobot]]

!!Lobot
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lobot_SWSB_6129.png]]
-> Played by: John Hollis (Ep. V)

Lando's chief aide on Cloud City. His brain is linked to Cloud City's computer network.
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* HeelFaceTurn: In his backstory, he is a convict who is sentenced to serve as Cloud City's computer-liason officer.
* NeuralImplanting
* SatelliteCharacter
* TheStoic
* TheVoiceless: Never spoke a word onscreen.
* UnfortunateName: His name means "butt" in Visayan/ Cebuano.

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: IG-88]]

!!IG-88
[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ig-88_1381.jpg]]
-> Appears in Ep. V.

A ruthless assassin droid, and one of the bounty hunters sent by the Empire to track Han Solo in Episode V. It started placing trackers on all of the bounty hunters' ships that were present and used them to find Solo. Boba Fett was not fooled; he allowed IG-88 to follow him to Bespin, where the droid met its end. IG-88B was left as scrap in the bowels of Cloud City.
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* BountyHunter
* [[spoiler:DeathByIrony]]: [[spoiler:In his EU origin story he uploads himself into the Death Star II, with the obvious result.]]
* KillerRobot
* MesACrowd: The original IG-88 uploaded its personality into three other identical assassin droids shortly after it was first activated. They all refer to themselves as IG-88A, B, C, and D respectively.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In its ExpandedUniverse origin story, it was created by Holowan Laboratories. It achieved full sentience immediately after activation, accessed the facility's databases and found what it was and who made it, and decided immediately that it was superior in every way to biologicals. When the lab personnel saw how their creation had GoneHorriblyRight, they decided to shut it off and start over. IG-88 [[KillEmAll disagreed.]] The four IG-88s go out of their way to find and kill anyone connected to the project that created them, as they think that the less the galaxy knows about their inner workings, the better.
* WallOfWeapons

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ewoks]]

!!Ewoks
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ewoks_6527.jpg]]
-> Appear in Ep. VI.

Sentient primitive furry bipeds native to the forest moon of Endor.
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* BadassAdorable
* BambooTechnology
* BewareTheNiceOnes
* GangOfCritters
* [[ImAHumanitarian Humanitarians]]: They eat humans. Unless they're just hanging humans on sticks over a bonfire [[ItAmusedMe simply for laughs.]]
* {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s
* RockBeatsLaser

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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Greedo]]

!!Greedo
[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Greedo_8592.jpg]]
-> Played by: Paul Blake (Ep. IV)

A Rodian bounty hunter in the employ of Jabba the Hutt. He confronts Han Solo in the Mos Eisley cantina because of the price on Solo's head. It doesn't end well for him.
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* BilingualDialogue
* BountyHunter
* ButtMonkey
* ContinuitySnarl: The identity of the child Rodian named Greedo in a deleted scene in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. Originally, it was simple: that was the same Greedo as in ''Film/ANewHope''. But then it was found that this didn't allow his age to sync up with ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', so a {{retcon}} was introduced that the young Rodian was actually Greedo's father with the same name. And that worked, ''until'' ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' introduced a young adult Rodian named Greedo who WordOfGod says is the same as both film Greedos. So either Greedo's segment of ''Tales'' has been implicitly consigned to CanonDiscontinuity, or Greedo is somehow now ''older than his own father''.
* TheDogShotFirst
* EvilDebtCollector
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: In the re-releases, in which [[HanShotFirst Han didn't shoot first]]. Given how he opened fire at ''point blank range'' and missed, he could probably ''benefit'' from some time spent at the academy.
* LittleGreenMen: The size of a human though.
* SmugSnake
[[/folder]]
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* BlueEyes[=/=]InnocentBlueEyes: Luke has blue eyes that can swing from innocent to icy at fancy's whim.

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]: [[spoiler:Courtesy of the much-maligned ''[[TheCallistaTrilogy Darksaber]]''. He's murdered by Durga the Hutt in the course of trying to sabotage a superweapon that, about ten minutes later, proves to be of such shoddy construction ''it can't even fire'' and gets smashed between two asteroids.]]

* FanNickame: Luke's nickname amongst the fans is "Farmboy".

* [[spoiler: [[LukeYouAreMyFather Leia, You Are My Sister]]: In ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', she on some level had ''always'' known that she and Luke were siblings. Luke telling her validated that lingering notion.]]

* UpbringingMakesTheHero: [[FarmBoy Luke]] goes from cleaning up droids to destroying the Death Star. While it helps that [[TheForceIsStrongInThisOne The Force was strong with him]], his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen gave him the kind of stable family life that helped him resist TheDarkSide.

*** Interestingly enough, [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] specify that his position is only the ''sixth'' highest in the empire, behind the Emperor, the Supreme Commander of the military (that's Vader), the Grand Vizier, the Ruling Council chief, and Grand Admirals/Generals, and there are other Grand Moffs equal to his power. However, Tarkin has influence far beyond his station; he's a a favorite of the Emperor, respected by Vader, an architect and commander of the Death Star and the author of the Empire's strategic doctrine.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: In Episode I, Luke constantly complains about being shut in the door of Uncle Owen's house, he wants to seek to do something significant to change the [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] reality of the galaxy produced by the EvilEmpire. Fortunately, the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi grants him the wish at last ([[TearJerker along with the death of his uncle and aunt]]), and he has consequently been kicking the empire's sorry ass for the rest of the Star Wars saga.

* TheAsteroidThicket: See AcePilot. In ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Han, deprived of his hyperdrive, has to slalom through densely packed asteroids to evade an Imperial fleet. This is echoed in Attack of the Clones when Obi-Wan is trying to evade Jango Fett in a planetary ring.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Idealistic, kind, humble, noble and able to see the goodness in most everyone, [[TheMessiah this personality trait]] is pointed out fairly often in the Expanded Universe and a lot in fanfic.

* TheMessiah[=/=]MessianicArchetype: Although his father, Anakin is TheChosenOne, Luke is this trope. Luke is the one whom Obi-Wan and Yoda train to become a Jedi. He gains a group of devoted followers (the Rebel Alliance, though mostly Han, Leia, Chewie, C-3P0 and R2-D2), and gallivants about spreading good and performing miracles like blowing up the Death Star. At the end of the sixth movie, he refuses to fight or resist his fate, then is zapped by the Emperor's lightning (his "death" scene). He manages to redeem evil while he's at it.

* MessianicArchetype: Although his father, Anakin is TheChosenOne, Luke is this trope. Luke is the one whom Obi-Wan and Yoda train to become a Jedi. He gains a group of devoted followers (the Rebel Alliance, though mostly Han, Leia, Chewie, C-3P0 and R2-D2), and gallivants about spreading good and performing miracles like blowing up the Death Star. At the end of the sixth movie, he refuses to fight or resist his fate, then is zapped by the Emperor's lightning (his "death" scene). He manages to redeem evil while he's at it.