Animated by Studio TRIGGER.
Karre and Am are twin siblings born to serve the Dark Side. When Karre steals the Power Core of a new Imperial superweapon, he finds himself coming into conflict with his sister, whom he must save from herself.
Tropes:
- Apologetic Attacker: Karre apologizes to the group of stormtroopers that he's forced to knock out as he steals the superweapon's Power Core.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: Neither twin has any problem breathing while standing on the Star Destroyer's hull. Amusingly, B-20N (a droid) ends up wearing a helmet in space for some reason. Though this maybe be justified a bit, since they are effectively super soldiers, and concept art for the short implies that they're in low orbit rather than in deep space.
- BFS: Karre's finishing blow against Am, and the Gemini-class Star Destroyer, entails using his half of the Kyber Crystal to enlarge his lightsaber's blade to ludicrous proportions.
- Bittersweet Ending: Karre successfully escapes, destroys the Star Destroyer, and destroys the crystal before it kills his sister, but Am remains with the Dark Side, with Karre vowing to save her from herself.
- Cain and Abel: Am is the Cain and Karre is the Abel, respectively.
- Combat Stilettos: In addition to the artificial arms, Am even has a lightsaber blade appear out of her boot heel at one point.
- Combat Tentacles: Overlapping with Whip Sword, Am is capable of extending and manipulating her lightsaber blades — both from her regular saber and her armor's extra arms — like a slew of hot plasma tendrils.
- Company Cross References:
- Not the first time Studio Trigger has told a story about feuding siblings wielding special types of blades, with the villainous sister being Trapped in Villainy.
- How Karre's hair is stylized in the short's art is the same as how Promare did Lio Fotia's hair.
- Additionally, the cyan-pink gradient and lighting was also prominently used by Lio throughout Promare.
- Evil Is Hammy: Am, the twin who has fully embraced the Dark Side, clearly enjoys chewing the scenery as she fights her twin brother.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: While the extent to which Karre can be called "good" is debatable, he's certainly less evil than Am, and he clearly struggles to understand just how devoted she is to her duty as a Sith and how willing she is to sacrifice herself for the cause.
- Hyperspeed Ambush: Karre uses a short-ranged hyperspace jump, in conjunction with a super-enlarged lightsaber blade, to cleave the Star Destroyer in twain. Admiral Holdo would be proud.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Karre reassures a worried R-DUO that they won't be found, only to open a door and immediately be confronted with a squad of hostile stormtroopers.Karre: OK, you told me so.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Am's superpowered armor can deploy 4 extra robotic arms, each with a lightsaber emitter grafted to them. Alongside her twin sabers, it makes for 6 in total.
- Mythology Gag: Tonnes of them. As appropriate for Trigger.
- When Am asks Karre where he thinks he's going with the kyber crystal, Karre replies, "To a galaxy far, far away".
- Karre uses a short-ranged hyperspace jump to make a clean slice right through the Gemini-class Star Destroyer, referencing the "Holdo Maneuver" from the climax of The Last Jedi.
- Similarly, Karre and Am engage in a Force-powered tug-of-war over the stolen kyber crystal, eventually breaking it in two— just like Rey and Kylo Ren did with the Skywalker lightsaber in The Last Jedi.
- The pair — a boy and girl born as twins with the Force — are a take on Luke and Leia, and their names are takes on the actors, with Karre for Carrie Fisher, and Am for Mark Hamill.
- Just like Anakin Skywalker, Karre receives a Force vision of a loved one dying, and is forced to sacrifice his ideals and ambitions in a desperate bid to avert it. Unlike Anakin, this means turning away from the Dark Side rather than towards it - and unlike Anakin, he actually succeeds.
- The Gemini-class Star Destroyer is armed with a near-identical superweapon to the axial superlasers that the Sith Eternal's Xyston-class Star Destroyers have in The Rise of Skywalker. The Dark Side cultists who made Karre and Am, as well as the look of their cloning laboratory, are also reminiscent of the Sith Eternal and their facilities on Exegol in the same film.
- Am's armor can deploy multiple robotic arms wielding lightsabers, similar to General Grievous' fighting style. Her armor, cape and dual lightsabers also make her strongly resemble one of Grievous' concept art where he was depicted as a female armored cyborg.
- The two Robot Buddy characters: R-DUO is R2, and B-2ON is a one-letter shift of C-3PO.
- At the end of the episode, Karre apparently crash-lands on Tatooine, and the final shot is of him sitting on its wreckage and watching the twin sunset, mirroring the iconic shot of Luke Skywalker doing the same.
- No Man Should Have This Power: This is why Karre initially claims to have stolen the Kyber Crystal powering the Gemini's superlaser: no-one in the galaxy should have a weapon like that at their disposal, least of all the Sith/The Empire. His actual motivation turns out to have been rather more personal.
- Not Afraid to Die: Am makes it clear that she's willing to harness the power of the crystal even if it will kill her.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Karre's not at all interested in joining the New Republic or defeating the Empire. He's simply trying to save his sister from herself. Too bad his sister is so devoted to the Dark Side that not even the prospect of death will make her relent.
- Tempting Fate: As Karre makes off with the Power Core, he assures R-DUO that no one on the ship will be able to find them. Immediately, a door opens and reveals a group of stormtroopers sent to stop them.
- Wave-Motion Gun: The Gemini-class Star Destroyer is outfitted with a prototype laser cannon that, drawing energy from a massive kyber crystal in its power core, is capable of wiping out an entire planet. At least. Thankfully, Karre absconds with the Power Core before it can be test-fired.
