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• Sapient Tank: Basically, any tank that looks more or less like a vehicle is crewed, but stuff that looks like giant mechanical spiders or big roller-wheel thingies are AI-controlled big honking droids.
• Saved for the Sequel: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones both end with several plot points dangling to be picked up in the next installment. Technically, even Revenge of the Sith ends with dangling plotlines... which were already resolved in the original Star Wars trilogy.
• Science Wizard: The Sith tend to be both skilled wielders of the Force and masters of advanced technology, often mixing the two with little distinction. Many notable Sith were particularly skilled in the field of biotechnology, using it to extend their own lifespans or to create a variety of Force-wielding monstrosities.
• Sci-Fi Flyby: If a spaceship of any size is shown, expect the camera to make one of these.
• Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink: Ancient Technology, City covered worlds, flying airships, holograms, etc, all dominate in the GFFA.
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Mostly to preserve the Rule of Cool in the visuals.
  • Virtually all spaceships have windows as their primary external view. As a rule, most objects more than a few miles away are progressively harder to see. Yet even warship commanders stand perched by the windows at the front of their ship's bridges. Note that this is what makes the That's No Moon trope possible.
  • The creators continually destroying inhabited worlds (Alderaan) and systems (Hosnian) just for the drama will eventually have a severe impact on the available plot toys they can play with.
  • Something with the mass of the Death Star should never have been able to maintain such a low geostationary orbit over Endor, and even if it could, the gravitational effects on the moon should have been enormous.
  • Likewise, the amount of energy required to completely consume something as massive as the Death Star should have burned the atmosphere right off of Endor when it exploded. But instead it all just miraculously dissipated a short distance beyond the Death Star's radius.
• Schizo Tech: Ooh, yeah. Especially obvious in the prequels. Most civilizations in this universe appear to discover flying transports before the wheel, based on how many floating carts are drawn by pack animals.
• Schrödinger's Canon: As seen above in Broad Strokes and Canon Immigrant, Star Wars and its Expanded Universe(s) are the Trope Codifier. When Disney bought Lucasfilm and moved forward with their sequel trilogy of Star Wars films, the decision was made to remove all previously-made Expanded Universe material (except The Clone Wars and the 6 theatrical Star Wars films) from official canonicity. However, a great many things from the old EU have served as inspiration for people working on canonical projects within the new continuity, including the new Expanded Universe novels, comics, etc. As such, the canonicity of any place, person, event, item, alien race, and so on from the old continuity is in an undetermined state until the new films (or new EU) either pulls it in from the old EU or dismisses it completely. Some elements from the expanded universe have been "observed true" as early as The Phantom Menace: Timothy Zahn originally named the Capital World of the Empire and Republic before it Coruscant, and Kevin J. Anderson originally created the double-bladed lightsaber. Other elements were "observed false", mostly anything relating to how the Clone Wars actually played out. Many more are still either/or.
  • The franchise's Canon Immigrant page has a long list of many things originating in the Legends continuity that have been brought back. Many of the locations, in particular, are only known at the moment as names on a map, with fans left to assume that these worlds are much as they were in Legends unless otherwise contradicted. In addition, several of these astronomical objects can be assumed to be in the same place in the galaxy in both continuities, but aren't in the same region of space thanks to redefined boundaries.
  • Hints in reference books and other sources indicate that galactic history before the era of the prequel trilogy went to some degree the same way it was outlined in Legends. There have been mentions of ancient wars like the Hundred-Year Darkness that come straight from Legends.
  • At least one character from the old post-Jedi Expanded Universe, Grand Admiral Thrawn, along with the rank, uniform, and (with modifications from the original description) his race, now falls under "observed true" with his addition to Rebels. The novel Thrawn, by Timothy Zahn, reestablished large parts of his original backstory as well.
  • Knights of the Old Republic fell into this because Star Wars: The Old Republic is a MMORPG still running as of 2020, thus being the final authorized Legends work of fiction in active production despite the Disney ruling (and the fact it's so far back in the timeline as to not directly affect the new films). There have been several easter eggs referencing the game's setting, but no direct word about its canon status.
• Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: The posters for A New Hope and Return of the Jedi.
• Secret Art: The Force, and how to build a lightsaber.
• Secret War: In the Original Trilogy, the general folks of the galaxy are well aware of the war between The Empire and the rebel alliance, but not about the war between the last Jedi and Sith. Most of their fights take place in closed quarters with little or no witnesses (Darth Vader vs. Obi-Wan, Darth Vader vs. Luke, Luke vs. Darth Sidious), and most of the people involved are unknown or shadowy people (Obi-Wan is an hermit, Yoda lives in a swamp, and the emperor never displayed his powers in public). For the general public, Jedi ceased to be a thing at the end of the Clone Wars, a generation ago.
• Seers: Most Force-sensitives exhibit at least some degree of this.
• Self-Harm–Induced Superpower: Pain strengthens the Dark Side of the Force, so some Dark Side users will deliberately hurt themselves to expedite the process. Kylo Ren from the sequel trilogy pounds on his own wounds in the heat of battle in order to grant himself additional power.
• Sensor Character: Anyone Force-sensitive can sense the presence of other Jedi, Sith, etc., as well as powerful emotional outbursts from normal people.
• Separated at Birth: Luke and Leia are revealed to be this in Return of the Jedi... after she kissed him in the previous movie.
• Serkis Folk: In the prequels and the various re-edits of the original trilogy, several characters were incorporated that were made entirely with imagery generated by computers with reference to actors using motion capture technology.
  • Supreme Leader Snoke of the Sequel Trilogy deserves special mention, since he's played by the actor whom this trope is named after.
• Sexy Dimorphism: Downplayed. Both male and female Twi'leks are Rubber-Forehead Aliens, but all the female Twi'leks depicted are total babes (dancers, escorts), while the few males are either uninspiring or even repulsive (corrupt Senators, etc).
• Shout-Out: The saga's inspirations include:
  • The 1930s serials and comic strips of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. The story goes that after Lucas made American Graffiti he wanted to make a Flash Gordon remake, and upon being denied the rights to the property (a film was already in the works) he set out to create his own pulp sci-fi universe.^note Cultural reviewer Clay Geerdes pointed out that the plot of Revenge of the Jedi was closely analogous to the Flash Gordon comic strip adventure The Lion Men of Mongo.
  • Lucas had also derived inspiration from Akira Kurosawa's mystical samurai heroes and bumbling sidekicks. Kurosawa's films The Hidden Fortress and Yojimbo were particularly influential on the first movie; an early draft was basically "The Hidden Fortress IN SPACE!" and Lucas even considered buying the rights for a Remake before developing the story further. The Jedi and their rivals the Sith were originally imagined as samurai-like warriors without superhuman abilities, and the name "Jedi" is taken from the jidai-geki genre featuring feudal Japan.
  • There are echoes of Isaac Asimov's Foundation in the decaying Old Republic and Galactic Empire.
  • Frank Herbert's first few Dune novels provided some inspiration, notably for the desert planet Tatooine.
  • The concept of a superpowered psychic galactic police force is taken from E. E. "Doc" Smith's pulp SF series Lensman, as is (arguably) much of the technology — Arthur C Clarke stated that "Smith holds all the original Star Wars patents", and he has a point.
  • The Force itself has analogues in many works like "the Cosmic All" from the Lensman series and the Source from Jack Kirby's New Gods. Mark Hamill, who plays Luke, once asked Lucas where he got the idea and Lucas answered, "it's in about 450 old science fiction novels". The Force can also be traced to the post-hippy atmosphere of the The '70s, and ultimately to Eastern philosophy.
  • Depictions of World War II naval battles also influenced Lucas, with the bombing run sequence from the first movie inspired by the Royal Air Force movie The Dam Busters.
  • There are a few shout outs to the Oz books. Namely Princess Leia's hairbuns which are based on Princess Ozma's hair poppys and the Ewoks are based on the Teddy Bear tribe.
  • The Order 66 scene in Revenge of the Sith is based on the baptism scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone orders the deaths of the other New York crime families.
  • The medal ceremony is very similar to Triumph of the Will. The attack on the Death Star in A New Hope is a Shout-Out to The Dam Busters.
  • The Teräs Käsi form of martial arts featured in both Legends and Disney's canon translates to "steel hands" when translated to Finnish, which serves as a not-so-subtle reference to the Tekken Fighting Game franchise by Bandai Namco (Tekken translates to "iron fist" in Japanese).
• Sigil Spam: Every group, and groups within groups, have their own circular insignia, and they put them on everything.
• Signature Device: Lightsabers indicate that a wielder is a Jedi or force-sensitive, and red ones specifically indicate a Sith.
• Single-Biome Planet: Most of the planets that appear in the franchise: Tatooine (desert planet), Yavin 4 (jungle moon), Hoth (arctic planet), Dagobah (swamp planet), Bespin (gas planet), Endor (forest moon), Coruscant (City Planet), Kamino (ocean planet), Geonosis (another desert planet), Mustafar (lava planet), Jakku (yet another desert planet), Jedha (desert moon), Scarif (beach planet), Ahch-To (island planet), Crait (mineral planet).
• Silicon Snarker: If Threepio's translations are to be believed, then Artoo fires off nasty quips regularly. In A New Hope, as Artoo prepares to board an escape pod of the Tantive 4, Threepio warns him that escape pods are restricted from droids. Artoo's chirps and beeps elicit an indignant, "Don't you call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!" from Threepio. Artoo has the disposition and vocabulary of a salty sea dog.
• Sinister Geometry: The Death Star, the Imperial Star Destroyers.
• Sinister Suffocation: Force choking is a common technique from the Dark Side of the Force. Darth Vader loves choking his own officers for failing their objectives.
• Slave Mooks: The clones, in some people's point of view, and droids. An intelligent, self-aware, disposable, engineered worker race who must be brain wiped every few months else they get uppity.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Mostly on the idealistic end. Several installments definitely get Darker and Edgier, but the franchise as a whole remains more on the optimistic end of the scale.
• Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: The main films (both the original trilogy and the prequels) are all extremely silly, though in The Empire Strikes Back it has been toned down a bit. Expanded universe works, however, usually have a much more serious tone.
• Society-on-Edge Episode: The prequel trilogy provides an interesting variation on this; the galaxy was under imperial control in the original trilogy, but the prequel trilogy focuses on explaining the instability that led to such imperial control. Due to the nature of the storyline, however, the feel of a society-on-edge episode still comes through.
• Space Cadet Academy:
  • The Jedi Temple, serving to train potential Jedi Knights. "Younglings" and "Padawan" not only learned to master the force, but also included flight lessons.
  • The Imperial Academy; it trains TIE Fighter pilots. Luke wished to go there (the fact that Luke, who claims to hate the Empire, is planning to go there shows just how desperate he is to leave the desert world he grew up on), and Biggs actually trained there (then defected). The Expanded Universe reveals that Han Solo also trained there.
  • In the Expanded Universe, once the New Republic was set up, they had their version of the Academy.
• Space Fighter: A New Hope was the Trope Codifier that influenced all subsequent designs to one extent or another. The basic designs of the most famous fighters are instantly recognizable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of pop culture.
• Space Is Air: Star Wars throws out the whole physics rulebook of how space travel actually works in favor of old school dogfighting and interstellar travel that’s as casual as going on a Sunday drive.
• Space Is Noisy: And those noises are very iconic in pop culture.
• Space Opera: The Trope Codifier. While hardly the first (being partly an homage to Flash Gordon), it's certainly the first franchise thought of when the trope is invoked.
• Space Police: Once you get past the metaphysics, this is what the Jedi are for the Republic.
• Space Sector: Used throughout the Star Wars franchise, especially in spin-off materials (novels and comic books and so on), and including the old "Expanded Universe" or "Legends" continuity.
• Space Western: Has certain Western elements to it, such as bounty hunters and outlaw bandits, sandwiched together with Swords and Sorcery (see below)
• Spanner in the Works: The Imperial officer who orders his compatriot to hold his fire as the escape pod passes simply because he believed there was no way to verify if a living being was inside the pod and, thus, whether the pod was launched by accident or by design.
• Special Effect Branding:
  • Red lightsabers are Evil, Blue and Green are Good. Purple ones are apparently reserved for bad motherfuckers.
  • A separate example is the colour of blaster and turbolaser weapons. In the original trilogy, this trope was used in the space battle scenes (where the Empire used green and the Rebels used red, an interesting reverse of the usual lightsabre colour branding) but was not used in ground fights, where all bolts were red. The prequel trilogy on the other hand used it for ground battles as well, the Naboo using green, the Trade Federation using red and the Republic using blue (confusing some Expanded Universe fans who were used to the games colouring ion-cannon fire blue.
  • A further example is in the Geonosis battle at the end of Attack of the Clones with the rockets: good rockets leave white trails of smoke while evil rockets leave black ones.
• Spectacular Spinning:
  • The spinning background that occurs in A New Hope after the Millennium Falcon first jumps into Hyperspace. See it here.
  • Lightsaber duels are full of flashy spinning moves, especially in the prequel trilogy, with Yoda's acrobatic fighting style as the most prominent example.
• Spiritual Successor: The franchise in general is an updated version of the old Buck Rogers serials.
• Stacked Characters Poster:
  • The Trope Codifier may be the poster for Return of the Jedi, which has a strong vertical axis of Leia—Han Solo—Luke Skywalker—Darth Vader.
  • The posters of Attack of the Clones from the Prequel Trilogy has Boba Fett on bottom, Padme and Obi-Wan above him and Anakin Skywalker on top.
  • The Sequel Trilogy is expressively using the style as seen in the poster for The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
• Standard Alien Spaceship:
  • While most of the ships used by the human-dominated Rebel Alliance are scrappy, blocky, cobbled-together and utilitarian vessels reflecting the Rebellion's lack of resources to devote to aesthetics over functionality — and most of the human-centric Empire's warships are wedge-shaped slabs of grey metal with the subtlety and grace of a brick to the teeth — the star cruisers built by the Rebellion's Mon Calamari allies are sleek, smooth-edged vessels with gracefully tapering outlines, globular outer details instead of the human ships' hard-edged greebling and similarly elegant internal designs. They are still, however, solid grey or grey-blue in color.
  • Ships in the "civilized age" of the prequels are closer to this trope than the examples above; the Republic's ships had lots of curvy segments with red and white coloration, while Trade Federation ships are round and organic-looking with grey and blue coloration. The Naboo N-1 fighters in The Phantom Menace are probably the best example of the trope in Star Wars, being solid yellow except for a silver bow and completely smooth throughout. By Revenge of the Sith, most of these ships have been phased out in favor of hard-edged designs more closely resembling the Used Future of the original trilogy.
• Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy
  • Galactic Empire:
    • The Emperor: Palpatine
    • The Right Hand/The Evil Counterpart: Vader
    • The General: Admiral Piett
    • The Guard: Grand Moff Tarkin
    • The Oddball: Boba Fett
  • Confederation of Independent Systems:
    • The Emperor/The Evil Counterpart: Count Dooku
    • The General: General Grievous
    • The Guard: Nute Gunray
    • The Oddball: Jango Fett
    • The Man Behind the Man: Darth Sidious
  • The First Order
    • The Emperor: Supreme Leader Snoke
    • The Right Hand: Kylo Ren.
    • The General: General Armitage Hux
    • The Guard: Captain Phasma
    • The Oddball: FN-2199, aka "Nines"
    • The Man Behind the Man: The resurrected Darth Sidious
• Standard Sci-Fi Fleet: In both trilogies. The Republic/Empire, Rebel Alliance and Separatists all field these. The Expanded Universe continues this trope, with any significant military power having at least one, sometimes more.
• Standard Sci-Fi History: The trope is invoked in the movies, with the Decline and Fall of the Republic, Interregnum of the Galactic Empire, and with the Empire's end the Formation of the New Republic.
• Standard Starship Scuffle: Especially in the space battles in Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi, but present to some extent in many of the films.
• Standardized Space Views: Averted. The films always open with a shot of nothing but stars that pans to a spacecraft in flight —and in the first three, one of the ships shown was always a Star Destroyer.
• Starfish Robots: While many droids come in varieties more akin to the humanoid C-3PO, others look like the strange "trash bin on wheels" R2-D2, while still others have such surreal designs that it's difficult to compare them to any real life object.
• Start of Darkness: The Prequel Trilogy focuses on how the evil Magic Knight from the original films gained his powers, earned the trust of the heroic Jedi, and slaughtered his Jedi friends upon taking the name "Darth Vader."
• State Sec:
  • In a somewhat heroic example, Jedi largely fit the concept in their role in the Republic government.
  • Several members of the Separatist movement, including the Trade Federation and the Intergalactic Banking Clan, are Mega Corps rather than nations yet have their own droid armies and even seats in the Senate.
• Stealth in Space: Han's successful attempts at hiding from Star Destroyers in The Empire Strikes Back. Somewhat realistic, as he simply turns off most of the power to the ship which makes it incredibly difficult to detect.
• Steamrolled Smart Guy: C-3PO frequently makes confident proclamations about how one course of action is foolhardy and fraught with risk, which characters like R2-D2 and Han Solo then ignore. It is especially prevalent in the opening of Episode IV, when he argues with R2 in the desert over where to go and the legitimacy of his "mission" to find Obi-Wan Kenobi.
• Step into the Blinding Fight: In one of the films, Jedi train The Younglings to fight blind/using only the Force by using the special darkness helmets.
• Stock Scream: Every film features the Wilhelm scream.
• Stock Shout-Outs: Sooner or later, every science fiction work makes at least one reference to Star Wars.
• Stopped Numbering Sequels: An interesting inversion, since the first three films released were Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. However, the prequels began including the chapter number from the Opening Crawl, so you have titles like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and retroactively re-titling the original three films with names like Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. For a while, Star Wars was even called just A New Hope. Now, it seems to be reverting again slowly, with the first chronological film just being referred to as Star Wars again, while the prequels are just being called The Phantom Menace and so on.
• Straight for the Commander: When the Jedi are not leading from the back, or a Frontline General, they engage in this type of mission. General Grievous also likes to do this against Jedi.
• Strong as They Need to Be: The powers granted by the Force can be rather vague and ambiguous in their use. Sometimes it can allow someone to read a person's mind and other times people can lie straight to their face without them realizing it. Sometimes they can sense people who are planets away and other times people can hide from Force users in the same room as them. It can allow Jedi and Sith to move around spaceships, but they still have to fight their opponents with lightsabers and blasters instead of just lobbing them into a wall.
• Subspace Ansible: The HoloNet, which provides real-time voice and holographic video communications throughout most of the galaxy. It functions much like the real world cellular network in that relay stations allow HoloNet transmitters/receivers to connect to the network from anywhere within range of a relay. It can also be used to locate users. Hence, in The Phantom Menace Qui-Gon warns the Naboo not to accept any transmissions when they are on the run from the Trade Federation.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Anakin, from the perspective of anyone who watches the films in internal chronological order.
• Super-Reflexes: A common ability for Force users.
• Swords and Sorcery: The entire saga is basically a knightly adventure tale but In Space, sandwiched together with Space Western.
• Sword and Fist: Practitioners of the acrobatic Ataru combat form in the prequels, like Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, complement their lightsaber technique with Force-powered kicks and telekinetic punches.
• Sword Sparks: Lightsabers have their own version of it in that they make electronic clashing noises when their blades contact. Also, they create sparks when they carve through walls and floors.
• Symbolic Mutilation: May or may not be the case with George Lucas' apparent obsession with having the two protagonist's hands chopped off.
• Tableau: The Star Wars films all end with a dialogue-free, static shot:
  • A New Hope and The Phantom Menace both end with the main characters standing on a raised platform in front of an audience, during a victory celebration;
  • The Empire Strikes Back ends with the main characters gathered around a large window, looking out into space;
  • Return of the Jedi features the main cast gathered around an Ewok campfire;
  • Attack of the Clones closes with Padmé and Anakin (along with R2D2 and C3PO) on a Naboo balcony being married;
  • Revenge of the Sith closes with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, with baby Luke in their arms, Watching The Twin Sunset in a direct Shout-Out to an iconic tableau from the original film.
  • The Force Awakens ends with Rey finding Luke atop a mountain island and holding his old lightsaber out toward him as he looks back at her.
  • The Last Jedi ends with a slave child looking up at Cantonica's night sky, holding his eponymous broom like a lightsaber.
• Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: Emperor Palpatine is the series' Big Bad, but his dragon, Darth Vader, appears more. The prequel trilogy reveals Vader has a tragic backstory due to Palpatine's manipulations. In the end, Vader reforms through his love for his son Luke and, to save his life, turns on his master and kills him, sacrificing himself in the process.

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• Tactical Superweapon Unit:
  • The Death Star from Star Wars: A New Hope is a moon-sized, nearly indestructable starship so big it can only be called a "space station," built to solo an enemy fleet and zap their homeworld with a planet-busting Wave-Motion Gun. The Empire was planning to hinge its utter domination of the Galaxy on the threat of using it on rebellious planets. It has the critical weakness of an exhaust pipe that leads directly to the main power plant, allowing a single Space Fighter to blow it up with the kind of ordinance intended for use on other starfighters-if they can get close enough, dodge all its defense turrets and fighter squads, locate and fly down the right trench, and shoot a teeny-tiny target, all while trying not to get blown into space junk. The one in Return of the Jedi is bigger, badder, and can use its planet-busting main gun to snipe enemy ships right through their Deflector Shields several times in a row.
  • The First Order's Dreadnought-class Star Destroyers from the sequel trilogy (specifically The Last Jedi) are built to be mass produced Death Stars (breaking the non-spammable aspect of the trope); one for each planet in the New Republic. Poe Dameron explicitly calls them out as "Fleet-Killers."
• Tank Goodness:
  • The Expanded Universe (and Episode 3) has the Juggernaut vehicle, which could be turned into a full-fledged tank just by replacing the wheels (all ten of them) with tracks. It's essentially a slab of metal with guns.
  • The AT-TE of Episode 2 is designed very similarly to a tank despite technically being a mecha, with a low profile, multiple antipersonnel weapons, no real head, and a massively powerful swivel-mounted weapon on top. If you removed the legs and added treads, it would look like a tank. (The cockpit is transparent, but it's Transparisteel.)
  • The TX-225 GA Vw "Occupier" combat assault tank in Rogue One is a track-propelled tank designed to operate in tight quarters and urban environments. It has two laser cannons on each side and its powerful engine can transport heavy payloads, such as Kyber crystals in Jedha.
• Tantrum Throwing: Kylo Ren tends to throw some pretty spectacular tantrums whenever something goes wrong.
• Technically a Transport: There's a lot such vehicles-starting from the very first ship to appear on-screen (the Tantive IV is a CR90 corvette, in theory an armed transport, that already in its stock model is a capable light warship. Dedicated military modifications are universally quite appreciated). In particular, Corellian Engineering Corporation (manufacturer of the CR90) is prone to make highly modular ships that can be easily turned into warships, and sometimes even makes conversion kits (as they did for the Consular-class diplomatic cruiser at the start of the Clone Wars), and the Rebel Alliance, due their perpetual shortage of actual military vehicles, are prone to stick guns on anything they can.
• Technology Marches On: In-Universe. In the sequel trilogy, astromech droids have gone from "dustbins on legs" to a trackball-looking thing with an R2-unit's dome head, and the famously crappy holograms are now almost photoreal. The TIE fighters, which were Armored Coffins with only a pair of blasters in the original trilogy; devoid of shielding or even basic life support in the name of agility and quick manufacture, now has both, with EMP cannons and proton torpedoes besides in a ship that's only bigger to accomodate a Guy in Back.
• Tell Me About My Father: Luke asks Obi-Wan about his father but is only given the facts From a Certain Point of View. Later, Luke's Rage Against the Mentor forces him to acknowledge this was wrong and tell the whole truth. (It is also implied, in A New Hope, that Luke's desire for knowledge about his father is a point of contention between Luke and his restrictive relatives.)
• Tempting Fate: Plenty of examples throughout the franchise, but Motti's "this station is now the ultimate power in the universe" remark takes the cake; and Tarkin's "I think you overestimate their chances" must earn a close second.
• Theme Naming:
  • After Lucas decided to label the second film "Episode V", the label "Episode IV: A New Hope" was retroactively added to the first film in its published screenplay and first home video release. Many casual fans refer to it as simply Star Wars, even though all the films carry the same title/subtitle pattern now.
  • As part of the marketing for the prequels they were referred to more often by episode number rather than the episode name. In fact many did not catch on to the name of Episode I being The Phantom Menace. Episode III is an anomaly, where fans refer to it equally by both episode number and the name Revenge of the Sith.
• There Are No Therapists: Galactic medical science is pretty advanced — when it comes to purely physical ailments. But the vast majority of the plot is driven by characters with glaring psychological problems who seem to have no formal support mechanisms whatsoever. The closest that the old Jedi Order had was Yoda, who generally seems to have counseled troubled Jedi to become The Spock and not allow their emotions to get to them. The Dark Side thrives thanks to this.
• Third-Party Deal Breaker: Shortly before A New Hope, Han Solo ends up on Jabba the Hutt's bad side when he dumps a drug shipment to avoid getting caught with it by the Empire (depicted in the Legends novel Rebel Dawn). He spends the next two movies trying to get the money together to pay Jabba back the value of the shipment plus interest, only for further entanglements with the Rebels and the Empire to keep interfering until Jabba finally loses all patience with him and uses his Human Popsicle as a decoration for his throne room.
• Thread of Prophecy, Severed: Double Subverted in the film series (if watched in chronological order). The prequel trilogy often refers to a prophecy that a Chosen One will arise to "bring balance to the Force", meaning destroying the last of the Sith. The Jedi believe Anakin Skywalker to be the Chosen One due to his miraculous birth, so when he falls to the dark side and becomes Darth Vader, the few surviving Jedi believe the prophecy has failed. As it turned out, Anakin eventually did destroy the Sith, after significant prompting from his son Luke. Then in the sequel trilogy (as well as in Star Wars Legends) it eventually turns out the Sith didn't stay destroyed.
  Obi-wan Kenobi: You were the Chosen One! It was said you would destroy the Sith, not join them!
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Especially when you have telekinetic powers. Darth Vader throws his lightsaber at Luke during their duel in Return of the Jedi to bring down the catwalk Luke has jumped up to, and various EU works feature similar lightsaber throws.
• Town Girls:
  • Femme: Padmé.
  • Butch: Leia.
  • Neither: Ahsoka and Rey.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Jabba tries to execute a Jedi Knight. Yeah.
  • Palpatine attempts to kill Vader's son right in front of him.
  • Dooku taunts Anakin during their last fight, which only makes him madder and more aggressive.
  • Greedo sits there monologuing about how much he's going to enjoy killing Han, giving him the opportunity—and indeed, the justification—to take out his own gun and blast him under the table before he can get off a single shot.
• Tragic Robot:
  • In The Force Awakens, BB-8, upon learning from Finn that Poe "didn't make it", makes a very sad sound as his head drops. (Luckily, Poe wasn't really dead.)
  • In The Rise of Skywalker, C-3PO, after being treated as an annoyance by everyone, is faced with the possibility of getting his entire memory permanently erased in order to translate the dagger that will lead them to Exegol. This is essentially treated like a death, as Threepio takes a moment to look at his friends one last time. The memory wipe doesn't last, thankfully.
  • In Rogue One, sardonic K-2SO is the first of the main group to die in order to buy Jyn and Cassian more time to find and transmit the Death Star plans. He utters a final goodbye, never knowing if his sacrifice was worth it.
• Tragic Villain: Most of the major villains in the films have some kind of tragic background.
• Training the Gift of Magic: Not everyone is "strong in the Force"; a Badass Normal like Han Solo could meditate on hokey ancient religions all he liked, but it would be no match for a good blaster at his side. Without training, most Force-sensitives can use their powers only unconsciously, rendering them lucky in ways subtle enough to only be identified through (for example) statistical analysis of gambling patterns, or enhance their reflexes in ways that render them not much different from a Badass Normal. With training, they can do all the flashy quasi-magical Jedi tricks we see in the films, novels, video games, etc.
• Tree Top Town: The Ewok village on Endor and the Wookiees' dwellings on Kashyyyk, both built into the trees of those world's globe-spanning forests.
• Treetop World: The Wookiee homeworld, Kashyyyk, is covered in global forests of kilometers-tall wroshyr trees — according to Star Wars Legends, this is due to it having been mid-terraforming when the responsible Precursor empire collapsed, leaving their machines running for millennia before their eventually ran down. It's traditionally divided into seven layers, counting from the top, and the forest becomes increasingly dangerous and home to progressively nastier beasts the deeper one goes. The Wookiees live in cities built in the branches of the first layer, and going down two or three for a hunt is a rite of passage for young Wookiees; almost nobody ever ventures to the fourth. The seventh layer, consisting of the planet's actual ground, is a lightless, swampy shadowland haunted by ferocious predators — only in stories has anyone made it to the bottom and come out alive.
• Trilogy Creep: The Original Trilogy (Episodes IV-VI, formerly referred to as the "Star Wars Trilogy") was later expanded with a new "Prequel Trilogy" of films (Episodes I-III), as well as multiple television series, games, books, and comics in spin-off material. Though many had believed the saga was completed with Revenge of the Sith in 2005, a "Sequel Trilogy" (Episodes VII-IX) was produced following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, as well as new spin-offs. Justified in that Star Wars was not originally intended to be just a trilogy, with initial plans aiming for a twelve-movie saga including prequels and sequels. Then George Lucas shortened to nine following the first movie and settled on six after the second.^note Although how much of any of this was actually Lucas's original vision seems to depend on when he actually said it. The sequel trilogy has seen the releases of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.
• Troperiffic: It could be said that the whole purpose of the Genre Throwback is to celebrate tropes. The entire series is Trope Overdosed.
• Try and Follow:
  • A New Hope: Han gets to back up his Ace Pilot bravado by not only evading the attempts of several Imperial Star Destroyers to shoot him down but also manages to lead the massive starships to collide with each other in their failed attempt to pursue him.
  • The Empire Strikes Back: Han once again finds himself trying to escape Imperial pursuit, and this time elects to race into the nearest Asteroid Thicket. His only defense of the tactic is that the Imperial pilots would be crazy to try and follow him (it turns out, they are that crazy, but lack his piloting skill, and the Imperial fighter pilots all die in the attempt).
  • Return of the Jedi: Pretty much any speeder chase in the thick forests of Endor are made of this trope, with Imperial scout troopers racing full throttle to try and escape a Rebel strike team they've discovered, and later trying to pursue the Ewoks. Along the way speeders crash into trees, get clotheslined by ropes strung across the clearings, get lassoed by Ewoks, or simply shot down.
  • The Force Awakens, Rey flies the Falcon into the wreck of a Super Star Destroyer to evade TIE Fighters. Rey is familiar with the wreck since she scavenges for parts there, whereas the TIE fighter pilots are just following her. She avoids being caught by utilizing this knowledge twice. Interestingly enough, it doesn't work, and the First Order pilots are still on her tail when they all come out of the other side of the wreck.
• Turn Out Like His Father: Luke's aunt and uncle, and later his Jedi mentors, fear this will happen.
• Twins Are Special: Luke and Leia have a connection despite having been Separated at Birth, which conveniently doesn't appear until a crucial moment in the second film. Though this may have less to do with them being twins than it does them having a familial bond on top of being strong in The Force, since Luke demonstrates a similar connection with his father.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: The second film in all three trilogies is this.
• Two-Part Trilogy: Both the original and prequel trilogies qualify, even though the latter was planned as a three-part story from the beginning.
  • Original: A New Hope is clearly written to stand on its own, as it ends on a happy note with Luke destroying the Death Star, but it left the door open for further sequels chronicling the war against the Empire and Luke's growth as a Jedi. The Empire Strikes Back ends with a clear Sequel Hook, with Luke discovering Vader's identity and planning to rescue Han from Jabba.
  • Prequel: The Phantom Menace deals with a largely standalone arc involving Naboo's war with the Trade Federation and Padmé's reign as Queen, and it's separated from the rest of the trilogy by a ten-year Time Skip. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are much more obviously interconnected, as they follow several continuing arcs involving the Clone Wars, Anakin's friendship with Obi-Wan, his love affair with Padmé, his descent into the Dark Side, and Palpatine's machinations as Chancellor.
• Two Roads Before You: Luke has to choose between staying on Dagobah and completing his training with Yoda, or going to rescue his friends on Cloud City.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Palpatine gradually does this throughout the prequels, culminating with him declaring himself Emperor in Revenge of the Sith.

U-V

• Undercrank: Used in the early theatrical films where CG would be used in the later ones. The alarmingly fast doors on the Death Star 1 are almost certainly undercranked.
• Underlighting: Arguably, the lightsabers could be said to use a kind of underlighting; the boundary between pre-CGI special effect scene composition and underlit animation can be blurry.
• Unintentional Backup Plan: Qui-Gon's and later the Jedi Council's original plan was for Anakin to bring balance to The Force. However, he ends up falling to the Dark Side and it seems that he won't. In Return of the Jedi, however, he does bring balance to the Force by ensuring that the last of the evil aspect of the Dark Side of the Force dies (and subsequently burns) with him; his son destroys the last vestiges of Vader by burning him on a funeral pyre according to Jedi customs (and it's implied that Anakin's body simply faded away under a minute after the pyre was lit).
• Unreliable Narrator:
  • George Lucas has mentioned that there's an unshown framing story about how the movies are the story as told by R2 to an alien race, which is why he makes a point of including R2 in almost every significant event. This might explain why he gets so many really cool scenes with no witnesses or only C-3PO pre-memory wipe, and why a suspiciously high number of crises turn on him hacking a computer.
  • In the overall franchise, both Obi-Wan and Yoda are revealed to be deeply unreliable in their comments on the Jedi, the Republic, and Anakin Skywalker. They are accused by Luke in The Last Jedi to have significantly dialed down and glorified the conduct of the Jedi during the end of the Old Republic. Luke himself leaves out a few details about his parting of ways with Ben Solo to Ray.
• Unstable Powered Woman: Gender-Inverted: it's the male Force wielders whose powers are proportionate to their mental instability. Palpatine? Powerful and completely Drunk on the Dark Side. Anakin was powerful, but hotheaded and prone to abuse of his powers, eventually going full-blown Sith. His grandson in the sequel trilogy was profoundly unstable and prone to fits of uncontrollable rage. And Luke was prone to moodiness and poor judgement, even if he showed more restraint than his father and nephew. Female Force wielders like Ahsoka, Leia, and Rey tend to avoid the wild swings in emotion and keep their powers in check. Even Dark Side female Force users like the Nightsisters tend to be more restrained than their Dark Side male counterparts.
• Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Fraternal twins Luke and Leia are born to Padme at the end of Revenge of the Sith.
• Updated Re-release: The original trilogy was released to theaters again in 1997 for the 20th Anniversary, featuring a few new special effects, cleaning up a few perceived Special Effects Failures, featuring some deleted scenes, and tweaking some original scenes. The films were slightly tweaked once more for the 2004 DVD release and changed to better match the Prequels by replacing Boba Fett's voice with Jango Fett's, replacing Clive Revill as the Emperor with Ian MacDiarmid, and replacing Sebastian Shaw as Anakin's Force spirit with Hayden Christiansen.
• Used Future: The original Trilogy is the Trope Codifier. To quote the page: "Star Wars more or less defines the trope". See Creepy Cleanliness, above.
• Villain Ball: Though major villains like Palpatine tend to avoid this, a lot of dark side aligned folk tend to go full hog on For the Evulz. Even the Empire under Palpatine does this, for example by undermining their troops' efficacy by training their cadets to betray one another to get ahead.
• Villain Has a Point: Many of the things Count Dooku said, both before and after his fall to the dark side, about the Jedi and the Republic were quite right. As a Jedi, he disliked the order's approach to lightsaber training, not only for spreading students too thin by trying to teach them multiple styles, but also for focusing more on defending against blasters rather than sparring. Both of which would leave students ill equipped and unprepared in the event that they had to face a dark force user in lightsaber combat. Dooku also spoke out against the Order's involvement in the Outer Rim, believing that the Council was selling the lives of their fellow Jedi over political matters. After joining the Sith, Dooku would try to sway Obi-Wan by pointing out how the Republic the Jedi serve is riddled with corruption, which it was.
• Villains Never Lie: Vader is quite honest to Luke about the fact that he's not a Jedi when he faces him for the first time, and that he doesn't know his importance, and most importantly that Obi-Wan lied to him about his father. Count Dooku also doesn't lie. Kylo Ren also doesn't lie to Rey though for his part he's genuinely delusional and incapable of separating truth from his own beliefs. Palpatine on the other hand enjoys lying, such as telling Anakin that he can offer immortality to Padmé (he can't), that the Dark Side would give him power over death (it can't) and that he "loves democracy" (he doesn't).
• Villain Takes an Interest: Emperor and Vader towards Luke, from Luke's POV.
• Villainous Underdog: There's always at one time, only two Sith, but there can be an endless number of Jedi. In the prequel trilogy, the Jedi Council start out as powerful, dominant, with great resources and facilities while the Sith are an underground subversive organization. Senator Palpatine even recruits Darth Maul's successors among the Jedi (Count Dooku and Anakin Skywalker) as part of his strategy to undermine the Republic, and manages to overturn an entire government with nothing but his cold cunning that allows him to turn the Republic's own laws, norms, and codes, and the Jedi Council's own rituals and codes against itself.

W-X

• War Comes Home: Happens a lot throughout this series, usually with the Empire attacking the home of a hero.
• War Is Glorious: The Empire glorifies militarism. The Jedi don't.
  Luke: I'm looking for a great warrior.
  Yoda: Ohh, great warrior. Wars not make one great.
• Warrior Monk: The Jedi are essentially this trope.
• Warrior vs. Sorcerer:
  • Luke is The Hero and a Magic Knight while Palpatine is a Squishy Wizard in the original trilogy. Palpatine does display excellent swordsmanship in the prequels, but by the time of the original movies' events, he has come to rely on Force Lightning rather than melee combat.
  • The prequels have two instances of a Jedi vs an evil non-Force user:
    • Attack of the Clones: Mace Windu, Jedi Master, vs Jango Fett, Badass Normal Bounty Hunter and member of a Proud Warrior Race. Windu kills Jango, leading to the bounty hunter's seeking revenge against Mace in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
    • Revenge of the Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi vs General Grievous. Obi-Wan is skilled in both lightsaber combat and the Force. Grievous is a Cyborg who can also use lightsabers but has no Force powers.
• We Are as Mayflies: "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter..."
• We Can Rebuild Him: Numerous characters replace severed limbs with artificial ones, and Vader ends up with all of his limbs being replaced. In the prequels, General Grievous takes this up to eleven, in that the only organic parts of him left are his brain and some organs.
• We Can Rule Together: Anakin/Vader offers this first to Padmé and then to Luke. Dooku also offers this to Obi-Wan. Kylo Ren offers this to Rey several times. All of them refuse.
• We Have Reserves: How the Empire views all its soldiers, especially the Stormtroopers. Tellingly, the TIE fighters are the only ships with no shields or life support, making them pretty much sitting ducks. Made even worse when at one point in the books we learn someone even designed TIE fighters that did have shields and wouldn't be any more expensive, but the Empire never bothered to implement the shields. Plus there's the fact that mass-produced stormtrooper armor is so poorly made compared to, say, Mandalorian armor.
• We Will All Fly in the Future: Even dirt-poor moisture farmers can afford Skyhoppers.
• We Will Wear Armor in the Future: Stormtroopers and Bounty Hunters go around wearing plastic armour that would make a medieval knight blush. It helps make them look robotic and anonymous but never helps in stopping a main character's blaster fire.
• We Will Use Lasers in the Future: Ubiquitous variety.
• Weak Boss, Strong Underlings:
  • Subverted in regards to Darth Vader. Despite being a Dark Lord on Life Support, Vader's mastery of the Force allows him to easily overpower all of his subordinates, no matter how badass they are or whether they are Force-sensitive too.
  • The Emperor looks so fragile, ill, and old compared to the imposing looks of his Dragon, Darth Vader. Moreover, Vader himself is the one to defeat him in The Climax, even if just by virtue of exploiting the weakness of the Emperor's Force Lightning technique.
• What's a Secret Four: The original trilogy has it in spades: What's the Kessel Run? What's a womp rat? What does that droid do? What are those aliens? What was Aunt Beru cooking there? However, over thirty years of fandom and the Expanded Universe have filled in details for virtually anything that appears on the screen.
• White Is Pure: The Grand Admiral's uniform in The Empire is colored in stainless white and it reflects their work ethic, specifically how they lack it. Darth Vader hates imperial officers because he sees them as lazy cowards and believes they only got their positions in the empire through nepotism, not through hard work.
• With Friends Like These...: R2-D2 and C-3P0. Although the Bilingual Dialogue means we don't know just how much hostility R2 reciprocates, occasionally C-3P0 quotes him: "Don't call me a 'mindless philosopher'...", and tells him to watch his language.
• Withholding the Big Good:
  • Averted in the Original Trilogy. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda enter the narrative exactly when they're supposed to, serving as mentors on Luke's Hero's Journey.
  • Luke Skywalker is absent until the last thirty seconds of The Force Awakens, and his absence drives the plot. In The Last Jedi, Luke has relinquished his role as Big Good, coming to believe the Jedi do more harm than good. It isn't until the film's climax that he returns as the Hope Bringer of a galaxy far, far away.
• Within Arm's Reach: Played with in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: Luke Skywalker regains consciousness in an ice cave on Hoth, dangling inverted from the ceiling of a wampa's den. Unable to pull his feet free of the ice, Luke looks for his lightsaber. He finds it stuck in a snowdrift well out of arm's reach. Ah, but Luke can use the Force to pull his Laser Blade into his grasp. Luke does so just in time to cut himself free before the wampa, alert to Luke's shenanigans, closes in for the kill.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi does this twice in the Prequel Trilogy. In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, he gets force pushed by Darth Maul during their duel, causing Obi-Wan to drop his lightsaber and fall into a pit. He narrowly escapes falling to his death by grabbing onto something protruding from the wall, but is still left dangling there unarmed. To makes matters worse, Darth Maul then kicks Obi-Wan's lightsaber into the pit. However when all hope seems lost, Obi-Wan notices Qui-Gon Jinn's lightsaber on the ground beside his corpse. Obi-Wan then uses the force to jump out of the pit and pull the lightsaber towards him, catching the lightsaber in mid-air, landing behind Darth Maul and swiftly bisecting the surprised Sith with one strike, causing him to tumble into the pit for good measure.
  • In Revenge of the Sith, this happens again during Obi-Wan's fight with General Grievous. General Grievous and Obi-Wan both disarm each other throughout the fight and end up fighting each other unarmed. Grievous almost knocks Obi-Wan off the platform they're fighting on but Obi-Wan manages to hold onto the ledge. Grievous then picks up his electrostaff and goes in for the kill. However Obi-Wan notices Grievous's blaster on the ground and uses the force to pull it toward him, grabbing it and shooting Grievous in the chest multiple times, killing him.
• Won the War, Lost the Peace: The tragedy of the New Republic in the sequel trilogy. They provided the galaxy the first peace it had known since before the Trade Federation crisis, but rather than rooting out and discrediting the old regime completely, they allowed a splinter group to operate in the distant confines without any thought about the planets in that region who suffer under the First Order. The First Order are also allowed to reconstruct and valorize Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker in rebuilding the Jedi to its former glory allowed himself to get carried away by the potential of his nephew on account of his "mighty Skywalker blood" enabling and providing the First Order with its central enforcer and main symbol (i.e. Darth Vader's grandson).
• World of Ham: A whole Galaxy of it. Blame it on Palpatine.
• World of Snark: Any worthy installment of the franchise will have characters making sarcastic quips at every opportunity. Special mention goes to Han and Leia.
• Wuxia: One of the genres that inspired the franchise. The whole concept of the Jedi and The Force practically makes the franchise a Wuxia saga in space, especially the Prequel Trilogy.
• Xanatos Gambit: The Clone Wars. After all the sacrifices on both sides of the war, Palpatine's plan would have given him full power regardless. Either the Republic wins, Palpatine turns on the Jedi, and he's granted supreme power by the Republic Senate or the Separatists win and destroy the Jedi, and Palpatine, ruling through Dooku, is granted supreme power by the Separatist Parliament.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Albeit more slowly than usual, as it's played out on a galactic scale. As originally written, Palpatine created the clone army himself under the pseudonym "Sido Dyas", but this was changed in later drafts of Attack of the Clones. Couple this with the events of The Phantom Menace undermining his plans to start the conflict at that stage, and we see that Sidious isn't the omniscient Lord of the Sith he makes himself out to be. However, it's arguably worse, as he's a master manipulator, an incredible long-term and wide-ranging strategist, and flexible.

Y-Z

• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Obi-Wan to Anakin, after the latter turns to the Dark Side.
• You Monster!: In The Force Awakens, Rey calls Kylo Ren a monster when she and Finn confront him in the forest on Starkiller Base after he killed his father, Han Solo.
• Younger Than They Look:
  • Seemingly every human (and perhaps some aliens) living on Tatooine. The harsh environment appears to take a serious toll on their health and people such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as Owen and Beru Lars, look a good deal older than they actually are. Shmi Skywalker's age was unclear, but she definitely had a weathered look about her.
  • The clone troopers are altered to grow twice as fast in order to be battle-ready sooner. The Star Wars Expanded Universe features a Jedi being confused because she senses a child in the Force, but sees a grown man.
  • In Revenge of the Sith, the soon-to-be-Emperor Palpatine ages to about 110 in a matter of seconds (he was really 63). The Expanded Universe came up with the idea that it was his normal appearance (after years of Dark Side corruption), but he was disguised in some way, and the stress of his battle with Windu broke that beyond repair.
  • Padmé in The Phantom Menace is a fourteen year old queen who wears a lot of ceremonial makeup and elaborate costumes, apparently to disguise the fact that she's so young. Even still, she's actually the elected leader, so the people must be well aware of her age.
  • There was a point in the Clone Wars where some Separatists were cloning Nikto, presumably to supplement the droids. The facility was discovered and went under seige, and the cloners decided to respond by bumping up the growth rate to get as many new adults as possible. This didn't work out too well in the end.
• Your Eyes Can Deceive You: Subverted despite the fact that Star Wars is basically the trope namer. There are numerous instances throughout the films in which Jedi and Sith alike are taken completely by surprise by something they could not see and/or hear, or cannot find something/someone using the Force, even if the subject is nearby.
• Zeerust:
  • Ships capable of destroying planets are less impressive when you realize just how easy it is to do so. (All you need is enough energy to accelerate the entire planet to escape velocity.^note note that, for Earth, accelerating the entire planet to its own escape velocity would take about 3.74E32 joules, or slightly under eleven and a quarter days worth of the total energy output of the Sun, so "easy" may be a bit of an overstatement) Other stuff, such as antigravity, is what Michio Kaku calls a Class II impossibility, yet it is commonly seen. (Han's even carried out on an antigravity gurney after he's frozen in carbonite.)
  • On the "looks old" end of things, we have the motif of cybernetic hands now that we're entering the age of embryonic stem cells, and the vector graphics on the tactical display and targeting computer in A New Hope.
  • In-universe, this is painfully apparent in the prequel films. C-3P0 and R2-D2 look dated and completely out of place when juxtaposed with sleeker, agile looking droids. The technology gradually gets more dated-looking as the prequels progress too, naturally because it's supposed to tie itself in with the Original Trilogy. Streamlined ships in The Phantom Menace slowly evolve into clunky ships by Revenge of the Sith. Sleek control panels seen at the beginning of Revenge of the Sith somehow become overshadowed by a plethora of clunky buttons and dials by the end. Imagine if iPhones suddenly had receivers and rotary dials in the future. Justified. Word of God states that Phantom was a time of artisans, and they valued style over everything. As time went on, and the Republic was launched into war, it became a question of utility over attractiveness.
  • Cloud City, with its flying cars, windowed corridors, and Googie-looking aesthetics wouldn't look out of place in The Jetsons, and it stands out like a sore thumb in the more rundown and authoritarian world of the Empire. It's the only city in the originals that is aesthetically similar to the prequels.
• Zerg Rush: The Empire's TIE Fighters, and both the clone and droid armies in Attack of the Clones as well.