The Glove of Darth Vader / YMMV

Accidental Innuendo: As one reviewer pointed out, "Mount Yoda" sounds more like an instruction from a Slash Fic than a location.
Anvilicious: Between the Card-Carrying Villain style of all the antagonists, the Incorruptible Pure Pureness of the heroes and the prominent green aesops, in which the heroes stop the villains from destroying the environment in various evil ways once per novel. The last book gives a very not subtle message: your bloodline does not make you evil.
Creator's Pet: Ken, among fans for whom Star Wars is Serious Business, because, while he is seen as a hero of the prophecies, he is a kid surrogate who most of the time is The Load.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Go here.
Fanon Discontinuity: Anything in Star Wars Legends was discontinuity (prior to the Continuity Reboot) to someone, but for reasons that should be obvious, this gets it more than most.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Go here.
Ho Yay:
- Han wanting to live in a sky house with Chewie is a regular source of humor on theforce.net.
- Also, Hissa and Trioculus seem to have very "Smithers/Burns" unrequited love thing going on.
Memetic Mutation: While the series isn't often well-remembered (and if it is, not exactly fondly), when Star Wars Insider compiled a list of the five goofiest things ever to appear in the Expanded Universe, one of them was "The Villainy of Emperor Trioculus and Grand Moff Hissa." "I bid you [all] dark greetings!" indeed.
Narm: A great deal.
- The typical Imperial greeting is "I bid you Dark Greetings!" and they read from a book of Dark Side Lore for Imperial weddings.
- Adding to how transparently evil the Empire is in these books, the Death Star was revealed to be made from chemicals and metals with names like "Doomium" and "Phobium."
- Kessel, a planet filled with spice mines that slaves are forced to work in, having unimaginative and childish street names like "Spice Mines Avenue" and "Slavelord Boulevard".
- Trioculus thinking that wearing Darth Vader's glove will actually give him the power to Force choke people like Darth Vader could. And throwing a hilariously Wangsty temper tantrum that would give Anakin Skywalker's "This is outrageous, this is unfair" scene a run for its money when he finds out it doesn't give him the power to choke people with The Force.
- Trioculus's legendary line where he attempts to hit on Princess Leia. After Leia says she'll never fall in love with him because he's a murderous, lying, inhuman monster, Trioculus responds by saying "Is it so wrong to be a murderer? Or a liar? Or an inhuman monster? I may be all those things, but I still have a heart."
- Trioculus and Zorba the Hutt starting a hostage exchange deal in a friendly and civil manner, only for it to escalate almost instantly to a hilariously awkward shouting match and insult exchange between them which ends in them becoming mortal enemies.
- Triclops is repeatedly described as dangerously insane by the Imperial characters before his appearance, and his madness being so extreme that they had no choice but to find a different three-eyed Imperial to serve as an impostor in his place. It turns out that his "madness" is actually devotion to pacifism.
- Han just bluntly, ungracefully, undramatically proposing to Leia while they're on their way to a goofy theme park called "HOLOGRAM FUN WORLD".
- Crossing over with Ho Yay, Hissa's reaction to finding out Trioculus is alive, as he goes through a flashback of all these things Trioculus did that he loved and found memorable in a way that seems like it would be in a romance movie during a scene where one of the main characters realizes how much they love their counterpart. In addition, these things Trioculus did were ABSURDLY evil, which, combined with the unintentional romantic overtones, make the flashback seem like Black Comedy.
  "A series of images rushed through Hissa's mind all at once-Trioculus as Supreme Slavelord of Kessel, working thousands of slaves to death in the spice mines... Trioculus trying to electrocute Luke Skywalker inside the Whaladon hunting submarine... Trioculus scheming to bomb the Rebel Alliance Senate.. and Trioculus burning the rain forests of Yavin as he searched for the Jedi Prince Ken, whom he was determined to destroy at any cost."
- And just adding to the accidental Black Comedy, right after this, Hissa and Trioculus are looking at Trioculus's arsenal, and Trioculus is feeling a happy nostalgia as he remembers all the people he killed with these weapons, with special mention going to an ion cannon that he used to blast TOURIST SPACESHIPS.
- The bizarre reveal that after Jabba the Hutt died, the Tatooine government converted Jabba's palace to a retirement home.
- During his housewarming party, we get Han teaching Leia the 'Space Pirate Boogie'.
Nightmare Fuel: An illustration in the first book depicts Whaladons being butchered, which is gruesome enough before we consider that they're actually a sentient species in the Star Wars universe.
So Bad, It's Good: Especially because of the hamfisted Green Aesop and casting the Empire as over-the-top card-carrying Captain Planet villains, the series is seen as one of the most stellar examples of how Narmy, over-the-top, and weird the old Expanded Universe could be.

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