History Characters / DarthBane

* TheAntiChrist: Bane extensively researches the Sith'ari prophecy that is the Sith's equivalent to the Chosen One. Since he believes the Force is there for him to command, instead of vice versa, he discounts the prophecy, but if the Sith'ari does exist [[spoiler:it's probably Bane himself.]] This was later confirmed by the Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.
** Even though his plan takes [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo one thousand years]] to pull off.

* IgnoredEpiphany: After killing a fellow student in the Brotherhood of Darkness, Bane had a conscience crisis, being unable to justify it besides it had been out of rage. He also realizes that he murdered his father with the Force without knowing it and feels haunted by this realization. This only lasted for a while, of course, and Bane returned into being the ruthless Sith he was before.

* {{Lightning Bruiser}}: Bane is very fast, in spite of his size.

* CharmPerson: Kaan uses his charisma (and possibly some minor MindControl) to keep the other Sith from fighting each other.

* SanitySlippage: He was driven mad by the Dark Side due to his desperation at his inability to beat the Jedi. This meant he was easily manipulated by Bane to use the Thought Bomb.

* VisionaryVillain: Kaan united the Sith under his Brotherhood of Darkness, making them all equals and giving them the Dark Lord title to all of them, with him at the top, while rejecting the teachings of the Siths before them. This is the primary reason why Bane wants to wipe out the Brotherhood: according to him and inspired by Darth Revan's holocron, there were too many Sith Lords which dilutes the power of the Dark Side.
* WrongAssumption: Everyone in the Brotherhood thought that Bane coming back with them of Ruusan to take over the Brotherhood, especially Kaan, who was jealous of Bane's power (after an impressive display of the Dark Side earlier). This blinds him to Bane's real goal: the destruction of Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: During their duel Bane seems to have gained an advantage as he has trained specifically to counter Ka'sim's double lightsaber technique, only for Ka'sim to cut his doublelightsaber in two and to reveal that he's just as good with two lightsabers, revealing that he kept some of his techniques secret from his students, overpowering Bane who instead relied on the Force and cunning to kill him as he cannot beat his mentor with the lightsaber.

* MasterSwordsman: Kas'im is a Sith Blademaster, and is considered to be the greatest swordsman in the galaxy and perhaps of history. He proves to be worthy of his reputation, being the one who trained Bane after his crushing defeat at Sirak's hands into the MasterSwordsman he is, and is a master of using a single lightsaber, a double-bladed lightsaber and two lightsabers at the same time. His skills are such that he overpowered and nearly killed Darth Bane, who had to rely on his cunning and Force powers to bury his mentor under rubbles instead.

* BrokenPedestal: Like most members of the Brotherhood of Darkness, she's loyal to Kaan and refuses to turn on him despite Bane's urges, which is why he ends up deciding that she has die with the others. However as the battle on Ruusan turns into a disaster and upon hearing Kaan's plan to use the Thought Bomb and seeing Kaan's face, she realizes that Kaan is insane and sees him for the false messiah he is, realizing that Bane was right about Kaan all along.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Githany has many betrayals on her behalf: she had betrayed the Jedi, Sirak and finally Bane himself. The only one she didn't betray is Kaan (something Bane asks her many times to do) which ultimately results in her death.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Githany realises the folly of the Thought Bomb and tries to flee from it. She manages to get right to the edge of the Bomb's radius... which means that instead of dying instantly, like those at it's epicenter, Githany's death is painful and slow enough for her to realise exactly what's happening.

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She's both attracted to and frustrated with Bane, as while he's the only one attracted to her who doesn’t fall under her thumb, and is able of having his own plans and keeping secrets from her.
* {{Irony}}: When trying to escape the Thought Bomb, she planned to rejoin Bane once again to become his apprentice, studying at his feet, learning everything he knows, even if it takes years or decades armed with patience, and then, she would turn on him and take an apprentice of her own. Without even discussing that with him, this mindset is ''exactly'' what Bane seeks for an apprentice, understanding what he wants for the Sith in her final moments. Unfortunatly for Githany, by following Kaan, she was discarded by Bane and he left her to die with the rest of the Brotherhood.

* WrongAssumption: While everyone in the Brotherhood thought that Bane coming back with them of Ruusan to take over the Brotherhood, Qordis was the first to tell Bane and he offers his allegiance. Unfortunately for him, Bane was planning to ''destroy'' the Brotherhood, not leading it and Qordis was swiftly killed by the Dark Lord.

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* MissingMom: Her mother is never mentionned.

* {{Revenge}}: When she learns that her father Caleb died, she becomes adament to avenge his death. To the point to hiring the Huntress to capture Darth Bane which she believes is her father's killer.

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* UndyingLoyalty: Loyalty is one of Lucia's biggest traits, being devoted to Serra and to Dessel when they served together in the Sith Army. Deconstructed as this drives her to do amoral things for {{Revenge}}: killing her superior officer for being responsible of Dessel's death (as she believes) and hiring an assassin to avenge her boss' husband.

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* AnArmAndALeg: On the site of the Thought Bomb, after its detonation, he encountered Bane and his cousin Zannah. Darovit tried to attack Bane but Zannah blows his right hand to stop him, preventing him to be a threat to the Sith Master and thus sparing Darovit's life. This was Zannah's last act of mercy towards him before becoming a Sith Lord.

* SpoiledBrat: Though he grew up in poverty, he ended up like this anyway. He had fully bought into the image of the glorious Army of Light fighting evil on the battlefield of justice. Seeing the realities of war broke that illusion, but he stubbornly cling to it by acting as if menial tasks like pulling the dining cart were beneath the dignity of a Jedi.

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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Why she joins Sith.

* ProfessionalKiller: She enters the story when she is contracted to kill Bane.

* Revenge: When she learns that her father Caleb died, she becomes adament to avenge his death. To the point to hiring the Huntress to capture Darth Bane which she believes is her father's killer.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her hiring a hitwoman to get revenge for her boss' husband getting killed starts a chain of dominoes which gets her killed, and gives Zannah a handy apprentice, allowing Bane's Sith to continue.

* SmugSnake: Kaan is really confident in his abilities. Just another reason Bane hates him.
* TakingYouWithMe: At Darth Bane's suggestion, he and the remaining members of the Brotherhood combined their powers to create a Thought Bomb, which killed both the New Sith and a hundred Jedi, including Lord Hoth, leaving what was left of their consciousness trapped in torment for a thousand years.

* RagsToRoyalty: Serra goes from being the nondescript daughter of a healer on a backwater planet to the princess of the royal family of Doab by the time she reappears in ''Dynasty of Evil''.

* Greed: Qordis had embezzled funds from the Brotherhood to satisfy his avarice. After his death, all of his wealth will comes into Bane's possession.

* Irony: When trying to escape the Thought Bomb, she planned to rejoin Bane once again to become his apprentice, studying at his feet, learning everything he knows, even if it takes years or decades armed with patience, and then, she would turn on him and take an apprentice of her own. Without even discussing that with him, this mindset is ''exactly'' what Bane seeks for an apprentice, understanding what he wants for the Sith in her final moments. Unfortunatly for Githany, by following Kaan, she was discarded by Bane and he left her to die with the rest of the Brotherhood.

* EntertaininglyWrong: As he gets older and starts feeling his age, Bane fears that Zannah is just waiting for him to grow weak and helpless so she can take the title of Sith master with ease. The reality is that Zannah is biding her time because she's worried that Bane is just faking his declining health (knowing that he's exactly the kind of cunning opponent who'd do something like that) and wants to make sure she's capable of beating him before trying her luck.

* GeniusBruiser: Unlike [[BookDumb most other]] Sith at the Academy on Korriban, Bane spent a great deal of his time reading and studying the histories and philosophies of past Sith Lords, and by the end of his life was an expert on these subjects. He was capable of formulating incredibly complex and long-term plans, manipulating others easily, without even using the Force, and he accumulated an immense wealth of both money and information by using his facade as a trader,. He also happens to be a master lightsaber duelist, and an immensely powerful user of TheDarkSide.

* GrandTheftMe: To learn to stave off death in ''Dynasty of Evil'', Bane learns Darth Andeddu's ritual of essence transfer, which would allow him to transfer his soul into someone else's body. He tries it in a last ditch effort to win his final duel with Zannah, but he fails and dies, although he does leave an impression on her.

* {{Irony}}: Bane is disdainful of [[EvilIsPetty petty sadism]], preaches that there should only be two Sith at any given time, and feels that the Apprentice must overthrow the Master in the DuelToTheDeath rather than through trickery or deceit, to prove that the next Master is stronger than the last. Flash forward a thousand years, and Palpatine- the Sith who brings all of Bane's plans and ambitions to fruition- is the exact opposite of all of this, a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] [[TheSociopath psychopath]] with a [[LaughablyEvil warped sense of humour]], who trains an apprentice Darth Maul while still serving under Plagueis, whom he murders by getting him drunk and torturing him to death with Force Lightning while he starts to sleep, partly out of fear that he might be slightly stronger than he is.

* BrilliantButLazy: He's no ace as a fighter or anything, but he is smarter than he appears. He just can't be bothered applying himself to anything more than his indulgences.
* TheDragon: Set is briefly this for Zannah, in an extremely lazy and reluctant fashion.
* TheHedonist: Harth's main goal in life is just having a good time, rather than any grandiose scheme or anything.
* InadequateInheritor: Zannah soon comes to feel this way about him, and dumps him as a potential apprentice.
* KarmaHoudini: Gets away scott free with Adenndu's holocron and becomes a body-surfing immortal, long outlasting Zannah and Bane.

* {{Bishounen}}: He's definitely a pretty-boy.

* DarkActionGirl: Due to being a member of the Sith.

* RedHerring: The relationship between her and Bane in ''Path of Destruction'' seemed to be leading to the outcome of Githany becoming Bane’s apprentice. Ultimately, she doesn’t. Zannah, a character who was never seen or mentioned prior to her recruitment, does.
* WhipItGood: Githany's favorite weapon is a lightwhip.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Going after Zannah and her master with only four other Jedi, without alerting the rest of the Order, was a very reckless and foolish thing to do. While they knew that Zannah was Bane's apprentice, the latter could have very well spent the previous decade recruting more apprentices and even formed his own army, and they would have been outnumbered and slaughtered. While this obviously doesn't occur, they still get defeated by two Sith. And while the Jedi would have been informed that the Sith survived, due to Zannah's gambit to heal Bane, the Jedi that were dispatched to kill the (presumed) Sith, assumed that that he was the only one left.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: The second protagonist after Bane, as the trilogy is also her story of how he she eventually surpasses her master and becomes the new Dark Lord.

* StrongAndSkilled: While he isn't as strong as Bane or Khan with the Force, he's still a powerful Sith and above all he's an extraordinary lightsaber duellist with a mastery of single blade, double-bladed and dual wielding lightsabers all at the same time.

* MasterSwordsman: Kas'im is a Sith Blademaster.

* DesperatelyLookingForPurposeInLife: Why she joins Sith.

* KnifeNut: Before becoming a Sith Lord, she favors a pair of knives as her main weapons.

* TheDragon: To Bane in the ‘’Darth Bane’’ novels.

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* RedHerring: The relationship between her and Bane in ‘’Path of Destruction’’ seemed to be leading to the outcome of Githany becoming Bane’s apprentice. Ultimately, she doesn’t. Zannah, a character who was never seen or mentioned prior to her recruitment, does.

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* BigBad: In the VillainProtagonist ‘’Darth Bane’’ trilogy, the noble Jedi Farfalla is the closest that ‘’Rule of Two’’ has to one of these.

* TheDragon: To Bane in the Darth Bane novels.

* GenocideFromTheInside: He orchestrates the deaths of everyone except himself and Zannah so he can create the Rule of Two.

* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Zannah is much more physically pleasing than her master, avoding the usual pitfall of EvilMakesYouUgly, but no less a monster.

* {{Foil}}: For Johun in ''Rule of Two''. Both are young students just coming into their power when the story begins, but where Johun becomes a capable Jedi, Zannah goes further and further into evil. Just to show they're not so different, the story has a scene where both use the Force to nudge the minds of those around them for their own goals.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Zannah. Not because of actual niceness, mind (Sith, remember), but simply out of basic pragmatism. People are more likely to help and assist the good looking lady who's tremendously polite to them, and it gets her a network of unnoticed workers she can plug for information at minimal expenditure.

-->''"I am the Dark Lord who will restore the Sith to glory. They call me Bane."''

-->''"This is the way of our Order. An individual may die, but the Sith are eternal."''

* AffablyEvil: She's never unnecessarily cruel, and she even accepts Set Harth's proposal to [[spoiler: stop fighting and go their separate ways.]]

* KnifeNut: Before becoming a Sith Lord, she favored a pair of knives as her main weapons.
* NoNameGiven: Before taking her Sith name, she was only ever known as 'the Huntress'.
* PowerNullifier: Cognus has an innate talent for disrupting and suppressing other people's ability to use the Force, making Jedi and other Force-users easy prey.

* PsychoForHire: Unlike Bane or Zannah, she was already rather psychotic before joining the Sith.

* TattooedCrook: Cognus has four black tattoos shaped like lines that run down from her lower lip; when she smiles, they look like fangs.