History Characters / StarWarsDathomir

* WorfEffect: She's beatenoffscreen by Bariss for her sabers, though this was largely through a sneak attack.

* DarthVaderClone: Just like his brother Maul (along with most of the antagonistic lightsaber-wielding characters in the Canon that are introduced throughout the Prequel Trilogy’s era), Savage shares a significant amount of similarities with Darth Vader (despite the fact that Vader was still a Jedi during the time that Savage was alive). Just like Vader, Savage was once a noble warrior who gets corrupted and twisted physically and mentally and willingly submits to the corruption to protect a loved one, only to kill said loved one due to their being twisted by the Dark Side. He also lost an arm to Obi-Wan Kenobi and subsequently served as TheDragon to a powerful Sith Lord. His appearance and demeanor are even quite similar to Darth Vader as they are both powerfully built, extremely strong, dressed in black armor, typically stoic yet short-tempered, and having a deep, intimidating voice. Finally, much like Vader, Savage reverts to his pre-DarkSide self as he is dying.

* EvilCounterpart: It's never given any focus in-universe, but (as outlined in "DarthVaderClone", above) Savage has quite a few things in common with Anakin. His relationship with Maul can even be seen as a twisted mirror of Anakin and Obi-Wan's relationship and his fear of losing Feral is what drove him to willingly become Ventress' servant, similar to Anakin's own actions with Padmé Amidala. Ultimately, turning to the Dark Side causes Savage and Anakin to lose the person they love most, brother and wife respectively.

* EldritchLocation: While there have been numerous places strong in the Force and especially the dark side of the Force that can mess with people, particularly Force-sensitives, Dathomir is one of the few instances of a planet being like this. Not only is Dathomir a planet with a tremendous concentration of Force energy, due to the history of its people using dark side powers and rituals, it’s an entire world that acts as a dark side locus. Seriously, go to any part of Dathomir and it's like Halloween. It's implied in ''Fallen Order'' that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation prolonged stays turns outsiders insane]] as seen with Taron Malicos and a number of Zeffo settlers found in a tomb where their members murdered each other in ritualistic sacrifice.

* AttackAttackAttack: When fighting Dooku with Ventress, he repeatedly tries to bumrush him with no deviation in strategy and gets blown the hell back by Force Lightning each time. Eventually, he relents demoralized [[EpicFail and almost]] starts ''sobbing'' he can't do anything to [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Dooku]].

* TheBrute: After his transformation, he becomes enormously strong and fights with little to no finesse. Violence is also pretty much his go-to solution for just about any situation.

* TragicVillain: Savage only wanted to protect his younger brother Feral, and that led to the Nightsisters turning into a monster who murdered him. Then he found his older brother, but what Maul really wanted was an apprentice, not a brother. Every single person - Asajj, Dooku, Mother Talzin and even his own brother Maul - ultimately saw him as a tool. Though Maul, to his credit, did eventually rediscover his BigBrotherInstinct.

* AdaptationalBadass: While she might not be as adapt in Sith magic or piloting as her legends counterpart, she does manage to nearly kill Luminara, overpower Anakin and Obi-Wan, and fend off Darth Maul briefly. She's also quite skilled in hand-to-hand combat, where she relied entirely on her force abilites and lightsaber skills before.

* CharacterExaggeration: Her portrayal in ''The Clone Wars'', and by extension in the canon, focuses mostly on a single aspect of her ''Legends'' character, namely her job as Dooku's special operations woman. Other facets of her personality, like her role as TheCorrupter towards other Jedi, her aspirations to become a Sith lady, her iron hand reign over Rattatak, and even her feelings towards Obi-Wan, are either de-emphasized or downright AdaptedOut. Even her personality gets adjusted to this change, making her taciturn and gloomy, whereas her previous versions could be incredibly talkative and theatrical.

* CorporateSamurai: Very literally, as she works for a conglomerate of corporations and her character is officially inspired by samurai/ninja culture. She wears a hakama and ninja-like inner clothes, uses complex bladework and kicks, sports a shaven haircut, is fanatically loyal to a master, her lightsabers can be used as a light-nunchaku, and her name comes from Asaji of ''Film/ThroneOfBlood'' (and if this is not enough, her appearance in ''Legends''' Xbox ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII'' Live came equipped with light-shurikens of all things).

* AdaptationalWimp: Her last fighting scene in ''Legends'' has her briefly crossing blades with Windu and making him retreat, implying she could have given him a hell of a fight. However, in the canon, ''Son of Dathomir'' reveals she's actually not very good in swordfighting, which now implies she would have been soundly defeated by Windu had the duel dragged out. When she attacks Sidious while possessing Dooku's body, the former says she has nothing of the latter's fencing ability, and then proceeds to show it by defeating her in just a couple moves; this rules out she could be anywhere near the level of Windu, who held his own against Sidious and might have disarmed him legitimately in their own duel.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is by far the most powerful of the Nightsisters, as expected from the Clan Mother and shaman. Her sword skills were enough for her to hold off ''[[WorldsBestWarrior Mace Windu]]'' in magic sword-to-lightsaber combat, pushing him back with her first slash, matching him in a short BladeLock and only being forced to flee when Jar Jar sabotaged the ritual she was going to use to maintain her physical form. She's even powerful enough to hold her own against [[InvincibleVillain Sidious]] in a Force lightning duel of all things, in a way that only Windu and Yoda have ever demonstrated in Canon.

* BadPowersGoodPeople: She has access to Dathomirian magick, including necromancy, but is a good person. She and the crew even chat about how she's able to use the dark side without the usual, awful consequences - the answer is basically 'very carefully', with the Nightsister rituals themselves serving to abstract its psychological effects and make it more of a mechanical process or a religious ritual than an outpouring of raw, deadly emotion.

* PatrioticFervor: As the last inheritor of her culture, she loves and respects Dathomir and its civilisation deeply. It may be an absolutely hellish place by just about anyone else's standards, but it's still her home, and still a place with a rich and ancient history and culture (even if most of it was horrible).
* PetTheDog: When the Mantis first arrived on Dathomir, Malicos told her to kill Cere and Greez. Merrin decided against it, as they posed no threat. Keep in mind this is before her HeelFaceTurn and befriending of Cal.

->'''Appearances:''' ''[[AudioPlay/StarWarsDookuJediLost Dooku: Jedi Lost]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAdventures Adventures]]'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsAgeOfRepublic Age of Republic]]'' | ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]'' | ''Literature/KindredSpirits'' | ''Literature/DarkDisciple''

* KillEmAll: General Grievous' attack on Dathomir in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre Massacre]]" left the Nightsisters with only three survivors (aside from at least one who was offworld at the time). At the end of ''Son of Dathomir'', Mother Talzin is killed and it is implied that all of the Nightbrothers except for Darth Maul were wiped out.

* DishingOutDirt: Capable of manipulating the land of Dathomir to either raise platforms or even bury someone alive. It seems to be limited to Dathomir itself, however, and not present on other worlds.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Her first outfit, under the long skirt, which she removed when fighting.

* BaldOfEvil: Flashbacks revealed that she's not naturally hairless, and only shaved her hair after the death of Ky Narec. It was confirmed by Filoni that she chose this as a way to express her allegiance to the DarkSide and to the Sith and, after leaving Dooku and becoming a bounty hunter, she decided to let her hair grow out. Between that and the destruction of the Nightsisters, she has been slowly moving towards BaldOfAwesome.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Her Nightsister attire includes one of these.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In-universe, Savage Opress was originally "created" by Asajj Ventress and Mother Talzin as an apprentice to overthrow Count Dooku -- a role that Darth Sidious feared Asajj would fill, only that she'd kill ''him'' and rule by Dooku's side. On a meta-level, this is subverted; his character originally seemed to be created in order to fill the gap that Darth Maul created, but instead allowed the character to serve as a focal point that would allow for Darth Maul's canonical return -- all of which was done by the end of the Nightsisters and Brothers arc.

* StudentAndMasterTeam: With Maul.

* MagicIsFeminine: The Nightsisters and the Nightbrothers are two single-gender clans from the planet Dathomir. The Nightsisters are a WitchSpecies who practice a form of magic using TheDarkSide of the Force while the Nightbrothers focus primarily on melee combat. Darth Maul and his brother Savage Oppress are the only Nightbrothers shown using Force powers. It is implied that the Nightbrothers are all Force-sensitive too, as Asajj was confident that any Nightbrother she selected would have the Force affinity needed to develop as a Sith, but culturally they are forbidden from learning how to use their "magic".

* WitchSpecies:
** The Nightsisters are this, using Dark Side-based Force manipulations of a style that resembles, and which they identify as, "magic". It seems every female Dathomirian is a Force-sensitive.
** It's implied that the Nightbrothers are all Force-sensitive too, as Asajj was confident that any Nightbrother she selected would have the Force affinity needed to develop as a Sith, but culturally they are forbidden from learning how to use their "magic".

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: When he fights he is only able to fight Obi-wan and Anakin at the same time, when he receives help from Maul he is completely stomped by Obi-wan.

* BaldWoman: It's not naturally since flashbacks present that she used to have a mohawk (in ''Legends'', she was naturally bald as a Rattataki species trait) and then shaved her head after the death of Ky Narec. She eventually grew it back.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: The fact that Asajj Ventress is a creepy BaldWoman seems meant to be a sort of surprise in the pilot movie of ''The Clone Wars'', given that she is introduced with a heavy hood (something that she rarely wears in any medium or continuity) and doesn't lose it until it is time to whip out her lightsabers. However, for those who had read the ''ComicBook/StarWarsRepublic'' comics or watched ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', where she had first appeared ''years'' before, this could hardly be a revelation.

** Ventress being now CoDragons to Dooku along with Grievous gives her echoes of Sev'rance Tann, another female HumanAlien Dark Acolyte from ''Legends'' who was supreme commander of the droid army before Grievous came along. In fact, the ''Legends'' Ventress was actually recruited by Dooku to serve as a replacement for Tann, but lost this job to Grievous when the latter defeated her and Durge in a test battle. Now in canon, this battle never had place and Ventress is effectively at even ground with him.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: His first name is pronounced "Sa-vahj" and his last name is just like "oppress". This gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E22Revenge Revenge]]" when a bounty hunter is looking at Savage's bounty profile and mispronounces his name.

* NotSoDifferent: In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E20TheWrongJedi The Wrong Jedi]]", she pursues and captures Ahsoka, who's been framed for sedition, to claim the bounty on her head. However, she comes to sympathize with Ahsoka's plight, knowing all-too-well what it feels like to have those you trust turn their backs on you. When she reveals this to Anakin, he even has to admit, albeit silently, that she's completely right.

* NotSoDifferent: To Cal. Both of them survived a Sith purge that annihilated their people, and were left alone to fend for themselves as a result. [[spoiler:While she points out that Jedi and Nightsisters don't mix well together, they go along with each other as survivors]].
-->'''Merrin:''' [[spoiler:Nightsisters and Jedi do not travel together but... survivors. We adapt]].

* AddaptationalBadass: While she might not be as adapt in Sith magic or piloting as her legends counterpart, she does manage to nearly kill Luminara, overpower Anakin and Obi-Wan, and fend off Darth Maul briefly. She's also quite skilled in hand-to-hand combat, where she relied entirely on her force abilites and lightsaber skills before.

* DyingAsYourself: As he dies, the Nightsister magick leaves his body and he presumably reverts to his original form and personality.

* CurbStompBattle: Initially opponents often find themselves on the receiving end of this:

* CurbStompBattle: His opponents often find themselves on the receiving end of this:

* TheJuggernaut: Battles with him tend to consist of his opponents retreating almost constantly. He has been driven off a few times, but usually only when he's outnumbered. Obi-Wan chopping off his arm marks the first time that anyone has actually stopped him, and it only forced Savage to abandon the fight. Only [[AlwaysABiggerFish Darth Sidious]] was able to be his better for a duel and take him down.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: After Feral's death, Savage only mentions briefly that all of his kin are dead, then never says a single word about Feral again.

* AddaptationalBadass: While she might not be as adapt in Sith magic or piloting as her legends counterpart, she does manage to nearly kill Luminara, overpower Anakin and Obi-Wan, and fend off Darth Maul briefly.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets overwhelmed in singles duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics. Ventress in ''Legends'' also had the uncanny ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon.

* BeingEvilSucks: She seems to realize that all her hatred and plots of revenge have only cost her happiness and her family, largely deciding to become a bounty hunter rather than participate in the Clone War any further. She would have stayed that way, had it not been for Quinlan Vos.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Though she starts off seeming like your typical villainess, it's revealed that she was this all along. She becomes especially sympathetic after Count Dooku, the man who trained her in the ways of the DarkSide, betrayed her.
* WorfEffect: She's attacked by Bariss for her sabers, though this was largely through a sneak attack.

* AdaptionalIntelligence: Downplayed. But Ventress is much less likely to bite off more than she can chew like she did in ''Legends'', and never suffered any kind of WorfBarrage at the hands of Grievous, Anakin, and Dooku. The opponents she fights are ones she comes ''very'' close to killing, and those who are above her skill level she plays out plans to weaken or gain the advantage.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets overwhemled in singles duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics, though it should be noted she managed to overpower ''both'' Anakin and Obi-Wan on her own. Ventress in ''Legends'' also had the uncanny ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar Force magicks).

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed}}. Ventress remains one of the most dangerous Force users during the Clone Wars in canon, but the de-canonization of the ExpandedUniverse cut out several of the great feats she had in ''Legends'', like defeating Plo Koon while half-armed, going toe to toe with [[AcePilot Anakin of all people]] in a starfighter battle, being a nightmare to many Jedi in her missions, and eliminating the remnants of Darth Plagueis' dangerous [[PraetorianGuard Echani Sun Guard]]. At a personal level, the canonical Ventress is a substantially worse pilot, gets more often swamped in singles duels, and is forced to flee quickly from situations she would have dominated in the comics. Ventress in ''Legends'' also had the uncanny ability to reanimate dead through Sith alchemy, which she lacks in canon (although it would have fitted nicely her new Nightsister role given that those have similar Force magicks).