History Characters / StarWarsTheOldRepublicMajorCharacters

* {{Expy}}: Of Darth Vader. His design even looks like a more modern, updated look for a post-Mustafar Anakin.

* HandicappedBadass: One of the Sith Empire's best fighters and tacticians. After the Battle of Alderaan, his injuries force him to rely on a respirator, but it doesn't diminish his abilities any. This fact is why some fiction depicts him as one of the Sith Vader modeled his fighting style after for this exact reason.

* BadassNormal: He does have cybernetic implants to help, but he's ultimately a Force-blind spy who constantly has to tangle with Force-users. ''Annihilation'' shows he once defeated a Dark Councilor, [[RefugeInAudacity in his underwear]].

* MadeASlave: When the Alliance commander corners Lorman, one option would be to make him a slave to Empress Acina.

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: ''[[InvertedTrope Inverted]]'' at the end of the Imperial-Voss Story Arc. If the Player chooses the Light-Side Final Decision, the Voss Council will ultimately choose to remain neutral in the conflict between the Republic and the Empire. Serevin will be furious at the Imperial-Character, since it means that they lost the opportunity to control Voss through diplomatic means, even though the PC can inform him that the Republic lost their chance to sway them as well. He then coldly tells the player to [[GetOut leave his office]].

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: ''[[InvertedTrope Inverted]]'' at the end of the Imperial-Voss Story Arc. If the Player chooses the Light-Side Final Decision, the Voss Council will ultimately choose to remain neutral in the conflict between the Republic and the Empire. Serevin will be furious at the Imperial-Character, since it means that they lost the opportunity to control Voss through diplomatic means, even though the PC can inform him that the Republic lost their chance as well. He then tells the player to GetOut of his office.

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: He provides an ''Inverted Example'' at the end of the Imperial-Voss Story Arc. If the Player chooses the Light-Side Final Decision, the Voss Council will ultimately choose to remain neutral in the conflict between the Republic and the Empire. Serevin will be ''furious'' at the Imperial-Character, since it means that they lost the opportunity to control Voss through diplomatic means, even though the PC can inform him that the Republic lost their chance as well. He then tells the player to GetOut.

* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:At the end of the Imperial ''Onslaught'' storyline, after the PlayerCharacter and Darth Malgus defeat her, she uses the Force to collapse the building on all three of them. The Commander jumps clear in time, Malgus is buried in the rubble and badly injured, and Idair is [[DisneyDeath apparently killed]].]]

* TheLancer: In ''Fallen Empire'' and ''Eternal Throne'', Lana plays the role of second-in-command. In practice she seems to be functionally the commander of the Alliance and is often the one giving orders.

* BigBadEnsemble: One of the major antagonists of ''Literature/Deceived'' (which covers and expands upon the events of the cinematic trailer) alongside Vrath Xizor. His murder of Zallow is what drives his former Padawan, Aryn Leneer, to fly to Coruscant on a personal quest of vengeance.

A female human Jedi Guardian, she is chief of security at the small enclave at Ossus and second only to Master Gnost-Dural in the chain of command. If the Outlander sides with the Republic, she accompanies them to stop Darth Malora's attack on the colony. She is extremely talented in combat, and has survived many battles, but feels that her talents make her a good soldier and a poor Jedi.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Refusing to help Baras when Baras begged for help at the end of the Sith Warrior storyline.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Valkorion electrocutes him right at the start of Knights Of The Fallen Empire. He comes back several chapters later as a force ghost, but, being a ghost, can only advice the player and act as a QuestGiver.]]

* FalseFriend: You have the opportunity to screw her over twice after she becomes your ally. The first is during ''KOTFE'' where she's leading an assault on Arcann's droid factory, and Lana suggests that you hide important intel from her and leave her men to die so that her clan is less of a threat long term. She'll catch on to your game and she won't like it, [[EasilyForgiven but will ultimately let it slide]] in the interests of staying united against the Eternal Empire. The second time is in Showdown on Ruhnuk where the Dar'manda clan is sabotaging her duel with the ArcVillain and offers to cut you in on their business if you let them get away with it. This time, you can easily lie to her about what happened and she'll be none the wiser.

* HeelFaceTurn: She'll ally with even a Republic character in the Shadow of Revan expansion and will remain steadfastly loyal to them from that point onwards, even if it means turning on her former paymasters. Especially meaningful if you take her back to The False Emperor flashpoint, where you can have her fight against Darth Malgus despite them previously being allies in the Sacking of Coruscant, and the fact that she'll remain on your side even after Malgus goes rogue ''again'' in the Onslaught postgame.

* KarmaHoudini: Hasn't faced any punishment for her many crimes, like participating in the attack on the Jedi Temple. Theron, if still alive, will call her out for her role in the sacking of Coruscant, which she promptly rebuffs by saying [[PunchClockVillain it was just another job for her]].

* HeelFaceTurn: Thanks to her becoming a companion as far as the Jedi is concerned. Especially meaningful if you take her back to The False Emperor flashpoint, where you can have her fight against Darth Malgus despite them previously being allies in the Sacking of Coruscant.

* KarmaHoudini: Hasn't faced any punishment for her many crimes, like participating in the attack on the Jedi Temple.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: [[spoiler:As Empress]].

* SmallNameBigEgo: After boasting about his mastery of the Dark Side, Malgus rather viciously slays Adraas in a duel.

* BadassBaritone: He is voiced by Creator/LanceHenriksen (and later Creator/FredTatasciore).

* BadassBaritone: A very deep voice, thanks to Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson.

** He seems rather amused by the Hunter's antics if they take the opportunity to advertise their services during the celebration of Corellia's conquering.

* IncrediblyLamePun: In ''Shadow of Revan'', you're fighting [[spoiler:Revan's corpse, animated by his dark side. A [[IncrediblyLamePun Revan-ant.]]]]

** In "Knights of the Fallen Empire", her failure with Theron is superceded by her failure to defeat the Eternal Empire. [[spoiler:This causes her to lose her faith in Jedi teachings and work with the ghost of Darth Marr.]]

* ThePeterPrinciple: While she herself seemed capable enough, this capabality does not seem to extend to picking effective subordinates. The Taris project seemed to go reasonably well, but was riddled with incompetence and corruption, with common soldiers and civilians paying the price. Her tenure as Chancellor wound up going from incompetence to megalomania.

Head of the Sphere of Military Offense following the demise of Darth Arho on Ilum, Arkous plans an assault on Tython with the aid of Lana Bemiko to hurt the Jedi Order and capture important artifacts. In truth, he is loyal to the Order of Revan, and works with his allies within that organization to aid Revan's quest to destroy the Emperor once and for all.

* SelfSurgery: [[spoiler:The end of Onslaught implies he disabled his ExplosiveLeash by performing this with his lightsabre.]]

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Nine (real world) years after her last appearance in the ''Decieved'' novel, she makes her return--and her debut in the game--in the "Pinnacles of Power" interlude mission.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Republic players, the holorecording of her in the spaceport making a grandeous speech about how "we" will do great things by cleaning up Taris. She's first encountered in the safety and comfort of her own office, [[NoSympathy chewing out construction workers]] for wanting to cancel their contract due to high illness and death rates from rakghoul attacks.

* ProfessorGuineaPig: Her experiments have included making some "modifications" on herself which has resulted in a redder tint to her skin, spikey protrusions growing on her face, and a noticeable reverb to her voice.

** This is also probably unintentional, but there was a startup company based in Massachussetts called 'Brontes Technologies' that was eventually bought out by the 3M Company. Fitting that she's also a MadScientist.

* UnholyMatrimony: Was married to a Twilek woman named Elena Daru. They genuinely loved one another, [[spoiler: and he [[LoveIsAWeakness killed her for it]] when his enemies tried to use her as leverage.]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: No one seems to like her in the slightest or put up with her. And her Master seems uterly unconcerned when she leaves. All of the Quest givers in Taris are uninterested in dealing with her, clearly refferring the PC for the jobs they have.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Still one of his main character traits. Sure, creating an army of war droids to wipe out the Sith could save the Republic, but it'll also mean killng millions upon millions of citizens of the Sith Empire.

* BigBad: Of ''Rise of the Hutt Cartel''.

* YouMonster[=/=]EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:His reaction to the Dark Side option at the climax of the Imperial side of the Makeb questline. Considering what it is [[OmnicidalManiac what]] that [[EarthShatteringKaboom is]], it's kind of justified.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: On Ziost, he's noticeably distraught about his Jedi squad's [[spoiler:brainwashing, and asks the Republic PlayerCharacter to try and take them alive, if possible. Notably, this ends with him requesting that Master Surro be returned to the Jedi Order, against Lana's suggestion of examining her mind]]. In other words, a rare instance of Theron suggesting the light-sided option over the dark-sided one.

* EvilMakesYouUgly: {{Averted|Trope}}: the Imperial hero can comment that Acina is rather attractive and healthy looking for a Sith Lord on the Dark Council. She jokes that recruitment for the Sith might be better if everyone looked like her (and there are other atractive Sith out there as well), but how she managed to retain her good looks is unexplained, especially since she's not a particularly noble person in any respect. She looks beautiful as an older woman as well.

** To both Darth Malgus and Darth Jadus, as all three are Sith who believe the Empire needs major reform. Out of these, Darth Malgus is the most confrontational, as he hijacks Ilum's resources to launch an all-out civil war that he loses badly. [[spoiler:He only survives after being brainwashed to obey the new Sith Emperor's (either Acina or Vowran) will, and once he breaks free of ''that'', continues to openly plot against the Empire.]] Jadus also masterminds an incredibly ruthless plan of launching weapons of mass destruction on his own people, all so he can terrorize the galaxy ''and'' the Dark Council into obeying his will. However, he consciously avoids provoking open war, and would rather just go into hiding if Cipher Nine convinces him he can't win (although unlike Malgus, it's also possible to side with him). Darth Marr is the most restrained and least power-hungry of them all, only putting his plans into action after the Dark Council's suffered enough losses to be put on the backfoot, and never seeks more power for himself, being only concerned for the good of the Empire.