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* MythologyGag: In ''Ghost Prison 3'', Vader tells Laurita Tohm that he killed Anakin Skywalker, similar to how Obi Wan Kenobi, in ''Film/ANewHope'' will tell Luke that Vader killed his father [[FromACertainPointOfView (which was technically true)]].

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* MythologyGag: In ''Ghost Prison 3'', Vader tells Laurita Tohm that he killed Anakin Skywalker, similar to how Obi Wan Kenobi, in ''Film/ANewHope'' will tell Luke that Vader killed his father [[FromACertainPointOfView [[MetaphoricallyTrue (which was technically true)]].
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* HandicappedBadass: In ''The Cry of Shadows'', dozens of amputees and other badly injured hospital patients from a resistance field hospital march, wheel, or crawl toward Vader and stare him down rather than swear fealty to the Empire.
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** Rather than kill the ApocalypseCult, Vader merely takes the device that sustains their home, leading to natural disasters that destroy the moon, but considering that some of them had a means to travel off world and cause trouble elsewhere, they may have been able to flee the moon before its destruction.

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** *** Rather than kill the ApocalypseCult, Vader merely takes the device that sustains their home, leading to natural disasters that destroy the moon, but considering that some of them had a means to travel off world and cause trouble elsewhere, they may have been able to flee the moon before its destruction.
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Vader regularly sacrifices and kills his men except on a pragmatic basis in my opinion.


* AFatherToHisMen: Gentis in ''Ghost Prison''. Vader also qualifies to some extent.

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* AFatherToHisMen: Gentis will do anything for his men in ''Ghost Prison''. Vader also qualifies to some extent.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In ''The Lost Command'', when Vader tries to kill Saro (who Vader has accused of manipulating [[spoiler:Garoche]] for morally dubious purposes) by making a building collapse, she shows no anger and terror about what is happening and instead [[spoiler:calms Garochoe, reaffirming their bond, and that she is happy they had some time to be happy together, proving that she really did reform and love him and doesn't see him as a pawn]].

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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In ''The Lost Command'', when Vader tries to kill Saro (who Vader has accused of manipulating [[spoiler:Garoche]] for morally dubious purposes) by making a building collapse, she shows no anger and terror about what is happening and instead [[spoiler:calms Garochoe, Garoche, reaffirming their bond, and that she is happy they had some time to be happy together, proving that she really did reform and love him and doesn't see him as a pawn]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In ''The Lost Command'', when Vader tries to kill Saro (who Vader has accused of manipulating [[spoiler:Garoche]] for morally dubious purposes) by making a building collapse, she shows no anger and terror about what is happening and instead [[spoiler:calms Garochoe, reaffirming their bond, and that she is happy they had some time to be happy together, proving that she really did reform and love him and doesn't see him as a pawn]].
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In ''The Cry of Shadows'', dozens of amputees and other badly injured hospital patients from a resistance field hospital march, wheel, or crawl toward Vader and stare him down rather than swear fealty to the Empire.

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** In ''The Cry of Shadows'', dozens of amputees and other badly injured hospital patients from a resistance field hospital march, wheel, or crawl toward Vader and stare him down rather than swear fealty to the Empire.
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* IntrepidMerchant: The client from ''The Ninth Assassin'' is a trillionare mining magnate who prefers to conduct important deals face to face and is calm and perceptive for most of a dangerous trek through a jungle to find someone he wants to deal with (although in that case, it is an assassin to kill Vader rather than someone he wants to make money for him).

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** In ''The Ninth Assassin'', three of the first eight assassins hired to kill Vader are dead and the other five have vanished. The majordomo of the ninth assassin is confident those five died and wouldn’t have quit the job and fled with their advance payments, but the sheer formidability and infamy of Vader may have caused at least some of those five to chicken out of following their contract.

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of the first eight assassins hired to kill Vader are dead and the other five have vanished. The majordomo of the ninth assassin is confident those five died and wouldn’t have quit the job and fled with their advance payments, but the sheer formidability and infamy of Vader may have caused at least some of those five to chicken out of following their contract.contract.
** Rather than kill the ApocalypseCult, Vader merely takes the device that sustains their home, leading to natural disasters that destroy the moon, but considering that some of them had a means to travel off world and cause trouble elsewhere, they may have been able to flee the moon before its destruction.

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* VillainProtagonist: Darth Vader, natch.
* VillainousBSOD: Vader suffers from an immense one throughout ''Lost Command''.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Vader, obviously, but another character in the series was the main antagonist in ''Ghost Prison'', Gentis.

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* VillainOfAnotherStory: In ''The Ghost Prison'', the inmates of the eponymous prison were elite assassins, kidnappers and military commanders for the Separatists (including at least two fallen Jedi) who terrorized the Republic during the Clone Wars but are used as reluctant BoxedCrook allies by Vader and/or are victimized by him throughout their page time.
* VillainProtagonist: Darth Vader, natch.
the protagonist, is one of the evilest people in any scene.
* VillainousBSOD: Vader suffers from an immense one loss of purpose throughout the end of ''Lost Command''.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Vader, obviously, but another character in the series was the main antagonist in ''Ghost Prison'', Gentis.Gentis, who seeks to improve the Empire with a MilitaryCoup.
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* MeaningfulName: RebelLeader Lima Star''court'' from ''The Cry of Shadows'' is a former lawyer.


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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Several of the fiercest Ghost Prison fighters either have four arms or two arms and multiple tendrils.


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* UncertainDoom:
** In ''The Ghost Prison'':
*** It is said that the remaining followers of Gentis are rounded up and executed, but the general whose recruitment to the plot was shown in detail earlier on is not explicitly shown.
*** Although only Shonn Volta is shown getting an Imperial commission, only fourteen of the other thirty-two remaining prisoners from the Ghost Prison [[spoiler:are shown boarding the booby-trapped shuttle, although some of the others may have died in the battle]].
** In ''The Lost Command'':
*** At the end of the first issue, Vader is preparing to drown several local prisoners when Lady Saro appears and offers to bargain with him, but it is never shown if her bargain included Vader sparing their lives.
*** [[spoiler:Many of the soldiers helping Saro, Garoche, and Shale are alive when last seen, but their fate is unclear after the Empire plans to continue attacking the sector and will show no mercy to any Rebels they find]].
** In ''The Ninth Assassin'', three of the first eight assassins hired to kill Vader are dead and the other five have vanished. The majordomo of the ninth assassin is confident those five died and wouldn’t have quit the job and fled with their advance payments, but the sheer formidability and infamy of Vader may have caused at least some of those five to chicken out of following their contract.
** In ''The Cry of Shadows'':
*** A Cerean Jedi shown being arrested and captured soon after Order 66 faces likely execution or torture to become an Inquisitor, but his exact fate is never shown.
*** After cutting one Jedi in half during a montage scene, Vader shoves three others off a cliff, but it isn’t a very high cliff, so their fate is ambiguous.
*** After Hock tries to stop the final massacre, it is unclear if Vader kills all of the HandicappedBadass hospital patients who try to stand up to him or just some of them.
*** [[spoiler:General Farstar]] is the only RebelLeader not shown being killed, although some of his allies only hear static when they try to radio him at one point.


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* UnPerson: In ''The Cry of Shadows'', it is mentioned that the civilian leaders of the Rebel city include poet Phootla Veer and lawyer Lina Starcourt, both of whom had their once-renowned accomplishments censored and erased from history by the Empire, with the memoirs the narrator is considering writing being one of the few things which might preserve knowledge of them.

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* KickTheDog: Vader has plenty of moments if senseless cruelty toward prisoners and civilians throughout the series, to remind you just what kind of man he is.

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* KickTheDog: Vader has plenty of moments if senseless cruelty of excessive brutality toward prisoners and civilians throughout the series, to remind you just what kind of man he is.


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* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Downplayed in ''The Cry of Shadows''. Renegade Clone Kaddak is said to be a muscle-bound brute who has mutilated his own face, and that is how his adversary Hock pictures him until they finally meet face-to-face and Hock learns Kaddak looks like any other Clone, besides maybe a more dignified visage.

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* BoldExplorer: Reebo Keen, a RebelLeader in ''The Cry of Shadows'', helped explore and settle three planets and volunteered to serve on the frontlines before being elected as a civilian leader.



* EnemyCivilWar: VillainProtagonist Vader finds himself inadvertently tricked into attacking other Imperial loyalists as part of an insurgency BatmanGambit in ''The Lost Command''.



* EvilMentor: Both Darth Vader and Trachta act as one Tohm.
* HandicappedBadass: Everyone in ''Ghost Prison''. Laurita Tohm was disfigured from in an accident, and he is shown fighting alongside Vader. Trachra also qualifies, and naturally, Vader himself IS this trope.
* HeroAntagonist: Gentis. Probably several of the antagonists in the series as well.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: As a test of loyalty, Vader forces Lt. Tohm to execute a wounded Separatist cyborg. As Tohm draws his blaster, Vader orders him not to waste ammo, and hands him a metal pipe.
* KickTheDog: Vader has plenty of moments like this throughout the series, to remind you just what kind of man he is.

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* EvilMentor: Both Darth Vader and Trachta are ruthless authoritarians who act as one mentors to Tohm.
* EyepatchOfPower: One of the renowned assassins previously sent after Vader in ''The Ninth Assassin'' is a burly Wookiee with an eyepatch (although his exact level of toughness is [[FightUnscene never shown]].
* FrontlineGeneral:
** In ''The Lost Command'', Star Destroyer Captain Shale leaves his vessel on many occasions to go into combat at the head of a group of Storm Commandos and is also a GeniusBruiser when it comes to conceiving combat strategies and defeating enemies as part of those strategies.
** In ''The Cry of Shadows'', former Separatist General Atticus Farstar stands within artillery range while shouting encouragement to his men and helping lure enemy soldiers into a trap.
* HandicappedBadass: In ''The Cry of Shadows'', dozens of amputees and other badly injured hospital patients from a resistance field hospital march, wheel, or crawl toward Vader and stare him down rather than swear fealty to the Empire.
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Everyone in ''Ghost Prison''. Laurita Tohm was disfigured from in an accident, and he is shown fighting alongside Vader. Trachra also qualifies, ActionPolitician Trachta has artificial eyes and arms, and naturally, Vader himself IS this trope.
trope due to his life support suit.
In ''The Cry of Shadows'', dozens of amputees and other badly injured hospital patients from a resistance field hospital march, wheel, or crawl toward Vader and stare him down rather than swear fealty to the Empire.
* HeroAntagonist: Gentis. Probably several Except in ''The Ninth Assassin'', the people Vader (the focus of the antagonists story) is fighting have far more sympathetic goals and personalities than he does.
** In ''The Ghost Prison'', Moff Gentis leads a ruthless coup against the Empire and doesn't seem to feel that all of their policies need changing, but he is disgusted by their murders and how they use young soldiers as human waves.
** In ''The Lost Command'', Lady Saro and her allies are trying to trick Vader into attacking Imperial loyalists and strengthen their forces to protect the Ghost Nebula from the Empire and live in peace.
** Practically everyone
in the series city of former Separatists and more recent dissidents in ''The Cry of Shadows'' (Lima Starcourt and her co-councilors, General Farstar, Kaddak, various unnamed hospital patients, etc.) embodies ideals of bravery, democracy, and mercy toward their enemies and just want to be left alone as well.
Vader tries to subject them.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: A montage in ''The Cry of Shadows'' features a group of four Jedi as part of a Rebel force that Vader defeats soon after Hock joins him, with their exact motives, organization, and how they survived Order 66 being unrevealed.
* HopeBringer: In ''The Cry of Shadows'', Clone deserter and Rebel Kaddak inspires the city he comes to defend to believe that their resistance means something, and even in the face of near-certain defeat, citizens cheer his name without fear as he stands against the Imperial invaders.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: As a test of loyalty, Vader forces a reluctant Lt. Tohm to execute a wounded Separatist cyborg. As Tohm draws his blaster, Vader orders him not to waste ammo, and hands him a metal pipe.
* KickTheDog: Vader has plenty of moments like this if senseless cruelty toward prisoners and civilians throughout the series, to remind you just what kind of man he is.
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* AntiVillain: Gentis. Vader also qualifies to some extent.
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* ApocalypseCult: The Heinsnake cult from ''Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin'' worship a prophecy that a DarkMessiah (whom they believe to be Vader) will lead them in plunging the galaxy into eternal chaos.
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* EvilMentor: Both Darth Vader and Trachta act as one Tohm.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Averted, although fans of the StarWars franchise should realize that by then: Vader in ''Lost Command 5'' attempts to collapse the entire temple as a means to atone for his sins as Vader. Unfortunately, the Force would still see to it that he survive, with Palpatine even digging him out.

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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Averted, although fans of the StarWars ''Star Wars'' franchise should realize that by then: Vader in ''Lost Command 5'' attempts to collapse the entire temple as a means to atone for his sins as Vader. Unfortunately, the Force would still see to it that he survive, with Palpatine even digging him out.
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* TogetherInDeath: Admiral Garoche Tarkin and Lady Saro were last seen holding on each other while the Atoan Cathedral was collapsed on them.

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* TogetherInDeath: Admiral Garoche Tarkin and Lady Saro were last seen holding on each other while the Atoan Cathedral was collapsed on them.demolished with them inside.
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* TogetherInDeath: Admiral Garoche Tarkin and Lady Saro was last seen holding on each other while the Atoan Cathedral was collapsed on them.

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* TogetherInDeath: Admiral Garoche Tarkin and Lady Saro was were last seen holding on each other while the Atoan Cathedral was collapsed on them.
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* TogetherInDeath: Admiral Garoche Tarkin and Lady Saro was last seen holding one each other while the Atoan Cathedral was collapsed on them.

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* TogetherInDeath: Admiral Garoche Tarkin and Lady Saro was last seen holding one on each other while the Atoan Cathedral was collapsed on them.

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