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''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''. It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]] -- based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen George Lucas's original draft of the plot in 1974.]]
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''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''. It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]] -- based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen George Lucas's original draft of the plot in from 1974.]]
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''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series set in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' (or rather, the non-canon ''Infinities'' part of it), released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''.
It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen how it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early ''Star Wars'' lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen how it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early ''Star Wars'' lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
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''The Star Wars'' is an 8-issue comic book mini-series set in published under the non-canon ''Infinities'' label of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' (or rather, the non-canon ''Infinities'' part of it), franchise, released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''.
1''. It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--based film]] -- based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen how it was originally written by George Lucas Lucas's original draft of the plot in 1974.]] ]]
Whileit the comic shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early ''Star Wars'' lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
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* SuddenlyVoiced: Unlike the main timeline, R2 is fully capable of speaking plain basic here.
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* SuddenlyVoiced: SuddenlySpeaking: Unlike the main timeline, R2 is fully capable of speaking plain basic here.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Annikin has zero compunctions against clocking Leia when she gives him lip.
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* BrightIsNotGood: Emperor Cos Dashit, the prototype for Palpatine, wears primary colors and a lot of gold medals, instead of being shrouded in black robes. He's no less a tyrant, though.
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* ShoutOut: C-3PO's design is much more obviously inspired by Maria from ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
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It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--[[WhatCouldHaveBeen as it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early ''Star Wars'' lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
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It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--[[WhatCouldHaveBeen as film]]--based on [[WhatCouldHaveBeen how it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early ''Star Wars'' lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
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** The obligatory Starkiller reference, a reference to Luke Skywalker's early name, is added to the name of both Annikin and Kane Starkiller.
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** The obligatory Starkiller reference, a reference to Luke Skywalker's early name, is added to surname, has its origin shown here as the name suname of both Annikin and Kane Starkiller.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[NotYourDaddysX This isn't your dads]] ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[NotYourDaddysX This isn't your dads]] dad's]] ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.]]
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''The Star Wars'' is an 8 issue comic book mini-series set in the Franchise/StarWarsLegends (or rather, the non-canon ''Infinities'' part of it), released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''.
It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--[[WhatCouldHaveBeen as it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early Star Wars lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--[[WhatCouldHaveBeen as it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early Star Wars lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
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''The Star Wars'' is an 8 issue 8-issue comic book mini-series set in the Franchise/StarWarsLegends ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' (or rather, the non-canon ''Infinities'' part of it), released in 2013 and later rereleased in trade paperback and as part of ''Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Infinities Volume 1''.
It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--[[WhatCouldHaveBeen as it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of earlyStar Wars ''Star Wars'' lore, like the fact that Cloud City was planned to appear in the original movie.
It is a notable WhatIf tale that retells the story of the [[Film/ANewHope original Star Wars film]]--[[WhatCouldHaveBeen as it was originally written by George Lucas in 1974.]] While it shares similarities with the original film, it has a ''substantial'' amount of differences, including settings, story beats, characterization, and so on. Abandoned concepts for the first film, like Luke Skywalker as an aged general and Han Solo as an alien reptile with green skin are abundant, as are references to other parts of early
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** Prince Valorum is a menacing knight with dark powers, like the more familiar version of Darth Vader. But he's also only partnering with the Empire out of opportunism, making him a bit like Boba Fett.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Darth Vader is split in two characters: the Tarkin-esque general who still bears Vader's name and body armor, and his Dragon Prince Valorum who is a Knight of the Sith and even wears a breath mask.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Darth Vader is split in two characters: the Tarkin-esque general who still bears Vader's name and body armor, and his Dragon Prince Valorum who is a Knight of the Sith and even wears a breath mask. A portion of Vader also gets doled out to (the heroic) Kane Starkiller, a former Jedi and partner of our wise old mentor figure, father to the eager young apprentice character, who is now more machine than man.
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** The Force (referred to as The Force of Others) doesn't appear to give its believers or users powers in this continuity.
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** The Force (referred to as The Force of Others) doesn't appear to give its believers or users powers in this continuity.continuity, appearing more like a more standard religion than the "Energy That Flows Through All Things" it is in canon.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kane Starkiller gives up the very rare power supply to his robotic body so that the others can use it to help smuggle two children on board in their ship in suspended animation capsules.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Kane Starkiller gives up the very rare power supply to his robotic body so that the others can use it to help smuggle two children on board in their ship in suspended animation capsules. Later, Clieg Whitsun pulls one off, too.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In the grand ''Star Wars'' tradition, there are quite a few characters, even if many of them are just background dressing. Just to give you an idea, our central cast at its height is Luke, Whitsun, Annikin, Leia, R2, 3PO, Biggs and Windy, and Han, with occasional support from Kane, Chewie, and the Larses.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The one Sith Lord in this series is portrayed as disliking working with the Empire, and being a FriendlyEnemy or WorthyOpponent to Annikin, even [[spoiler: freeing the latter from Vader's trap]].
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** The Emperor is still a very compelling politician, and Vader is both a crafty schemer and capable swordsman, but neither of them have their Dark powers or menacing presence.
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* BizarroUniverse: Of a sort. The Obi-Wan character is named Luke! The Luke character is named Annikin! Han Solo is a big green alien! Darth Vader scoffs at someone's devotion to that sad, old Jedi religion!
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* {{Expy}}: This version of Chewbacca is a ''lot'' like Prince Thun from ''Franchise/FlashGordon''. Prince of a semi-savage tribe of big hairy humanoids, who initially fights our hero but comes to respect and ally with him? Yep.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback: The influence from Flash Gordon serials is a lot more obvious here, in terms of visual design and plot structure.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback: The influence from Flash Gordon serials is a lot more obvious here, in terms of visual design and plot structure.
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* AdaptationalBadass:
** C3-PO was just a wimpy protocol droid in the movies. Here, he gets fed up with R2 so bad that he ''lifts him into the air and tosses him into the distance''.
** Imperial soldiers also wield lightsabers themselves and can put up a better fight than Stormtroopers.
** C3-PO was just a wimpy protocol droid in the movies. Here, he gets fed up with R2 so bad that he ''lifts him into the air and tosses him into the distance''.
** Imperial soldiers also wield lightsabers themselves and can put up a better fight than Stormtroopers.
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* CompositeCharacter: Kane Starkiller is basically a mashup of Obi Wan Kenobi with the mostly robotic body of Darth Vader.
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** Kane Starkiller is basically a mashup of Obi Wan Kenobi with the mostly robotic body of DarthVader.Vader.
** Annikin has traits of Luke (The Hero of the story), Han Solo (his brash and impulsive personality, as well as romancing Leia) and Anakin (shares similar name).
* CoolCrown: The royal family of Aquilae wears ornate halos on their heads.
** Kane Starkiller is basically a mashup of Obi Wan Kenobi with the mostly robotic body of Darth
** Annikin has traits of Luke (The Hero of the story), Han Solo (his brash and impulsive personality, as well as romancing Leia) and Anakin (shares similar name).
* CoolCrown: The royal family of Aquilae wears ornate halos on their heads.
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* DeathOfAChild: Deak Starkiller dies at the start of the story, when his family is ambushed by Imperial forces.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In this story, Han Solo is a Urellian, a tall reptilian with a reputation for hunting Wookiees on their home planet of Yavin, instead of a human.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In this story, Han Solo is a Urellian, a tall reptilian with a [[{{Irony}} reputation for hunting Wookiees Wookiees]] on their home planet of Yavin, instead of a human.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Emperor is portrayed as a fairly handsome middle aged man as opposed to his elderly look in the original movies. The Darth Vader of this timeline is also in ''much'' better shape than in canon, with only a few scars on his face.
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** The Emperor is portrayed as a fairly handsome middle aged man as opposed to hiselderly elderly, disfigured look in the original movies. movies.
** The Darth Vader of this timeline is also in ''much'' better shape than in canon, with only a few scars on his face.
** The Emperor is portrayed as a fairly handsome middle aged man as opposed to his
** The Darth Vader of this timeline is also in ''much'' better shape than in canon, with only a few scars on his face.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Valorum, who was a well meaning chancellor in ''The Phantom Menace'', is revealed to be a Sith Knight in this continuity. Darth Vader himself is MUCH worse.
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** Valorum, who was a well meaning chancellor in ''The Phantom Menace'', is revealed to be a Sith Knight in thiscontinuity. continuity.
** Darth Vader himself is MUCHworse.worse than he was in the movies.
** Valorum, who was a well meaning chancellor in ''The Phantom Menace'', is revealed to be a Sith Knight in this
** Darth Vader himself is MUCH
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Valorum, who was a well meaning chancellor in ''The Phantom Menace'', is revealed to be a Sith Knight in this continuity.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Valorum, who was a well meaning chancellor in ''The Phantom Menace'', is revealed to be a Sith Knight in this continuity. Darth Vader himself is MUCH worse.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: R2 has the D2 dropped from his name, and the Death Star is just called the Space Fortress in this story. Lightsabers are also called "Lazerswords" now.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In this story, Han Solo is a Urellian, a tall reptilian with a reputation for hunting Wookiees on their home planet of Yavin, instead of a human.
* AdaptedOut: Obi Wan is absent from this story, and is replaced by an older Luke Skywalker in the role of teacher to young protagonist Annikin Starkiller. Also, while R2 and Threepio's escape pod venture is left intact, R2 doesn't encounter Jawas in this timeline, instead bumping right into Annikin in the Aquilae desert, and Threepio is later found by both Annikin and Leia.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: In this story, Han Solo is a Urellian, a tall reptilian with a reputation for hunting Wookiees on their home planet of Yavin, instead of a human.
* AdaptedOut: Obi Wan is absent from this story, and is replaced by an older Luke Skywalker in the role of teacher to young protagonist Annikin Starkiller. Also, while R2 and Threepio's escape pod venture is left intact, R2 doesn't encounter Jawas in this timeline, instead bumping right into Annikin in the Aquilae desert, and Threepio is later found by both Annikin and Leia.
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** Imperial Star Destroyers, which are massive battleships capable of devastating a planet in the main series, are now common starfighters. A larger sized Star Destroyer does pop up in the third issue, though.
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** Imperial Star Destroyers, which are massive battleships capable of devastating a planet in the main series, are now common starfighters. A larger sized larger-sized Star Destroyer does pop up in the third issue, though.though.
* AdaptationNameChange: R2 has the D2 dropped from his name, and the Death Star is just called the Space Fortress in this story. Lightsabers are also called "Lazerswords" now.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In this story, Han Solo is a Urellian, a tall reptilian with a reputation for hunting Wookiees on their home planet of Yavin, instead of a human.
* AdaptedOut: Obi Wan is absent from this story, and is replaced by an older Luke Skywalker in the role of teacher to young protagonist Annikin Starkiller. Also, while R2 and Threepio's escape pod venture is left intact, R2 doesn't encounter Jawas in this timeline, instead bumping right into Annikin in the Aquilae desert, and Threepio is later found by both Annikin and Leia.
* AdaptationNameChange: R2 has the D2 dropped from his name, and the Death Star is just called the Space Fortress in this story. Lightsabers are also called "Lazerswords" now.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In this story, Han Solo is a Urellian, a tall reptilian with a reputation for hunting Wookiees on their home planet of Yavin, instead of a human.
* AdaptedOut: Obi Wan is absent from this story, and is replaced by an older Luke Skywalker in the role of teacher to young protagonist Annikin Starkiller. Also, while R2 and Threepio's escape pod venture is left intact, R2 doesn't encounter Jawas in this timeline, instead bumping right into Annikin in the Aquilae desert, and Threepio is later found by both Annikin and Leia.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Princess Leia is much ruder here than her canon counterpart, and has a SlapSlapKiss thing going on with Annikin.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Princess Leia is much ruder here than her canon counterpart, and has a SlapSlapKiss thing going on with Annikin.
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** Han Solo's starship is now identical to the ''Tantive IV''.
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** Han Solo's starship is now identical to the ''Tantive IV''. IV'' (which was the original design for the ''Millennium Falcon'' in concept art).
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Count Sandage tries to arrest Kane Starkiller at gunpoint, Kane replies by slicing him in half with his lightsaber. In the Aquilae desert, Luke chases an Imperial down and bisects him. In the Gordon Spaceport cantina, Luke ends up having to fight two thugs who pick a fight with him, and he slices one of them in half, in addition to slicing off the head of one thug and the arm of another.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
** When Count Sandage tries to arrest Kane Starkiller at gunpoint, Kane replies by slicing him in half with his lightsaber. In the Aquilae desert, Luke chases an Imperial down and bisects him. In the Gordon Spaceport cantina, Luke ends up having to fight two thugs who pick a fight with him, and he slices one of them in half, in addition to slicing off the head of one thug and the arm of another.
** When escaping the Empire in the spaceport, Han Solo lets a heavy gate drop down just as a stormtrooper is about to crawl after them, crushing him in half on-panel.
** When Count Sandage tries to arrest Kane Starkiller at gunpoint, Kane replies by slicing him in half with his lightsaber. In the Aquilae desert, Luke chases an Imperial down and bisects him. In the Gordon Spaceport cantina, Luke ends up having to fight two thugs who pick a fight with him, and he slices one of them in half, in addition to slicing off the head of one thug and the arm of another.
** When escaping the Empire in the spaceport, Han Solo lets a heavy gate drop down just as a stormtrooper is about to crawl after them, crushing him in half on-panel.
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** Han Solo's starship is now identical to the ''Tantive IV''.
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* {{Zeerust}}: Like in the original movie, elements of this pop up. For example, in #5, when Luke is at the spaceport, he's forced to show his Component Receipt, which looks like a transparent floppy disk.
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** The Space Fortress (the early idea for the Death Star) has no superlaser dish here (although the cover depicts it has having one, [[CoversAlwaysLie it's not present in the story]]). It isn't shield here either, as a starfighter strafe is able to blow open a small chunk of it, sucking out chunks of its crew from the inside.
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** The Space Fortress (the early idea for the Death Star) has no superlaser dish here (although the cover depicts it has having one, [[CoversAlwaysLie it's not present in the story]]). It isn't shield shielded here either, as a starfighter strafe is able to blow open a small chunk of it, sucking out chunks of its crew from the inside.
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* CreatorCameo: In Issue 4, one of the resistance leaders uses the likeness of Creator/GeorgeLucas.
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* CreatorCameo: In Issue 4, one of the resistance leaders uses the likeness of Creator/GeorgeLucas.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Count Sandage tries to arrest Kane Starkiller at gunpoint, Kane replies by slicing him in half with his lightsaber.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Count Sandage tries to arrest Kane Starkiller at gunpoint, Kane replies by slicing him in half with his lightsaber. In the Aquilae desert, Luke chases an Imperial down and bisects him. In the Gordon Spaceport cantina, Luke ends up having to fight two thugs who pick a fight with him, and he slices one of them in half, in addition to slicing off the head of one thug and the arm of another.
* HeroicSacrifice: Kane Starkiller gives up the very rare power supply to his robotic body so that the others can use it to help smuggle two children on board in their ship in suspended animation capsules.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In Issue 4, the Imperials are seen riding ostrich mounts. Ostrichs with ''[[ToothyBird teeth]]''. Luke ends up hijacking one of them (after he and Annikin killed the others) to chase down one of the survivors and bisect him with his saber.
* KilledMidSentence: One of the Imperials is killed by Luke before he could finish his words.
-->"But...they said...the Jedi were ex--!" *Luke bisects him)
* HeroicSacrifice: Kane Starkiller gives up the very rare power supply to his robotic body so that the others can use it to help smuggle two children on board in their ship in suspended animation capsules.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In Issue 4, the Imperials are seen riding ostrich mounts. Ostrichs with ''[[ToothyBird teeth]]''. Luke ends up hijacking one of them (after he and Annikin killed the others) to chase down one of the survivors and bisect him with his saber.
* KilledMidSentence: One of the Imperials is killed by Luke before he could finish his words.
-->"But...they said...the Jedi were ex--!" *Luke bisects him)
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* OffWithHisHead: Luke, while riding an ostrich mount, jousts with two Imperials on their own mounts, and lops off both of their heads with one swing. In the fight at the Gordon Spaceport cantina, he slices off the head of one of the thugs.
* OffWithHisHead: Luke, while riding an ostrich mount, jousts with two Imperials on their own mounts, and lops off both of their heads with one swing. In the fight at the Gordon Spaceport cantina, he slices off the head of one of the thugs.
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* ToothyBird: The Imperials ride ostrich mounts, and these birds have rows of sharp, jagged teeth like dinosaurs.
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** The Space Fortress (the early idea for the Death Star) has no superlaser dish here. It isn't shield here either, as a starfighter strafe is able to blow open a small chunk of it, sucking out chunks of its crew from the inside.
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* CompositeCharacter: Kane Starkiller is basically a mashup of Ben Kenobi with the mostly robotic body of Darth Vader.
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* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Kane Starkiller states that despite most of his body being robotic now, he doesn't have much longer to live.
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** The obligatory Starkiller reference, a reference to Luke Skywalker's early name, is added to the name of Annikin Starkiller.
** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point. Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from ''The Phantom Menace''. In the third issue, the Imperials are seen using STAPs similar to the kind used by the Trade Federation.
** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point. Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from ''The Phantom Menace''. In the third issue, the Imperials are seen using STAPs similar to the kind used by the Trade Federation.
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** The obligatory Starkiller reference, a reference to Luke Skywalker's early name, is added to the name of both Annikin and Kane Starkiller.
** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point. Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from ''The Phantom Menace''. In the third issue, the Imperials are seen using STAPs similar to the kind used by the Trade Federation. A side character is also named Count Sandage, with his surname taken from bit player Wan Sandage from Episode 1.
** Kane Starkiller has had most of his body replaced by robotic parts except for his right arm and hand, similar to what Darth Vader became in the movies.
** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point. Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from ''The Phantom Menace''. In the third issue, the Imperials are seen using STAPs similar to the kind used by the Trade Federation. A side character is also named Count Sandage, with his surname taken from bit player Wan Sandage from Episode 1.
** Kane Starkiller has had most of his body replaced by robotic parts except for his right arm and hand, similar to what Darth Vader became in the movies.
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* SuperStrength: Threepio in this time, in contrast to the slow, clunky protocol droid, is much more nimble here, and is capable of lifting up and throwing R2 far away from him!
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** Threepio in this time, in contrast to the slow, clunky protocol droid, is much more nimble here, and is capable of lifting up and throwing R2 far away fromhim!him!
** Kane Starkiller has a lesser example of this due to most of his body being robotic now. He reveals his robotic body by effortlessly smashing his fist through a table in anger.
** Threepio in this time, in contrast to the slow, clunky protocol droid, is much more nimble here, and is capable of lifting up and throwing R2 far away from
** Kane Starkiller has a lesser example of this due to most of his body being robotic now. He reveals his robotic body by effortlessly smashing his fist through a table in anger.
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** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point.
** In the war room, Kane Starkiller calls for someone named Montross, a reference to Jango Fett's rival bounty hunter from ''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter''.
** Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from Film/ThePhantomMenace.
** In the war room, Kane Starkiller calls for someone named Montross, a reference to Jango Fett's rival bounty hunter from ''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter''.
** Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from Film/ThePhantomMenace.
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** Deak, Annikin's younger brother, is modeled in appearance after Anakin Skywalker's younger self from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. He even says "Yippee!" at one point.
**point. Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from ''The Phantom Menace''. In the war room, third issue, the Imperials are seen using STAPs similar to the kind used by the Trade Federation.
** In issue 1, Kane Starkiller enters the war room calls for someone named Montross, a reference to Jango Fett's rival bounty hunter from''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter''.
** Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from Film/ThePhantomMenace.''VideoGame/StarWarsBountyHunter''.
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** In issue 1, Kane Starkiller enters the war room calls for someone named Montross, a reference to Jango Fett's rival bounty hunter from
** Valorum is named after Chancellor Valorum from Film/ThePhantomMenace.
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** Imperial Star Destroyers, which are massive battleships capable of devastating a planet in the main series, are now common starfighters.
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** Imperial Star Destroyers, which are massive battleships capable of devastating a planet in the main series, are now common starfighters. A larger sized Star Destroyer does pop up in the third issue, though.
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: When Count Sandage tries to arrest Kane Starkiller at gunpoint, Kane replies by slicing him in half with his lightsaber.
